I Love Typography
JULY 26, 2021
Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Ulrike Rausch is an author and award-winning type designer based in Berlin. She’s also the designer of one of my all-time favorite handwriting typefaces, the beautiful and authentic, LiebeHeide. The post An Interview with Ulrike Rausch appeared first on I Love Typography.
Graphic Design Junction
JULY 26, 2021
New fresh free fonts are looking elegant, classy, easy to read, stylish, easy to remember, and easy to use. These free fonts are the best choice for logo design, quotes, album covers, posters, business cards, and many other design projects. Fresh fonts are 100% free to download and used in commercial work. The fonts collection included handwritten brush fonts , script fonts and typefaces perfect for logotypes , badge, packaging, headline, poster, t-shirt/apparel , greeting card, and wedding in
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Creative Review
JULY 26, 2021
Running to a hefty 800 pages, and filled with double-page spreads of giant letterforms, The Art of Letters aims to question and explore the relationship between art, function and form when it comes to type design. In the foreword, designer and Formist director Mark Gowing says the idea for the book came from discussion around what turns an “abstract form” into part of a wider language system, as well as “the relative absurdity of these timeless and ubiquitous forms” The A
UX Collective
JULY 26, 2021
Reflecting on BY ORDER : a study of the British ‘sink estate’ and what’s changing (or changed) in social housing. Written by Craig Berry Designer & Writer BY ORDER Ephemera Overview Five years ago, in January 2016, David Cameron, the then Prime Minister of the UK, vowed to “ blitz” up to 100 of the UK’s worst “sink estates”. Promising to tackle drug abuse, gang culture and the housing crisis across the UK by removing “brutal high-rise towers” and “bleak” housing, either through redeveloping
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
Creative Review
JULY 26, 2021
Housed in London’s recently redeveloped Greenwich Peninsula, Now Gallery’s Young Artist programme works with upcoming artists to provide them with a new platform to showcase their work and create a unique vision for the gallery space. The gallery’s annual Young Artist commission celebrates the best rising talent in the fields of visual arts and illustration, with previous editions of the free display featuring the work of Pakistani visual artist and Instagram sensation Sara Sha
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Template Monster
JULY 26, 2021
The Role of Education Website for Learning Process. Useful Plugins Compatible with the Best Education WordPress Themes. TOP School and Training WordPress Themes. Beautiful School Websites Examples That Inspire. Times change. People change. Demands change. If 50 years ago a college or school didn’t have any web presence, today having an education website is a must-have.
Creative Review
JULY 26, 2021
Creating and selling apparel is on the wish-list for many designers and illustrators: there’s a special buzz from knowing a community will not only pay to support your work but wear it on their chests with pride. While the financial risk of investing in stock upfront was once a barrier to entry, pre-order platforms such as Everpress now make apparel design accessible to anyone with a great idea – and provide a fast-growing community keen to support grassroots creatives. “There&
Vecteezy
JULY 26, 2021
Premiere Pro is an industry-standard for video editing. It has many features, but plugins allow you to extend its capabilities even further. While most plugins require a purchase, there are some excellent free options available as well. This list will provide you with a range of free Premiere Pro plugins that are sure to help you tackle any project.
SpeckyBoy
JULY 26, 2021
Perhaps it sounds ironic, but one of the hardest parts of a web designer’s job occurs before the project actually begins. Figuring out website project requirements can stump even experienced designers. Why is that? Quite often, it comes down to communication. Clients can understandably struggle with articulating their needs. Terminology is one part of the equation.
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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.
Vecteezy
JULY 26, 2021
Do you use Photoshop to edit your photos? There are many free Photoshop plugins that can be downloaded and installed to enhance your experience in Photoshop. Whether you’re looking to automate repetitive tasks or enhance your photo editing and retouching skills, these plugins will help you get the most out of Adobe’s popular image editing software.
Azure Magazine
JULY 26, 2021
There’s something effortless and timeless yet wholly contemporary about solid colours. Whether an outdoor stool, a sculptural bench or a cord chair with a matching frame, monochromatic designs have dominated the recent releases of manufacturers near and far. And, for good reason. While clashing patterns and collage effects provide a temporary jolt of visual excitement, uniform tones offer a lasting sense of both play and style.
Design Milk
JULY 26, 2021
Inspired by the stained glass windows in a church he began visiting after the start of the pandemic, designer Oliver Vitry, architect and associate director at CLAISSE ARCHITECTURES , created his Rainbow Lighting project as a physical representation of his perspective on life at that time. A rainbow is experienced by observing how sunlight is refracted through suspended drops of water and can be perceived differently depending on how we look at it.
