Month: June 2021
Why Aren’t More People Paying Attention to Podcast Cover Design?
Artwork for Pushkin Industries, designed by John Custer. “There’s low bets, high reward within the world of podcasts.” For Khoi Uong, creative director at Studio Rodrigo, whose clients include Radiotopia and PBS’s Frontline, podcast cover …
How brands and photography are expanding sport
On 27 May this year, director Kim Gehrig won a prestigious D&AD Black Pencil for her work, which includes commercials such as Sport England’s This Girl Can (2014), Libresse’s Viva la Vulva (2018), and Nike’s …
The New York Times has rebranded its R&D department, with a generative logo reflecting its experimental nature
This move comes as the latest step forward in R&D’s growing innovation at The New York Times. R&D is known for developing tools and capabilities which enhance and refine reporters’ ability to gather and deliver …
36 Days of Type by Rafael Serra
Typography Mania #293 Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around once a week with the best of Typography design submitted by our users at typography-mania.com, from type videos to images everything is …
Inside the weird and wonderful comics of Alison Zai
The process of creating these short yet impactful comics and illustrations proves to be a tried-and-tested method for Alison. “I always envision the entire scenario in my mind before drawing,” she explains. “I then create …
How to make a thrilling sports promo
We recommend activating Javascript in your browser. “The amount of times we’ve pitched David Mitchell to do this for real,” laughs Simon Cole, lead creative on sports promos at Sky Creative. While football might get …
Why and how you should keep learning throughout your creative career
Dom Davenport, founder and CEO of Created started the company in January 2018 because he “wanted to create a new take on educating creative people, one that embraced a holistic approach to the development of …
Ontological Design Has Become Influential In Design Academia – But What Is It?
Illustration by Beatrice Sala. Complicating matters is the fact that we are firmly lodged in this loop before we have even developed any awareness of it, if we ever do. Just as we have no …
Why mentoring’s for life (not just for uni)
Creative Insight Mentoring is a powerful tool throughout your career, says Katie Cadwell, a designer at DesignStudio in Sydney. Here she talks about how you can get it started, and what makes for the most …