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Designing newspapers, magazines and books has become particularly challenging as digital takes over most of our communications. While we must learn to adapt our concepts to various screen sizes, paper will always be an essential medium for creative expression. Throughout this article, I’ll introduce 50 incredible newspaper designs (and the design lessons they bestow) to inspire your work.... 
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Your memory of 2014 won’t be defined by those things. Instead, you’ll remember the Ebola outbreak, Lavern Cox, Ferguson, LeBron’s return home, the World Cup, True Detective, missing flight MH370, and maybe even Alex from Target. These and many other cultural and political moments shaped the year and will continue to be part of our conversations in 2015. To commemorate these events, Beutler Ink created Here’s to 2014!, a graphic featuring 91 memorable moments. The poster is a follow-up to the 2013 edition, which featured Miley Cyrus, Prince George, and Pope Francis...
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Discover the cultural moments that defined 2014 in this wonderful illustration by Beutler Ink.
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From retro juice cartons to floral fashion campaigns, these botanical marketing examples look to nature for inspiration. Drawing from the fashion world's recent obsession with botanical prints, this list of marketing strategies aims to influence consumers with the help of vivid visuals and transparent packaging designs.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
More creative with your coffee, inspiration and photography the Trend Hunter.
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"Do you know how big a change that is?" he recalls Jobs saying. "I don’t have time to redesign the store." It seemed like that was that, but 10 minutes later when the pair walked into the meeting, Jobs immediately spoke up. "Well, Ron thinks our store is all wrong," Jobs said. "And he’s right, so I’m going to leave now. And Ron, you work with the team and design the store." Even though it would take longer to open the store because of the redesign, Jobs knew that it was worth taking the extra time to get it right. "It’s not about speed to market," Johnson says. "It’s really about doing your level best."...
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The genius of Steve Jobs and whyhe was brilliant! Must-read 10/10
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A lot goes into a great logo design. While a logo seems like just a little thing to create, it represents an entire company or brand, and must convey identity, values, and more. You can’t think of it as just a “little” design job. It can be the most important design a company has, and one that guides future design and branding decisions. With this guide you’ll learn all the steps necessary for creating a fantastic logo for your own project or a potential client’s.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Creativity with your coffee: some lessons, some logos and some inspiring designs.
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There are two kinds of advertisements: ads that blend in, and ads that captivate our attention. I’ll be taking this opportunity to focus on the latter category. These are the head-turners that leave us with an unexpected smile. They’re the ads we don’t see every day, and the ones we applaud for their raw creativity and clever execution. So take a gander at some of the best advertising methods I’ve come across, and add your thoughts at the end if I’ve missed anything noteworthy....
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Inspired advertising, great ideas and fun reading.
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Here it is. The 100+ Best Slides From Cannes Lions 2012. Now if you’ve been to the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, you’ll know the vast array of amazing content on offer, but perhaps the only challenge you’ll have all week, is choosing what sessions to attend. So, as he always does, my good friend Jesse Desjardins (@JesseDee) has curated the 100+ Best Slides from the entire Cannes Lions Festival, meaning if you missed a session, couldn’t remember that kick-ass slide or spent your whole Cannes Lions trip partying on the beach, you can utilise some of this to convince your boss you might have actually went to the sessions!...
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Great resource and creative inspiration.
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From time to time we like to show you different sources of inspiration. From logos to icons, from print tobranding, we always like to show you that you can find inspiration in a lot of different designs, including package design. Packages are amazing for a group of reasons, but I believe that most important task of a package is to represent a product while catching the client’s attention. In package design we can find great examples of typography, textures, proportions, colors and much more. Remember to click on the images to read more about each design....
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Take a creative break with your weekend coffee and enjoy these package designs.
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As a society, we love food. That's really all there is to it.
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Here's a little creativity and food for thought. Recommended viewing. 9/10
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Social media managers pride themselves on coming up with fresh ideas and interesting content. Likewise, business owners and entrepreneurs active in social media need to stay compelling and helpful. It’s how ibusinesses maintain relevance and add value to our social streams. One of the best places to find inspiration is from other creatives. Reading online marketing quotes from some of the top social media marketers around the globe inspires me to want to work harder, and better. So hopefully these online marketing quotes can have the same effect on you....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Just a little creativity and marketing inspiration with your coffee.
