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15 Illustration Portfolio Websites That Are Brimming with Talent

High on Design by Wix

As an illustrator, your portfolio website is a crucial tool that helps both fans and potential clients explore your work. One of the very first steps in making an illustrator website is to look for web design inspiration. Isabelle’s illustrator website includes an art portfolio that showcases her works in a long scroll format.

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21 Photoshop Tutorials to Brush Up Your Photoshop Skills

HONGKIAT

How to Create a Flying Car Scene This tutorial walks you through 75 detailed steps to craft an imaginative “Flying Car Illustration” using Photoshop. You’ll start by using Adobe Illustrator to build geometric lines. The tutorial also provides tips on color shading and texture, aiming to help you create a vintage-style coffee shop.

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Retro Packaging Design: Bringing Back Vintage Styles

Inkbot Design

An example of retro cereal packaging using vintage illustrations and fonts. Relying on heritage imagery and themes Grainy photographic filters, illustrations with retro family scenes or activities, and other stylised heritage visuals make packaging look authentically old school. Specific illustration aesthetics tie to beloved decades.

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Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written

Eye on Design

One of the best (albeit one-sided) illustrations of how a designer might approach type differently than an artist is a 2009 essay by David Reinfurt (who used to make up one-half of Dexter Sinister) titled “Adam, Why Arial?” “A Translation from one language to another,” Lawrence Weiner, 1996. Photograph by Savonne Anderson.

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The History of Logos: Where Branding Started

Inkbot Design

Symbols played a crucial role in advertising campaigns, as companies sought to create brand gurus that would resonate with consumers and leave a lasting impression. Logos from this era incorporated floral patterns, curved typography, and intricate illustrations.

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