Speckyboy Design Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2019

To understand the value of your application and enjoy its features, modern web programs need to have an onboarding process. It is not just a whim. It is a crucial element that provides a solid foundation for good user experience and ensures the success of the entire venture. You can have the best product ever. However, if your audience does not understand how to use it, all your efforts will be in vain.

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Just Creative

DECEMBER 4, 2019

This article was contributed by Diana Adjadj. If you’re reading this, you’ve already done your homework and know very well that storytelling has a great potential to improve customer engagement. . So let’s cut to the chase: not only storytelling is nice to have in your digital marketing strategy. It’s becoming a must for online businesses. . With so much content published these days, brands need to make personal and emotional connections with their intended audiences.

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Its Nice That

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Slanted’s CEO and graphic designer Julia Kahl treats us to five influential titles from her bookshelf. No stranger to books after working in publishing for over a decade, the multi-disciplinary creatives shares publications with us that continue to inspire her to this day. Read more.

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Design Week

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Unicef has launched a mobile game to teach children in Latin America and the Caribbean about their rights. Right Runner has been designed by London-based design studio, Nexus (which also has offices in Los Angeles). Deborah Casswell, the studio’s creative director, says that the studio worked with UNICEF to work out an “engaging” way to educate children about their rights.

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Speaker: Amber Asay, Creative Director and Founder of award-winning design studio Nice People

Understanding what trends are happening and how they’re impacting the competitive landscape is crucial to providing top dollar design strategy to your clients. With so many trends coming and going, it can be overwhelming to determine which ones you should capitalize on and which ones might not be worth the trouble. In this exclusive webinar with Amber Asay, we’ll explore graphic design trends that need to die, trends that are starting to pick up and why, trends that have come and gone, and how t

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Its Nice That

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Called Material Exploration, the animated film is a collaboration between the Hamburg-based designers and German engineering company Imat-uve to show the potential of 3D scanning and digital material development. Read more.

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Its Nice That

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Jones Knowles Ritchie has redesigned the brand identity, website and app for the UK’s National Lottery, animating its crossed fingers logo for the first time, and injecting the vibrant colours of the draw balls to add fun as well as aid navigation online. Read more.

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Today we are featuring yet again great drawing illustrator, graphic designer and art director Viktor Miller-Gausa , with his amazing drawing portraits collection. He is from Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. In this posts, we will showcase his best portraits illustration artwork for your inspiration. You can catch him behance.net/viktormillergausa.

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Shillington

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Inspiration can come from anywhere. So, on the first Friday of each month, we’re sharing some of our Shillington team’s favourite things from the past four weeks. This month, Shillington New York Teacher Nikita Prokhorov tells us what was on his radar in November. 1. To Follow: Maria Corte. I tried to find the words to describe how great Maria Corte ‘s work is, but I genuinely couldn’t sum it better than she could.

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Design You Trust

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Artist Anne Taintor (previously) is the originator of these snarky vintage illustrations rounded up in a 2020 calendar which will surely add value to your real estate if you have it on your wall. Scroll down to see the funniest examples of her work! More: Amazon. Source.

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Hi-Fructose

DECEMBER 4, 2019

British-Iranian artist Nikoo Bafti crafts vibrant scenes that represent Mother Nature, pulling inspiration from varying mythologies. The artist's background includes studies in illustration, with time spent animation development at Disney Channels in London before she embarked on a career in personal and freelance work. More.

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Its Nice That

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The Fukushima-based artist has always liked drawing, but she only started publishing her work on social media when encouraged by a friend. Here, she discusses the ideas behind her humorous work, aiming to make the viewer think and laugh when presented with the beautifully painted works. Read more.

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Creative Review

DECEMBER 4, 2019

BBH London is behind the messaging, which appeared on the side of a London bus today. Photography shows it sailing past the Palace of Westminster, where politicians are undoubtedly preparing for the outcome of the upcoming General Election. It’s a bold move for Burger King. The brand’s decision to join the political discussion could have easily gone awry, but it’s a clever piece of work – knowing yet playful, and pleasantly uncomplicated.

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Under Consideration / Brand

DECEMBER 4, 2019

“The Slice is Right”. Established in 2019 in the small city of Lincoln, CA (pop. 47,000+), Slice Beer Co is a microbrewery that packs a 10 BBL brewhouse with 6 20 BBL fermentors into a small 1,100-square-foot space to serve a constantly rotating range of beers in its 500-square-foot tasting room that seats 32 patrons. With no immediate goal for growing or distribution, Slice Beer Co is focusing on its taproom experience.

