Grain Edit

JANUARY 8, 2018

Filoferru Outdoor Chair by Robby Cantarutti and Partners. Since 2010 the A’ Design Awards have been tracking and displaying important data gathered from their prestigious competition at the World Design Rankings (WDR). The lengthy list has recently been updated to reflect the results of the past year and is now viewable to the general public. Featuring entrants from 97 countries the WDR aims to highlight key data and insights to economists and journalists with regards to the design industr

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Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

JANUARY 9, 2018

If your idea of a luxurious product is one that’s stainless steel rather than gold, you may be a Functionalist. Functionalism is an approach to design that gained popularity in the decade after World War II, especially among German manufacturers of consumer goods, for whom a thing’s visual design was the natural expression of how it was meant to be used.

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Diana Toledano Illustration & Education

JANUARY 10, 2018

Hi there, Happy New Year! I love the new year. It's so full of promise! Sure, many of those promises won't turn into realities, but that's something for another time. Now we can concentrate on how to make the most of this fresh start, and I have six tips to help you! 1. Decide what you want to achieve. If you don't know where to start, read this article I wrote last year: Don't Make New Year Resolutions, Set realistic Career Goals.

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Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

JANUARY 9, 2018

There are still some tickets left to attend. With the aid of a projector and lots of prints and originals, I will be taking the audience through the various illustrations I have produced since graduating in 2008. I will also be giving away lots of freebies!!

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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

Graphic Design

Thinking Design

JANUARY 6, 2018

The dolphin and anchor device, symbol of the Aldine Press. Aldus Manutius (c.1450–1515) was the father of modern publishing. Born near Rome, he moved to Venice in the 1490s, where he formed the Aldine Press. The Aldine Press premiered an immensely popular new format well-designed editions of the secular classics Manutius called libelli portatiles, or portable little books because they easily fit in the hand of the reader, the first paperbacks.

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Ambalaj

JANUARY 9, 2018

We have five senses for a reason, together they help us understand and fully experience our surroundings. In the last few decades, the visual experiences have been explored in all possible directions (e.g. VR, AR). At the same time, cognitive neuroscience has made big progresses in the study of the human mind and of the principles that concur to determine our behavior.

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David Airey

JANUARY 9, 2018

The Identity Designed hardcover (published by Rockport, available from January 2019) aims to uncover the most valuable details about what it takes to create a compelling visual identity. Since the Identity Designed website was launched in 2010, it’s been a bit of a labour of love sharing insights into more than 500 projects from design studios at the top of their game.

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Paul Jarvis

JANUARY 6, 2018

State of the Union, 2018 (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016) I present to you my state of the union 2018 address. (Not that I think I’m a president of this mailing list, or even slightly presidential—I just e.

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