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3x3 Issue 28 On Press

We’re happy to report that the next issue of 3x3 Magazine is at the printer and will soon be in the mail. This issue features Keith...

3x3 Issue 27 On Press

We’re happy to report that the next issue of 3x3 Magazine is at the printer and will be soon in the mail. This issue features Armando...

3x3 International Illustration Annual Call for Entries - Now Open

We’re ready to accept entries in our 2021 Show. The judges are lined up, the...

We Only Have 100 Points of Equity to Split Up

A few years ago I was chatting with one of the first LPs to ever commit to...

Subscribe to 3x3 Magazine - A great gift

The final issue of 2020 is on press, now’s the time to consider subscribing for our next three issues.We’re excited to be featuring...

Italian AI Annual 2021 Call for Entries

The Italian AI Annual 2021 illustration competition celebrate it’s fifteenth showcase and we invite all artists to help us turn Annual 2021 in a truly special edition! Set up in 1990 to offer a testimony of the high...

MIPI help Raspberry Pi and NVIDIA Jetson gain a foothold in industrial machine vision

Raspberry Pi has been now working with HALCON, a standard machine vision software from MVTec, who is a leading provider of machine vision software. On Oct 2019, the Raspberry Pi 4 + OV9281 was supported by HALCON...

Remembering Milton Glaser, Class of ’51

Remembering Milton Glaser, Class of 1951, a new exhibition in the colonnade windows of the Foundation Building at Cooper Union, celebrates the work of one of the most influential graphic designers of the 20th...

Pictoplasma 2020 - Free Broadcast

For obvious reasons, Pictoplasma had to cancel their 16th Pictoplasma Conference scheduled for May 2020 and are now streaming a free 2-day livestream conference on September 18+19.The event features more than 40 artist...

Milton Glaser R.I.P.

The world lost perhaps the most erudite designer, artist and illustrator this past week. At the age of 91, Milton Glaser passed away but his voice remains.I’m sure all of us have looked back on our various influences...

Is Notion’s Potential Underrated?

I write this recognizing that it sounds crazy to say that Notion, one of the hottest, most high profile startups might be underrated. I’ve been thinking about my experience using Notion and I am beginning to think I underestimated how much of my workflow Notion could devour. The more I use Notion, the more I see it as an existential threat to just about every cloud-based collaboration tool I use. My path to using Notion was not...

Easing Back Into Writing

My last blog post was over five years ago. A lot has changed since then – I started my own fund and have been pretty heads down focused on building out Precursor and supporting our portfolio companies. I didn’t make a conscious decision to stop writing, I just felt like there was so much good content being written in blogs and on Twitter that I didn’t have much to add. In the last few months, I have felt like I have things that I...

3x3 Magazine is Back - Subscribe Before May 22

3x3 Magazine is back!We’re pleased to announce that we’re bringing back 3x3 Magazine with both print and digital editions.We’ve missed having the opportunity to promote contemporary illustrators and feel, even in...

Meet Our Illustrator Judges for Annual 17

As in years past we have gathered an outstanding group of illustrators for our jury. Here's a little about each one.A graduate of the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts, Rafael Alvarez is now based in Berlin. A few of his clients include ESPN—both print and online, Scientific America, Men’s Health, Billboard, Hollywood Reporter, Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post, New York Times, as well as animated promotions for the...

Meet Our Judges: Victoria Bee, AD

This Belgium-native makes her world out of paper. Her 3-D designs, many deliciously large and surreal, have graced advertising campaigns around the globe.After graduating in 2011 from Belgium's Haute École Albert...

Meet Our Judges: Syndi Becker, Design Director

Syndi Becker, a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, has built her career around magazines. Starting at New York magazine back in 1989 where she stayed for seven years—that's 350 issues including special issues,...

Meet Our Judges: Katja Kollmann, Art Director

Katja Kollmann is an award-winning art director whether it was with Die Zeit or her current position at Der Spiegel. Kollmann studied graphic design at The Hochschule Wismar, University of Applied Sciences: Technology,...

Meet Our Judges: Benjamin Bours, Art Director

During his studies at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) his goal was to join one of the leading design firms in New York as a brand designer. While his love for magazines, the design, the photography had always...

Thought I was the only one going through Airbnb Hell

I had booked an entire large house on Airbnb for a family reunion and a wedding in Orlando for one week. We have five kids, six grandkids and a few newfound siblings (through Ancestry.com) that were all going to stay...

Meet Our Judges: Nathan Huang, Art Director

We’ve been fans of both The New York Times’ OpEd and Sunday Review sections for years—our judge has been art director for both sections. Meet Nathan Huang, art director, designer, animator and illustrator, a...

3x3 Annual 17 Judges Selected

Thanks to our Show Chair Christian Gralingen our judges for the 3x3 International Illustration Annual No. 17 are in place.As always we weight our judges on the art direction end so we’re pleased to have Benjamin...

Part 2: Building a Dashboard for a data processing pipeline with the Stackdriver Dashboard API

Building a Dashboard for a data processing pipeline with the Stackdriver Dashboard APIThis is part 2 of a 2 part series.Part 1: covers identifying recommended Stackdriver Monitoring metrics to use for a data processing...

Part 1: Building a Dashboard for a data processing pipeline with the Stackdriver Dashboard API

Building a Dashboard for a data processing pipeline using the Stackdriver Dashboard APIThis is part 1 of a 2 part series.Part 1: covers identifying recommended Stackdriver Monitoring metrics to use for a data...

3x3 Show Save the Date: March 27, 2020

As we head into the new year, we’re starting our preparations for the 3x3 International Illustration Show No. 17.This year’s Show Chair is Berlin art director and illustrator Christian Gralingen. Christian is in the...

Little Chimp Society Illustrator Survey 2019

Just heard from Darren Di Lieto at the Little Chimp Society and Hire an Illustrator site that they’re doing their annual Illustrator’s Survey.If you're not on Darren’s mailing list here's the pitch: ‘This survey...