Smashing Magazine Graphics
JULY 26, 2021
Gatsby Serverless Functions And The International Space Station. Gatsby Serverless Functions And The International Space Station. Paul Scanlon. 2021-07-26T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-07-26T14:03:58+00:00. Gatsby recently announced the launch of Functions which opens up a new dimension of possibilities — and I for one couldn’t be more excited! With Gatsby now providing Serverless Functions on Gatsby Cloud (and Netlify also providing support via @netlify/plugin-gatsby ), the framework that was once
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.
HONGKIAT
JULY 26, 2021
Modern trends and webapps have dramatically changed the way web developers can build. Obviously you need some type of IDE to code new files and save them for deployment. But what about just testing your code snippets? There are more tools available now than ever before! In this article I want to outline 10 interesting web apps for testing your code online.
Eye on Design
JULY 26, 2021
In April 2020, A/D/O—the design incubator-meets-community center-meets-café-meets-design shop—announced its impending closure ostensibly due to the pandemic. Since opening in 2017, the space, an initiative of BMW Mini, had become a community hub in North Brooklyn where you could find local moms having breakfast with their toddlers, writers using the open lobby as an informal coworking area, designers sitting at their permanent desk in A/D/O’s dedicated lab and maker space, and passersby taking p
Design You Trust
JULY 26, 2021
Logos are usually very simple illustrations showing what the company, person, or the product is all about. Logo designer Alfrey Davilla (previously here ) puts his skills to the test by creating logos from random photos, animal pictures, items, and all sorts of things. The artist makes adorable little illustrations that would be perfect logos because of how simple and eye-catching they are.
UX Collective
JULY 26, 2021
Weekly curated resources for designers?—?thinkers and makers. “When we graduated as graphic designers, my classmates and I were quite confused about our role in the professional world, despite having studied design for 5 years. Terms like “design thinking” were often thrown around in casual conversation but what it was or how to think like a designer was never really elaborated upon.
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Design Milk
JULY 26, 2021
Berlin-based textile and product designer Orsi Orban has taken the age old art of weaving and given it a technological upgrade. MINTA is modular structure system based on weaving, but translated into a modular multi-layered surface. The unique resulting design is customizable, thanks to the use of 3D software and laser cutting. In the end, the modular system must be assembled by hand – as if harkening back to its origins.
UX Collective
JULY 26, 2021
When I started looking at how design is influencing behaviour change around sustainability, one thing struck me: It has to get easier to buy better. Here I take a look at user interface (UI) design in e-commerce specifically, and audit some of the approaches web designers are taking to help educate and enable consumers to choose sustainable products.
Azure Magazine
JULY 26, 2021
Is there anything as timeless as a brick wall? For Italy’s Casalgrande Padana , the quintessential building block is a point of inspiration for a bold yet unfailingly sophisticated line of porcelain tiles. Aptly dubbed Brickworks, the new series of wall and floor tiles comprises three distinct collections and a wide range of matte and glossy finishes.
Its Nice That
JULY 26, 2021
British artist Sophy Hollington, known for her lino-cut prints referencing folklore and alchemy, has collaborated with the sunglasses brand for its new summer line.
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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.
Swiss Miss
JULY 26, 2021
I know what I am doing this week: Architecting a life in 100 post-its and 1 Afternoon. Life audit is an exercise in self-reflection that helps you clear the cobwebs of noisy, external goals and current distractions, and revisit or uncover the real themes & core values that drive and inspire you. Also known as: spring-cleaning for the soul. Kevin Kelly says the process allows for your priorities to come to light and helps you to see the patterns of your life.
Its Nice That
JULY 26, 2021
Curated by graphic designer Tom Hingson, One Of A Kind is an exhibition and auction being held at Maddox Gallery to raise money for young people going through treatment.
Colossal
JULY 26, 2021
“Red Poppy,” 45 x 45 inches. All images © CJ Hendry, shared with permission. Previously drawing giant strokes of oil paint and fruits, fish, and other edibles with remarkable depth and detail, Australian artist CJ Hendry shifts her focus to the soft, silky petals of peonies, roses, and tulips. She uses colored pencils to render individual florals and small bunches at an immense scale, magnifying their thin layers and sticky inner organs.
Feature Shoot
JULY 26, 2021
Self-portrait, I Am Black © H Eugene Foster. H Eugene Foster has been an instructor at the world-renowned International Center of Photography for more than two decades, during which time he saw the industry transition from analog to digital. Today, in addition to his role at ICP, he offers one-on-one instruction with a focus on digital photography using Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Lightroom.
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