Design Week

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Location app Foursquare has rebranded to better represent its position as a B2B software service following a period of “growing pains” Co-founded in 2008 by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai, the app allowed people to “check-in” to venues through their smartphones – incorporating mobile GPS technology. Since then it’s expanded from a social-focused app to a software platform, providing location data for other services.

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Spoon Graphics

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Access All Areas members have a great collection of picture mockups to download this week, courtesy of Creative Veila. This set of Polaroid Snapshot Picture mock-up templates contains 6 high-resolution Polaroid-style photo frames in various combinations and compositions. Easily add your own images to create mood-boards, digital collages, social media posts, or decorate additions to your design projects.

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Noupe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Starting your own web design freelance business can be an exciting and challenging endeavor. And whether you just need a little extra cash on the side of your day job or you’re hoping to build a business that will let you leave your 9-to-5, building a web design freelance business can be very lucrative. That’s because, as the Internet continues to grow and evolve, companies are constantly needing new websites, updates to their current websites, or complete site overhauls.

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Booooooom

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Exploring the transitory stage between childhood and adulthood, photographer Juliana Sohn documents the lives of 12-year-old girls in New York City for her series, “Twelve.” Describing the age of twelve as a time of both disorientation and discovery, Sohn explains: “I wanted to try and capture this fleeting yet critical period of their lives,” she explains. “I hoped to capture a range of these girls’ experiences as they navigated emotional and physical changes

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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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Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Why Invest in Branding? 8 Reasons to Build a Brand Identity. Branding is a term that’s still shrouded in a veil of confusion. Even some marketers believe that a brand is synonymous with a logo design and a trade name, but this concept is much more complicated than that. Yes, it incorporates a company tagline, brand colours, design, packaging , or brand voice , among many other things, but it cannot be reduced to any of them.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Earlier this year, just before we went into lockdown, I was invited to participate on a jury by Niagara-on-the-Lake winery Stratus Vineyards. The invitation was for what sounded like an unmissable event: lunch at Teknion’s Collaboration Hub in downtown Toronto and a conversation with some design-y people and some wine folk around art labels for a special wine collection.

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Creative Review

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This Mum Runs empowers a global network of over 100,000 women to be happier and healthier. As the world’s largest community of its kind, it shows how running can be a catalyst for mums to reclaim valuable headspace, connect with other women, and develop a more positive attitude towards exercise. By putting all the focus on how running makes you feel, rather than tracking pace or distance travelled in a competitive way, This Mum Runs is proudly ­accessible and inclusive to all.

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Design You Trust

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Science claims that people tend to choose a pet that looks similar to them and Gerrard Gethings, a professional animal photographer, has taken it upon himself to prove this. In a series of striking comparisons called #doyoulooklikeyourdog and #doyoulooklikeyourcat, he compares the portraits of humans and their pets and highlights the similarities they share.

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Colossal

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Image © Zach Cooley, shared with permission. Utah is full of strange occurrences these days: first, the mysterious monolith popped up in a remote region of the Southwestern state, and now, the moon was caught peering over its landscape in an act of supernal surveillance. During Halloween weekend, Phoenix-based photographer Zach Cooley traveled to Arches National Park in Moab, Utah, and staked a spot near this sandstone arch that dates back millions of years.

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Abduzeedo

DECEMBER 11, 2020

PANTONE Color of the Year for 2021 - Ultimate Gray & Illuminating Yellow. abduzeedo 12.11.20 This week, Pantone announced its 2021 Color of the Year, selected in partnership with Adobe Stock, which includes the hues “Ultimate Gray” and “Illuminating” yellow, expressing how the two different elements come together to represent strength and hope as the world brings 2020 to a close and seeks a fresh beginning in the new year. .

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The Die Line

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Instead of an ordinary box and bag, the agency designed a collapsible paper carrier for the bottle tube.

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Design You Trust

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Audrey Hepburn According to Bored Panda user named Hidr?l?y: “Nowadays, photographers use black and white photography to convey emotion by playing with tones, contrasts, and shadows, but it wasn’t always an option to choose. Color photography brings photographs to life and reveals every little vivid detail that creates a compelling image.

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The Die Line

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Instead of an ordinary box and bag, the agency designed a collapsible paper carrier for the bottle tube.

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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

Booooooom

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Marija Kanavin. Marija Kanavin’s Website. Marija Kanavin on Instagram.

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Photography 90

Design You Trust

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Series Winners: 1st Place, How We Were By Billy Hickey Here are the winners and finalists of LensCulture Black and White Photography Awards 2020. Photographers from more than 120 countries responded to the international call for entries, and after extended review and passionate discussion by the jury, these 39 photographers were selected as the best.

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Photography 69

Richard Bernabe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Follow these 5 helpful tips as you prepare for your first successful photography exhibiton. The post 5 Tips for Preparing for Your First Exhibition appeared first on Richard Bernabe.

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Design You Trust

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Audrey Hepburn. According to Bored Panda user named Hidr?l?y: “Nowadays, photographers use black and white photography to convey emotion by playing with tones, contrasts, and shadows, but it wasn’t always an option to choose. Color photography brings photographs to life and reveals every little vivid detail that creates a compelling image.

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The Branding Journal

DECEMBER 11, 2020

When you hear B2B, what do you think? Business to business (obviously)? Professional? Dry? Conservative? Boring? B2B usually gets a bad rap – B2C marketing is seen as fun and interesting, but B2B marketing, well, it’s best left to the suits, right? It doesn’t have to be this way (and it shouldn’t be). It’s 2020 – and if COVID’s taught us anything, it’s that the world evolves and adapts rapidly when it needs to.

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Design You Trust

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Science claims that people tend to choose a pet that looks similar to them and Gerrard Gethings, a professional animal photographer, has taken it upon himself to prove this. In a series of striking comparisons called #doyoulooklikeyourdog and #doyoulooklikeyourcat, he compares the portraits of humans and their pets and highlights the similarities they share.

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Animation Photography 36

Creative Review

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The spot opens on a crisis meeting where Santa’s head elf reveals to an unexpected band of co-workers – including the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny – that due to “everything that is happening”, his boss is considering cancelling Christmas. As the group tries to work out how the festivities can go ahead, the meeting quickly disintegrates, before help comes from an unlikely character, who reminds everyone that “different can be good” Directed by Jeff Lo

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Design You Trust

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Simone Williams, a young woman from Brooklyn, New York, recently broke the Guinness record for world’s largest natural afro, with her impressive 4 ft. 10 in (1.48 m) hairdo. Simone started growing her hair naturally 9 years ago, as a way to save money on hair salon visits, ut never imagined that she would one day break the record for the world’s largest female afro.

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Its Nice That

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Based on the miniseries created by the Oscar-winning British filmmaker, BBC Creative has released a set of five films aiming to change the ways in which Black history is taught in schools.

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Design You Trust

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Imagine responding to a service by Roger Federer with a backhand and, in the meantime, being able to admire your city from above. It looks like a scene from a science fiction film and instead it is the latest project by architect Carlo Ratti, founder of the Carlo Ratti Associati studio, and Italo Rota, founder of the studio of the same name. More: Carlo Ratti , Italo Rota h/t: collater.

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The Die Line

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The packaging color is a gender and race-neutral green, and the lids feature the brand’s wordmark raised on the cover, executed in braille on the opposite side.

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Its Nice That

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Róisín and Bra?ulio have found a symbiotic, organic way of working together over the past few years. We spoke to them about their process and why the album is still the perfect way to support artists you love.

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