#graphic-design

#graphic-design

Dezeen has launched a digital guide to NYCxDesign festival, which outlines the key events taking place in New York City from 18 to 25 May 2023.Events include exhibitions, talks, open showrooms and studios, markets, installations and tours, as well as one of the festival's largest events, The International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), which partners with WantedDesign.

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There's nothing like a good logo design controversy to excite the internet, and Xbox dropped a stunner this week when it appeared to set fire to its Pride Month logo, turning it into a burning inferno.Cue headlines like 'Xbox changes Pride logo to burning fires of hell'.Did Xbox really want to suggest that members of the LGBTQ community are going to hell?

Shameik Moore plays the voice of Spider-Man in "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse."(Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation) StarOutline (3 stars) Say this much for "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse": It's a lot of movie.When " Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse " opened in 2018, it felt like a bolt of something genuinely new, its dazzling animation breathing new life into a mini Marvel franchise that was verging on exhaustion and its protagonist, a Brooklyn teenager named Miles Morales (voice of Shameik Moore) taking suave ownership of the iconic title character for a new generation.

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As brands evolve and change over the years, it's only natural that their logos do too.A good logo is pivotal to making sure a brand is recognisable, but does newer necessarily mean better?The below Twitter thread takes a look at old vs new logos, and it's clear not everyone is a fan of the modern direction some companies are taking when it comes to redesigning their look.

I save a bunch of things each month that I find inspiring for some reason, and I like organized lists, so I figured I'll share those lists and maybe help someone out of a creative block.But more importantly, I am trying to push an old idea that inspiration is everywhere if you look with the right mindset.

The last time the Writers Guild of America went on strike, in 2007, workers pushed back against the nascent streaming industry, advocating for higher residual payments for content released over streaming.Now a new technology, artificial intelligence, stands to drastically change Hollywood again as Guild strikers return to the picket line.

Andrei Dominiq, AKA James Junk, is a talented graphic designer based in Southern California.With a speciality in vintage poster design, creative direction and video storytelling, Andrei's work is exclusively digital - he's all about saving paper, ink and electricity.​​As Andrei tells us, "I love the vintage look, but hell no I'm not printing and scanning and wasting when I can achieve it all with a few clicks."

Dezeen Showroom: designed by Italian architect Piero Lissoni, Lualdi's L7 Plus door system presents a minimalist room dividing solution that also makes an impact with its graphic design.Designed by Lissoni in 2018, the L7 Plus door system is an extension of the L7 family, which is characterised by the visual lightness of its glass panels and aluminium frames.

The Affinity 2 creative suite of apps, that include Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, and Affinity Publisher, have just received a surprise update that aims to make these creative tools even easier to use.With Affinity 2.1 Serif has looked to finesse its best-in-class software for graphic design, photo editing and publishing.