Some time ago, we wrote the polemic article “70 designers that shaped the world”. After suggestions, we made the “Another 30 designers that shaped the world”. One thing that called attention was the few women present on the lists. Looking at the 100 designers, only 8 were women – among them, Eileen Gray, Zaha Hadid, Jean Muir, Vivienne Westwood, Irma Boom, Matali Crasset, Ray Eames e “Coco” Chanel. Is there any prejudice with women? Are there more male or female designers on the market? Does the gender really make a difference?
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Today’s article from the Design History series talks about something we’re used to see all the time in our lives but we don’t really know how it began or expanded so much: advertising. It’s an important matter for designers, advertisers, companies and customers. Check that out.
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Here it goes one of the most expected articles from de design history series: The Bauhaus. Let’s see how everything begun, its artists, its influences and many things about the first big school of design, that means so much for us.
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Slab Serifs have been emerging as a nice trend, used in casual and dynamic layouts. I L-O-V-E them, so expressive and strong, combined with high contrasts they can make a layout pop. Hope you enjoy them, too.
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From the last business card pack, here it is in another color scheme: Red!
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One of the most popular posts on this blog is 30 Free Tree Silhouettes. But since they are in vector format for the vectorial kind of guy (or girl) we decided to offer them in a Photoshop brush version, for the bitmappish type of guy (or girl). So here are 20 HQ Tree photoshop Brushes.
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In this second part of posters’ history we can notice the graphic and ideological evolution that happened after the discovery of new techniques and uses.
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In the follow-up of historical series posts, based on the design history, we are going to see about posters. They have been largely used since a long time ago and have an important historical function. There are important political issues and also important marks for advertising. Let’s learn more about the historical aspect of the posters.
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After the great feedback and suggestions we had with the post “70 designers that changed the world”, we decided to make another list with your suggestions. So, here are more 30 great designers, architects, artists.
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If we go deeper in design history we can notice that many of the styles, techniques and visual languages we see today are inspired by avant-garde art movements. They were so important for breaking rules, exploration, imagination, that they are still reference for designers from all over the world. That’s what we are going to see in this article of our historical series, again based on the Design History.
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