Creative Boom

MAY 24, 2022

Constanze Bachmann at LCFMA22 Catwalk Show. Photography by Ana Blumenkron, Styling Collaboration. If you want to know the future of the creative industries, the universities are an excellent place to look. Here, you'll find a fresh, young talent unfettered by the preconceptions of previous generations, striking out with new and innovative ideas. Take Constanze Bachmann, who recently completed an MA in Fashion Design Technology (Womenswear) at London College of Fashion , University of Arts London

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Canny

MAY 24, 2022

Storytelling is one of the most powerful tools of humankind. An argument is that telling stories is what differentiates us from the other sapiens in the first place, and is the one thing that transcends through time almost untouched. Resources. The Video Brief Template. The Video Brief Template. download now. download now. I have always been passionate about a good story.

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Creative Boom

MAY 24, 2022

En Iwamura, launching his new show, Neo Jomon: Beans. No artist can be immune to the confusion, chaos and climate disasters taking place around the world right now. But there is more than one way to reflect these realities in your work. Japanese artist En Iwamura 's response invokes a sense of lively and wondrous innocence with his paintings, sculptures, and installations, which take the viewer on something approaching a holiday for the mind.

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Design Milk

MAY 24, 2022

Ethan Cook is a Texas-born, New York-based artist known for his minimalist works and woven art. The abstract woven pieces feature color block compositions in bold colorways on self-made canvases. The geometric “paintings” are made from sewn pieces of canvas that Cook has woven on a four-harness floor loom. Once the various pieces are sewn together, they make up the canvas that’s then stretched on bars for hanging.

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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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Creative Boom

MAY 24, 2022

Paige Collins, Creative Producer at Monopo © Fred Mouniguet. Not every design studio reveals its team on its website's About page, but we can usually expect something a bit different when they do. For Monopo , the Tokyo-born creative agency based in London, it has set the bar higher with new team shots by Fred Mouniguet. We talk with Monopo's Creative Director, Mélanie Hubert-Crozet, to learn more.

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Creative Boom

MAY 24, 2022

Chloe Chiasson, Sunday Confessions, 2022. Acrylic, oil, metal, wood, fiberglass, resin, paper, LEDS, Plexiglas, Velcro, canvas on shaped panel with video installation. 126 1/2 x 120 x 7 1/4 inches, 321.5 x 305 x 18.5 cm. Photo: Thomas Mueller. What does it mean to straddle in between, to make work that goes against the brackets, binaries and categories laid out by society?

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Logo Design Love

MAY 24, 2022

Born in 1932 in the Silesian Foothills in Harbutowice, southern Poland, Karol ?liwka began his art education in 1946 at the Evening School of Painting, Sculpture and Graphics in Bielsko-Bia?a. “I was 13 years old and I had been disarming mines in the field. One of them exploded. To this day I work with one eye. My dad decided that I would have to stay on the farm.

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Creative Boom

MAY 24, 2022

Animator Leanne Rule and independent creative agency Kitchen have collaborated with ITV to create a hilarious, reference-packed advert for the return of Love Island. Crammed with nods to famous moments from the show's past, it's sure to appeal to longtime fans of the popular dating programme. There's not long to go until Love Island returns to our screens for its eighth series on 6 June.

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Its Nice That

MAY 24, 2022

With a recent open call, the Icelandic Graphic Design Association and Central Bank of Iceland try to solve a taxing design challenge: inventing a country’s first monetary symbol.

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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.

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Noupe

MAY 24, 2022

If your business is swamped with inquiries it would probably be a help to have a well-organized system of information accumulation, so that when the same queries come up repeatedly, situations can be dealt with in real-time. Even better if the user can find the solution to their issue themselves. Well, luckily, such a system exists. It’s called a Knowledge Management System.

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We And The Color

MAY 24, 2022

With this online course by Tom Haugomat, you will learn to create three nature-inspired landscape illustrations using simple compositions and color techniques. Tom Haugomat is a renowned illustrator who has worked for major clients such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. In this course, you can explore a wide range of simple illustration techniques using stencils, ink pads, and acrylic paint.

