Spoon Graphics
OCTOBER 12, 2020
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. This retro-futuristic style has remained in trend thanks to the retrowave/synthwave music movement, which has helped to bring back the visual elements from 80s arcades, action movies, fashion and pop culture.
SpeckyBoy
OCTOBER 11, 2020
For a freelancer, referrals can be an essential ingredient to a successful web design business. Booking new clients this way can allow you to forgo at least some of the costs involved with traditional marketing. Plus, there’s something to be said when an existing client goes out of their way to tell a friend about you. It means a lot. However, it’s not all rainbows.
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Just Creative
OCTOBER 12, 2020
This article has been contributed by Jason Khoo. When building exposure for your business, you need to get the word out to drive traffic to your website. And you need to use some sort of marketing strategy to do it. One of the most commonly used strategies to drive traffic to a website is SEO. Nowadays, most website owners have some basic knowledge of it, not least of all because it doesn’t cost you anything (except time) if you do it yourself.
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
Spoon Graphics
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Access All Areas members have a versatile new font to download this week, courtesy of Typologic. Neutro is a bold, sans-serif display font that comes in four styles: Regular, Bold, Extra Bold and an Outline version. It is a wide typeface with a modern style, making it great for typography purposes that require a strong identity. Typologic is the home of Fadiel Muhammad, a type designer who has a variety of display fonts available in his store, ranging from a futuristic space age font to an elega
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Speckyboy Design Magazine
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Developing For The Semantic Web – Why semantic markup has become increasingly important for websites. Animating Number Counters – Whether you’re counting up or down, add some animation to your numbers. 5 Things to Tell Your Clients About WordPress Security – Educating your clients is a great step towards a more secure web. Dizzle – A tool that turns CSS selectors into functions that tests if elements match them.
Just Creative
OCTOBER 15, 2020
This article has been contributed by Kevin George. It’s intriguing to know that there are around 12 to 24 million eCommerce sites across the world and the industry is growing 23% year-over-year. And 46% of American small businesses don’t even have a website yet. What’s even more interesting is that not many of these sites actually make much money. Fewer than 1 million of them sell more than $1000 annually.
Creative Review
OCTOBER 14, 2020
This year should have marked the release of the hotly anticipated 25th instalment in the James Bond film franchise, No Time to Die. As with much of the movie industry however, coronavirus has thrown a bit of a spanner in the works. The film’s release date was originally pushed from April to November when the pandemic struck, and since then has been further delayed until 2021.
SpeckyBoy
OCTOBER 10, 2020
The number of options, directions, and aesthetic approaches you can take from simply adding a texture to your design is mind-boggling. Of course, not every design benefits from even the most subtle of textures, but you might be surprised at how a high-resolution texture can bring a design to life. Knowing when to use a texture and which texture to use all boils down to the flow of the design and the priority of information on the page.
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Logo Design Love
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Ji Lee’s short description: “This project started nearly twenty years ago as an assignment in my typography class at art school. Students were encouraged to see letters beyond their dull, practical functionality. “The challenge is to visualize the meaning of a word, using only the graphic elements of the letters forming the word, without adding any outside parts.
Shillington
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Courtesy of Olivia Beasley Photography. Despite a degree in physical geography, Robyn M-C always knew she was destined for a creative career. Gallery visits, lectures and a lot of reading eventually lead her to Shillington London and, knowing graphic design was the way forward for her, quickly enrolled. Three months later, she graduated and dived into a new career.
Creative Review
OCTOBER 14, 2020
For Singapore-based Radhiah Anis, a career in illustration was never something she saw for herself. “I had always just been doing it for fun, until I started posting my work on Instagram and receiving some commissions,” says Anis. “At that time I was waiting to get into a communication design degree at the Glasgow School of Art (Singapore).
SpeckyBoy
OCTOBER 10, 2020
If you’ve got gorgeous art your audience loves, don’t just settle for presenting it through prints. Instead, use mockups and show them what your work would look like in their apartments. Therein lies the magic of poster frame mockups. Used by both artists and graphic designers, mockups open new possibilities. Poster frame mockup templates are an incredible asset for increasing your sales and turning your art into a reality.
