Noupe

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Access All Areas members have a cool font to download this week, courtesy of LovePowerDesigns. The Bearded Sailor is inspired by old-school tattoos that were popular with sailors. It’s a hand-drawn font with rounded strokes that pairs perfectly with both script and sans-serif fonts. The Bearded Sailor comes in two styles, a solid regular version, and a Shadow variant with stylish gaps beneath the spurs for more of a vintage appearance.

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The Die Line

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Guacamole is perhaps the most celebrated avocado-starring dish, usually accompanied by chips, and this combination serves as inspiration for premium chocolatier Compartés and the latest iteration of their seasonal Avocado Chocolate Bar.

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Its Nice That

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Organised by Cawzii, the side project of Sony Picture Animation’s Alison Mann and Niantic’s Stephanie Perea, the book looks to promote free and fair elections and get people to the polls.

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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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Azure Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Its importance in the upcoming U.S. election notwithstanding, mail delivery isn’t nearly as central to North American society as it once was, meaning that the great post office buildings of the past have been ripe for repurposing. In Manhattan, work has been underway since 2017 on the conversion of New York City’s primary postal facility — a magnificent colonnaded structure by McKim Mead & White on Eighth Avenue — into a grander train hall for much-maligned Penn Station across the stre

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Colossal

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

All images © Petoi, shared with permission. The days of expensive training lessons for your dogs have come to an end. Thanks to Petoi ( previously ), you can build your own robotic pup that’s programmed to perform basic commands from the get-go. The agile canine, named Bittle, moves just like a live animal would and because of its spring-loaded upper legs, can navigate bumpy terrain and flip itself over when it lands on its back.

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Its Nice That

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The Birmingham-based illustrator and artist celebrates the precision, dexterity and technique that goes into hair braiding.

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Creative Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Paris agency Buzzman created the campaign, which features some gloriously stark photography of unremarkable car interiors. Where it all comes to life is in the telltale details that show evidence of a recent trip to BK. Without ever showing a burger or bag of fries, Buzzman has made it abundantly clear what’s going on here – with clever use of a few tomato seeds and an errant piece of lettuce, or the oily smear left by a mayonnaise-covered hand on the steering wheel.

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Abduzeedo

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Possibility™'s Brand Strategy for Matibabu Healthcare Startup in Uganda. abduzeedo 09.04.20 Possibility™ led the brand strategy to help Matibabu closing the gap between African communities and access to health. matibabu is an Uganda based healthcare startup with a vision of a technology capable of disrupting the entire malaria diagnosis process at scale.

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Advertiser: Issuu

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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Its Nice That

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

This recent graphic design graduate believes any project can be interesting – but even better if it can utilise typography interestingly.

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Design Week

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

To mark the 22 nd anniversary of the death of Jean-Michel Basquiat, artificial intelligence (AI) powered design and art platform Urbancoolab released a series of art pieces featuring past and contemporary celebrities as a homage to the late artist. The ten new artworks featured the likes of Michelle Obama, Idris Elba and Snoop Dogg, depicted in Basquiat’s signature neo-expressionist, colourful style.

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Its Nice That

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The London-based animator talks us through the process behind the 11-minute long film which involved 1000s of drawings.

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Animation 74

Design Week

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

London Design Festival (LDF) has announced the line up for this year’s Global Design Forum, its curated thought leadership programme of talks, panels and workshops. As is to be expected, events will take place online because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic (you can read more about the proposed changes to the LDF structure here ). The programme will be free to access but viewers will need to sign up to watch their chosen talks.

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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

Interaction Design Foundation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Safety is one of our basic, evolutionary needs. Most of our decisions and actions are based on sustaining or improving our circumstances. While we may not be in constant danger like early man, we are no less driven by the need for safety for us and our loved ones. This drive is carried over into user and consumer behavior. For this reason, products must not only be sold to us with strong indications that they will protect us from potential threats, but they must back these claims up with clear e

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Production 144

Trendland

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Words Emily Sandiford. For anyone fantasizing of escape right now, Peter Bohlin’s Forest House is the perfect fuel for daydreams. Nestled in the West Cornwall woods, this award-winning Connecticut house was built in 1975 and designed as a retreat for Bohlin’s parents. The Forest House exists in respectful harmony with its leafy environment. Constructed from green-stained wooden panels, it is raised from the ground by both natural and human efforts, resting on boulders and supported by concrete p

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Interaction Design Foundation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Implied consent is something you can use with the best intentions possible whenever you don’t want to disturb the users’ flow when they’re accomplishing a task. However, it’s still a little bit suspicious when you deliberately hide information, hoping your users will overlook it. Get some striking examples of both well-intended and darker designs that use the implied consent design pattern, and decide for yourself whether it is something to add to your designer’s toolbox.

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Noupe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Up-to-date goals and expectations are critical to staying solvent and successful in a volatile economy. For many businesses, projections from the beginning of this year no longer remotely apply to their current operations. In response, businesses must revise their financial forecasts amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus. This means reconciling your financial forecasts from the beginning of the year with the current outlook.

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Interaction Design Foundation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

It doesn’t matter how great the functions and content, that your mobile apps serve, are – if your user can’t find them, they aren’t going to contribute to a great user experience. Navigation on the mobile web comes with challenges thanks to the reduced screen real estate available on smartphones. However, there are some good best practice guidelines to get your mobile app’s navigation moving in the right direction.

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The Die Line

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In order to underline the purpose of the brand, the coffee farmers wrote a short statement about their N.G.C. involvement on the coffee bag.In order to underline the purpose of the brand, the coffee farmers wrote a short statement about their N.G.C. involvement on the coffee bag.

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Interaction Design Foundation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

If we apply the analogy of Design Thinking as a journey, having good travel partners is important to safely and successfully arriving at your desired destination. The process of Design Thinking takes you into unknown and sometimes uncomfortable territory. Members of a Design Thinking team need to be open minded, curious, collaborative and allow their assumptions to be challenged, ready for change, and be adaptable.

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Travel Production 103

Trendland

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Words Kylie McDowell. Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist Peter Favinger takes us on a journey through surreal renders of dreamlike spaces.

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The Die Line

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The overall beer's design conveys the cynical attitudes and sexual motivations that made Noir films a Hollywood staple. .

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Colossal

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

All images © Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University. Extending 526.14 meters, a new glass-bottom bridge in China’s Huangchuan Three Gorges Scenic Area now ranks as the longest in the world. The lengthy structure is the project of the firm Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University and looms 201 meters above the Lianjiang River.

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Architecture 101

Its Nice That

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The first feature-length documentary about the pioneering abstract painter explores her visionary practice and “mystical” view of the world.

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Colossal

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

All images © Faig Ahmed, courtesy of Sapar Contemporary. Known for his sculptural textiles, Faig Ahmed fuses contemporary glitches and distortions with traditional weaving techniques. A recent artwork, titled “Doubts,” is one of his larger pieces that while conventionally shaped and patterned on top, appears to ooze out into a massive puddle.

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