Just Creative
APRIL 18, 2021
This article has been contributed by Eddie Segal. Without a proper way to measure your marketing processes, you can’t tell if you’re making any progress or going in the entirely wrong direction. That’s why analyzing Instagram activity is crucial to the success of any business that uses Instagram for marketing. Fortunately, Instagram provides a native analytics tool, Instagram Insights.
Spoon Graphics
APRIL 19, 2021
Patterns come in all kinds of styles, from simple repetitive shapes to complex graphical arrays. In today’s Photoshop tutorial I’m going to share some tips for creating detailed pattern effects that are made with full-colour illustrations. We’ll first use a must-know technique for filling the canvas with randomly placed graphics, then I’ll show you a couple of manual methods for creating seamlessly repeating pattern designs.
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Trendland
APRIL 21, 2021
Words Kylie McDowell. Fuel your wanderlust with intoxicating images created by these 3 ocean photographers from far-flung places around the world. From Italy to Australia, each captures the awe-inspiring natural world at its finest.
Booooooom
APRIL 22, 2021
Liam Cobb (previously featured here). Liam Cobb’s Website. Liam Cobb on Instagram.
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
Just Creative
APRIL 19, 2021
Tattoos have been around for as long as we can remember. As a matter of fact, experts claim that evidence of human tattoos can be traced from around 3370 BC to 3100 BC. That mentioned, it’s understandable why tattoos are still very much celebrated today. So much so, that, although tattoos are designed to be permanent body art, brands and designers are incorporating tattoo elements into their work.
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The Die Line
APRIL 21, 2021
Gaieté celebrates femininity through an elegant and happy-go-lucky personality. With joyful products and services, the brand has the packaging to match through soft typography, botanical illustrations, and a color palette full of whimsy.
Shillington
APRIL 22, 2021
Shillington Melbourne graduate Ximena Jimenez’s LinkedIn bio states “Born in Trujillo, Raised in Lima, Shaped in Neumünster, Fashioned in Bangkok, Based in Melbourne” and we think that’s a great way of summing things up. The Peruvian designer started her design career with an Arts and Business Design degree in Lima before travelling round the country designing and collaborating.
Just Creative
APRIL 17, 2021
While many things in this world have taken the digital route, if you work in any creative field such as graphic design, you know how being able to print physical copies of your work can help not only you get a better idea of how the final project will look but is also a great way for your clients to get an idea of how things are going. A sub-par printer can print but the results you’re going to get will make it less than worth the money you paid for it.
DRAWTIFY
APRIL 21, 2021
Art text is a way to make text have special effects. Generally, art text is only used as a graphic design element that appears in other design projects, such as banners, posters, social media pictures, and videos, etc. Of course, it can also be independent graphic design work, such as an eye-catching art text logo. In addition, art text can also be unique artistic typesetting.
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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.
Envato Tuts+
APRIL 21, 2021
What You'll Be Creating. Ever wanted to know how to make a trifold brochure? Trifold brochures can be an excellent tool for getting information to people in an easy-to-use, eye-catching way. In this tutorial, I will show you how to make a brochure template in Adobe InDesign CC. This versatile pamphlet template will allow you to change the information as you need.
Shillington
APRIL 19, 2021
At Shillington, we often get approached by prospective students who are eager to learn skills to start a graphic design career. Below we will demystify the pros and cons of getting a degree, share alternative learning resources and a variety of study options to learn design and how you can launch a career as a graphic designer. Do You Need A Degree To Be A Graphic Designer?
Creative Review
APRIL 20, 2021
Growing up on the books of artist Tomi Ungerer sparked a desire within French illustrator Simon Bailly to tell tales through images. While studying illustration, the most important lesson he learned was about telling a story simply through one picture or a series of them. “It’s something I use every day in my work,” he says. “For example, in my work for newspapers, I have to understand an article, take the essential ideas and draw an image to create a more compact compreh
SpeckyBoy
APRIL 23, 2021
Modern CSS Upgrades To Improve Accessibility. Nucleus UI – Free UI component library for Figma. Overflow Issues In CSS – Explore the causes of overflow issues and how to solve them. Wave 2.0 – The open source Software as a Service starter kit. The Story Behind Building a Government COVID-19 Website. Yoome Free WooCommerce Theme – A free WooCommerce WordPress theme for creating stunning online shopping stores.
