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Time Management Tips for Creative People

Time Management Tips for Creative People If you work in an industry that involves creativity, you are probably used to working at some pretty strange hours. That sort of just seems to come with the territory. But, this can end up backfiring on you when you find yourself working at all hours...

I Wrote An Algorithm That Scribbles Drawings Using A Single Line

I Wrote An Algorithm That Scribbles Drawings Using A Single Line In my free time, I develop algorithms that turn images into drawings. I say drawings because the results are always made with a single line or collection of lines of constant width that can also be drawn with a pen by a plotter. So in a way I try to follow great computational artist like Georg Nees…

There’s A Genius Street Artist Running Loose In New York, And Let’s Hope Nobody Catches Him Using street furniture like poles or electrical terminals, Tom creates colorful and whimsical pieces that interact with their surroundings.

A fun new concept for renewing your wardrobe with the love of your online friends.

Let Your Facebook Likes Pay for Your Clothes! International fashion brand Strellson and agency Serviceplan Campaign X launched the Like-Shop, the first online store where one can pay with Facebook likes.

How One Word Is Turning Brand Briefs Away from Success Brand briefs don't need to embody "disruption" to win over the masses.

Branding strategy to promote gender equality using Chinese charecters.

Radical Good | 2017 D&AD New Blood Winner | Monotype | D&AD D&AD New Blood Pencil winner for Monotype. Radical Good is a typography solution that helps to promote gender equality in Chinese. In simplifie...

“Companies delivering what consumers consider to be the simplest experiences are also reaping financial benefits.” Simple is the new black and other advice form the leaders of the market.

Simplicity Update 2017: What Leading Brand Thinkers Really Think In this installment, we’ll look at the results of the 2017 edition of The Global Brand Simplicity Index, from brand strategy and design consultancy Siegel+Gale.

The 50 Most Iconic Brand Logos of All Time49. Mastercard From Apple to Coca-Cola, these designs are ubiquitous and will survive the test of time.

China is using creative solutions to integrate youth in the environmental movement.

Panda Solar Stations - Youth Engagement and Innovation to Promote Sustainable Development To propel the global application and development of green energy, UNDP and Panda Green Energy Group launched the global promotion program of panda-shaped solar plants on 1st September 2016.

Relax your mind with aesthetic pleasure.

#TBT: Day of the Dead’s Visuals Induce Psychedelic Feel "Day of the Dead" compilation is a tribute to Grateful Dead, courtesy of Red Hot charity, with visuals carefully selected by the Collected Works design studio.

Ideas for brand innovation can come from anywhere. More and more leading brands are finding ways to layer and integrate the right features, functions and benefits to appeal to the widest possible audience.
Where did the concept of integrating form, function and beauty into a single design come from? Toby Lester’s ‘Davinci’s Ghost’ tells the story of Vitruvian Man: Leonardo da Vinci’s famous drawing of a man in a circle and a square. This symbol is deployed today to celebrate subjects as various as the nature of genius, the beauty of the human form, and the universality of the human spirit. This figure appears on everything from coffee cups and T-shirts to book covers and corporate logos. It has become one of the world’s most famous cultural icons, yet almost nobody knows anything about it.
Leonardo didn’t summon Vitruvian Man out of thin air. He was playing with the idea, set down by the Roman architect Vitruvius, that the human body could be made to fit inside a circle, long associated with the divine, and a square, related to the earthly and the secular. To place a man inside both of those shapes was to imply that the human body was the world in miniature.
This idea known as the theory of the microcosm, was the engine that had powered Western religious and scientific thought for centuries, and Leonardo hitched his sense of proportion in his work to it. Yet starting out in 1480 he started to do something unprecedented. If the design of the body truly did reflect that of the cosmos, he reasoned that by studying its proportions and anatomy more thoroughly than had ever been done before — by peering deep into both body and soul — he might broaden the scope of his art to include the broadest of horizons. He might, in other words, obtain a divine perspective on the makeup of the world as a whole, where form, function & beauty work together seamlessly.
Most artisans and craftsman in Leonardo’s time and now wouldn’t dream of concerning themselves with such things…and as a result the designs of most products today for almost everything are unintelligent and not aligned with our earthly nature or universal principles.

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