Hatiye Garip on accessible illustration and how the creative industry can take action

Freelance designer and illustrator Hatiye Garip is part of an ever-growing community of creatives making art more inclusive and accessible for all. We caught up with her to learn more about her work and discover what action the industry needs to take going forwards.

The creative industry likes to think of itself as a progressive, open-minded space, but there is always more that can be done. When it comes to disabled people, art can often leave them behind by not catering to their needs. This doesn't need to be the case, though, and there are many ways in which individuals and studios can help to redress this imbalance.

One such creative who is making a positive difference is Turkey-based designer and illustrator Hatiye Garip. Her beautiful, colourful work strives to make the illustration more accessible to a wider audience. Through her studies, research projects and workshops, she is quickly becoming an incredible ambassador for the often-overlooked topic.

What made you decide to specialise in accessible illustration?

I can't say that I'm an expert on this subject yet. No, no, no, this is just the beginning. However, I can say that I am an illustrator who dares to take responsibility and initiate a change. At different times in my adventure with illustration, my path has somehow crossed with NGOs working on disability, accessibility, human rights or independent living.

I learned a lot from these encounters, specifically about including representations of disability in my illustrations. Other people often wrote the image descriptions under the illustrations I had created for them when the work was completed. That is until I was contacted by Alice Wong. Two years ago, disability rights activist Alice Wong contacted me through the Disabled Cartoonists Database while searching for an illustrator for her latest book, Year of the Tiger. Thus, for the first time, I wrote image descriptions for my illustrations as part of my job.

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Experience the Power of Professional Web Design and Take Business to the Next Level

First Impressions: A professional website design can create a positive first impression for your visitors and potential customers. It shows that your business is legitimate and trustworthy.

Better User Experience: A professional website design ensures that your website is user-friendly and easy to navigate, making it easier for visitors to find what they need and stay on your site for longer

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Search Engine Optimization: Professional web design includes optimizing your site for search engines, which can increase your visibility in search results and drive more traffic to your site.

Increased Conversions: A well-designed website can increase the likelihood of visitors converting into customers by making it easy for them to find the information they need and take action.

Branding: A professional website design can establish and reinforce your brand by using consistent branding elements and creating a cohesive look and feel across your site.

Branding: A professional website design can establish and reinforce your brand by using consistent branding elements and creating a cohesive look and feel across your site.

Mobile Optimization: A professional website design ensures that your site is optimized for mobile devices, which is increasingly important as more people use their phones to access the internet.

Competitive Advantage: A professional website design can give you a competitive advantage by helping you stand out from your competitors and positioning your business as a leader in your industry.

Different Types of Web Design Services

There are many different types of web design services, each of which serves a specific purpose or meets a specific need. Here are some of the most common types of web design services:Responsive Web Design: This web design ensures your site looks great and functions well on all devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones.

E-commerce Web Design: This web design is designed for businesses selling products or services online. It includes shopping carts, secure payment gateways, and inventory management.

Custom Web Design: Custom web design services involve creating a unique website design from scratch tailored to your needs and goals.

Website Redesign: Website redesign services involve updating a website to improve its look, feel, and functionality. This can include updating the site’s layout, colors, and content.

Landing Page Design: A landing page is a single webpage designed to encourage visitors to take a specific action, such as purchasing or filling out a form. Landing page design services are focused on creating compelling landing pages.

CMS Web Design: CMS (Content Management System) web design involves using a platform like WordPress or Joomla to design and build your website, making it easy to manage and update your site’s content.

Website Maintenance: Website maintenance services ensure your site stays up-to-date, secure, and running smoothly. This can include things like updates, backups, and security checks.

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Moves & changes – design industry news

London-based brand agency Boldspace has appointed illustrator and graphic designer Yuko Kondo as its new art director. Kondo has previously run his own studio and also worked at Wieden+Kennedy and AMV BBDO.

Manchester-based agency Anything has announced Alex Atkinson as its head of design. Atkinson, who has worked at McCann previously, will oversee the agency’s digital output.

