Just Creative
MARCH 30, 2021
If you’re creating comic books or cartoons, a natural choice with their bold designs are comic and cartoon fonts, which are also a great choice for just about any design project. For some time, Comic Sans was one of the few fonts you could choose for a project that needed a comic book look. Thanks to the internet, those limitations are a thing of the past.
Canny
MARCH 30, 2021
If a company ends up on our list of rebranding failures, chances are the financial repercussions for that said company have been huge. Branding any company is a huge challenge. Rebranding one of the world’s biggest companies is a project that many a design or branding agency would love to take on. Of course, when done right, rebranding can be incredibly beneficial to companies.
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Creative Review
MARCH 30, 2021
It’s hard to tear your eyes away from Qianhui Yu’s alluring animations. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art last year, the animation director, illustrator and visual designer has developed a knack for creating candy-coloured worlds and populating them with intriguing characters. Born and raised in China, Yu loved to draw as a child.
Feature Shoot
MARCH 30, 2021
© Jak Wonderly for WildCare. “It’s one thing to read about cat predation,” the photographer Jak Wonderly tells us. “It’s quite another to hold 232 victims in your hands.” In 2020, he teamed up with Melanie Piazza from WildCare , a non-profit hospital for wildlife in California, to help memorialize and tell the story of hundreds of wild animals who died after being caught by cats in 2019.
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
The Die Line
MARCH 30, 2021
Taking a cue from many people’s love of water and nautical activities, the creators of the High Water brand identity used funky colors and curved, linear, minimalist illustrations to set each scene. .
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Its Nice That
MARCH 30, 2021
First finding inspiration during a work trip to Venice, the London-based artist talks us through the effect that mosaics has on certain images.
Abduzeedo
MARCH 30, 2021
3D & Typography for KOBU Foundry. abduzeedo 03.29.21 Brígida Lourenço Guerreiro and the folks over at KOBU Agency shared a really cool 3D project exploring glass texture and typography. The project from my understanding was created to celebrate KOBU Foundry’s first anniversary. As they shared in the description, building a type foundry within a creative agency is not very usual in Portugal and they had the opportunity to embark on such an adventure by mid-December 2018 and carry on the task to e
Colossal
MARCH 30, 2021
?. When your next ambitious baking project doesn’t pan out, try your hand at a simpler recipe with just one ingredient. Follow Japan-based animator tomosteen through a stop-motion tutorial for a decadent cake layered with chocolate frosting that’s made entirely with LEGO. The ASMR-inducing animation chronicles the baking process from cracking an egg into a yolky block to watching the batter subtly change color to crumbling individual bricks of chocolate for the top.
Its Nice That
MARCH 30, 2021
The Kilburn-raised photographer talks us through his evocative portfolio, lensing “the beauty and warmth” of his community, as well as his Afro-Caribbean and North African culture.
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Its Nice That
MARCH 30, 2021
Ciara Phelan, co-founder of Grand Matter, writes about her own experiences and impetus for spearheading the Agents for Change initiative.
Colossal
MARCH 30, 2021
All images © Thrainn Kolbeinsson, shared with permission. Photographer Thrainn Kolbeinsson has been camping out on the Reykjanes peninsula in recent days documenting the long-awaited eruption of Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall volcano. Following an estimated 50,000 earthquakes and nearly 6,000 years since its last event, the Geldingadalur landform, which is located about 20 miles from Reykjavík, has been transformed into a scorching scene of molten lava, ash, and explosive bursts that spatters a
Its Nice That
MARCH 30, 2021
Designed by Chee-Kit Lai of Mobile Studio Architects, the “world’s largest flipbook” displays an animated sequence comprising drawings by 100 participants across Japan and the UK.
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 You Trust
MARCH 30, 2021
According to Olya Nik: “My name is Olya Nik. I moved to New York from Russia a few years ago and was amazed by the city’s vibe. I was happy to see people of all cultures and descents on the city streets who express themselves with their style so freely that I couldn’t resist making photographs and sketches and then completing the artworks in color at home.
