Graphic Mama
DECEMBER 19, 2019
Even the most thoroughly researched and well-intentioned logo redesign can come with a few risks: loss of brand recognition, accidentally offending people, and putting off loyal customers who no longer connect with your visual brand. To help companies avoid making common logo redesign mistakes, we’ve put together a list of logo redesigns gone wrong and the lessons you can learn from each.
Illustration Art
DECEMBER 19, 2019
This full-page illustration from a recent issue of the New York Times Magazine required the combined talents of four different creators plus a computer : The New York Times separately credits the photographer of the tower, the photographer of the trees and the photographer of the vulture, as well as the "illustrator" who glued them all together on a colored background.
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SpeckyBoy
DECEMBER 19, 2019
Perhaps no movie franchise has more fans than Star Wars. For over 40 years, each new episode has generated great anticipation – not to mention monster profits. Both the movies and their long list of unforgettable characters have also served as a great inspiration to popular culture. Web design is no exception, as it seemed like the minute people started building websites, online tributes to the franchise began popping up.
Creative Market
DECEMBER 19, 2019
Your product description is a place to answer your customers’ questions, showcase your brand, and highlight key features of your product. Keep the sentences short. People are scanning quickly, so help make it easy for them find the information they need. Use bullet points and lists of key features, and keep the tone conversational and easy to read. Make sure you clarify which software is compatible with the product you offer; in certain cases, it might be useful to also mention the software that
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
Shillington
DECEMBER 19, 2019
It’s around this time of year at Shillington that we love to take a closer look at our students’ work and the wider design community to see if we can predict the fonts that will be popular in future. From brand identities and packaging to editorial pieces and website designs, we’ve scoured through all of this year’s projects from our six campuses across the globe to pick out 20 typefaces that look set to be big in 2020.
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Canva
DECEMBER 19, 2019
Happiness — it’s the one thing we all seek in life, yet it’s tough to define. Of course, that hasn’t stopped plenty of people from trying. Countless poets, philosophers, psychologists and artists have endeavoured to pin down the meaning of — and secret to — happiness throughout history. While there’s no one answer, there are plenty of different approaches we can all use to enrich our lives.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
DECEMBER 19, 2019
“People eat with their eyes” is the rule of thumb for every marketing strategy whose goal is to tout and foist goods. Whatever you are planning to do, make it look delicious, and chances are your customers will fall for it. When it comes to restaurants, cafes, food trucks, and other representatives of the food brands segment, it lies at the heart of everything.
Under Consideration / Brand
DECEMBER 19, 2019
“Molto Bello”. Established in 1995, Cervélo is a Toronto, Canada-based manufacturer of racing and track bicycles founded by Dutch and Canadian engineers Gerard Vroomen and Phil White. Their name is a combination of the Italian word for brain, cervello , and the French word for bicycle, vélo -- basically, "brainbike". Offering seven different series, ranging from road bikes to track cycling performance bikes, all of their products are nerdily engineered and are very well regarded by everyone from
Creative Live
DECEMBER 19, 2019
Just because you work for yourself doesn’t mean you’re alone. Having an accountability buddy (AB) is like having a partner in crime, and it’s a surprisingly powerful method that can help you become incredibly productive and follow through on all those projects you’ve been postponing. If you ever had study sessions with a classmate or partnered up with a colleague to try a new workout routine, you already know what research has proven over the years: pairing up with someon
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Spine Magazine
DECEMBER 19, 2019
Carmen R. Balit is a book cover designer currently working at Atlantic Books in London. Here she talks us through her process for designing a wonderfully original cover for Exquisite Cadavers. I was very passionate about this project from the start because the paperback edition of Meena’s previous book, When I Hit You – which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2018 – was the first cover I ever designed (more than two years ago) at Atlantic Books.
Old Brand New
DECEMBER 19, 2019
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Floor & Decor. All opinions are 100% mine. We are finally done with my best friend, Anna’s bathroom! It turned out exactly how she wanted and she’s super happy! She was like, “I can’t believe I have a Dabito bathroom!” LOL. This was a really fun partnership with Floor & Decor. They came through with all these stylish pieces for the transformation.
