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UX design
fromWE AND THE COLOR
1 day ago

Can AI Search Read Your Design? The New Invisible SEO

AI search engines cannot interpret visual design, making brands with only aesthetic appeal effectively invisible online.
Social media marketing
fromForbes
21 hours ago

The LinkedIn Features That Grow Your Brand (And One That Doesn't)

LinkedIn is crucial for personal branding, and clarity in profiles is essential for making a memorable impression.
#graphic-design
Graphic design
fromPRINT Magazine
6 days ago

James Junk is the Voice Design Needs Now - PRINT Magazine

Andrei James Dominiq, a graphic designer, found his creative voice during COVID, transforming personal reflections into impactful visual designs.
Graphic design
fromPRINT Magazine
6 days ago

James Junk is the Voice Design Needs Now - PRINT Magazine

Andrei James Dominiq, a graphic designer, found his creative voice during COVID, transforming personal reflections into impactful visual designs.
#design
Web design
fromLukew
3 days ago

LukeW | Should Designers

Designers should code, and AI coding agents are bridging the gap between design and development.
Design
fromDesign Milk
4 days ago

An Argument for Interior Design with Neuroaesthetics in Mind

Interior design should prioritize functional aesthetics to enhance mental health, creativity, and interpersonal connections through a new field called Neuroarchitecture.
Law
fromAmericanbar
4 days ago

What to Keep in Mind When Designing Your Law Firm's Website

Law firm websites establish credibility, generate business, enhance client service, and improve AI visibility.
Marketing
fromForbes
6 days ago

Sonic Branding: The Most Underused Asset In Marketing

Sonic branding is a powerful yet underutilized tool in marketing that enhances brand recognition and recall.
#photography
Online marketing
fromWhat's Trending
3 weeks ago

Marketing Tips for Photographers: Building a Profitable and Recognizable Brand

Strategic marketing, branding, and high-quality visuals are essential for photographers to succeed in a competitive market.
Photography
fromThe Phoblographer
5 days ago

The C-Word That Every Photographer Should Hate

Photographers should reject the term 'creator' as it undermines the artistic value of photography and conflates it with commercial content.
Online marketing
fromWhat's Trending
3 weeks ago

Marketing Tips for Photographers: Building a Profitable and Recognizable Brand

Strategic marketing, branding, and high-quality visuals are essential for photographers to succeed in a competitive market.
UX design
fromMedium
1 hour ago

Most products don't need tone of voice - they need a point

Focus on practical content that aids user tasks rather than on tone or personality.
fromDesign Milk
6 days ago

TSATSAS Unveils a New Hue for the 931 Bag by Dieter Rams

I designed this bag in the same way I designed everything else, so largely based on right angles, but perhaps a little more emotionally, more personally. Designing a handbag is undoubtedly different to designing a Braun stereo system, but I applied the same principles. It had to be functional, visually durable, and very aesthetic. Less, but better.
Fashion & style
Careers
fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

The identity crisis hiding inside every promotion - Silicon Canals

Promotions can lead to an identity crisis, as individuals often feel they must abandon their previous roles and skills.
fromPetaPixel
6 days ago

The Secrets Behind a Successful Photography Business

Running a photography business can be incredible fun, offering unique experiences and opportunities to meet diverse people. However, it requires significant dedication and effort, often demanding extra hours beyond a typical workweek.
Photography
#branding
fromFortune
1 week ago
Marketing

The corporate 'storyteller' is marketing's newest messiah-and just as hollow as every buzzword before it | Fortune

fromItsnicethat
4 days ago
Graphic design

Blurr Bureau gives us a lesson in how to brand something that's been around forever: Apples

Web design
fromMajic 102.3
5 days ago

How speed is redefining modern branding in today's world

Speed is essential for branding; fast-loading websites enhance professionalism and improve search rankings.
fromInman
2 weeks ago
Marketing

Is your brand message clear? A 30-minute audit to find out

Brand clarity is essential for real estate agents to differentiate themselves and effectively communicate their unique strengths to clients.
Marketing
fromFortune
1 week ago

The corporate 'storyteller' is marketing's newest messiah-and just as hollow as every buzzword before it | Fortune

The Storyteller has emerged as a new branding concept, embodying wisdom and insight into the human condition amidst consumer distrust.
fromItsnicethat
4 days ago
Graphic design

Blurr Bureau gives us a lesson in how to brand something that's been around forever: Apples

