Just Creative
JANUARY 22, 2020
If you run own graphic design firm, improving your skills can not only make you a better graphic designer but also more attractive to potential clients. The business side of your firm may not be your strong suit and that’s ok. Thanks to The Futur , an online website that runs to remove many of the roadblocks people have to continue their education including money, time, and accessibility.
Canva
JANUARY 22, 2020
Think about your most recent purchase. Why did you purchase that specific brand? Was it an impulse buy, or something you genuinely needed? Now that you’re thinking about it, odds are, you bought it because the packaging design interested you. Yes, you may have needed shampoo, but did you need that specific brand? The one with the sleek, expensive-looking bottle?
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Noupe
JANUARY 22, 2020
The Droste Effect is used to classify images or photos that are recurring within themselves. On paper, this goes on forever but in reality, it only goes as far as the resolution allows. The term stems from the Dutch Cacao brand with the same name. In 1904, the Droste used an image of a nun holding a tray of hot cacao and a box of Droste Cacao which had the same image on it.
Canva
JANUARY 22, 2020
Finding the right calligraphy font for your needs can be a hard and arduous task. They are either too decorative and flashy for your simple designs or too simple and modern for your formal designs. Calligraphy fonts have many uses and are best paired with a simple body font for balanc e. Use them sparingly so you don’t overpower your designs, or break the rules and see what you can create.
Speaker: Amber Asay, Creative Director and Founder of award-winning design studio Nice People
Understanding what trends are happening and how they’re impacting the competitive landscape is crucial to providing top dollar design strategy to your clients. With so many trends coming and going, it can be overwhelming to determine which ones you should capitalize on and which ones might not be worth the trouble. In this exclusive webinar with Amber Asay, we’ll explore graphic design trends that need to die, trends that are starting to pick up and why, trends that have come and gone, and how t
Noupe
JANUARY 22, 2020
Get ready movie buffs and cinephiles because the 92nd Academy Awards are just around the corner. There is now less than a month left for the short, buff and golden guy to find himself in somebody’s hands. The nominees for the Oscars 2020 were announced last week and people have already started their own “And the Oscar goes to.”s among themselves.
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Fotor
JANUARY 22, 2020
Party flyers and invitations, book and CD covers, and even social media posts like Instagram stories all have one key thing in common: they all use typography! Typography is the art of arranging letters and text in a way that makes the copy legible, clear, and visually appealing. With most typography starting with learning how […].
Graphic Design Junction
JANUARY 22, 2020
Simple and clean minimal logo designs created with abstract line art. Logos with Line art are very popular and so attractive. This collection consists of different designs that use thin line techniques to create minimal and clean logos that many will appreciate. Scroll down and you’ll see that simplicity is definitely a beauty. Come, take a peek, and enjoy!
SpeckyBoy
JANUARY 22, 2020
A logo is an important part of every brand identity which is why the presentation of logo design matters. After all, the logo could be used not only on stationery items and a website but also on packaging, billboard ads, product tags, and more. That’s why you need to present the logo in a way that showcases how it will look in a variety of situations and applications.
Hi-Fructose
JANUARY 22, 2020
The illustrations and personal work of artist Jay Torres have a dark surrealist edge. The El Paso-raised artist, now based in Pasadena, moves between analogue and digital tools to craft his creations. More.
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Abduzeedo
JANUARY 22, 2020
Illustration and Motion Design for ANAGRAM MUSIC VIDEO. abduzeedo Jan 22, 2020 Pavel Fuksa and Barbora Idesová shared a really cool illustration and motion design post on their Behance page. The idea/inspiration was: “What happens when you shuffle the letters in the song’s lyrics and create a bunch of eerie and bizarre anagrams? Most probably the only music video in the world featuring Gagarin on a rhino, woollen pot on fire, deviant peck, satanic loam, ruminal mob, immoral bun, yogi with legum
Trendland
JANUARY 22, 2020
Greek photographer, John Drossos contacted us via our Submit page to introduce us to his misty and wonderful photographic world. We definitely enjoy a lot his “After Dark” and “Urban Mist” series. Checkout his Behance below for more of his work. @theearthatitsknees www.behance.net/johandrossos.
Abduzeedo
JANUARY 22, 2020
Beautiful Liquify Logo Animation in After Effects. abduzeedo Jan 24, 2020 I have been going back through old tutorials to fix some of the images that might be broken or with old formatting. The blog has changed quite a lot since we started 12 years ago. It’s incredible to see how many Photoshop tutorials we’ve written and how some of them stood the test of time.
