Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
«Our ability to create and innovate as designers always surprises me: How many visual stories can we tell with merely type and forms? Recently, two trends have caught my attention. They are the usage of geometric shapes and using typography as a texture. While the first method is straightforward, the latter usually involves using bold Sans Serif typefaces that anchor...
A’Design Award & Competition, one of the World’s largest and most diffused international design awards announced results of the 2021-2022 design competition: 2,022 Winners from 114 countries in 110 different design disciplines. Entries were carefully evaluated by an internationally influential jury panel composed of established scholars, prominent press members, creative design professionals and experienced entrepreneurs who devoted great care and...
Regularity and consistency are crucial factors for any pattern design. Our world is filled with all kinds of patterns: you can find them in Nature, including symmetries, trees and other structures with a fractal dimension, spirals, meanders, waves, foams, tilings, cracks and stripes....
Welcoming all varieties of design! The competition includes four main categories: Product Design, Communication Design, Spatial Design, and Integration Design, and subdivide into nearly 50 sections. Submission deadline is 7 JUL 2022! The countdown to the 2022 Golden Pin Design Award deadline has begun, with less than one week left! The Award is a golden opportunity for companies, design teams,...
“In a campaign the posters are part of a wider system in which communication works by providing a consistent series of messages. When we design only one, it has the entire responsibility of creating an impact by conveying a bold message to reach the target effectively.”...
“When creating a series of posters, it is important to consider the overall style and message of the series. It should fully reflect the concept laid down at the beginning of the design. Also, the techniques taken as a basis should go through the entire series of posters. When creating just one poster, you can unleash your creativity and not...
What differences have you found between designing posters as part of a campaign and designing one on its own? “A very clear difference… I believe they are opposites. Designing a poster as part of a campaign depends on other people, on customers with different ideas and tastes, which often do not align with my vision. Every day is a challenge....
“When designing a poster for a commercial campaign, many people have an influence on the final shape of the work, so the end result is always a form of compromise. When I design a poster only for myself (or a private commission), I have full control over the creative process from start to finish.”...
The A’Design Award and Competition is for designers, innovators and companies that want to highlight themselves to attract the attention of media, publishers and buyers. It has up to 100 categories and it is for creative of all types with awards ranging from Good Industrial Design Award, Good Architecture Design Award to Good Product Design Award, Good Communication Design Award...
What differences have you found between designing posters as part of a campaign and designing one on its own? “The main difference is that the first one contains visual decisions that affect other touchpoints of a campaign. In our practice, the poster turns into a kind of battlefield, where we test our ideas, so it’s often a starting point for...
“A good poster has to serve three purposes: to have a good read (both from near and far), not to expire (to endure and remain good for many years), and to communicate with few elements. Beyond containing different elements such as typography, illustration or photography, one of them should always predominate.”...
“Designing campaign posters is like writing essays on given topics, because they both serve set themes. As a result, the whole creative process needs to be crafted around the topics. However, individual posters are more expressions of personal consciousness. My personal works are a repository of inspiration, expressing my ideas and outlook, and inspiring the creation of the campaign posters.”...
