Welcome to The Creative Brief. Your weekly newsletter to help you be more creative and stay inspired.

In this issue:
📚 Resource of the Week
🍎 Apple Creative is Undefeated
✍️ The Work of Herb Lubalin
👀 Good Design on Your Phone

Resource of the Week

I like gradients. A lot.

Noisy gradients? Even better.

Noise & Gradient makes it very very simple to cycle through a bunch of randomized gradients, and add varying degrees of noise and chaos to the palette.

I have been using the free version of this since it was first released, and absolutely love it.

80’s Apple Creative is Undefeated

The copy. The glove. The simplicity.

Apple's "Test Drive a Macintosh" campaign dared customers to experience their vision of the future.

This 80’s editorial style of work is having a massive resurgence lately among modern brands.

Check out more 80’s inspo from Elizabeth Goodspeed on Arena.

The Work of Herb Lubalin

If you aren’t familiar with the work of Herb Lubalin, well, you should be.

His ability to turn typography into an expressive, artful medium is unmatched. He was also a bit of a pioneer in design; using type as a vehicle for visual messaging.

Check out his work on Lubalin 100

This is one of my favorite Lubalin pieces:

Good Design on Your Phone

Adobe Express is making it easier than ever to actually design on your phone.

Trying to make graphics on a phone used to be impossible. Now? Good design is possible on the go.

Try out Adobe Express if you haven’t yet, and let me know what you think! I have been calling it Canva 2.0. It’s completely free, and the Beta release is getting really powerful!

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See you next week!