DESIGN CHATTER
Meet the Atlanta Designers Who Created the Coronavirus ‘Spiky Blob’
Nov 05, 2020
There are many images that help define the coronavirus pandemic, whether they’re tragic or hopeful. People in masks going about their daily lives, hospital scenes, delivery drivers dropping off food at someone’s door, frontline healthcare workers on a shift change, the Zoom call with its many boxes.
But one image defines the coronavirus more than anything, because it actually is the coronavirus. It’s what’s known as the “spiky blob” — a visualization of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
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A Typeface with Endless Options
Oct 30, 2020
You’ve probably heard the term “type family” before, but here is the first “type superfamily.” By the creator of Verdana, Georgia, and Tahoma, Role is an ambitious and international undertaking. Role has 200 (!) weights, and the most impressive part? It supports characters for 98 languages! If you’ve ever designed a website that has to be translatable, you know that finding the perfect typeface that supports multiple languages can be a struggle. This font is a graphic design game changer!
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Paper Opens a New World of Packaging Possibility
Oct 28, 2020
Check this out! Coca-Cola is leading the way in the next generation of sustainable packaging design. The bottles for their European arm are made from paper! Designed in conjunction with Paboco, who is also working on a paper bottle for Absolut, the bottle has a rigid paper outer section that is totally recyclable. Unfortunately, there is still a plastic liner inside the paper, but it is significantly less than the plastic required to make a plastic bottle.
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Animal Crossing Takes to the Polls
Oct 23, 2020
2020 has been a crazy, unbelievable year (like you, we can’t bring ourselves to say “unprecedented” one more time). Every single one of us has had to adapt to a new way of doing things, almost every day. The presidential campaign has been the same way. It’s not your grandma’s presidential race! The Biden campaign has had a brilliant, out-of-the-box idea to reach potential voters without reaching them physically: they’ve made an island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons!
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Adobe MAX Keynote Hypes New Ways to Practice Creativity
Oct 21, 2020
We’ve been hyping it up for months, and yesterday was the day! Adobe MAX is live and free for everyone! The three-day conference kicked off with a keynote yesterday, and the new features they introduced into their creative software made some of us here actually screech with excitement! They debuted new features and workflows across much of the Creative Cloud, but the Illustrator and Photoshop updates are so exciting for a graphic designer! BRB, we need to go buy an iPad Pro…
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Swat the Fly with Stick.se!
Oct 16, 2020
We love a cheeky ad campaign, this one does not disappoint! If you tuned in to the 2020 Vice Presidential Debate, you know that there was an unexpected 3rd party on the stage with the candidates: the fly. Of course, the internet immediately gravitated to this, and Stick.se, a Swedish pest company, got their marketing and design team on it quickly. Topical and timely references in design are certainly not evergreen, but they can be really impactful design choices while they’re relevant!
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