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Established in 1932, Monoprix is an mid/upper-market department store and convenience store chain in France with a turnover in excess of 3.3 billion euros through 400 stores — many of them Monoprix proper but there are also smaller specialty stores called Monop', Monop' Beauty, Monop' Daily, and Monop' Station. An institution, Monoprix has traded under the "M" in a red lozenge symbol and a classic serifed uppercase typestyle for over 80 years. A new identity by British design agency Lewis Moberly was launched earlier this month. A comprehensive PDF covers all the changes, from the logo to the store Brand New

• On April 25 in NYC, spend the morning exploring the links between fashion and technology at “Cross-Pollination,” a half-day symposium organized by the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in conjunction with the current “Fashion and Technology” exhibition. Register here.

• Run, don’t walk to Design and Mobility: The Twenty-Second Annual Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on the Decorative Arts and Design. The two-day conference kicks off on the evening of Friday, April 26, with a keynote address by Yale professor Edward Cooke.

• Having enhanced your mobility at the aforementioned Parsons confab, hop across the pond to POINT London (May 2-3), a new conference that aims to raise awareness of the power of design to influence business, education, and society. Speakers include Seymour Chwast, Barber Osgerby (a.k.a. Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby), and typographer extraordinaire Erik Spiekermann.

• The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)’s District Conferences are taking place throughout April around the country, from Hartford to Long Beach. Meanwhile, ready your inner iconoclast for “Breaking the Rules,” IDSA’s 2013 International Conference set for August 21-24 in Chicago and chaired by Paul Hatch.

• As Winnie the Pooh once said, it’s never too early to plan ahead. Mark your as yet unbesmirched autumnal calendar for “Head, Heart, Hand,” the 2013 AIGA Design Conference, which gets underway October 10 in the Mini Apple (Minnesota, that is).

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The new Mac application is designed for web developers who need to generate graphics for HTML5 games, infographics or web user interfaces....

What’s better than winning a cube from the Art Directors Club? Accepting the coveted block of metal in sun-drenched, hot-pink Miami Beach, where the ADC decamped last week for its 92nd annual awards and Festival of Art and Craft in Advertising and Design, a three-day creativity confab that included Laurie Rosenwald‘s famous yet top-secret “How to Make Mistakes on Purpose” workshop and other inspiring presentations by the likes of Bruce Mau, Kyle MacDonald of the One Red Paperclip project, Rafaël Rozendaal, and LEGO pro Sean Kenney.

And there were awards, lots of them. Among this year’s cumulative winners were Dentsu Inc. (Design Firm of the Year), the School of Visual Arts (School of the Year), and McCann NY (Agency of the Year), while the third annual Designism award, honoring work that drives social or political change, went to Buck for its work promoting Good Books, the online bookseller that funnels all of its profits to Oxfam projects (see Buck’s take on Kafka’s Metamorphosis below).

Gold cube winners included Taku Satoh Design Office’s mouth-watering anniversary posters for Issey Miyake Pleats Please (design), Henry Leutwyler‘s breathtaking Ballet (photography), and The New York Times Magazine‘s “The Wild Life of Silent Spring” (illustration). Salivate over these and all of the big winners by downloading the first ever Art Directors Annual in digital form, produced in partnership with Brazilian digital technology company, the goodfellas. Grab the Art Directors Annual 91 app for free here.

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Established in 1996 when the NBA Board of Governors approved the concept of a women's National Basketball Association, the WNBA began play in the summer of 1997 with eight teams and a few well-known stars at the time, like Sheryl Swoopes and Lisa Leslie. Four expansion teams have been added since and although attendance peaked in 1999 — with an average of 10,000 attendees per game — and dropping since, the WNBA is still considered the "most successful women's professional team sports league in the world." Last Thursday, the WNBA introduced a new logo and identity designed by New Armin http://www.underconsideration.com

A photo by Corey Arnold that will be included in “Wish You Were Here,” a group postcard show that opens April 25 as part of Month of Photography Los Angeles.

On the global art and design calendar, April is dominated by Salone del Mobile, which gets underway–in a flourish of directional chairs and modularity–on Tuesday in Milan, but stateside, there’s a focus on photography. The AIPAD Photography Show is on through Sunday at NYC’s Park Avenue Armory, and over in Los Angeles, the photo-themed fun runs all April long as part of the Lucie Foundation-sponsored Month of Photography Los Angeles (MOPLA). Now in its fifth year, the citywide program is expected to draw nearly 15,000 attendees with the 2013 theme, “Wide Angle: Exploring New Photography from Los Angeles and Beyond,” and will go out with a bang on April 26-28 with Paris Photo Los Angeles, the inaugural U.S. edition of the famed Paris fair. Among the must-see MOPLA happenings is “Wish You Were Here,” a group show of 30 photographers from Los Angeles and beyond, curated by Stephanie Gonot. Admission is free but it’s bring your own stamps: the work will be presented on a series of postcards that can be purchased and mailed from the gallery space. The exhibition will be on view through April 30 at the MOPLA Pop-Up Gallery in downtown L.A.

