Under Consideration / Brand

APRIL 30, 2020

“Is Pretty”. Established in 1968, Esprit is a fashion brand that designs, manufactures, and retails clothing, footwear, accessories, jewelry, and even housewares. Most well known for its colorful, happy, and fun 1980s style, Esprit has been adapting to each decade since with its vision of "essential positivity". Founded in California by husband and wife Doug and Susie Tompkins, Esprit was first sold from their VW bus with headquarters in their San Francisco apartment and it now has 761 directly

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Color Fashion Brand Branding 107

Creative Review

APRIL 30, 2020

First developed in the 12th century, heraldry was a practice originally reserved for medieval knights, and served a simple but practical purpose: to show who you were. At the time, a banner had to be simple enough for someone to read while on a galloping horse, for the outcome of misreading such symbology could (and often did) cost lives on the battlefield.

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Brown Paper Bag

APRIL 30, 2020

Trained as an animator and illustrator , Laura Proietti ’s two-dimensional works look like stills from cartoon television shows or films. You’ll want to pause on these illustrations and admire the finer details crafted using specialty brushes for Photoshop and Procreate. The colorful pieces are packed with personality, from the characters they depict to the environments they exist in.

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Illustration Illustrator Entertainment Photoshop 92

Its Nice That

APRIL 30, 2020

Rick Banks returns with a sequel to his popular 2013 book, exploring the wealth of type design on football kits throughout history.

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Typography 128

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

Graphic Design

Fotor

APRIL 30, 2020

Working from home can seem like a great option until you are juggling a hundred things at the same time. The home office environment sure does distract you if you do not plan your tasks and schedule them as you would generally do in the office. So many things can divert your mind like cooking, […].

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Inspiration 88

The Die Line

APRIL 30, 2020

The result is a design system with colorful, geometric illustrations, a clear, recognizable brand name while maintaining a fine-tuned signature K letter mark.

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Color Illustration Illustrator Brand 104

Abduzeedo

APRIL 30, 2020

Captivating Pixel Art Scenes. AoiroStudio Apr 30, 2020 When I was surfing on Twitter today, I stumbled across this 'tweet' shared by our good friend James White who was reminiscing the early days of 'design internet' and how everything used to be about the pixels and the little details. We became so standardized in our principles that we tend to forget what the 'internet' used to be.

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Colossal

APRIL 30, 2020

All images © Steeven Salvat, shared with permission. French artist Steeven Salvat ( previously ) cloaks his beetles and butterflies in an elaborate armor of rotational gears, jewel-toned gems, and muted stained glass. He tells Colossal that the heavily adorned insects merge his passion for nature, history, and science. They’re “an ode to exceptional craftsmanship and luxury houses.

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Exhibition Artist Print Illustration 101

Trendland

APRIL 30, 2020

Juliette Wanty is an Auckland-based art director and multidisciplinary designer, creating fantasy-inspired spaces from scratch. Inspired by a sense of escapism, her neat, colorful and geometrical interior creations appear as part of set for Wes Anderson 's next movie.

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Colossal

APRIL 30, 2020

With its clementine-colored wings bordered with black lines and white spots, the monarch, also known as Danaus Plexippus , is a widely recognizable insect. As the weather changes and gets cooler, the monarchs migrate from their breeding grounds in Canada and the northern United States and fly to central Mexico, where they form clustered colonies on oyamel fir trees to conserve heat until the days grow longer and they migrate north once again. .

Color 101

Color Photography 101

Courier Media

APRIL 30, 2020

As the founder of Motive Productions, a London-based studio that has designed offices for Beautystack, Desmond & Dempsey and Papier, Rosie Chatwin is used to creating spaces with ‘community and congregation in mind’. But now the 28-year-old has a completely new set of challenges to overcome. For the stationery company Papier, Rosie explains, ‘We created a kitchen so that 100 people can eat together.

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Digital Production Architecture Fonts 61

Booooooom

APRIL 30, 2020

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Photography 183

Creative Review

APRIL 30, 2020

New York-based illustrator and designer Lia Kantrowitz describes her editorial work as loud and cartoonish all in an airbrush style. Her client list is impressive and includes the likes of The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Working Not Working and many others. Day-to-day, Kantrowitz works at Vice as a senior editorial designer where she illustrates header images for articles, as well as playing a key role in art directing and commissioning for the website. “It’s nice to have

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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.

