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Defy's anniversary ads for Boyds strike the perfect balance between past and future

Creative Boom

To celebrate its 85th anniversary, it approached Defy , an independent Philadelphia-based marketing company that's been quietly churning out unique angles for powerhouse global clients such as Nike, Ricoh, Comcast, Ritz Carlton, Wilson Sporting Goods and AmeriGas.

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Print's not dead: the best magazines for graphic design inspiration

Creative Boom

It was originally launched in 1981 as a quarterly supplement to Marketing Week, then later became a stand-alone monthly magazine. Slanted Slanted, which first debuted in 2004, is a biannual, book-like magazine that showcases select graphic design portfolios and discusses major events in the international design and culture scenes.

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Mike Nelson on his sensory new survey, scavenging objects and simulating reality

Creative Boom

It's an amalgamation of objects scavenged from the depths of junkyards and flea markets, which through their presentation, serve to preserve fragmented moments with enough room for open-ended interpretation. Installation view of Mike Nelson, Triple Bluff Canyon (the woodshed), 2004. Various materials. Found tyres.

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Cadbury's campaign claims to reveal our personality via our eating choices

Creative Boom

To us, it doesn't feel like long since it appeared on our TV screens, but apparently, it was a full 20 years ago, in 2004. It's a classic advertising approach: telling people that they'll be thought of as fun, original and spontaneous if they, er, buy specific mass-market products. Well, that's us told. Isn't it ironic?

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Becoming type-sensitive with the psychology of fonts

UX Collective

Keeping it natural In a similar study published by the Journal of Marketing, researchers investigated the types of emotional responses evoked in consumers by a font’s design characteristics. Journal of marketing, 68(4), 60–72. 2004, September). In International Professional Communication Conference, 2004. Henderson, P.

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Instagram vs Facebook: Navigating the Social Media Showdown

Inkbot Design

Since their inception in 2010 and 2004, respectively, they have carved distinct niches while also overlapping in critical areas. This article analyses the Instagram vs Facebook debate by juxtaposing their purposes, strengths, marketing capabilities, and utility.

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Packhelp

Mindsparkle Mag

They were launch on the market in Sweden, for now. Former Art director at the notorious design agency Snask and a 2004 Hyper Island alumnus. However, Jens Nilsson, a Swedish graphic designer, came up with an innovative concept for mailboxes for Packhelp. Jens created a series of typographic mailer boxes for Packhelp.