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Azure Magazine
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Understanding place is an integral part of Indigenous design. The simplest way to explain the difference between colonial views and Indigenous ways of thinking is to look at how places are named. Consider Fort York vs. Tkaronto; the former is a reference to a military presence and a cathedral town in Britain, the latter means “the place in the water where the trees are standing.
Shillington
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Out of the over thirty briefs that Shillington students complete on the course, the Campaign Brief is one of the biggest—both in terms of deliverables and length of deadline. Though it’s also one of the funnest. Students are given a free rein and can choose their own topic they want their campaign to cover. This means that the campaigns can be really close to their heart, producing some truly wonderful results.
Creative Review
OCTOBER 16, 2020
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), based in Melbourne, temporarily shuttered last year to allow for an ambitious refurbishment worth $40 million AUD. After some inevitable delays this year due to Covid-19, the redevelopment is now set to be revealed in early 2021. When the museum reopens, it will have a fresh look devised by UK design agency North, which will complete ACMI’s transformation from its beginnings as a local film centre in the 1940s to the most visited museum of
The Logo Smith
OCTOBER 12, 2020
The post Type Hero #10: Brule Typeface Designed by Andrei Robu at Typeverything appeared first on The Logo Smith All Content © 2020 The Logo Smith.™ |. Type Hero #10: Brule Typeface. Type Hero #10: Brule Typeface is a tribute to the 70’s graphic design era. A juicy iconic typeface full of opentype features, icons and special glyphs that will make your projects look amazing.
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Noupe
OCTOBER 16, 2020
The social event of the entire year, Halloween is just around the corner. Celebrating Halloween might get a little depressing this year. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t at least try to host a socially distanced, germ-free but fun Halloween bash. There’s nothing more exciting than opening your mailbox and finding a Halloween party invitation around this spooky season.
Shillington
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Future Print Club is a project created by Humana Studio with the intention of creating a “community that evokes the power of collaborative work to improve the world.” For season 3, Shillington graduates were asked to submit their artwork for a chance to have their design printed on t-shirts with profits going towards different NGOs of the artists choice.
Creative Review
OCTOBER 16, 2020
The book, authored by Peter Mendelsund and David J Alworth, explores some of the recurrent motifs of cover design, delving into trends that have shaped the way books have been marketed over the decades. It charts some of the influential changes along the way – from the first dust jackets in the 1800s, through the rise of graphic design as a profession and into some of the stories behind more controversial titles such as Lolita.
Booooooom
OCTOBER 12, 2020
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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 Week
OCTOBER 13, 2020
London-based studio North has created the new visual identity for the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) to accompany the museum’s $40m (£22m) transformation. The work includes a new wordmark, a range of digital assets as well as physical merchandise like tote bags and reusable cups. Based in Melbourne, ACMI is dedicated to moving image from the world of film, video games, digital culture and art.
Shillington
OCTOBER 15, 2020
At Shillington , we love to explore and celebrate great design from around the world. We’ve covered the work of many creatives, from design studios to illustrators in many different countries and cities so far. Now, we’re heading to the West Coast US, specifically, sunny California. The Golden State is known for Death Valley (the hottest National Park in the US), the gorgeous wine regions of Napa and Sonoma and also being the avocado capital of the world (in case you’re wondering).
Creative Review
OCTOBER 11, 2020
The photographs belong to Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, who describe them as an ‘accidental’ collection of imagery. Just over 20 years ago, the pair stumbled across a black-and-white image, taken in the 1920s, of two young men embracing, and found themselves intrigued with who they were and how the photo had ended up in an antique shop in Dallas. “Taking such a photo, during a time when they would have been less understood than they would be today, was not without risk,”
Brown Paper Bag
OCTOBER 13, 2020
By now, you might be familiar with the embroidery work of Danielle Clough, aka Fiance Knowles. Known for her stitching on vintage rackets , she has continued to wow me (and many others) with her colorful blooms spread across the stiff nets. I think the thing that makes these pieces so successful, aside from the brilliant talent that Danielle possesses, is that the net is akin to giant jobelan fabric—with a much wider weave, obviously.
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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