The pandemic has accelerated a power shift in the fashion and advertising world, with models and influencers by necessity wielding more control over their own images during remote photo and video shoots. Modeling agencies are calling for companies to ship clothes directly to models, advertisers are crowd-sourcing video campaigns and...
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year, the Atlantic decided to recirculate King’s famous “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” which the magazine had run in its August 1963 issue and republished, in print and online, in 2018. Several hours later, the publication’s staff noticed that Google’s Ad Exchange platform, which...
By the year 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. That’s right. In just a few decades, plastic waste will be swimming in every corner of our planet, decimating entire fish species and ecosystems along the way. That’s why Goodby Silverstein & Partners teamed up with...
Burger King is celebrating Christmas in July because, like many of us, they have had enough of 2020 and wish the year would just be over by now. Let’s face it, 2020 has not been very kind so far. The Coronavirus pandemic has taken its toll on the world and...
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...
While it may have slipped the attention of many consumers, online businesses around the world were rocked by Apple’s June 2020 decision to make the IDFA fully opt-in. What does that mean exactly? Well, IDFA stands for Identifier for Advertisers, and it’s a protocol that creates an ID tag for...
Kanye West will soon unveil the newest iteration of Yeezy Supply, the website that features his collection of shoes, clothes, and accessories. When it debuts, you can expect a shopping experience unlike anything you’ve seen on the internet. You’ll be able to pick an outfit, then put it on a...
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,...
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...