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Take 5: A Designer Vessel, Experimental Art, Color Theory + More

Design Milk

The showcase revealed a post-pandemic yearning for tactility that cannot be derived from most two-dimensional artifacts or other forms of conventional fine art.

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Reading between the lines: a way of composing UX illustrations

UX Collective

How deconstructing fine art can help you create better UX illustrations. I’ll be the first to say that it’s generous to draw a comparison between fine art and digital illustration. Color selection can have a psychological impact and account for how accessible your design is to all users.

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How the Occult Shaped Branding’s Obsession With Color

Eye on Design

“The artists who were pioneering the modern movement in the visual arts looked widely for inspiration, breaking away from the old hierarchy of ‘high’ and ‘low’ that had long divided visual culture into fine art and decorative art,” said business historian Regina Lee Blaszczyk.

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9 Best Design Colleges in Los Angeles (2022 list)

Shillington

Also, Otis offers both a Communication Arts undergraduate degree with a major in Graphic Design and a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design. Amongst the twenty-two schools that USC is made up of is the Roski School of Art and Design which cements USC as one of the best graphic design schools in Los Angeles.

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Bold and Bright: The Winners of the Global Billboard Project Will Stop You In Your Tracks

Feature Shoot

Sarah Wouters , a travel photographer, made her winning photo while visiting Inle Lake, Myanmar, where she spotted these villagers drying their colorful fabrics. A masterclass in color theory and the rules of composition, her picture transforms an everyday moment into a scene from a painting. © © Julia Wimmerlin.

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The 9 Best Graphic Design Schools if You Live in Oregon

Shillington

PNCA was founded in 1909 and is now housed in Portland’s 511 Federal Building, an art deco former post office that is on the USA’s National Register of Historic Places. A small college of between 600 and 700 students, PNCA has 12 undergraduate bachelor of fine art (BFA) programs across the creative spectrum.

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The cheat sheet to startup graphic design roles

UX Collective

It is borrowed from graphic art, a notable graphic design ancestor and for some time the main ‘influencer’ of visual communications. Graphic art is categorized as a branch of fine art which encompasses all (manual) artistic techniques that produce multiple printed artworks (4).