Category: Graphic Design

6 Graphic Design Trends that Will Dominate 2023

Posted on 28/11/2022

2022 is moving faster to the end leaving us all with a different aftertaste. Recent years have greatly influenced the way we perceive information, making the business change their client-communication strategies and start looking for more innovative techniques. And of course, it hasn’t spared graphic design as it is the main way to ‘talk’ to the customers through patterns, colors, fonts, materials, and layouts. What are the main changes to expect in the forthcoming 2023? Let’s analyze all the changes to come and the reasons behind them.

More motion graphics

Motion graphics is the very first on the list, as it is one of the main tools to be used by a marketing department. Using a variety of instruments, motion graphics can capture the attention of any person regardless of age, status or profession and add depth to the story.

As the world’s evolves, so do motion graphics. The main reason for 2023 metamorphosis is our attention span, which got shorter than ever – 8 seconds, that’s the time you’re given to tell the story. Obviously, it is too short, that’s why the marketing department needs to rack the brain to meet such a demand. Besides, users show more inclination

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Eduvos celebrates Graphic Design students at Young Designers Portfolio Showcase

Posted on 25/11/2022

Eduvos held its annual Young Designers Portfolio Showcase on the 17 November 2022 at their Tyger Valley campus. The event has been hosted since 2010 to give the Eduvos Graphic Design students the opportunity to exhibit their work to an audience of industry professionals, fellow students, families and prospective students.

Eduvos celebrates Graphic Design students at Young Designers Portfolio Showcase

This year, 19 third-year students and a selection of pre-degree, first- and second-year Graphic Design students, were selected to showcase their work. The showcase was entirely conceived, designed and curated by the senior students. The designs were from different subjects like typography, illustrations and motion graphics.

Design industry specialists, specifically from major design agencies in the Cape Town area, were invited. Eduvos graphic design alums who are currently working in graphic design were also invited to scout for young talent. Some students at the showcase have already been offered job placements.

“This is a platform for students to showcase the design, marketing and entrepreneurial skills they have developed over the last three years,” said Eduvos Graphic Design lecturer, Martin Horne. “The goal is to make connections with the industry and, from an Eduvos perspective, it’s an opportunity to create brand awareness and give young designers the opportunity to thrive once

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A graphic design project looking at the role of objects in shaping humanity

Posted on 24/11/2022

What Do Objects Want? is a graphic design project and publication by London-based graphic designer Sundeep Yaya, that seeks to destabilize the concretized notions around objects, and instead explores the ways in which object design particularly affects our thinking and spaces. Yaya experiments and proposes to make legitimate the quiet ecosystem that objects have formed with humans, proposing a sense of agency through objecthood, that further extends to questions around posthumanism.

Through his practice-based research process, the artist highlights the Acheulean hand ax—as an introductory element—a prehistoric object that is considered to have been produced between 1.76 million and 300,000 years ago. Since many such ‘hand axes’ were found, the object was likely to have been used as a tool, but Yaya counters this with his observations that there is not much evidence to suggest that the tools were ever used. He proposes instead that they could have had an ornamental function, owing to their obsessive symmetry originating from a tedious craft. Yaya imagines the object as a reflection of the human race—having shaped our hands, while we have sculpted away at them—envisioning a relational and possibly radical ecosystem between humans and objects.

In conversation with STIR, the graphic designer

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How to Become a Graphic Designer

Posted on 23/11/2022

Graphic designers serve a vital role in any organization. Their work draws customers in; it also conveys an organization’s brand and mission to the world. The best graphic designers have mastered a host of skills and tools, from “soft skills” like teamwork to design platforms like Adobe Creative Suite.

Specializing in graphic design offers multiple career paths, some of which come with notably high compensation—but how did you become a graphic designer in the first place?

Jess Rosenberg is director of brand design at Webflow, where she leads the brand studio team of visual and web designers, copywriters, project managers, video creatives, social media managers. “I was lucky enough very early on to know that I wanted to be a graphic designer,” she explains.

She joined a portfolio program at her high school that prepared her for pursuing a design career. Then he attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and graduated with a degree in graphic design.

“In that first year, we were introduced to both communication design concepts as well as industrial design concepts—layout, typography, grid color theory and putting all of those elements together, as well as design history or learning about all of the greats that came

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The People’s Graphic Design Archive Democratizes Design History

Posted on 23/11/2022

While contemporary archivists share an interest in preserving historically significant artifacts, the PGDA provides a loom with which to weave missing or untethered historical threads––an assemblage composed not only of fully realized design projects but also process work, photo documentation, written correspondence, oral histories, and articles from outside the traditional design history of canon’s anglo or european-centric periphery. A greater contextual fabric is formed in the digital database as entries are interlaced to create new patchworks with one another throughout time.

Although its official inception was on September 1, the PGDA was conceived in 2014 by educator, designer and co-director Louise Sandhaus who still spearheads the project to mitigate the potential loss of noteworthy historical design artifacts. Users are invited to submit what they desire a “cultural treasure” or “historical material” ten years or older and produced by unrecognized designers––often from underserved populations or locales––giving both parties a voice in an evolving narrative as well as a mirror to see themselves represented in ongoing historical discourse.

Win Peace and Freedom Through Nonviolent Action; vol. 5, no. 9 (newspaper) Designer: Mark Morris 1969

Rich tags are then employed to assign those entries with diverse meanings with the potential to yield new

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