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Design Week
APRIL 21, 2021
London-based design studio The Clearing has created the branding for footballer Marcus Rashford and chef Tom Kerridge’s new initiative to end food poverty in the UK. The Clearing has created the the branding for Full Time, which includes the visual identity, naming and strategy. [link]. Rashford and Kerridge have teamed up to create a series of 52 easy to make meals, one for each week of the year.
Graphic Design 24
APRIL 18, 2021
Create a Professional Logo Would you like to find how to create a lovely looking logo? Beneath will show the way toward building a logo. The Brief Before you begin portraying your logo for your customer, you need to get the brief from your customer. You should comprehend what your customer is searching for. Know this current organization's items, administrations and history.
Creative Review
APRIL 22, 2021
The director, who’s made work for Great Ormond Street and BBC2, based the film around the song’s lyrics, which she says made her think of someone writing to a friend on another planet. In the video, Dora – who’s inexplicably stranded on the moon with a snake – receives a letter from her friend persuading her to come back home.
Abduzeedo
APRIL 19, 2021
Kandinsky Inspired Typography. abduzeedo 04.19.21 Jong min shared an incredible typography and illustration project inspired by Vassily Kandinsky 's style of painting. Jong reconstructed each letter based on the work of taro veron. The end result is a colorful and beautiful alphabet that definitely captures Kandinsky’s style. . Each letter. Applications.
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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 Branding Journal
APRIL 22, 2021
Introducing Gap. Gap is a well-known, well-established clothing and accessories retailer founded in 1969. It stands as one of the largest global specialty retailers due to its popularity amongst a broad demographic of consumers. In 2010, following slumped sales after the Financial Crisis of 2008, Gap decided to redesign its 20-year longstanding logo, giving rise to the ‘Gapgate’ phenomenon.
SpyreStudios
APRIL 20, 2021
Anyone who builds websites knows that responsive design is important. In fact, any modern website should be built with responsive techniques in mind. While there are plenty of tools for creating responsivity , it’s tougher to find debugging & testing tools. And what good is an untested layout? About as good as an uninspected car, although less threatening to your corporeality.
Creative Review
APRIL 18, 2021
When Sally Rooney’s Normal People was released in 2018, it felt like you couldn’t get on public transport without spotting a copy of the distinctive green hardback, its cover depicting a young man and woman packed together like sardines in a tin. The Irish author’s second novel quickly became a cult classic, earning her accolades such as ‘the first great millennial author’ and spawning a hugely popular BBC Three and Hulu TV adaption last year.
We And The Color
APRIL 23, 2021
The Painted Worlds, a photo collection from a few different geothermal areas over Iceland captured by Dani Guindo. Dani Guindo is a landscape photographer from the South of Spain, now based in Iceland. ‘The Painted Worlds’ is a stunning photo collection from a few different geothermal areas shot over Iceland. This great mix of patterns, textures, and colors creates the visual experience of abstract paintings.
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.
Colossal
APRIL 20, 2021
Detail of “Kumbi Saleh 3020 CE” (2019). Photos by Samuel Engelking. All images © Ekow Nimako, shared with permission. Hundreds of thousands of sleek, black LEGO structure the utopic universes by Toronto-based artist Ekow Nimako. Ranging from life-sized figurative sculptures with an eccentric twist to sprawling landscapes mimicking dense metropolises, Nimako’s artworks are rooted in the visionary realm of Afrofuturism , which “explores the intersection of technology and ra
Design Week
APRIL 19, 2021
The Design Museum has reimagined its high street shop as an essential store, featuring everyday products redesigned by a line-up of emerging talent. Supermarket is a temporary installation and has been conceived by the London venue in collaboration with designer Camille Walala. A render of Supermarket While lockdown is easing in the capital, with pubs and restaurants now serving people outside, arts venues remain closed until mid-May.
SpyreStudios
APRIL 19, 2021
What better way to celebrate Earth Day than with the most inspiring Earth Day backgrounds? Celebrated annually every 22nd of April, Earth day is celebrated to commemorate the ‘birth of the modern environmental movement. Not only that, Earth Day is celebrated to raise awareness about climate change and global warming. It was first held in the 1970s, which was the era where discussions about the environment were first taken seriously.
The Die Line
APRIL 23, 2021
Based in Burlington, Vermont, Halyard Brewing Company has released their alcoholic ginger beer with packaging by designer Brendan Fossi. With fruity and island-inspired flavors, the brand needed packaging that could match the aesthetic.
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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