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In celebration of World Photography Day, we got our Redstampers to share some of their favourite snaps from around the globe! 📷🌎

World Photography Day celebrates the unique art, culture, and history of photography as it continues to encapsulate our beautiful, extraordinary planet.

“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.” - Ansel Adams

Nitro needed to elevate its position in the market and show its strength as an enterprise-level all-in-one PDF platform.

As part of their rebrand, we created an isometric illustration system that utilized dynamic lines, atmospheric glow, and directional lighting to show the breadth of Nitro's PDF tools while also showing how these connected tools can help people work faster (and happier) with PDF's.

To celebrate National Book Day, we’re sharing some of our creative teams’ favorite books. See which page turners they couldn’t put down and why! 📚

“Marketers have milliseconds of audience attention to influence a decision. ‘Blink’ gives us a front row seat to what the brain is up to during that time. A bit of behavioural economics and a bit of a dive into the instinctual subconscious, Gladwell blends science and story to slow down the process of rapid cognition enough for us to understand how it works.”
-Laura Myers, Marketing Strategist

“Most 300-page business books would be better as 2000-word articles. ‘Creative Strategy and the Business of Design’ gets it. All killer no filler, this book is packed with easy-to-use frameworks, logical mental models, and revealing case studies that are perfect for visual thinkers who want to leap into a more strategic creative practice for branding and communication.”
-Hannah Miller, Creative Director

“Creative Confidence’ is not specifically a UX design book, but the non-specificity sums up my view of UX design—all design should be user-centric. In the examples and exercises shared by the authors, this approach—from ideation to prototyping and testing—is broken down into simple, collaborative, easy-to-follow steps that are repeatable and scalable.”
-Amer Alkhatib, UX Design Team Lead

“Transitioning from Maker to Manager in a creative field is littered with roadblocks and challenges that aren’t often addressed or acknowledged in most books on management. You’ll find specific, actionable, and effective principles to accelerate you on your path while not losing the “heart and spark” that led you to the creative field to begin with.”
-Spencer Ririe, Co-Founder

Today we’re celebrating the first Stampiversary of our Associate Program Director Jess!!

She hit the ground running as soon as she got here, quickly adding an invaluable level of experience to the team. Her growth here at Redstamp has been just as seismic and impactful as the incredibly positive energy she brings to her role every day.

Whether it’s masterfully orchestrating our team of creatives or blowing us away with her own creative talents cooking and baking some very impressive (and delicious) treats, it feels like there is nothing she can’t do.

Cheers to you, Jess, and to many more stampiversaries to come!!👩‍🍳🚀

Mission impossible: stop Pinterest users on a scroll roll. ✋

This clever campaign for Hootsuite calls out Pinterest users' behaviors while appealing to their aesthetic sensibilities.

The result— eyes, action, and increased awareness of how Hootsuite helps users get more out of their Pinterest initiatives and feed organic growth. 👀

The man, the myth, the legend! Join us in congratulating Redstamp's own Danny Norton on 5 years of herding cats! For half a decade, Danny has put his heart and soul into the often thankless job of keeping our lights on, ensuring our initiatives run like clockwork, and saving our group of creative dreamers from floating off into space.

We are lucky to have someone with his talent and grit safeguarding our team. Cheers to our one and only 🐹 Hamster 🐹 for achieving this major milestone, and double cheers to many more excellent years ahead!

Did you know you become a UX Designer every time you select an emoji? 🎨 Shigetaka Kurita created the first set of emoji's in 1999 to improve the interface of low-res tech (RIP flip phones and pagers). These simple symbols helped users travel through the device without gobbling up the precious screen real estate text labels demand and allowed designers to communicate complex information, ideas, and direction more efficiently.💡

Today, we use emoji's in the same way: adding depth, emotion, and context to our written communication that would otherwise be too difficult or inefficient to achieve with words alone— providing our users (friends, co-workers, family etc. 😉) with a better communication experience.

Help us celebrate these little powerhouses and post your favourites below! (For the record, ours is 🌮... IYKYK)

Big news about some big brains! We are thrilled to announce the promotions of not one but two (!!!) members of our team.

Join us in congratulating Laura Myers on her promotion to Marketing Strategist, and to Jessica Crighton on her promotion to Associate Program Director. Laura and Jessica have been key players in our and our client's biggest wins, and we can't wait to see what this dynamic duo will achieve in their new roles.

Cheers to good people taking us to great new heights! 🎉

BRAND DESIGN

Nitro's company mascot, the Nitronaut, was in serious need of an update to match the brand's bold new aesthetic.

We re-envisioned this character, using dramatic lighting, a vibrant sense of movement, and a humanistic brush to embody the ambition, passion, and drive of the Nitro team.

The end result is a Nitronaut that feels dynamic, heroic, and ready to take on the world.

LOGO REDESIGN

The challenge with the sonar logo was to pay homage to its predecessor while also representing a future-friendly vision for the company. The concept is based on Sonar’s product line—detection and protection.

Whales use sonar beams for navigation and targeting prey. The team used the waves of Sonar’s old logo to create the ventral pleats of this friendly mascot.

Once this was established, a custom typeface was created for the word mark that reflected the tech-based industry Sonar is a part of and shapes seen in the whale logo mark (the fins and flukes).

There's a lot of perks that come with remote work—notably, being able to work from anywhere in the world!

Take Hannah for example, living the life in Mexico!

Where's your ideal destination? 🌴💻