Specialized Design Tools for 2019
Harry Ferguson
As a result, along with the larger corporate-backed applications, we have a huge host of small tools and libraries, each designed to solve a particular problem or preserve a certain set of possibilities. A couple of these projects have become institutions: Modernizr, keeping the technical …
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. –Steve Jobs”
- Kasahara May
Foundation 3 – the Truly Great Move
Responsive design seems to have gone from zero to about a thousand miles an hour in no time flat. And things are still changing fast enough that small development shops are hard-pushed to stay up to date, let alone conduct their own R&D. That’s where Foundation …
Creativity Boosting App is Here
You’d think by now that the concept of the code editor would be pretty mature. There’s so many out there and they’re all so similar it’s easy to imagine that the final blueprint has been found. Brackets show that even at this level there’s plenty of possibilities …
D&AD Festival 2019’s Brand Identity
The three-day design festival’s campaign for this year has been designed by Village Green and focuses on an eclectic range of colourful shapes rather than the pencil icon best associated with the D&AD Awards. We’re on a mission to build a better future where technology …
Slack’s Most Famous Rebranding Campaign
The collaborative working tool, used by employees to chat and share projects, has a new “simplified” logo with a smaller color palette, that does away with the brand’s characteristic slanted hashtag symbol. It’s through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad …
Designers’ Identities & Social Unconscious Bias
Creative jobs website and networking platform The Dots has launched the “bias blocker”, a new browsing mode that stops employers being able to see candidates’ photos, names, education and employment history, on the basis that they should be judged on the “quality of their work” …
New Dubai Nike Shop Redesign
A new Nike store has launched at the Dubai Mall in Dubai, centered around the concept of using Arabic script to convey Nike’s brand motto throughout the store design. Get rid of everything that is not essential to making a point. – Christoph Niemann Mohamed …
Investment for City Image Enhancement
The Core Innovation Hub is a new fund that will see technology such as virtual reality and drones used to change how homes, hospitals and schools are designed and built. Design can be art. Design can be simple. That’s why it’s so complicated. –Paul Rand …
Design Festival Offset Dublin in 2019
The three-day, Ireland-based conference is now in its 10th year, and will feature a line-up of political illustrators, graphic designers, advertising agencies and film directors. The role of the designer is that of a good, thoughtful host anticipating the needs of his guests. –Charles Eames …
