Creative Live

JUNE 12, 2018

In his class Create a Knockout Design Portfolio , award-winning designer and art director Ram Castillo unveiled crucial design principles that should be factored into every design you make. Here, in Ram’s words, are the first three: 1. Relevance. Do not be led by aesthetics. I’ll say it again. Do not be led by aesthetics. Be led by relevance.

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The Book Design Blog

JUNE 11, 2018

How clever is this awesome, anarchic book design for REVOLT? Designed by Paul Bedford , its a great example of how a clever cover can really take a book to a new level. That spine design is so simple but so clever. Loving it!

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Enviromeant

JUNE 14, 2018

Frost Collective designed the new experiential graphics for NUBO, a brand that has developed a new concept in children’s play centers, enabling self-learning through connection and play. Collaborating with NUBO and architects Joey Ho and Patrick Leung from PAL Design Architects, Frost Collective created a brand to express an engaging play experience that helps children and families explore, connect, and learn.

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A List Apart

JUNE 14, 2018

It started off as an honest problem with a brilliant solution. As the ways we use the web continue to grow and evolve, we, as its well-intentioned makers and stewards, needed something better than making simple collections of pages over and over again. Design patterns, component libraries, or even style guides have become the norm for organizations big and small.

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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

Graphic Design

Graphic Springs

JUNE 12, 2018

Berlin, Germany June 11, 2018 - Design and branding team at, GraphicSprings.com, produced a ranking which compares the top airlines worldwide with the aim to discover which has the best branding appeal and desirability. With their finger on the pulse of logo design all over the world, GraphicSprings conducted a poll of 24 thousand people in 68 countries who flew in the past 24 months, examining how people feel about airlines they may have never flown on, by just by looking at the logo and name o

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Illustration Art

JUNE 14, 2018

In his essay, How Flowers Changed the World , famed anthropologist Loren Eisley described the first coming of flowers, 100 million years ago: Once upon a time there were no flowers at all. only the cold dark monotonous green of a world whose plant life possessed no other color. Alice Hargrave Somewhere, just a short time before the close of the age of reptiles, there occurred a soundless violent explosion.

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