Speckyboy Design Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2019

So often, I write about the details and observations I’ve had while running a freelance web design business. It seems like so many web designers have taken this path that I tend to forget about those who haven’t. The truth is that being a freelancer isn’t all rainbows and unicorns. And it’s not necessarily the right fit for everyone. The lifestyle is very different compared to having a steady job with a traditional employer.

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Just Creative

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This is a guest article contributed by Loius Martin. Are you so fond of a particular company that it’s hard for you to buy from other brands? You just ‘connect’ with the company more than others. Every time you catch sight of their logo, a wave of emotion runs inside you, reminding you how much you enjoy their products or services. What is it that drives you towards those brands?

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Graphic Mama

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Are you looking for cool color combinations to try in your upcoming design projects? In this article, we’ve gathered and reviewed some of the trendiest color combinations in 2020 for web design, graphic design, and digital illustrations. We’ve included some absolute classics that would be a sin not to try. Other color combinations are super innovative, so you have to give them a go, as well.

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Creative Market

DECEMBER 20, 2019

This post is part of the Decoding Creativity series from Creative Market. Follow me on Medium or subscribe to the Creative Market blog , and join the discussion by commenting with your questions and thoughts. Imagine, if you will, two hypothetical people. Let’s call them Charlie and Pat. Both are in their mid-20s, fresh out of college, and both work for an organization that values clear communication, personal responsibility, and hard work.

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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

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Canva

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Are you feeling the pressure to make a truly stellar holiday card or design this season? It can be hard work. What imagery do you use? What colors work best? What about the typefaces? Lucky for you, we’ve curated 50 Christmas and holiday-inspired fonts sure to make your designs gift­worthy. And in the true spirit of giving ­— they’re free! 01. One Starry Night.

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SpeckyBoy

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Christmas is just a few weeks away, and we know that all you designers will be starting to plan the design of your personalized Christmas cards, invitations, wallpapers and everything else in between that is Christmas or holiday season-related. So, just to help you out we have a fantastic collection of free Christmas related resources we know you will love and will hopefully help get you into the festive spirit.

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The Logo Smith

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The post Tokyo Olympics 1964 Logo Design Guide Sheet Design by Yusaku Kamekura appeared first on The Logo Smith. Tokyo Olympics 1964 Logo Design Guide Sheet Designed by Yusaku Kamekura The Tokyo Olympics 1964 Logo Design Guide Sheet, by Yusaku Kamekura, isn’t something I believe I can ever recall seeing, so it was cool to see it in my tumblr feed today.

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Shillington

DECEMBER 19, 2019

It’s around this time of year at Shillington that we love to take a closer look at our students’ work and the wider design community to see if we can predict the fonts that will be popular in future. From brand identities and packaging to editorial pieces and website designs, we’ve scoured through all of this year’s projects from our six campuses across the globe to pick out 20 typefaces that look set to be big in 2020.

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Creative Market

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Looking for color inspiration to spruce up your holiday-themed designs? Whether you're working on new designs for a client's holiday campaign, designing your family's Christmas cards, or planning a beautiful tablescape – these 8 Christmas color palettes are sure to inspire your next festive project. Save Color palette by Yulia, Yuliya Derbisheva. Palette HEX codes: #efdfd7, #c84d4e, #869987, #c0ced7, #717d8a.

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Advertiser: Issuu

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.

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Noupe

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Drawing is one of the most common hobbies. It’s a great way of having fun and expressing yourself. And now, with the help of technology, it’s really easy to draw and edit your work digitally. And, you don’t need a high-end graphics tablet, you can just use your Android tablet or iPad to create real art. The thing is though, there are many drawing apps to choose from.

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Fotor

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Finding the perfect images for your flyer, poster or document can be a daunting or even tedious task. Flipping through page after page, not only looking for something that will fit your project but also having to look for ones that are free and legal to use. Luckily there are a few free clipart websites […].

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Inspiration Feed

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Just because you’re creative and innovative does not mean you can conquer the design industry. Thought these are among the most important ingredients, there’s a lot more to the recipe.

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The Logo Smith

DECEMBER 15, 2019

The post Erich Dieckmann: Design Development of a Metal Tube Chair appeared first on The Logo Smith. Erich Dieckmann: Design Development of a Metal Tube Chair The Erich Dieckmann vintage metal tube chair development illustration has been doing-the-rounds of late, and it’s quite a interesting—at least to me—look into the design process way-back-then.

