Inspiration Feed
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
It’s reported that nearly 47% of people never visit a website again if they had a negative mobile experience. Approximately one-third of users are engaged when a video appears on their mobile device versus desktops.
Design Week
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
“When it was first adopted, digital design gave way to huge creativity in the industry, we were able to do incredible, beautiful pieces of work,” recalled designer Daljit Singh onstage at Design Manchester’s DM19 conference. “But in a digital world where you expect things to be really experimental and beautiful…we now live in a world where things are incredibly flat.” The “homogenisation of design”, as Singh puts it, has been well-reported of tech
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Design Week
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Trends in type are “often an indicator of broader shifts in brand strategy”, according to Monotype’s chief marketing officer Brett Zucker whose team has looked to identify the tropes which typographers and designers will be engaging with in 2020. “After looking through some of the most successful brands of 2019, we realised there were some similarities between them,” said Zucker, speaking at Monotype’s London offices. “And from there, we started to unpac
Tuts Plus
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
What You'll Be Creating Welcome to How to Make a Gradient in Illustrator! In this tutorial, you will learn the step-by-step process of how to create basic gradients in Adobe Illustrator. 1. How to Make a Gradient in Illustrator Step 1 To create a gradient, you must first have access to the Gradient panel. This should be located in the toolbar on the right.
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
Spoon Graphics
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
The Wild West is a popular genre for movies, TV shows, games, and even comics, which means it is also a theme that commonly inspires artists to base their creations on, providing us with plenty of artwork we can admire to fuel our inspiration. In today’s showcase I present over 40 designs and illustrations, all with a western theme. Enjoy browsing this collection of digital paintings, posters, cartoons, advertisements and packaging designs that feature cowboys and gunslingers in a variety
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Graphic Design Junction
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Clean and modern corporate Business Flyer Templates with catchy visual will help to transfer your business image in the best way possible. These templates are suitable for startup business industry and promotions. Twenty business flyer double sided templates you can use it as (flyer, poster, brochures cover…etc). All files are ready to print, all elements are easy to use and scale-able without losing quality.
Colossal
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Jacobian Pigeon. All photographs © Tim Flach and shared with permission from the artist. London-based photographer Tim Flach travels the world capturing the nuanced expressions, unique patterning, and unusual profiles of animals large and small. Often focusing his lens on endangered and vulnerable species, Flach highlights the traits of animals that are at risk of disappearing due to habitat loss, climate change, and human activity.
Shillington
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Putting together a kick-ass graphic design portfolio isn’t just something you need to worry about when you’re a student. You need to think about maintaining, improving and evolving your portfolio throughout your graphic design career. We all know a winning portfolio is vital when you’re going for a new job. But that’s not all. You might be called in at a moment’s notice to chat with your art director to discuss a promotion opportunity or a hot new project you didn’t even know about.
Its Nice That
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Working with what she calls “expressionist type design”, the Portland-based graphic designer categorised Earth’s landscapes into nine different categories and then created typefaces based on what emotions these elicit. Read more.
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Design You Trust
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Fantastic street shots by Panagiotis Koutroumpis, a gifted self-taught photographer, and street explorer based in Athens, Greece. Panagiotis focuses mainly on urban, streets, travel, and portrait photography. More: Instagram h/t: Source.
Its Nice That
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
The Chicago-based animator, highly influenced by the aesthetics of early 2000s PC games, puts everyday objects and animals into off-kilter situations. Read more.
Trendland
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Salon Art + Design returns to New York’s Park Avenue Armory for its eight installment. Covering a broader scope than most fairs by curating a mixture of vintage and contemporary design along side blue chip art. This time showcasing 56 galleries from 13 different countries. The size of the fair itself felt comfortable and digestible, with the beautiful historic Armory as its backdrop.
Creative Live
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
A new hobby in photography is an exciting endeavor. Basic photography skills allow a person to capture meaningful moments, document experiences, and reflect the beauty they see in the world. New photographers spend a lot of time and money equipping themselves with the gear and skills they need to shoot great photographs. If you have a beginner photographer on your holiday list, this guide will help you help them by ensuring they have everything they need to make a solid start. 1.
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.
