Graphic Mama
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
To know how to accurately combine colors is a critical skill that artists, designers, marketers, and brand owners spend years learning and mastering. Science and art aside, a big part of the process is finding the right inspirations. The perfect examples that just click with you, vibe on the same frequency with you and you know this is the right combination of colors just by seeing it.
Spoon Graphics
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Today’s video is a reproduction of last month’s written tutorial on how to create your own retro landscape scenes with the help of a huge 80s inspired toolbox named NeonWave. Sci-fi landscape scenes featuring Tron-style grids, mountain scenes, and a vibrant sunrise is a popular aesthetic that is associated with art and design from the 80s.
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Six Leaf Design
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
One of the first steps to take when you start the branding process is to begin defining your brand. It’s also probably one of the more difficult tasks and involves a lot of time spent thinking about your business and target audience. What appeals to them? What do they like? What magazines do they read? Where do they shop? You get the picture. As a visual person, obviously the easiest way for me to do this is…you guessed it, VISUALLY.
Inkbot Design
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Top 10 Typography Artists Worth Following. When expressed in artistic and inventive ways, typography moves away from being only words arranged for print and becomes inspiring and exciting forms of design. In this article, we look at 10 of the top famous typography artists and their work. Christopher Wool. One of the most influential American typography artists living and working in New York City, Christopher Wool uses a wide range of techniques and style in his works.
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
Shillington
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
For Shillington Sydney graduate Karina Aslikyan , discovering the intensive, hands-on nature of the Shillington course at one of our info sessions, she knew our course was the best option around to kickstart her career in design. Starting out in a new industry has its challenges, but no one expects their first year on the job to line up with a global pandemic.
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Inkbot Design
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Brand Storytelling – Why Brand Stories Succeed Or Fail. Brand storytelling has taken marketing and advertising to new heights in the last few years. As the world gets driven by technology, the human touch is getting bleaker by each decade. This leads to a high impact comeback for humanity in this digital age. This is where brand storytelling comes into the picture.
Creative Review
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Modern Love illustrator Brian Rea recounts a childhood filled with stories, shares the struggles of embracing his style and tells CR why words have gained a new importance for him later in his career. The post How I Got Here: Brian Rea appeared first on Creative Review.
Colossal
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
All images © Steeven Salvat, shared with permission. Steeven Salvat ( previously ) evokes the glass-covered entomological studies of rare butterflies, beetles, and moths with an additional layer of protection. The French artist armors the singular insects with precious gemstones, silver and gold filigree, and rotational gears. Even elements of luxury watches, like Breguet’s Reine de Naple and an intricate dial from Vacheron Constantin , cloak the critters’ outer shells.
Design You Trust
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
According to an artist: “It started as a Christmas gift to my wife, who loves the “Woman Yelling at Cat” meme, and has unfolded into an art project called “Memes of the Floating World.” In this strange dream world, classic Japanese woodblock print art and legends mash up with memes, dead and living, and internet lore from the past and present.
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Brands must create and share impactful content to thrive, but they have less people, tighter budgets, and fewer resources to do so. Learn how to publish and market digital content with the same professionalism as organizations with million-dollar budgets.
Design Week
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
2020 has hit the high street hard. Competition from online shopping and restrictions from two lockdowns have dealt a blow to physical stores. According to the Centre for Retail Research, almost 14,000 shops have permanently closed this year in the UK which is a 24.8% rise for the same period last year. Meanwhile, research from consultancy Altus Group revealed that 38% of UK property developers had switched their retail spaces to other uses.
Creative Review
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
SommSelect was founded in 2014 by master sommelier Ian Cauble as a way of bringing the sommelier experience home for curious wine drinkers. While the world of wine, and particular sommeliers, has traditionally been characterised by stuffiness and exclusivity, SommSelect is making it more accessible via its subscription service and an ever-evolving online wine shop.
Design Week
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
An at-home breast cancer test powered by AI has won the top prize of this year’s James Dyson Award. The Blue Box is the invention of 23-year-old Spanish student Judit Giró Benet. Benet was prompted to design an at-home biomedical testing kit after her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Breast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in the world, but is also one of the most treatable when caught early.
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
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
The ‘Indian Photo Festival’ Portrait Prize 2020 is a portrait competition open to the photographers from the Indian subcontinent. Photographers have been making portraits for centuries and what’s so interesting about portraiture is its ability to capture the essence of a person, a time-period, or a culture. Running stratight for the past 4 years, this award aims at discovering the compelling.
Colossal
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Swedish director and animator Anna Mantzaris has a knack for expressing the frustrating, humorous, and delightful moments of everyday life. Her short films feature quirky felt characters that embody both idiosyncrasies and human commonality, an idea she conveys in works like “ Enough ,” which captures characters as they let their anger emerge.
Creative Review
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Several of London’s tube stations had a makeover last night, courtesy of PlayStation. Just in time for the arrival of the PS5 console tomorrow, signage at Oxford Circus has been updated with the console’s trademark square, circle, triangle and cross. It follows on nicely from the brand’s 2013 stunt, when it lit up London’s Oxo Tower in the symbols to mark the launch of the PS4.
Its Nice That
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
The team behind The Accumulate Art School for the Homeless compiled the 160-page anthology of drawings and written work to tell its participants’ complex and emotional stories, from their perspective.
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Creative Review
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
In many Bulgarian towns and villages, winter is punctuated by the ancient Kukeri ritual, which is carried out to drive away the presence of evil. As with many cultural traditions passed down through the ages, the Kukeri tradition has become a source of fascination to outsiders thanks to the use of visually arresting dress and a sense of theatre surrounding the occasion.
The Die Line
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
You may know how to design packaging to get people to grab items off the shelf, but what if a brand has another goal in mind? Success may not only lie in the number of products sold but also in the appeal a brand has to potential investors or larger companies looking to acquire it.
Interaction Design Foundation
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Life’s busy isn’t it? Many of us spend so much time racing on to the next challenge that we fail to reflect properly on the things that we’ve learned reaching the last objective. One of the best ways to address is this is to develop a personal development log.What is a Personal Development Log?Author/Copyright holder: Unknown. Copyright terms and licence: Unknown Img sourceA personal development log is simply a record of things that you’ve learned or done to improve your knowledge.
Its Nice That
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
In collaboration with publisher Benjamin Blanck, the photographer's new book Inside Japan gives character to empty space and finds the cinematic of the in-between.
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In today’s competitive markets, how do you make sure that your content not only stands out but performs well? How can you predict whether certain design choices will result in clicks, engagement, downloads, and other drivers of ROI? Shutterstock’s Creative Insights Report (Q3) is your window into the hottest trends that are transforming the creative world.
The Die Line
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Standing tall with a design that evokes prestige, beauty and timelessness, Columna delivers a premium perfume experience like no other and is already a winner of a prestigious 2020 Pentaward.
Creative Review
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Over the last seven years, the Noble Rot team has built up a gastronomic empire comprising a magazine, book, import company, and not one but two restaurants. We speak to co-founder Dan Keeling about how they are ‘de-twattifying’ wine, one day at a time. The post Noble Rot is on a mission to demystify the world of wine appeared first on Creative Review.
Its Nice That
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Already achieving a lot as a young agency, HouseTMM are a studio who remain future facing with an utmost respect and understanding of the past.
The Die Line
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
If you want to drink classy, anywhere, then Boyd & Blair is a beautifully visual and flavorful solution. .
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