Interbrand has appointed Paralympic athlete Anna Johannes as a strategist in inclusive design. Johannes won a Bronze medal for swimming at the 2012 Paralympic Games. She will work with Interbrand’s director of inclusive design to help embed inclusivity in branding. Interbrand also promoted Gonzalo Brulo to global chief executive.

Elmwood New York has appointed Jeanne Manuli as executive strategy director. Manuli was previously at Huge, where she led Android’s brand refresh. Elmwood has also promoted Natasha Young to its head of client partnerships for the US.

FutureBrand’s London office has announced Polly Hopkins as its new managing director. Hopkins has worked across branding, communications and business transformation with clients in Europe and the US. London brand consultancy Echo has announced Charlie Hughes as its new strategy director, where she will lead on strategic work across sectors including fitness and fashion. Hughes has previously worked with clients including Virgin Media and The Economist.

Ad agency Elvis has appointed Tom Gudgeon as its first ever head of design. Gudgeon, who has previously worked at The PlayGround and McCann, is looking to build on the agency’s design output.

Graphic designer Astrid Stavro has been appointed president of the International Society of Typographic Designers, where she will look to strengthen the organisation’s international network and improve its diversity. This will include promoting typography’s role in the digital sector. “I look forward to building on [ISTD’s] amazing heritage, championing the relevance of typographic standards internationally as well as making ISTD more culturally relevant, open and diverse,” says Stavro.

Designer and silversmith Rupert Welch is a new ambassador at Anti Copying in Design (ACID). “We must do better to nurture creativity, encourage invention and design and protect those ground-breaking ideas,” he says.

Consultancies:

Design consultancy Dn&co has rebranded as DNCO. The new name and identity are a “subtle shift that reflects bigger ambitions and deeper changes in the business”, DNCO explains. The studio was established in 2004 and is now 100% employee-owned.

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The biggest trends in graphic design for 2023, as predicted by the creative industry

As we head to the end of another busy 12 months, we gather expert opinions from industry leaders to give you a sense of where graphic design is heading in the year to come.

The job of the graphic designer may have changed a lot lately, but the good news is that the discipline is still in demand more than ever indeed. As businesses battle to survive the coming recession, good design will help them stand out visually, connect with their audiences, and create the brand loyalty they so desperately need.

That means the best graphic designers should not want for work in 2023, although at the same time, you may be expected to do more than ever. It's no longer good enough to only design for print or even digital. There's also motion, AR, VR, mixed reality and more. The good news is that good design is always good, whatever the platform. So as you stick to the same design fundamentals that have carried you so far, you should be in a strong place.

And at Creative Boom, we'll continue to play our part in bringing you the best graphic design news, resources, interviews and case studies that we always have. So you won't go short of graphic design inspiration or advice over the next 12 months.

To that end, we thought we'd gather some industry opinion to help you navigate the next year of no-doubt choppy waters. In this article, we bring together experts from across graphic design who share their thoughts, fears and hopes for 2023. After all, forewarned is forearmed!

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disguise Brings Motion Graphics to Live-to-Air Broadcast at NAB Show

At this year’s NAB show, disguise, a virtual production technology pioneer, is showcasing an Unreal Engine (UE) integration to bring new motion graphics capabilities to live-to-air broadcast. disguise’s flagship software, Porta, works with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine to bring broadcasters an end-to-end solution for everything from virtual worlds to lower thirds.

As more broadcasters use real-time graphics to drive audience engagement, demand has grown for applications that make creating graphics as easy as possible. With the new integration, broadcasters can use one platform to quickly create AR and xR graphics as well as more traditional motion graphics such as lower thirds and full screens. All graphics can then be controlled from a single interface: disguise Porta.

Thanks to its Newsroom Control System integration, Porta lets operators integrate UE graphics into their traditional broadcast workflows, and control their playout, without the need to acquire specialized skills or new talent. With Porta, users can also draw on preexisting graphics templates to ensure a consistent look and feel for their programming and play content out in rundowns with ease and efficiency.“This project is a milestone for us, with all the graphics built in native Unreal Engine — including the CG graphics. It’s a very efficient setup using our cloud-based Porta control, which runs on Unreal, and we are extremely proud to be able to showcase our work for the first time ever at this year's 100th NAB,” says Grigory Mindlin, General Manager for Broadcast at disguise.

