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New book highlights how much graphic designers can learn from the small ads of yesteryear

Creative Boom

If you haven't heard of Standards Manual , the Brooklyn-based, independent publishing imprint founded by designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth in 2014, it's about time you did. But I think the cool thing about this collection is seeing how advertising used to be consumed," says Hamish. Obviously, times have changed since then.

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10 fun illustration challenges to spark your creativity and energise you in 2024

Creative Boom

36 Days of Type 36 Days of Type was created in 2014 as a personal project by Nina Sans and Rafa Goicoechea, both graphic designers from Barcelona. How about a travel poster advertising Pan'em, Gilead, Rivendell or Hogwarts? The contest is open exclusively to 2D artworks created both digitally and traditionally.

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Names to know: 20 visionaries shaping the future of creativity

Creative Boom

Kjetil Wold Kjetil Wold is an internationally award-winning executive creative director and founder of ANTI, one of Norway's top independent advertising agencies, with offices in Norway and Minneapolis, U.S. This includes the Cannes Grand Prix for the Bergen International Festival in 2014.

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16 of the best online shops to buy original art prints for your home

Creative Boom

Poster & Frame Poster & Frame is a poster shop established in 2018 by a seasoned team from the Danish design, advertising and design industries. in London in 2014. They currently have a section with specially designed prints supporting charities in Ukraine. Hvass&Hannibal 6.

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The Evolving Legacy of Ken Garland’s First Things First Manifesto

Eye on Design

It proposes that less design effort should go into advertising—1960s consumer society was booming—and more should go into “worthwhile purposes,” such as “signs for streets and buildings, books and periodicals, catalogues, instruction manuals, industrial photography, educational aids, films, television features, science and industrial publications.”

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Guerrilla Advertising: How to Make Your Brand Stand Out

Inkbot Design

Guerrilla Advertising: How to Make Your Brand Stand Out Guerrilla advertising (or guerrilla marketing) is a term that describes the process of utilising unconventional and sometimes illegal tactics to generate free publicity for a brand, product, or service. But to make your brand stand out, you need a guerrilla advertising strategy.

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Illustrator Will Rea on turning a love of art into a successful career

Creative Boom

He enrolled on a product design course in Manchester in 2014. He likes to take influence from traditional signage and advertising. "I My family was really encouraging too; mum's a teacher, and dad studied product design, so my early days as an artist have involved a lot of conversation and collaboration with them."