Welcome to another Studio Flavor edition of Creative Juice. This week features design studio How & How. For this feature I asked founder Cat How, and Junior Designer Joanna Nicoll to share some creative finds that are inspiring the work at How & How. Enjoy!
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Creative Juice is a weekly newsletter published every Monday morning so you can start your week feeling inspired creatively to make cool sh*t and get paid for it. Every Monday I share something gorgeous, a portfolio of the week, three creative finds, one amazing post from social media, and one lesson I learned recently.
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TL:DR
SOMETHING GORGEOUS: The Photo Stories of Carlos Idun-Tawiah
PORTFOLIO OF THE WEEK: A Portfolio You'll Never Get Bored Of!
CREATIVE FIND 01: Amplifying the Whispers of Mother Aruba
CREATIVE FIND 02: Growing Fuzz for A Tree-planting App
CREATIVE FIND 03: Raising the Bar on Street Food
One Gram: Weird and Whimsical!
ONE LESSON: Simple Yet Effective
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Something Gorgeous
The Photo Stories of Carlos Idun-Tawiah
Boys Will Always Be Boys - 2023
I've chosen the work of Carlos Idun-Tawiah, a Ghanaian photographer who seeks to 'remark and reimagine the ever-changing landscapes of Black life.' His work is rich in meaning, and beautifully bold in execution. Boys Will Always Be Boys immediately came to mind for Something Gorgeous.
Portfolio of the Week
A Portfolio You'll Never Get Bored Of!
Eilidh Reid
Our midweight designer Eilidh's portfolio is brimming with joy and undeniable talent. We were immediately drawn in by her expert use of colour and wide range of stylistic capability, with a particular shout out to her numerous expressively animated naked ladies! She uses Instagram to display her public portfolio of work.
Score: 12/10
Built with: Instagram
Creative Finds
Amplifying the Whispers of Mother Aruba
Aruba Conservation: Foundation
Our latest rebrand for the wonderful people at the Aruba Conservation Foundation (ACF) - the appointed nature conservation organization on the island, tasked with protecting over 24% of the island’s natural habitat, both terrestrial and marine - saw us amplifying the voice of Mother Aruba. This was a pleasure to make, a beautiful project for beautiful people, all working towards an inspirational goal.
Growing Fuzz for A Tree-planting App
Free Tree
Freetree hijacks traditional online consumer behaviour, turning guilt-ridden transactional experiences into moments of feel-good fuzziness. By planting trees where they’re needed most, filling open spaces with branches, foliage and undergrowth, Freetree is also making Earth fuzzier too. Although there was budget in this project, we asked Freetree to waive our fee and ‘pay us in trees’ instead. We're thrilled our work helped to plant 60,000 trees as a result!
Raising the Bar on Street Food
Yum Bun
Yum Bun takes street food back to its OG meaning. They're meal experimentalists, throwing out the recipe book and forever setting the standard for MORE. Our brand idea for Yum Bun was ‘Bounce and Rise’, speaking to Yum Bun's bouncy baos, playful energy and standard-raising culture. The highlight of the project has to be Bowie, the bouncy bao mascot. It was so much fun working on the different iterations of this little guy, we did loads of different tests and illustrations of him in different poses, with or without arms etc. In the end, something nice and simple turned out to be the best.
One Gram
Weird and Whimsical!
@zoesartroom_
Zoe's page has characters that make you smile, process videos that relax you, illustrated worlds that you want to step right into. I'm a huge fan of Zoe and love watching how her work develops, I hope her account blows up soon!
One Lesson
Simple Yet Effective
Joanna chose the book 'Steal Like an Artist' as it taught her a key lesson when starting out as a designer. She says that "a large part of becoming a designer and entering the industry is gaining the confidence to do so. This book helped me immensely, with all its tips and tricks. Mainly, teaching the valuable lesson of how to use what those before you have done, but make it *better*".
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