Speckyboy Design Magazine
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
The continued growth of WordPress is something to behold. It seems like just yesterday that we were watching it surpass 30% market share (it was at 29.2% on January 1, 2018), according to the W3Techs survey. Now, the versatile content management system (CMS) has reached a whopping 40%. While there is a wide array of CMS options on the market, WordPress continues to outshine the competition.
Azure Magazine
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
On a late afternoon in fall, my visit to Barcelona’s Parc de l’Estació del Nord unfolds in a symphony of sights and sounds. Kids zip around on bikes and scooters and clamber over play equipment. While the din of car traffic doesn’t quite fade away, it gently blends in with the murmur of one-sided cell phone conversations, coffee cups clinking against saucers and table tennis paddles slicing through the air.
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Creative Review
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Designer and art director Helen Rabbitte creates designs that blend fluid forms with structured layouts, drawing on aesthetics and motifs from the 80s and 90s. Her work features soothing colour schemes, with palettes akin to calming blue skies that transition into warm sunset tones. Working under the moniker Hello Rabbit, her clients include music labels such as Universal Music, Warner Music Group and Columbia Records, and artists including Peggy Gou and Nadia Rose.
Designs.Ai
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
2020 was everything but a comfort zone. Most of us are cooped up at home and designers have less to work with. Designs that speak to comfort, nostalgia, positivity, and knowledge will be big this year. We know how important it is to stay on trend and not fall back. Here are 7 design trends […]. The post 7 Design Trends That Will Takeover The Internet in 2021 appeared first on Designs.ai.
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
Vectips
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
In this tutorial we’ll create a delicious fruit vector design from basic shapes and create a dynamic composition perfect for print and web media alike! Tutorial Details: How to Create a Simple Shape Composition Design. Program : Adobe Illustrator CS6. Difficulty : Intermediate. Topics Covered : Design Theory, Shape Building, Compositional Skills.
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Colossal
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
“Pegasus.” All images © Helga Stentzel, shared with permission. Instead of tossing an old pair of pants or T-shirt, Helga Stentzel puts her tired garments out to pasture. So far, the London-based artist has added Pegasus and Smoothie, a pair of clothesline equine and bovine, to her herd of playful interventions hung in bucolic landscapes.
The Die Line
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
The choice of using predominantly yellow is not only unique, it immediately incites joy, which then evokes trust in the brand. .
Colossal
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
(1986), oil on canvas, 63 1/2 x 51 3/8 inches. Image via Christie’s. Swollen, glistening, and saturated with illusion, the ubiquitous water drop absorbed Kim Tschang-Yeul throughout his career. The Korean artist, who died earlier this year , was faithful to the seemingly mundane subject matter, choosing to depict the dewy orbs repeatedly after an initial painting in 1972 following his relocation to France.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
We’ve all been there: a client really, really wants to make a change to your design that, as a designer, you can immediately tell will result in disaster. It happens to every designer, and, as far as I can tell, there’s no real way to avoid it. However, there is a method you can use to mitigate the problems caused by what I like to call “ Sudden Client Designer Syndrome.” It has to do with User Experience (UX).
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Creative Review
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
“The earliest memory I have of being creative is making clothes for my cats,” says Daisy Tortuga. Growing up in the seaside town of Deal in Kent, from a young age the multi-disciplinary artist was actively encouraged by her parents to experiment with creative pursuits such as painting, sewing, knitting, clay modelling and more. “I think there is something special about small seaside towns and I feel so lucky to have grown up in that environment.
SpeckyBoy
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Patterns are a great way to make your entire design cohesive as well as bring your finished project to life. Creating patterns in Illustrator is not hard, once you master a few basic principles. In this roundup, you’ll find the best tutorials from around the web that will help you take your Illustrator skills to the next level and allow you to create custom, seamless patterns for all your current and future design projects.
Design You Trust
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
A Michigan woman says she could hardly believe her eyes when she discovered an obscure, penis-shaped island in the Pacific Ocean while browsing Google Earth. Joleen Vultaggio had been scrolling around the world map when she spotted the undeniably phallic landmass in the Trinity Islands off New Caledonia. “I was looking around the Trinity Islands and it just popped up and I thought, ‘Wow, that really looks like an uncircumcised penis’,” she wrote.
Abduzeedo
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
ELEVEN Branding and Visual Identity. abduzeedo 02.23.21 ELEVEN is a mexican/afro-american artist and graphic designer based in Germany. Eleven shared a bit of the process behind their branding and visual identity project. I am a fan of the use of negative space, the simple typography and the usage of gradients. It gives classic but fresh look. .
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.
Its Nice That
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
The Brooklyn-based artist merges graphic design and illustration in an exploration of her Chinese diasporic identity.
Abduzeedo
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
ANA RED WINE Branding and Packaging Design. abduzeedo 02.23.21 Studio Format shared a beautiful branding and packaging design for ANA RED WINE. A mirror can twist or distort our perception. It can cheat the eye, enhancing or fading some traits. More often than not, a mirror arises interest in the eyes of the viewer. Therefore, Studio format has chosen this perspective to design the ANA® project: a new red wine brand.
Colossal
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
(1986), oil on canvas, 63 1/2 x 51 3/8 inches. Image via Christie’s. Swollen, glistening, and saturated with illusion, the ubiquitous water drop absorbed Kim Tshchang-Yeul throughout his career. The Korean artist, who died earlier this year , was faithful to the seemingly mundane subject matter, choosing to depict the dewy orbs repeatedly after an initial painting in 1972 following his relocation to France.
crowdspring
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Branding is key. Build a better food and beverage brand with these 12 tips from 4 top food and beverage companies.
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Its Nice That
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Sharing their hard-earned experience and advice from within the advertising and commercial portraiture worlds, the duo discuss the lack of representation in the sector and their work to support aspiring creatives of colour.
Design You Trust
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Joshua Davison is a self-taught contemporary artist from New Zealand with a diverse body of work themed around portraiture and botanics. Featured here are some of the most intriguing paintings from his ‘glitch’ portrait series. “Joshua is inspired and motivated by the old masters, the path to truly original thinking, the bridge between science and art, instigating a range of emotions with artwork, and the prospect of reaching mastery.
Illustration Art
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Last year I wrote about the great English illustrator of wildlife, Raymond Sheppard , who spent years haunting the public zoos in London, studying and drawing the animals up close. Despite the fact that his life was tragically cut short by cancer, he exhibited an astonishing patience when it came to capturing the details of nature, as if his time was unlimited.
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Design Week
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
American graphic designer Bruce Blackburn died earlier this month at the age of 82, his family have confirmed. Blackburn’s career was one that spanned some four decades in total. His work was characterised by modernist and minimalist principles, and he counted IBM, the Museum of Modern Art and the US Federal Government among his client base. But without a doubt, Blackburn’s best-known and best-loved project was the NASA “Worm” Following its adoption in the 1970s, the curv
Design You Trust
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
It’s in Super Nintendo World, an area dedicated to Mario’s world in Universal Park in Osaka, Japan, that the Kinopio’s Cafe is located. On the menu of this snack bar, we can find some dishes straight out of the mustached plumber’s universe: calzones with Japanese noodles enclosed in green shells, a Tiramisu Block shaped after the mystery blocks of the game, a Mario Bacon Cheeseburger or a Toad-shaped Pizza Bowl (with mushrooms inside, of course).
Shillington
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
The post Rebel Girls: Editorial Designer and Illustrator appeared first on Shillington Design Blog.
Just Creative
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
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