Graphic Design Junction
DECEMBER 18, 2019
If you are trying to get into the world of graphic design and want to flex your artistic muscles, then you have come to the right place. Many aspiring artists are like deer caught in the headlights and are overwhelmed by the skill of others. The thing is that all of those artists also started somewhere and they also did not have the skill that they have today.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
DECEMBER 18, 2019
I am not an advice columnist. Nor am I a mediator, lawyer or even an IT specialist. Like many of you reading this, I’m a web designer. In reality, this title only qualifies me to answer questions about web design. And even then, I may very well have to look up the answer. But that doesn’t stop clients from asking me about all manner of subjects. The funny thing is that these questions often, in their own roundabout way, relate to their website.
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Spoon Graphics
DECEMBER 18, 2019
In today’s Photoshop tutorial I show you a few simple steps to create a surreal glass sphere floating within a photograph. This cool effect is perfect for creating interesting album covers, or just to transform your landscape photos into abstract art pieces. All it takes is a few relatively simple Photoshop tools, a couple of filters, and a touch of shading, making it a pretty easy effect you can create in minutes. ?
Just Creative
DECEMBER 18, 2019
This article is from guest author, Tom Welbourne. Looking for an SEO blog post that covers all the fundamentals so you don’t have to read a bunch of other blog posts? We have one right here for you. This blog post covers all the basics and a few extras that will help you get your blog off the ground without having to constantly update your knowledge every few days to keep up to date with the latest SEO trends from Google.
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
Azure Magazine
DECEMBER 18, 2019
What a decade. Over the last 10 years, Canada’s largest urban centres have dramatically transformed. Relentless high-rise building booms in Toronto and Vancouver are poised to continue into the 2020s, while cities like Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa, Edmonton, and Halifax, have also been re-shaped by development. Noteworthy buildings emerged from a landscape of blue-glass condominiums – think Saucier + Perrotte’s River City – but the country’s most prolific architecture was seldom a
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Its Nice That
DECEMBER 18, 2019
In what will always be the butter to It’s Nice That’s bread, illustration and animation in 2019 has been another eye-opening year of discovering new and exciting talents. Read more.
Creative Review
DECEMBER 18, 2019
Help Refugees works with grassroots organisations to provide food, shelter and support to refugees across Europe and the Middle East. It has helped over 1 million people since it was founded in 2015 and is now Europe’s largest provider of grassroots aid. The group relies on public donations and support from volunteers and has adopted a creative approach to fundraising.
Its Nice That
DECEMBER 18, 2019
Aside from the hot discussion points of redesigns and campaigns, 2019 has been a year where we’ve seen a wealth of brilliant work from independent practitioners placing personality at the forefront of their work. Read more.
Under Consideration / Brand
DECEMBER 18, 2019
“Where the Wind Blows”. (Est. 1923) " ALSA is the leading operator in the Spanish sector of passenger transport by road. As an integral operator, it is able to meet the different transportation needs of citizens providing a wide range of regional, national, international, urban, discretionary (coach hire), and tourist services. Additionally, ALSA specializes in the management of bus stations, service areas, and vehicle maintenance areas.
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Its Nice That
DECEMBER 18, 2019
For this year’s Instagram brief, we’re changing things up, asking you to look forward instead of back. Ponder your ambitions for 2020 and then tell us about them, via whatever medium you see fit, and we’ll feature the best entries on It’s Nice That in January. Meanwhile, we’ve commissioned Zebu, Caterina Bianchini and Hiller Goodspeed to offer up some initial inspiration.
Colossal
DECEMBER 18, 2019
Animation director Sam Gainsborough ’s new mixed-media film contorts and melts characters’ faces, altering and shaping both how they see and how they’re viewed. Facing It depicts a man struggling with relationships to his family and friends, his social anxiety, and his fear of being isolated from those around him. Throughout the film, dripping, swirling, and rippling clay faces mask those of the human bodies.
Its Nice That
DECEMBER 18, 2019
This year the medium of photography has known no bounds, offering us the opportunity to cover a long list of subjects from pedigree cat shows in Birmingham to behind the scenes at weddings and everything in between. Read more.