“At DAZN we keep innovating and applying technology to enhance the viewing experience for all sports fans. This virtual studio allows us to offer augmented realities of motorbikes, to generate virtual windows for image analysis and to connect with the circuit, turning each race into a more immersive experience never seen before during a MotoGP live broadcast,” said Quim Domènech, SVP of Content for DAZN Spain.

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Web Design Fundamentals – Technology Org

Web design is the process of creating and designing websites that are visually appealing, engaging, user-friendly, and effective in communicating with their target audience. A website is often the first impression a potential customer or client may have of a business, and it is critical that it reflects the company’s values, brand, and message. Good web design involves a combination of art, technology, and human psychology to create an optimal user experience. In today’s digital age, where websites are essential for almost every business, it is crucial that businesses invest in professional web design to stay ahead of the competition.

Introduction

Web design involves creating visually appealing and functional websites that effectively convey information and captivate users. It encompasses the design, layout, and overall aesthetic of a website, as well as the functionality and user experience. A well-designed website should be easy to navigate, load quickly, and provide relevant and engaging content to the user. Web design can be achieved through a variety of tools and techniques, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, as well as more advanced programming languages and software. The ultimate goal of web design is to effectively communicate the content and purpose of a website while providing an enjoyable and seamless user experience.

History

Web design has a rich and varied history that stretches back several decades. It all began in the early 1990s, when Tim Berners-Lee created the first web browser and HTML code. However, it was far from the polished and user-friendly web that we know and love today. In the early years, web design was a highly technical and specialized field that was largely dominated by developers and programmers. Websites were clunky, slow, and often difficult to navigate, with little regard for aesthetics or usability.

Over time, however, new technologies and design philosophies emerged that helped to shape the modern web. One of the most significant developments was the rise of CSS (Cascade Style Sheets), which allowed designers to separate the presentation of a website from its content. This made it much easier to create visually appealing and consistent sites, and paved the way for the widespread use of images, colors, and animation.

Another major milestone in the history of web design was the introduction of responsive design. As smartphones and other mobile devices became increasingly popular, designers were faced with the challenge of creating sites that could adapt to different screen sizes and resolutions. This led to the development of responsive design frameworks, which allow websites to automatically adjust their layout and content based on the device being used to view them.

Today, web design is a complex and rapidly evolving field that requires a wide range of skills and expertise. Designers must be able to balance aesthetics, usability, and functionality, while also staying up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies. From minimalist, flat designs to complex, interactive web applications, there are countless ways to create a website that is both beautiful and effective. And with the rise of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, the future of web design looks more exciting and innovative than ever before.

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Paths to Energy, Environment Design Water Conservation Credits for Evaporative Cooling Towers

Evaporative cooling towers play an important role in green buildings by significantly reducing energy consumption when they supplement or replace traditional air conditioning systems, thereby reducing carbon footprint and operating costs. Although evaporative cooling is great at saving energy, it does consume some water, but the benefits on energy savings outweigh the water usage, which in some places is a scarce resource.

Water conservation is therefore a high priority in designing and operating water-cooled equipment and plays an important role in USGBC’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification and other sustainability programs. LEED assigns credit points to reduce water usage.

Two Design Paths

The LEED options for reducing potable water consumption in cooling towers can be separated into two strategies:

Get more use from the potable water. 

The first strategy is directed at maximizing the use and value of each gallon of potable water used in evaporative cooling by optimizing the cooling tower’s cycles of concentration (COC). The success of this strategy and the ease or difficulty of implementing it is highly dependent on the quality of the available potable water.

Substitution of non-potable water.  

The second LEED recommended strategy — which can be combined with the first — is to substitute non-potable water, such as HVAC condensate or rainwater, for some portion of the total water consumed. Analogous to the use of solar and wind as “alternative energy” sources to replace or supplement fossil fuel consumption, the use of non-potable water acts as an “alternative water” source, replacing potentially scarce drinking water. Obviously, the viability of this approach depends on the types of available non-potable water sources.

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