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Positive stories from freelance creatives to boost your mood in a recession

Creative Boom

There's something quite magical about a real, physical book, which perhaps explains why this antiquated media format continues to thrive in the digital age. For similar reasons, pattern designer and illustrator Rachel Panckhurst fondly recalls work she did at Christmas for homelessness charity Shelter. "As

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Patterns are good

UX Collective

Source: Tidbits A design pattern is a document that describes a common solution to a recurring design problem. According to Tibor Kunert (2009), using design patterns allows designers to quickly find solutions to problems using proven designs, rather than starting from scratch each time. Welcome to Design Patterns.

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Kurppa Hosk reveals Olympics-inspired rebrand for Nordic sports giant XXL

Design Week

Established in Oslo, Norway in 2001, XXL offers a wide selection of sports gear in its large-scale stores. A key focus of the new work was creating an “improved digital design system”, he adds. As well as forming an “expressive element in its own right”, the pattern can be overlaid on imagery, Kurppa says.

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Developing UX/AI thinking for a new design world

UX Collective

The latter is well known to UX designers, linking user metadata to the digital interface. Through a series of interactions, we can witness a smarter speaker come to life with rhythmic patterns from its light indicators and audio chimes. Today, she is much older and knows the smart speaker is a digital assistant.

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F5: David Trubridge on Forward-Thinking Art, Indigenous Voices, + More

Design Milk

” David Trubridge Photo: Richard Brimer Trubridge’s work first gained attention in 2001, when Italian design house Cappellini bought the rights to his steam-bent ash recliner. Only after all this will he take his design digital. That was the moment when it clicked.” Photo: Ron Arad 1. Photo: David Trubridge 5.

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Japanese Graphic Design Characteristics & Examples

Shillington

It works together with the classic Latin typeface Neue Frutiger so that the two languages can appear seamlessly together across print and digital. This 2001 poster for the Japan Ensemble at Orchestra Asia by designer Hideo Pedro Yamashita uses Shod?-esque This is a direct link to the ancient art of Shod?

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“Books remain stubbornly, thrillingly relevant”: the enduring value of book design

Design Week

“Books remain stubbornly, thrillingly relevant” “Today’s digital world is ever more ephemeral, and our attention spans and capacity for in-depth engagement seem to decrease in inverse proportion,” Michael Beirut tells Design Week about the competition. Salutations 1995, by Walter Hamady and John Wilde (2001).