I was driving today and I saw yet another forest being cleared for yet another housing development. We’re cutting down trees like we don’t need them to breathe. We’re putting money over the preservation of nature. If not for the sake of protecting the homes of other creatures that depend on wooded areas, at least do it to protect yourself in the long run. We’re in a losing fight with nature. The Earth doesn’t need us, we need it.
Human Forward
This site is a fun, interactive, animated story for in-house staff to experience “Human Forward” the new brand promise from Randstad. What’s fascinating, is that because it targets a specific demographic, the designers have been able to release a mobile-only experience.
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Bitmap Typographer
Bitmap Typographer is an minimal site that allows you to design your very own bitmap font. Click on the letter to be designed and click the pixels on the grid to design your own pixel-based alphabet. Once you’ve designed it, type with it to check it out.
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The Power of Questions
What're more valuable questions or answers? In this video, we show you how to respond to any question a client might have for you. By learning this one trick, you will be able to provide a lot more value to the client. You'll learn the power of questions, over answers.
Nicholas Feltron
The tenth and final Feltron Annual Report examines the state of state of self-tracking through widely available apps and devices. When the project began in 2005, the music-tracking website Last.fm was the only service capable of automatically capturing a category of personal data. Ten years later, listening habits can be augmented with persistent location data, categories and amounts of physical activity, sleep, weight, continuous heart-rate, blood-alcohol levels, driving habits and computer usage. This report attempts to merge all of this information in a format that reveals connections, provides context and suggests correlations.
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How To Get Work—Reach Out Ep. 18 w/ Keir McLaren
How to get meetings with people, be personable. Try calling them up on the phone in addition to email.
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Mind The Gap Podcast #WIP
Mind The Gap is a podcast centered around informed conversations on various topics. The key to understanding is communication.
Be mindful of the gap between us and keep an open mind.
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60 Photoshop shortcuts to speed up your workflow
The Most Important Design Skill For An AI-Dominated World
“Computers aren’t good at inclusion,” he says. “They’re good at exclusion, because they’re only based on past data. The business opportunity for the future-thinking designer is in inclusion.”
ABSTRACTION IS ESSENTIAL
“Symbols don’t make clear what you do; it makes it clear who you are. The less they say, the better. Over time it’s going to take on the characteristics [of the company], for good or for bad.” Ivan Chermayeff
The 10 Design Trends Of 2017 That Need To Die
“Without the budget or political support to create new public spaces in cities, it’s no surprise that corporations have stepped in,” she writes. “But the subtle shift in nomenclature matters. Stores will never be public spaces. They are regulated, surveilled, and designed by companies for specific purposes.”
How Muji, Japan’s Most Famous Anti-Brand, Plans To Win America
While physical retail is certainly changing due to Amazon and other forces, it’s not dead yet, according to my colleague Austin Carr’s recent story in Fast Company’s December/January 2018 issue. He visited a number of retailers that are flourishing in the “retail apocalypse” era and found that successful businesses today feature products that customers can’t get elsewhere–stores that offer satisfying experiences, challenge the fundamental assumptions of commerce, and resurrect the art of selling.
How to draw and paint - 100 pro tips and tutorials
Every month ImagineFX magazine is inundated with queries from digital artists looking for advice on specific problems they're having with their drawing and painting projects.
ImagineFX has a wealth of professionals on hand to answer those questions, provide tips on how to improve your drawing, and tutorials for those learning how to draw and paint. They'll even come to the aid of fellow pro artists who have become frustrated by a specific technique.
Here is a collection of those digital painting and drawing tips and tutorials, gathered together in one mammoth feature to help you improve your artwork. Most of the articles are Photoshop tutorials unless otherwise stated, but the tips apply to other photo editor applications, whatever software or hardware you're using – and some will even be of use to you if you're a traditional artist. Happy drawing!
This Startup Is Rebranding Penis Pills And Hair Loss Treatments For Millennials
Hims is the brainchild of Andrew Dudum, a partner at Atomic, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm backed by PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel. The company launched November 1 with its first fleet of products: affordable, direct-to-consumer hair-loss prevention shampoos, serums, vitamins, and pills. It bills itself as “the one-stop shop for trusted self-care solutions.” Today it debuted its next offering: treatments for erectile dysfunction. Eventually the lifestyle brand will expand into skincare, oral hygiene, and dietary supplements.
Anti-baldness medicine isn’t new. Penis pills aren’t new. Moisturizer isn’t new. But talking about them to men in a frank, conversational tone is. Packaging them in neutral-hued bottles is. Rebranding these touchy topics–typically associated with embarrassment and bruised egos–with a young voice is. These products are aimed squarely at insecurities men have grappled with for decades. But like many new wellness and cosmetic brands for women, Hims using design and branding to market to men in a new way–a kind of Goop for men.
Brand
A brand can be broken down into a few components:
The identity of the brand is expressed in its logo, typography, color palette, packaging, and retail environment.
The tone of the brand is expressed in the attitude of the copy, voice-over, or composition of the layout.
The values of the brand are expressed in the channels the brand's messaging is communicated in, the associations or partnerships it fosters, and the processes the brand uses to do business (think recycling for environmental values, or charities the brand donates to for social or cultural values).
Exert from 'Creative Strategy and the Business of Design' by Douglas Davis.
Biomimicry design, explained with 99% Invisible. Check them out here: 99pi.org Subscribe to our channel here: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Japan's Shinkansen doesn't look like your typical train. With its long and pointed nose, it can reach top speeds up to 150-200 miles per hour. It didn't always look like this.
The world is poorly designed. But copying nature helps.
This Incredibly Simple Packaging Idea Could Reduce Global Emissions
Look at any label on a household product, from laundry detergent to dish soap to shampoo, and you’ll see that most are 80% water. Across billions of units, shipped around the world, that adds up to a huge amount of extra weight–which means more packaging wasted, more fuel needed, and more pollution produced.
What if each product was distilled down to its non-water ingredients and sold as a solid? That’s the idea behind the designer Mirjam de Bruijn‘s project Twenty, a concept for packaging where these products are sold in solid form. Once you’ve bought your shampoo pellets, you simply put them in a reusable bottle, and add water...
Why I Give My Best Design Ideas Away for Free
How do you design for people who can't afford to hire you? This is the question that drove Ben Uyeda to develop a revolutionary digital media business model.
Ben Uyeda has made a decision to publish his designs openly on the internet instead of patenting them and turning them into products. In this assumption-shattering talk, Ben explains why he gives his best designs away for free, and is happy to see people “steal” his design ideas to make money themselves. Watch to learn how Ben has co-opted the capabilities of big companies as his supply chain, crowd-sourced his R& D, and built a profitable company while ONLY doing the kinds of work he loves.
Ben Uyeda is a co-founder of the award-winning architecture firm ZeroEnergy Design. His current design venture, Homemade Modern, has reached more than 12 million people and resulted in his designs being produced and enjoyed on 6 different continents. His goal is to produce designs that are "desirable to people who have lots of options, yet attainable by those who don’t”.
Stefan Sagmeister opens Instagram design clinic
That's right, one half of the legendary and occasionally naked New York-based design firm Sagmeister & Walsh, Stefan Sagmeister is inviting designers to send him their work with a view to it being shared with his hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers.