Sat.Aug 25, 2018 - Fri.Aug 31, 2018

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Citizen Designer

David Airey

What does it mean to be a designer in today's corporate-driven, over-branded global consumer culture? The following is an excerpt from the introduction to Steven Heller and Véronique Vienne’s Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility. So, what is the responsibility of a designer when the design is impeccable but the client is tainted? Being accountable to some moral standard is the key.

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ONE LOVELY DRAWING, PART 58

Illustration Art

Tom Fluharty named his new kickstarter project after a pencil. Fluharty discovered the Prismacolor 901 indigo bleu pencil, and was so inspired by its qualities that he used it to draw a rich symphony of drawings. There's plenty to love in this collection: Note how the hands are fully as expressive as the face Fluharty found that with the indigo bleu, he could create highlights by scratching his drawing with an Xacto blade.

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Tropicana

Brand Struck

Category: FMCG Non-alcoholic beverages – juice & juice drinks Owner of the brand: PepsiCo Key competitors: Minute Maid, Innocent, Simply Orange, V8 Artyku? Tropicana pochodzi z serwisu BrandStruck.

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Conversational Semantics

A List Apart

As Alexa, Cortana, Siri, and even customer support chat bots become the norm, we have to start carefully considering not only how our content looks but how it could sound. We can—and should—use HTML and ARIA to make our content structured, sensible, and most importantly, meaningful. Content, confined. Most bots and digital assistants work from specially-coded data sets, APIs, and models, but there are more than 4.5 billion pages of content on the web, trapped, in many cases, within our websites.

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Let's Talk Trends: Designing for Maximum Impact

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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Real Estate Signage: How to Create Signs That Sell

crowdspring

Real estate signs say more about you and your business than they do about the properties they advertise. Whether you deal in residential or commercial real estate, your signs are ambassadors for your business – speaking for your brand when you’re not there to do it in person. So, it’s vital that you take charge of the message your signage communicates.

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