Creative Boom

MAY 16, 2022

Photography by Julia Boehm. Illustrator Murugiah is behind a giant psychedelic mural for Saatchi & Saatchi 's London office. Commissioned by its sister agency Prodigious, the four-storey artwork hopes to capture the creative agency's culture of optimism, self-belief, collaboration, inclusivity, good energy and an "awesome spirit of hustle". Installed in a full-height atrium within the Chancery Lane building, Murugiah put his usual injection of colour and energy along with his host of charmin

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Spoon Graphics

MAY 16, 2022

Access All Areas members have a great new font to download this week, courtesy of Design a Lot. Coastly is a relaxed, handwritten font that was inspired by the Amalfi Coast in Italy and its lemons (which explains its name and colour palette) with thoughts of limoncello, granita, ice cream, the beach and ferry trips. It’s ideal for headlines, posters, product design, quotes, branding, marketing materials and more.

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Creative Boom

MAY 16, 2022

Branding agency Motto has collaborated with B2B payment platform Hopscotch to create a new bright and friendly identity that communicates how it can help users hop, skip and jump over the various obstacles of running a small business. Anyone who's ever taken the leap and started their own business will tell you that there are many things to consider besides providing your actual service.

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Mindsparkle Mag

MAY 16, 2022

. There are many ways in which branding projects can stand out from others due to their quality perception. With this in mind, we came up with an impeccable selection of projects. Meet Top 10: Branding & Embossing. Like every week, we've carefully curated a selection of varied projects where embossing and debossing are essential. We love the effect they have with the correct lighting.

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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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Eye on Design

MAY 16, 2022

You might remember Gawker as an aughts-era blog with all the visual hallmarks of that moment’s web design trends: bright logo, white background, infinite scroll. If you were to visit Gawker today, you might not recognize it at all. Relaunched in 2021 by BDG , the digital conglomerate that started in 2013 with the women’s interest website Bustle and now comprises 13 online properties, Gawker has adopted a new look that befits its tabloid-y aspirations. .

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Booooooom

MAY 16, 2022

A powerful project by writer Pendarvis Harshaw and photographer/filmmaker Brandon Tauszik (previously featured here ). Funded by the Pulitzer Center, Facing Life profiles 8 people who were serving life sentences in California prisons but were released due to changing laws in the state. In 2006, California’s prison system housed more than 170,000 people.

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Its Nice That

MAY 16, 2022

Preferring visual over verbal language, the illustrator explains how they’ve developed a vocabulary of symbols to discuss skate accidents, neurodivergence and their non-binary identity.

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We And The Color

MAY 16, 2022

Come with us on a virtual tour through this stunning penthouse in Prague. This unique penthouse in Prague was designed by Czech architect Petr Janda of studio Brainwork. The architectural concept is based on the idea to blur the boundaries between the apartment and the surrounding city of Prague. The apartment is not limited to a physical layout—the city becomes part of it.

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Its Nice That

MAY 16, 2022

After spending ten years working in editorial illustration, the New York-based creative is now looking to “make work that originates with me and me alone,” exploring themes of culture, social life and his Asian-American heritage.

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Abduzeedo

MAY 16, 2022

&Walsh redesigns the stuffy wine landscape with Stompy. abduzeedo 0516—22 Stompy is a wine subscription that intelligently tailors & expertly curates sustainable wine selections to your taste buds. When developing the brand identity for Stompy, we were tasked with creating a brand that could bring wine to a more modern audience. After all, buying wine does not have to be a scary experience full of weird etiquette and plagued with complicated rules!

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Design Milk

MAY 16, 2022

Flat-packed furniture, while convenient and sustainable for shipping purposes, sometimes gets associated with poor quality and a lack of design. This is not so in the case of Pagoda , a new series of chairs designed by Shanghai-based Stellar Works in collaboration with American design studio BassamFellows. The design is inspired by an East meets West sensibility with café chairs from the 19th century in Vienna and the café culture from the 1920s in Shanghai.

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Creative Review

MAY 16, 2022

The exhibition, titled Life Through the Lens, is hosted at Doyle Wham – a newly launched space in London’s Shoreditch, set up as the UK’s first contemporary African photography gallery. It’s Stuurman’s debut solo show outside of his home country of South Africa, and brings together a series of self-portraits alongside images from his Hairitage series documenting African hair culture.

