“Crafting collages is consistently intricate and time- consuming. Frequently, the most formidable aspect lies in the pursuit of originality, weaving together diverse techniques and styles in a captivating dance of creativity. Despite these challenges, the results of mixed-media designs and collage or montage artworks can be incredibly rewarding, offering unique and engaging visual experiences that push artistic boundaries and encourage...
Hiiibrand Awards 2023 — Open for Entries — Nanjing, China
Hiiibrand Awards aims to promote the communication and development of brand and communication design fields by globally collecting and selecting excellent brand practices and design strength. The Hiiibrand Awards are divided into Brand Awards and Design Awards. The Brand Awards commend companies and organizations that have achieved outstanding achievements in brand strategy, positioning, communication, visual image, etc., and the Design...
Nata Romankova — Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
“Creativity is always a way of playing with the boundaries you are given. To create something innovative, you have to discover the boundaries (some of which may exist in your head only) and somehow get around them without breaking them. If the boundaries are too loose, you may feel the fear of the white paper. If the boundaries are too...
Oscar Rodríguez — Mexico City, Mexico
“I like to think of collage as the place where everything can happen and everything is allowed. Take off the weight of what you expect and enjoy the accident as an image-builder agent.”...
IdN v29n1: Mixed Media Issue — Collages & Montages
The word collage can be traced back to 200BC, deriving from the French word “coller”, meaning to glue or to stick together. Unfortunately, when this technique was first introduced to the world, it didn’t get the attention it deserved until the 10th century in Japan when calligraphers began to apply glued paper, using texts on surfaces, when writing their poems....
A’Design Award and Competition 2024 — Architecture, Building & Structure Design Winners — Italy
A’ Design Award & Competition is the world’s leading international annual juried competition for design. The A’ Design Accolades are organized in a wide range of creative fields to highlight the very best designers from all countries in all disciplines. Organized under various categories based on Locarno classification of economic sectors and industries — the A’ Architecture, Building and Structure...
The Hood — Can Güven — Istanbul, Turkey
“A good brand identity should reflect the brand’s values most accurately and communicate with its target audience memorably and simply by utilising the possibilities of many different elements, such as colour, typography, communication language, and visual use. A good business card should also leave an effective mark by using the advantages of printing in the best way, in line with...
Lukas Diemling — Graz, Austria
What do you see are the benefits of keeping a company’s identity and business cards in physical form? “Even if all electricity is shut down or the internet switched off, you can touch it. And it gains character through time. We still love books or package design done 100 years ago, but nobody talks about a website done 10 years...
Elizaveta Isaeva — London, UK
Elizaveta is “incredibly happy to have finally found something I want and like to do”....
StudioPros Design — Yi Hsuan Li — Taipei, Taiwan
Yi Hsuan has worked in an IBM consulting team and focused on a user-experience approach to create different designs....
Fishsaut — Taichung, Taiwan
“We still prefer physical things, because we can directly feel and touch them. Let consumers come into contact with more aspects, and use all their five senses (touch, hearing, sight, smell and taste). Retaining the feel and processing of paper conveys more emotional ‘temperature’, which is different from the digital feeling.”...
Yen Chieh Chen — Taichung City, Taiwan
“A good physical business card can leave an impression on people, including touch and interactivity. It is irreplaceable.”...