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“This is one of the strangest items I’ve ever seen entered into a typography competition….It’s a beautiful book with a blue cover. The title of the book has a blank space for you to fill in. The only typography inside the entire book is some standard text in small print on the copyright page. That’s it. Instead, every page has a grid in light non-photo blue lines. Every few pages the grid changes to another pattern. This goes on for a hundred or more pages. What is going on here?

This is a book about the hidden structure of typography. The blue lines are collected from available empty notebook pages from all over the world–fully 47 different ruling styles, from traditional grade-school line-spacing to music staves and mathematical grid styles. These represent the underpinning structure of all writing and typography, a structure too often ignored today by fashionable high-flying digital designers (who can do literally anything–and constantly do). This little book is a comfortable reminder of the bedrock rules underlying all typography. It’s waiting for you to add the text along the guidelines required. It’s a essentially a typographic ‘Book of Rules.’ (Duh!)”

-Art Chantry on Rimini Berlin‘s Notebook, designed by Till Beckmann, Jenny Hasselbach, and Franziska Morlok. The book, published by Revolver, was Chantry’s Judge’s Choice pick for the 57th annual Type Director’s Club competition. Check out this year’s TDC winners in communication design and typeface design.

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DesignPad provides additional functionality for quickly creating a wide range of grid-based designs....

From STEM to STEAM to…Psy? Worlds will collide on April 26, when NYU’s Stern School of Business plays host to a ceremony and luncheon for the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards. Presented annually by the Tribeca Film Festival in association with the Disruptor Foundation and Mr. Disruptive Innovation himself, Clay Christensen, the awards showcase applications of and advancements in disruptive innovation theory–how simpler, cheaper technologies, products, and services can decimate industry leaders–that have spread beyond the original technological and industrial sweetspots.

Joining past honorees such as Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, the Guggenheim’s YouTube Play, and Kickstarter are 2013 disrupters including RISD President John Maeda‘s STEM to STEAM initiative, which adds art and design into the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) quartet; fashion designer and wellness advocate Norma Kamali; K-Pop sensation Psy; and Twyla Tharp, who will receive the lifetime achievement award. Here’s hoping that those four hit and off and get to work on an even more disruptive collaborative project. The full list of honorees is below. Each will take home Disruptor Award statuettes known as “Maslow’s Silver Hammer,” in honor of psychologist Abe “Hierarchy of Needs” Maslow, who once said, “When your only tool is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.”
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After a two-week hiatus, Friday Likes are back with colorful, somewhat colorful, and almost not colorful at all projects. Armin http://www.underconsideration.com

The latest version of Xara's code-free site creation application for Windows gets support for Retina displays, HTML 5 and CSS3....

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Established in 2010 in Sydney, Boom — originally Vid-id until late 2012 — is a social video advertising company that helps brands position and promote video campaigns so that they reach the most amount of targeted viewers for the longest period of time. With the name change came a new identity by Sydney-based Blow. Armin http://www.underconsideration.com

Are you a graphic design junkie? A devotee of New Order? A fan of Henri Fantin-Latour? Or simply a lover of roses? If you answered yes to any (or all) of these questions, then Supreme has the sneakers for you. Among its freshly released spring covetables are three styles of Vans–the SK8-Hi, the Chukka, and the Era–splashed with original album artwork from New Order’s 1983 album Power, Corruption, & Lies, for which Peter Saville deftly selected Fantin-Latour’s 1890 “A Basket of Roses” (in the collection of the National Gallery in London) and appended the modern wink of a color code in the upper right corner.

“When I heard the title Power, Corruption, and Lies, the first thing that came to mind was the dark side of the Renaissance,” said Saville in a recent interview. His viewing of the 1981-82 BBC series The Borgias sent him on a hunt for sinister images. “I went to look for a Machiavellian prince in various museums, and I found some, but a corrupt despot was painfully literal when confronted with it.” On his way out of the National Gallery, Saville stopped to purchase some postcards, including one of Fantin-Latour’s drowsy bouquet. “There was a kind of elegant kitsch to it. I always liked that style and I still do–it’s my mother’s living room.” He later decided to deploy the image as “a foil to the literal meaning of the [album] title but a perfect cypher. It was charming, seductive, and apparently innocent, and in that sense, a more insidious evocation of corrupt strategies.”

