Graphic Design USA
JANUARY 27, 2022
In anticipation of our 2022 GDUSA People To Watch annual feature, now at the printer, here is our roster of Past People To Watch for roughly six decades (1963-2021). You will find undisputed historical giants, legends and legends-to-be, as well as a few one-hit-wonders.
Pixlr
JANUARY 27, 2022
Design a vast array of visual content with Pixlr’s Animation feature With the recent rebranding of Pixlr, the platform has brought forth many cool new features – one of them being the Animation tool. Content creators can now make their designs all the more compelling with movements seeped into it. Be it the entire project, [.].
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We And The Color
JANUARY 27, 2022
ED Lavonia, a classy script font by Emyself Design. Lavonia is a new font inspired by classic script typefaces and simple handwriting styles. The font contains over 90 stylistic sets as well as contextual alternates and ligatures. The ED Lavonia script font also supports multiple languages. You can use this font for a range of creative projects including logotypes, invitations, greeting cards, packaging, letterheads, apparel, web design, magazines, books, and more.
Creative Review
JANUARY 27, 2022
Moya Lothian-Mclean. Founded to counter the ingrained bias found in the UK media industry, gal–dem gives a much-needed platform to stories from people of colour and marginalised genders, who are otherwise underrepresented by traditional outlets. “The biggest shifts politically, socially, environmentally and culturally tend to be felt the hardest by the most marginalised,” reflects Mariel Richards, gal–dem’s CEO.
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
Creative Market
JANUARY 27, 2022
Engraving is an old printmaking technique in which a design is incised into a metal plate using a cutting tool called burin. Engravings were originally made by hand on copper plates, but leather and wood are now also being used. Whether you want to make a personalized gift or unique merchandise for your business, engraving is an option to express your creativity.
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Design Milk
JANUARY 27, 2022
Mr. C Coconut Grove is a boutique hotel located in Miami, Florida, designed by Arquitectonica and Martin Brudnizki. Conceived by Ignazio and Maggio Cipriani, the hotelier family have drawn from their rich family history to bring luxury hospitality to its newest location in Miami. Inspired by nautical aesthetics, the space is influenced by coastal Italian culture and sleek yacht interiors.
Creative Review
JANUARY 27, 2022
Graphic designer and artist Sarah Boris has always charted her own course through the creative industries, from starting out in-house rather than at a studio, to setting up her own practice in 2015. She discusses what she’s learned along the way. The post Sarah Boris on the joy of being your own boss appeared first on Creative Review.
Design Milk
JANUARY 27, 2022
Italian furniture company Horm collaborated with award-winning designer Dror Benshetrit on an architecturally-inspired armchair. Named Mass Pressure , the armchair is made of a cubic meter of foam rubber that’s been shaped into a functional object using a painted, tubular metal frame, giving it a unique and eye-catching expression. Horm’s innovative technology of Novacolor, which gives decorative treatments for walls and floors, was used to give the Mass Pressure chair its unusual fi
Design You Trust
JANUARY 27, 2022
The Dragon and the Beasts Cast into Hell. The Apocalypse, or Book of Revelation, was, according to European medieval tradition, written by John the Evangelist during his exile on the Greek island of Patmos. The opening chapters recount God’s instructions to the bishops of the seven churches in Asia Minor. The following chapters describe John’s extraordinary account of events to come at the end of time.
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Creative Review
JANUARY 27, 2022
The studio was briefed to name and brand Huch, which will offer a collection of cabins in the Australian countryside, all intended to reconnect visitors with nature and offer “relaxed luxury in the wilderness” Each space is designed to offer the comfort of a hotel room, but without creating a negative impact on the environment – something Christopher Doyle & Co wanted to reflect in the Huch identity.
Design You Trust
JANUARY 27, 2022
Illustrator Dric knows well – often a small picture has much more visual power than a large one. Dric draws microscopic doodles, inserts them into the space of a huge sheet and – voila! – The resulting illustrations are cute and amusing. More: Instagram.
Colossal
JANUARY 27, 2022
Atheris squamigera. All images © Guido Mocafico, shared with permission. A puzzling blend of heads, tails, and scales, Guido Mocafico ’s Serpens juxtaposes snakes’ coiled bodies with the tight confines of a small, rectangular box. The Italian photographer positions two or more slithering creatures against the black backdrops and shoots the composed images from overhead.
