CreativeMornings/Findings

Why Flat Design Will Continue to Rule the World in 2014
We’re always finding great insights over on the Shutterstock Blog, our Official Partner for Visual Inspiration. In this post by Liz Lapp, they cover the flat design, how it lends itself to cleaner app interfaces, responsive design, and better overall interaction with visual data, such as infographics. Read on. →

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“The flip side of interactivity and the interface is surveillance, monitoring, data collection.”
—Søren Bro Pold

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“Design the experience.”

Paddy Harrington, Executive Creative Director at Bruce Mau Design
speaking at CreativeMornings/Toronto(*watch the talk)

“The only thing we as designers are able to do is to create a unique experience for every user.”

Jeroen van Geel, UX Designer at Fabrique
speaking at CreativeMornings/Utrecht(*watch the talk)

The speaker at December’s CreativeMornings/Edmonton was Grant Skinner, an internationally recognized leader in the field of rich interactive experiences. His body of work spans experimental interaction, applications, games, websites, installations, embedded devices, and mobile, with a recent focus on projects that span multiple environments. Grant fuses his experience with design, user experience, development, and business with a driving creativity to produce projects that push the boundaries of interactive technologies.

Aptly titled “Adventures in HTML5,” in this talk, Grant speaks on spearheading the development of the CreateJS suite of open source libraries and tools for building rich interactive content using modern web standards. AA great watch for developers, designers, and everyone in between.

A huge hate tip to Bernie Roessler for videography work.

In this CreativeMornings/Berlin talk, Erik Spiekermann, self-described as suffering from “Typomania, "a sickness that is incurable but not lethal, give a 20-minute introduction into type for screen. Erik is the designer behind numerous commercial typefaces, including FF Unit, Lo-Type, and Berliner Grotesk. He has participated in the creation of several corporate identities and other works, including redesigns of the publications The Economist and Reason.

If you’ve watched the documentary Helvetica, you’ve seen Erik before, and in this lecture, he dives into what it means to design for type on screens, and, beyond that, what type can mean for brands. For others ailed by Typomania, you’ll absolutely love this talk.

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