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City Lights Cast an Aura of Anonymous Mystique Over Keita Morimoto’s Streetscapes

Colossal

In Keita Morimoto ’s paintings, soft yellow streetlights, LED shop signs, and clinical beams of a public transit stop expose the discomfiting nature of perpetual surveillance. Working in acrylic and oil, the Japanese artist explores the scenes of daily commutes, walks with friends, and trips to a vending machine.

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How the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was designed

Design Week

Free Type unframed pictograms will be used on posters, tickets and licensed products while the framed versions will be used on maps, signage, guidebooks and websites. It’s been fashioned from aluminium, incorporating the same manufacturing technology that’s used in the production of the country’s high-speed bullet train.

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Designer Yannis Karlopoulos’s Work is a Celebration of Greek History and Culture

Eye on Design

Descending from street level, the first room is an assemblage of shops signs, early 2000s Macs, various bricks, and a vitrine full of supermarket product packaging. If you are an artist you have to create your tools. While clearly a successful business venture, fonts.gr So what is your tool? A library, a type library.”

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The History of Logos: Where Branding Started

Inkbot Design

With the rise of the Industrial Revolution, businesses began to recognise the importance of branding and creating distinct visual representations of their products or services. Throughout the 20th century, logo design evolved alongside artistic movements and the rise of mass media. Sale Logo Modernism Hardcover Book Remington, R.

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Cultural appropriation: can designers ever responsibly “borrow” from other cultures?

Design Week

.” Struggling to articulate how the loss of this hand-crafted sign actually felt, Oberoi launched the platform to record other instances of India graphic design that remained. ” Products designed by Urban Outfitters, identified by Pater in his book, The Politics of Design Exposure to non-western design practices.

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15 Illustration Portfolio Websites That Are Brimming with Talent

High on Design by Wix

The internal project pages of her illustrator website provide a more in-depth showcase of her works, ranging from editorial illustration, to book covers, and even illustrated products like jigsaw puzzles. By photographing his prints or murals and showcasing them as finished products, he brings his work to life on his illustrator website.