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Retro Packaging Design: Bringing Back Vintage Styles

Inkbot Design

However, they’re created new for modern products. This immediately puts them in a favourable state of mind when evaluating the product. Nostalgia makes consumers value products more and see them as having better taste or performance. With so many products vying for attention, vintage designs let them put a unique stamp on items.

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How the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was designed

Design Week

The traditional indigo is a reference to the “refined elegance and sophistication that exemplifies Japan” while the pattern is inspired by ‘inchimatsu moyo’ patterns from the Edo period (1603-1867). The torch has been inspired by Japan’s cherry blossoms with a pattern that resembles petals.

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Emerging UX patterns in Generative AI experiences

UX Collective

User adjustable preferences and personalization are bundled into the context, providing users with more productive and relevant interactions later in the product. Many current products, shown above, give users more control across their content, display, and refinement preferences. The risk tolerance is very low.

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Designer Yannis Karlopoulos’s Work is a Celebration of Greek History and Culture

Eye on Design

Descending from street level, the first room is an assemblage of shops signs, early 2000s Macs, various bricks, and a vitrine full of supermarket product packaging. Each time I’m greeted with fresh coffee and pastries and each time I glimpse something on the walls, in the stacks, or on the tables that I missed the time before.

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Maybe we don’t have to (re)brand everything

UX Collective

Designers are now quickly envisioning brand guidelines by superimposing corporate design materials onto premade product shots. They are being framed within selected shapes, colours, and patterns, just to reinforce the identity of their new upcoming fitness “brand.” If you do good, maybe your old brand can stay.

Brand 101
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The History of Logos: Where Branding Started

Inkbot Design

With the rise of the Industrial Revolution, businesses began to recognise the importance of branding and creating distinct visual representations of their products or services. Companies realised the importance of creating distinctive marks that customers could easily recognise and associate with their products or services.

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Cultural appropriation: can designers ever responsibly “borrow” from other cultures?

Design Week

.” Struggling to articulate how the loss of this hand-crafted sign actually felt, Oberoi launched the platform to record other instances of India graphic design that remained. ” Products designed by Urban Outfitters, identified by Pater in his book, The Politics of Design Exposure to non-western design practices.