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This time-honored competition aims to identify the 50 best-designed books and book covers that have been designed, produced and used in the previous year, as chosen by distinguished jurors. As such, they become part of the AIGA Design Archives, a searchable visual database of exemplary design, they are exhibited at the AIGA National Design Center in New York and offered as a traveling exhibition for display across the country. The physical artifacts comprise the AIGA Design Archives at the Denver Art Museum. Read more

On Saturday September 13, 2008, AIGA Houston will honor Paula Savage Hansen for the 2008 AIGA Houston Fellow award, and Hines for the 2008 AIGA Houston Corporate Leadership Award.

The 2008 AIGA Houston Design Legends Gala will be held on Saturday, September 13, 2008 at the Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa. Debbie Millman, Director on the National Board of the AIGA and Partner and President of the design division at Sterling Brands, will present the awards. Read more

Does anybody still care about upgrades? Care about Quark?
Quark announced that QuarkXPress® 8, the next major release of the industry standard page-layout and design software, is now available to purchase.
QuarkXPress 8 delivers superior design power through a new, intuitive interface developed purposefully for the creation of high-end page layout and includes new features such as built-in print, Web and Flash® authoring tools, advanced typography control, and global publishing capabilities. QuarkXPress 8 also offers users an enhanced design experience so they can work faster and smarter by quickly and easily accessing the tools they need. Read more

DesignM.ag is a new site that is aimed at providing a wide variety of resources for web designers and developers. The purpose of the site is to keep many useful elements, such as a blog, community news, design gallery, and job board all at one place.

We hope to get the design community involved as much as possible through submissions of community news, submissions to the gallery, guest posts, and comments at the blog.

For now most of the articles are written by Steven Snell of Vandelay Website Design.

In this podcast, we’ll define a downturn, explain what you can and cannot control, the ten causes of a downturn (in three categories), the four biggest dangers to avoid as you react to one, the leadership you’ll want to exhibit inside your firm, and the eventual benefits that a downturn might provide. This 50-minute podcast is “enhanced” in the sense that screenshots of an accompanying presentation outline are displayed alongside the audio content.

The majority of firms still seems to be holding their own, but there’s a combined nervousness and hesitation about what’s around the corner. Regardless of what the immediate future holds in the short term, you’re better off armed with good information, and that’s what we try to provide in this episode.

Click here to download the podcast directly.