Speckyboy Design Magazine
MARCH 15, 2021
Don’t be alarmed – but it’s been said that the internet contains some misinformation. It’s also really effective at spreading various falsehoods. And because anyone can publish whatever they like, it can be difficult to tell fiction from the truth. Shocking, right? WordPress is no stranger to various myths and conspiracy theories. Some people are suspicious of big changes to the content management system’s (CMS) core.
Just Creative
MARCH 15, 2021
Retro fonts remind us of the good old day and come with a kind of nostalgia that not many other typefaces can portray. The marker-inspired typefaces and vintage text visuals can naturally convey intimacy, creativity, and talent. The best retro font families can help you get the results you’re looking for whether that’s a classic look, giving your projects a distinct feel, or making everything you create appear authentic and top-notch.
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Trendland
MARCH 15, 2021
Words Mariana Bettinelli. Art director and stylist Elisabetta Bongiorni drew inspiration from botanical illustrations for the shoots of Lia Di Gregorio's jewelry.
Just Creative
MARCH 15, 2021
Fonts are a crucial part of any brand and marketing campaign. They determine the aesthetic of a project, and the target audience an organization has its eyes set on. The trouble is that there are so many free fonts for graphic design and branding that it would take you years to go through them all, let alone find the professional quality ones. Thankfully, that’s why we’re here.
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
Graphic Design 24
MARCH 15, 2021
Vector change Vector change is the cycle whereby a raster picture is changed over into a vector picture. To comprehend this all the more effectively, we will initially need to comprehend what a raster picture and what a vector picture is. A raster picture is comprised of pixels which are little hued boxes. So in this picture, lines and bent edges are developed by the legitimate arrangement of the pixels for example putting the crates in such a manner close to one another that they make the ideal
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Dexigner
MARCH 15, 2021
Sunday Afternoon has rebranded the former Liquid Advertising, one of the leading ad agencies for the gaming and entertainment industries, now known as Liquid+Arcade.
Noupe
MARCH 15, 2021
With each decade, an upsurge in the demand for cybersecurity workers becomes visible. As more people move towards the digital era, guarding yourself against online threats and critical scenarios becomes as challenging as ever. The cases of security violations and cyberattacks have also taken a toll. Every year, visibly a new percent of cybersecurity workers is hired to fill the seats of various cybersecurity offices, but due to higher demand and low supply of cybersecurity workers, many seats re
Design Week
MARCH 15, 2021
New York-based design studio Loyal Kaspar is behind the branding for Paramount+, a new streaming platform from ViacomCBS. Designed to compete with the likes of Netflix, Disney Plus and Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+ will offer subscribers access to more than 30,000 on-demand TV shows from places like MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. It will also offer live sports coverage and 24-hour news. “Rich heritage” alongside a “digital entertainment ecosystem” Loyal Kaspar chie
Colossal
MARCH 15, 2021
All images licensed, © Arseniy Kotov. Photographer Arseniy Kotov is dedicated to documenting the changes in Russian life and architecture since the fall of the USSR, a commitment that brought him to the coldest European city last February. Located about 110 miles from the Arctic Ocean, Vorkuta is a small mining town that once held one of the largest and most grueling forced labor camps during Stalin’s reign.
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Brands must create and share impactful content to thrive, but they have less people, tighter budgets, and fewer resources to do so. Learn how to publish and market digital content with the same professionalism as organizations with million-dollar budgets.
Design You Trust
MARCH 15, 2021
Wonbin Lee (???) is an illustrator living and working in South Korea. In his work he mainly portrays young women in a variety of styles – from classical to anime. One thing I can say is that the portraits are very expressive and stylish. More: Artstation , Instagram , Facebook.
Colossal
MARCH 15, 2021
Detail of “Lupa.” All images © Patrick Cabral, shared with permission. Encircled by oversized crowns of paper, two new masks by Patrick Cabral celebrate Filipino culture through elaborately fashioned works defined by their colors. Titled Mananayaw ng Langit at Lupa , or Dancers of Heaven and Earth , the ongoing series was commissioned by the Iloilo Museum of Contemporary Art for the Dinagyang Festival.
Shillington
MARCH 15, 2021
Exciting news! Now you can enjoy the latest issue of our in-house publication anywhere and everywhere. Read Shillington Post 09—The Wellbeing Issue online. In this ninth issue, we open up the conversation around wellbeing in the design industry. Our teachers share their tips on how to get some headspace away from the computer. We look at the connection between alternative work schedules and employee happiness and productivity.
