DESIGN CHATTER
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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KIA’s New Logo Leaves Car Buyers Bewildered
Dec 02, 2022
Your logo is the centerpiece of your brand, so it’s incredibly important that it clearly expresses what, exactly, your brand is. KIA seems to have missed that memo with their newest redesign. The heavily stylized “KIA” looks very much like a K and a backwards N, and car shoppers are turning to Google to ask “what is the KN car?” With over 30,000 Google searches for some permutation of “KN cr”, that’s a lot of people left confused over their brand!
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Pantone Sneaks the Colors of Love into Qatar
Dec 01, 2022
If you’ve watched any coverage of the 2022 World Cup, held in Qatar this year, you’ve surely seen the pretty strict requirements the country is imposing on the spectators and players. FIFA and the host country of Qatar gave assurances that the rainbow flag would be allowed at all World Cup events, but it seems that’s not the case in actuality: several Wales fans had their rainbow hats confiscated before they were allowed to enter a stadium for a match,
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Iceland: Better Than Space?
Nov 25, 2022
If you’ve ever been to Iceland, you know the landscape seems otherworldly. The tourism board of Iceland, Visit Iceland, is taking that sentiment and running with it in a very clever campaign that advertises the amazing sights and scenes you can experience in Iceland. “Iceland. Better Than Space” is the message on their billboard…but there’s a twist: this billboard is in space! For a fraction of the cost, Iceland promises an out of this world experience,
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Take an AI-Powered Trip Through Time
Nov 23, 2022
Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong time? Well, MyHeritage, who brought you the AI-powered animation of old family photos we wrote about ahile back, is back with another AI tool: upload a couple reference selfies, and it will create a historical portrait of you through the ages! The tool is called AI Time Machine, and it’s pretty incredible. The really cool part is that the photos are based on historically-accurate paintings and photos,
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