Creative Review

JULY 21, 2020

Founded in 1972, the V&A’s annual illustration awards honour professional and student artwork, with prizes celebrating great book covers, book illustrations and illustrated journalism. Past winners include Quentin Blake, graphic memoirist Nora Krug and children’s book illustrator Yasmeen Ismail. This year’s winning projects were selected from over 800 entries, and include a modern retelling of a classic fairytale, a charming children’s book cover and a powerful image

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Under Consideration / Brand

JULY 21, 2020

“The Car Formerly Known as Toyota”. " Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA (TME) oversees the wholesale sales and marketing of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, parts and accessories, and Toyota's European manufacturing and engineering operations. Toyota directly employs around 20,000 people in Europe and has invested over EUR 9 billion since 1990. Toyota's operations in Europe are supported by a network of 29 National Marketing and Sales Companies across 53 countries, a total of around 3,000 sales outlets, and n

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Design You Trust

JULY 21, 2020

This dad is making the internet a much better and way more fun place! Dad Tom Curtis (previously) from London runs the ‘Things I Have Drawn’ Instagram page where he shows what would happen if children’s drawings became reality. Tom has two kids— Dom (11) and Al (8)—and he photoshops their and other children’s fun, creative, and goofy doodles to bring them to life.

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JULY 21, 2020

Illustration to Ease One’s Mind - Designer’s Self-therapy. abduzeedo 07.21.20 Aga Lut is a freelance graphic designer. To ease her mind and to relax after her commercial work, she started to illustrate. “I used to illustrate people a lot, but I’ve grown bored of it.” - she says. One of the main reasons was that she felt she was lacking her own unique style; many illustrators do something similar, and maybe it’s a good opportunity to experiment.

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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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Inspiration Feed

JULY 21, 2020

From McDonald’s Golden Arches to Nike’s swoosh, the world’s largest brands take good care of their logos. For many of us, the iconic logos instantly connect our minds to a product or service without the need to check its name.

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Brown Paper Bag

JULY 21, 2020

Paint and embroidery can create beautiful things together. As illustrator Cel Castella? demonstrates, the paint adds another dimension to the work that can be challenging to achieve by stitching alone. To begin, Cel applies pigment in thin, even layers on the canvas. Once dry, she uses stitching like you would a pen to showcase fine details like patterns on a shirt or fur on a kitty.

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Colossal

JULY 21, 2020

?. Although many of us will never step foot on the red planet, a new compilation captured by Mars rovers walks through the rocky, sandy terrain in stunning detail. Throughout the video of 4K imagery, the rovers explore the wide-open plains and candy-colored stretches of the Martian landscape. As the narrator notes, getting actual footage of Mars currently is impossible, as even the most technologically advanced rovers like Curiosity still are limited to extremely slow data-transmission speeds ba

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Creative Review

JULY 21, 2020

For many creatives, the national lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic have been a time of intense restlessness, pushing visual artists to get their creative fix in novel and often challenging ways. Among them is artist and publisher Theo White, whose new, limited-edition art zine 6ft – a name derived from social distancing guidelines – is the fruit of his drive to create from within the isolated depths of lockdown.

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Design Week

JULY 21, 2020

The winners of this year’s V&A’s Illustration Awards have been announced, and the line-up includes a dramatic take on Twitter policy and two pieces themed around refugees. The awards, which have been running since 1972, seek to celebrate illustration over a range of categories, from book covers to student work. This year’s shortlist included issues ranging from fairytales to refugee camps.

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Graphis

JULY 21, 2020

For the Graphis Protest Posters 2, Graphis Master João Machado (PT) enters his poster, “Zoo” (above, left). This poster previously won Gold in the Poster Annual 2017. It was created for UNKNOWN Design, an organization committed to environmental issues. The poster fits various animals together like a puzzle, promoting the importance of the protection of […].

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Abduzeedo

JULY 21, 2020

Branding & Visual Identity for Breadfast. abduzeedo 07.21.20 Mohamed Samir share a branding and visual identity project for Breadfast, a one-stop shop for bakeries, groceries, fruits and veggies. The fast growing Egyptian brand reached out to them to help the team with the brand vision, positioning and a fresh visual identity. . We helped the team develop a visual design system that was driven from a strategy focusing on making a light and happy brand spirit.

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Feature Shoot

JULY 21, 2020

Feature Shoot’s global project The Print Swap will be heading to Athens, Greece, as part of a weeklong exhibition this fall. All photographers who swap prints between now and our deadline on September 29th will have their work exhibited at the beautiful Blank Wall Gallery, located on Fokionos Negri Street at the center of Kipseli, where a rush of daily pedestrians and visitors come to enjoy the neighborhood’s coffee, food, and culture.

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Trendland

JULY 21, 2020

Words Marta Knas. Daphne Wilde is a fashion label dedicated to effortless, unpretentious women. Its visual identity by South Carolina based design studio Outline was very much inspired by this female archetype.

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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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Booooooom

JULY 21, 2020

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Its Nice That

JULY 21, 2020

The Lagos-based photographer spoke to us about his creative journey thus far, as well as talking us through two recent projects.

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Photography 43

Trendland

JULY 21, 2020

Words Guest Writer. Pharrell Williams creative brand ‘ I Am Other ’ has partnered with Pentatonic to create a revolutionary compact dining toolkit from OTHERWARE called The Pebble.

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The Die Line

JULY 21, 2020

Conceived by ArtCenter alum Sidney Rhee, Us. moves beyond the stereotypes and assumptions surrounding birth control and sexual wellness products for both genders, and emphasizes the shared role of family responsibility, aligning societal trends that see men participate more in child-rearing.

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Its Nice That

JULY 21, 2020

The One School will be a 16-week programme run by the Spotify creative director, who recently published a LinkedIn post lamenting the financial barriers of US portfolio schools.

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The Die Line

JULY 21, 2020

The boxes highlight fresh ingredients in each pesto, which has so much more variety than just basil and pine nuts.

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Its Nice That

JULY 21, 2020

The campaign by the Lisbon and London studio How depicts the credit card-sized amount of plastic we individually ingest every week.

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Abduzeedo

JULY 21, 2020

Minimalist Design for the Web. abduzeedo 07.21.20 Good design for me is all about simplicity. I know that term can be interpreted in so many different ways. For me at the top of the list is simplicity of the function, most inevitably that will result in the reduction of the form. In this post I would love to focus on form alone and feature the beautiful work of Gil Huybrecht , a designer and skateboarder from Belgium.

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Its Nice That

JULY 21, 2020

Few designers pull together such a range of diverse references, from medieval books to 20th century American and Japanese pop art.

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Noupe

JULY 21, 2020

Working from home is a logical response to the circumstances that emerged because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But, are we all really ready to work from home and from other places where we have the opportunity to connect to our company systems via the Internet, that is, public networks, and work the same as sitting in our office, at our desk? What could be wrong with that?

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Its Nice That

JULY 21, 2020

The American artist has always found solace in the pool, whether it’s for the memories, cleanliness or the distortion of shapes found within.

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Creative Review

JULY 21, 2020

As part of CR’s series exploring what creatives would change about their industry following this enforced period of lockdown and reflection, we speak to Black Girl Festival CEO Nicole Crentsil. The post What Would I Change: Nicole Crentsil, Black Girl Festival appeared first on Creative Review.

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