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Behind Mississippi’s “transparent” process to redesign its state flag

Design Week

When it was retired earlier this year, the state department asked the public for submissions for a new state flag. In 2003, Georgia redesigned its flag which meant that Mississippi’s was the only remaining flag to feature the Confederate symbol. The flag’s images, colour, or patterns should relate to what it symbolises.

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The design of insight

UX Collective

We read articles, gather data, and discover patterns and tensions. A design paradigm is an established framework, pattern, or system—of theories, methods, standards, or concepts. Given, 2008, The SAGE encyclopedia of qualitative research methods (Virtual Ethnography), SAGE Publications Tim Ingold, 2014, That’s enough about ethnography!,

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(Almost) Never Demolish: Reviving Social Housing Through Preservation

Azure Magazine

Combining condo blocks with ample public amenities, the ongoing development — initiated in 2002 — is knitting a once-isolated neighbourhood back into the city. And in an era of limited public investment, the partnership with private developers meant that all those new condominiums helped pay for improved social housing. Doublesapce.

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Memory Veil: 10,000 Strands Of Red String Beads Art Installation

Design You Trust

“The beads on a bead curtain in his house to keep track of what he learned”- Jishi Zhu (Memory Beads), Meng (2003, 2004). Strands of red strings hung from a structure of a geometric tiger pattern form the gateway that invites the public to come through.

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21 Famous Graphic Designers That Anyone in the Design Industry Needs to Know in 2023

Shillington

His work includes branding, publications, installations and digital experiences. Wyman also designed the signage and wayfinding system for the Mexico City Metro, which features brightly colored symbols and patterns to help users navigate the complex system. Eddie Opara Eddie Opara is a British-born graphic designer of Nigerian descent.

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To design is to seek truth

UX Collective

But the fundamental reasoning pattern of design is framing and frame creation. And reveal degrees of acceptance from the public. Core of design, emergent tech, iconic examples. by Author Products change, technologies change, the core of design is the same. A pursuit of understanding and to express underlying truths.

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Maybe we don’t have to (re)brand everything

UX Collective

64 (2003) WHEN I FIRST STARTED doing freelance design, my thoughts were very much pigeon-holed into achieving results like those in Behance have showcased. They are being framed within selected shapes, colours, and patterns, just to reinforce the identity of their new upcoming fitness “brand.”

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