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Colossal

MAY 16, 2022

All images © Bernhard Lang, shared with permission. Housing the largest aircraft and missile facility around the globe, the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson is a trove of aviation history. The Arizona boneyard is responsible for nearly 4,000 vehicles that are maintained, recycled for parts, and stored across miles of the dry, desert landscape.

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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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Inkbot Design

MAY 16, 2022

Top 10 Tips for Finding the Best Coworking Space. Coworking spaces have exploded over the past few years. But finding one that fits your business model can be tough. A coworking space is where people can work together in a relaxed environment. Many people are moving away from cubicles and becoming independent workers because they enjoy the flexibility, social interaction, and access to resources that a coworking space provides.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Last month’s UN climate report revealed some sobering truths: If global greenhouse emissions are not reduced by 2025, the Earth’s livable future is in dire jeopardy. As such, the need to prioritize sustainability has never been more critical. With buildings accounting for almost 40 per cent of annual CO2 emissions, both new builds and renovations offer opportunities to make a significant climate impact.

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UX Collective

MAY 16, 2022

Shift the focus to user outcomes, connect qualitative insights to quantitative data, and get familiar with prioritisation frameworks As a product designer, I love discussing product strategy and contributing to the product roadmap. That’s because by doing so, I’m keeping users at the centre of the product development process. I’ll also have a greater say about what I do throughout the year, which gives me a sense of autonomy.

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Design Milk

MAY 16, 2022

Another year in the books for the A’ Design Award & Competition ! The winners have been announced and we’re excited to share some of our favorites from this year’s contest. If these designs inspire you, next year’s competition is already open for registration ! Get a head start on submitting your design project, whether it’s a concept, prototype, or finished project.

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Shillington

MAY 16, 2022

Cait Dorombozo always wanted to pursue a creative career—a serendipitous meeting in a dog park was just the thing to push her in the right direction. We recently caught up with Cait to chat about how she landed her current job off the back of her Shillington portfolio review, her longest project to date and much more! Why Shillington? What made our design course stand out from the rest?

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Mindsparkle Mag

MAY 16, 2022

Like our beloving Bruno Mars, you’ll soon find us sipping wine in a robe after seeing Stompy’s brand new identity, redesigned by &Walsh. Inspired by the idea of doing wine your way, &Walsh’s creative team uses bold type, bright colors & humorous illustrations to make buying wine as joyful as drinking it! Stompy is a wine subscription that intelligently tailors and expertly curates sustainable wine selections to your taste buds.

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Shillington

MAY 16, 2022

Cait Dorombozo always wanted to pursue a creative career—a serendipitous meeting in a dog park was just the thing to push her in the right direction. We recently caught up with Cait to chat about how she landed her current job off the back of her Shillington portfolio review, her longest project to date and much more! Why Shillington? What made our design course stand out from the rest?

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Vandelay Design

MAY 16, 2022

Use these line patterns to easily, instantly add beautiful backgrounds or textures to your designs. They're perfect for use in print-based projects or for web design. The post Collection of Seamless Line Patterns for Graphic Designers appeared first on Vandelay Design.

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Design Milk

MAY 16, 2022

To mark NYCxDESIGN and ICFF, the Moooi New York store is hosting a video game-inspired pop-up installation by Crosby Studios. Dutch brand Moooi gave Crosby Studios founder Harry Nuriev a free pass to dream up a Moooi environment. The result is Moooi Through the Eyes of Crosby Studios , a pink, pixelated vignette reminiscent of the early days of video games.

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The Die Line

MAY 16, 2022

Agency My Creative breaks down its design for this Kilmartin Glen-based spirits brand.

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Joe McNally

MAY 16, 2022

Many thanks to our partners at Printique who gave away (3) annual Pro Service memberships during our recent Livestream on bookmaking. There were too many questions in our Chat to get to during our air time, so, following up here. Many thanks for all the questions and for tuning in! Q&A Chat. Q: What keeps you motivated Joe? A: I plausibly said “fear” in reply to this question.

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Colossal

MAY 16, 2022

“Grand Jardin” detail (2016-2022). Image © Lisa Nilsson. All images courtesy of the artist, shared with permission. Lisa Nilsson ( previously ) has spent years perfecting a technique known as quilling in which thin strips of paper are rolled into coils and then pinched and nudged into shape in a process she likens to completing a puzzle.

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