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Gradwatch 2022: Jack McKeon, Limerick School of Art and Design

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...