Graphic Design

Design You Trust

APRIL 30, 2020

Yaroslav Bulavin, a talented photographer and videographer from St. Petersburg. He shoots music videos, videos and photos. In 2018 Yaroslav photographed student girls in their communal apartments and hostels in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Let’s take a look at these fascinating shots. More: Source.

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Photography 92

Design Week

APRIL 30, 2020

Tour: Virtual Dalston Type Safari. For the last few years Sarah Hyndman, graphic designer and founder of Type Tasting, has invited willing participants to explore the cultural history of Dalston through the various typefaces that can be found in its streets. From bakeries to jazz bars, pizzerias to warehouses, a lot can be learned from the “typographic DNA” found in “the wild” of the east London area, she says.

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Animation Digital Graphic Design Graphic 55

Noupe

APRIL 30, 2020

The workforce of the 21st century is more diverse than before. Over 85% of the total global workforce comprises frontline workers. Frontline workers are essentially the employees that have to be ‘present’ to accomplish their jobs. Unlike knowledge workers who can work from anywhere, frontline workers have to be on the ‘field’ which can be within or outside of the traditional office perimeters.

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Infographics Production Presentation Inspiration 76

Creative Review

APRIL 30, 2020

Rachael Steven (left) and Mobbie Nazir The coronavirus crisis has prompted some creative, inspiring and heartfelt uses of social media – from the Clap for Carers campaign and Joe Wicks’ wildly successful morning workouts, to virtual nightclubs, live streamed-DJ sets and viral fashion challenges. With audiences spending more time on devices, there’s a huge opportunity for brands looking to provide support and entertainment – but there’s also a need to approach social

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 30, 2020

AutoCad. Revit. Developed by design technology giant Autodesk, these software suites are (nearly) as fundamental to contemporary architectural practice as the rows of drafting boards and T-squares that dominated studios not so long ago. But unlike their analogue predecessors, today’s drafting tools live only in computers. In imagining the company’s Montreal office, however, ACDF Architecture has created a space that expresses Autodesk’s generative design as a part of the design

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Architecture Project Management Layout Gallery 59

Booooooom

APRIL 30, 2020

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Photography 126

Abduzeedo

APRIL 30, 2020

Designer Spotlight Maryanne Nguyen. abduzeedo Apr 30, 2020 Times are definitely changing, we all live in a pandemic and hopefully soon a post-pandemic reality. Economically things will be difficult initially but eventually things will get better. I know this sounds super grim, but in order to help everyone to promote their work, we will start featuring designers from all over the world in a series we call Designer Spotlight.

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Illustration Illustrator 59

Design Week

APRIL 30, 2020

Cervical cancer is, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the fourth most frequent cancer found in women. Around the world, more than half a million new cases are reported each year, and in the UK, this translates to more than 3,000 cases annually. Almost all cervical cancer cases in the UK are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), a common viral infection passed between people through skin-to-skin contact.

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Production Inspiration 52

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Creative Market

APRIL 30, 2020

Creative Market is the world’s marketplace for design. Since 2012, we’ve welcomed over six million members from more than 195 countries. All along, we’ve focused on empowering creative people from all parts of the world to bring their projects to life. Today we are taking an important step forward in that mission. I’m incredibly excited to share that we have been acquired by design platform Dribbble.

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Marketing Marketing 190

Its Nice That

APRIL 30, 2020

As a follow-up to his successful series Paris Syndrome, Francois is yet again photographing architectural replica cities, creating almost identical compositions.

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Architecture 104

The Die Line

APRIL 30, 2020

Schweppes premium line of RTD cocktails has a retro-feel, almost like an Italian soda straight out of a sweltering Fellini flick.

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Colossal

APRIL 30, 2020

All images © Zouassi, shared with permission. Wrap up in one of Zouassi ’s earth-toned blankets, and you’ll find yourself in the center of a complex network of digital glitches and fractals. Each tassel-edged throw appears as if it’s covered in three-dimensional patches of fringe that swell and swirl from one corner to the next. Rather than screenprinting the abstract artworks, Zouassi had them woven directly into the entrancing threads.

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Networking Digital Patterns Print 101

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