Ceros Acquires Avocode, Envisions Open Design Future

Ceros has acquired Avocode, a design file translation tool. Explore the possibilities that the partnership might yield here. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 3 years ago

The Graphic Design of North Korea

We spoke to Nicholas Bonner, author of Made in North Korea: Graphics from Everyday Life in the DPRK, identified aspects of the country's visual style. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 4 years ago

College, prestige, and the NY Times wedding section

The wedding announcements in the "New York Times" have long affirmed a New Yorker’s place in New York society. Which schools produce those most featured? | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 4 years ago

Carbon Footprint of Travel to Burning Man

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@ceros.com | 5 years ago

404 Pages

We scoured the web for the most innovative, creative 404 not found error pages. Here are a few of our favorites from the Warhol museum to gymbox. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 5 years ago

The Art of the Smear – Breaking Down a Secret Animation Trick

How do you animate movement without drawing every step frame-by-frame? Animation smears, the optical illusions used on Spongebob and The Simpsons. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 5 years ago

8-Bit Style Map of “Uber for X” Startups

A decade ago Uber started a trend. Now there are countless copycats. Welcome to Uberville, where a touch of the thumb means you don't have to lift a finger. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 5 years ago

2018's Most Unanswered Stack Overflow Topics

Stack Overflow has answers to every tech question, but even the web best engineers, product managers, and hobbyists can't answer these 25 hardest questions. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 5 years ago

Dongles have been Apple’s top-selling products for two years at Best Buy

The Apple iPhone dongle is breakable and losable, and without it you can't use your Apple headphones. Yet it's one of the company’s best-selling products... | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 6 years ago

Digital Craft Weekly 49.16

Digital Craft Weekly is a weekly resource for interactive design and storytelling inspiration. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 7 years ago

How Graphic Design Legend Louise Fili Became “The Envy of Every Designer”

From designing over 2,000 book covers to establishing her own one-woman design studio in the 1980s, Louise Fili has established herself as a modern icon. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 7 years ago

Digital Craft Weekly 48.16

Digital Craft Weekly is a weekly resource for interactive design and storytelling inspiration. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 7 years ago

Life (and Death) as a Funeral Home Marketing Agency

How a funeral home marketing agency crafts stories for an emotional market, and what that can teach digital marketers. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 7 years ago

Digital Craft Weekly 47.16

Digital Craft Weekly is a weekly resource for interactive design and storytelling inspiration. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

Digital Craft Weekly 46.16

Digital Craft Weekly is a weekly resource for interactive design and storytelling inspiration. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

Story: The Secret Ingredient at the World’s Best Bar

The story behind the Dead Rabbit and the inspiration behind the immersive storytelling experience with owner Sean Muldoon. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

Want to Increase Creativity? Look Outside the Office

In the second golden age of brand marketing, we're re-learning creativity from organizations working far outside office walls. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

The Mind Behind Target’s Bold Bet on Creativity

Todd Waterbury, CCO at Target, talks about the creative experiences they use to introduce the Target brand to consumers, such as their exhibit at Art Basel | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

The Art of the Kickstarter Side Hustle

The story behind the 'comp' notebook on Kickstarter, created by graphic designer Aron Fay. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

The Madness and Wonder of Immersive Theater

Why immersive theater is more than just an artistic fad, but a real life journey down the rabbit hole into a heightened storytelling experience. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

Digital Craft Weekly 43.16

Digital Craft Weekly is a weekly resource for interactive design and storytelling inspiration. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

No, You Don’t Have the Attention Span of a Goldfish

Humans do not have shorter attention spans than goldfish. Where did this idea come from anyway? | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

The Secret to Overcoming Creative Rejection? Persistence

The stories of extremely successful artists can help us learn how to face our own creative rejections, whether at work or outside of the office. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

Principles of Design: Bringing Order to Chaos with Grid Systems

Why is it important for designers to understand how and why to use grid systems? | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

The Journal of Digital Craft | Week 42.16

The Journal of Digital Craft is a weekly resource for digital design inspiration. Brought to you by Ceros. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

