Mon.Jun 08, 2020

article thumbnail

How to Create Animated Infographics Using PowerPoint

Creative Market

Infographics can help you spread important ideas. They can simplify information that would otherwise be difficult to consume, attracting visual learners in seconds. Throughout this tutorial, I'll show you how to create and animate infographics using PowerPoint. In doing so, we will be recreating an animated pyramid graphic that is included in this bundle: 2200 Infographics Templates Bundle. by Abert in Templates.

article thumbnail

Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for Badoo done In-house

Under Consideration / Brand

“A Change of Heart”. Established in 2006, Badoo is the largest social discovery network in the world with the mission to "provide the best technology for people to meet, because happiness is better shared". More colloquially, it's one of the most popular dating apps in the world. Headquartered in London, UK, it counts with over 476 million users across 190 countries and is available in 47 languages.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

10 Amazing Animated Text CSS & JavaScript Code Snippets

Speckyboy Design Magazine

You can make some pretty dazzling text effects with basic CSS and a few lines of JavaScript. These effects range from text display animations to 3D rotations or anything else you can imagine. And in this post I’ve cataloged 10 of the coolest examples from around the web showcasing what you can do with just a little bit of stylized text and CSS code.

Coding 114
article thumbnail

Stella Park?s pencil illustrations capture the warmth in the everyday

Creative Review

Seoul-based illustrator Stella Park says she has been documenting life with coloured pencils since she was a child. She was drawn to illustration in particular because of the different ways the same moment can be drawn and interpreted and this can be seen in the unique way she captures the world. Park has been a full-time freelance illustrator for just over a year now, having previously been a children’s art teacher.

article thumbnail

Let's Talk Trends: Designing for Maximum Impact

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

article thumbnail

GRIFTER Bold – Free Font Download, Designed by Hanson Method

The Logo Smith

The post GRIFTER Bold – Free Font Download, Designed by Hanson Method appeared first on The Logo Smith ™ All Content © 2020 The Logo Smith.™ |. GRIFTER Bold – Free Font Download, Designed by Hanson Method. GRIFTER Bold designed by Hanson Method™ , is a clean, strong sans serif font, and well supported character/glyph wise, that just happens to be also a free font download.

Fonts 83

More Trending

article thumbnail

Dealing with the Low or No-Profit Areas of Your Freelance Web Design Business

SpeckyBoy

Starting a freelance design business is something of an experiment. You throw all kinds of ideas out there and see what works. And, over time, you get to learn the results. When those results are tallied, not every idea is going to come out a winner. Some services you offer may turn out to be making you little-to-no money. In extreme cases, you might even lose revenue on them.

Freelance 106
article thumbnail

Autumn Leaves Crackle and Writhe Like a Flame in Short Film by Animator William Crook

Colossal

?. In “ Stickmatch ,” a new short film, a matchstick-like twig lands onto the screen, and with one long strike, it spontaneously ignites flames. These sparks don’t manifest in their usual form, though. The flames are replaced with leaves from various trees that are colored all the hues of autumn, from bright green to amber yellow. . Created by William Crook , a London-born animator who now lives in Zürich, “Stickmatch” was an undertaking at a residency at Sasso in Italy.

Animation 100
article thumbnail

Thoughts on the Early Adoption of Web Development Tools

Speckyboy Design Magazine

It seems like every day new tools aimed at web designers are released. And they tend to generate some buzz, as design blogs are always in search of something new to talk about (guilty as charged). But, should you actually be using these items? Knowing that they exist is one thing, but trusting them in your projects is quite another. To be clear, we’re not necessarily talking about design-only tools like code generators or layout apps.

article thumbnail

BBH launches Unsigned Prize for Illustration

Creative Review

[link]. BBH launched its emerging talent programme Unsigned in 2018 , with the aim of celebrating upcoming creatives and encouraging brands and agencies to look beyond established names when commissioning work. For the past two years, the agency has hosted an annual exhibition at its London offices, showcasing work by 50 artists, photographers, directors and illustrators without commercial representation.

article thumbnail

The Democratization of Design: Giving Creators & Marketers the Tools to Succeed

Brands must create and share impactful content to thrive, but they have less people, tighter budgets, and fewer resources to do so. Learn how to publish and market digital content with the same professionalism as organizations with million-dollar budgets.

article thumbnail

Monthly Portfolio Inspiration with Semplice - June 2020

Abduzeedo

Monthly Portfolio Inspiration with Semplice - June 2020. tobias 06.08.20 Hi! I’m Tobias van Schneider. I’m the co-founder of Semplice , a portfolio tool by designers for designers. We’re teaming up with Abduzeedo to share inspiring design portfolios each month. Here we’ll curate the best online portfolios from graphic designers, illustrators, type designers, multi-disciplinary designers, photographers, collage artists, visual artists and more – all created from scratch using Semplice.

