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Rejected Designs

What These Rejected Designs Reveal About the Ones That Made It

Sat in a dark lecture hall one evening at the St. Bride’s Foundation in London, editor and founder of D&B…

Rejected Designs

Jennifer Morla on the Andy Warhol Levi’s Commission that Never Made It

Graphic designer and AIGA medalist Jennifer Morla certainly has her fair share of tales to tell from her four decade-spanning…

Rejected Designs

Jun Cen’s Advice for Recycling Rejected Ideas into New Commissions

The latest in our Rejected Designs series arrives courtesy of New York City-based Jun Cen, an illustrator and animator born in…

Rejected Designs

How to Gracefully Let Go of an Early Design (Sort Of)

Na Kim is a senior designer at Farrar Straus & Giroux and a freelance book cover designer who first caught…

Rejected Designs

Rodrigo Corral on the Challenges of Following Up a Bestselling Cover Design

The latest in our Rejected Designs series is a dispatch from Rodrigo Corral, whose work you may recognize from the…

Rejected Designs

DR.ME on the Album Artwork for Warp Records That Never Got Released

The design process is not always a straightforward journey right across the finish line. The best ideas tend to come…

Rejected Designs

Laura Breiling on the Life of a Rejected Illustration After the Kill Fee

For the past couple of months, we’ve been asking designers about the work that never saw the light of day.…

Rejected Designs

How Heartbreak Shapes Us: Morcos Key’s Identity for an Opera that Never Came to Be

Since we ran a piece early this year on some of the clever ways designers have repurposed their rejected works, we’ve…

Rejected Designs

Erik Brandt’s Failed Competition Entry as a Lesson in Growing + Evolving as a Designer

After running a piece early this year on some of the genius ways designers have repurposed their rejected works, we’ve decided…

Rejected Designs

Mario Hugo on Designing Beck’s Album Art Before Hearing the Music

After running a piece early this year on some of the genius ways designers have repurposed their rejected works, we’ve decided…

Rejected Designs

Type Designer Andy Clymer on the “G” He Just Couldn’t Make Work

After running a piece last month on some of the genius ways designers have repurposed their rejected works, we’ve decided…

Rejected Designs

Thonik on the Netherlands Government Identity That Never Was

  Towards the end of last month, we discussed the ingenious ways various designers have navigated what to do with…

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Rejected Designs

What These Rejected Designs Reveal About the Ones That Made It

Sat in a dark lecture hall one evening at the St. Bride’s Foundation in London, editor and founder of D&B…

Rejected Designs

Jennifer Morla on the Andy Warhol Levi’s Commission that Never Made It

Graphic designer and AIGA medalist Jennifer Morla certainly has her fair share of tales to tell from her four decade-spanning…

Rejected Designs

Jun Cen’s Advice for Recycling Rejected Ideas into New Commissions

The latest in our Rejected Designs series arrives courtesy of New York City-based Jun Cen, an illustrator and animator born in…

Rejected Designs

How to Gracefully Let Go of an Early Design (Sort Of)

Na Kim is a senior designer at Farrar Straus & Giroux and a freelance book cover designer who first caught…

Rejected Designs

Rodrigo Corral on the Challenges of Following Up a Bestselling Cover Design

The latest in our Rejected Designs series is a dispatch from Rodrigo Corral, whose work you may recognize from the…

Rejected Designs

DR.ME on the Album Artwork for Warp Records That Never Got Released

The design process is not always a straightforward journey right across the finish line. The best ideas tend to come…

Rejected Designs

Laura Breiling on the Life of a Rejected Illustration After the Kill Fee

For the past couple of months, we’ve been asking designers about the work that never saw the light of day.…

Rejected Designs

How Heartbreak Shapes Us: Morcos Key’s Identity for an Opera that Never Came to Be

Since we ran a piece early this year on some of the clever ways designers have repurposed their rejected works, we’ve…

Rejected Designs

Erik Brandt’s Failed Competition Entry as a Lesson in Growing + Evolving as a Designer

After running a piece early this year on some of the genius ways designers have repurposed their rejected works, we’ve decided…

Rejected Designs

Mario Hugo on Designing Beck’s Album Art Before Hearing the Music

After running a piece early this year on some of the genius ways designers have repurposed their rejected works, we’ve decided…

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