#visual-communication

#visual-communication

When was the last time a watch made you do a double-take? If you're like most of us, probably never. We've seen countless variations of circles with numbers, hands pointing at things, and digital displays that all basically do the same job. But Ion Lucin's ARROWatch isn't just another pretty timepiece. It's a design that fundamentally rethinks what a watch actually does.

When Otto Neurath died in Oxford some 80 years ago, far away from his native Vienna, he was still finding his feet in exile. Like many a Jewish refugee, the economist, philosopher and sociologist had been interned as a suspected enemy alien on the Isle of Man, along with his third wife and close collaborator Marie Reidemeister, having chanced a last-minute life-saving escape from their interim hideout in the Netherlands across the Channel in a rickety boat in 1940.

It was tribal. You picked your football team, your music group, clothing - kids found solace in becoming part of a group. I found my way to Mod via early Beatles, and at the same time as I was learning the history, I was also very aware of Mod turning up in school in the form of green fishtail parkas, Harrington jackets, and paisley shirts.

The outfits that presidents and first ladies wear are more than just clothes - they can also send unspoken messages. Lauren Rothman, a style strategist and image coach, previously told Business Insider that when high-profile political couples wear matching colors, such as President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump's coordinating purple looks while visiting the UK in September, it "communicates stability and solidarity."

As designers, we often talk about color, layout, or typography and we generally think or imagine in moods for instance 'clean,' 'dreamy,' 'grunge,' but AI doesn't understand ambiguity.

Ever since humanity learned to write, we've used pictures to make reading easier, and now an exhibition looks at the evolution of the pictogram in public signs.

To stand out in my job applications, I decided to pivot from recruiting to sales by using visual decks instead of traditional cover letters, I personalized every slide using each company's branding.

"At some point, you become a manager, and you spend a lot of time in communication. We realized a lot of our communication wasn't fun."

At Fivecube, users aren't an afterthought-they're the starting point. The team dives deep into research, audience insights, and user journeys to shape design decisions that feel intuitive.

Static images and long-form copy only go so far, especially when your product has intricate features or a unique design.

Daily, a whopping 35 million PowerPoint presentations (or rectangles with overflowing texts) flood screens worldwide. But our brain processes visual information 60,000 times faster than text.