I Love Typography
JANUARY 19, 2022
Read the book, Typographic Firsts. The year 2021 was mostly memorable for all the wrong reasons. And it feels like I published last year’s favorite fonts list about ten years ago! However, 2021 wasn’t a bad year for type design. In my determination to keep the list capped at ten, I’ve undoubtedly left out many releases that merit inclusion.
Spoon Graphics
JANUARY 19, 2022
In today’s Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you a clever combination of Photoshop filters that converts an image into a realistic looking watercolour painting effect. A range of built-in filters will produce the foundations of the effect, then the addition of a paper texture and some finishing touches with a watercolour Photoshop brush pack adds an extra level of realism to produce a convincing final result.
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UX Collective
JANUARY 19, 2022
Simple rules guide you towards appropriate design decisions and help you make a more compelling case for decision-makers. Design Principles are an assortment of considerations that form the foundation of any good product design. You can find many articles online listing various principles, but often they lack concrete examples from products we encounter daily.
Eye on Design
JANUARY 19, 2022
The first email I received from Ritesh Gupta was at 4:30AM. This could mean one of two things—he’s one of those founders who gets up early to start his day (a habit I’ve always coveted, but never been able to execute), or he’s pulling an all nighter due to the sheer volume of work on his plate. Gupta confirms it’s the latter. “I wasn’t ready for the on swell of reception on my posts, so I’ve been feeling that adrenaline for quite a while.
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
Graphic Design Junction
JANUARY 19, 2022
Procreate is the most powerful iPad app for drawing, sketching and illustrations and only Procreate lovers understand the importance of Procreate Brushes. In this article we gathered 26 best Procreate tutorials taught by Pro Procreate Designers, illustrators and digital artists. You must check the best tutorials that will provide a lot of help, step by step draw different illustrations and drawings that make it easy to learn and understand.
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Creative Market
JANUARY 19, 2022
Whether you’re working alone or with multiple designers, an interior design logo can be shorthand for communicating your design sense to potential clients. A perfect interior design logo can vary from designer to designer so here’s a quick breakdown of what you can do to create your own. Making Your Own Interior Design Logo. Those working in the interior design industry — or any visual industry for that matter — understand that good designs over the years have helped shape certain visual languag
Its Nice That
JANUARY 19, 2022
The illustration artist talks us through some of her most recent projects and shares some interesting tips on how to get creatively inspired.
We And The Color
JANUARY 19, 2022
All eyes on award-winning illustrator, fine artist, and designer FLuX. With major clients such as Apple, Focus Features, Diesel, Peace Tea, FX, The Internet Band, Paste Magazine, Dazed, Monster Energy, and Sharpie, among others, Flux is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed illustrator, fine artist, and designer. The awards include Creativity International Platinum, Silver & Bronze Awards, Communication Arts, Beautiful Bizarre, Society of Illustrators, Spectrum Art, and more.
SpeckyBoy
JANUARY 19, 2022
Perhaps no industry has a wider array of mystifying job titles than web design. One could spend hours attempting to figure out the difference between a “People Operations Coordinator” and a “Project Manager”. Is the former just a fancier way of describing the latter? Only the job poster knows the answer. The titles that organizations toss around appear to be an effort to differentiate themselves from competitors.
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Brands must create and share impactful content to thrive, but they have less people, tighter budgets, and fewer resources to do so. Learn how to publish and market digital content with the same professionalism as organizations with million-dollar budgets.
Swiss Miss
JANUARY 19, 2022
My heart can barely handle the awesomeness that is this photo series titled Architecture in Music by Charles Brooks. What would it feel like to live inside your musical instrument? ps: if you love these, you can buy a print.
We And The Color
JANUARY 19, 2022
Learn Adobe Photoshop from scratch with these five highly recommended online courses. These five online courses by visual artist Carles Marsal will help you to learn Adobe Photoshop from scratch and master the most popular image editing software on the market. This special offer contains five high-quality online courses in one. With the first course, you get an easy-to-understand introduction to Adobe Photoshop and its basic tools.
Its Nice That
JANUARY 19, 2022
Reimagining emojis as a “collection of fragments from life”, new stickers from the illustrator are available to download.
