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Maggie Macnab is an identity designer, strategic visual communicator and design theory educator. Her work has been recognized with publication and awards in the national and international design industry for over 30 years. She teaches design theory (symbolism as visual literacy and nature based principles used in communication design) at the University of New Mexico, Santa Fe University of Art and Design, and Santa Fe Community College. She is also past president of the Communication Artists of New Mexico. Her first book, "Decoding Design: Understanding and Using Symbols in Visual Communication" (F+W, 2008) received critical acclaim and won the 2008 New Mexico Book Award for Best Reference and Book of the Year from DT&G Magazine. Her se...more


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Decoding Design: Understand...
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Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated by William Lidwell
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date: April 19, 2012 11:00AM
location: Chicago, Il Apr 18-20, 2012, JW Marriott , JW Marriott, Chicago, IL, The United States
description: FUSE explores the intersection of design and brand strategy. Join us in 2012 as we celebrate the role of graphic, industrial and interactive design in building better brands, more profitable relationships with consumers and more magical brand experiences. Uniting brand strategists, designers, packaging leaders, trendhunters and marketers, the FUSE experience is an eclectic mix of vision, enlightenment and ties that bond.
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“Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create—be it product, communication or system—is a result of the process of making inspiration real. I believe in doing what works as circumstances change: quirky or unusual solutions are often good ones. Nature bends and so should we as appropriate. Nature is always right outside our door as a reference and touch point. We should use it far more than we do.”
Maggie Macnab, Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design

“Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create—be it product, communication or system—is a result of the process of making inspiration real. I believe in doing what works as circumstances change: quirky or unusual solutions are often good ones. Nature bends and so should we as appropriate. Nature is always right outside our door as a reference and touch point. We should use it far more than we do.”
Maggie Macnab, Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design




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