Web design
fromMajic 102.3
5 days ago

How speed is redefining modern branding in today's world

Speed is essential for branding; fast-loading websites enhance professionalism and improve search rankings.
Marketing
fromInman
2 weeks ago

Is your brand message clear? A 30-minute audit to find out

Brand clarity is essential for real estate agents to differentiate themselves and effectively communicate their unique strengths to clients.
UX design
fromFast Company
6 days ago

Design has been solving the wrong problem

Design should prioritize real-life usability over aesthetic appeal to enhance long-term satisfaction with products.
Graphic design
fromBusiness Matters
5 days ago

How Aleksandr Loginov Is Redefining Design in the Age of AI

Recent design tools enable precise control, shifting designers' roles towards systems architecture and usability in creative production.
Marketing
fromThedrum
2 weeks ago

The 10 Tenets of Brand Control

Effective Brand Control simplifies marketing efforts and enhances brand consistency, providing significant benefits beyond mere compliance.
Growth hacking
fromEntrepreneur
3 weeks ago

This One Skill Separates Forgettable Startups From Iconic Brands

Storytelling converts data into belief, fundamentally driving investor decisions, customer loyalty, and business growth across all operations.
Graphic design
fromThe Verge
1 week ago

Really, you made this without AI? Prove it

Labeling human-made content is essential as AI-generated works proliferate, creating confusion and skepticism among audiences.
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
3 weeks ago

a rich palette of saturated hues meet industrial precision in mara's renewed digital identity

Mara enters 2026 as a global interior design protagonist, expanding from office and hospitality into residential markets while strengthening its digital identity and sustainability commitment.
Media industry
fromPR Daily
4 weeks ago

Corporate jargon refuses to die. Here are the latest offenders. - PR Daily

Corporate jargon persists across decades, with outdated buzzwords like 'leverage' and 'bandwidth' coexisting alongside newer terms like 'decisioning' and 'pivoting' that obscure rather than clarify business communication.
#brand-identity
Marketing tech
fromBusiness Matters
1 month ago

Building a Tech Powerhouse: Why Branding Matters More Than Ever in a Crowded Market

Strong brand identity and consistent messaging outperform feature-based competition in crowded tech markets, requiring strategic positioning beyond product development.
fromEntrepreneur
4 weeks ago
Marketing

The Shortcut to Building Real Brand Recognition

Strong brands emerge from consistent reinforcement of a unified point of view across layout, language, imagery, and experience at every touchpoint, not from loudness or volume.
Marketing tech
fromBusiness Matters
1 month ago

Building a Tech Powerhouse: Why Branding Matters More Than Ever in a Crowded Market

Strong brand identity and consistent messaging outperform feature-based competition in crowded tech markets, requiring strategic positioning beyond product development.
Marketing
fromEntrepreneur
4 weeks ago

The Shortcut to Building Real Brand Recognition

Strong brands emerge from consistent reinforcement of a unified point of view across layout, language, imagery, and experience at every touchpoint, not from loudness or volume.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
1 week ago

Oilinwater approaches branding like an investigator, to build visual systems from rigorous research

Oilinwater, founded by Matthieu Gorissen, is a creative studio in Brussels specializing in branding and graphic design, with a unique backstory and projects.
Typography
fromItsnicethat
3 weeks ago

Eleanor Yang merges the synthetic and organic to make typography you can touch

Synthetic Nature presents three typefaces—DNA, Mesh, and Data—that metaphorically represent life through biological, network, and computational structures, exploring how biology, computation, and culture merge.
Podcast
fromLennysnewsletter
1 month ago

This week on How I AI: Mastering Midjourney: How to create consistent, beautiful brand imagery without complex prompts

Jamey Gannon demonstrates a systematic workflow for generating consistent, high-quality brand imagery in Midjourney using mood boards, style references, and personalization codes rather than lengthy text prompts.
Graphic design
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Film's Most Iconic Logo: An Accidental, but Roaring Success

Creative accomplishments often arise from improvisation and context rather than intelligent design by gifted individuals.
Design
fromThedrum
4 weeks ago

Admind's Employer Branding Campaign

Admind Branding & Communications launched a creative recruitment campaign using Polish illustrators to design posters reflecting company values, resulting in increased website traffic, social media followers, and successful hiring of talented designers.
fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

Why some brands are choosing slower, more expensive growth on purpose

"Instead of starting with a product that we didn't feel like existed in the marketplace, we started with a mission that we felt like didn't exist, particularly in the beauty space," Cohen said. "We love that young people are turning to brands for not just products, but for the issues that they care about-and also that's what holds us accountable."
Marketing
Cars
fromLmnt
1 month ago

Have We Forgotten How to Design?