Abduzeedo
JANUARY 27, 2022
COYA Arquitectura + Construcción — Branding. abduzeedo 0127—22 Placebo Estudio shared a branding and visual identity for COYA (Covarrubias y Asociados), an architecture and construction office located in Tamaulipas ?Mexico. Its main services include home design, remodeling, rendering, building permits and structural calculation. The symbol represents the letter "C" and "A" of the word COYA and is inspired by the basic geometric shapes used in minimalist architecture, complemented by a geometric
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.
UX Collective
JANUARY 27, 2022
Behavioural design uses behavioural science, psychology, and motivation to guide how people use our products. Design influences behaviour. Using psychological principles and theories of behaviour, we can design with intent, for how users behave, building an environment that supports whatever route they take, instead of forcing them to conform to how our products and services work.
Its Nice That
JANUARY 27, 2022
Making a brave career change during the pandemic and falling in love with animation, the Edinburgh-based creative hasn’t looked back since.
Azure Magazine
JANUARY 27, 2022
Coffee orders are incredibly personal, filled with custom requests about everything from the roast of beans used to the type of milk product added. Why, then, coffee shop chairs often so one-size-fits-all? Enter Copenhagen café Connie-Connie, which presents an alternative approach to seating that better speaks to the era of matcha lattes and pistachio milk cortados.
Moo
JANUARY 27, 2022
Thirsty for gifting inspiration? Get inspired with four brands who created unique Water Bottles with MOO. Blue Ion: let creativity flow. Blue Ion is a full-service marketing and creative agency in Charleston and Greenville, South Carolina. Curiosity and creativity are embedded in the brand’s DNA, making them a powerful multi-disciplined team up for any challenge.
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Mindsparkle Mag
JANUARY 27, 2022
Since the pandemic, the hospitality space has found itself in a state of rapid evolution, having to meet customers’ increasing demand for unique, personalized experiences. Navigating this change is California’s Dr. Wilkinson’s Backyard Resort and Mineral Springs, a local 1950s institution renowned for its hot springs, spa, and its founder John Wilkinson’s signature approach to wellness.
Joe McNally
JANUARY 27, 2022
Our wonderful partners at Capture One just wrote up a blog post about my new book, The Real Deal: Field Notes from the Life of a Working Photographer. It’s transcribed from a fun interview I did with them about the book, the photographic life, and the role Capture One played in how the book was put together and the pictures were displayed. Check it out below and on the Capture One blog.
Graphic Design USA
JANUARY 27, 2022
Why is there still a certain snobbishness about ‘commercial work’ and a squeamishness about the business side of the industry?
Creative Market
JANUARY 27, 2022
Embroidery is the art of decorating fabrics with a needle and thread. For centuries, this decorative art form has allowed us to turn everyday objects into creative works of art. As early as 490 BCE, embroidered clothes, couch covers, drapes, and tents were depicted on ancient Egyptian tomb paintings while Greek vase paintings show quilted garments worn as armor.
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Design You Trust
JANUARY 27, 2022
Gregory Jacobsen is a Chicago-based artist who draws ugly, surreal cats. Of course, he draws not only them, but also ugly people, ugly everyday objects, and ugly natural phenomena-no matter how strange that may sound. In our opinion, however, he does it best when he draws cats with crazy faces. More: Gregory Jacobsen , Instagram.
Abduzeedo
JANUARY 27, 2022
Daily NFT Spotlight — Starkade by Signalnoise. AoiroStudio 0127—22 Our good friend Signalnoise and his rad team is releasing their anticipated NFT drop titled ' Starkade ' on on February 1st around 10PM CET. With 7000 NFTs with a potential 60m combinations, this will be a pretty rad drop especially knowing that the art is by the mighty James White who has been crafting this 80s style we all dearly love.
Creative Review
JANUARY 27, 2022
Since 2016, the Rail Park has been revitalising three miles of unused rail lines into a public space for the residents of Philadelphia. The first phase of the park opened to the public in 2018, with work still ongoing to bring the rest of the development to life. Smith & Diction has been working on the Rail Park’s branding since its inception, culminating it what the studio describes in a new blog post as “six years of blood, sweat and tears” [link].
Design You Trust
JANUARY 27, 2022
Teenage girls living in the 1940s enjoyed an independence that would make many modern teen envious. They had been raised by parents and teachers who encouraged them to dress prettily so they could find a young man to marry, and to work a part-time job so they could buy expensive wedding china. More: Flickr h/t: vintag.es. But by the time they were old enough to work part-time jobs, the young men were away at war and mom and dad were both working away from the home.
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