Bianca Aguilar
@biancamikaila
designer, educator, writer, learner
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Steer Clear of Black and White Headshots
I spent a couple of years wondering why I met resistance whenever I suggested black-and-white “Our Team” bio headshots to Chinese clients. Someone finally spilled the beans: black-and-white personal headshots are typically displayed at funerals, the black-and-white color indicating the subject of the image
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Future of Gaming and
typography and
"If you want to win an election in India or any of the developing countries, you need to win the WhatsApp war."
Payal Arora • The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West
“There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together,... See more
bell hooks • Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Fr…
Lack of Core Web Designers
Web design is a young role in the creative industry of Africa. When you meet a web designer, it’s likely they come from the print industry, or perhaps they define themselves as a “programmer”.
You will rarely see “Interface Design” as a module in “Web design” curricula of design schools, or training centers in Africa. Web
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