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April 25, 2022 at 12:00 AM

DALL·E 2 and The Origin of Vibe Shifts

By Means of Natural Selection

every.to

March 17, 2022 at 12:00 AM

Blue people and long limbs: How one illustration style took over the corporate world | Webflow Blog

Corporate Memphis seems to be everywhere nowadays, but where did it come from? And how did it get to be so popular? We explore.

webflow.com

March 17, 2022 at 12:00 AM

Marvel’s Comic Book Logos Break All the Design Rules, But That’s Part of Their Charm

My attraction to graphic design started with comic books covers. Like a lot of artistic comic nerds, my pre-teen friends and I would painstakingly redraw our favorite panels from Iron Man; while they drew characters and scenes, I was the guy drawing Iron Man’s shiny, machined logo—rivets and all. I

eyeondesign.aiga.org

February 22, 2022 at 12:00 AM

The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency

Jobfished: the con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency

Dozens of young people were tricked into thinking they were working for a glamorous UK design agency - which didn’t really exist.

bbc.com

December 24, 2021 at 12:00 AM

(mac)OStalgia

A project by Michael Feeney, Art Director for Product Design.

swallowmygraphicdesign.com

December 8, 2021 at 12:00 AM

Bold colorful text ‘REBUILD’ with overlapping shapes on a black background, titled ‘The State of UX in 2022’ in the top left corner.

2022 – UX Trends

The past two years have felt like two decades — and the pandemic isn’t over yet. From rethinking remote work policies to acknowledging the unintended impact of the products we build, designers in 2022 have a unique opportunity to rebuild our practice with a new perspective, incorporating all we’ve learned since the start of the pandemic. Since we began publishing this yearly report seven years ago, we have challenged ourselves to discuss the design industry beyond visual and tech trends, taking an honest look at the things we need to improve as a field. After curating and sharing articles daily with more than 450k designers around the world, this year we wanted to focus on possibilities. This is the moment to recalibrate and reimagine what it means to be a designer, to design, and to be part of a design community.

trends.uxdesign.cc

September 30, 2021 at 12:00 AM

5 Big Ideas From the 2021 AIGA Design Conference

After living through 18 months of an ongoing pandemic, our social and professional interactions have significantly changed since “The Before Times.” For many of us it’s been a period of isolation that has forced us to learn how to find social connection within virtual spaces or shift to remote work

eyeondesign.aiga.org

September 30, 2021 at 12:00 AM

Grid of 12 motivational posters with startup and design quotes such as ‘Always deliver more than expected,’ ‘Get shit done,’ and ‘Done is better than perfect.

Blog :: The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex :: Behance

Blog :: Don’t fall into the trap of being an expert before you’re ready. We have enough of those.\n\n

99u.adobe.com

September 23, 2021 at 12:00 AM

Death threats, misinformation, and racism in Silicon Valley: Meet the designer shaping the future of Twitter

At few companies are the stakes of design as high as they are at Twitter.

fastcompany.com

September 17, 2021 at 12:00 AM

IBM Perfected the Art of the Anti-corporate Corporate Poster

During the mid-twentieth century, perhaps no other American company exemplified technological achievement, business acumen, and good design better than IBM. Major advancements in data processing and mainframe computing brought forth an unprecedented investment in R&D within the company that prov

eyeondesign.aiga.org

September 17, 2021 at 12:00 AM

Spotify’s Failed #SquadGoals

“The Spotify model” got a bunch of companies talking like Taylor Swift about startup culture, but four former Spotify employees reveal the truth: its eponymous way of working failed before it scaled.

jeremiahlee.com

September 13, 2021 at 12:00 AM

Milton Glaser’s iconic 9/11 poster is now helping New Yorkers emerge from the pandemic

Previously unpublished sketches hint at the legendary graphic designer's thought process immediately after the atrocity in his hometown.

qz.com

August 11, 2021 at 12:00 AM

Celebrating the legacy of Kamekura Yusaku’s iconic Tokyo 1964 Olympics identity

The 1964 Summer Games were seminal in cementing Japan’s post-war identity and the design of everything from pictograms to posters to uniforms – a modernist vision championed by Kamekura – played a massive role in making such a remarkable event.

itsnicethat.com

June 10, 2021 at 12:00 AM

Are Mockup Designers the Most Influential Designers of Our Era?

When trying to understand how cities work – how they develop over time and how their social lives have come into existence – urbanists often look at infrastructure. Looking closely at the roads, railways, sewers, electricity lines and rivers that run through a place can often uncover some essential

eyeondesign.aiga.org

May 22, 2021 at 12:00 AM

Analysis | Apple and the End of the Car as We Know It — The Wall Street Journal

As cars become computers with wheels, Apple is joining other tech companies in eyeing the $5 trillion auto market

apple.news

March 4, 2021 at 12:00 AM

Neville Brody on Navigating the Shifting Identity of Graphic Design

Neville Brody is a journalist’s dream. He has a well-honed knack for wryly provocative, headline-ready takes on the design industry that others would take hours to delineate. As one of the best-known graphic designer since the 1980s, he’s adept at this sort of thing. Even those who haven’t heard h

eyeondesign.aiga.org

January 9, 2021 at 12:00 AM

A Trump Ban Is Easy. Fixing Facebook and Twitter Will Be Hard

Plus: Dorsey in the Trump administration's early days, how to define privacy, and chaos in the Capitol.

wired.com

December 27, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Is Social Media Good For Anything At All?

Tech oracle Jaron Lanier saw the evils of social media platforms before anyone else. Now he talks about whether Twitter activism really works, how to fix Facebook, and why he won't be joining Silicon Valley's overlords in New Zealand.

gq.com

December 23, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Review of the Year 2020: Top 25 Graphic Design

We take a look at the most popular graphic design articles of the last year, from industry icons to the discipline’s most recent graduates.

itsnicethat.com

December 22, 2020 at 12:00 AM

The Queen’s Gambit

Designer Saskia Marka and physicist-turned-animator Dave Whyte discuss their work for Netflix hit The Queens Gambit

artofthetitle.com

December 15, 2020 at 12:00 AM

2019 Design Tools Survey

See the most popular tools used by over 3,000 designers based on this annual survey.

uxtools.co

December 12, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Intel Not Inside: How Mobile Chips Overtook the Semiconductor Giant

Intel Corp., once the dominant designer and manufacturer of microchips at the core of nearly all personal and cloud computing, has for years been losing ground to competitors. Hardly a ragtag bunch, the opposition now includes trillion-dollar companies alongside countless startups, and it’s well on its way to wrecking Intel’s hegemony.

wsj.com

December 10, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Joe Biden’s Branding Was Both Traditional and Trippy, and It Looks Like the Future of Politics

When Democrat Jon Ossoff’s U.S. Senate race in Georgia was forced into a runoff, his campaign changed up its social media strategy. Throughout the campaign, Ossoff’s Instagram account posted screenshots of his tweets set against a dark navy background, but a few weeks after Election Day, the screens

eyeondesign.aiga.org

December 1, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Some design principles are universal

When I started in UX design, I often wondered how seemingly even decent designers knew the reasoning and techniques behind good design…

uxdesign.cc

December 1, 2020 at 12:00 AM

The Rotting of the Republican Mind

When one party becomes detached from reality.

nytimes.com