You Should Know: Amy Martin
I'm so excited about Amy Martin's design style I can hardly contain myself. I happened to be image-Googling "retro-futurism" as research for an upcoming project and one of her posters showed up in the search. A few clicks later, I've developed a designer crush the size of Pangaea.
Book Review: Caffeine For The Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain
From time to time creatives in our field are bound to run low on creative juice. Like many others, I've recently felt my brain needing a good creative spark to get going. I started looking for a couple of outlets that would give me this creative spark with some requirements in mind: something I could do fairly quickly and preferably away from the computer screen. I wanted to get back to the basics of being creative.
As luck would have it, I came across "Caffeine for the Creative Mind: 250 Exercises to Wake Up Your Brain" by by Stefan Mumaw and Wendy Lee Oldfield.
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Timeline Views of the News
I've recently been doing a bit of research on real-time, data-driven timelines. Here are a few of the solutions that generally fall into the news/search results category. These are less visual and more functional, but that's what I was after in this case.
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