Inspiredology
AUGUST 20, 2018
Branding is a vital part of growing a business into a successful company, and logos remain at the heart. A powerful logo speaks to a brands products, services, mission, and goals, all in one aesthetic statement. “People are literally, physically interacting with those symbols in a way that they never did,” Michael Bierut, partner of design firm Pentagram told Fortune.
A List Apart
AUGUST 30, 2018
As Alexa, Cortana, Siri, and even customer support chat bots become the norm, we have to start carefully considering not only how our content looks but how it could sound. We can—and should—use HTML and ARIA to make our content structured, sensible, and most importantly, meaningful. Content, confined. Most bots and digital assistants work from specially-coded data sets, APIs, and models, but there are more than 4.5 billion pages of content on the web, trapped, in many cases, within our websites.
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Lisa Maltby
AUGUST 15, 2018
Chatsworth House have lots of great activities on over the summer. One of their activities for visitors this year is a virtual tour of Paxton's Great Conservatory which takes you back in time to when the conservatory was first built. In order to promote the event to visitors, they commissioned an illustrated bicycle box to be ridden around the grounds by a member of staff in appropriate attire!
Emmeline Illustration
AUGUST 2, 2018
You'll pretty much always find me with a sketchbook in my bag. I never know when I might get a flash of inspiration I need to note down, a tiny moment to sketch, or I get stuck at an airport for four hours waiting for a delayed flight (happened last week!). Mostly, I like to use my sketchbook as a way to record my travels and hone my memories of lovely places and moments I have experienced.
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
David Airey
AUGUST 26, 2018
What does it mean to be a designer in today's corporate-driven, over-branded global consumer culture? The following is an excerpt from the introduction to Steven Heller and Véronique Vienne’s Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility. So, what is the responsibility of a designer when the design is impeccable but the client is tainted? Being accountable to some moral standard is the key.
Marloes De Vries
AUGUST 21, 2018
A while ago I was invited by Museum Voorlinden to take a sneak peek at their new exhibition by grand artist Wayne Thiebaud (on show until September 16). “There will be cake,” they said. “Say no more,” I said, and I was on my way. Good thing to know is is that this museum is not as easily to get to by public transport as most museums.
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A List Apart
AUGUST 9, 2018
A note from the editors: We’re pleased to share an excerpt from Chapter 1 of Tim Brown’s Flexible Typesetting , from A Book Apart. Typesetting is the most important part of typography, because most text is meant to be read, and typesetting involves preparing text for reading. You’re already great at typesetting. Think about it. You choose good typefaces.
Lisa Maltby
AUGUST 13, 2018
Perfect Strangers is a business that helps professionals to find roommates and apartments in New York. Their brand identity needed a refresh to take them to the next level – they needed a brand that was simple, timeless and versatile in order for it to grow with the company. Trust is a big part of the company’s ethos - Perfect Strangers are reliable, authentic & professional and the brand had to reflect this.
Emmeline Illustration
AUGUST 2, 2018
Hey everyone! I'm really excited to finally share the new book I've illustrated - which is out right now! The No More Bullying Book For Kids is written by Vanessa Green Allen, and it was a joy to work with the team at Rockridge Press and Callisto Media to create the illustrations for this important (and charming) book. The book aims to help young people and their parents through the horrible experiences of a wide range of bullying.
Graphic Design USA
AUGUST 18, 2018
Conditions in the advertising industry are unsustainable for women trying to start a family and stay sane, says CCO Danielle Trivisonno Hawley.
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Brands must create and share impactful content to thrive, but they have less people, tighter budgets, and fewer resources to do so. Learn how to publish and market digital content with the same professionalism as organizations with million-dollar budgets.
Brand Struck
AUGUST 25, 2018
Category: FMCG Non-alcoholic beverages – juice & juice drinks Owner of the brand: PepsiCo Key competitors: Minute Maid, Innocent, Simply Orange, V8 Artyku? Tropicana pochodzi z serwisu BrandStruck.
Illustration Art
AUGUST 20, 2018
Here are three hilarious drawings. Each one employs simple lines to force us to reconsider the rules of the game: Lynda Barry Many years ago, Louis Magila snuck a little Theater of the Absurd into an unappreciative magazine for men Basil Wolverton When we look at these pictures, we start out processing them in our customary, linear way but quickly find our assumptions derailed.
A List Apart
AUGUST 16, 2018
My first contribution to Bootstrap was a tiny line of CSS. It was a no-brainer to merge, but the feeling of seeing that bit of code in the project’s codebase was unreal and addictive. You may think that open source is not for you. After all, it has always been a developer-dominant ecosystem. But code is by no means the only thing a piece of software is made of.
Lisa Maltby
AUGUST 6, 2018
I was commissioned to illustrate a car bonnet for the Bangers and Cash charity project, raising money for the Sheffield charity ‘Roundabout – a charity that helps young people to find their potential in life and gives them tools to better fulfil their dreams. See more work.
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Design Soak
AUGUST 3, 2018
Creating unique print marketing materials (like presentation folders) is tough, but you can stand out by showing off your skills to give your collateral fresh life. Cover designs can appear three dimensional with the use of different imprints or coatings, such as embossing or Spot UV.
crowdspring
AUGUST 27, 2018
Real estate signs say more about you and your business than they do about the properties they advertise. Whether you deal in residential or commercial real estate, your signs are ambassadors for your business – speaking for your brand when you’re not there to do it in person. So, it’s vital that you take charge of the message your signage communicates.
Brand Struck
AUGUST 21, 2018
Category: Media & entertainment – streaming services Owner of the brand: Hulu LLC (The Walt Disney Company 67%, Comcast 33%) Key competitors: Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube Artyku? Hulu pochodzi z serwisu BrandStruck.
Illustration Art
AUGUST 3, 2018
Compare these two illustrations of a swamp: John Cuneo's Donald Trump golfing in the swamp Jon McNaughton's Donald Trump and his cabinet "Crossing the Swamp." One is a simplistic cartoon for infantile minds. The other is a cover for the New Yorker. How do we evaluate which of these pictures is more "realistic"? There are several different varieties of realism in art.
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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.
A List Apart
AUGUST 23, 2018
As any developer who works with other developers can attest, if code is unclear, problems occur. In Part I of this series, I went over some principles to improve clarity in our code to prevent problems that can arise from unclear code. As our apps get larger, clarity becomes even more important, and we need to take extra care to ensure that our code is easy to read, understand, and modify or extend.
A List Apart
AUGUST 2, 2018
Variable scope has always been tricky in JavaScript, particularly when compared to more structured languages like C and Java. For years, there wasn’t much talk about it because we had few options for really changing it. But ECMAScript 6 introduced some new features to help give developers more control of variable scope. Browser support is pretty great and these features are ready to use for most developers today.
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