Speckyboy Design Magazine
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Designers often like to critique other designers. It’s just a natural side effect of being creative. We see a website or app and immediately start looking at how it all fits together. What challenges might have our brethren faced along the way? Would we have done anything differently? Of course, no designer is perfect. We all have those projects in our portfolio that we’d like to forget.
Creative Review
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Dexter McLean’s profound images bring forth perspectives and stories that tend to be underrepresented in much of the photography and media landscape. His Aspire Gym photo series features portraits of athletes in a wheelchair rugby team, who visit the gym to both train and socialise. “I was trying to give a perspective society hadn’t seen before.
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Its Nice That
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Taking inspiration from Nian Hua pictures, the illustrations depict a modern form of fortune that values stories over money.
Creative Review
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Inspired by the characterful worlds of directors such as Wes Anderson and Taika Waititi, Visbii’s colourful illustrations play with personality and the physical form to create delightfully unexpected results. With a client list that includes everyone from the Wall Street Journal to Women’s Wear Daily, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the illustrator – whose real name is Amber Day – has been honing her craft for years.
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
Colossal
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
All images © Ana Santos, shared with permission. At the center of Ana Santos ’s practice is a commitment to discovery. The Salamanca-based illustrator fuses multiple mediums—her work ranges from watercolor, ink-based drawing, and digital painting to embroidery and ceramics—into portraits superimposed with clusters of foliage, birds, and small, black-and-white renderings, a technique she’s developed through experimentation. “Enjoying the process is very important and being open to err
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Abduzeedo
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Red Envelopes - The Fortune Guardians Illustrations. AoiroStudio 02.11.21 On February 12, 2021, based on the Chinese lunisolar calendar. A vast quantity of people will be celebrating the 'Lunar New Year'. It's basically the new beginning of the calendar and it's worth celebrating its new cycle. This year gets a bit particular since we are still in the middle of a pandemic, obviously it changes the outcome somehow.
Creative Review
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Having been in the dating game for over 25 years, Match arrived on the scene long before swiping right became ubiquitous. In its rebrand, Collins decided to focus on this more considered and arguably slower approach to online dating – positioning the service as a kind of dating concierge. The Match wordmark has been updated, with the heart symbol moved to the end of the word – apparently now working as a full stop.
Design Week
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
London-based studio Our Design Agency (ODA) has rebranded Relish, with an identity that hopes to engage the feelings of people living with dementia. The work includes a new name for the company (previously Active Minds) as well as a visual identity that rolls out across Relish’s website, social media, app, products and packaging. Established in 2010, Relish creates products in collaboration with patients and carers which aim to improve the wellbeing of people who live with dementia and the
Creative Review
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Art director Gem Fletcher explores the photography of Matthieu Croizier, whose isolation due to the pandemic has fuelled a surreal examination of the human form, inspired by Geneviève Regnault, David Lynch and more. The post Exposure: Matthieu Croizier appeared first on Creative Review.
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Its Nice That
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Based in Manchester, Maisy is drawn to illustration for its ability to tell stories about different communities.
Vectips
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
In this tutorial we will be creating a cute smiling heart with floral decorations, that can be easily turned into a postcard by adding text to the composition. We’ll be using basic shapes and tools for creating the smiling heart itself and adding details. Let’s get started! Tutorial Details. Program: Adobe Illustrator CS6 – CC. Difficulty: Intermediate.
Abduzeedo
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Tierra Whack & Adobe Release New Coloring Book. abduzeedo 02.11.21 Today Adobe is releasing a free coloring book, dubbed ‘W is for Whack,’ in collaboration with artist Tierra Whack to print at home or color digitally within your favorite Creative Cloud apps. Tierra Whack is all about stepping outside of her comfort zone to find her creative inspiration, and the coloring book is full of weird, “whacky” characters that anyone can color in fun and unique ways. .
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.
Design You Trust
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
If you’ve come across Jeff Mahannah on Instagram or any of his art you probably won’t forget it in a hurry! The talented artist’s drawings and comics are unique, shocking and genius! They might not be everyone’s taste but he doesn’t care about that, why should he? Through colourful, graphic, comic drawings Jeff illustrates the ironies and flaws of today’s society.
Abduzeedo
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
TED and Zebra Technologies Film & Motion Design. abduzeedo 02.11.21 Guilherme Henrique and Datadot Estúdio were invited by Skillen & Co., a Canadian video producer company, to collaborate with them in designing and animating visual schemes for TED and Zebra Technologies’ video. As most of the content is about non-physical concepts, their goal was to develop visual explanations to work with the interview’s narrative highlighting the essence of the information that was being spoken.
Design You Trust
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Young artist Sanja Jankovic used the wine as a new form of artistic expression. Here are its brief explains how and why does she do it: ““I’m always trying to turn everything around in the art. Wine was one of the ideas, I tried it and it was very cool. It was also a challenge for my painting technique, becouse you are limited to values of red and purple tones, and of course work with this kind of “watercolor” requires little adjustment and patience.
Abduzeedo
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
ABSOLUT Glitch Effects. abduzeedo 02.11.21 Marco Salemi , Giarri and hup studio have been commissioned by Psyop to create a series of glitch effects and logo animation for Absolut 'It’s In Our Spirit' spot Introducing their new brand platform Absolut has launched a major new global campaign. Check out the awesome glitches and in the end there’s a link for you to see the full spot!
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Its Nice That
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Plotting out the Bay Area’s various taco trucks, Tron’s research-heavy title is a reminder of the community built by immigrant entrepreneurs.
Azure Magazine
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Perched on the edge of the Atlantic, on lands long inhabited by Mi’kmaq and Acadians, the small town of Lunenburg is a colourful treasure trove of 19th-century vernacular architecture. In fact, its clapboard houses are seldom modified — until now. Visible on approach from the harbourfront, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple’s (MLSA) recently completed project celebrates the rich history of the former fishing town and UNESCO World Heritage site while cultivating a dynamic new presence. .
Its Nice That
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Raphaël Verona’s sources of inspiration overlap the erudite and the vernacular in this multifaceted design practice.
Creative Review
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
From its surprisingly radical roots to its role post-pandemic, Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler – assistant professor of design history at Purdue University – talks CR through the legacy of the open plan office. The post The history of the open plan office appeared first on Creative Review.
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Its Nice That
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
In the first part of our ongoing collaboration with Spotify Fresh Finds, we speak with Adriana Lozano who has created a series of portraits representing a roster of independent artists.
Creative Review
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
As Slowthai reveals his introspective side with new album Tyron, we speak to frequent collaborators Crowns & Owls about the album art’s attempt to crack the glossy veneer of fame, and why the Northampton-born rapper is still the voice of a generation. The post Inside the surreal world of Slowthai appeared first on Creative Review.
Its Nice That
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Intentionally stripped back and in-your-face, the identity was designed to be easily deployed to keep up with the rapidly growing company.
Colossal
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Oil on panel, 8 x 10 inches. All images © Aniela Sobieski, shared with permission. Aniela Sobieski is intrigued by “the human impulse to self-decorate,” a fascination that permeates every aspect of her portraiture. Evoking both baroque paintings and contemporary fashions, Sobieski adorns women and the occasional dog with elaborate makeup and sculptural accessories placed conspicuously to mask the subject’s features.
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