News from the world's creators

Here we have the thoughts and opinions of creators sent to us by the design companies carried by CreNative.
This column allows you gain an insight into what is happening in other countries and their respective cultures.

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KOEKSUSTERS (and Koesisters)

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2012/4/24

South Africa is known as the Rainbow Nation, due to the vast variety of ethnic groups, cultures and religions who live in our country. In addition, many South Africans ...

The shadows of spirit world

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2012/3/28

Mexico and specially Guadalajara, the second largest and important city in the country, have always being considered places very connected to its roots; people in the ...

The Non-Graffiti

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2012/2/23

Mexico and specially Guadalajara, the second largest and important city in the country, have always being considered places very connected to its roots; people in the ...

WHAT IS THE PERSONALITY OF YOUR BRAND?

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2012/1/17

Brands are like people, they all need to communicate. Especially today, when we live in the "Information Age", communication is a vital concern to us all. Brands also ...

Redesigning Christchurch

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2011/11/09

On 4 September 2010 a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand's second largest city, Christchurch, bringing widespread destruction to the province of Canterbury. Worse was ...

Ukuraine Current trends in Ukrainian design

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2011/9/26

Ukrainian design now is in a rather unstable state and evokes mixed judgments. Many specialists suppose that one of the problems of the professional Ukrainian design is a brake between "old" and ...

South Africa Colour my Inspiration…

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2011/8/24

From a tender age, I was raised in a vibrant fabric shop. Owned by my gran and grandfather, we called them "nona" and "nono" respectively - as we are half-Croatian and half-Portuguese. Named the melting ...

Brazil Brazilian Handicraft - The strength of cultural roots

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2011/8/10

Brazilian Federation is formed by twenty six states and a Federal District. Each of the five geopolitical regions has a strong and unique cultural identity, saturated with its local history. ...

Singapore Café Culture – Adding Design into the Mix

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2011/6/28

Despite a hectic schedule, one never fails to indulge in good food; this is true at least for a typical Singaporean! With a growing number of eateries here, we are spoilt for choice when looking ...

U.K. Royal Mail Stamps

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2011/5/31

Autumn in Croatia is the time for en mass return from the holidays, which here, something that the Japanese probably would not believe, lasts for almost a month. At summertime great migration ...

U.K. Royal Mail Stamps

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2011/5/17

The diversity of British postage stamps is truly remarkable. In addition to our work-a-day stamps with the Queen's head in profile against a plain background (designed by Arnold Machin), we produce ...

China My thought on Hong Kong design

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2011/4/12

What is design? What is good design? These seem to be such easy questions but many of us have yet to understand the primary value of design. As a designer, I think the design standard in Hong Kong is ...

Argentina Buenos Aires Local Art:Fileteado Porteño

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2011/3/8

The "Fileteado Porteño (1)" (Filete Porteño) is an ornamental and popular art, born in the early twentieth century in Buenos Aires.Originated in the car factories, where the pioneers of ...

Spain Revolution!

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2011/2/15

Right now the economic panorama in Spain is not the best ever. We have one of the worst crisis in the last decades, and that affects the illustration sector. In spite of this complicated ...

Sweden Swedish design

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2011/1/12

Long winters, dark nights and forests, that's a very common idea about Sweden and Scandinavia, Besides that we have snow, cold temperatures, and almost no daylight for long periods, maybe not ...

Indonesia Indonesia Exotic

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2010/11/26

Indonesia is a country, which has several of unique art & culture. It is the important thing that makes Indonesia different from other country. Most of the popular art and culture from Indonesia ...

Moldova Marketing and design evolution in Republic of Moldova

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2010/11/09

On our local market in these years appeared a lot of new small and midsized advertising companies that started producing and creating ads for the clients. The fact that the competition...

Australia Drawing inspiration

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2010/10/25

We slave away at our desktops, mocking up, coding out, blocking in, wire framing, consulting clients and, if you are a freelancer like me, taxes, invoices, appointments and the general dross...

India A local pot pouri

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2010/10/22

Overcast skies offer a perfect backdrop to Mumbai, the city of dreams. And as one commutes from one end of the city to the other,one can't help but notice the pot pouri of colours and...

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