Noupe
DECEMBER 18, 2019
I will begin under the presumption that you have created a blog to share with your target audience for at least one of the following reasons: to educate, inform or entertain them. From here, you may even wish to encourage them to take some form of action, i.e to subscribe, like and share your content, or to buy your product or service. The best way to achieve this is by generating a continuous flow of relevant and updated content on your blog.
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.
Graphic Design Junction
DECEMBER 18, 2019
This is the 62nd round up of Business Logo Design. An another great hand-picked collection of Logo Templates , Branding, Visual Identity Logos for inspiration. Logo is the most important and key element of an effective branding identity system. In this logo showcase we are gathered professionally designed visual identity logo templates concepts that gives great ideas to make your next logo design.
Its Nice That
DECEMBER 18, 2019
Working with a range of commissioned writers, photographers, illustrators and, of course, our very own teams, this year has seen us explore creative stories of every ilk in our long-form writing. Read more.
Under Consideration / Brand
DECEMBER 18, 2019
“The Sleepful Eight”. Established in 2014, Eight Sleep is a "sleep fitness company" that designs products, content, and tools to help people sleep better for optimum performance each day. Their first product, a smart bed called, well, Smart Bed, allows users to track their sleep patterns and biometric signals and has an integrated heater and smart alarm that can wake you up at the optimal point in your sleep cycle.
Feature Shoot
DECEMBER 18, 2019
Peter NISSEN (German), Circus animals from Carl Hagenbeck’s Zoological Circus, circa 1891. Albumen print, 17.2 x 23.0 cm. Edward BIERSTADT (American, 1824-1906) Jumbo, 1882 Artotype, cabinet card, 9.7 x 13.4 cm mounted on 10.5 x 14.7 cm card. The history of photography provides a visual record of life on earth, as well as the beliefs and practices that humanity enacted upon those whose agency they disregarded.
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Communication Arts
DECEMBER 18, 2019
In Toronto, an illustrator warps time by creating futuristic images that evoke nostalgia.
Just Creative
DECEMBER 18, 2019
This article is from guest author, Ilya Lobanov. It’s harsh, but your customers don’t care about your business. Beyond how it can help them make their lives better or solve a problem they have. But it’s not all bad news. You can use that knowledge to your advantage by using the power of storytelling. The buzzword that’s making the biggest impact right now isn’t “ chatbots “ Or “ IoT “, or even “ machine-learning “, despite a truck-load of headlines
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In today’s competitive markets, how do you make sure that your content not only stands out but performs well? How can you predict whether certain design choices will result in clicks, engagement, downloads, and other drivers of ROI? Shutterstock’s Creative Insights Report (Q3) is your window into the hottest trends that are transforming the creative world.
Trendland
DECEMBER 18, 2019
For the International Festival of Light in Mexico, Workshop Architects has redesigned and transformed an old colonial house located in the city of Merida. Giving birth to Filux Lab, an independent space with the mission of promoting the sense of artistic community where different universes converge around the light and light installations. The architects used the pre-existing architecture, serving as a blank canvas, defined only by white and neutral colors.
Just Creative
DECEMBER 18, 2019
This is a guest article contributed by Loius Martin. Are you so fond of a particular company that it’s hard for you to buy from other brands? You just ‘connect’ with the company more than others. Every time you catch sight of their logo, a wave of emotion runs inside you, reminding you how much you enjoy their products or services. What is it that drives you towards those brands?
Its Nice That
DECEMBER 18, 2019
As we got ready to say goodbye to 2019, we asked ten luminaries from the creative industry to select their moment of the decade. Unsurprisingly, the list they sent back is dominated by politics and protest. Read more.
Trendland
DECEMBER 18, 2019
Music is an event, not a soundtrack! Is the motto of luxurious audio lifestyle company Oswalds Mill Audio. With OMA, it’s time to go back to the movie theater sound systems of the 1930’s, when the ultimate consideration was sound quality, not size, cost or convenience. They are making some of the world’s finest high fidelity equipment- loudspeakers, tube amplifiers, turntables and audio furniture.
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