DESIGN CHATTER
Test Your Branding Knowledge
Mar 27, 2019
You see these logos every day, and you read our blog, so you’re probably a graphic design whiz, right? Well, prove it! this quiz has slight inconsistencies in logo colors, and it’ up to you to find the correct answer! Be prepared, it’s much harder than it sounds!
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How a Famous Actor and a Rebrand Helped LGBTQ Homeless Youth
Mar 26, 2019
The Albert Kennedy Trust is a charity in the United Kingdom that helps fight LGBTQ youth homelessness. And when they needed a rebrand, a graphic design agency called Derek & Eric stepped in to do it — for free! Design publication has the scoop, including the new visuals that used the Pride flag as a predominant point of reference. Plus, find out how “Lord of the Rings” actor Ian McKellen lent his support to the charity!
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Moleskine of the Future
Mar 22, 2019
As designers, we need most of our doodles and drawings to become digital, at some point. There are many ways to go about this, but it often feels like we’re repeating our work, especially if we’re old school and love to draw initial ideas out in our trusty old Moleskine notebooks. Now, we can have the best of both worlds! Moleskine is introducing the ‘Paper Tablet’, a smart notebook with Adobe Creative Cloud integration, so your paper doodles come to life on your computer.
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Shamrocks and Chroma Key Green
Mar 20, 2019
Last weekend was St. Patrick’s Day, celebrated all across the US with fairly rowdy festivities. Chicago, a city with a traditionally large celebration, has a tradition of dying the Chicago River green to celebrate the saint. This year, however, some design-savvy creatives realized it was the perfect color for some green screen fun! They replaced the green river water with a variety of alternate “water”, from lava to the Avengers Endgame trailer. We love seeing creativity in the wild!
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Major Brand Logos Get Remixed for Big Design Anniversary
Mar 19, 2019
How familiar are you with Bauhaus? It’s a German art and design school that’s considered one of the most influential in history. So to mark the school’s centennial, an Australian freelancer platform asked graphic designers to reimagine the world’s biggest brand logos in the Bauhaus style. Using the Bauhaus aesthetic of “less is more,” the designers wowed us with their takes on the logos of Netflix, Apple, Ferrari and more. It’s a fitting tribute to an iconic graphic design school!
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Calling All UFOs
Mar 15, 2019
Well this is a new one…apparently, there aren’t enough exotic places on Earth to make tourism campaigns for anymore. The ad agency Weiden + Kennedy has teamed up with a Russian airline to make a series of “documentaries” to attract tourists…but with a twist: they want to attract extraterrestrial visitors to come to Earth. The series titled “Visit Earth” might claim to be “made for aliens,” but what it really is is a reminder to humankind that there is more to Planet Earth than meets the eye.
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