SpeckyBoy
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
When it comes to creating a great piece of web-based art, the details are what stand out. Lighting and shading effects are prime examples. They can turn a flat, 2D work into an immersive 3D experience. For quite a while, the ability to add realistic light and shade to an illustration or animation seemed like the holy grail. The technology wasn’t always there.
Graphic Design Junction
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Are you someone who is looking for a perfect logo design? Do you want to find out ways of choosing the right logo design? If you said yes to both these questions then keep scrolling down because we have just the solution you have been looking for. You may be interested in the following related articles as well. 45 Best Handwritten Script Fonts. Creative Animal Mascot Logo Templates Design (27 Logos).
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We And The Color
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
When it comes to backing up data like photos and enabling their access on various devices, many options are available, from Dropbox to OneDrive. However, one of the fastest-growing and widely used tools since its initial inception back in 2015 is Google Photos. At a monthly fee of just $1.99 for sizable storage of 100GB, it gives its users incredible value for money, after all.
Eye on Design
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
This is part II of the Processing oral history. Read part I here. As Processing became one of the primary environments for creative coding in the early aughts, a community started developing around it. People were eager to use the tool, and a smaller subset of them wanted to help develop the infrastructure required to maintain the growing piece of software.
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
Six Leaf Design
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Hello hello fine people of internetland! We’re hitting the homestretch of 2021 and those of us in marketing (and I’m sure loads of other people in general) are really starting to feel the pressure. It’s like suddenly my obligations went from zero to a billion, and I’m being dragged behind trying to hang on. I’ll make it, but it’s about this time I need to really buckle down and be more selective with what I give my time to.
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We And The Color
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Take a look at this selection of editorial illustrations created by Ibrahim Rayintakath. Ibrahim Rayintakath is a Bangalore, India-based illustrator. You may have seen some of his previous illustrations on WE AND THE COLOR. Today we want to show you a little more of his creative work. The following editorial illustrations have been created for various publications.
Spine Magazine
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Michel Vrana is a graphic designer who ran his own boutique studio for ten years before deciding to go freelance in 2009 to concentrate on his passion: creating book covers. Here he talks us through his process for designing Dante’s Indiana. Dante’s Indiana (Biblioasis Books) is a sequel to Randy Boyagoda’s first novel Original Prin. The second book is described by the publisher as “an extraordinary journey through the divine comedies and tragedies of our time.
UX Collective
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Designers can avoid wasting time and deliver their work more effectively by: Focusing on the audience’s needs Speaking to specific details of the work Spending more time listening than presenting Easier said than done. There’s considerable knowledge in designing something, and a designer develops awareness of the customer, business, constraints, potential solutions, and tradeoffs through diligent exploration and experimentation.
Colossal
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
All images courtesy of Flying Eye Books, shared with permission. Meet Bandoola, an Asian timber elephant the British Army enlisted in WWII. Purchased as a calf, the lumbering creature was shipped to a teak plantation where he was forced to drag and push logs across the landscape to construct bridges and other structures. Bandoola’s life, while fictionalized by London-based illustrator and author William Grill in his forthcoming children’s book, is based on the true story of Elephant
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Design Week
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
WWF Arctic film, by Nomint. London-based animation studio Nomint has created a stop-motion video for the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) Arctic programme, as it launches a new campaign about the polar ice caps. It tells the story of a young polar bear, trying to survive in an Arctic environment that is melting. In an attempt to put a new spin on the familiar plight of the polar bear, Nomint has used actual melting ice in the video (creating 500 unique bear ice-sculptures in the process)
Design Milk
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
For this month’s Designer Desktop , we’re bringing you into the colorful and graphic world of MAMIMU. Japanese artist and graphic designer June Mineyama-Smithson founded MAMIMU on a mission to inject optimism into the world through bold, joyful patterns. This month’s pattern, the Hackney Swimming Pool, is inspired by a Sunday morning when June caught herself staring at a swimming pool.
UX Collective
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Weekly curated resources for designers?—?thinkers and makers. “In the early days of my career in digital product design, I saw a lot of designers around me getting frustrated. They saw themselves as artists, as creators. As if design was about channeling a higher force to generate ideas?—?that may or may not see the light of day. But what the work was asking them to do was quite different.
