Long before digital became the default state of things, it was something you had to announce. In the early 1990s, the words High Density and Digital appeared proudly on the labels of floppy disks, like badges…
Category: Art & Design
Art Posts, Design Posts
Probably shouldn’t be telling you about this. In fact, just reading this might put you on some kind of watchlist. But here we are anyway. Illegal Art is launching soon, and…
Whispers are already circulating in the creative underground: Illegal Art is about to break the rules. Not literally, of course—but in a way that will make you feel like you’re…
When building a brand, consistency often feels like the golden rule. For emerging businesses, it can seem intimidating to introduce variant logos – alternate marks, wordmarks, or iconography – when…
Gestalt principles describe how our brains naturally organize visual information into meaningful groups. They come from Gestalt psychology and are especially useful in graphic design, photography, UI, and branding because they…
A strong brand strategy is more than a great logo or a catchy tagline—it’s about creating a cohesive story across every touchpoint. For businesses with multiple subsidiaries, this challenge is…
This series of six cocktail illustrations isn’t trying to teach you how to make a drink—and that’s entirely the point. At first glance, each piece appears to be a precise…
When travelers entrust their luggage to an airline, they expect it to arrive safely and on time. One of the most overlooked yet essential pieces of brand collateral that makes…
On a camera lens, “infinity” (∞) is a focusing position—not a place—where the lens is adjusted so that objects at an extremely great distance are rendered acceptably sharp on the sensor or…
Lateral Thought (or Lateral Thinking) in creativity is, at its simplest, the practice of approaching a problem from many unexpected directions instead of searching for a single “correct” solution. Most problem-solving is vertical:…
Lateral Thought, often called lateral thinking, is a creative approach that encourages solving problems by looking in many unexpected directions rather than searching for a single correct answer. Traditional problem-solving…
The Art and Evolution of Playing Card Back Designs Playing cards have been an enduring part of human culture for centuries, and while the face cards draw much of the…
Driving through rural landscapes, it’s hard to miss the towering silhouettes of electrical transmission towers. These steel behemoths stride across farmland and open fields, their latticework frames reaching skyward like…
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