Zoran Opalic

Professional in design and publishing industry. Conceptualize and orchestrate designs and redesigns that effectively reinforce and build brand images. Proven ability to drive record-high campaign in increasing publication sales and execute successful product launches...
Zoran Opalic has written 464 posts for iNewsDesign

The Creative Strategy to Achieve Brand Credibility

How to Enhance Corporate Communication Persuasion To Better Achieve Company Goals   By:  William L. Haig, Ph.D. bill@haigbranding.com Enhancing corporate communication persuasion has been a goal of marketing managers for ages.  This article addresses this goal.  It is about better creativity in all marketing communications to increase persuasion. To do this, the strategy applies what … Continue reading

COLLINS Partners with Ogilvy to Redefine the Company’s Brand Experience

Ogilvy officially announced its rebranding, complete with new visual identity, logo, and organizational design. But Ogilvy did not arrive at this “re-founding” moment alone. Over the course of the past 18 months, COLLINS, the independent brand experience design company, played an integral role not only in reimagining Ogilvy’s identity and design system, but also in helping to … Continue reading

Apple and Collective Consciousness

With this circle construction, Apple is creating an environment suitable to build community as the elementary form of the “modern” religious life. It all started with a slogan – “Think Different”. Brainwash technique, throughout the years, gathered people that ‘found’ themselves in that old Apple’s “Think Different” slogan. Finally, they are creating a form of … Continue reading

FORMULA 1 UNVEILS NEW IDENTITY BY WIEDEN + KENNEDY LONDON

The new identity cements a year of change for F1 as it hopes to re-engage its global fanbase. We talk to W+K’s Richard Turley, who headed up the project, about the new logo and suite of typefaces that look to the heritage of the sport while aiming to drive it forward   By Mark Sinclair Formula … Continue reading

USA Today Redesign

  Click Here to See Redesign   USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, it operates from Gannett’s corporate headquarters on Jones Branch Drive in McLean, Virginia, United States. It is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five … Continue reading

Study of an ultra-stylish luxury-class cabriolet

A revelation of luxury: Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 Cabriolet Watch video. At this year’s gathering of the most magnificent classic cars at Pebble Beach in California, Mercedes-Benz is once again set to present a highlight: the Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 Cabriolet is a car which, with its sensual, emotionally appealing design and innovative technical concept solutions, defines … Continue reading

Introducing Watch, a new platform for shows on Facebook

  Watching video on Facebook has the incredible power to connect people, spark conversation, and foster community. On Facebook, videos are discovered through friends and bring communities together. As more and more people enjoy this experience, we’ve learned that people like the serendipity of discovering videos in News Feed, but they also want a dedicated … Continue reading

“I saw the news on Facebook”

Brand attribution when accessing news from distributed environments More consumers are incidentally exposed to content via feeds or recommendation engines. What are the implications for publishers? This shift towards distributed media has been widely documented in Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2017, with the majority of access to websites and apps is now via side-door routes the … Continue reading

What is the purpose of journalism today?

Provocative former director of Danish Broadcasting Corporation discusses how a paradigm shift in news will make journalism meaningful again.

New Book by Steven Heller: Graphic Design Rants and Raves

  Advice and Ruminations of graphic design in the 21st century! GRAPHIC DESIGN RANTS AND RAVES BON MOTS ON PERSUASION, ENTERTAINMENT, EDUCATION, CULTURE, AND PRACTICE by Steven Heller Design is everywhere. Graphic design enters into everything. This is the scope of designer Steven Heller’s latest essay anthology that covers the spectrum of graphic design and … Continue reading

Aston Martin DB10

Production will be strictly limited to 10 of the bespoke sports cars, developed and built by the designers, engineers and highly skilled craftspeople at Aston Martin’s Gaydon headquarters.

Architect Oscar Niemeyer

"My work is not about form follows function, but form follows beauty or, even better, form follows feminine."

BACK to BASICS: Portraits

Portraits of people are one of the first elements of the photography used in newspapers.

Typography: x-heigh

In typography, x-heigh refers to the heigh of lower case letters without upper or lower parts when compared to capital letters...

Designer George Lois

“I always knew I was the most talented kid in the school, ” says George Lois of his time at Music and Art. “I was lucky to be exposed to the city’s best art education"...

BODY COPY

Newspaper typefaces require a higher legibility then typefaces used for other printed products. Newspaper are printed on a paper of lesser quality under high speed.

How to redesign 1

Good redesign is driven by a deep understanding of the editorial mission of the publication.

Headline on photographs

The eternal dilemma! Dilemma of all editors on the planet Earth – to put or not put the headline or any kind of type in the photo.

Design Facts

Three elements that will greatly help you to understand how readers are observing you.

Typeface: NY Times Magazine

Sunday Magazine is an expansive family of fonts for information in tiny spaces and headlines at large sizes.

Infographics

When, why and whether to use infographic. The basic fact is that infographic refresh the publication, and it contributes to originality of your product.

A well-designed publication

Everything that a well-designed publication must have...

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