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Le cose più importanti da valutare in un freelance sono: qualità del lavoro, qualità della comunicazione, competenza nella realizzazione. Scopri come farlo.
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The 1950’s were the gateway to a brave, new world in typography ushered in by the leap from metal typesetting to photocomposition. These were ground-breaking and transitional times in the history of typography and design due to changes in technology that allowed for total control (and increased speed) over the setting of type, which in turn heralded in a new era of expressive typography. One of the hallmarks of this unprecedented period in typographic history was U&lc (Upper and lowercase), the typographic journal published by International Typeface Corporation (ITC) from 1970 to 1999. This award-winning publication was created to showcase the ITC typeface library, in addition to serving as a palette for virtuoso typography and exceptional typographic design. Originally edited and designed by Herb Lubalin until his death in 1981, U&lc went on to feature an assemblage of prominent designers who used this unique typographic platform to create some of the most expressive, experimental, and stimulating typography of the times. The rotating circle of designers had complete freedom to explore typographic solutions without restrictions. U&lc became noted for its powerful—sometimes brash—and always stirring, typographic design. The graphic design community eagerly anticipated each quarterly issue, which was avidly read and circulated [...]
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The terms of ‘wireframe’ and ‘prototype’ are always get confused by designers, despite the experienced designer, possibly due to the misunderstanding or some other reasons. Actually, the concept between the two terms is quite obvious and different. Now, let’s distinguish the two terms clearly.
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I have found that as a professional photographer – I generally try and keep the “big guns” at home when I’m out adventuring for fun, or hanging with my friends – so my…
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A few days ago I stumbled upon a little gif on my newsfeed on Facebook showcasing a drawer that had a lovely personality. I know, it sounds crazy, but it's true: A drawer with personality.
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Take the quiz below, and see how many brand-color combinations you get correct. You'll be surprised how many you subconsciously recognize.
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At Facebook, where we’re working to make the world more open and connected, an inherent part of our mission is to share how we create the…
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When you're designing, sometimes you get a little stuck. Check out this list of design books to help you find something helpful and inspirational!
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Brainstorming is notorious for being unstructured and often unactionable. People get in a room with some Post-its and whiteboards and expect the great ideas to happen.
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Ah, the pressure of the blank page, those innocent acres of white space waiting to be filled with great insights. A clean canvas primed with matte gesso; a
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Worried your new designer bag isn't genuine, but a convincing fake? One company has had enough, and decided to integrate special smartphone-readable NFC tags into the label to prove authenticity once and for all.
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There has been an explosion of web design tools that help you create striking design. The web designers at Opus compiled a list of the very best ones.
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Learn what’s coming soon in the next major update to After Effects CC. We’ve added lots of ways to make day-to-day work, sharing, and staying organized better, faster and easier.
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It is always exciting when a newborn baby is about to come home. Having a baby is not only a new phase of life but also a big responsibility as there are s
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Take the quiz below, and see how many brand-color combinations you get correct. You'll be surprised how many you subconsciously recognize.
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Spector is a pocket-sized gadget that takes the detective work out of identifying fonts and colors.
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TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris unpacked this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity at their auditorium in Sandton on 19 July, with three judges reporting on their experiences, as well as TBWA Worldwide creative director John Hunt.
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On Saturday, July 9th, AIGA Philadelphia board members and chapter leaders from AIGA Central PA gathered at our new home at WeWork in Northern Liberties to use design thinking exercises to strategize and develop ideas to transform and innovate our...
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If you’re looking for the best design blogs to follow – you’re in the right place. Here are Inkbot Design's 100 Top Graphic Design Blogs to Follow.
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AIGA Medalist Alexander Isley graduated from college in 1984—the same year Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh computer—and so he describes himself as
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Learn Why Hiring a Graphic Designer is Essential for Your Brand. If you are looking for a Professional Graphic Designer, Get in touch for a Free Quote!
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Massimo Banzi at the “Make Some Noise” workshop in New York last month.
Dario Buzzini and I have been friends since we met at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea several years ago. Ever since, we have worked together on interaction design projects for different clients. While visiting NYC for World Maker Faire last month, we organized a free open workshop for 25 participants at the IDEO NYC office (where Dario works) focused on creating sounds and music.
“Make Some Noise” was a short, one-day workshop about Arduino where we explored the topic of sound and it was aimed at complete beginners with no experience. To simplify the structure of the workshop we started with hands-on experiments composed by a quick set of exercises to enable the participants to understand the basics and, later on, to start exploring pitch, frequency, tone, and multiple effects—with quite curious results (see videos below)!
To make things even easier, we focused only on one type of output showing how you can relate that output with several types of input, like different sensors. We started, as usual, blinking a LED and then learned how a speaker clicks the same way an LED blinks: if you do it fast enough you can make a sound, if you do it at a specific speed you can make a note, and if you look up at all the frequencies associated with all the notes you can make scales.
After some testing, students were able to create noises, sounds, control them through slide sensors, buttons, potentiometers. At the end, as a fun exercise we used a piece of open source software that one of the Arduino users put on the Arduino Playground, which turns the Arduino into an eight-oscillator synthesizer that can use any piece of metal as a sensor. We then connected eight soda cans with an Arduino and a speaker. It played them as if it was a church organ!
Design and technology have, once again, come together to redefine, shape ,and explore new experiences through simple, approachable tools.