Boost your design prowess with this surprising new app for creatives

thumbnailYou may have thought it was the extra caffeine intake that makes your coffee-house visits extra productive, but studies show that it may not be the beans that get your creative juices flowing.

An American design and business development team have released Coffitivity, an app designed to mimic the sounds of a humming coffee shop and in turn increase your creativity—that at least, is the theory.

Boost your design prowess with this surprising new app for creatives

Available for Android, iPhone, iPad and desktop, the retro-modern style app features three similar sounding tracks—Morning Murmur, Lunchtime Lounge and University Undertones—that can be played alongside your usual music playlist. It’s every hipster’s favourite soundtrack, but will it help you work? We tried it out for a few hours, and despite our initial skepticism, it actually did seem to help.

Set the volume on Coffitivity to be a little quieter than that of your tunes, and voila—the warm hustle and bustle of your favorite java joint is brought to life in your quiet workspace. Download the free app and on those days you can’t work remote, your creativity doesn’t have to suffer—Coffitivity serves up enough noise to work.

Boost your design prowess with this surprising new app for creatives

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Mano a Mano – World Cup 2014 Players Illustrations

Mano a Mano - World Cup 2014 Players Illustrations

The FIFA World Cup kicks off tomorrow in Brazil and my home town will host some amazing games. The whole country and world will be tuned in to the games, players and of course they will get a chance to know a little bit more about Brazil as well. One of the best things about the World Cup is the fact that it creates a lot of opportunities in all areas. For designers and illustrators is not different. Today we are stoked to feature the work titled Mano a Mano by Leo Natsume, from my hometown Porto Alegre.

Mano a Mano is a newsgame created for the Zero Hora newspaper in order to promote interactive and informative content about the players who will participate in the World Cup 2014. The game is responsive. I drew all the illustrations of the major players of the selections.

For more information about Leo visit http://leonatsume.deviantart.com/

For more information and to check out all illustrations check out https://www.behance.net/gallery/17213337/Newsgame-Mano-a-Mano

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