As we’re in the middle of Awards Season, I thought I’d share this selection of some of the things people have written about design awards.
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- Just received http://amzn.to/aYYIVo important re: design in feedback culture, more on their site: http://bit.ly/bSj73o 5 days ago
- @3stripe @DeborahCasswell bit of a Glaswegian summer going on in Glasgow too... 1 week ago
- Sans everything: http://www.tsfi.org/ 1 week ago
- http://gsavis.com/blog/?p=2245 are you latently staring at me? 1 week ago
- http://bit.ly/bDWUcF for those who want to investigate premodern futures. 3 weeks ago
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Neil McGuire on Glasgow School of Alt.
- Neil McGuire on A Genius and Altermodern part 3: Is the internet changing the way our brains work?
- Brian Cairns on Flash on Jailbroken iPhones
- Brian Cairns on V&A&V
- Neil McGuire on Teaching Type
01: Vis Com People
- Abdi Adam
- Alec Farmer
- Alex Wen
- Alida Sayer
- Andy Neely
- Bill Goldsmith
- Brian Cairns
- Chloe Chambers
- Chris Heaney
- Christina Kernohan
- Dan Williams
- David Kerr
- David Morrow
- Dawn Zhu
- Dean Pannifer
- Edwin Pickstone
- Eilidh Weir
- Eleanor Stewart
- Elke Dossler
- Emily Chappell
- Emma Houlston
- Fang Zhou
- Felicity Crawshaw
- Franki & Jonny
- Franki Goodwin
- Gordon Carmichael
- Harriet Russell
- Iain Smart
- illustrationmike
- ISO
- Ivor Williams
- Izzy Kertland
- James Greig
- James Houston
- Jamie Young
- Jonathan Hall
- Jonathon Smith
- Joseph Mann
- Kat Carter
- Kate Costigan
- Kieran McCann
- Kimberley Grant
- Li Jing
- Linda Sweenie
- Linus Roune
- Littlewhitehead
- Lizzie Malcolm
- Louise Lockhart
- Lu Sisi
- Luo Tao
- Marija Kisieliute
- Max Henderson
- Michael Bow
- Michaela-Marie
- Mouse and Bean
- Neil McGuire
- Nomad RDC
- Nora Reid
- O Street
- Paul Fotheringham
- Paul Ryding
- Plats
- Rosie Ferrier
- Ruby Wight
- Ruth Cameron
- Ruth Foulis
- Sam Baldwin
- Scott Smyth
- Silje Eirin Aure
- Steve Rigley
- Stuart White
- Suya Zhang
- Tabrez Ahmad
- Tom Scholefield
- Walter Newton
- Willow Tyrer
- Zoe Bierman
02: Friends of Vis Com
03: Of Interest
- 1000 Words
- 38 minutes
- Blueprint
- CCA
- Creative Review Blog
- Design Assembly
- Design Museum
- Design Notes
- Design Observer
- Doors of Perception
- Everyone Forever
- Eye Blog
- Eye Magazine
- Form Fifty Five
- Grafik Magazine
- Graphic Design on the Radio
- Hyphen Press
- Limited Language
- Long Lunch
- Lovely as a Tree
- Many Stuff
- New Media Scotland
- Protein
- Resonance FM
- Running Amok
- Streetlevel
- TED
- The Grid System
- The Lighthouse
- The School of Life
- The Walker Channel
- This Happened
- Type Radio
- TypeNeu
- Typophile
- Ubu
- Varoom
- We make money not art
- Wired
04: Other GSA blogs
05: Other Vis Com Sites
The Magazine Ning
- Alongside. September 3, 2010 Neil McGuire
- Who Might Sell Our Magazine? September 3, 2010 Neil McGuire
- Future Magazines September 3, 2010 Neil McGuire
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If anyone is looking into this, I found this book by Alfie Kohn quite a clear (but certainly not balanced) comment on competition in a broader context. If you’re not put off by pixel reading, you can get it all online at Google books.
It’s very American but try the chapter ‘Playing the human nature card’
http://www.google.com/books?id=bLudHIk3gsMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=no+contest