Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The irreverent, tank-driving troublemaker has been captured in a somewhat sultry moment by her original creator for a one-off open-edition print. Way back in 1988, comic artist Jamie Hewlett and writer Alan Martin created Tank Girl—a female character with a snarl, wit, and attitude who seemed to perfectly represent the vibe of a youth culture that was tired of batting back the same-old platitudes and prejudices faced by kids in the 1970s, 1960s, '50s, and so on.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Nestled in a serene, forested enclave of Portland, Oregon, the Mori House merges mid-century modern architecture with contemporary minimalist sensibilities. Originally designed in 1963 by Saul Zaik, a revered figure in Pacific Northwest architecture, this home has been thoughtfully reimagined by SHED Architecture & Design to meet the aesthetic and functional needs of its new owners: a young family with a passion for design.

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Creative Bloq

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Save 50% on an annual subscription to Creative Cloud for access to industry-leading tools Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and more.

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Its Nice That

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Could too close an adherence to design history have an “unintended impact” on your creativity and sense of self? For graphic designer and art director Shamma Buhazza, it certainly did.

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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

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FlowingData

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The Night Train Map is for Europeans who want to travel at night: Have you ever wondered to which destinations you can travel by night train? Are you looking for inspiration for your next holiday? Then we got you covered: This is a map of all night train lines currently running in Europe, based on our night train database. The database and map are updated regularly to reflect time table changes and announcements of new night train services.

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Joe McNally

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With Thanks… There was a gathering last week at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, and I still feel the reverb, the warmth, and the wonderful, healing spirit of the evening this week, as so many of us pause to give thanks. Jan Ramirez, the tireless Executive Vice President of Collections and Chief Curator of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum , has long had faith in the power of the stories contained in the Giant Polaroids, all of which were created within a month after 9/11 day.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Axiom Space , in collaboration with fashion house Prada , has unveiled the flight design for a new lunar spacesuit, the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) , which will be used in NASA’s Artemis III mission to the Moon. Revealed at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan, the suit is a product of an unprecedented partnership blending Prada’s mastery in materials and high-performance design with Axiom Space’s expertise in space technology.

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Creative Bloq

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Discover how innovative type laid the groundwork for today's aesthetics, as we look back at the best typography of the 1980s.

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Its Nice That

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Supported by the 70:15:40 Project UK, a collaborative initiative led by MPB to challenge the status quo in photography, these projects are telling untold stories.

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Colossal

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Every month, Colossal shares opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you’d like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at opps@colossal.art. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. GLEAM | 2025 Request for Proposals Featured Olbrich Botanical Gardens invites proposals for temporary, light-based installations for GLEAM, Art in a New Light , a public art exhibition situated within a 16-acre Midwest land

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Ganezza’s Visual Identity: A Dynamic Branding Journey abduzeedo 1113—24 Explore Ganezza’s vibrant branding and visual identity, designed by Turan Ramazanli, that captures energy and warmth. Ganezza, a home furnishings retailer based in the Netherlands with locations in Schiedam and Amsterdam, has recently unveiled a striking new visual identity designed by Turan Ramazanli.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As part of a two-year collaboration with How&How, the conservation charity reinvents itself with a new logo, custom typeface and migration-inspired patterns. When you think of zoos, you probably think of somewhere to take the kids when they're off school. But behind the scenes, there's a lot more going on. Zoos increasingly see themselves as champions of the natural world, helping protect endangered species and educate the public about environmental destruction.

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Design Week

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Rest is Entertainment podcast doesn’t often discuss UX. But recently, host Richard Osman introduced a conversation about the media company Reach, with a short description. “People will know Reach without knowing they know them,” he told co-host Marina Hyde.

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Creative Bloq

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

From variable fonts to kinetic type, Wix predicts the font design trends that will shape the next year.

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Its Nice That

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Perhaps the oldest and longest-serving photobooth technician in the world, 92-year-old Alan Adler’s 50 years of service to the art of photography has been memorialised in a new book.

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Colossal

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

David Hockney famously said that “people tend to forget that play is serious,” but for the artists and designers behind some of the world’s most visionary parks and museums, recreation has never been a trivial matter. A new book by Emmy Watts travels the globe to highlight more than 80 spectacular environments created purely to foster one of the most primal activities.

