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Ladybird rebrand is the publisher's biggest change in over 100 years

Creative Boom

Publishing giant Ladybird Books has today unveiled a fresh new look that captures the playful spirit of the iconic brand. These new guidelines include a suite of fun, flexible contemporary colours, patterns, shapes and stickers, allowing Ladybird to get its message across to existing audiences.

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How To Create a Seamless Pattern in Adobe Illustrator

Spoon Graphics

Ever since the addition of the Object > Pattern > Make workflow to Adobe Illustrator in CS6, creating seamlessly repeating patterns has never been easier! Beforehand, it was necessary to manually place graphics so they repeated from edge to edge, but now it can all be done visually using Illustrator’s Pattern interface.

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Xinyue Song escapes the patterns of everyday life with her happy and ironic illustrations

Creative Boom

There is nothing more rewarding than seeing your work being published.". I wanted to escape this life pattern and eliminate the confusion and frustration growing with each passing day.". "I still remember how excited I was when I got a job late last year to draw athletes for the Winter Olympics for Adidas. © Xinyue Song. © Xinyue Song.

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Illustrator Wenjia Tang's first fiction book is a beautiful exploration of mankind's relationship with nature

Creative Boom

I think the publisher approached me with this title in mind because my style aligns well with the book's calming and whimsical voice, which revolves around nature and wildlife." As for why she's continually fascinated with nature, Wenjia says it's because nature "performs its patterns freely".

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Books About Food: Hit Instagram account launches new website that will be the 'IMDb of cookbooks'

Creative Boom

An amazing collection of family recipes with anecdotal stories, which was later referenced in a collection of essays put together by Daunt books called In The Kitchen, published in 2020." After some further Googling, I found out the book was self-published by the author herself, Archana, in Bangalore, India. Apparently not. "It

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Dissecting deceptive patterns in nature and technology

UX Collective

Learning to spot the patterns. Image by DavidZydd (CC0), pixabay.com “There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. These are common ways we see patterns. Palahniuk (1999, p.

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30 websites with beautifully patterned backgrounds

Canva

These days, patterns are everywhere. If you’ve been poking around online lately, chances are you’ve seen patterns being used in web design as well. Trying to figure out what elements to use to build your website’s pattern? Create a symmetrical pattern. Design a pattern using linework only. It’s delightful.

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