Jack McKeon’s portfolio is impressive in its breadth of media (packaging design, branding, illustration, animation) as well as its range of themes. At times, it’s commercially astute and slickly professional, at others, it’s using animation to explore ideas around community and societal division, or examining Irish cultural idiosyncrasies and the country’s deepening housing crisis. Source...
A soulful identity for furniture brand Symbol
Symbol is a hi-fi storage brand that creates home listening setups, specialist furniture and other storage solutions geared towards vinyl lovers. The brand’s mid-century modern design ethos has been carried over into the new visual identity created by Danny Miller’s Brooklyn-based creative studio High Tide, fresh from launching another period-inspired project for appliance manufacturer Airsign. Source...
Fockups: mockups que muestran cómo se ven los diseños en la vida real
Los mockups son una herramienta genial para mostrar a los clientes cómo quedarían los diseños de sus tarjetas de visita o sus folletos sin necesidad de imprimirlos. No obstante, hay veces que estas «maquetas» están creadas pensando en un mundo ideal y perfecto que (spoiler) en realidad no existe. Para acabar con esto, el diseñador y director de arte Wytze...
La columna de Joan Costa: Sobre la felicidad
Reconocer que hay ciencias “exactas” es asumir que también las hay “inexactas”. Son las ciencias de lo impreciso. Medir la subjetividad humana es una ilusión de la matemática estadística. Métricas, artefactos matemáticos, algebraicos y algoritmos… La entrada La columna de Joan Costa: Sobre la felicidad apareció primero en Experimenta....
El diseño no lo es todo si no hay un concepto detrás, por Chavo Roldán
El portfolio de Chavo Roldán está repleto de casos de éxito en disciplinas como el branding y el packaging. Os dejamos con algunos ejemplos de este habitual de los premios de la ADCV. Desde mis comienzos he trabajado en proyectos en los que me gusta crear ideas que hagan sentirse cómplices del diseño a quienes las interpretan.Creo que es imprescindible...
Espectaculares obras de arte 3D sobre cartografía de Viz Art
Las obras de arte 3D creadas por Viz Art, se basan en la realización de mapas a través de procesar y renderizar digitalmente el DEM (Digital Elevation Model) con el fin de crear una imagen de alta calidad impresa en papel fotográfico profesional. La clave para un efecto 3D son las sombras generadas por la iluminación y los relieves. Viz...
Playeras de astronautas que puedes descargar, personalizar e imprimir miles de veces
A continuación te voy a presentar una serie de playeras de astronautas, que puedes descargar, editar y personalizar para luego imprimir o estampar en serigrafía. Son recursos muy valiosos, sobre todo si tienes una tienda online o quieres abrir una. Todos los dueños de tiendas online se enfrentan en algún momento, lo quieran o no, a la falta de stock....
From Blue Note to Afrofuturism, Herbie Hancock’s Sleeve Designs Are as Adventurous as His Sounds
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock has been at the cutting edge of technology for many of his 82 years. Like his contemporary Stevie Wonder, he developed a taste for synthesizers and electronics long before they were widespread, and he has fearlessly explored new genres like hip hop, funk, and electronica since leaving the Miles Davis Quintet in 1968 to go solo. Born...
Bringing minimalism and modernism to games brands
Graphic designer Cory Schmitz is a distinctive voice in the games industry, turning his love of corporate logos into work for indie studios, major titles and tech companies. He discusses the ever-more sophisticated brand worlds of games and their makers...
Variable Color Fonts
Learn to make your own Variable Color Fonts in a couple of hours with Typearture. From the moment variable fonts were introduced (on September 14th, 2016), Dutch designers Jeroen Disch and Thomas Dahm were fascinated by this new technique. It gives type designers a lot of creative freedom, both in terms of new forms of expression and typographic sophistication. It...
Gradwatch 2022: Jeremiah Babatunde, Ravensbourne University
Jeremiah Babatunde graduated from the digital photography course at Ravensbourne University in London, where he learned the ins and outs of producing digital imagery and working in a studio. “When the pandemic came through it was hard at first because I was used to face-to-face learning,” he recalls. Logging into Zoom every day didn’t quite have the same effect, and...
Matthew Stone’s AI paintings reflect an art world in flux
“I personally think every artist has to just explore this technology, because it’s a paradigm shift,” says Matthew Stone of the proliferation of AI in an artistic context. Technology has long been woven into his practice, employed to create patchworked forms in his fantasy scenes, including the symbolism-rich artwork for FKA twigs’ sophomore album Magdalene. In his latest body of...









