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The Vibrant World of Japanese Graphic Design

Inkbot Design

Corporate & Brand Mascots Companies also utilise character mascots or “yuru kyara” for promotions and advertising. Printing Technology Advances Print production technologies, enabling graphic design and art innovations, transformed Japan's history. trillion yen.

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Retro Packaging Design: Bringing Back Vintage Styles

Inkbot Design

A vintage cola-style serif font looks plucked straight from a 50s advertisement. Mix Old With New Blend retro styling with modern shapes, photography techniques or textures so packaging doesn’t read as falsely vintage. The choices combine to offer consumers comforting familiarity.

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Designing For Print Vs Digital: The Differences

Inkbot Design

Digital cohorts emerge more organically based on usage and sharing habits, which are harder to predict. Print ensures messages reach the intended eyes. Of course, online advertising through social networks and search engines also allows target market penetration. For what type of content is print better than digital?

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“Exploring Unfamiliar Histories of Visual Culture” — Four Corners Books Shares Its Favorite Publications

Eye on Design

In Footnotes and Headlines , she does this thing that she does with the screen prints, where she’s using language and words and advertising slogans in a very sort of playful way, where she uses them as much for their visual impact as for the message that’s being communicated. I’ve grouped three together here.

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A Guide to Vintage Design Styles

Tuts Plus

Look at a shiny modern digital print, and you’ll probably place it as having being made recently. You might guess the age of a print with slightly more pixelation and a duller color as being of the 1950s or 1960s. This makes it the perfect choice for flyers, posters, and other advertising or marketing media. 16 Dec 2019.

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50 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2020

Shillington

What Images Really Tell Us: Visual Rhetoric in Art, Graphic Design, and Advertising by Massimo Mariani. This is an essential guide for students and young professionals looking to embrace creative thinking in design, advertising and communications. Print Matters: The Cutting Edge of Print by viction:ary. Buy the book.