Just Creative
JUNE 11, 2020
This article has been contributed by Victor Blasco. Whiteboard videos are one of the most popular and esthetically inspired types of videos to add to your marketing campaign. Providers of all sorts – from small businesses to educational organizations and well-established brand – rely on this style to get their message across. By most measures, whiteboard animation shows that it can deliver the goods.
A List Apart
JUNE 11, 2020
So, what is it like to be color blind and also work in the web design and development industry? I'll answer that question throughout this article, but it's something that's always factored into my thoughts, given my passion for design and now my career. I wonder if having “normal” vision would have made me a better artist growing up. Would it make me better at my job now?
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Interaction Design Foundation
JUNE 11, 2020
Learn to design with consistency and standards in mind and understand the reasons why they’re important to incorporate them into your work. Derived from Jakob Nielsen and Rolf Molich’s Ten User Interface (UI) Guidelines, ‘Consistency and Standards’ are evident in many of the widely-used products created by some of the most successful companies. Products like Adobe Photoshop, originally released in the 1990s, and Google Gmail, released in the mid-2000s, are just a few of the widely popular produc
Colossal
JUNE 11, 2020
“Dakota.” All images © Oye Diran, shared with permission. Oye Diran describes his distinctly elegant photographs as “conceptual with a degree of minimalism and fantasy.” The New York City-based photographer captures refined images of women dressed in pastel gowns of billowing tulle and surrounded by wide swathes of blush fabric—like in “Maktub,” an arresting photograph (shown below) that recently won a first-place LensCulture Exposure Award.
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
Brown Paper Bag
JUNE 11, 2020
Illustrator Romane Bonsoir creates images that combine colorful nature with the beauty that comes from feeling yourself. Whether it’s surrounding yourself with flowers, wearing an outfit that highlights your curves, or just spending a quiet moment with your cat, these pieces offer a reminder to be kind to yourself. Buy yourself the flowers or spend time at a cafe!
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Trendland
JUNE 11, 2020
Words TL Team. The beaches of Brazil must be counted as among the best in the world. Canada-based photographer Blake Smith strolled along Ipanema, Leblon, Copacabana in Rio.
Under Consideration / Brand
JUNE 11, 2020
“In a League of their Own”. Established in 1939, Little League is a nonprofit organization based in South Williamsport, PA, that organizes local youth baseball and softball leagues throughout the United States and the rest of the world. The first organized youth sports program in the world, Little League started with three teams and 30 players. Today, approximately two million boys and girls, ages 4 to 16, play Little League in in all 50 states and more than 80 countries.
The Die Line
JUNE 11, 2020
Olga Capdevila's illustrations on this wine bottle have us wishing this will be included in our next Winc shipment.
SpeckyBoy
JUNE 11, 2020
If you build enough eCommerce websites, you’ll eventually discover that none of them are simple. Each one comes with its own unique wants and needs. And it takes a lot of work and effort to get things right. Among the biggest challenges is finding out exactly what a client wants and needs. Small businesses, especially ones that haven’t sold online before, are particularly tough.
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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.
Creative Review
JUNE 11, 2020
London-based director Hannah Jacobs specialises in 2D animation and illustration. Her work is diverse – she has tackled a wide range of topics from solar eclipses to parenthood in commissions for Vox, Selfridges, the Barbican and the New York Times – but if there’s one thing that runs through it all, it’s a human touch. While her work is created digitally, it has a distinctive handmade aesthetic, thanks to her skilled use of colour and texture.
High on Design by Wix
JUNE 11, 2020
Visual representation is a powerful tool. As creatives, we hold responsibility for the ways our work shapes audiences’ perceptions about the world around us. As a result, it’s important to be intentional about representing people of different ethnicities, body sizes, genders, abilities and circumstances in our works - both in print and web design. By using images that show the diversity of our human community, we can help acknowledge and empower a wide range of voices and narratives.
