Illustration Age

JULY 13, 2020

Illustration by Daniel Fishel. On June 28th, 2020 a new Instagram account called @blackatsva published its first post with a simple message: “This is a safe space for current and former black students at SVA to share their stories. You are heard. Your stories matter. You matter.” Accompanying the post was an open call for black students of the School of Visual Arts in New York to submit anonymous stories of their time at the college.

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Feature Shoot

JULY 13, 2020

Viktor, 30 years old. Hermit for ten years. “To live against all odds.” Mikhail, 28 years old. Hermit for ten years. “Because I don’t particularly like bunches of strangers, and I work nights and from home.” Olga, 27 years old. Hermit for three years. “I like to work as a freelancer: to [do] cosplays of my favorite characters, as well as reviews of video games.” When the Russian photographer Natalia Ershova was in school, working on her journalism degree

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

JULY 13, 2020

Every website project has its own distinct needs. Sometimes, the look and functionality really do need to be built from the ground up. In other scenarios, time is of the essence and there simply isn’t enough of it to go fully-custom. WordPress and its community provide us with solutions for both. The CMS itself offers a Theme Handbook that can guide developers through the ins and outs of building a custom theme.

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Trendland

JULY 13, 2020

Words Marta Knas. Michal Zahornacký is a Slovakian photographer investigating the human place within architecture. In his " Close " series, the artists looks into the pandemic world of isolation and the feeling of closeness evoked by forced social distancing.

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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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The Die Line

JULY 13, 2020

Bowl & Basket has a soft and swoon-worthy redesign. With it's delicate color palette and typography this redesign by Pearlfisher brings a fresh take on grocery private label packaging. .

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Abduzeedo

JULY 13, 2020

User Interface Inspiration - 3D Illustrations. AoiroStudio 07.13.20 Ever since we introduced the new abdz. design, I haven't really taken advantage of some of its key features to help us share 'inspiration' on the blog. One of them is the 'video embed integration' that I have been requesting for quite some time, now it's here. For my first roundup, I wanted to share a series of 'user interface inspiration' handpicked from Dribbble.

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Creative Review

JULY 13, 2020

Whereas brands such as Libresse have moved conversations around women’s health on leaps and bounds in recent years, with ads featuring references to menopause and infertility , as well as a celebration of the vulva , discussion around men’s health remains broadly taboo. Viagra has been available for over 20 years as a treatment for erection problems, yet the associations of the ‘little blue pill’ are at best jokey, and a worst seen as a signal of a lack of masculinity.

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Colossal

JULY 13, 2020

“small sweet pink lump” (2020), polyester, polyurethane, pins, and adhesive, 40 x 44 x 39 centimeters. All images © Troy Emery, shared with permission. Many pet owners are quick to name their dog or cat’s breed, but those bringing home one of Troy Emery ’s colorful sculptures might need to figure out what species they’ve adopted first.

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Shillington

JULY 13, 2020

Natalie Taylor discovered Shillington when she was working in a marketing role at a publisher in Oxford. After her role expanded into requiring more design-related tasks, she knew she will need more design training, and she decided that she will work as a designer in her next role. After seeing a Shillington ad in a magazine, she was inspired to look up the school and 8 months later made the bold move to study abroad in New York!

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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

JULY 13, 2020

Inspired by his rural upbringing in Derbyshire, the 3D artist creates “uncanny synthetic surrealist environments” littered with sea, forest and magic.

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The Die Line

JULY 13, 2020

Co-founded by Spencer Joynt of Brooklyn's Alright Studio, this is no novelty ice cream brand.

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Booooooom

JULY 13, 2020

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Abduzeedo

JULY 13, 2020

A Sweet Escape - CGI Campaign for Chupa Chups. AoiroStudio 07.13.20 Illusion CGI Studio is CGI studio based in Bangkok, Thailand, they gave worked with some of the most renowned brands, you might have seen or remembered this feature we made about them last year on their 2017's project Build the Future for Lego. In this feature, we are sharing their project for Chupa Chups (I think we all had at least once a Chupa Chups), what a creative visual approach.

