WORK QUICKLY AND TAKE A BREAK

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Work Quickly

Work quickly in the beginning of your projects. Variations are key to getting your design and thinking aligned. They’ll also help make revisions easier after a client has seen your design (e.g., you may have already thought through a revision request). Lastly, it should be solid working time. That means turning off your IM, Twitter, Facebook I.V. and ignoring the impulse to email or check the latest sports scores when you get stuck (which you will). When you get stuck…

Take a Break

Try not to work more than 2-3 hours at a time on a design. Design and creativity both need time to rest, as does your head. Put your design away for an hour or two and then come back to it. You’ll have fresh eyes and some of those tweaks you were working on will be easier to get right. If you’re on a tight deadline (and who isn’t these days), try to take at least 15 minutes here and there to recover. Get some fresh air, talk to a friend, coworker, preferably all three. Conversations will bring inspiration and help you with designers block.

33 WAYS TO STAY CREATIVE

i found this very useful and inspiring!!!!!

1. Make lists.
2. Carry a notebook everywhere.
3. Try free writing.
4. Get away from the computer.
5. Be otherworldly.
6. Quit beating yourself up.
7. Take breaks.
8. Sing in the shower.
9. Drink coffee/tea.
10. Know your roots.
11. Listen to new music.
12. Be open.
13. Surround yourself with creative people.
14. Get feedback.
15. Collaborate.
16. Don’t give up.
17. Practice, practice, practice.
18. Allow yourself to make mistakes.
19. Go somewhere new.
20. Watch foreign films.
21. Count your blessings.
22. Get lots of rest.
23. Take risks.
24. Break the rules.
25. Do more of what makes you happy.
26. Don’t force it.
27. Read a page of the dictionary.
28. Create a framework.
29. Stop trying to be someone else’s perfect.
30. Got an idea? Write it down.
31. Clean your workspace.
32. Have fun.
33. Finish something.

FIVE EPIC SURFING ADS

Guinness – Surfer

Corona – From Where You’d Rather Be

Powerade – Very Real Power

GoPro HD - amazing camera angle

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Hamms – retro

Branding & identity , AND PROMOTION

SPOT COLOUR
Self Promotional Mailer
EMMA HOPKINS 

Packaging & promotion

SPOT COLOUR

The “Lose The Blues” kit is designed with a more light-hearted and empowering approach to the current condition of the economy. The Moosylvania cure includes; one nickel-plated diatonic harmonica, a folded pamphlet including a cordial letter and sheet music for the song "I Ain't Got No Insights" to sing and play along with. The look of the harmonica is inviting and nostalgic. It is reminiscent of how packaging looked in a much simpler era (just after the great depression). The designs’ intentions are to allow the recipient to have fun with their gift and feel welcome to contact Moosylvania for help with their digital, branding and promotion needs.

Packaging & promotion

SPOT COLOUR

NIKE CONDOM PACKAGING 

packaging & promotion

Spot Colour (2 or more)

Karmøy Laks is a well respected producer of premium norwegian salmon.

Detail: Black print applied to black silk paper.

Information & wayfinding

Monochrome & Tints (solid colour and half-tone)

Information & wayfinding

CMYK

community catalogue 2007

series of 1500 communities of courtyard houses cut out and isolated from the map of downtown beijing.

packaging & promotion

Monochrome & Tints (solid colour and half-tone)


Woman's rights series Poster
Woman's rights for Iran .
delaram  rosami

Information & wayfinding

CMYK

• WORLD FLAG SYSTEM CONCEPT
  
  Conceptual project for a redesign of the flags of the world. a general system based on a color grid and the geo coordinates of the different countries.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Branding & identity , AND Information

Spot Colour (2 or more)

Information & wayfinding

Spot Colour (2 or more)
WE WILL BE HERE - THE MAP OF THE FUTURE

The italian magazine WIRED.
a map based on the scenarios developed by the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto to help the reader in the net of ideas and hypothesis built by 7000 influencers from all over the world. 
Creative direction: Donato Ricci
Concept: Michele Graffieti, Luca Masud, Mario Porpora, Gaia Scagnetti
Illustration: Michele Graffieti

information & wayfinding

Spot Colour (2 or more)

Dillinger Exhibition

Branding & identity

Monochrome & Tints
Black Umbrella


a sophisticated identity and branding package. a strong minimal logo which can be combined with an intricate pattern. This system has been applied to the stationary and website of black umbrella.

branding & identity

• Monochrome & Tints (solid colour and half-tone)

JORDAN METCALF, GRAPHIC DESIGNER/ILLUSTRATOR

Business cards 

Lino printed