Moo
JANUARY 19, 2022
Are your old business cards out of date? Instead of popping them straight into the trash, try these five ideas to give your outdated business cards a new life. All tried and tested by the MOO crew. 1) Keep it as a mini art print. You put a lot of time and energy into making your business cards look amazing. Now they’re obsolete, you’re left with a pile of mini masterpieces you can’t bring yourself to throw away.
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 Milk
JANUARY 19, 2022
You’ve seen bookcases before but never showcased in a way like this. Design and manufacturing firm Bestcase collaborated with 3d-rendering studio Renderfolk to create a virtual, natural residence, one that was designed for its furnishings instead of vice versa. Creating this fantasy environment allowed the team to showcase the versatility of Bestcase’s Scaffold system and how it’s able to adapt to its surroundings.
Design You Trust
JANUARY 19, 2022
When the pallbearers brought Phil McLean’s coffin into the chapel, there were gasps before a wave of laughter rippled through the hundreds of mourners. The coffin was a giant cream donut. More: Dying Art , Instagram , Faceboom h/t: apnews. The donut was the latest creation by Phil’s cousin Ross Hall, who runs a business in Auckland, New Zealand, called Dying Art, which custom builds colorful coffins.
Abduzeedo
JANUARY 19, 2022
ED 21 IV — Retro-futuristic Abstract Illustrations. abduzeedo 0119—22 ED 21 IV is a concept design and 3D illustrations created by atelier olschinsky. The images feature a retro-futuristic look but in a quite abstract way. Sometimes they look like space inspired themes with spaceships but I don’t know if that was the inspiration for them. For more information make sure to check out: Behance.
Mindsparkle Mag
JANUARY 19, 2022
An Open Understanding created a new identity that represented the execution standards and character of FWS studio. Or Fire Without Smoke The branding revolves not only digitally but physically too. Designers came up with a powerful concept for FSW. Taking direction from the cinematic feel threaded throughout Fire Without Smoke’s portfolio, the design team created a monogram identity and approach to showcasing the studio’s work that puts the creative to the forefront.
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Design Week
JANUARY 19, 2022
When Brompton founder Andrew Ritchie was designing the prototype for his folding bike, he only had to look opposite his flat for naming inspiration: South Kensington’s Brompton Oratory. Since those days in the 1970s, the bike brand has notched milestones far and wide: full-time production at its first factory in West London, a Brompton World Championship held in Barcelona in 2006.
Design You Trust
JANUARY 19, 2022
Dan Hipp is a comic book artist who draws cute art with Marvel and DC superheroes. Hipp also worked as art director on the wonderful animated series Teen Titans Go!, but, unfortunately, we don’t know anything more about him. All we know is that he draws pictures with rich color and composition, and that’s all we need. More: Instagram.
crowdspring
JANUARY 19, 2022
These packaging design trends will help you sell more products online and in stores. Read about the 10 biggest packaging trends for 2022.
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Abduzeedo
JANUARY 19, 2022
Daily NFT Spotlight — HAPEBEAST. AoiroStudio 0119—22 Today is the day when the most anticipated NFT collection is about to be released to the world. I have been following this project for months since we last featured it on abdz. Today is a celebration for those who are among the 8192 owners and become officially an HAPE. I took the liberty to share more details below and you can always check out their last article on Medium.
Inspiration Feed
JANUARY 19, 2022
It’s the pride and joy of any living room, the coffee table sits smugly centre place and probably gets the most airtime when it comes to entertaining loved ones or friends. But is your coffee table doing your home and… The post 30 Modern Coffee Table Designs & Ideas appeared first on Inspirationfeed.
Colossal
JANUARY 19, 2022
“Kid World” (2021). All images © Seonna Hong, courtesy of Hashimoto Contemporary, shared with permission. In Late Bloomer , Los Angeles-based artist Seonna Hong wades into landscapes filled with amorphous swatches of color and marred by climate disaster. Her acrylic, oil, and pastel works are on view through February 5 at Hashimoto Contemporary in Los Angeles in an introspective solo show that considers her place in an ever-evolving world.
Graphis
JANUARY 19, 2022
Between beautiful images and clever logos, there’s always something of interest in our Design competitions, whether it be from last year or current. “Sometimes, Cigar is Just a Cigar” (above) was created by American designer Carmit Makler Haller of Carmit Design Studio. Submitted into our Design 2022 competition where it won Gold, Haller made the […].
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