http://texasdesign.com The State of Design Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:29:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In printing, a cliché was a printing plate cast from movable type. This is also called a stereotype. When letters were set one at a time, it made sense to cast a phrase used repeatedly as a single slug of metal. "Cliché" came to mean such a ready-made phrase. The ... http://texasdesign.com/q-is-a-cliche-as-rose-by-any-other-name/ via sanantonioadfed.org Posted via web from Dan Sturdivant's posterous http://texasdesign.com/american-advertising-federation-san-antonio-2010-ad-wars/ via 2010filmdesignawards.com Your poster is often the first experience an audience has with your film. It can inspire and intrigue or confuse and disappoint. That’s why AIGA Austin and SXSW Film are proud to honor exceptional film poster design with the 2010 SXSW Film Design Award for Excellence ... http://texasdesign.com/sxsw-film-awards/ via the99percent.com Overheard at a lecture recently on the notion of repentance, and the state of “apologies” in society. A number of famous athletes and politicians have been making the rounds lately, displaying the many different fashions of regret. If you listen closely to ... http://texasdesign.com/apologies-are-a-sign-of-strength-tips-the-99-percent/ via sxsw.com Today's installment of Christine Major's "SXSW in Two Words" concludes the series and leaves us wanting more. More SXSW! Thanks to Christine for sharing her first SXSW experience with ... http://texasdesign.com/inspiration-from-the-crowd-two-words/