On Veerle's blog:

“ Today I want to show you how you can create a spiral ornament in Illustrator and reuse this ornament throughout your artwork multiple times resized, rotated, mirrored, whatever… by turning it into a Symbol. I've talked about Symbols before and I showed you how to use the Symbol Sprayer Tool. This time I'll focus a bit more on the creation of the ornament itself. Like always I'll talk you through the entire process step by step. By explaining every little detail of each step, this tutorial should be a good exercise for the beginners among you.”

A spiral ornament symbol in illustrator

..just found out about it..

This is the post that started it:

It became a competition:

The entries on Flickr:

And the winners are:

Winners of the What is Graphic design poster competition

Very nice initiative

“ If you’re a designer, you work to communicate and convey meaning. So it’s important that you understand the mechanisms by which things and ideas acquire meaning; more than any other factor, your grasp of these fundamentals determines your ability to communicate effectively. Without fundamentals, you will flounder when faced with complex design challenges or constraints.”

Contrast and Meaning

Via NoisyDecentGraphics:

• The BBC's Fifteen Web Principles
• renourish

Via Ace Jet 170:

• Science & Society - picture library
• Ken Garland

Three posts on graphic design by Noisy Decent Graphics:

• The future of graphic design
• The future of graphic design [2]
• The future of graphic design [3]

A nice optical illusion: spanish castle
and a tutorial explaining how to do it