RGD Contest Winner EricCo.Design

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The 2021 RGD Student Award Winners have been announced! We’re proud to sponsor the award for best portfolio website, and this year’s winner is EricCo.design!

Eric is a Toronto-based graphic designer who specializes in creative branding and visual storytelling. His style often incorporates modernist approaches, clean lines, and simple geometry. The clean, minimal design of his site reflects his forward-thinking style while allowing his colorful, detailed portfolio to take center stage.

Each example in his portfolio features helpful context and background information. It’s always enlightening to gain insight into a designer’s decision-making process, and Eric’s portfolio does a great job telling the story of each project.

Congratulations to Eric Co for winning the category!

Musho.design

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Musho.design is the personal portfolio of Michal Simkovic, a digital designer focused on UI design for mobile and web apps.

“Design in general should be a solution to a problem,” says Michal. “Ideally the best design is ‘just enough’ design: like music in a movie, it perfectly matches the story, so you don’t even notice it’s there.”

With this in mind, buying the URL musho.design and redirecting all his other domains to it was a natural decision. As he explains: “It’s a great match with my profession. Compared to .com it’s longer, but more human.”

Indeed.design

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Indeed is a leading website for job listings and recruiting. Their site at Indeed.design is an enlightening, comprehensive, and approachable overview of the entire brand’s design ethos.

Every design element, from Indeed’s logo, to the brand’s colors, shapes, typography, and voice, is explained and explored on its own page. Beyond technical explanations of how the design team created these bespoke design elements, each page also explains the psychology behind every decision.

For example, the custom typeface Indeed Sans was designed to embody the brand’s voice, with generous proportions and a mix of sharp and soft elements. The site even highlights the notable characters that most clearly express the typeface’s personality: the curves of the lowercase a’s and e’s express optimism, and the strokes of the b’s, d’s, and g’s lend a human, calligraphic feel.

ProperHuman.design

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ProperHuman.design, based in New York City, is a creative studio that helps brands find their unique voice. From overall strategy to product design to marketing, ProperHuman.design can do it all.

Headed by Daniel Palatnik, a UX/UI Designer and Front-End Developer with over 12 years of experience, ProperHuman.design‘s passion is clearly evident in their work. Their .design site is inventive and immersive, with navigation that is clear and intuitive. Their case studies show off the full spectrum of their work, which includes clients in health care, business consulting, interior design, and even educational tools for youth.

Readings.design

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Readings.design is a collection curated by Jarrett Fuller of recommended texts, both historical and contemporary, about and around graphic design. The site serves as a free library of introductory essays, books, and texts on graphic design theory, criticism, and practice as well as related fields like cultural criticism, photography, and architecture.

Jarrett Fuller is joining the faculty at North Carolina State University as an assistant professor of graphic design in August 2021. He also is the director of twenty-six.design, a multidisciplinary design and editorial studio; hosts scratchingthesurface.fm; and is a contributing editor at AIGA Eye on Design. Visit readings.design to refresh your inspiration and learn something new.

Absurd.design

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Based in Barcelona, absurd.design specializes in unique, hand-drawn illustrations.

With a whimsical, organic style, absurd.design stands out against the landscape of mostly-digital illustration.

For anyone looking to add a human touch to that special blog post, presentation, or website, absurd.design is a bold and creative choice that will leave a memorable and joyful impression.

With free and paid membership plans to access illustrations licensed for both commercial and personal projects, absurd.design is an accessible and delightful resource created by a talented designer who dares to be different.

Energi.design

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Energi.design creates award-winning motion graphics, 3D animation & unique website experiences.

Screencaps do not do any justice to the beautiful video graphics throughout the site. We highly recommend you click through to energi.design to experience the site as it was meant to be!

After trying out a number of domain names such as energi.click, energidesign.com and clickenergi.com, they were finally able to acquire the perfect domain to match their brand: energi.design.

As creative director Steve Holmes says, “Energi Design is the actual name of my company, founded 20 years ago. So finally having the exact domain name to match it is perfect. When I learned about .design becoming available, I signed up right away.”

NPR.design

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NPR.design offers behind-the-scenes stories from the design teams at National Public Radio.

As one of the premiere journalistic sources in the United States, NPR’s design team unites technology and storytelling in ways that are compelling to listeners and readers.

From branding and graphic design to app UX and integration with voice assistants like Alexa and Siri, the NPR design team is keeping public radio a vibrant, innovative resource for news and information.

Gurafika.design

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Gurafika.design is the website of Luis Garcia-Ochoa, a freelance designer and brand identity specialist based in Spain.

With over 18 years of experience, Luis is skilled in many areas of design including marketing, advertising, video, photography, editorial design, layout, web design, 3D infographics, illustration, multimedia, animation, and packaging.

Gurafika.design is an excellent reflection of Luis’ talent, with engaging colors and dynamic animations.

Achintya.Design

Written By Liz Achanta

In Achintya Giridhar Kini’s words: “I create beautiful, fast, responsive and search engine optimized websites which display fabulously on any device. Logos, wordmarks, emblems? I’m the man for you! Business cards, brochures, posters? You know who to call! I help businesses grow, and turn your vision into reality.”