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Retro Packaging Design: Bringing Back Vintage Styles

Inkbot Design

Retro packaging refers to packaging that is intentionally designed to look old , vintage or nostalgic. However, they’re created new for modern products. This immediately puts them in a favourable state of mind when evaluating the product. What is Retro Packaging Design? Brands want packaging that grabs shoppers’ eyes.

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How the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was designed

Design Week

The chequered designs had several references to Japanese culture, according to the Tokyo 2020 Emblems Selection Committee. Free Type unframed pictograms will be used on posters, tickets and licensed products while the framed versions will be used on maps, signage, guidebooks and websites.

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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. The typeface’s name—Omonoia—refers to a prominent and historic square at the center of Athens, itself a reference to concord or agreement. “It

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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. The term branding used over here mainly refers to the visual outputs that a company/individual would publish. The prevalence of “corporate” (self) branding has created a market of digital mockups.

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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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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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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.