MAVIDITY

A rolling inspiration board for the MAV Design Team in Gannett's Design Studio Nashville. This is where our Mississippi, Alabama and Virginia designers can come to cleanse their palettes, get ideas, and learn more about the regions their designs will reach. Reblogs don't necessarily equal endorsements.

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My Garden Typography by Petra Blahova

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Message.

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SVA Typography Class by Jose Berrio

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Posts about Tennessee Archaeology Awareness Month written by Tennessee Archaeology

30 Days of Tennessee Archaeology. Very cool stuff.

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Cover La Luna de Metrópoli magazine, the weekly supplement of Spanish newspaper El Mundo

Ace art direction by Rodrigo Sánchez (@rodrigosansan)

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typeverything:

Typeverything.com Autumn by Colin Tierney. TypeJunkie

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I want to learn how to do this. Skillery class, anyone?

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Brand New: Opinions on corporate and brand identity work. A division of UnderConsideration.

I love this logo update. Some on the internet have complained about the Kiss looking too much like the ubiquitous poo emoji, but I love it. And that R-and-S love affair really sings.

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Some very cool graphic design work by Leslie Haines, who, incidentally, used to work in marketing for The Tennessean. If you get a chance, go by the Belcourt and take a look at her alphabet series prints. They are so much fun.

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LUSH LIFE, APPALACHIA – West Virginia & Pennsylvania

I know little of Appalachia - certainly not enough to offer anything more than the observations of an outsider. As a child I used to travel every summer from Maine to West Virginia in an old Plymouth without air conditioning for a week’s vacation with my family. We’d visit with our distant relatives but I don’t remember anyone ever using the term Appalachia or referring to it in any way. I guess we were so close to it no one needed to speak the obvious.

I do remember getting off the highway once in rural Pennsylvania because of snarled traffic on the turnpike and continuing on local roads. We weren’t the only ones to make that detour as all the cars crawled together down the main drag of some small town like an early evening parade. And like a parade all the residents were watching. I think what they were really doing was escaping the heat after a day of work. Neighbors must have been especially intimate as the houses were positioned next to each other like books on a shelf and everyone sat on their narrow porches just above the sidewalk, probably hoping for a breeze. Somehow I knew we were in coal country; my dad likely told me so.

My early takeaway was all those little porches and the way that main street rolled down with its blocks of businesses and homes. And then outside of town you would find this landscape of lushness threatening to overtake anything that wasn’t maintained.

About a month ago, decades past that childhood, I had reason for a 3000-mile road trip for business that would take me through the region again. As is my practice, I left time in the schedule to get off the highway to snap some pictures. The porches and the overgrown landscape were again familiar, but on this trip the takeaways were the abundant display of religion and Dollar General stores. Also the empty businesses, the gutted motels and the abandoned houses. If those were there back in the 1970s I hadn’t noticed. Somehow it dimmed none of the beauty; somehow I already knew they’d be there.

I can’t wait to go back to that lush life.

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Guide to the Northeast Brett Klein lives in Connecticut and works in New York, but prefers small town life and his home state of Maine. Any chance to get rural is a mental vacation. He curated The American Guide’s first zine, Rural Life. Follow Klein on Tumblr at The Coast is Clear. His curatorial collection of Americana, rural life, other artists and ephemera can be seen on Tumblr at Tons of Land. 

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Cover Crumbs

Editor Laura Rowe Designer Trevor Gilham

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"Uh…" by eric.shuff on Instagram

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Some harsh but very very true words

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When people let me review their portfolios (on career day or open days at my game design school) I explicitly ban them from commenting during the review… …because otherwise they will follow the impulse to downplay everything I see in an attempt at being humble. "this is an old image…"

"I’m not happy with that one…" "this is just a sketch…"

"I did this really quickly…" "there is better stuff on later pages…" It’s totally understandable to have those impulses. The quality of art is not empirical data and therefore impossible to measure. Good art, bad art, it all comes down to standards. And you don’t want to come off as naive or self-absorbed. But just don’t do it. Don’t talk yourself down in front of others. In the best case you have someone supportive who now thinks “damn, this person needs to be prepped up all the time. Do I really want to work with somebody like that” or in worst case “now that you say it, yeah, this is kinda lame/rushed/unfinished/lazy, go away.” You can only submit what you have. If that is not enough, then it’s not enough. Your attitude will not change that. But if it is enough, you can do serious harm by not being confident of who you are now. This means appreciating what you are able to do right now and have a clear vision of what you want to learn, be confident that you will learn it in time.  Be proud.

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This is really important.  Eliminate this urge.  Eliminate it professionally, when having contact with people in a position to buy your work.  Eliminate it socially, when you just share your work for fun.  Destroy this urge as thoroughly as you possibly can.

Because when you have done that, you’ll find that you feel at least 25% less shitty about your own work.  You lose the urge to do it.  You stop reinforcing those negative thoughts, and they retreat.  They may never go away completely (although they might!) but this is good practice for ignoring those thoughts flat-out.

Don’t shit-talk yourself.  Even if you can’t be SO PROUD, don’t ever try to influence anyone’s opinion toward your work in the negative.

Try to love your work.  Try to see what you learned from each piece, even if it’s a failure.  If you feel that you learned nothing, appreciate the fact that just spending time on it is honing your skills and giving you valuable practice.

i used to be super not-confident in my own work.  When I stopped pointing out the flaws in my own stuff, I felt better about it almost immediately.

[nickdouglas]

be like Mallory

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Animal Alphabet

Marcus Reed, a London, United Kingdom based illustrator has created this lovely illustrated animal alphabet.

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Stunning photos of the “supermoon”

People around the world last night were witness to the same “supermoon”, the biggest full moon of the year.

The moon was at its biggest at 02:00 BJT in China, drawing many locals from their beds to take creative and stunning photos.

As one of the most anticipated astronomical phenomenons, the mega sized moon only appears when a full moon coincides with its closest approach to the earth. At it’s closest point, the moon is only 356,000 kilometers from the Earth.

The “supermoon” only happens once every 14 months. So if you’ve missed this one you’ll have to wait until September next year.