Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

Posters offer a diverse canvas for graphic designers, and some of the very best are not only beautifully designed but also inspiring and thought-provoking. There are hundreds of stunning poster designs that are instantly eye-catching, but we’ve narrowed this list down to a few of the most intriguing examples from the current decade. Whether you prefer to be bold or understated, you’re certain to find something here that will get your creative juices flowing.

We invited eight female literary powerhouses, from Michiko Kakutani to Anna Holmes to Roxane Gay, to help us create an updated list of books everyone should read. Each participant made 10 picks. It's a new year, a new Esquire.com. We're looking forward to reading and we hope you are, too.

Landing Page Inspiration — December 2016.

Lorem ipsum has become the industry standard for design mockups and prototypes. By adding a little bit of Latin to a mockup, you’re able to show clients a more complete version of your design without actually having to invest time and effort drafting copy.

But despite all its benefits, seeing the same random Latin text in every design can get a little boring for you and your clients. So if you have a client who’s got a sense of humour or if you’re just tired of going the traditional route in your mockups, here are 15 creative and funny lorem ipsum text generators that are sure to lighten the mood at any client meeting....

Mark Zuckerberg announced he was building an AI system for his own home called Jarvis back in January. After a year of coding, he’s ready to show it off.

You can see Jarvis make Mark some toast, teach his daughter Mandarin, and even shoot him some clothes when he’s ready to get dressed (surprise, it’s a plain gray t-shirt).

When Zuckerberg wakes up, Jarvis lets him now about his upcoming calendar events. And when he doesn’t feel like speaking, he can communicate with Jarvis via a Messenger bot as well.

Also, Jarvis sounds a lot like Morgan Freeman – and it might actually be him – so that’s pretty awesome. Just watch the video....

After showing us the beauty of storefronts in paris and milan, pixartprinting has now collaborated with photographer sebastian erras to spotlight the city of lisbon and its most remarkable shops. ‘lisbon re-tale’ carries us through theportuguese capital to encounter 30 historical shops, their often ornately decorated façades and their passionate business owners. the series — of which lisbon is the final chapter — seeks to give a voice to these traditional places, highlighting the creativity, character, and values from the past.

Through the voices of its inhabitants, ‘lisbon re-tale’ conveys the vibrant essence and energy of the city, highlighting its historic architecture and commercial spaces. this latest collaboration between pixartprinting and photographersebastian erras sees craftsmen, young designers, barbers, and restaurateurs standing outside their store’s doors, proudly presenting goods to locals and foreigners alike. ‘light seems to shine from the people who work in them: welcoming, smiling men and women who love their land and its history,’ the team describes....

Are Jews evil? It’s not a question I’ve ever thought of asking. I hadn’t gone looking for it. But there it was. I press enter. A page of results appears. This was Google’s question. And this was Google’s answer: Jews are evil. Because there, on my screen, was the proof: an entire page of results, nine out of 10 of which “confirm” this.

The top result, from a site called Listovative, has the headline: “Top 10 Major Reasons Why People Hate Jews.” I click on it: “Jews today have taken over marketing, militia, medicinal, technological, media, industrial, cinema challenges etc and continue to face the worlds [sic] envy through unexplained success stories given their inglorious past and vermin like repression all over Europe.”

Google is search. It’s the verb, to Google. It’s what we all do, all the time, whenever we want to know anything. We Google it. The site handles at least 63,000 searches a second, 5.5bn a day. Its mission as a company, the one-line overview that has informed the company since its foundation and is still the banner headline on its corporate website today, is to “organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”.

It strives to give you the best, most relevant results. And in this instance the third-best, most relevant result to the search query “are Jews… ” is a link to an article from stormfront.org, a neo-Nazi website. The fifth is a YouTube video: “Why the Jews are Evil. Why we are against them.”...

A new book, Let's Play, tasks 100 Swiss designers to play with toy blocks, then photographs the results, looking for trends.

In the new book Let's Play, artistic director Christiane Nill and photographer Lionel Henriod task 100 Swiss creatives who work in three-dimensional fields like architecture, sculpture, and industrial design to play with blocks for the camera then document what they make.