Waymo's partnership with DoorDash to manually close passenger car doors reveals a fundamental oversight in autonomous vehicle design, despite the availability of proven automated door technology.
fromLos Angeles Times
33 years ago

Rod's Building a New Image

Stewart had put the home, which he had owned since 1975, on the market at $14.5 million just before his December, 1990, wedding to New Zealand-born model Rachel Hunter. At the time, his publicist said that Stewart wanted to move because "he's starting a new life."
LA real estate
Graphic design
fromTech Times
2 weeks ago

How to Use Canva Templates for Social Media & Graphic Design Like a Pro

Canva enables anyone to create professional visuals easily with templates and drag-and-drop editing.
Fashion & style
fromThe Globe and Mail
1 month ago

The business of colour analysis is booming - again

Colour analysis, a 1980s trend, has resurged as a popular service where experts determine whether individuals are Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall based on skin, hair, and eye undertones to guide personal styling choices.
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

A first look at the vibrant branding for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics

"The superbloom concept became a framework for this design language, providing a vibrant color scheme as well as the visual form of flower petals to guide the graphic treatment."
Graphic design
fromFast Company
1 month ago

The Getty's new logo is a blocky tribute to its vast collections

We needed a visual identity that was uniquely Getty and distinct enough to unify how we show up globally. This system gives Getty one clear, ownable expression in support of the work we do around the world.
Typography
Graphic design
fromwww.itsnicethat.com
3 weeks ago

Jas Bell on crafting a visual solar system for SZA

Iconic album covers become cultural time stamps that resonate by translating artistic vision into physical design through thoughtful execution of silhouette, texture, and graphic language.
Marketing
fromMarTech
1 month ago

Brands that win are clearer, not louder | MarTech

Poorly constructed marketing signals communicate desperation rather than intended messages, undermining credibility and brand perception.
UX design
fromFast Company
1 month ago

5 design principles to feel fully alive

Meaningful life emerges through daily design practices and experiences rather than one-time discovery, with aliveness and human potential exceeding what any single lifetime can express.
Typography
fromMedium
1 month ago

How Monotype turns selling fonts into daylight robbery

Singapore replaced the superior Gotham font with the inferior Metropolis font in their 60th anniversary logo, raising questions about font licensing and corporate practices.
fromwww.bbc.com
3 weeks ago

Race on to establish globally recognised 'AI-free' logo

AI is creating significant disruption and competing definitions of what is 'human made' are confusing consumers. A universal definition is essential to build trust, clarification and confidence. Without standardization, consumers face confusion distinguishing between genuinely human-made products and those using AI, undermining the credibility of the entire certification movement.
Graphic design
UX design
fromFast Company
1 month ago

Why using 'UX/UI' in your job title is destroying your professional brand

Ambiguous design job titles like 'UX/UI Designer' erode role clarity, authority, and organizational credibility across industries, particularly as AI reshapes design's strategic importance.
fromMedium
2 months ago

Designing useful ads

We've both fought against needless promotional content before and lamented that frontier AI platforms are falling into the same pattern. As designers and users, we've learned that "free" usually means putting up with interruptive, slightly creepy ads that feel more like a tax than a benefit - a frustration tax that now colors how we approach free‑tier services and now AI tools.
Artificial intelligence
fromVogue
1 month ago

How a New Generation of Designers Are Promoting, and Protecting, Their Names

What if I took my design lens and built out my essentials capsule for the Everlane customer? I felt like that would be a really amazing opportunity for me to introduce myself as a designer to an audience outside of EB Denim.
Fashion & style
Intellectual property law
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

Do brands own the copyright on AI-generated ads?

AI-generated brand imagery may lack copyright protection when created with minimal human input, creating legal uncertainty over ownership for marketers.
Wellness
fromFast Company
2 months ago

What is 'brand well-being?' And can it give you a competitive advantage?

