graphic design
Canva launches a new paid subscription for universities and colleges
Canva, the online graphic design platform, launched Canva for Campus today, a new paid subscription for universities and colleges. The subscription gives students, professors, staff and campus adminis
Canva moves beyond graphic design to launch a visual worksuite
Canva is further establishing itself as more than just a user-friendly graphic design tool. The Australian company announced at its Canva Create event that it will unveil a suite of new products to ro
BlueOcean raises $30M for its AI-based brand intelligence platform
The medium is the message more than ever these days, and brands are faced with a challenge — but also opportunity — to capture what consumers think about them and their products if they ca
The Web Foundation is taking on deceptive design
The Web Foundation‘s Tech Policy Design Lab is working on an interesting-looking project to counter deceptive design — aka dark patterns* — with the goal of producing a portfolio of
There’s a way to pick the absolute best images for your content: Apply AI
Is there a data-driven — or even better, an AI-driven — process for gaining deeper insight into which images are more likely to engage users?
Imran Khan’s Verishop adds Verified Shops, a way for emerging brands to set up shop in its digital mall
Verishop, the Los Angeles online retailer founded by former Snap executive Imran Khan, launched a little over a year ago to change the way people shop online. Now the company is launching a new initia
The Shed is a startup out of Virginia trying to revive the rental-for-everything business
Reducing consumption by expanding the notion of the rental economy and giving people access to tools and equipment has been something of a startup holy grail for some time. It’s a model thatR
Red Antler’s Emily Heyward explains how to get people obsessed with your brand
If you’re currently building a startup, you know what product you want to build. But do you know if people are actually going to notice you? That’s the question I asked of Red Antler co-founder Em
Verified Expert Brand Designer: Studio Rodrigo
Ritik Dholakia worked as a startup product manager before he co-founded Studio Rodrigo, a branding and product design agency based in NYC. Unlike traditional branding firms, Studio Rodrigo is proud of
Videos lead brand creative growth with 3x increase since 2017
James Winter Contributor James Winter is currently the VP of Marketing at Brandfolder, a leading digital asset management solution; prior to joining Brandfolder, James was the Director of Marketing at
Verified Expert Brand Designer: Kristine Arth
After spending a decade working at international design and branding agencies, Kristine Arth launched her own independent branding agency called Lobster Phone last April. Since then, she’s launched
Should you hire an in-house designer or a contractor?
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A strong brand is a key part of building a successful company, and that doesn’t just mean coming up with a logo or corporate slogan. It can include brand identity and narrative, and various stra
To win back consumers, big brands should invest in R&D and innovation
The world of consumer goods is changing. Consumer tastes are becoming more and more fragmented and big incumbents continue to lose market share to upstart brands. It’s often difficult for these incu
Polish startup Displate raises raises 2 million Euro to decorate your abode
Noted futurists like Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan got a lot of things right when they predicted things like genetic splicing, transatlantic communications, the Internet. But what these eggheads did
XYZPrinting announces a $3,000 full-color 3D printer
Full-color 3D printing at home has long been a wild-eyed dream of consumers and hobbyists alike. Thus far it’s been fun to print out little trinkets in a single color, but to create something mo
Adobe’s Acrobat DC gets better support for digital signatures
With its Creative Cloud, Adobe made an early bet on offering its tools for creatives as a subscription service. With its Document Cloud, the company also offers a subscription-based service for its m
Adobe reveals video collaboration, VR and animation updates for Creative Cloud
Adobe has a host of new features for its Creative Cloud video tools it’s debuting at IBC 2016 this week. The improvements include new team collaboration features, as well as new improvements to
Snapchat makes it easier to create your own On-Demand Geofilters
On-Demand Geofilters from Snapchat let anyone build a custom filter for their event (or for whatever reason – I’m not judging your Snapchat filter needs), which was a petty good idea when the
InVision acquires Silver Flows, a tool for prototyping inside Sketch
Prototyping suite InVision just announced they are acquiring Silver Flows, a tool that lets developers prototype directly inside Sketch. The acquisition comes just a few months after InVision acquired