Design

For people with creative careers, curiosity must remain at the forefront of our minds because creativity stands out. Creativity survives.

Pictograms are tidy windows to more than the Olympics. They open wide enough to show us how we know our world.

Without formal grammar, images depend on context to inform their meaning.

Benefits are a critical part of employees’ total rewards from their employer. A thoughtfully developed benefits program provides a safety net for employees and their families. How employees participate in these programs can affect their overall financial picture, now and far into the future.

While novelty and unexpectedness can catch an audience’s attention, successful communication also relies on predictability.

For those of us who aren’t graphic designers or visual artists, graphic design is shrouded in a certain amount of mystery.

UX design looks past the technology (both hardware and software), even past the content, to what is happening with/to the user.

As a general design principle, eliminating “interaction friction” means fewer steps, smoother transitions and less computation, all leading to using less energy and generating less heat/friction.

It’s not an accident that Pantone turned to the traditional half-mourning color. Elaborate Victorian grieving conventions adopted the use of shades of purple to signal the passage from grief to a resumption of life.

Interlocking rings express the unifying vision of the games. Each individual ring maintains its integrity as it links together into a freshly defined and expanded whole. None of the rings is forced to lose its integrity, nor is any ring greater than the collective whole.