Designing a Times Square Billboard Overnight

When the advertising deal of a lifetime came along, this startup sprung into action to design their Times Square billboard. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

Less, But Better: Revisiting the Design Philosophy of Dieter Rams in the Digital Age

What can today's digital designers learn from the "better, but less" product design principles established by Dieter Rams? | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

Arcade Games and Interactive Storytelling Constraints

What can 1980s arcade games and their ongoing popularity teach us about the power of constraints in interactive storytelling? This article explores. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

What Soviet Propaganda Can Teach Us About Creativity

This Twitter account is bringing new life to old soviet propaganda, and it can teach you an important lesson about creativity. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

The Art and Science of Generating Great Ideas

Great ideas don't just come out of nowhere—they are the final piece of a much larger puzzle that already existed in our brains. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

Storytelling > History: Museum Hack’s Interactive Approach to Tours & Team-Building

Learn about Museum Hack's interactive storytelling approach from founder Nick Gray, and see the power of story in action on a tour at the AMNH. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

How to Stop Pissing Off Your Designer

If you want better collaboration with your designers, you should cut out these bad habits that drive your designers crazy. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

The Disrupt Factor: What Makes Great Design So Disruptive?

As our days become increasingly shaped by new products and services designed to make our lives easier, the role of design in the user experience has never been as prevalent—or as important— as it is today. It should come as little surprise, then, that design is being treated as o … | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

Lessons in Design and Marketing Innovation from the Early Days of Nike

Everything you need is already inside. -Bill Bowerman, Nike co-founder Long before anybody ran a mile in a pair of Nike Free running shoes or sank a three-pointer in amore | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

UX Design & Digital Storytelling: Why Story Is Central to User Experience

What does UX design have to do with digital storytelling? More than you would think. Learn why reframing your UX thinking around story is valuable. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

Embracing Uncertainty as Part of the Creative Process

Does your creative process embrace uncertainty? Learn why taking an open-arms approach to the unexpected will make you a better creative. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

Interactive Story Apps and Narrative Technique

Interactive story apps are most than just a short-lived mobile fad. They can teach us a lot about good narrative technique in any storytelling medium. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

Cinemagraph Inspiration: 10+ Whimsical Examples

Cinemagraphs are a highly popular visual content type within the design community. Here are 10 of our favorites at Ceros. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

VR Storytelling: 5 Explorers Defining the Next Generation of Narrative

VR storytelling best practices are still being defined. Here's what we can learn from 5 leading studios producing compelling stories for virtual reality. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

Protected: Altria Companies’ Employee Fund Donates $3.1 Million to Nonprofits

Visual Storytelling in all its forms | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

Q&A with Adam Katz, Creative Lead at Google Creative Lab

Creative lead Adam Katz shares about his journey from print to web design, his education at SVA, and work at Google Creative Lab. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

Lessons in Story Design from Pixar’s Creative Team

Explore the practical magic that goes into Pixar's story designs in this review of Cooper Hewitt's Pixar: The Design of Story exhibit. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

Becoming the Lorax: An Interview with Justin Dickinson, Designer-at-Large

Thoughts on design, creative thinking, user testing, and brand marketing from Justin Dickinson, former Director of Design at Vimeo and designer-at-large. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

All About Those Leads: Crafting Content for Conversion

How do you create content that's not only super engaging, but also helps you generate leads? | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

Using Psychology to Optimize Your Lead Generation UX

Find out which 5 psychology principles can help you optimize your lead generation UX.  | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

What Does the Future of Marketing Have in Store?

Marketing today looks very different than it did fifteen years ago, but it’s surprising how different best marketing practices look today even when compared to the last few years. Technology is changing faster than ever, giving us new tools and an abundance of new ideas on how to … | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

Marketing Campaign Optimization: Leveraging the Science of Memory

Explore how you can win at marketing campaign optimization using the science of memory to make your content more impactful. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago

The Hero’s Journey: How to Create Protagonist-Centric Brand Content

Borrow a page from Hollywood’s script by putting a protagonist at the center of your brand content and giving your fans someone to cheer for. | Continue reading


@ceros.com | 8 years ago