The Adobe Creative Residency supports the creative community by giving talented individuals the opportunity to focus on a personal project, while sharing their process and passion along the way.
The 2019-2020 Residents are Tyler Babin, Octavia Bromell, Juan José Egúsquiza, Aiko Fukuda, Cyn Lagos, Takuma Nakata, Patricia Reiners, Julie Sanduski, and Amelie Satzger.
INTO THE FUTURE WITH PATRICIA REINERS
Patricia Reiners, a UX/UI designer living in Berlin, focuses on smart living, new work, and mobility. work, and mobility. She believes that technology can solve some very human problems.
REALITY-DEFYING PHOTO COMPOSITES MASTER THE IMPOSSIBLE
Juan José Egúsquiza is a traveler. From Paris to San Francisco to Barcelona to Lucerne and beyond, the multimedia artist (born in Lima, Peru, and now based in Brooklyn, NY) makes his way across the globe with his camera in hand. While exploring, he captures ordinary moments with a click, and these images become the basis for what he calls “Impossible Stories”: brain-bending composites that challenge the way we relate to and interpret our surroundings. We talked with Egúsquiza about upcycling images, the satisfaction of coding, and the peril (plus creative potential) of doing backflips into a pool.
USING A DREAM PORTFOLIO TO DEVELOP AS AN ARTIST
Anna Daviscourt shares a practice she follows in order to grow in her practice and her career.
ANDREA HOCK SHARES HER APP-DESIGN PROCESS
In a brief video, the digital designer and Adobe Creative Resident walks us through a case study.
THE ADOBE CREATIVE RESIDENCY: PROGRAM DETAILS AND HOW TO APPLY
Applications will be accepted through January 15, 2020, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time (PT)/ +8h GMT.
Designer Isabel Lea and photographer Aaron Bernstein both have a well-developed sense of humor. Their ongoing collaborative effort to visualize food-based idioms proves it.
BLAZING TRAILS IN AUGMENTED REALITY’S WILD WEST
Illustrator Nadine Kolodziey is perhaps best known for her physical work in fused plastic foil. Now she's exploring completely new terrain: augmented reality.
BRINGING AN ILLUSTRATION INTO FOCUS
Watch Anna Daviscourt take a character illustration from sketch to finished image in Adobe Photoshop Sketch.
PHOTOGRAPHER LAURA ZALENGA IS LEARNING TO LISTEN
German fashion and art photographer Laura Zalenga turns her lens on people in their 70s, 80s, and 90s. The results are visually beautiful, but her subjects' approach to life is equally noteworthy.
START YOUR FIRST STOP-MOTION PROJECT
Aaron Bernstein shares advice and tips for experimenting with stop-motion animation—using his favorite medium, food.
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BRIT(ISH): VISUALIZING THE UK WITH TYPE
What does it mean to be young and British today? Graphic designer Isabel Lea answers the question with witty typography on clocks, scarves, and prints.
MEET ADOBE CREATIVE RESIDENT AND RENAISSANCE MAN TEMI COKER
Why choose just one medium? Photographer, designer, educator, and musician Temiloluwa Coker—better known as Temi—doesn’t see any reason to.
UX/VX DESIGNER ANDREA HOCK’S CREATIVE RESIDENCY PROJECT
She’s eager to combine her passions for technology and design in her residency project, which is focused on automation and how Internet-connected objects can improve our lives.
Seven people, all pursuing different passion projects for a year, all with something to learn—and something to share. Get to know the new Adobe Creative Residents
PREVIOUS RESIDENTS
A PORTFOLIO OF CREATIVITY AND CONFIDENCE
The 2017-2018 Adobe Creative Residency class honed skills in photography; video; lettering; UX, product, and data design; and life. Here are some of their takeaways.
A JOURNEY TO JOY: ROSA KAMMERMEIER’S ‘WALK OF HAPPINESS’
The German Adobe Creative Resident aims to turn frowns upside-down with her passion project.
10 TIPS FOR PHOTOGRAPHING DARKER SKIN TONES
Aundre Larrow shares lighting techniques and other methods for creating great portraits of people with darker skin.
Aundre Larrow shares what he has learned about capturing expressive and complex portraits.
ON DECK: THE ART OF MAKING SKATEBOARDS
Chelsea Burton takes us inside her creative process, which involves everything from bandsaws to Bézier curves.
A HUMAN-FOCUSED DESIGN PROCESS
Take an insider’s look at Natalie Lew’s first Residency project.