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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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Graphis

JULY 13, 2020

Graphis Master Lennette Newell captures the beauty of “North American Wildlife” (above) in her 6-part Platinum-winning entry for the Photography Annual 2020. Her ongoing personal project features various animals, including an owl, raccoon, alligator, and a jaguar in a curious and innocent state. Newell previously won Platinum in the Advertising Annual 2017, and her skills […].

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JULY 13, 2020

Practically every one of us has a PC. What’s more, we have printers, tablets, advanced cameras, typefaces, computerized art brushes, and inventive programming devices that help breathe life into our creative mind and plan. Innovation has and will keep on changing how we make. It empowers us to try and investigate an interminable dynamic of.

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Old Brand New

JULY 13, 2020

It’s Old Brand New’s birthday week! Are you ready for our final giveaway?! Enter for a chance to win a one-room makeover of your choice (living room, bedroom, or dining room) designed by me. You’ll also get a $5,000 gift card from Home Depot to help with the transformation. How amazing is that?! So I’ve decided to do two giveaways! One on my Instagram and one here on my blog.

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Design Week

JULY 13, 2020

D&AD has announced the winners of the 2020 New Blood Awards, which this time around includes two projects that have won coveted Black Pencils. This year marks the 40 th edition of the programme, which was launched in 1980 to support and highlight the next generation of creative talent. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, celebrations have been slightly altered, with this year’s ceremony taking place online as part of a wider week-long Digital Festival format.

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Abduzeedo

JULY 13, 2020

Set Design for Klarna on Google and Apple Pay. AoiroStudio 07.13.20 SNASK is a production design studio based in the stunning city of Stockholm, Sweden. You might have probably seen their work featured on Behance and even here on abdz. Personally, I really dig their commercial ad campaigns, they are always creative, vibrant, and inspirational in some ways.

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Design You Trust

JULY 13, 2020

My gorgeous mom at 23 years old in 1983” megcore / Reddit Some people on the internet have dusted off their old photo albums and discovered pictures of their parents back in the day. These moms and dads naturally looked like fashion models, even while posing for just a high school glamour shot, a yearbook picture, or a candid photo. h/t: brightside “Looking through some random boxes and found.

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Under Consideration / Brand

JULY 13, 2020

“Simplex is as Simplex does”. (Est. 1907) " Simplex was founded in 1907 by the Véronneau family. While the company originally specialized in tools and floor maintenance, it now provides individuals and businesses with an assortment of more than 55,000 different products for rental. Since 1907, Simplex has been a family owned business and proud of its Quebec roots.

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The Die Line

JULY 13, 2020

Calling it the world's first-ever paper-based spirits bottle, Diageo, along with Unilever and PepsiCo, invests big in plastic-free alternatives.

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Its Nice That

JULY 13, 2020

The world’s biggest whisky producer will premiere its new plastic-free bottle with Johnnie Walker, forming part of a new initiative with Unilever and PepsiCo to invest in sustainable packaging technology.

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Creative Review

JULY 13, 2020

The spot, directed by Mark Denton, has the charming style of a vintage travel ad, as it highlights some of the destinations that books can take you, including Hogwarts, Mars and – perhaps less appealing for many – Gilead from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian classic The Handmaid’s Tale. The campaign is a clever response to the unusual times we find ourselves in due to the pandemic, with many families and individuals opting for a staycation this year rather than a trip away.

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Its Nice That

JULY 13, 2020

The London-based designer recently won a D&AD Next Pencil for the personal project which combines traditional and contemporary design techniques.

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The Die Line

JULY 13, 2020

Calling it the world's first-ever paper-based spirits bottle, Diageo, along with Unilever and PepsiCo, invests big in plastic-free alternatives.

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