FlowingData
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
As Hurricane Helene approached Florida, it grew from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane. What does that mean? Amudalat Ajasa, Aaron Steckelberg, and Julie Hoban, reporting for The Washington Post, illustrate the hurricane categories with an animated model that starts peacefully and then suffers through each level. As a Californian, I’m more familiar with earthquakes and wildfires, so this was helpful.
Booooooom
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
A visual exploration of time, space, and self by Rotterdam-based photographer Pauline Köhlen.
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Creative Bloq
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
With the help of experts in the field, we pick the most outstanding and effective magazine covers ever published.
Azure Magazine
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
As the daylight hours start to wane, it’s time to cozy up our interiors — and these five modern table lamps cast rooms in just the right light. With expressive materials and compelling forms, each one is crafted to make a statement. 1 Reverse table lamp by Audo With a background in engineering, Danish designer Aleksandar Lazi c brings precision, balance and thoughtful material selection to his body of work – which focuses on creating timeless objects that nod to the past while expressing a
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
Design Milk
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
The Pastille Collection by Emeline Ong blends traditional craft techniques with technological advancement to create a brutalist take on adorable design. Like concrete dipped into candy-like colors, these beautiful pieces are handmade through a labor-intensive process, utilizing paper pulp mixed with a composite. This mixture is tamped into various molds and allowed to dry, creating unique ridges based on where the plates meet.
Design You Trust
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
XNJ, an artist from Shenzhen, China, creates delicate illustrations featuring soft pastel shades, subtle gradients, and exquisite transparency effects, giving the works an ethereal, dreamlike quality, with minimalist depictions of female forms that emphasize elegance and tranquility. “This group of illustrations is inspired by ancient Chinese poems, like poetry, with concise visual elements and subtle expressions to resonate with people, expressing the fullness of emotions and rich imagery
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Colossal
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Undulating, organic sculptures emerge from thousands of drawing utensils in Jessica Drenk ’s ongoing Implements series. Fascinated by the aesthetics and behavior of multiples of mass-produced objects, the artist ( previously ) chose pencils because of their stackable shape and “the thought that, if I sanded them, I could make a sculpture that drew on itself in the making: sandpaper would smear the graphite while the piece was being shaped,” she tells Colossal.
Creative Bloq
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
The eagle has departed?
Colossal
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Cologne-based artist and designer Hannes Hummel has long been interested in the intersection of digital tools and nature. Previously collaborating on an elaborate collection of artificial specimens , Hummel’s latest project pushes the boundaries of floral design to a bizarrely beautiful place. Eighty unearthly botanical renderings comprise Hybrid Species , a vast herbarium of imagined organisms.
This is Paper
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Luke Gilford’s photography exists in a strange, liminal space where hyperreal dreams meet the rawest layers of intimacy. His lens doesn’t just capture people; it seduces them into revealing their fractured selves, laying bare the tension between flesh and identity in a world obsessed with performance.
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Design You Trust
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Alejandro Monge, a Spanish multidisciplinary artist, creates stunning large-scale sculptures using materials like fiberglass, concrete, and pigments, drawing inspiration from Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro and John Singer Sargent’s refined brushwork to craft debossed faces that seem to emerge from the materials, producing a captivating play of light and shadow.
Press'd
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
We created these gorgeous New Year cards for our friends at Posh Parties. Our Kiran design inspired the layout. The papaya letterpress is the perfect compliment to the photo and gives a nod to Florida, where posh parties is based. We topped a flood of papaya digital ink with a foil-stamped heart design in pearl shine, creating a tonal effect.
Designspiration
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Saved by Fon Kumuro (@fonkumuro).
Its Nice That
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
The photographer sheds light on how he found a balance between focusing on the experience of people giving birth, and capturing the “resilience and passion” of NHS staff.
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.
Design Milk
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Is it wall art or is it an acoustic solution? With its latest innovation, 3form makes it hard to tell. Introducing the new high-resolution, high-tech capabilities on acoustic felt, 3form Elements enables commercial designers to explore endless possibilities for sound dampening. This advancement not only enhances acoustics, but transforms plain walls into vibrant, functional art. “At 3form, we never want to limit our own color palette or a designer’s creativity,” reflects Ryan S
Creative Bloq
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Controversial competition winner still hopes to copyright his AI art.
Design Milk
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Matthias Hollwich’s time at university was seminal, marked by his natural curiosity. He often wondered what it would be like to contribute to the creation of things that people actually use. Yet it was a summer program that changed his trajectory in a way he could have never imagined. After applying for the three-week course, and initially receiving a rejection, Hollwich convinced his professor to allow him to participate.
FlowingData
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
North Korea has been releasing thousands of trash bags into the air with balloons to land in South Korea. The bags in the air disrupt flight traffic and land in random places and on people. Reuters explains the trash , where it’s coming from, where it’s landing, and the annoyance of having bags of garbage floating over you. I like how the story leads with floating trash balloons as you scroll.
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Colossal
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
From individually stained snippets of watercolor paper, YoYo Lander collages elaborate portraits. Each work begins with a photo session during which the artist focuses on capturing the sitter’s unique gestures, poses, and expressions. She then combines the reference images into a singular composition that conveys a particular emotion or experience. “Kara” In a recent body of work, Lander dresses her sitters in the same green sweater, the kindred knit signifying personal and col
Creative Bloq
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
The unique roguelike triumphed amid an impressive short list.
HONGKIAT
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
We’ve all probably been there – losing important data on your iPhone can feel like a disaster, especially if you didn’t back up your iPhone. But don’t panic just yet! There’s still hope for recovering those precious videos, photos, and chat histories. Here’s a list of some of the best iPhone recovery tools you can download to help you get your lost data back. 1.
This is Paper
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Casas de Eufemia, designed by Belén Ilarri, transforms a former winery in a small village near Requena into a modern residence. The project thoughtfully balances contemporary living requirements with the preservation of the building’s original character.
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The Branding Journal
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
As Dove celebrates the 20th anniversary of its iconic Real Beauty campaign, a dark cloud looms over the brand. Greenpeace, through a new impactful campaign, highlights the negative environmental impact of the brand, creating a contrast with its image as a promoter of responsible beauty.
Creative Bloq
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Save up to $600 on an M3 Max MacBook Pro.
HONGKIAT
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Your phone holds all the most important things in your life – precious memories in the form of photos and videos, important chats and conversations, documents, etc. So it goes without saying that it’s a must to enable syncing with iCloud, so everything gets backed up in Apple’s cloud. If you’re not currently using Apple’s iCloud to sync and store your data, you might want to start doing it already.
UX Collective
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Is the owl really as evil as they say?
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HONGKIAT
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Your phone holds all the most important things in your life – precious memories in the form of photos and videos, important chats and conversations, documents, etc. So it goes without saying that it’s a must to enable syncing with iCloud, so everything gets backed up in Apple’s cloud. If you’re not currently using Apple’s iCloud to sync and store your data, you might want to start doing it already.
Graphis
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Lindsey Drennan, the first international student to intern at Vogue, has redefined commercial and beauty photography. Her. The post Lindsey Drennan: From Vogue to Canada’s Top Brands appeared first on Graphis Blog.
Abduzeedo
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
The Ultra-Trail Monarque: Where Branding Takes Flight abduzeedo 0927—24 Discover how the Ultra-Trail Monarque's branding and visual identity capture the essence of its environmental mission, inspiring action and awareness. The Ultra-Trail Monarque isn't just an ultramarathon; it's a powerful movement to protect the monarch butterfly. This 4,500 km race, mirroring the butterfly's migration from Canada to Mexico, needed branding that would resonate with its mission.
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