I'm brewing up something fresh and exciting with Creative Juice for you and cannot wait to share it. This week is full of color, motion, and thoughtful ideas about how being a designer or a creative isn't always about being the most technically talented. Enjoy!

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: Rainbow Buildings Warm My Heart

PORTFOLIO OF THE WEEK: How To Simply Make Your Design Projects Shine

CREATIVE FIND 01: It Looks Good to be Selective

CREATIVE FIND 02: In The Age of Ai, Good Taste is All We Have

CREATIVE FIND 03: Please Disturb, I'm Off My Phone

One Gram: Blue, Green, Pink, and Yellow Skateboarding Bears! Oh My!

ONE LESSON: Something New with Creative Juice

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Something Gorgeous

Rainbow Buildings Warm My Heart

Vertical Rainbow Office Building by SAKO Architects

Rainbows just hit differently when you're an adult. Whenever a rainbow shines after a big rain here in Bali, a tear may not appear from my eye but my heart definitely sings. SAKO Architects, led by Keiichiro Sako, has transformed a once standard office building into a radiant display of color and light for Musashi Paint Holdings Co.

Pretty fitting exterior for a paint company if you ask me.

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Portfolio of the Week

How To Simply Make Your Design Projects Shine

Benjamin Parker

You're probably overthinking how to present your design projects. This design portfolio website shows you don’t have to overthink it.

Benjamin Parker is a Los Angeles-based art director and designer with experience from TBWA and currently works on the iPhone Interactive Team at Apple. Pretty sick right?!

Ben’s portfolio homepage is thoughtfully organized:

• Prioritization: Apple projects are positioned at the top to make a strong impression.

• Big juicy thumbnails: 2x1.5 aspect ratio makes projects visually appealing and clickable.

• Layout and alignment: Titles are left-aligned to thumbnails with the call-to-action and headings strategically placed.

• Minimal text: Each project includes three key pieces of information: title, call-to-action, and a catchy heading.

Room for improvement: When clicking into projects, more links to additional projects or a footer with contact info would be helpful.

What do you think of Ben's design portfolio? Which parts would you incorporate into yours?

Score: 7.2/10

Built with: Webflow

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Creative Finds

It Looks Good to be Selective

Selective Music Visual Identity by Bleed Studio

A brief post illustrates the quality of work for Norwegian music management company, Selective Music.

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In The Age of Ai, Good Taste is All We Have

Elizabeth Goodspeed on the importance of taste – and how to acquire it

Elizabeth Goodspeed explains why taste in design and creativity is essential and how to develop it.

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Please Disturb, I'm Off My Phone

The Hinge Phonebook

Hinge released a phone-sized book to encourage connecting in real life. PDF download available.

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One Gram

Blue, Green, Pink, and Yellow Skateboarding Bears! Oh My!

@anchorball

Ken Kelleher imagines neon-colored bears skateboarding in Venice Park. Possibly created with AI for inspiration.

Have you thought about incorporating AI into your process?

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One Lesson

Something New with Creative Juice

Creative Juice is brewing new content. I reached out to Justin Colt of The Collected Works for a Creative Juice takeover, sharing recent projects from the studio.

If you know of any design studios, graphic designers, or creative powerhouses whose work should appear in Creative Juice, just let me know with a reply!

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