Graphis
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
João Machado is an awarded graphic designer based in Portugal who specializes in poster, logo, and packaging design. As a designer, he knows the importance of making his work stand apart from his peers. His signature style is instantly recognizable; the color work is distinct, and his smooth and clean illustrated work is clear and […].
Colossal
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Animator Siqi Song explores the deeply personal implications of China’s One Child Policy in her powerful animated short, SISTER. The film uses felt stop-motion animation to tell the story of a family that conceived two children during the years—1979 to 2015—that the Chinese government controlled the number of children families could raise. An adult man, the film’s protagonist, looks back on his youth and the complicated family dynamics among siblings and parents. “Growing up wi
Design You Trust
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Yash Pandit is an artist from Mumbai, India who has been struggling with mental health problems for a while now. And recently he received much-needed help from someone unexpected – a cat named Bagheera. In an interview with Bored Panda, the artist said he always wanted a dark-colored cat. “There’s always this stupid superstition surrounding dark cats about them being bad luck, so not many people.
Type room
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Tags. design for good , social cause , social movement , solidarity , harassment , campaign , violence , Ireland. Design can inform, educate and promote social change ” notes Piquant Media of its “It Stops Now” campaign , which aims to end sexual violence and harassment in third level institutions. Piquant Media worked with Ireland's National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI), the country's leading women’s membership organization seeking equality for women, on the branding, video, web design an
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Colossal
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Since receiving a power washer for her birthday this fall, Dianna Wood has turned her driveway, and those of her lucky neighbors, into works of art. Similar to the reductive processes of printmaking and scratchboard art, Wood removes areas of her “canvas” to reveal lighter tones in the form of cardinals, dogwood blossoms, butterflies, and other delicate flora and fauna.
Abduzeedo
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Procreate announced its 2019 Art Prize Winners. AoiroStudio Nov 25, 2019 The kind folks from Procreate have announced their 2019 art winners where they challenge artists to explore the concept of ‘Contrast’ in all its complex shades, and light, of meaning. With ground-breaking canvas the resolution, 136 incredible brushes, and more. Procreate is a solid application that allows artists and digital creatives to do enhance their day-to-day workflow.
This is Paper
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
25.11.2019Table Hat by Hiroyuki Shinozaki ArchitectsResearch, Architecture, Interiors. This small cafe is built in the peaceful residential street of Odawara city. Photography: Kai Nakamura If it looks up, there are some on which the air of various sizes is likely to collect. On the scale as shown in a table, they stood in a row superficially and have floated, under them, tables, chairs, plants, and the kitchen are placed.The air as the exterior enclosed by the foundation of concrete and the air
Azure Magazine
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
What’s a museum without a collection? Typically, the artifacts come first, followed by the buildings that house them. But in Shanghai, the newly opened West Bund Museum reversed the order, creating a vessel for culture that preceded its contents, with an inaugural exhibition program finalized only as construction neared completion. Opened to the public on November 8, the museum arrives in Shanghai as a nascent collaboration with France’s Centre Pompidou – and as an architectural stat
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Type room
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Tags. Pentagram , Sascha Lobe , Beazley Designs of the Year , Design Museum , awards , amazon , Adidas , signage , cosmetics , typeface , Hangul type , Seoul , South Korea. Drum-roll, please! The overall winner of Beazley Designs of the Year is “Anatomy of an AI System” and Artificial Intelligence is under the microscope for this groundbreaking “anatomical case study of the Amazon Echo as an artificial intelligence system made of human labour, data and planetary resources.”.
Abduzeedo
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Beautiful Branding for Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC). abduzeedo Nov 25, 2019 Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) is a brand new franchise that will begin play in Major League Soccer in 2018. Backed by a star-studded ownership group that includes Magic Johnson, Will Ferrell, Mia Hamm, and Nomar Garciaparra, LAFC promises to be a major force in the global game.
Feature Shoot
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Ana Mendieta, Volcán, 1979; Six chromogenic color prints, each 13 1/4 x 20 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Promised Gift of Steven Scott, Baltimore, in memory of Hollis Sigler; © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC; Courtesy of Galerie Lelong, New York. Rania Matar, Yara, Cairo, Egypt, 2019; Archival pigment print, 44 x 37 in.; Courtesy of the artist and Robert Klein Gallery; © Rania Matar.
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