Creative Review
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
The culinary world was once an exclusive space, veiled in mystery and hidden from view. In the last decade the scales have tipped in the opposite direction, with the proliferation of polished cooking programmes and increasingly ambitious competitions breeding a generation of armchair food critics. At the same time, food platforms like Mob (FKA Mob Kitchen) have set out to take the stuffiness out of cooking.
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.
Abduzeedo
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Graphic Design & Grid Study for Design Systems. abduzeedo 1101—21 Sophie Gogishvili shared a super inspiring graphic design project that explores a grid system. As Sophie describes, the project is better fitted to find a solution to the design problems which is functional, logical and also more aesthetically pleasing. The idea was to give the surface or space a rational organization and cultivate objectivity instead of subjectivity using visual terms of conception, organization and design system
Its Nice That
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
On catching up with Sofie, we discuss her career trajectory and what it was like to create an erotic illustration series without being allowed to show genitalia.
Abduzeedo
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Barcelona Institute of Applied Philosophy — Branding. abduzeedo 1101—21 Studio Carreras is the award-winning creative studio of Genís Carreras, a designer and illustrator based in Girona, Spain. Carreras has a beautiful portfolio of branding, graphic design and visual identity projects. For this one, we would like to share the project created for Barcelona Institute of Applied Philosophy.
Colossal
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
“Pinoccio.” All images © David Álvarez , shared with permission. Continually fascinated by the potential of the human figure, Mexico-based artist David Álvarez ( previously ) illustrates richly textured scenes with a dose of fantasy and surrealism: a bird’s perch transfixes a character who’s sprouted a branch nose, a man writhes on the ground as he grows from a gnarled stump, and a Cheshire cat lifts a blanket to unveil a moon hidden beneath.
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BP&O
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
LogoArchive and Standards Manual are delighted to launch an Extra Issue dedicated to Federal logo design, which includes some of the States’ most iconic symbols. Designed by Order and featuring texts by Bill Shaffer, Valerie Pettis and Lance Wyman, this Extra Issue tells the little-known story of the Federal Design Improvement Program (FDIP). This program […].
Azure Magazine
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
In most major museum and galleries around the world, only a fraction of the institution’s collection is on display at any given time. Instead, the majority of all those artworks and artefacts — up to 94 per cent on average, by one international estimate — remain stockpiled away away from public eyes. In Rotterdam, however, a new storage depot for the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen reimagines the paradigm, bringing a collection of 151,000 artefacts into public view.
Mindsparkle Mag
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
The last edition of the Top 10 Series was all about tote bags. Usually, many fashion brands make use of these long-lasting packaging for us to become their free advertising. We've all witnessed that at some time of the year, particularly closer to holidays, brands' bags crowd the streets when there are discounts by the end of each season. And we got the urge to get inside their shops and at least check what's going on.
Colossal
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
? ?. In the music video for Robert Macfarlane and Johnny Flynn’s new song “ Ten Degrees of Strange ,” director Lynn Tomlinson ( previously ) captures the endless transformations of human emotion through moving clay. The Baltimore-based animator uses her singular technique, which involves painting the pliable material onto a glass backdrop and photographing each frame, to create a stunning visual companion to the indie track about “trying to outrun anxiety, seeking joy and
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Its Nice That
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
The visual identity uses illustration to bring Cervest’s complex vision to life, and make its mission “crystal clear”.
Mindsparkle Mag
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Welcome to the new illustration system of Google Chrome OS created by illo.tv. The Italian motion design studio created an intuitive illustration system to empower and guide Chrome OS users throughout their complete digital experience. illo worked on many style explorations to find and refine the perfect approach to turn complex ideas into simplified, meaningful illustrations.
Noupe
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
It’s no secret that video is an increasingly critical part of any marketing strategy. As online video content has expanded to reach more than 93% of internet users in early 2021, businesses are finding new ways to connect with their audiences through this medium. Because of this, 41% more businesses use video marketing now than they did in 2016. If you’re not sure how to incorporate video into your marketing strategy, though, you’re not alone.
Design You Trust
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
According to Lua Lazarovic: “Hi everyone, My name is Lua Lazarovic, and a few years ago I had a dream to make my way into the wonderful world of creative imaging and be able to express myself – all while doing a form of work that brings actual joy to my soul. I worked hard on building up an online portfolio, where I would post regularly (usually daily).
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