Graphic Design Junction
AUGUST 22, 2024
In today’s competitive market, establishing a unique and recognizable brand is essential for businesses of all sizes. Branding and visual identity design play a crucial role in defining how a company is perceived by its audience. A well-crafted brand identity not only differentiates a business from its competitors but also builds trust and loyalty among customers.
Design Milk
AUGUST 22, 2024
To many, Cancun may conjure images of raucous spring break parties and throngs of tourists seeking all-inclusive resorts along a bustling hotel zone. However, the Riviera Maya region, of which Cancun is a part, holds a hidden gem that defies these preconceptions. Nestled within an expansive nature preserve, the Riviera Maya EDITION at Kanai made its debut as a refined and sustainable addition to the Caribbean coastline, introducing a fresh approach to relaxed luxury, honoring both the environmen
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Azure Magazine
AUGUST 22, 2024
A home is so much more than a house. Even before its transformation by local firm SHEEEP, the humble property of Nick and Chris in Toronto’s Little Portugal has long served as a cultural hub with a tacit mi casa es su casa open-door policy. It’s the favourite hangout for a group of friends that gather regularly to watch movies projected onto the home’s back wall on summer nights, to share meals and just to “crash.
Design Milk
AUGUST 22, 2024
Melange is the latest collection from Spanish brand WOW Design , a line of ceramic tiles that can be paired together to create striking representations of painterly ombré effects. While high-gloss tiles remain a staple, there’s a renewed interest in more muted looks. Yet rather than pull from the archives to reference previous offerings, the designers turned to another form of adornment for inspiration.
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
Azure Magazine
AUGUST 22, 2024
Radiating a soft white light , the tunnel beckons passersby to venture inside and take a moment to contemplate life — and the afterlife. Terminal for Tirana, located on the grounds of Mother Teresa University Hospital in Albania, is a permanent installation by Polish contemporary artist Karolina Halatek that embodies her fascination with near-death experiences (NDEs).
FlowingData
AUGUST 22, 2024
The climate is changing, and researchers believe that after some point, there will be no going back. The balance will be too out of order to fix. For the New York Times, Raymond Zhong and Mira Rojanasakul map the possible places affected, along with timelines for where we are and when the change might happen. I appreciate the illustrative aesthetics.
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We And The Color
AUGUST 22, 2024
Crafting Cultural Identity: Lila Molino’s Brand Design by Futura Creative Studio Creative studio Futura , renowned for its innovative approach to design, has once again proven its mastery with the branding of Lila Molino, a new taqueria in Doha, Qatar. This project beautifully weaves together Mexican cultural heritage with modern design aesthetics, creating an immersive brand experience that resonates deeply with the taqueria’s mission to offer an authentic taste of Mexico.
Azure Magazine
AUGUST 22, 2024
The lighting in mega-chain economy hotels is rarely inspiring. Harsh fluorescents and unflattering overheads dominate; regardless of the time of day or night, the brightness is glaring. Tapped to imagine the interiors of a new Shanghai outpost of Ji Hotel — an H World International economy hotel brand with 2,000 locations across China — local firm Vermilion Zhou Design Group created a bespoke lighting scheme that not only vastly improves upon corporate chain standards but also elevates the guest
Abduzeedo
AUGUST 22, 2024
EQL UI UX Renewal: Interface for Millennial Shoppers abduzeedo 0822—24 Design by Plus X , with elegant UI and UX for EQL, the concept store by Handsome, is shaking up the fashion scene for millennial consumers in South Korea. Featuring a mix of Handsome's own brands, social media favorites, and up-and-coming designers, EQL is all about offering a unique shopping experience.
Creative Bloq
AUGUST 22, 2024
A backlash against AI is spurring a rise in Y2K and retro web design.
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We And The Color
AUGUST 22, 2024
Font Review: Rig Shaded is a Masterpiece of 3D Typography Designed and published by Jamie Clarke, Rig Shaded is an award-winning typeface. It’s a great fusion of geometric precision and dynamic 3D effects in contemporary typography. As the name suggests, Rig Shaded is like a framework crafted to bring a new dimension to visual communication. Download at MyFonts Rig Shaded Font by Jamie Clarke Type Download at MyFonts Design and Structure At its core, Rig Shaded is a geometric sans-serif ty
Colossal
AUGUST 22, 2024
“Captive.” Photos by Chris Autio. All images © Beth Cavener, courtesy of Carpenters Workshop Gallery, shared with permission In the 6th century B.C.E., Aesop wrote more than 700 fables conveying moral messages through animal characters. Fifty-one of these featured a sly fox, usually characterized as both intelligent and deceptive, often conning other animals.
Creative Bloq
AUGUST 22, 2024
We are drowning in groupthink, says X&O co-founder, Eric Segal.
Enviromeant
AUGUST 22, 2024
The Avenue at White Marsh is a 35-acre shopping, dining, and entertainment site that opened in 1998; by the 2010s, it was in need of a lift. Over a three-year period, in collaboration with architects, landscape artists, designers, and client teams, Ashto n reinvigorated The Avenue with an environmental refresh of wall murals, directional signage, and custom tenant support.