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As the design industry evolves, teams are facing new challenges and a need to produce more outstanding creative work than ever. Leaders must learn how to adapt their processes to solve today’s—and tomorrow’s—unique design challenges. In this e-book, you’ll learn how to establish your creative workflow and leverage the power of CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite to streamline the entire design process, from start to finish.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

What a decade. Over the last 10 years, Canada’s largest urban centres have dramatically transformed. Relentless high-rise building booms in Toronto and Vancouver are poised to continue into the 2020s, while cities like Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa, Edmonton, and Halifax, have also been re-shaped by development. Noteworthy buildings emerged from a landscape of blue-glass condominiums – think Saucier + Perrotte’s River City – but the country’s most prolific architecture was seldom a

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Creative Market

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Did you ever look across the aisle at school and wish you could master the impossibly gorgeous handwriting of that one kid? You know the one: the kid who always got to write the announcements on the board because their script held everyone spellbound. Well, now you can -- because that handwriting wizard may have grown up and joined Creative Market! Amazing artists around the world are offering their personal handwriting to you, to download and use for anything you want.

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Noupe

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Nature can be a great source of inspiration. Art has borrowed from nature for millennia. Even in our digitalized age, graphic designers still turn to nature for inspiration. In this article, we’ll look at rust textures as an often-overlooked alternative to more popular texture types. Using rich textures in your work can add a stronger composition, make it more eye-catching or increase the quality of your work by adding depth.

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Tuts Plus

DECEMBER 27, 2019

What You'll Be Creating With oil prices the way they are today, everybody is thinking Green. I have done many projects recently that require a Green style applied to the design. In the following Illustrator tutorial, I'll teach you how to create a Green type treatment. It works great for logos and other design elements. 1. Create Your Text. Step 1. Create a New document that is 8.5 x 11 inches.

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Envato Tuts+

DECEMBER 11, 2019

What You'll Be Creating Ready to take the next step in layout design? In this tutorial, we show you how to create a booklet in InDesign. For this stylish design, we’ll use essential tools for setting up pages that will help you in your future projects. Booklets are a form of brochure containing more than four pages and not more than 48 pages (the page count should be divisible by four).

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The Logo Smith

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The post The Toon Type Alphabet Project Hand Illustrated Lettering by @mvrtn_art appeared first on The Logo Smith. The Toon Type Alphabet Project Hand Illustrated Lettering by @mvrtn_art The Toon Type Alphabet Project Hand Illustrated Lettering by @mvrtn_art, based in Manchester England, is probably the most gorgeously detailed attempt at creating an illustrated alphabet you’re ever going to see.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2019

As a designer, you spend most of your time doing actual design work. But there are so many other aspects that go into running a business you need to handle. And that includes invoicing. Though you can certainly just fire off an email stating an amount owed, that’s not the most efficient method. You can use automation software to handle invoicing as well, however, that’s not in the budget for every designer.

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Creative Market

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Your product description is a place to answer your customers’ questions, showcase your brand, and highlight key features of your product. Keep the sentences short. People are scanning quickly, so help make it easy for them find the information they need. Use bullet points and lists of key features, and keep the tone conversational and easy to read. Make sure you clarify which software is compatible with the product you offer; in certain cases, it might be useful to also mention the software that

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Speaker: Eden Spivak, Design Expert and Editor at Wix & Nir Horesh, Accessibility Lead and Senior Product Manager at Wix

When we design products or websites for people like ourselves, there are many others who are, as a result, left out. From visually impaired users who rely on assistive technology, to people with a temporary injury such as a broken arm, tech users are forever diverse and beautifully unique. The products we design can, and should, reflect the extremely wide range of human experiences and needs.

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Illustration Age

DECEMBER 2, 2019

“Why do we draw? We draw, I suppose, because it is one of the most primitive and natural human instincts. Some thousands of years ago we would have drawn on cave walls records of the animals which the more virile members of the tribe had stalked. There is hardly a child today who, before age of reason, does not reach out for the colored crayons to record his first visual impressions, and later his first imaginings.

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Feature Shoot

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Ollie. Ex stock broker. Made his millions in the Dotcom boom and now spends 6 months of the year on his yacht in Monaco. Henry. Enormous introvert. Loves football, has no idea about the rules he simply cheers for the winning team. DOGG. Pronounced ‘D’ ‘O’ “double G’ as in Snoop. Impossibly cool. Fan of hip hop. “‘Dog’ was found on the side of the road,” the photographer and rescue advocate Emma O’Brien tells us.

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Its Nice That

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Collaborating over Dropbox Paper, the founder of Fisk works with Beijing-born, Berlin-based illustrator Ruohan Wang to showcase, not only their talents in illustration and typography, but their love of nature too. Read more.

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The Logo Smith

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The post IBM 8-Bar Logo: Why the Negative logo is different to the Positive Logo appeared first on The Logo Smith. IBM 8-Bar Logo: Why the Negative logo is different to the Positive Logo The famous IBM 8-Bar logo is a great example of why it’s important to consider where and how your logo design is likely to be used, for example: is it just black-on-white, or will it be white-on-black, or both?

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Speaker: Michele Berdinis

This session will answer business law questions that people are asking most during the pandemic. If my business can’t pay its bills, can my creditors come after my personal assets? Do I have to pay the rent on my co-working space or office? Can my clients cancel signed contracts? Can I cancel contracts for things I no longer need because my business has slowed down?

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