http://www.dyangochavez.com/rss/dyangochavez.xml Design news, articles, and new projects by Boston graphic designer Dyango Chavez Mon, 10 March 2008 20:10:30 EST Graphic design 2006 Dyango Chavez Cutino. All rights reserved. en-us Bilingual Books, Inc., in Seattle Washington, hired Dyango Chavez Design to redesign the layout of the Language Gazette, their monthly email newsletter. Bilingual sends this promo piece to its retail and educational accounts. The goal of the project was to create an abbreviated version of the previous newsletter. http://www.dyangochavez.com/web_13.html http://www.dyangochavez.com/web_13.html Mon, 10 March 2008 20:10:30 EST email@dyangochavez.com I just came back from the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston. I went to visit the exhibition Design Life Now. http://dyangochavez.blogspot.com/2008/01/design-life-now.html http://dyangochavez.blogspot.com/2008/01/design-life-now.html Fri, 4 Jan 2008 1:19:30 EST email@dyangochavez.com LNC contacted me to redesign this supermarket shopping guide, as part of a program called Camino Mágico, intended to help Latino consumers to change their eating habits and adopt a much healthier life. http://www.dyangochavez.com/print_14.html http://www.dyangochavez.com/print_14.html Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:35:30 EST email@dyangochavez.com Promotional postcard for the theater play Gasping, produced by Theatre On Fire http://www.dyangochavez.com/print_12.html http://www.dyangochavez.com/print_12.html Mon, 24 Sept 2007 12:24:36 EST email@dyangochavez.com Packaging design for card game. The game consists of the fast creation of words using letter cards. http://www.dyangochavez.com/packaging_01.html http://www.dyangochavez.com/packaging_01.html Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:20:36 EST email@dyangochavez.com A poster for a theater play/hip hop concerto about mortality, the exploration of truth and fatherhood. The client is the Boston based Company One. http://www.dyangochavez.com/poster_19.html http://www.dyangochavez.com/poster_19.html Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:23:36 EST email@dyangochavez.com The Digital Library class (LIS462) at Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science developed a digital library from the scrapbook of Ruth Mitchell Wunderly, a Simmons College alum from the early twentieth century. My role consisted of the creation of a logo to identify the digital library in its natural environment (the web) and in promotional materials. http://www.dyangochavez.com/logo_12.html http://www.dyangochavez.com/logo_12.html Sat, 6 Jan 2007 01:10:36 EST email@dyangochavez.com Flash animation to promote the celebration of the Day of the Dead at the Seattle Center on November 1st, 2003. http://www.dyangochavez.com/ http://www.dyangochavez.com/ email@dyangochavez.com Flyer promoting the lecture "Humanitarian Aid for the Mind: One Librarian's Journey"; co-presented by Simmons International Relations and the Progressive Librarian Guild at Simmons College, Boston, MA. http://www.dyangochavez.com/print_10.html http://www.dyangochavez.com/print_10.html email@dyangochavez.com Poster for the play After Ashley, with Company One in Boston http://www.dyangochavez.com/poster_15.html http://www.dyangochavez.com/poster_15.html email@dyangochavez.com Interactive multimedia cd-rom about Cuba for a Spanish newspaper http://www.dyangochavez.com/web_10.html http://www.dyangochavez.com/web_10.html email@dyangochavez.com A graphic designer is not a color professional, a photographer, a printer, a web developer, or an artist who creates his or her art following a particular style. It may be said that all these disciplines should be familiar to a designer; yet while this is very true, it may also confuse the definition of a designer as a visual communication specialist. http://www.dyangochavez.com/articles.html#art4 http://www.dyangochavez.com/articles.html#art4 email@dyangochavez.com I created these postcards using a combination of graphic design, photography, and poetry. The idea behind their design was to create a combination of text and image that would be unusual, creative and fun http://www.dyangochavez.com/illustration_01.html http://www.dyangochavez.com/illustration_01.html email@dyangochavez.com Poster for the University of Washington. Department of HSAS&F. Computer Support division http://www.dyangochavez.com/poster_01.html http://www.dyangochavez.com/poster_01.html email@dyangochavez.com Most images (and most of the text too) on the Web are not free, and using them without the written permission of the owner could be the cause of a lawsuit against you or your company. This may be the main reason to avoid using images "found" online; but there are a few others that you should consider before using that beautiful landscape in the design of your brochure, logo, or PowerPoint presentation. http://www.dyangochavez.com/articles.html#art1 http://www.dyangochavez.com/articles.html#art1 email@dyangochavez.com The most important idea in this note is that a logo for your business is a matter to take very seriously. A professionally designed logo will still work well with the passing of time, as your customers make it part of their lives, and your company becomes successful while wearing a successful face. http://www.dyangochavez.com/articles.html#art2 http://www.dyangochavez.com/articles.html#art2 email@dyangochavez.com When deciding what color will best represent your business in a logo, brochure, or website there are more issues than just personal preferences. A color can be warm, cold, serious, professional, humorous, energizing, vibrant, powerful, solemn, easy, refreshing, active or another number of adjectives. Your audience, meaning the people who will buy your products or services, can be attracted, or repelled, by the color your business wears. http://www.dyangochavez.com/articles.html#art3 http://www.dyangochavez.com/articles.html#art3 email@dyangochavez.com The Cuban Prografica Committee is a non profitable organization that works to promote the cultural values of Graphic Design, sponsored by the National Plastic Arts Council of the Ministry of Culture of Cuba. Prografica brings together a group of outstanding Cuban graphic designers of different generations interested in working without lucrative interest in the promotion of Graphic Design. Prografica is a member of ICOGRADA (International Council of Graphic Design Associations) since 1997. http://www.prografica.cult.cu/ http://www.prografica.cult.cu/ email@dyangochavez.com