The parameters of Let's Play are simple. Designers are given 270 simple wooden blocks which have been custom created for the project. All blocks are visible at the beginning of each play section, and they're organized into groups of 34 different shapes.

Each player has 30 minutes to construct something using any of the blocks they want, plus three picked by the previous player—those must be incorporated into thee structure. (The first player used blocks selected by the carpenter who made them.) Beyond that, anything goes....

Despite changing demographics and consumer behaviors, the holiday season remains one of the more influential times of year to launch a campaign and seal it into holiday memory for years to come.

 

To do that, though, your brand needs to come up with something seriously innovative, engaging, and interesting -- something that'll resonate with your customers. This usually means lights, emotions, and celebrating family and friends.

 

Of course, there’s no harm is looking to the past to see which other brands and campaigns have made their way to the holiday retail hall of fame. Here, we look back on 150 years of inspirational ads and campaigns that many consumers say the holidays just wouldn’t be the same without....

As young people shy away from leaving voice messages when an e-mail or text message can instantly reach business colleagues, we may have moved beyond the simple answering machine.

But for every quotidian and arcane technological marvel, there was a time when it required a gentle, in-depth explanation. Think of the current press for self-driving cars or smart watches. Every new technology has to answer: what it is, how we are supposed to use it, and why we would ever want to use it in the first place.

In November 1954, this full-page ad ran in several publications, including Scientific American,Popular Mechanics, and Chemical Engineering News....

This best web design inspiration 2017 will let you know about the modern, creative and brilliant design. You can get fresh ideas to make yourself better.

Here’s a wonderful, creative and awesome collection of web design inspiration 2017.

Websites let people know about the brand, product, company etc. It helps people out to know about regarding thing. Feature, about, description is mentioned to give clear view.

Web design in any website does matter a lot because you’re not going to show feature and about only but are responsible for all engagement you made for viewers. So, keep in mind while selecting any design as it leaves good or bad impact....

As marketers, we often face tight time frames and demanding deadlines when it comes to publishing our newest content offering. From hitting publish on your next blog post to promoting your next e-book or webinar, let’s all agree to make more time to focus on how to distribute our content wisely.

In 2017, we can buck the content marketing trend of focusing just on content creation and not enough on content promotion. Here are 17 ideas to maximize the ROI of our writing efforts:Landing Page...

It snowed on December 19 in the Sahara Desert, and NASA's Landsat 7 satellite was there (or rather, hundreds of miles overhead) to see it.

The photo comes from Landsat 7's Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus visible-light camera, and depicts the first snowfall recorded in the massive African desert in 37 years.

The snow-covered area depicted in the photo lies on the northern end of the desert, near the Moroccan-Algerian border and the town of Ain Safra. Here's the full image, which you can click to enlarge:...

There’s no shortage of humor in Benedetto Bufalino’s work.  From playable ping pong tables made from upside down cars, and aquariums built from telephone booths, Bufalino has a knack for turning the ordinary into the absurd.

The French artist’s most recent creative intervention invites pedestrians to a party at a construction site in Lyon, France, Bufalino has created the ‘disco-ball cement mixer’ that glimmers and gleams a radiant spectrum by night. as the mixer rotates, mirrored tiles cladding the truck reflect rays of light across the surrounding site.  ...

These technologies have combined to create a huge shift in the web design paradigm, creating, most notably, a responsive (or increasingly mobile-first) design philosophy.

On the aesthetic side, 3 years ago flat design reigned supreme. And then Google introduced Material design, which brought us slightly out of abstraction. 2017 marks the year design takes one more step back into reality. Whether it’s through form, color choice or functionality, 2017 is a year of hybrids, where reality and technology collide to create a seamless browsing experience.

Here are the 9 web design trends we think are going to bridge that gap...

"We understand that the environment is changing inextricably, but what do we do now to prepare for this new reality?”

I had become so accustomed to describing the changes in content consumption and its implications for marketers, media companies, and tech-enabled content platforms that I was taken aback.

The nods among her team made it abundantly clear that “what now?” was more than a theoretical question, and one that needed to be addressed ASAP.

Thus, herewith are five practical predictions on the future of digital advertising creativity and real-world recommendations on what to do now to prepare....