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Published in Muzli - Design Inspiration

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Branding, you be you…

Ok, lets discuss branding. What it is, why it’s important, and how you can go about creating something that is going to be beneficial to your company. — What is a brand? Let’s ask the most obvious question to kick this whole thing off. What exactly is a brand? So, this article is not going to be a step by step guide to creating your first brand identity. It’s not going to be a join the dots tutorial on how to create…

Brand

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Branding, you be you…
Branding, you be you…

Published in Design at Shortcut

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Shaping Our New Brand Direction

Evolution is important. That’s why we need to keep evolving. And with that in mind, let’s discuss how we’re evolving our brand style. — It’s been over 2 years since our brand here at Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse) had an overhaul by the creative agency Ueno, and to date, we still feel the project, as a whole, has been a huge success. It brought Shortcut up a level. It made us feel like a grown-up…

Branding

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Shaping Our New Brand Direction
Shaping Our New Brand Direction

Published in Muzli - Design Inspiration

·Mar 24

Creating the Shortcut Blog Illustrations 👨‍🎨

At Shortcut, we love writing great content, and who doesn’t love reading great content. Well, alongside the great content, we also create great illustrations too! — We here at Shortcut love our users but we also love getting more and more new users too. So, here’s our hypothesis. We write great content for our great Shortcut Blog, readers read the great content, learn about how great our product is and sign up to our great product…

Illustration

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Creating the Shortcut Blog Illustrations 👨‍🎨
Creating the Shortcut Blog Illustrations 👨‍🎨

Published in Design at Shortcut

·Feb 1

The Shortcut Shapes

We bring the flow to your software team’s workflow. We also bring illustrations to our brand identity. Here is the story of our illustrative style — The Challenge With an ever growing competitive landscape, we here at shortcut.com were challenged with creating a unique, illustrative brand style that helped separate us from the rest, as well as telling a unique, clear story of why Shortcut is so special.

Branding

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The Evolution of the Shortcut Shapes…
The Evolution of the Shortcut Shapes…

Published in Geek Culture

·Dec 14, 2021

Design @ Shortcut.com

A design team needs a place to call home. A place where they can share their innermost thoughts. Here at Shortcut we felt it was time to build our fort and here’s how and why we did it. — The goal was to create a site specifically for our design team, to share our views, opinions, values, our guidelines. A place for us to shout about ourselves, to tell others (and remind ourselves) what’s important to us, and why it’s important. …

Design

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Design @ Shortcut.com
Design @ Shortcut.com

Published in Design at Shortcut

·Dec 1, 2021

Welcome to Dots World

Who is Dot I hear you ask? Well, Dot is the loveable little mascot of Shortcut, the Project Management tool everyone loves to love. Today, we’re going behind the scenes to learn more about our squishy little ball of love. — This is Dot. Be like Dot. So, let’s get started. Who is Dot? Well, Dot is Dot. Dot’s job is to be as much like Dot as possible. Part courageous guide, part indispensable teammate, Dot knows the way toward harmonious, productive work.

Mascot

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Welcome to Dots World
Welcome to Dots World

Published in Design at Shortcut

·Nov 24, 2021

Our Principles Help Guide Us…

We pride ourselves on aligning our values closely to the output of our work. Our design principles outline our core beliefs and we constantly refer back to our principles to make sure we‘re making the right decisions. — 1. We sweat the details. Design will ultimately decide if we succeed or fail as a business. As Charles and Ray Eames once said, “The details are not the details. They make the design.” This quote is remarkably accurate in the context of our competitive market.

Design

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Our Principles Help Guide Us…
Our Principles Help Guide Us…

Published in Design at Shortcut

·Oct 12, 2021

Designing the new Shortcut Logo

Creating a logo is always such a tricky task for a design team. It can be so subjective, and trying to get out what’s in the stakeholders mind can seem impossible. Here’s how we went about it. — So let’s start at the top… Once upon a time, there was a company called Clubhouse. Clubhouse was a project management software that was great. People loved using it. Then, one day, another Clubhouse appeared. The other Clubhouse was a social audio app that was great too. People loved using…

Logo

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Designing the new Shortcut Logo
Designing the new Shortcut Logo

Published in Design at Shortcut

·Mar 9, 2021

A designer’s advice for transitioning into a remote job

Recently, there has been a big shift in designers turning their head towards working remotely, and rightly so. With so much benefits, I can understand why we are starting to lean towards wanting to work remotely. — For the last sixteen years, I’ve spent all of my work life as a full-time, in-house designer, heading to the office Monday through Friday. This was the norm up until recently when I started to notice more and more attractive remote design roles emerge.

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A designer’s advice for transitioning into a remote job
A designer’s advice for transitioning into a remote job

Jun 29, 2020

10 Minute Covid-19 Procreate Practice

Here’s a little exercise I gave myself to practice, to keep myself motivated and creative, as well as trying to put a smile on peoples face whilst in lockdown. — As a designer, it’s always important to keep yourself motivated, creative, and inspired. Unfortunately being locked in a house, for me anyway, has really put a pin on the opportunities to go out and get some inspiration. So I’m going to share with you a little project I gave myself…

Procreate

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10 Minute Covid-19 Procreate Practice
10 Minute Covid-19 Procreate Practice
Al Power 👨‍🎨

Al Power 👨‍🎨

Visual Designer // Illustrator // Dublin, Ireland // www.alpowerillustrates.com

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