Julia Nimke documents regional folktales with a camera and a microphone.
GROWING INFOGRAPHICS FROM THE GRASSROOTS
Jessica Bellamy believes that infographics can change lives.
MEET CREATIVE RESIDENT ROSA KAMMEREIER
With her hand-drawn lettering creations, Kammermeier has a happy message.
MEET CREATIVE RESIDENT NATALIE LEW
An interaction designer, Lew believes in the power of design to solve problems.
MEET CREATIVE RESIDENT JULIA NIMKE
Nimke has been honing her photography skills since she was a child.
MEET CREATIVE RESIDENT JESSICA BELLAMY
Bellamy’s innovative work combines art, data, and social justice.
MEET CREATIVE RESIDENT CHELSEA BURTON
Burton’s longboard designs and vinyl graphics are as badass as the sports that inspire them.
MEET CREATIVE RESIDENT AUNDRE LARROW
Larrow uses photography to tell stories and create connection.
CREATIVE RESIDENTS’ PARTING WORDS
As we prepare to welcome the next group of exceptional creatives, we wanted to hear from the current class one more time.
TUNING IN TO ‘WHITE NOISE NOW’
Craig Winslow is collaborating with a sound designer and a choreographer on an exciting new multimedia installation series.
EXPLORE, CAPTURE, AND CREATE: HOW TO DOCUMENT YOUR TRAVELS
Christine Herrin is passionate about paper, stories, and travel. With her latest project, the Everyday Explorers Travel Journal Kit, she hopes to encourage you to combine all three to document your life in creative ways.
USING PHOTOSHOP AND ILLUSTRATOR (AND TRIAL AND ERROR) TO UNCOVER THE PAST
Craig Winslow has spent much of the past year unlocking the secrets of ghost signs and bringing them back to life. In this article, he reveals more details of his process.
SO YOU WANT TO MAKE IOS 10 STICKERS? HERE’S HOW!
Designing an iOS 10 sticker pack is a fun project that doesn’t take much time, and stickers can be a great way to promote your work and even generate some income. Syd Weiler shows you how.
Discover how Sara Dietschy makes the Creative Spaces TV series with just herself and minimal gear.
FIVE TIPS FOR SELLING YOUR GOODS AT A CRAFT SHOW
Christine Herrin shares what she's learned about getting the most out of a craft fair, whether it’s an addition to your existing online business or you’re new to selling.
BRINGING PATTERNS TO VIVID LIFE
NikeLab recently tapped Craig Winslow for an exciting project: turning patterns from their NikeLab x Riccardo Tisci Training Redefined collection into animations for use online and on digital billboards.
FROM ANALOG TO DIGITAL TO ANALOG
Christine Herrin’s hand lettering is in demand. Learn how she turns that skill into products she sells to creative people around the world.
SYD WEILER’S ILLUSTRATION WORKSHOP
Weiler shares a project she created, using mobile apps, for a recent conference—as well as 87 custom digital brushes!
HOW TO BUILD A BRAND IN REAL TIME WITH SARA DIETSCHY
Sara shares her hard-won tips on building a creative brand using social media channels.
GHOST-SIGN SLEUTH: BRINGING THE PAST TO LIFE IN ASTORIA, OREGON
Painstaking research is the first step in Craig Winslow’s process of reanimating ghost signs.
UNEXPECTED DESIGN INSPIRATION IN EVERYDAY SAN FRANCISCO
Designer Christine Herrin finds creative inspiration everywhere. See some of her favorite discoveries.
SARA DIETSCHY’S LIFE BEHIND—AND IN FRONT OF—THE CAMERA
Dietschy is a prolific photographer, filmmaker, and YouTube star with more than 100,000 followers and a mission: to educate and inspire fellow creatives.
DESIGNER CRAIG WINSLOW IS BRINGING GHOST SIGNS BACK TO LIFE
Winslow is putting his background in multimedia and 3D design to work on a new project: “light capsules” documenting some of the nation’s most interesting ghost signs.
DISCOVER DIGITAL ILLUSTRATOR SYD WEILER’S FASCINATION WITH TIME
Weiler calls herself an “illustr-animator,” and her digital approach to creating is part of her quest for a new visual language.
DESIGNER AND HAND-LETTERER CHRISTINE HERRIN IS MAKING LIFE DOCUMENTATION COOL AGAIN
Graphic designer Herrin’s love for type and hand-lettering shines through in her work.
CREATIVE RESIDENTS: YEAR 1
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