Design You Trust
MARCH 15, 2021
“Working on the Baseball Photographer Trading Cards, traveling throughout the country, my girlfriend at the time, Alison Woolpert, and I would stay at some, shall we say, “economy” motels,” writes photographer Mike Mandel. “We pulled into one in Texas on a wintry night and upon waking in the morning we realized that the sheets had not been changed after the visit of the previous motel guest.
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.
Abduzeedo
MARCH 15, 2021
Mint Soda — an Art Deco theme font. AoiroStudio 03.15.21 We are featuring the work of Patrick Seymour , a freelance art director & illustrator based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, First of all, hi from a fellow Canadian! Patrick has shared an art deco theme font titled: 'Mint Soda'. I really dig this font, I love the mixture of swirls and it works pretty fine either on a light or dark background.
Design You Trust
MARCH 15, 2021
The Kadokawa Culture Museum is a Tokyo-based cultural complex that opened its doors just last year. The complex houses many temporary and permanent exhibitions, as well as natural history and anime museums. However, one of its most impressive attractions has to be the Bookshelf Theater – an enormous library with eight-meter tall bookshelves designed by Kengo Kuma that contains over 50,000 publications from various Japanese publishers and private collections.
Abduzeedo
MARCH 15, 2021
Clay Imports and Rohin Bhalla Launch Oaxaca Tile Series. ibby 03.15.21 We're pleased to share a beautiful new collaboration between Clay Imports and Austin-based designer Rohin Bhalla inspired by the ever-enchanting, mystical state of Oaxaca. While working in Mexico, Bhalla became fascinated with how simple shapes of wood could be rotated and intersected together to create a piece of furniture.
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Its Nice That
MARCH 15, 2021
Complete with a retro colour palette and soft synth music, the animation – titled People – started out as sketches of strangers on a train.
Creative Review
MARCH 15, 2021
Nike’s latest ad aims to launch its new maternity collection, Nike (M), but as is the way with the sports brand’s commercials, it contains a deeper message that speaks to concerns that women may have about the way their bodies might change during pregnancy and after birth. Titled the Toughest Athletes, the film questions whether motherhood and sport can be successfully combined, and features star turns from more than 20 mothers across various stages of their pregnancy and postpartum
Azure Magazine
MARCH 15, 2021
If you entered Toronto’s Union Station this past February and March, you were in for a surprise. Instead of a familiar waiting area, travellers and commuters were met with rows upon rows of stacked benches and restricted seating. When I visited the iconic transit hub in early March, people could be spotted crouching on ledges, sitting on the floor, and even sitting on stacked up benches.
Creative Review
MARCH 15, 2021
Founded in 2019 by Sam Franklin, Theo Margolius and Xav Kearney – all of whom previously worked at estate agency Nested – Otta offers a decidedly different take on the drudgery of job hunting. Rather than displaying users long lists of jobs, it tailors recommendations according to what people are actually searching for – taking into account desired salary, size of company, industry and so on.
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In today’s competitive markets, how do you make sure that your content not only stands out but performs well? How can you predict whether certain design choices will result in clicks, engagement, downloads, and other drivers of ROI? Shutterstock’s Creative Insights Report (Q3) is your window into the hottest trends that are transforming the creative world.
The Die Line
MARCH 15, 2021
Society Studios was tasked to create a visual language, naming convention, and branding for Lost At Sea Brewing Co. that would easily stand out on a crowded shelf. .
Creative Review
MARCH 15, 2021
Produced by BBC Creative and directed by Max Siedentopf, the campaign is a response to soaring radio listening figures across the board – which have been enormously boosted by lockdown. A Rajar report from May 2020 showed that commercial radio hit a record 36.3 million average weekly listeners in the first three months of 2020. And in November last year, papers also reported listeners tuning in for an extra hour and 53 minutes a day , as the second UK lockdown hit.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
MARCH 15, 2021
Designers love to complain about ‘superficial’ design trends that they don’t feel have any staying power or contribute anything meaningful to the industry. But are they right? I happen to think that whatever users find ‘trendy’ or cool, even though it may be fleeting, is part of the service a designer provides. It’s part of what clients are paying for.
The Die Line
MARCH 15, 2021
Despite a groundswell of growing support for federal legalization, a challenging reality remains—cannabis faces a patchwork of state regulatory schemes that are changing rapidly.
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