We knew Pantone was gearing up for its big ‘Colour of the Year’ reveal this week, as the creative community has been joking about what it might be: a disposable face mask’s cool blue, perhaps, or a deep shade of brown, for obvious reasons. What we didn’t expect was that the global authority on colour would unleash […]
In a significant attempt to manage how it moderates content, Twitter has unveiled “Birdwatch”, a pilot program to crowdsource fact-checks to combat misinformation. Birdwatch will allow regular users, called “Birdwatchers,” to identify tweets they think have misinformation and write notes with more information and context, which is similar to Wikipedia, where registered volunteers write, update […]
A delightfully creative campaign. The familiar YouTube logo (Image credit: YouTube) If you happened to visit YouTube on Monday (which isn’t unlikely, what with it being the second most-visited website in the world), you might have noticed an unfamiliar logo. To mark Black History Month (BHM), the company has announced that Black artists will reimagine the […]
But we can’t use it to save us from the future How strange it is to think that some part of us exists online. Who we are no longer has a purely physical answer. Our work, thoughts, relationships, and obsessions exist online, extensions of ourselves that make it possible for people to get to know […]
In this head-to-head between two cloud storage giants, we look at features, costs, and support options to determine which is the best platform for creatives. If you’re a creative who designs and edits amazing content, you likely already know how important a cloud storage platform is. They enable you to access your files from any […]
The world of search engine optimization was born with all sorts of different hacks and shortcuts that many people use in an effort to grow their business. Knowing effective SEO tricks would be incredibly profitable, but unfortunately it’s not that easy This becomes evident as soon as you do a Google search about anything SEO-related, […]
How ready are you and your business for digital transformation? If your answer is ‘not very’, the data shows that you’re not alone. However, if 2020 has shown us anything, it’s that considerable change is not only inevitable, it is currently upon us, whether you are ready or not. While most were still busy drawing […]
With some exceptions, like “computer” in Star Trek, much of science fiction personifies its digital voice assistants—Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Jarvis in Iron Man, Samantha in Her. And there’s a good reason for this. These aren’t just voice assistants—they are characters that conflict, interact, and even fall in love with the protagonists in these films. For a similar reason, […]
A portfolio, for a creative, is the basis of their hard work and soul. It is quite literally the all or nothing of someone’s creative life. In design, your portfolio is more important than your CV or the experience you have. It’s a tool you use to get your foot in the door to make […]
There is doubt that Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann’s “Neue Haas Grotesk” has become the 20th Century’s most well-known typefaces. The strong, solid appearance of Helvetica allows it to carry a universal appropriateness in a way that other fonts can’t seem to balance. The sheer amount of style variants that compliment Helvetica’s standard typeface makes […]
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