Colossal
JUNE 11, 2020
” Shorter than the Day” (2020), powder-coated aluminum and steel, 48 x 30 x 30 feet. All images © Sarah Sze by Nicholas Knight. Artist Sarah Sze explores the myriad conceptions of time and space through a tremendous, new spherical sculpture. Titled “ Shorter than the Day ” —a reference to Emily Dickinson’s poem “ Because I could not stop for Death ,” which considers the comfort found in life’s finality—Sze’s piece weighs five tons and was unv
Design Week
JUNE 11, 2020
The brand consultancy Mammoth has created the brand identity for next year’s Rugby League World Cup (RLWC). The international tournament will be hosted in the UK in 2021, across 18 cities in England. It is the first time a major sporting world cup is hosting a men’s, women’s and wheelchair tournament at the same time. The RLWC was last held in 2017 in Australia; unlike other global tournaments, it is held sporadically.
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
JUNE 11, 2020
In 2012, Lucy Scott gave birth to her first baby. Despite her extensive pre-baby research, nothing prepared her for the momentous task of caring for this new little person. Featuring dozens of funny moments like baby’s first lunch out to a forensic view of the living room, this charming doodle collection includes 120 two-color illustrations and is the perfect gift for Mother’s Day, baby showers.
Design Week
JUNE 11, 2020
Food manufacturing company Heinz has been given a global masterbrand by international design consultancy Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR). Established in the US in 1869 as a maker of horseradish, Heinz’s worldwide product portfolio now rests in the thousands. The masterbrand is the first of its kind for the 151-year-old company, and attempts to unify the brand’s ranges within one aesthetic family.
Feature Shoot
JUNE 11, 2020
Madame D’Ora, Self-portrait of the photographer d’Ora, 1929 © ullstein bild collection, Photography Madame d’Ora, ullstein bild collection. Madame d’Ora, Actress Grete Jacobson in a house dress from the Wiener Werksta?tte, 1917. © ullstein bild collection, Photography Madame d’Ora, ullstein bild collection. Following her death in 1963, Dora Kallmus, the photographer who went by the name Madame d’Ora fell into obscurity for decades.
Design You Trust
JUNE 11, 2020
Atatiana Jefferson. 28 years old, 28 minutes of color. Stolen on October 12th, 2019 in Forth Worth, TX. “Stolen” is a powerful series by artist Adrian Brandon that is dedicated to Black people that were robbed of their lives at the hands of police. The 11 x 14? portraits were first drawn with graphite. Brandon then used time as a medium to define how long each portrait was colored in for.
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Interaction Design Foundation
JUNE 11, 2020
We often associate creativity with the ability to think “outside of the box” and do something different from what you’re used to. However, in this video you’ll learn how some of the most creative minds work in a highly structured and habitual manner. For example, we’ll look into how the James Bond author, Ian Fleming, wrote his legendary novels. You’ll learn how you can turn 3 specific habits into the fertile foundation for your creative work.
Design You Trust
JUNE 11, 2020
Created by the World Photography Organisation and sponsored by Sony, the Sony World Photography Awards has four competitions: Professional, Open, Youth and Student. It is one of the world’s largest and prestigious photography competitions, with more than 345,000 images from 203 countries and territories submitted across the four competitions for the 2020 edition.
The Die Line
JUNE 11, 2020
The main character in a wine narrative is often the farmer, however they wanted to include someone from each stage of the production - from the creators to the farmer, the winegrower and the carrier all the way to the illustrator and designer of the wine label.
Design You Trust
JUNE 11, 2020
Marilyn Monroe as Lillian Russell. In 1958, Marilyn Monroe posed for a series of photographs taken by Richard Avedon for Life Magazine. The photographs were to accompany an article titled “Fabulous Enchantresses” where Monroe recreated five famous actresses. These were Lillian Russell, Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Jean Harlow, and Marlene Dietrich. Though Avedon was not completely happy with the.
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In today’s competitive markets, how do you make sure that your content not only stands out but performs well? How can you predict whether certain design choices will result in clicks, engagement, downloads, and other drivers of ROI? Shutterstock’s Creative Insights Report (Q3) is your window into the hottest trends that are transforming the creative world.
Its Nice That
JUNE 11, 2020
The results of a community-led photography project between 1983-1998, the Rio Cinema Archive is currently in funding for a book release.
Trendland
JUNE 11, 2020
Words Cyril Foiret. Ahh, the barn life ! It seems with the recent success of our Tiny House article that you all Love barn house style, and that maybe after our months of lockdown, we now want some peaceful countryside with our loved ones. .
Communication Arts
JUNE 11, 2020
This site by Mediasoul speaks to the historicity of this hotel in Sorrento, Italy, which has inspired visitors for centuries.
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