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Speaker: Sean Adams, ArtCenter College of Design

Thomas Edison once said “Vision without execution is hallucination.” This statement applies not just to invention, but to graphic design. One of the greatest strengths of graphic designers is the ability to first develop a concept and then execute it to make it real. From visualization and ideation all the way through to actuation and execution, each step of this process takes skill and expertise.

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Shillington

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Shillington students from around the world share the work of creatives who inspire them in the #ILoveTheseGuys series. In this post, New York student Thomas Derwent highlights projects from award-winning Illustrator and Art Director, John F. Malta. Inspiring individual with an insanely massive catalog! Awesome colours and just such cool illustrations.

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Abduzeedo

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Brutalist Branding for Synticate©. abduzeedo Dec 04, 2019 Stepan Solodkov shared a branding and graphic design project created for a Moscow based CGI studio that has a portfolio of very large clients. The target audience of the studio are creative and art directors of large advertising agencies, therefore, the identity wanted to invoke a bright, modern and memorable look.

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Colossal

DECEMBER 4, 2019

View this post on Instagram. A post shared by Andrea Love (@andreaanimates) on Nov 26, 2019 at 6:20am PST. We’ve all heard that we should incorporate more fiber into our diets. But did our doctors mean… wool? Andrea Love is on the front lines of nutritionally dense animation with her fiber-based short films centered around breakfast foods.

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Creative Review

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The world of photography in 2019 was marked by movements of change and activism, and expansive dissections of contemporary politics and the status quo. We also saw exciting experimentation in both images and exhibitions. Here, Diane Smyth looks back at the year. The post The Year in Review: Photography appeared first on Creative Review.

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Design You Trust

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Medieval art sure is weird. We’ve already featured People Happily Dying, Battle Snails and Cats Licking Their Butts galleries. For some strange reason medieval artists also loved painting violent rabbits on a murderous rampage. If you have any idea why, please leave a comment below. Source.

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Type room

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Tags. type design , Type designer , Gerard Unger , typefaces , fonts , Ashler , Spain , website , origins , archive , tribute , Gerry Leonidas. From Markeur , his first-ever professional type design for Joh back in 1972 to Sanserata , his latest type design in 2016 Gerard Unger ’s legacy is alive and kicking in full force again online. . Spain based Ashler Design , a collaboration between two people, Elena Ramírez , web designer and UX expert, and Octavio Pardo , graphic and type designer decide

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2019

With the 1781 Saint-Jean-Baptiste church at its heart – and its spire the highest peak – the Quebec village of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli unfolds in a modest array of small shops and detached homes. But this small town of 3,400 on the Saint Lawrence River also boasts a well-established arts scene – and it is for this community that a discreet new artists residence on the outskirts of town now serves as the permanent nexus.

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Shillington

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Don’t miss your last chance to see some of legendary graphic designer Paula Scher’s work right at the Manchester School of Art’s amazing exhibition. An exhibition of poster designs by celebrated graphic designer, Paula Scher, partner of Pentagram New York. “As long as I’ve been practicing design, I have been most obsessed with the connection between the work I create and its public.

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This is Paper

DECEMBER 4, 2019

04.12.2019 I Am Fat by Marie HaldResearch, Photography. ©Marie Hald In a new series of photos, the Danish photographer Marie Hald portrays young Scandinavian women who insist on being themselves. Fat. Some of them are Instagram activists and have chosen to stop only posting selfies of their faces, but to show their bodies. Including on the beach. And in bikinis.

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Design Week

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The artwork for Pink Floyd’s box set The Later Years has been unveiled — it has been designed by London-based studio Johnson Banks. The 18-disc set focuses on material created by band members David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright over the last thirty years. As well as albums like A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division, it includes live recordings, unreleased material, merchandise and a re-edited version of the rarely-seen 1987 film The Delicate Sound of Thunder.

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Just Creative

DECEMBER 4, 2019

EP 49 of Experience Design Podcast (with Tony Daussat) is now UP and guess who’s on it!? Here is what you can expect when listening: “On this week’s episode of Experience Design I had the pleasure of speaking with Jacob Cass @justcreative about how his brain ticks when designing branding for such iconic locations like San Francisco — as well as how he deals with the “branding nay-sayers.” We also touch on passive income streams, and also tips and tricks to starting a ca

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Abduzeedo

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Branding and Graphic Design for CoType™. abduzeedo Dec 04, 2019 CoType™ is the London based type foundry of Mark Bloom and Co. They design contemporary typefaces for use in digital and print applications. In addition to their retail offerings, they also offer design of bespoke typefaces and modifications of their existing font library. All of their typefaces support Latin Extended-A, Western European, Central European & Southeastern European languages.

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