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Creative Review

MAY 24, 2022

Earlier this month, former Talking Heads front man and pioneer of oversized workwear David Byrne celebrated his 70th birthday, so it seems like an apt time for him to publish a book that sounds pretty ambitious in scope: ‘A History of the World’ However, like most things Byrne, there’s a twist: this is A History of the World (in Dingbats).

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FlowingData

MAY 24, 2022

Cindermedusae by Marcin Ignac is “a generative encyclopedia of imaginary sea creatures.” I’m into the aesthetic. Tags: animals , generative art , Marcin Ignac.

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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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Creative Review

MAY 24, 2022

Growing up as an only child in Tokyo in the 90s, Nico Ito’s most frequent companion was his own imagination, which used to run wild with fantastical stories. “I used to draw the world of those fantasies. I loved the creatures and motifs that appeared in those drawings, and the process of creating settings for each one,” he tells CR.

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Its Nice That

MAY 24, 2022

Basing his type on shapes found in nature and his vast vinyl collection, the Düsseldorf-based designer is always looking for inspiration outside of the online sphere.

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Inkbot Design

MAY 24, 2022

Why Your Brand Name Matters More Than Ever. “Branding isn't about making your name or logo look good; it's about meaning something.” A brand is an organisation's most valuable asset. It should be used as a vehicle to tell your story and build your audience. Most of us are familiar with the idea that a name is everything. In business, that's especially true.

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Its Nice That

MAY 24, 2022

Introducing your new acapella partners: a bevy of woodland creatures animated by Iorama to react to users in real time. Entranced, we ask the studio how they did it.

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Design You Trust

MAY 24, 2022

Liz Fosslien (previously featured ) is the co-author and illustrator of the book Big Feelings and the Wall Street Journal best-seller No Hard Feelings. Liz is an expert on how to make work better. She regularly leads interactive, scientifically-backed workshops about how to build resilience, help remote workers avoid burnout, and effectively harness emotion as a leader.

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Shillington

MAY 24, 2022

Shillington students and staff from around the world share the work of creatives who inspire them in the #ILoveTheseGeniuses series. In this post, New York student Amy Post highlights a project from New York-based Illustrator, Julia Rothman. I love that the illustrative elements act as a visual indication of separate information. The illustrations are used as a hierarchy tool, guiding your eyes to each paragraph.

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Design Week

MAY 24, 2022

Design Bridge has partnered with gardening charity, the RHS, to coincide with the opening of its flagships event The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, which opens today. As part of the rebrand the wordmark has been rationalised and is now written as RHS, rather that Royal Horticultural Society. It forms part of the new identity inspired by the theme: the limitless wonder of growth, which looks to bring.

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Shillington

MAY 24, 2022

Shillington students and staff from around the world share the work of creatives who inspire them in the #ILoveTheseGeniuses series. In this post, New York student Amy Post highlights a project from New York-based Illustrator, Julia Rothman. I love that the illustrative elements act as a visual indication of separate information. The illustrations are used as a hierarchy tool, guiding your eyes to each paragraph.

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Colossal

MAY 24, 2022

All images © Manooni, shared with permission. Olha and Hanna Dovhan ( previously ) are the creative minds behind the adorable felt sculptures of Manooni. Whimsical and endlessly cheerful, the small family units, pairs of pears, and coupled avocados are needle felted with wool and finished with tiny grins. Based in Ukraine, the Dovhans have spent the majority of the war in Lviv, although their mother, who is also part of the Manooni team, remains with family members in the now Russia-occupied Zap

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Design Week

MAY 24, 2022

DesignLSM has redesigned Manchester bar The Alchemist, centring the new décor around the search for the elixir of life and the origins of the universe. The intertwining patterns of orbital planet pathways are echoed in the interiors of the new space. The bar itself – which seeks to highlight the relationship between light and dark – features contrasting rich-coloured base metals paired with deep.

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Booooooom

MAY 24, 2022

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Creative Boom

MAY 24, 2022

In the post-lockdown world, many of us seek to connect more deeply with our local community, in ways small and large. And New York City agency The Working Assembly has been doing just that, partnering with the non-profit organisation Think! Chinatown on a special local initiative. The award-winning design firm has provided branding and creative support for the Chinatown Night Market , a summer series of food, art, and music, which kicked off last Friday and will continue on four more Friday nigh

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