Ozymandias. What are the most often heard of excuses companies use to avoid progress? This list will help you and your team advocate towards a culture that values keeping a competitive edge within the market… before it is too late.
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When you think of color, you probably think of something like this: A digital-color picker, as obscene and overwhelming as an all-you-can-eat buffet. As with all readily available commodities, nowadays colors are easy to take for granted. But this wasn’t always the case. Before the 20th Century, color was anything but accessible. To anyone.
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How do you prove the value of creativity to people who “just don’t get it”? This is one of those complicated questions that sooner or later a creative who’s been promoted needs to answer. Unfortunately, there’s no silver bullet for get designers to get a seat at the table, but there are several tactics you can use to get your new teammates to see things your way.
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This book is born out of explorations with the 4 most basic shapes in the world of design using Blurb's BookWright tool. These are inspired in the powerful design movements and styles of the 20th Century. Aside from having fun, the purpose behind this body of work is to showcase the versatility of these forms. These 4 shapes, when combined, are truly greater than the sum of their parts.
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I know, yet another design trends articles. You might say these trends are old, so why are they trends? Well, that’s an interesting question you might already have an answer to. Trends come and go with time. So if you are an early adopter, or old enough, chances are you’ll see your old project come back to life (over and over again). A great friend of mine once said: Trendy/Cool is how long it takes for connected brain synapses that make up an unexercised memory to die.
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