CREATIVE TOOLBOX • VISUAL DIARY

Shared reflections — inspirations, insights, fun facts, or tips — gleaned from our spirited journey
through the worlds of communication and design

Examples of CXD’s Own Brand Design & Work of Others

Social Media

“Build (or paint) it and they will come,” is apparently true. Designer Paul Smith’s bright pink building in West Hollywood, CA is a global photo-op & selfie destination. As of today, hashtag “paulsmithpinkwall” brings up 24,749 posts on IG.
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Inspiration

“Imagine all the people livin’ life in peace…” Steps away from CXD’s Upper West Side studio (and often on my workout walking route) is Strawberry Fields and Imagine Circle, the Central Park retreat and mosaic tribute to John Lennon.
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Color

Stepping into 2022! The CXD brand is reborn and our identity color remains Pantone Process Cyan. The Pantone Matching System (PMS) is a global color platform. Translated to digital, cyan is hexadecimal code #00a6d6.
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Emoji

Looking forward to 2022, we take flight on bluetiful wings. Representing beauty and positive transformation, the butterfly emoji was added to the Unicode Consortium information technology standard in 2016. Search, copy & keep...
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Technology

Communication tools and platforms today (compared to those at the dawn of my career way back when)…alternate universe, parallel dimension, separate reality? You pick. Without a doubt, an unprecedented time to be living and working!
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Photography

During 2021 our brand was growing new wings. It is said a picture is worth a thousand words. This one is from Unsplash “the internet’s source of freely-usable images, powered by creators everywhere.”
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