Hasta La Ideas

While we’d seen links to the work posted here and there, it was nice to see our friends Aaron Draplin and Chris Glass get some right deserved mainstream attention for their work with the firm Mode Project in designing the new logos for the government’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the US Department of Transportation’s Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery team (that one, thankfully, has utilized an acronym). First, NPR‘s All Things Considered put together this great piece yesterday talking to the creative director on the project, Steve Juras (though sadly no mention of either Draplin nor Glass). But there’s only so much space you can cover about design on the radio during peak listening time, so once you have gotten that brief taste, we recommend heading over to read Steven Heller‘s writing, with all the ins and outs of the project, over at the NY Times‘ The Moment blog. It’s there you’ll get into all the nitty gritty of the process, including the bit that “the goal was to turn them around in just under four days.”

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