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Spotlight on: LPOL, a British brand specialising in sustainable bags and unique art prints made from leather offcuts

Creative Boom

Founded by Central Saint Martins graduate Katy Maskell Bell in 2009, LPOL (short for Lost Property of London) began life with its first collection featuring a tote bag made out of coffee sacks and vintage Liberty fabric, which she then launched with the aforementioned prestigious store. Dinky is a true celebration of our zero-waste ethos.

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Meet Chantel Charchalis, Shillington Graduate and Marketing and Content Creator at The Dog Mum

Shillington

Two months after graduating, Chantel found her dream job as the new Marketing and Content Creator at Dog Mum , a unique Australian-based online retailer catering to the stylish animal lover in all of us. I had already completed 3 and a half years of university back in 2009, so the last thing I wanted was more debt and years of study.

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Has the collective experience of the pandemic reset our relationship with the future?

UX Collective

Around 2009, Stuart Candy from Carnegie Mellon University presented the Future Cone as a way of depicting different kinds of potential futures. The diagram consists of a number of cones that expand out from the present into the future. What are our inspirations and have these changed because of the pandemic?

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Volga-Atom: How in The USSR Created a Car with A Nuclear Reactor

Design You Trust

In 1958, Ford, known in the invention of the conveyor, presented the Ford Nucleon atomic car layout. In 2009, Engineer Lawrence Kouvene presented the audience concept car Cadillac World Thorium Fuel. But the concept of an atomic car, first nominated to the United States, seemed the most incredible. Buick Le-Sabre 1951.

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11 Graphic Design Tips to Create Images Like a Pro On Instagram

Graphic Design Junction

It is always beneficial to reflect back on the past in order to gain a better understanding of the present. Facebook was established in the year 2006, and it didn’t take long before individuals began utilizing the site for the purpose of advertising and marketing products and services.

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5 Best Web Design Agencies To Hire In 2022

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Founded in 2009, Clay Global is a top web design agency and branding firm based in San Francisco. Whether you build SaaS, enterprise applications, or other digital experiences for the web, they offer you a dedicated team for web design, development, testing, marketing, and the like. Quite simply, they’re good at what they do.

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Knowing Your Design History is Crucial to Aesthetic Innovation

Eye on Design

Knowing design history gives context to our contemporary visual culture—we can use the past to decode the present and forecast a stylistic future. . Within a decade, the style had ballooned out of its sub-cultural roots and into the mass market, setting the 1980s aglow. Great Wheel of Style, Lorraine Wild, 2000.