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New look and new showreel for Mutant Hands

Creative Boom

Mutant Hands – AKA animator and art director James Wignall – burst onto the creative scene back in 2005, one of a new wave of creatives at the vanguard of the noughties motion graphics revolution. James Wignall has curated a new reel to encapsulate his recent animation work and created a fresh visual identity to boot.

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Big Cartel’s big rebrand by How&How throws caution to the wind

Its Nice That

Since 2005, countless creatives have launched their businesses with Big Cartel,” creative director at How&How Chris Clayton says, “we were brought in to help Big Cartel do what it does best for others: sell itself.” The team practiced restraint in the context of playful, tactile texture and type.

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10 Design Clichés We Secretly Love (and Hate)

We And The Color

When overused, it feels like we’re back in 2005, playing around in Photoshop for the first time. But we’re starting to miss a little depth, a little texture, something that doesn’t feel like it was designed on autopilot. From vibrant Instagram logos to soft pastel fades, gradients are back and bigger than ever. But let’s be real.

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Crafting Indie Identity and Branding: Big Cartel's New Look

Abduzeedo

Since 2005, Big Cartel has helped creatives sell their work, from woodworkers to ceramicists and tapestry artists, resulting in billions in sales. Risograph textures are incorporated, nodding to Big Cartel's indie roots. The goal was a full repositioning and rebrand. Every element works together to build a cohesive world.

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F5: Tyler Kobick Talks Critical Regionalism, a Trowel, Brion Cemetery + More

Design Milk

Critical Regionalism First coined by Kenneth Frampton in 1981, “critical regionalism” is a theory that trusts the phenomenology of texture over eye-based aesthetics. The Amun Shea project in El Salvador was a school I founded in 2005 and eventually became part of my Master’s thesis at Dalhousie University. Photo: Yanit Mehta 4.

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Athletics puts people and play at the heart of ShareFile's vibrant new identity

Creative Boom

Founded in 2005, ShareFile is a secure cloud collaboration tool that allows people to sign and share digital documents. Gradients are used to draw the user in and create a sense of texture and "emotional resonance". Since then, it's grown and transformed, with cloud computing company Citrix acquiring it in 2011.

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50 fonts that will be popular with designers in 2024

Creative Boom

The custom typeface is a nod to piping icing textures, appropriate for a food colouring brand with lots of flavours. This typeface plays surprisingly well with the other brand elements that share this puffy icing texture – leaving a lasting, memorable mark. It makes for a tasty brand that looks like no other."