Feature Shoot
JANUARY 22, 2020
Back in 1972, Nan Goldin was walking through downtown Boston when she came upon three trans women that would become her entrée into another world. As Goldin watched Ivy, Naomi, and Colette crossing the bridge near the Morgan Memorial Thriftshop, she immediately became infatuated with their beauty and their poise, following them with a Super 8 camera, making a video as they walked.
Speaker: Sean Adams, ArtCenter College of Design
Thomas Edison once said “Vision without execution is hallucination.” This statement applies not just to invention, but to graphic design. One of the greatest strengths of graphic designers is the ability to first develop a concept and then execute it to make it real. From visualization and ideation all the way through to actuation and execution, each step of this process takes skill and expertise.
Design You Trust
JANUARY 22, 2020
Nuno Sarnadas is a digital artist based in Portugal. “Very early I revealed myself as being a very creative child who took advantage of all surfaces to draw, forcing my parents to watch closely all the time. In my teens I broadened my horizons beyond drawing and now encompassing design, illustration, cartoons and architecture. Studied at the School of Technology and Management.
Colossal
JANUARY 22, 2020
“Synchrony,” oil on linen, 40 x 30 inches. All images © Joshua Flint, shared with permission. Through hazy lines and obscured faces, Joshua Flint ( previously ) reflects on the blurriness of in-between states in his most recent paintings. “Big Earth” shows a group of kids reaching up toward red- and pink-hued orbs that are set on a shadowy backdrop, while “Memory of Nature I” features a portrait of a man with a nondescript face as an enlarged hummingbird flies
Typographica
JANUARY 22, 2020
James Edmonson’s Eckmannpsych and Cheee may look different, but they share a similar spirit. Eckmannpsych is a revival of Otto Eckmann’s eponymous Eckmann-Schrift , originally released in 1900 at Rudhard’sche Gießerei in Offenbach. Eckmann’s training as a fine artist is evident in this typeface, which is expressive rather than utilitarian. Eckmann-Schrift is an embodiment of the art nouveau style, fashionable at the time of its release.
Colossal
JANUARY 22, 2020
“How to Please Elise” (2020), 16.5 x 11.8 inches, letterpress print on Gmund Colors Matt 21, 200g/m2. All images © Christoph Niemann. Your days of expensive piano lessons are over. Master the foreboding notes in Jaws, a nursery rhyme often repeated by kids, and of course,”Für Elise,” with this straightforward diagram from Christoph Niemann ( previously ).
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Hi-Fructose
JANUARY 22, 2020
Daisy Collingridge crafts wearable, stitched suits inspired by what's contained beneath our skin. The artist's background is in fashion, but "her practice has continued to revolve around textiles and fabric manipulation but has developed into the realms of sculpture and performance," her site says. More.
Design You Trust
JANUARY 22, 2020
It’s a student party in Wolseley Street in Belfast – what would be called the University Quarter these days. It’s Christmas time in 1970 and students from Queen’s University live it up on Harp lager and tins of Guinness. These wonderful photos are courtesy of Norman Craig. More: Flickr h/t: Source.
Communication Arts
JANUARY 22, 2020
With many kernels popped in their office, eDesign’s team crafted every image and animation on this site for an authentically delicious experience.
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Creative Review
JANUARY 22, 2020
Netflix has released a 15-minute short film by David Lynch, who stars alongside a talking monkey sporting what appears to be Lynch’s mouth. The short, titled What Did Jack Do? takes place in a locked down train station, and follows an interrogation between a detective (played by Lynch) and Jack, a ‘tormented’ monkey suspected of murder.
Brown Paper Bag
JANUARY 22, 2020
View this post on Instagram. A post shared by Jessica Zollman (@jayzombie) on May 12, 2017 at 9:22am PDT. The next time you find yourself in Joshua Tree, California, hold off on going to the National Park (for a little while). Instead, pop on over to the World Famous Crochet Museum, a former photo-processing booth that sits in the back of a vacant lot near the Joshua Tree Saloon.
Trendland
JANUARY 22, 2020
After the amazing and ultra futuristic Mercedes AVTR prototype, we are going one step further with Lexus and all their future visions for their Space conquest. Document Journal invited selected creatives to envisioned what Lexus would potentially creates for the future of human life on the Moon. Read as well the interview of Lexu’s Design President, Ian Cartabiano here. www.documentjournal.com.
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