This is Paper
DECEMBER 19, 2019
19.12.2019 A Moveable Beast by Helge SkodvinResearch, Photography. ©Helge Skodvin Photographer Helge Skodvin, who visited the museum regularly as a boy, was given permission to document the migration of the natural history department. Even long after death, animals can still be displaced by habitat loss. In 2013, the University Museum in Bergen, Norway, was closed for renovations and its collections were moved into temporary storage.
Azure Magazine
DECEMBER 19, 2019
Andrea Marcante and Adelaide Testa , of the Turin studio Marcante Testa, are maestros of spatial curation. The pair has designed a steady stream of elegant retail and residential interiors – including this stunning apartment in Milan – that display elevated artisanship and impeccable styling. Defined by their layered materials, patterns and colours, Marcante Testa projects are decorative yet sophisticated, drawing on multiple references old and new.
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.
The Die Line
DECEMBER 19, 2019
The military-inspired rebranding by agency Young & Laramore moves past the usual patriotic and camo tropes, instead influenced by MRE (Meals, Ready to Eat) packs and attributes shared by distillers and the military, eg, discipline and precision.
Design Week
DECEMBER 19, 2019
Supple studio and copy writing company Totalcontent have co-created a calendar, entitled 2020 Visionaries, which plays on the double-meaning of the new decade’s first year. Inspired by the optical measurement for clear vision, 20/20, the calendar features famous spectacle-wearers from past and present. Jim K Davies, from Totalcontent, says the idea came from seeing ‘2020’ printed in a newspaper. “The research was a real eye-opener,” he says.
Creative Review
DECEMBER 19, 2019
Each year the CR editorial team pick a number of photographers who have had a breakthrough year for our Zeitgeist series of profiles. Julien Martinez Leclerc graduated just two years ago, but is already offering a fresh perspective in the world of fashion photography. The post Zeitgeist: Julien Martinez Leclerc appeared first on Creative Review.
Colossal
DECEMBER 19, 2019
All images © Bernhard Lang, shared with permission. Munich-based photographer Bernhard Lang ( previously ) is known for his aerial shots that capture the inexact repetition and geometry of everyday life. His latest project, “ Crate Stacks ,” focuses in on a German beverage production yard, a facet of an industry that employs about 60,000 people in more than 500 companies in the country.
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Feature Shoot
DECEMBER 19, 2019
At the age of 18, Toufic Beyhum came upon a copy of Don McCullin’s book, Beirut, a city in crisis in the library of his London university. For the young photography student, who escaped Beirut with his family when he was just nine years old during the civil war that decimated the country during the early 1980s, the discovery was life affirming. “I didn’t want to be a war journalist but I loved the black and white grainy photos McCullin took and the moments he captured,” Beyhum says.
The Die Line
DECEMBER 19, 2019
[Oath] is a bold name, which communicates the devotion with which they produce their olive oil. Their oil represents a promise. A promise to themselves and to their customers; to always offer the highest quality available.
Design You Trust
DECEMBER 19, 2019
Zhanna Chernenko/KHL The Women’s Hockey League presents a limited calendar for 2020: it is based on a symbiosis of delicate femininity and seasons, recreated with the help of seasonal floral symbols. The visual code of the calendar symbolizes that each season and its symbols complement the appearance and character of a woman. More than a thousand flowers and compositions were used as props.
Communication Arts
DECEMBER 19, 2019
Elegant photography and design complement the company story of Okains Bay Longline Fishing on this site by Kallan & Co.
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Creative Review
DECEMBER 19, 2019
Directed by Denholm Hewlett (son of Gorillaz's Jamie Hewlett), a new documentary about the world’s most famous ‘virtual band’ is a brilliant mishmash of the real and the imagined. We speak to him about bringing the film to life. The post Documenting the Gorillaz appeared first on Creative Review.
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