DESIGN CHATTER
Ferrari Turns 75
Jan 06, 2022
Happy 75th to Ferrari! And what milestone year would be complete without a commemorative logo? Founded in 1947, the automaker is celebrating a big anniversary in 2022, and the logo isn’t just a logo: it incorporates hand-selected personality from workers in their Maranello auto factory. The workers assembled thousands of pieces into a mosaic to celebrate the milestone, which is now on display at the automaker’s HQ. The logo incorporates many of the elements from the mosaic,
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Best Practices for Keeping Your Intranet Design Assets Organized
Jan 04, 2022
It might seem like your company’s internal creative assets aren’t that important. But they are. And when your team doesn’t know how to use them, or there’s a communication breakdown, it’s reflected in your internal communications.
Let’s go through our recommendations and best practices for creating intranet assets and keeping your team organized.
Use Up-to-date Collaboration Tools
Many companies still use outdated technology for their intranet or to store their assets.
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5 Solutions for the Top Internal Communications Design Problems
Dec 19, 2021
Not having your company’s imagery, logos, and other assets locked down leads to disjointed communications. But we’re here to help and break down some of the most common issues companies run into with using their brand’s assets internally. Plus, we’ll give you a few tips on how internal communications teams can save themselves headaches in the future.
Too Many Barriers
Protecting your company’s sensitive information and maintaining its security is important.
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New From Google: Fonts Knowledge
Dec 17, 2021
As if the free, high quality and web friendly offerings of Google Fonts wasn’t quite awesome enough, check out Google Fonts Knowledge! This collection of original guides and teaching materials help graphic designers of all skill levels learn how to pair fonts, and why some pairings work and some really don’t. Typography instructors from all over the world contributed to the curriculum, and the offerings there today are just the tip of the iceberg, there’s a lot more high-quality educational font-tastic items on their way,
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Adobe and Pantone Call It Quits
Dec 15, 2021
THIS is huge news: Adobe is planning to drop the Pantone Color System from Adobe Creative Cloud. Yes, you read that correctly. While Adobe says an “alternative solution to minimize the impact of the change” is on the way, the details around what that solution could be are not available yet. Converting digital art color to Pantone is an essential graphic design process, especially if you send anything that needs color-perfect reproduction in physical applications, like print or embroidery.
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Holidays at the White House
Dec 10, 2021
The holidays are upon us, and understandably, a lot of us still aren’t particularly gung-ho about traveling right now. So take a virtual trip to see the White House holiday decorations with Google Street View! First Lady Jill Biden tweeted out a link to the collaboration with the tech giant that allows everyday Americans to see the glorious decorations that not many outside the White House get to see, especially now with tours of the premises being paused.
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