Graphis
MARCH 30, 2021
Delicious together and apart, coconut and shrimp are the featured products this week for the latest entries in our Packaging 10 competition, and these designs are good enough to make our stomachs growl! First up is the “Dang Packaging Redesign,” (above) made for Dang Foods by California-based Chase Design Group. Chase Design has studios in […].
Design You Trust
MARCH 30, 2021
Close-ups, play on fabrics, fashionable creations… Alisa Karin’s Instagram account is light, sensual and fun. By placing women – and more precisely their mouth – at the heart of her compositions, the 22-year-old photographer plays with the diktat of the male gaze by diverting its codes. More: Instagram.
Graphic Design 24
MARCH 30, 2021
What is raster to vector changing? Raster to Vector (or R2V) is utilized broadly in business and modern applications to change over specialized drawings, maps and other paper illustrations from checked raster documents to vector designs. The cycle begins with a great sweep. Examining At the point when a paper drawing is examined, the subsequent advanced record is a raster document.
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Design You Trust
MARCH 30, 2021
While speaking of Holi, the first names that cross our minds are Mathura, Vrindavan, or Barsana. And why not? These destinations have been giving away photo opportunities to thousands of photographers across the globe since the end of the previous century. But, when it comes to Kolkata- the City of Joy likes to take things into its own hands. Like many other Indian Festivals, Kolkata celebrates Holi differently altogether.
Abduzeedo
MARCH 30, 2021
Huawei Tech4All — A Million Dreams Campaign. AoiroStudio 03.30.21 Our friends from Ars Thanea has reached out and wanted to share about their 'biggest project to date' and it's with Huawei 's Tech4All - A millions dreams campaign. Working in collaboration with WPP Team Huawei and Argentinian director’s duo Mab & Becho, they have created together a heart-warming and meaningful video proving that can develop a better future for all.
Graphic Design 24
MARCH 30, 2021
Vector conversion and Its implication Vector transformation includes fundamentally vectorization and picture fix. Vectorization is the way toward changing over raster, bitmap or different kinds of pictures to versatile vector designs or organization. This cycle includes introducing specific programming for changing over into the equipment gadgets or changing over online by utilization of the web.
Abduzeedo
MARCH 30, 2021
Introducing abdz.do iOS app. abduzeedo 03.30.21 I created Abduzeedo in 2006 as a collective of individual writers sharing articles about design, photography, and UX. Initially launched as a personal blog, Abduzeedo later grew to become a digital publication with several writers from all over the world, working independently. Founded with the main goal of sharing inspiration, the blog (as we call it) has been offering its curation free of charge sustained by the placement of advertising.
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Design Week
MARCH 30, 2021
Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR) has revealed the branding for Betr, an over-the-counter medicine provider that delivers drugs to consumers’ doors. Betr is a newcomer to the over-the-counter market, but aims to be “socially conscious” in its mission, according to JKR. Driven by the fact one in four Americans cannot afford their prescription medications and thus $10 billion (£7.2 billion) worth of “perfectly good” unused meds are sent to medical waste each year, the
Abduzeedo
MARCH 30, 2021
Muko© Los Angeles Branding & Web Design. abduzeedo 03.30.21 Vitali Zahharov shared a really stylish branding, product and UX design for Muko© Los Angeles. Vitalin hasn’t shared much information about the project, but we really love the overall look and feel with the beautiful typography and layout compositions. The project was commissioned by MODDEN.
Just Creative
MARCH 30, 2021
As the world continues to put a premium on good visuals and captivating designs, it makes perfect sense why more entrepreneurs and creatives are looking to explore new tools and instruments they can optimize to better produce profitable content. While Adobe Photoshop has been a leader in the design space, helping creatives design meaningful graphics and stunning logos, not everyone prefers to use Adobe’s software or pay for a subscription to use it.
Elumin
MARCH 30, 2021
Digital marketing is a non-negotiable component of any company’s advertising these days. With no digital presence, your audience may assume you’ve gone out of business. Luckily, the tools you use in digital marketing—from email to website design to social media sharing—have become user-friendly. You don’t even need professionals to help you with it all.
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