Designer Daily

MARCH 25, 2021

If you are a graphic designer, or just a design lover that creates print work, you surely know how hard it can be to achieve satisfying work when working on a poster design. One of the main issues is that poster design can be quite constraining, mostly due to the importance of perfectly combining form and function in order to be efficient. In this article, we will give you a few tips in order to stay focused on what matters in terms of poster design. 1.

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Creative Review

MARCH 25, 2021

Back in 2011, French artist JR launched his Inside Out project, inspired by his series of large-scale portraits that are pasted in the street. To allow members of the public to do their own pastings, they are encouraged to send in a portrait, shot in black and white, which is then printed in large format and sent back to them for free. The portraits have been pasted across buildings and streets in large-scale outdoor artworks and, ten years, 130 countries and 400,000 posters later, it’s st

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Design Week

MARCH 25, 2021

The Bank of England (BoE) has unveiled a new £50 banknote, which features the scientist and WWII codebreaker Alan Turing. Turing was chosen as the face of the new note following a public consultation , where over 200,000 nominations were made. BoE governor Andrew Bailey says that putting the scientist on the note celebrates his achievements and groundbreaking scientific work. “Turing is best known for his codebreaking work at Bletchley Park, which helped end the Second World War,̶

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Creative Review

MARCH 25, 2021

Nina-Lou Giachetti is one of those creatives who works across several disciplines to create projects that are uniquely her own. Despite growing up on a remote farm in Brittany, France, Giachetti’s parents were heavily into art and gave her a solid cultural base. “I also experimented with a lot of art forms during my childhood, and I always knew I wanted to work in this area,” she says. “I began to specialise in high school, and it was through my graphic design studies tha

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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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Design Week

MARCH 25, 2021

Design Bridge New York (DBNY) has rebranded craft beer New Holland Brewing Co. with a look inspired by the brand’s Midwestern and Dutch heritage. The logo has been redesigned, along with a wider identity overhaul which includes a bespoke typeface and packaging. The previous logo (left) and the updated version (right) Established in 1996, the craft beer originates from Holland, which is a small city in Michigan founded by Dutch Americans.

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Design You Trust

MARCH 25, 2021

Dawn Yang is an illustrator and animator based in Queens, New York. She comes from a small city called Zhuhai, which is located near Hong Kong and Macau in China. Last summer, Dawn received her MFA in illustration from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In December 2020, she moved to New York. The awards she has received include the Society of Illustrator 63, 2020 Shortlist Artist, World Illustration Award, 2020 Merit, 3×3 International Illustration Show, 2019 Winner, Creative Quarterly

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

To enter the health profession has always been a bold decision. But today, more than ever, the field presents unprecedented challenges. Even though the Susan Wakil Health Building at the University of Sydney was designed before the pandemic, the team behind it had the prescience to understand that a building such as this should embrace wellness and interdisciplinary communication in its very design.

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Design You Trust

MARCH 25, 2021

According to an artist: “My name is Ainars and I’m the creator of @dailypurrr on Instagram. More than three years ago, I figured out that I wanted to make silly cat doodles and do them every day. That’s how dailypurrr started. But before that, I had dozens of failed attempts to create something that would bring some fun to people around the internet.

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The Die Line

MARCH 25, 2021

MORE Water is a conceptual brand whose goal is to inspired kids and teenagers to drink more water. Where most water brands are neutral and straightforward, MORE goes above and beyond.

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Design You Trust

MARCH 25, 2021

Have I ever told you how much I love the slightly dark and gloomy universe? That’s good because for some time now I’ve been following Konstantin Kostadinov on his various social networks, and I immediately fell in love with his graphic style and his mysterious universe so special. Reminiscent of different folk horror stories or even some tales and legends from Eastern Europe, all his creations are borrowed from a rare originality.

