Pantone Color of the Year for 2015: Marsala
The impactful, full-bodied qualities of Marsala make for an elegant, grounded statement color when used on its own or as a strong accent to many other colors.
Adobe Launches New Social Campaign
Art directors are becoming animators. Print designers are becoming web designers. Illustrators are now photographers who also edit and shoot film. Adobe has launched a new campaign, I Am The New Creative, that highlights the work of these new creatives: profiling one creative each day and using their amazing imagery...
It’s Not Easy Being Green: Two Designers Exploring Sustainability Worldwide
It’s Not Easy Being Green: Two Designers Exploring Sustainability Worldwide is a new publication by Aart van Bezooyen and Paula Rache that brings together six months of making new friends, photographing local impressions and collecting materials. Together with almost 60 designers, entrepreneurs and change-makers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam,...
Winners of 20th Communication Arts Interactive Competition
Communication Arts magazine has revealed the winners of its 20th annual Interactive competition.
Top 25 Logos of the Past Half-Century
To observe its 50th anniversary of publishing, GDUSA is presenting selected results all year of a massive poll about who you respect and what you admire. Last time around, the magazine listed it’s “readers choice” of the most influential graphic designers and firms of the past 50 years. This time around, GDUSA looks at...
American Photography 29: Call for Entries
American Photography 29 Call For Entries is open to all photographers, art directors, designers, editors, agencies and publishers. Regarded as the book of record, American Photography is still produced in all its defiant, large-format, luxurious, hard cover glory, offering high visibility and well-deserved recognition. Submit your best work to be presented...
Graphic Design USA Launches 50th Anniversary Design Community Survey
Starting its 50th year of publishing, Graphic Design USA magazine is celebrating the past, present and future of the graphic design community with an all-industry survey. “We thought long and hard about how best to use our 50th anniversary as an opportunity honor this talented community,” commented Gordon Kaye, Editor of Graphic Design...
The can’t miss digital marketing and advertising event of the year.
Adobe Digital Marketing Summit 2013 will take place in Salt Lake City, Utah at the Salt Palace Convention Center from March 4-8, 2013. The event will convene thousands of marketers, advertisers, publishers, agencies, analysts and developers across industries to explore how to create, measure and optimize digital marketing and advertising experiences, leveraging the...
Communication Arts Typography Competition 2013
Organized by Communication Arts, Typography Competition celebrates the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus new typeface designs, calligraphy and handlettering. The competition is open to any typographic project first printed or produced from September 2011 through September 2012. Chosen by a jury of...
The Scent of Colours: An Artist’s Blessing
The Avant/Garde Diaries, a digital interview magazine which documents personal views on the avant-garde, has recently interviewed Dawn Goldworm, the Scent Director of the Paris and NYC-based olfactory branding company 12.29. The company produces delicate and strategic elixirs of scents and places them in new contexts, manipulating environmental experiences, conjuring memories,...