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Azure Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Walking the Toronto streets, it’s not uncommon to be stopped in your tracks by a parked bike, painted stark white, so spindly it almost disappears against the urban backdrop. These poignant memorials, called ghost bikes, are here because a cyclist is not. This year alone, traffic accidents claimed six lives, marking the deadliest year for cyclists in Toronto in nearly two decades (a dramatic increase from 2023, which remarkably saw just one fatality).

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock We speak to the great and the good to get the temperature of the industry as we head into the halfway point of the 2020s. As we approach 2025, the creative industry stands at a fascinating crossroads. The rapid evolution of AI is reshaping how we think about design. To gauge the industry's mood, we've spoken to leading creative directors, agency founders, and industry visionaries about the trends they believe will define 2025.

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Design Week

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

A new book is promising to “right a historic wrong” by highlighting the work, and enduring influence, of some of the UK’s modernist graphic designers. Modernist Graphic Design in Britain 1945-1980 is written by graphic designer Ian McLaren, best known for his work on the Munich Olympics and the Lyon Métro, and Tony Pritchard, the […] Source What to read next: The pressure and privilege of designing for fandoms | From the archives: Picture Post | Design Week quiz: a l

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Creative Bloq

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Picked out by some of the best typographers in the industry.

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Its Nice That

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A period of rest, a motion sensor camera and an encounter with a family of foxes resulted in this strangely beautiful series that mediates on how seamlessly humans and animals share spaces.

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Colossal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Working exclusively in black-and-white, Gary Wagner ’s striking photos pare dramatic landscapes down to their essential shapes, lines, and tones. Based in Northern California, he captures shorelines, forests, and mountains using digital cameras. In his series Iceland Forces of Nature, Wagner explores the rugged fjords, waterfalls, and black sand beaches of the island nation.

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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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FlowingData

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In 1935, the United States Congress passed the Social Security Act to provide financial support to those 65 years and older. Full retirement age would slowly rise to 67 by 2022 after legislation passed in 1983. Meanwhile, it grew more common for women to work than to not, especially in the 1970s. We can see the changing scales of who works and for how long through employment rates by age and time.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In an era when attention spans are dwindling and visual overload has become the norm, Counter-Print's new book celebrates the transformative power of expressive typography. We spoke to co-founder Jon Dowling to find out more. Released this week, Expressive Type Today by Counter-Print explores the world of evocative type design and its ability to command our attention, shape perceptions, and spark emotions.

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Design Week

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In normal life, when people speak of brands, they mean consumer products like soft drinks and toothpaste. And when we read about branding, all too often it’s the same famous global brands used to illustrate the ideas.

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Creative Bloq

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

From concept art to VFX and animation, studios and individual artists alike now merge 2D and 3D art techniques.

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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.

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Its Nice That

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Drawn to documenting daily life, routine, and memory the illustrator is making “an effort to greet things whether they are remarkable or not”.

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Colossal

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Flocks of starlings share risk as hundreds—even thousands—of eyes are on the lookout for predators. “Remarkably, the group achieves this without any leadership structure, the simple interactions between individuals creating outcomes greater than the sum of their parts,” says scientist and photographer Dr. Kathryn Cooper. Cooper’s professional background in physics and bioinformatics—a data science applied to biological systems—led her to study of the dynamics of networks.

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Azure Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In Toronto, a simple mention of “Eglinton” is enough to induce a shudder or spark a rant. While the avenue — one of the city’s major east-west arteries — transverses an extraordinarily diverse array of communities and neighbourhoods, it has become a metonym for a single project; the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. Like housing prices and the weather, the beleaguered transit line is both a reliable conversation starter and a surprising locus of civic solidarity.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Illustration by Inma Hortas As an illustration agent at Folio Art, James Hughes offers insights into the future of illustration amidst the rise of AI. With many artists concerned about AI taking over creative jobs, he explains why human creativity still has a unique place—and how illustrators can thrive in an evolving industry. One of the most common questions I hear from illustrators these days is: Will AI replace illustration?

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Speaker: Michele Berdinis

This session will answer business law questions that people are asking most during the pandemic. If my business can’t pay its bills, can my creditors come after my personal assets? Do I have to pay the rent on my co-working space or office? Can my clients cancel signed contracts? Can I cancel contracts for things I no longer need because my business has slowed down?

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