Brand well-being is a leadership-driven, holistic framework prioritizing employee, culture, and consumer wellness to build resilient, trusted, and durable brand growth.
Business
fromBusiness Matters
1 month ago

Development of the "Creative Hub" Model as a Factor of Sustainable Development and the Enhancement of Ethical Standards in the International Tattoo Business

Creative hub model supports sustainable development in the tattoo business by fostering professionalization, artist growth, brand-building, ethical standards, and commercial success.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Strategy comes before style: Take a look at the branding work of creative group NA1

NA1 operates as a multidisciplinary collective prioritizing strategic brand building and authentic visual storytelling over fixed house styles, tailoring each project's approach to the client's core DNA.
fromForbes
1 month ago

Stop Softening Your Story: Why Specificity Is The Key To Global Brand Relevance

There is a persistent anxiety in brand storytelling that runs beneath the surface of nearly every conversation about reaching international audiences: that the closer a story is to its origin, the less likely it is to find purchase somewhere else. This assumption is responsible for many an organization filing down its content's edges in pursuit of a universal appeal that, paradoxically, renders it all the less memorable.
Marketing
Graphic design
fromMedium
1 month ago

Design is not just how it works. Design is how it wins.

AI commodifies work, shifting design's mandate from functional excellence to competitive winning as the primary objective.
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Open-source your knowledge: DixonBaxi on rethinking how branding agencies should work

DixonBaxi takes creative sabbaticals to help designers connect with each other, recognizing that meaningful collaboration and relationship-building are essential components of a thriving creative environment and sustained innovation within the agency.
Design
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

BBH's rebrand, typeface and "zag" glyphs convey its ethos through design

From day one, this felt like a true collaboration. Together we set out to build a contemporary British grotesque that respected BBH's heritage while giving it room to push forward.
Typography
Graphic design
fromFast Company
1 month ago

How Penguin Random House set its penguin logo free

Penguin Random House UK launched 'Playful Penguins,' hand-drawn illustrations showing the penguin in dynamic poses, expanding the brand beyond its static logo while maintaining the iconic orange oval as the core mark.
Photography
fromEntrepreneur
1 month ago

Upgrade Your Brand Images with This Easy-to-Use AI Editing Tool

Luminar Neo enables businesses to produce high-quality, consistent visuals quickly using AI-driven editing, presets, and integrations to improve brand credibility and streamline creative workflows.
Design
fromBusiness Matters
1 month ago

How Visual Consistency Creates Brand Trust in Digital Spaces

Consistent visual presentation across digital platforms builds recognition, reduces cognitive load, and increases perceived trustworthiness and professionalism, supporting long-term business growth.
Fashion & style
fromThe Drum
1 month ago

C&A selects KesselsKramer to manage creative strategy for its upcoming European brand communications

C&A appointed KesselsKramer to lead strategic and creative development of its brand communications, with the first multi‑channel campaign launching this autumn.
Typography
fromI Love Typography Ltd
1 month ago

Event Feature: Type Drives Commerce - I Love Typography Ltd

Typography functions as a strategic business asset shaping brand perception, accessibility, user experience, emotional connection, and market authority.
Design
fromCreative Boom
2 months ago

Why brand consistency matters more than ever, and how Obello can help agencies achieve it

Obello encodes brand rules into design tools so designers create templates while AI automates repetitive production, preserving quality and brand consistency at scale.
Typography
fromSFGATE
2 months ago

The long, unresolved debate over one of San Francisco's most recognizable logos

Thrasher's logo, designed by Kevin Thatcher in 1980, became a globally recognized cultural symbol, crossing skate subculture into mainstream fashion.
#rebranding
UX design
fromMedium
1 month ago

Designers, we should be killing it right now

Excessive prototyping and vague 'taste' undermine designers' authority, failing to convince executives or secure investment despite rapid AI-driven change.
fromMedium
2 months ago

The dilemma of agency in design

What design programs rarely prepare students for is how little agency designers often have once they enter professional practice. And this challenge doesn't disappear with experience. When my co-author and I toured our book Designing Tomorrow, the most common question we heard was not what designers should do differently - but how to drive positive change in the face of resistance.
Design
Marketing
fromThe Drum
1 month ago

7 brilliant examples of how brands are using illustrations in their marketing

Illustrative graphics simplify information, guide attention, convey brand personality, and boost engagement across ads, websites, and social channels.
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