Speaker: Sean Adams, ArtCenter College of Design
Thomas Edison once said “Vision without execution is hallucination.” This statement applies not just to invention, but to graphic design. One of the greatest strengths of graphic designers is the ability to first develop a concept and then execute it to make it real. From visualization and ideation all the way through to actuation and execution, each step of this process takes skill and expertise.
Creative Bloq
AUGUST 22, 2024
Ghost Cat Anzu uses a surprising technique.
Azure Magazine
AUGUST 22, 2024
For most design students , a graduation project is an exercise in aspiration. It’s the culmination of several years of study and research, the goal of which is to coax a company or more established designer to hire you for an internship or entry-level job. But for Esther Jongsma and Sam van Gurp, the founders of Dutch lighting studio Vantot, their thesis at the Design Academy Eindhoven became the foundation of a now-flourishing company.
UX Collective
AUGUST 22, 2024
A complete guide for designers & developers.
Inkbot Design
AUGUST 22, 2024
How to Become a Freelance Digital Marketer The landscape of freelance digital marketing is a lawless place where opportunity and redundancy are constantly changing partners. It’s a place where a tweet you make in the morning can get you a client, and the strategy you come up with in the afternoon could change an entire industry. Here’s the thing: While AI tools have made it so anyone can do basic marketing tasks, the real value is still very human.
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Azure Magazine
AUGUST 22, 2024
The city had turned its back on the riverbank. Despite its potential to function as a vital public space, the area that lay between the Papaloapan River and the city limits of Tuxtepec — an industrial town in Oaxaca, Mexico — had become something of a liability. Locals largely avoided it; a nearby brewery’s operations had silted up the water, making it unnavigable, and informal settlements and merchants had cropped up on the unkempt land.
Inkbot Design
AUGUST 22, 2024
How to Write a Sales Pitch That Captivates Clients You only have 8 seconds. Before their finger hovers over the delete key or their eyes glaze over… While curiosity is sparked, interest is ignited, and they are compelled to read on and on in those few moments – this does not happen with all sales pitches. Most of them fail spectacularly in these crucial first seconds; they’re bloated with jargon, killed by details, or completely forgotten.
Designspiration
AUGUST 22, 2024
Saved by Raoul Ortega (@jetstreamprojector).
Inkbot Design
AUGUST 22, 2024
The Fascinating History of the Heineken Logo Design Have you ever wondered why the small red star on your Heineken bottle appears to wink at you? It is not a tipsy beer hallucination. It’s 150 years of history packed into one potent symbol. How many logos can you identify with certainty after a few drinks? Not many, I’d guess. But Heineken? That green bottle with its red star is like an old friend at the bar — comforting and recognised.
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In today’s competitive markets, how do you make sure that your content not only stands out but performs well? How can you predict whether certain design choices will result in clicks, engagement, downloads, and other drivers of ROI? Shutterstock’s Creative Insights Report (Q3) is your window into the hottest trends that are transforming the creative world.
Its Nice That
AUGUST 22, 2024
“I wanted to create images with more purpose,” says the illustrator.
Designspiration
AUGUST 22, 2024
Saved by Thomas (@thomas).
Creative Bloq
AUGUST 22, 2024
Inspirational filmmaking insights.
Design Milk
AUGUST 22, 2024
The following post is brought to you by Pallas Textiles. Our partners are hand-picked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And for innovators like Pallas Textiles , post-consumer plastics – particularly derived from marine litter – enchant with the prospect of new life as luscious, material rich textiles.
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BP&O
AUGUST 22, 2024
LES Tigre – not to be confused with seminal electroclash/riot grrrl combo Le Tigre – is a cocktail lounge in Manhattan’s Lower East Side area, which opened at the end of last year and apparently combines ‘sophistication and refinement in drink, sound and ambiance’ with an entrance that boasts ‘an original graffiti-worn door’ So far, so hip, amirite?
This is Paper
AUGUST 22, 2024
Designed by Verduzco Guerra, Punto y Coma in Querétaro redefines the bookstore experience with its fluid planning, creating a space where exploration and the exchange of ideas flow seamlessly.
Its Nice That
AUGUST 22, 2024
On the surface, Anima is a project about stone. But beneath its many layers, it’s a mediation on how a life of hard labour shapes masculinity.
Azure Magazine
AUGUST 22, 2024
Where does culture get made? How is culture experienced today? For our Sept/Oct 2024 issue we sought out to cover the types of culture that are emerging and how places are being designed to accommodate them. We also wanted to get super-meta and interrogate how architecture culture itself thrives and falters in connecting with the masses. Sydney Shilling’s excellent essay on the subject is a conversation about and meditation on what the profession can do to make design discourse accessible to tho
Speaker: Eden Spivak, Design Expert and Editor at Wix & Nir Horesh, Accessibility Lead and Senior Product Manager at Wix
When we design products or websites for people like ourselves, there are many others who are, as a result, left out. From visually impaired users who rely on assistive technology, to people with a temporary injury such as a broken arm, tech users are forever diverse and beautifully unique. The products we design can, and should, reflect the extremely wide range of human experiences and needs.
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