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Funny to read how wrong tech professionals were about the iPad. They didn't get right practically anything, not the sales, not the capabilities or its effect. Next time you read an opinion from a 'pundit' remember how poor their evaluation can be.

“Any tablet computer, including Apple’s eagerly anticipated iPad, will face serious problems in generating big sales. Tablets look cool, but the reality is they don’t do anything new.”
Michael Comeau, Minyanville, 5 March 2010

“Fewer capabilities (than a netbook) but a similar size? Not a good start.”
Lee Gomes, Forbes Asia Magazine, 5 March 2010

“The Apple iPad is not going to be the company’s next runaway best seller.”
John Dvorak, MarketWatch, 12 February 2010

“It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‘Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.’”
Bill Gates, Microsoft, 10 February 2010

“Apple iPad – failure, joke or fiasco? Pick one”
Linen DeFiller, MillionFace.com, 27 January 2010

“I added it up and … like 800 people are going to buy the iPad. . . . It’s not that the iPad is a failure. It’s just a product ahead of its time. No one should actually buy this iPad — between its inevitable first-generation bugs, fulfillment problems, and buyer’s remorse over added features and price drops, it’s heartbreak waiting to happen.”
Molly Wood, CNet, 31 January 2010

This week, NCARB is hiring a graphic designer, while Variety needs a creative director. Bloomberg is seeking a design director, and Dictionary.com is on the hunt for a senior graphic and UI designer. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted gigs on Mediabistro.

Graphic Designer NCARB (Washington, DC) Creative Director Variety (Los Angeles, CA) Design Director Bloomberg (New York, NY) Senior Graphic & UI Designer Dictionary.com (Oakland, CA) Photo Editor ZOOOM Productions (Venice, CA)

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The FPO Awards — celebrating the best print work from around the world during 2012 – 13 — are now open and accepting entries. Judges: Art Chantry, Pum Lefebure of Design Army, DJ Stout of Pentagram, David Dodde of House Industries, and Brad Murph of Vertallee Letterpress / Main deadline: June 22, 2012 / Early-bird pricing deadline: May 3, 2013 / Follow @fpoawards. Armin http://www.underconsideration.com

Established in the late 1890s, the Georgia Bulldogs are the athletic teams of the University of Georgia (est. 1785) and compete in the NCAA Division I and are members of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The Bulldogs compete in 19 different sports and have won 39 national championships and 130 conference championships. To learn how serious the "’Dawgs" are about their sports: their football stadium seats 92,746 and is typically full. This week, the Bulldogs introduced a new identity system for the athletics program, designed by by Nike's Graphic Identity Group. Armin http://www.underconsideration.com

• Join us tomorrow evening at the Museum of Arts and Design for a meeting of Superscript’s Architecture and Design Book Club. Up for discussion: design themes in Émile Zola‘s The Ladies’ Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames). Arrive early to take advantage of free/pay-what-you-wish Thursday nigh admission and see the current exhibition, After the Museum: The Home Front 2013, which includes a related installation by Superscript, “On Display.”

• You say “tomato,” we say Andrew Kuo is a genius. His solo exhibition of new acrylic paintings opens tomorrow at Marlborough Chelsea.

• As if you needed more reasons to adore Scandinavia, the Streaming Museum has cooked up “Nordic Outbreak,” a series of events and exhibitions taking place throughout NYC through April 6. Saturday’s symposium at Scandinavia House promises a range of perspectives on what “the Nordic” has come to mean in the digital age and illuminate an “outbreak” from conventional aesthetic ideas about the Nordic concept.

• Put down your iPad and head to AIPAD. The megaphotoshow, presented by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, runs Thursday through Sunday at the Park Avenue Armory.

• Finally, ’tis the season for…Cambodia? Jaa! This weekend, the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons The New School for Design presents “Living Arts City: Art and Urbanism in Phnom Penh and New York,” a two-day colloquium exploring the interconnectedness of creativity, urban ecology, and community. Speakers include designers, curators, architects, planners, and social researchers from Phnom Penh and New York.

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Imagine swimming through your day in an ocean of blue expertly matched to a series of David Hockney pool paintings.

In the latest episode of Cubes, we show you the New York offices of Morris + King public relations. Lead partner and co-principal Judith R. King takes the mediabistroTV crew on a musical journey featuring chairs from the Stella Solaris cruise ship and 1970s French jumbo jets, specially chosen chandeliers and offices painted any color you like as long as its blue.

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