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Reading between the lines: a way of composing UX illustrations

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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

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As a sort of manifesto for spiritual synesthesia, it was a novel book to publish before Modernism had even appeared. . In The Color Revolution , she details how between 1910—1940s, color experts would likewise display a radical “willingness to break down old barriers and to cross boundaries.”. Annie Besant.

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The cheat sheet to startup graphic design roles

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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). 9) Online Etymology Dictionary.