Creative Community Responds to Design School Branding Challenge in Boom Briefs Series
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Tom May
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Summary
Boom Briefs, a monthly creative challenge series, launched its second challenge asking the design community to create branding for a fictional graphic design school called Northmark: School of Design based in Manchester. The open-ended brief encouraged diverse creative approaches from minimalist to experimental styles, resulting in a wide range of submissions including craft-inspired concepts and animated identities that showcased the community's creativity.
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The brief was deliciously open-ended. Slick and minimalist? Loud and experimental? Brutalist? Bauhaus?
From craft-inspired concepts to animated identities, our fictional design school brief sparked incredible creativity across our community.
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