Envato Tuts+

AUGUST 18, 2020

Created by legendary type designer Adrian Frutiger and released in 1988, Avenir is one of the most widely used typefaces in corporate branding. Repeatedly voted by designers as one of the most beautifully designed typefaces, the Avenir font family was Frutiger’s masterwork and continues to be popular in logo design and brand identities today. Read more about Avenir’s origin story and how this humanist sans serif has gone on to become one of the most iconic fonts in type history.

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Brown Paper Bag

AUGUST 18, 2020

View this post on Instagram. A post shared by Aure?lia Durand (@4ur3lia) on Aug 6, 2020 at 9:42am PDT. Illustrator Aure?lia Durand creates digital illustrations celebrating color and shapes. (You might know her work from the best-selling book This Book is Anti-Racist !) On her Instagram, she recently shared a series she created for Lonely Whale, an NGO based in the U.S. which works to protect the oceans.

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SpeckyBoy

AUGUST 18, 2020

Everyone has had the kind of clients that you wish you could punch – the scope creepers , the micromanagers, the non-payers. It’s very aggravating, but it is a long-established part of being a freelancer. But there’s a certain kind of client in particular who is as much a danger to themselves as they are to you. I’m talking, of course, about the panicky clients; the clients who see everything as the most urgent emergency ever.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

The beauty of the WordPress Gutenberg block editor is that it allows content creators more design freedom. But for web designers, it’s not always desirable to give clients access to certain features. Color palettes are one such area of concern. A client with access to the entire rainbow might inadvertently do more harm than good. Beyond diverging from your carefully-chosen colors, there could also be a negative impact when it comes to accessibility.

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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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Design Week

AUGUST 18, 2020

In July, Nissan revealed its first new logo in 20 years , which sought to connect the brand’s heritage with the “digital world” The updated identity coincided with the announcement of the car brand’s first all-electric crossover SUV, the Ariya. On the car, the redesigned flat logo is lit up with 20 LEDs which symbolised a “new chapter” of Nissan’s evolution, the car company said.

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Design Week

AUGUST 18, 2020

Design Bridge has created a new visual identity for Hamburg beer manufacturer Holsten, which seeks to return the brand to its “honest, hardworking roots” Holsten was founded in 1879 and is now owned by the Carlsberg group. Design Bridge London creative director Mike Stride says the visual update was about bringing the beer to younger audiences. “It looked like something their dads or grandads might drink,” he says. “They wanted to add the character back into it.R

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Creative Review

AUGUST 18, 2020

El Palacio de Hierro is one of Mexico’s leading retailers, with department stores throughout the country. It is one brand, but each store features unique design elements that draw on the history and character of their location. The renovations on the Pedregal store in Mexico City began in 2018, and Lance Wyman ‘s work in Mexico in the 1960s and 70s, which includes design for the Mexico Olympics in 1968 , the World Cup in 1970 and the Mexico City Metro was mentioned in the brief. R

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Colossal

AUGUST 18, 2020

“66°??????? N” (2020), copper and paint. All images © Wang Ruilin. Artist Wang Ruilin ( previously ) visualizes nature’s interconnectivity by literally imprinting a rocky terrain or ice cap onto the bodies of wild animals. His recent copper-and-paint sculptures include a panda with a black back stripe and limbs that are covered in a mountainous ridge and a white blanket of clouds.

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Booooooom

AUGUST 18, 2020

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Abduzeedo

AUGUST 18, 2020

Calmaria Breathing App now on Apple Watch. abduzeedo 08.18.20 Last April I decided to create a simple Android app for me to do a breathing exercise that consists of inhaling from your nose for four seconds, holding the air for seven and exhaling from your mouth for eight seconds. It’s a very simple, yet powerful way to oxygenate your body and brain and the by-product is relaxation.

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Its Nice That

AUGUST 18, 2020

Through the unlikely use of a Toile de Jouy fabric pattern, the shirts depict players, fans and historic branding in sketched vignettes paying tribute to the club’s heritage.

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Patterns Illustration Illustrator Brand 58

Abduzeedo

AUGUST 18, 2020

Brazilians Who Design Showcases Talented Brazilian Designers. abduzeedo 08.18.20 Brazilians Who Design is a place to showcase the work of talented Brazilian designers to the world. The goal is to inspire new designers to diversify their references, experienced designers to diversity their network, and companies to diversify their teams. Created by Fabricio Teixeira , Brazilians Who Design was designed and built by Zeh Fernandes , directed and curated by Frabricio himself, on top of the tech stac

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AUGUST 18, 2020

2020 is all about social distancing and staying at home. As an artist, designer, or marketer, you are most definitely searching for ways to better express this reality. If you have been searching for the best corona vector, it’s time you stopped.

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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.

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Old Brand New

AUGUST 18, 2020

Sponsored by Sunbrella If you can believe this — though I’m no stranger to a DIY project around the house — I’ve actually never reupholstered anything! Given that spending time at home makes you reevaluate every inch of your decor (which I’m always doing anyway!) and being quarantined gives many of us the itch to do something creative, now seemed like the perfect time to give it a go.

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Booooooom

AUGUST 18, 2020

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Just Creative

AUGUST 18, 2020

This article has been contributed by Mildred Austria. When you are starting your business, you need a strong brand message that your customers, and potential customers, can identify with and support. The best brands in the world stand for something they believe in – and they invest in making sure everyone knows what it is. But there are a few common misconceptions that might be keeping you from doing this for your business.

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Booooooom

AUGUST 18, 2020

A selection of recent work by Swedish artist Benjamin Björklund (previously featured here ). See more images below! Benjamin Björklund’s Website. Benjamin Björklund on Instagram.

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Spine Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

Jakob Vala is Senior Designer at Tin House. Here he takes us through his process for designing Khadijah Queen’s poetry collection, Anodyne. I was a little hesitant to write about the cover design for Anodyne , because it makes my job seem so easy. The process took only a few hours, from my initial meeting with marketing to getting approval from all parties.

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The Die Line

AUGUST 18, 2020

Not only did Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant ramen, make it his mission to end world hunger, but he made some packaging innovations along the way.

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Its Nice That

AUGUST 18, 2020

Artists Band Together references the history of bandanas as symbols of unity, releasing 15 designs by world-renowned artists to raise funds for community-led voter registration groups.

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Artist 101

The Die Line

AUGUST 18, 2020

Last week, creative studio Made Thought announced that they partnered with IBM and A Plastic Planet for what they called the world’s first “online encyclopedia” of plastic-free materials and substrates.

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Creative Review

AUGUST 18, 2020

Our current methods for evaluating new branding design tend towards the shallow and immediate, says Paul Stafford, co-founder and CEO at Design Studio. Here's what's needs to change. The post Why we need to change how we measure success in branding design appeared first on Creative Review.

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The Die Line

AUGUST 18, 2020

The green, red, and yellow color pallet of the can design are striking and immediately draw the consumer into a bustling Japanese nightlife scene that is giving me major wanderlust.

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Color 98

Colossal

AUGUST 18, 2020

All images © Rael San Fratello, shared with permission. Modern architectural building methods and Indigenous materials converge in the latest endeavor by Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello , titled “Casa Covida.” The earthen structure is part of a MUD Frontiers/Zoquetes Fronterizos that centers on Pueblo de Los Ángeles and the ways technological advances can work in unison with historic mud-based designs. “Casa Covida” contains a bathing pool, sleeping areas, and firep

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Its Nice That

AUGUST 18, 2020

In her first solo show at New York’s Meredith Rosen Gallery, Susan is currently showing a series of powerful paintings up until 19 September 2020.

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