DESIGN CHATTER
How This Design Campaign is Changing Women’s Soccer
Nov 01, 2018
We love when graphic design inspires real-world results, and design studio Nomad is doing just that with a recent campaign. The Football Association hired Nomad to help rebrand its women’s soccer leagues to get more people (and in particular, girls) to watch and participate in “the beautiful game.” A goal was to double attendance figures to its Women’s Super League games by 2020.
“We wanted to create something that didn’t look like a traditional football or sports brand,
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Even Horror Characters Need Graphic Design
Oct 31, 2018
Happy Halloween! British design studio Dorothy went above and beyond the usual office costumes by designing business cards for your favorite characters from creepy films. Can you tell which movie is which? Some are tricky!
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Exploring the Beauty of Subway Maps in 3D
Oct 30, 2018
You’ve seen a map of subway stations (or if you’re Atlanta-based like KEYLAY, MARTA stations), right? It’s a bunch of flat lines showing where each line and station is in relation to the other. Pretty simple stuff. Architect Candy Chan argues that those stations are also places, and that’s partly why she drew 3-D representations of New York City’s upside down. It also served a practical purpose — after eight years in NYC, she kept getting lost.
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“How To Be Creative” from the Freakonomics Podcast
Oct 26, 2018
The Freakonomics Radio podcast features weekly episodes exploring the “hidden side” of…just about everything! The podcast recently launched a brand new series called “How To Be Creative”, where the host, Stephen J. Dubner, speaks to artists, inventors, researchers, and innovators who essentially live and breathe creativity every day. This first installment of the series features Pentagram graphic designer Michael Beirut, who discusses his definition and pursuit of creativity. Check it out!
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Design > Marketing? Maybe!
Oct 24, 2018
IKEA’s former Head of Design, Marcus Engman, has a bold new philosophy: design can replace marketing. His new venture, Skewed Productions, has a goal of removing the need for marketing through an emphasis on quality of design, and hammering home the added benefits of using funds that would have gone to marketing efforts to improve individual products and brands as a form of marketing themselves. We are anxious to see the results as he puts this into action!
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Six Simple Activities to Fuel Your Graphic Design
Oct 23, 2018
It’s the simple things. That’s what we thought about when reading this Design Observer article about product designer Emily Campbell’s book “A Few Minutes of Design: 52 Activities to Spark Your Creativity.” In one activity, you’re shown three items and you have to decide which one is the odd one out, and give a thoughtful reason as to why. In another, a wildly designed chair is shown and you are asked to draw each of the flat pieces you think are contained within it.
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