Just Creative
DECEMBER 22, 2020
This article has been contributed by KT Mehra and Joanne Green. When you hear the term clipart it might conjure up those basic, clunky looking images you can download in Microsoft Word. However, clipart is so much more sophisticated now. Demand for high quality clipart images is high and people will often pay well to have a beautiful painted design, especially if it is uniquely made for them.
Designer Daily
DECEMBER 22, 2020
In London, there is a place that tell the story of print by gathering information on typography, graphic design, book design, and printing. This magical place is the St Bride Foundation and was founded in 1891, which means it is exactly 125 years old. To celebrate this anniversary, designers Lucienne Roberts, Matt Willey, and David Pearson have create We Are Type artworks.
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Just Creative
DECEMBER 22, 2020
This article has been contributed by Scott Stevens. No matter what business you’re in, content is king. If you’re lucky, you have the time and ability to create quality content yourself. But the reality is, most businesses don’t have this luxury and outsource to freelancer writers instead. But finding suitable freelance writers can be challenging and time-consuming.
Graphic Design USA
DECEMBER 22, 2020
As we try to cope with pandemics, politics and protests, our 57th Design Annual suggests that out of the crucible we can expect an even more influential graphic design profession to emerge.
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
Just Creative
DECEMBER 22, 2020
This article has been contributed by Dave Schneider. Brand authenticity is an essential factor for 86% of consumers , often determining the brand they end up working with and supporting. Numbers this large are hard to ignore for any company, so branding should be a central part of your web design efforts if you’re going to have a chance of standing out in your marketplace.
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Typographica
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Annual review of the most interesting type of the year, as selected by graphic designers, type designers, and scholars.
Trendland
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Words Emily Sandiford. Ana Popescu takes joy in the everyday. Her art transforms a table of oranges or a neighbor’s shrubs into a covetable sight, using bold colors and bright light to give objects a second life in two dimensions. The illustrations of this Vienna-based artist are a revitalizing tonic: the only blues here are cloudless skies and cool pools.
Azure Magazine
DECEMBER 22, 2020
What relevance does product design have in a world gripped by viral disease? A great deal, as it turns out. During a year in which many of us were forced to shelter in place, the ways in which we accoutre said places — the stuff that we surround ourselves with, the things that protect us and help us adapt to change — became top of mind and even more important.
Trendland
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Words TL Team. A new type of digital charity-driven art gifting platform just launched. Double Dutch was conceived by one of Trendland's favorite artist duo Inez & Vinoodh in collaboration with Rent the Runway Exec and Founder of social savings app Kidfund.
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Colossal
DECEMBER 22, 2020
All images © Ruby Silvious, shared with permission. From her studio in Coxsackie, New York, Ruby Silvious ( previously ) repurposes the thin paper pouches holding her beverage of choice into miniature canvases. Sometimes strung together or ripped to remove the leaves, Silvious’s tea bags depict the quiet, unassuming moments of everyday life: Passersby trudge through the snow, masks hang to dry, and two women meet for a swim on the naturally dyed backdrops.
Noupe
DECEMBER 22, 2020
It is undoubted that Shopify is the leading website builder in the eCommerce platform. Though proven to be an ideal solution, there are several features that Shopify needs to improve. This article has recommended six of the best Shopify competitors concerning both hosted and open-source solutions. Shopify is one of the most used eCommerce platforms in 2020.
Design Week
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Brandy & Baubles, from Baxter & Bailey. To commemorate a year in Zoom and videocalls, branding studio Baxter & Bailey has designed a series of twelve backgrounds for people to download and use in their seasonal work calls. These range from the festive – a snow globe with London’s skyline and hanging mistletoe, for example – to the now all-too-familiar sights and sounds. “You’re on mute” appears lit up in fairy lights in one background.
Design You Trust
DECEMBER 22, 2020
A young tattoo artist who goes by the name ‘Ngoc’ on social media has become famous for helping people, especially women hide their scars by inking beautiful artworks over them. More: Facebook h/t: odditycentral For many people having to live with visible scars, either from accidental burns, operations like appendectomy or cesarean section is an everyday struggle.
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.
Typographica
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Reduction in letterform has always been an appealing type-design idea. Trying to find the magical point that removes enough to create something new, but not so much that the vitality of the original is lost and the form becomes lifeless, is a subtle art.
Design You Trust
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Fosila II. Raising awareness for Smithsonian. Seventh Voyage According to Andreas Häggkvist: “Hi, I’m Andy, an artist who has always had a passion for using creativity as a way to make a change, even to the point that I’ve made it my whole life. As long as I have been an artist, each and every artwork I’ve made has told a story and focused on raising awareness about an issue the world is facing.
Purple Rose Graphics
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Simple Tips of a Better Graphic Design: From Concept to Completion by Aubrey @ Content Camp Fire. You need no introduction to the seven basic elements of good graphic design – line, color, texture, size, shape, space and value. They are, after all, the lifeblood of your work. Like an expert chef, you’ve been turning the mundane into singular works of art for years.
Typographica
DECEMBER 22, 2020
At first, Chikki seems contradictory: How can something brittle, crisp, and textured evoke a feeling of such warmth and familiarity? If you are familiar with chikki, the Indian snack food to which this typeface owes its inspiration and name, you will understand.
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Design You Trust
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Once Tithi Luadthong, an interior illustrator and artist from Thailand, discovered the potential of digital sketching, at that moment, his world changed forever. With a background in analog graphics and watercolor painting, he had forgotten about brushes, ink, and airbrushes. Tithi created his first digital futuristic sketches based on random images from the internet: he took as a basis a.
Typographica
DECEMBER 22, 2020
In an alternate universe, where typefaces are reptiles and designers’ computers are secret laboratories for genetic modification, the Black Mamba is a finely orchestrated accident of interbreeding. Its bite to the graphic designer may result in dangerous conditions like awakened typographic consciousness, beautifully dissonant compositions, or increased experimental attitudes.
Design You Trust
DECEMBER 22, 2020
There were 6 million tweets this year about 2020 and how much of a dumpster fire it’s been. With so much material to work with, Twitter is posting some of the funniest and most uplifting 2020 tweets around New York City on billboards, murals and more this week. h/t: timeout The tweets are part of Twitter’s “out-of-home” campaign to spotlight the tweets that connected us all and made us laugh.
Typographica
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Why must government design be subjected to utilitarian austerity? Like any brand or institution, governments have their own design sensibilities and needs, and a good typeface can help provide a unique and recognizable visual language. The privilege and mandate of government designers is that we design and build for everyone.
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Press'd
DECEMBER 22, 2020
There are so many different ways you can customize any of our designs from wedding invitations to holiday cards. The options are endless! For this customization, we swapped out the original Rigby design’s warm ombré palette for a more calm, cool color palette. The sparkling foil colors mimic the shimmering brightness of falling snow on a winter day.
Just Creative
DECEMBER 22, 2020
This article has been contributed by K ristin Herman. One of the more popular features of Instagram right now is the Instagram Polls feature. It allows you to post little quizzes and questionnaires on your Instagram Stories. Sure, you may or may not already use these polls for your business, or you may have used them within your social circles. We all love the person who asks us to rate their outfit, their sunset photo, or a photo of their dinner.
Design You Trust
DECEMBER 22, 2020
When you’re an artist, everything is a medium. Even the sky. Lân Nguyen, who is known online as 19.XCV (which stands for 1995), has been transforming photos of the sky into everyday objects and scenes using digital silhouettes, and judging by the images, his imagination is certainly that of a creator. “What started in 2017 as just posting sunset photos that I’ve captured with my phone quickly.
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