How sign painting underpins Sean Thomas' approach to bespoke branding projects

If you're based in London, you've probably walked past one of Sean Thomas' meticulously hand-painted designs. Whether that was grabbing a sandwich at Dom's Subs, dining in at Forza Win (an Italian restaurant in Peckham that the designer has shaped the visual identity of over the last three years), or picking up a copy of Hoxton Mini Press' new book on Britain's best bakeries at your local bookshop.
Typography
Design
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Adobe's Creative Collective assembles multidisciplinary experts to analyse and advise on the industry's big changes

The Creative Collective convenes creatives to explore AI, provide practical support, events, and published digests that promote responsible and expressive creative practice.
Marketing
fromWE AND THE COLOR
2 months ago

Branding Mistakes in Design: 10 Critical Errors & Strategic Fixes

Strategic brand architecture, not visual aesthetics alone, determines client perception and business outcomes for design professionals.
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Who Owns This Book? The guide for every designer's worst nightmare: copyright

"There's a tension in the design of the book that I was exploring, between making it feel super contemporary and colorful, and leaning into more traditional aesthetics of archives and historical content. I wanted to honor both," says Michele. "Copyright law can also be kind of intimidating, so I wanted to use the design of the book to make the content more approachable and engaging."
Typography
fromI Love Typography Ltd
5 months ago

ILT Blog Redesign - I Love Typography Ltd

The main problem with the existing homepage was that, besides the most recent posts, other content, once it aged and 'fell off' the front page, was then difficult to discover. The new design makes more use of available screen 'real estate', is visually much richer, and reorganizes 18 years of posts, so that even older long-forgotten posts are more easily found.
Marketing
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

Stretching the creative canvas: Why marketers need to let go of the brand strategy helm

Brand purpose succeeds when the CEO drives it, the entire company acts as the creative canvas, and processes are reorganized to embed purpose across decisions.
fromTechzine Global
2 months ago

Professional print materials for European tech events, why booth design still makes the difference

When you participate in a major tech event, you naturally want to stand out. Print materials can ensure making a professional first impression. In this article we look at how you ensure that your tech company's exhibition stand definitely stands out. Even if you participate in 2026 at the Web Summit in Portugal, the London Tech Week, TechEx Europe in the RAI Amsterdam or FOSDEM in our own country (Brussels). Which HelloPrint print materials are suitable for dressing up a booth?
Marketing
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

This archival book celebrates the bygone eras of the humble crisp packet

Helping people to reconnect with old memories, viewers are transported to their local corner shop, school playgrounds and childhood cupboards. "I think this project has struck a chord because there's a particular interest in hand drawn designs of the past in the current age of AI where human effort is at an all-time low. Now the first thought is 'I'll get AI to do that', rather than commissioning an illustrator," says Chris.
Graphic design
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Why you should treat your brand as an operating system

For much of the modern corporate era, brand has been treated as surface area. A story told outward. A set of signals designed to persuade, attract, and differentiate. When companies spoke about brand, they were usually talking about perception: how they looked in the market, how they sounded, how they were received. That framing made sense in a world where markets moved a little more slowly, organizations were stable, and leadership could afford to separate strategy from culture, product from meaning, execution from belief.
Marketing
Graphic design
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

This Artist Perfectly Reimagines City Logos in Retro 80s Style

Kostya Petrenko reimagines famous city logos in a 1984-inspired aesthetic using neon palettes, bold geometry, heavy gradients and CRT-style looping animations.
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

How are agencies making their creative and strategic awards work in their favor?

Winning a prestigious award, such as our recent Gold at The Drum Awards for PR in the Entertainment category, is always a proud moment for us as an agency. It validates our expertise, builds credibility, and sets us apart in a competitive market. We leverage awards as a key part of our marketing and business strategy in various ways. Sharing the win with clients reinforces their choice to work with us - after all, everyone wants to partner with a winner!
Marketing
Marketing
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

Why brand building is brain training for your customers

Balancing short-term performance marketing 'sugar hits' with long-term emotional brand building drives sustainable brand growth and increases share of mind.
Marketing
fromForbes
2 months ago

The ROI Of Color: How Pantone Predicts Global Trends And Shapes Consumer Behavior

Color drives consumer decisions rapidly: within 90 seconds, color alone influences 90% of buying decisions and shapes brand equity, strategy, and psychology.
Marketing
fromwww.thedrum.com
2 months ago

The pitch process is broken. Brands should know the value of ideas

Agencies must prioritize chemistry-based selection, demand equitable, budget-backed pitching processes, and stop wasting resources on unpaid or unused creative pitches.
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