DESIGN CHATTER
Own a Piece of Twitter
Dec 16, 2022
If you’ve ever wanted to own a little bit of Twitter, well now is your chance. And Twitter has great taste! In furniture, at any rate. Elon Musk seems to be thinking he’ll completely refurnish the Twitter HQ to mark the new ownership, and that means everything that’s already in there has to go. The sale officially starts January 18, but you can go and check out the goods: Eames chairs, fancy espresso machine, even giant Twitter birds are all up for grabs.
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2023 Looks Bright and Colorful
Dec 14, 2022
It is somehow basically already 2023. While you take a minute to think on that, check out Adobe’s predictions for creative trends in 2023. Some, like nostalgia and retro heavy designs, are no surprise, those have been on the horizon for a while. Adobe predicts that coming out of the heavy pandemic years, design is going to take some dreamy departures from reality and push the envelope towards surrealism. Look for metaphysical and spiritual influences, and most of all: authenticity.
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Why Highlighting Employees in Your Communications Matters
Dec 14, 2022
Over the past few years, the relationship between employers and employees has been rocky. Seven out of ten employees want their companies to do more to engage and treat them fairly. They want to be seen as more than a number and be recognized as the unique, whole individuals they are.
Because of this, more and more workers are becoming disengaged. Each year, businesses lose trillions of dollars in productivity because of a lack of employee motivation.
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The Longest Ad for Long Covid Awareness
Dec 09, 2022
To the sufferers of Long Covid, the symptoms seem to stretch on interminably, and that’s exactly the feeling The Leith Agency tried to capture with their new campaign for CovidAid: the Longest Ad. The ad consists of an essay written by a Long Covid patient that details the struggles of her day, and it’s printed in a seriously long format to hammer the point home: it’s so long that the ad actually spills out onto the pavement.
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Test Your Web Design Chops
Dec 07, 2022
Think you’re a web design whiz? Kapwing is here with a quiz that may make you feel a little bit inadequate. Semblance: A Frontend Design Quiz checks easy things like if you can pick Helvetica out of a crowd, but it’ll also take a sharp turn and see if you can identify how many pixels a corner is rounded by, and eyeballing aspect ratios. They also take it up another level with different colors that can mess with your perception for each answer choice,
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17 Tips to Create an Impressive Corporate PowerPoint Presentation (2022 Update)
Dec 06, 2022
It’s go time. You’re trying to convince your boss, CEO, or even an investor to believe in your ideas and show them how serious you are. PowerPoint is still the industry standard for presentation design for most organizations.
Since many of these decks are created internally, naturally, people want them to look both gorgeous and ensure the person on the other side understands the content displayed.
We’ve updated our previous recommendations to include new ways to design presentations that will help you create one heck of a deck.
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