Have you ever wished your Pinterest board was more than a visual inspiration and more of a real world one? Well, if you’re lucky enough to live in London, you can check out the Possibility Place, a Pinterest pop up experience! (Say that 3 times fast…) The Possibility Place will consist of a corner store, beauty bar, and home improvement store all in one place, the most common Pinterest inspirations! There will be hands-on workshops offered, from cocktails or food prep to nail art, and home projects. Really, if you’ve saved it, someone there can teach you how to do it in real life. No more Pinterest fails!
Have you wanted to try your hand at Generative AI images, but the pay-to-play model of the big names has held you back? Knowing how to phrase text to get the best AI image result is going to be a foundational skill for designers in the future, so here are 12 very different AI image generators to play with, and they’re all free! The tools are a little more limited in the free versions, but each tool generates very different results for the same phrases, and it can be a great stepping stone to figuring out what all the fuss is about.
“Customer Journey” is a little bit of a buzzword lately, and if you do any kind of design that has customers interact with it (like web design!), you know that the user experience (UX) of your site is crucial to make sure goals are hit. Indeed is here with a little bit of a customer UX exploration through a lens that sounds way more fun than buzzwords: a waterpark! Author Marty Merida goes over some UX best practice tips by giving examples of how they worked in the real world at a recent visit to a waterpark.
Attention! We have a new favorite Instagram account! Brand What Ifs is an account that imagines brands if they made something they aren’t known for. Hermes Villas, Nintendo Playgrounds, and La Croix Popsicles are some great standouts. These fictional imaginings are such a great way to explore branding when it’s truly outside of the normal box. It doesn’t hurt that the brains behind the project, Deane Cruz, is a great designer to boot!
How different is it to make brands in the real world, vs the brands you see in film and television? Actually, not all that much! Just like how brands in real life have a story to tell, brands in entertainment media contribute to the story being told there. Think of the fictional brands that are part of our every day lexicon: Duff Beer, Dunder Mifflin, and Waystar Royco. Turns out, fictional brands need just as much consideration as real brands, if not more! We live our lives surrounded by branding, and to make a convincing world to allow us to suspend our disbelief requires some aspects borrowed from real life, and brands are a no–brainer to bring in! Graphic design has a unique purpose to help solidify world building and tell a better and more realistic story!
Choosing fonts for a project is foundational graphic design work. Sometimes you luck out and it just flows, but other times, you have to be more discerning and go further down the font rabbit hole to find the best pairings for your project’s goals. With the rise of AI coming for everyone’s jobs, betterwebtype.com wanted to test and see if AI could pick better font pairings than a human. Their results: humans win…for now!
