After getting his first commission for the New York Times in lockdown, photographer Justin J Wee has created a mix of editorial and commercial projects, including powerful documentary work addressing the impact of anti-Asian hate crimes in the US...
«El mejor diseño del año» es inclusivo, empático y respetuoso.
El FAD, junto con el Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, acaba de inaugurar la exposición anual «El mejor diseño del año», un recorrido por los mejores proyectos de diseño visual, de producto y espacial concebidos durante los últimos meses. En esta ocasión, se muestra una clara tendencia a lo social y lo esencial: vuelta al […] La entrada «El mejor...
El caso del cliente obsecuente – Norberto Chaves
La indefensión del cliente ante las marcas de los «líderes del branding». El programa de identificación corporativa de uno de los bancos que hemos asesorado incluía, como es de rigor, una serie de entrevistas en profundidad a fin de captar la indispensable información previa. En esa lista figuraba un cliente de nuestro cliente: una gran corporación del sector alimentación. La...
Comienza los Domestika Days: contenidos gratuitos y descuentos especiales para nuestra comunidad
Domestika, la plataforma educativa online para creativos más importante de la actualidad, pone en marcha un nueva edición de los ya famosos, Domestika Days. En este artículo os ofrecemos una lista con los mejores contenidos y las fechas que serán accesibles. ¡Disfrutad! La entrada Comienza los Domestika Days: contenidos gratuitos y descuentos especiales para nuestra comunidad apareció primero en Experimenta....
Cómo concienciar a través del humor: el caso de #MissionToUranus
La campaña utiliza un divertido juego de palabras en inglés para concienciar sobre el cáncer de colon. Fue todo un éxito en redes sociales y acaba de recibir dos galardones en el Festival El Sol. En publicidad, para que un mensaje llegue a su destinatario son muchos los recursos que se pueden utilizar. El humor […]...
2022 art and design degree show guide
After several years of disruption to live events, in-person degree shows are back in full force across the UK. For many universities and colleges, it is the first time they have been able to display graduating students’ work in a physical setting since 2019. We’ve assembled a guide to UK undergraduate shows taking place in the next few months, with...
Shine a Light: Exposure Sculpts Alphabets from Light and Shadow
Name: Exposure Designer: Federico Parra Barrios Foundry: 205TF Release Date: April 2022 Back Story: If you are not a recent addition to the graphic design field, you may remember your first internship at a New York City studio as a series of dreary winter afternoons spent laboriously typesetting one word at a time using an ancient phototypesetting machine. No need...
Identify as an artist to help your creativity thrive
‘Art’ is an evocative, emotive, subjective word. Debates have raged for centuries about what deserves to be called that: it may be up to the beholder to define beauty, but art doesn’t have to be beautiful. It must stimulate an emotional response; make you feel something. The boundaries between art and design are likewise open to some interpretation. In many...
Chidy Wayne on balancing commerce and art
The Barcelona-based imagemaker shares how he navigates the ‘boundaries’ of being a commercial illustrator and a fine artist – and his thoughts on the perceived divide between the two...
Veet turns its attention to men in comedic new ad
It’s hard to think of an elegant way to encourage men to remove the hair from their balls, but ad agency BETC appears to have found it, via its new ad for Veet Men. The star of the spot is a pair of floating balloon-like knackers which are shown delicately drifting around the world, experiencing new sensations at every turn....
Bark—Skin of Trees
Bark—Skin of Trees is a multisensory exhibition about the changeability of an apparently dead material. The characteristic Bark—Skin of Trees scales give evidence to the brisk cell production and show us a freeze frame of the constant change of a living being. This project combines the haptics of analogue bark exhibits with interactive real-time renderings via projection and in virtual...
MC1R, the design-led mag for redheads, launches new sunscreen
MC1R magazine inhabits a very specific niche: it’s a publication for, and largely about, redheads — its name refers to the melanocortin 1 hormone receptor, otherwise known as the ‘ginger gene’ mutation which causes red hair. Since it launched its first English language issue in 2015 (the magazine was created by editor Tristan Rodgers from Hamburg, who is a redhead...