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Design Week

MARCH 25, 2021

Sonic branding consultancy MassiveMusic has partnered with music testing company SoundOut to launch the “world’s first” data-driven sonic branding tool. MassiveBASS (Brand Attribute Sound System) “combines art and science”, according to the consultancy, using data and metrics that measure recall, distinctiveness and connection to brand personality. “Scientific insight upfront, before we start composing” MassiveMusic senior creative strategist Marijn Rooz

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Design You Trust

MARCH 25, 2021

Makeup has attracted Ulyana Starobinskaya since her childhood. So in 2008, she decided that enough was enough and made a conscious decision to turn her passion into a career. After 12 years in the industry, Ulyana has become really confident in her ability. Now, the makeup wants all of her clients to look like Hollywood beauties, whether they’re preparing for a wedding or just a casual photoshoot.

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Its Nice That

MARCH 25, 2021

Created for Bono’s health organisation One and featuring the voices of Penélope Cruz and David Oyelowo, the comedic animations highlight the need for wealthy countries to share their vaccine supply.

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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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MARCH 25, 2021

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Its Nice That

MARCH 25, 2021

The Lisbon-raised, London-based artist takes us through his self-published graphic novel Day Off, a strange and funny tale of a rich man on an adventure outside his lavish daily life.

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Abduzeedo

MARCH 25, 2021

Design-driven Banking For Financial Innovators. abduzeedo 03.25.21 The ff.next team shared a branding and visual identity project for ff. next. Customers are turning towards alternative solutions like neobanks, because traditional financial institutions aren’t keeping up with their needs. ff. next offers design-driven mobile banking solutions for financial innovators with a special focus on younger customers, including off-the-shelf, boxed solutions that are all easy to integrate and white-label

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The Die Line

MARCH 25, 2021

The modern design is still able to tap into the precious ancient roots of the winery. It's incredible when a package design can give homage to its historical roots without being too obvious about it.

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Abduzeedo

MARCH 25, 2021

The Alvar Aalto Library Branding and UX. abduzeedo 03.25.21 Ilya Kovalev shared a branding, visual identity and web design project for The Alvar Aalto Library is the central library of Vyborg. Designed by a famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, the library building is the only building in Russia designed by a Finnish architect. The library is an object of cultural heritage of the Russian Federation.??????????.

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Creative Applications

MARCH 25, 2021

Created by Quiet Ensemble, 'SOLE' is a 360 degree video-mapping that, thanks to the use of 49 video projectors, simulates the movement of the sun around the inside the hall of the Salone degli Incanti in Trieste.

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The Die Line

MARCH 25, 2021

Beefeater's recyclable label has replaced the previous plastic ones; we love these steps towards a more sustainable future, especially in the alcohol category.

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Creative Review

MARCH 25, 2021

The Brooklyn studio examines ideas around community and identity through its design practice. We talk to founders Wael Morcos and Jon Key about finding their way in New York, the role of identity in their work and the Arabic type renaissance. The post Morcos Key’s community-based approach to design appeared first on Creative Review.

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The Die Line

MARCH 25, 2021

In order to reflect the spirit’s main ingredient, he created a pear shaped bottle with an elongated neck and rotund body.

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Noupe

MARCH 25, 2021

Close to two billion people shopped online last year. And with the pandemic quickly changing shopping habits, the number is set to increase even more in 2021 and beyond. Because of that, it’s not surprising that online sales are booming and that as many as 24 million eCommerce stores are operating right now. But at the same time, it means that companies have a harder time standing out.

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The Die Line

MARCH 25, 2021

No tilting at windmills here, just a a great refresh from Design Bridge for New Holland Brewing.

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Design Week

MARCH 25, 2021

National Museums Liverpool (NML) has launched a competition to find a multi-disciplinary design team that can transform the Canning Dock area of the city. The competition is part of an “ambitious” project to redevelop the NML waterfront estate, which extends from the Mann Island development up to the Maritime and International Slavery Museums in the Royal Albert Dock.

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