When Mara Lecocq, creative powerhouse and current brand director at professional networking app Fishbowl, was a design student, she would buy one $50 art book to serve as her guide and inspiration for the entire year. That world is no more. The explosion of visual expression on social and digital...
The greatest artistic fame might be the kind where few people know your name but everyone knows your work, because it feels as inevitable to the everyday culture as fire or the wheel. The fact that one person had to invent it from nothing gets forgotten, or overlooked, as the...
In animated movies, hundreds, sometimes thousands, of pieces of illustrative and typographic design are generated to create a believable and rich world. The graphic designers’ main role is to support and advance the storytelling while adding beauty, humor, texture, and a sense of time and place. Collectively, designers Laura Meyer,...
Inspired by a child’s handwriting, the cursive logo has been masterminded by Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele and has received a mixed reaction from fans. Gucci has revealed a new logo inspired by children’s handwriting. Led by Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele, the new temporary logo was first revealed earlier...
Early in his episode of the Netflix series about design, Jonathan Hoefler describes the act of type design as a sleight of hand. It’s the job of typographers like himself, he explains, to pay attention to the details that no else notices or knows to care about. There are all...
The Olympics is a place where dreams come true — including for designers, who create everything from the logos to the tickets, the mascots to medals for every Games. To finish all of the Olympics collateral in time, the Olympic design committee outsources the different jobs to various local firms....
Here is an opportunity to look at the behind-the-scenes graphic design work for the movie Beauty and the Beast; a closer look at their countdown social campaign before the release. I like the choice of the font throughout this whole campaign although not used everywhere. You will notice there is...
ON-TYPE: Texts on Typography, on view at the Bauhaus Archive from May 8 to August 5, 2013, is an interactive exhibition conveying milestones from the history of typography over more than 100 years. The exhibition will offer a multisensory experience of the way in which one font is never equivalent to another....
Communication Arts magazine has revealed the winners of its 20th annual Interactive competition.
RC Cars of Boston just moved into a new retail store conveniently located at 471 Eastern Avenue Malden, MA 02180. I was provided the unique task of developing and designing their identity including logo, stationery, advertising, outdoor signage, etc. All the deliverables included creative direction, copywriting, art direction and design....