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Take 5: A Designer Vessel, Experimental Art, Color Theory + More

Design Milk

The showcase revealed a post-pandemic yearning for tactility that cannot be derived from most two-dimensional artifacts or other forms of conventional fine art. Sophie Parker is the Brooklyn-based artist and creative director behind these works specializing in plant-based compositions.

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How the Occult Shaped Branding’s Obsession With Color

Eye on Design

“The Bauhaus is one of the prime examples of bringing these various currents together in their aims to develop a new form of artistic production for the industrial age,” Yumibe said in 1919, “yet many at the school also had occult roots.” . Color … is more like religion,” he wrote in 1945. Chicago World Fair, 1933 Postcard.

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Reading between the lines: a way of composing UX illustrations

UX Collective

How deconstructing fine art can help you create better UX illustrations. I’ll be the first to say that it’s generous to draw a comparison between fine art and digital illustration. In general, color’s impact on an illustration goes beyond just aesthetics. This way, your users always know where to look.

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Bold and Bright: The Winners of the Global Billboard Project Will Stop You In Your Tracks

Feature Shoot

Sarah Wouters , a travel photographer, made her winning photo while visiting Inle Lake, Myanmar, where she spotted these villagers drying their colorful fabrics. A masterclass in color theory and the rules of composition, her picture transforms an everyday moment into a scene from a painting. © © Julia Wimmerlin.

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9 Best Design Colleges in Los Angeles (2022 list)

Shillington

Also, Otis offers both a Communication Arts undergraduate degree with a major in Graphic Design and a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design. Amongst the twenty-two schools that USC is made up of is the Roski School of Art and Design which cements USC as one of the best graphic design schools in Los Angeles.

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The cheat sheet to startup graphic design roles

UX Collective

It is borrowed from graphic art, a notable graphic design ancestor and for some time the main ‘influencer’ of visual communications. Graphic art is categorized as a branch of fine art which encompasses all (manual) artistic techniques that produce multiple printed artworks (4). A typical art director stereotype?—?an