DESIGN CHATTER
Can You Taste Graphic Design?
Jun 07, 2024
Design can evoke many things: feelings, memories, movement, and textures. But can it evoke taste? This article from It’s Nice That is on a mission to find out! With a highlight on how visual elements like color, texture, and composition can create a multi-sensory experience, it asks the question: why not taste? This concept, used often in food branding and packaging, aims to enhance customer engagement…and increase purchasing. Ultimately, the article encourages designers to think beyond the visual impact and consider how their work can trigger other senses,
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An Interview With Atlanta’s Own Greg Mike
Jun 05, 2024
Greg Mike, a household name of Atlanta street art, is best known for his brightly colored, abstracted murals and signature “Loudmouf” icon. His mantra is “Live Life Loud”, and that is very apparent in his work, which often incorporates pop culture references, like cartoon characters. Ranging from large-scale street art to intimate gallery pieces, his work aims to infuse urban environments with color and joy, and if you’ve ever seen one pop up on a wall as you drive through Atlanta,
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The Most Mispronounced Brands From Every Country
May 31, 2024
Kodak. Ikea. Sony. Some brand names are just easy to say! Others…not so much. Take Toca Boca (an online children’s game), for instance. “We wanted a name that was fun to say, easy to say, and that would work in many different countries,” said Toca Boca CEO Bjorn Jeffery. The name’s appeal can’t be denied, with the kids’ apps and games downloaded over 849 million times in 215 countries. The success of brands like Toca Boca and SpongeBob SquarePants underscores how the sonic qualities of a name can be as impactful as its meaning.
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Canva Goes Big For Enterprises!
May 29, 2024
Canva is charting a bold new vision with its latest redesign, unveiled recently at the Canva Create Event, and inching them closer to being a real contender to compete with graphic design software staple and juggernaut Adobe. Over ten years of work has gone into this overhaul, with the centerpiece being a revamped editing experience featuring a new toolbar and enhanced AI tools (AI is everywhere these days!) You can also customize your homepage screen, which is a great upgrade from the existing one,
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You Can Judge These Books By Their Covers: The 2024 Penguin Cover Design Award Shortlist
May 24, 2024
We all like to think we don’t judge books by their covers, but let’s be honest, those covers do catch our eye, especially when you’re a designer! Penguin Books is leaning into this inevitability with their Cover Design Awards. Since it began in 2022, the competition has invited creatives to reimagine covers for popular Penguin book titles, and this year, the selections were “Atomic Habits” by James Clear, “Daisy Jones and the Six” by Taylor Jenkins Reid,
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The History of the ADIDAS Logos
May 22, 2024
Adolf Dassler, the German (West German at the time) sportsman and inventor of ADIDAS, was a visionary in the world of athletic footwear. Starting with simple sneakers in 1920, Dassler founded ‘Adi Dassler addas Sportschuhfabrik’ (say that three times fast) in 1949, which later became ‘adidas’ due to a trademark conflict, and introduced the iconic three-stripe mark. Turns out, the “All Day I Dream About Soccer” acronym rumor that went around when we were in school is totally false!
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