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Russell Moverley
@russellmoverley
Designer of things, Listener of music.
Using design to make a difference in people’s lives.
43 Posts
New Jobs....
4 months into a new job. Literally no time to 'Post'. Been a whirlwind of chaos. Do I love it? Still to be decided. Back now. Lots to talk about. So AI happened. Jumped on that bandwagon instantly. The things I have been using for are amazing. Anyone got tips for deciding whether y Aaaaagh!
I find it very hard to like anything Microsoft creates. I have just HAD to start using outlook and now I'm even more annoyed... Why do they have to make Outlook and Word icons so similar? The amount of times I open Word instead of Email is infuriating! Microsoft, sort your shit ou Design rules to live by
Just like you are, I’m bombarded every day by news of fear and dread. Existential crisis. Content. Content. And even more ‘ meaningful Content. In the 1960s, Ken Garland wrote: The techniques and apparatus of advertising have persistently been presented to us as the most effective a Shower life hack
I have hesitated posting this for days. but after speaking to many people I was shocked to hear no one knew this. I travel. And I live in Europe. Most showers are the kind that have little rubber nipples where the water flows out. And because it's Europe, they are all calcified a I can't get enough of this Vampire Slayer chili sauce at the moment. It's up there with Truff . Vampire Slayer is from the UK so maybe not available to everyone but definitely try it if you can. #chilisauce #HotSauces What is the sound of all human knowledge?
Wikimedia might have found it as they announce the winner of its global Sound of All Human Knowledge contest. The contest was open to anyone to create a sound logo for Wikipedia and Wikimedia. The winner, Thaddeus Osborne’s submission "features the pages turning of a book, keyboa Pepsi Brand Refresh
Pepsi has announced a brand update for 2023 whichmoves on fromt he former eyesore it used to be. I always felt the previous brand iteration to be stuck in a pop 00s timewarp. The new brand goes back to the more iconic period in the brands lifetime. Check out the full press releas 2023 Illustration Trend Report
Illustration is having a renaissance with many new brand projects featuring some kind of illustration element. Some recent fine examples being Eurostar and the intriguing new Netflix iconography. The 2023 Illustration Trend Report from The Jacky Winter Group clearly shows what's The creative genius that is Bobby Fingers is the single reason YouTube was invented: #a rt #g enius #p ost Nice word! Enjoyed the latest story from the 99pi crew. The origins and eventual failure of Panopticon Prisons. #design This is why all UX designer miss the point. The question is not "how can I make a better user experience" it should be "how can I protect the user from being abused by my client". eg. No one, ever, wants to be tracked. Fuck metrics. Stop tracking. First Things First - A poem by ChatGPT
At the zenith of our Design industry's might, We squander time and talent on trinkets slight, A deluge of devices vies for our sight, And perfecting them now seems a futile fight. Like burnished brass that dulls in light of day, Or gilding on a lily, soon to fray, We labor on, though p There are no design problems worth solving at Facebook
I think this article is a beginning to the ethical discussion which should be had in the design community. Are designers too focused on solving user problems instead of business problems? For most products, the desired result will be "how will this make money." But there is no ho Design Folios are hard work.
I finally got around to putting up a portfolio post on this cyber security brand I created a year ago. Keeping on top of these things is always the last priority. Quick summary of the above: The brand symbol is derived from a combination of ideas. Underlying it all is the monogram AI has a long way to go
Do you want to grow up and become a Prompt Wrangler? These are the job titles for people who use Dalle et al. to create visuals. I think there must be a skill in it. AI doesn't create ideas from nothing. It creates ideas from what you feed it. Example: Make a photo-realistic product The Creative Act: A way of being
This is a great book. Legendary music producer Rick Rubin meditates on the creative process and gives real world examples and exercises to help you break creative blocks or push your creative thinking. Will live on my desk forever more and be withing reaching distance to calm the Spam
You have to give credit to the person who wrote this. It's highly engaging. It blends the perfect amount of psuedo-scientific jargon with airy-fairy wishful thinking. Do people actually believe it? The phrase Galactic Co-ordinates is brilliant. A year of illustrations.
Over the past year I have been illustrating a series of dogs portraits for a client. They get used a range of merchandise to raise funds for the dog shelter they run. This is Miss Red. She was born in a litter with a range of neurological conditions and physical disabilities. #desi
