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F5: Elena Salmistraro Shares Her Favorite Accessory, Art + Album

Design Milk

Elena Salmistraro graduated from the Politecnico in Milan with a degree in Industrial Design in 2008, and the following year opened her own firm. She’s the creator of a unique and highly recognizable aesthetic, and interested in developing work that straddles the lines between illustration, design, and visual arts.

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50+ Best Gifts for Designers on Every Budget

Inkbot Design

50+ Best Gifts for Designers on Every Budget Designers are creative professionals who use their artistic talents to communicate ideas visually. Choosing gifts for the designer in your life can be fun yet challenging. It’s a great quality thick paper sketch book and drawing book for kids or artists alike.

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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.” . That’s how set-designers quickly found themselves on new turf.

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Back to basics: what did Bruno Munari leave for designers in “Design as art”?

UX Collective

In the “Back to basics” series, I would like to rediscover the content of the textbooks I read at the beginning of my industrial design studies. Bruno Munari was an Italian artist, designer, and inventor who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts and design.

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Bauhaus Graphic Design: Past, Present, and Future

Inkbot Design

Their forward-thinking work went on to influence generations of designers. He aimed to start a new movement in the visual arts that rejected the excessive historicism and ornamentation that defined late 19th-century design in favour of a modern , industrial aesthetic.

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21 Famous Graphic Designers That Anyone in the Design Industry Needs to Know in 2023

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Gail Anderson Gail Anderson’s career is super impressive—with stints at Rolling Stone, The Boston Globe, Random House and currently partner at Anderson Newton Design. A true powerhouse of design, her work throughout the years has remained impressive and definitely worth a look.

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The beauty of design

UX Collective

And what I found interesting was this conflict between 2 designs that have roughly the same role but are fundamentally opposed; The first one is made by artists who are trying to do something beautiful and unique. The second is made by engineers who have worked on a more accessible visual system.