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Advertising is often very difficult, but fortunately there are many different strategies to creating the perfect ad. In the age of image-based social media and infographics, many businesses are focusing their ads around a single large image meant to draw viewers in. Others are taking a slightly modified approach to traditional advertising. Instead of telling consumers why they need a product, they’re showing them. Some businesses are literally turning the world upside-down with their ads. These ads encourage people to reflect on the world around them, so it will stick with them long after they see it. Here are 40 of the most creative advertisements out there. Hopefully these will inspire you to launch your own perfect ad campaign...
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40 very creative ads to inspire your inner creative.
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...If you happen to be on a road trip this August, driving down a highway through the middle of nowhere in North Dakota or New Mexico, you may suddenly see a giant modern painting at the side of the road in between fast food ads. In suburban malls, classic photographs will replace posters advertising movies or mobile phones. In cities, art will sprawled across buses and subway posters. All around the country, 50,000 billboards that normally try to sell something will be transformed into art. Art Everywhere US is the American version of a project that began last summer in the U.K., where 22,000 billboards and poster sites were covered with British art. The event this year will be the largest outdoor art show that has ever happened....
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What a great project! The largest outdoor art show that has ever happened will roll out across the US this August. Watch for it, coming to a mall, roadside, or...
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Brilliant Ads is a Twitter account that showcases “the most creative, unique, remarkable and powerful advertisements, signs and marketing-related things from around the world.” The ads featured range from small scale advertising by smaller companies to campaigns by big corporations like McDonald’s and Nike, all bound by a common thread of out-of-the-box ideas and innovation....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
@Brilliant_Ads is definitely worth following on Twitter.
Kathleen Smith's curator insight,
September 27, 2014 7:54 PM
This small article talks about the twitter account that showcases the most creative, powerful, and unique advertisements from around the world. The twitter username is @Brilliant_Ads and I just started following this user. It has over 2,000 tweets and over 570,000 twitter followers. It features ads from small scale to big corporations such as Nike. I noticed that most ads featured on the page are often guerrilla marketing and ambush marketing.
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In his brilliant pitch for Kodak's slide machine, Mad Men's Don Draper teaches you an important lesson about how to speak about your product, cause or idea.
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For anyone who's ever pitched a product or prospect, spoken to an audience, reached out to a group of employees, this powerful post reminds us that it's the story and not the features that carry the day. great post from media training expert Brad Phillips and a moving clip from a great TV show-Mad Men.
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Technology and marketing tactics have changed the game, but there are some Sterling/Cooper approaches we can apply to social media today....
... I like to think of my Mad Men marathon as research. As I get further into the seasons, I am sure I will come across many more similarities between us and them. In some ways it’s comforting to see that, although we are rapidly moving towards a more digitally enhanced world, the core values stay the same.
These are valuable messages that we can take away from Mad Men and apply to social media marketing today: Build Relationships, Know Your Audience and Be Creative. So next time you’re staring blankly at your screen, do yourself a favor. Pour a whisky, inhale some cigarette smoke and transport yourself into the office of Don Draper, but most importantly, get inspired....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Mad Men, mad marketing tips and inspiration.
Delia's curator insight,
May 9, 2013 3:01 PM
I like this because of course ... it's still about relationships, audience understanding and creativity 
Jeff Domansky's comment,
May 10, 2013 3:52 PM
Totally agree Delia. We always need to remind ourselves,it's not the technology or the tools, it's the people.
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Award-winning fashion designer John Varvatos teamed up with design agency Mode Design Group (MDG) to create a custom, limited edition bottle for tequila brand Patrón this holiday season.
Varvatos designed a Guitar headstock and tuning pegs along with Patron's Bee symbol to function as the stopper on a bottle of for Patrón Añejo for the 2012 holiday season, alluding to the rock n' roll vibe of both the fashion designer and the tequila brand....
[Is that cool, creative design or what? ~ Jeff]
Danny Guion's comment,
December 28, 2012 10:39 AM
That looks dangerously close to the Ovation headstock no?
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Creativity with your coffee. Recommended viewing for creatives, bloggers, marketers and PR.