Graphic Design & Branding Design :
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Yuschav Arly’s Beautiful Portraits Illustrations
Yuschav Arly is a self-taught illustrator based in Bali, Indonesia. Most of her works are personal work, simply for learning and killing her time so someday she hopes she cans live as a professional illustrator.
Irregular Folks
Irregular Folks are an Oxford based promotion company. Folk means people, people doing something different, and thinking independently. Irregular Folks is about programming great, unique music and sometimes other art forms that will open eyes and ears. Monchu, a design and communications agency specialising in brand and digital from Oxford, UK, worked with Irregular Folks to develop a brand which reflects this grass-roots passion, irregular…
5 Very Useful Podcasts About Design, Branding And Creative Business You Should Listen To
[01.] Design Matters With Debbie Millman Design Matters with Debbie Millman is a thought-provoking internet podcast, which profiles industry-leading graphic designers, change agents, artists, writers and educators. In 2005, Debbie Millman started a little radio show called Design Matters. She often says that Design Matters began with an idea and a telephone line. After an…
Pretty Much Everything : A Must Have Book!
Esquire. Ford Motors. Burton Snowboards. The Obama Administration. While all of these brands are vastly different, they share at least one thing in common: a teeny, little bit of Aaron James Draplin. Draplin is one of the new school of influential graphic designers who combine the power of design, social media, entrepreneurship, and DIY aesthetic…
Spilt Milk Visual Identity
Here you are the visual Identity and printed collateral for Melbourne based Interior Design team, Spilt Milk. This identity earned Confetti Studio a fine dining experience under the roof of the Parliament house as a finalist in the Australian Premier’s Good Design Awards. This branding is not reliant on just one logo but instead a range of interchangeable…
A New Type of Imprint: Welcome to Sweden
A New Type of Imprint is a magazine on creative culture and design, published quarterly by the norwegian agency ANTI. For the eleventh issue they approached Amanda Berglund and Erik Kirtley, both involved in Amanda & Erik, a swedish design and illustration studio, to design a chapter dedicated entirely to Swedish designers and creatives. Amanda &…
MIT Media Lab Visual Identity
Pentagram has designed a new visual identity for MIT Media Lab, the innovative, interdisciplinary research laboratory at MIT. The design began with designer Richard The’s 25th anniversary logo for the Media Lab, which was based on a seven-by-seven grid. Using that same grid, the Pentagram team generated a simple ‘ML’ monogram to serve as the logo…
2017 AIGA Design Conference to focus on community, connection, and career journey
AIGA, the professional association for design, will hold the annual AIGA Design Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 12–14, 2017. The AIGA Design Conference, named one of “the world’s best design events” by Quartz, is committed to connecting and advancing designers at every stage of their career. This year’s conference theme “community, connection, and career journey” will bring together…
Case Study: Bulb Branding
The energy market is full of faceless corporations that put profits before people. The branding agency Ragged Edge helped create a brand to disrupt the ‘big six’ though a clear purpose: to make renewable energy simple and affordable. A brand full of Positive Energy. Ragged Edge delivered: Brand strategy, naming, visual identity and brand guidelines. The brief…
Case Study: The Market Line Identity Branding
Prove the Authenticity of a New Place Delancey Street Associates had a bold vision for the former SPURA site in the heart of the Lower East Side (LES). 10 buildings, 1.9 million square feet of residential, commercial, and retail space. It’s main artery was a new marketplace: The Market Line. The brand needed to prove…
New York Women’s Surf Film Festival Branding
The 5th Annual New York Women’s Surf Film Festival, a project created by Lava Girl Surf, celebrates the filmmakers and female wave riders who live to surf, highlighting their sense of adventure, connection to the ocean and love for their own communities and those they discover. The branding design for the 5th annual film festival was influenced by…
Steven Noble’s Conceptual Illustrations Collection
The Conceptual Illustrations is a small collection that includes illustrations originally rendered and conceived by Steven Noble for various clients for primarily editorial use on web, print, collateral and various banners. The illustrations were hand rendered with a X-Acto knife tool on scratchboard by hand and supplied digitally.
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