As part of the re-launch of Quipsologies — the hard-working UnderConsideration blog that chronicles the most curious, creative, and notable projects, stories, and events of the graphic design industry — we have made some changes to the Brand New structure. (If you are reading this in your RSS reader join us in the real web, won't you?). I emphasize structure because the content is not changing. I know how passionate you (and I) all are about what gets posted, and we have strived to keep the Feng shui of Brand New as pleasing as possible.
Three-column DesignThe basic aesthetic of the site remains and the width of the content areas has not changed. We just had to tweak some of the layout to make the three-column approach blend together better. We've also taken this opportunity to clean up some of the code, which officially brings us up to standards. Please also do a "hard-refresh" on your browser to reload all the images that might appear out of whack.

QuipsologiesThe main reason for the change is to introduce a feed of identity- and brand-related Quips that are manually filtered from Quipsologies. Over the years we have noticed that some of our most popular content on that site, at least the Quips that generate the most links, was about logos or identities so we are now bringing them here as additional content. They will not interfere with the main content of the site and will not be included in the Brand New RSS feed. It's an added bonus that builds on top of what we already have going. If you wish to follow the Brand New-filtered Quips we do have a separate feed for it here that you can subscribe to.

Job BoardBack in February we introduced our Coroflot-powered job board and we admit that we introduced it a little too aggressively at the time, promising to flood you with announcements of new job openings, and the vocal majority let us know how unpleasant it all sounded. We still believe in the value of the job board and feel like we've found a happy medium: On the right sidebar we will highlight the most relevant jobs as we see them come in. In addition, every first and third Saturday of the month we will post, in the main content area, the aggregate findings of the sidebar highlights. This won't affect the content as we don't post on weekends, so you can happily ignore it as you play frisbee outside or whatever it is you do on the weekends to chill out and on Monday you know you can just skip it. I read nearly a dozen blogs that post job announcements as part of their content and I've never been offended, distracted, or turned off, so I have the feeling that those who are vehemently opposed to this will, in the end, survive.

TagsWe started tagging our posts only a few months ago and some of the trends that arise from it are pretty entertaining — like the amount of posts tagged with "Sans Serif." The sidebar will display the ten most used tags, but you can see all of the tags listed here. At some point we would love to go back and tag all of our posts but don't hold your breath for that to happen soon.

Mailing ListWe are not very active newsletterers or e-mail blasters but we do find it comforting that if we wanted to get in touch with a ton of you we could do it through the mailing list. You can find the subscription form in the right column.
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