article thumbnail

Illustrator Spotlight: Domenico Carnimeo

Booooooom

article thumbnail

Complex Portraits of Afrikaners During Apartheid

Feature Shoot

Some Afrikaners – The Farmers Wife. Some Afrikaners: A farmer’s son with his nursemaid, Heimweeberg, Nietverdiend, Western Transvaal. Born in Randfontein, a gold-mining town 70 kilometers west of Johannesburg, David Goldblatt (1930-2018) was raised in a middle class, liberal white Jewish family who had come to South Africa in the 1890s to escape persecution in Lithuania.

article thumbnail

Eye Catching Self-Campaign for Creative Studio Twenty Fauve

Trendland

Words TL Team. Bright colors, interesting textures and materials were used for this beautiful eye catching self-project submitted to us by Paris-based creative studio Twenty Fauve.

article thumbnail

From Visualization to Execution: Exploring Our Strengths as Designers

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.

article thumbnail

Some Things Covered: Simply Sad

Spine Magazine

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on Maria Elias ’s Book Design Heroines. We feel it is still very relevant to today’s design industry. Surprisingly, I’m a serious and cynical person. I don’t look like one. I have a dimpled, round face, often bordered by pigtails and occasionally … I … um … skip. Looking like a cherub who bounces will make people come to the semi-logical conclusion that you are, well, light-hearted.

article thumbnail

Seedible Is Undeniably Cool

The Die Line

From the wordmark, typography and photography style, the concept of scattered brought a personality to the brand that is unfussy and playful at heart.

article thumbnail

Creative team behind Glastonbury?s Shangri-La unveil new VR festival

Design Week

When the government announced national lockdown measures in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, members of the UK’s festival scene had to come to terms with a complete cancellation of the 2020 season. Events were postponed and plans scrapped, and as Glastonbury’s Shangri-La creative director Kaye Dunnings tells Design Week: “We had a week or two where we just cracked on with lockdown projects like DIY and planting vegetable gardens, knowing that our summer work had all been l

Banners 51
article thumbnail

Cihuatan Obsidiana Traveler's Exclusive Edition Features A Dragon Mosaic

The Die Line

Through the rebranding of the core range and this new Traveler edition, Appartement 103 created a unique intertwined illustration style that has become a powerful identity asset for Cihuatan rums.

Travel 64
article thumbnail

Rethinking Creative Workflows: Increasing Efficiency in the Design Process

As the design industry evolves, teams are facing new challenges and a need to produce more outstanding creative work than ever. Leaders must learn how to adapt their processes to solve today’s—and tomorrow’s—unique design challenges. In this e-book, you’ll learn how to establish your creative workflow and leverage the power of CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite to streamline the entire design process, from start to finish.

article thumbnail

The Art of the Visual Rebrand

Purple Rose Graphics

Maybe your company has grown a lot recently. Perhaps you just don’t like the logo you had at first, it doesn’t fit your vision. You’re actually a lot more specialized than your old logo makes you out to be or you just inherited the family business and want to modernize it. There are many reasons to re-do your logo, which for the sake of simplicity I’ll call a rebrand.

Art 52
article thumbnail

Eye Catching Self-Campaign for Creative Studio Twenty Fauve

Trendland

Words TL Team. Bright colors, interesting textures and materials were used for this beautiful eye catching self-project submitted to us by Paris-based creative studio Twenty Fauve.

article thumbnail

Calmaria - the Road to iOS Week 2

Abduzeedo

Calmaria - the Road to iOS Week 2. abduzeedo 06.08.20 Another weekend trying to learn SwiftUI. Not the entire weekend to be honest. It was in between playing with my little son, enjoying my family, playing video-games (therefore, bickering with my disapproving wife) and doing nothing. I would say it was probably 4 hours during 2 days. Oh, I cannot forget the 30 minutes before going to sleep Saturday that I was tossing and turning thinking how I could animate things in SwiftUI in sequence.

article thumbnail

Brand Bureau: Web Design UX/UI

Shillington

The post Brand Bureau: Web Design UX/UI appeared first on Shillington Design Blog.

article thumbnail

Creative Insights: Data-Backed Trends to Help You Design Successful Content

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.

article thumbnail

Design Thinking: A Quick Overview

Interaction Design Foundation

If you have just started embarking your journey through the Design Thinking process, things might seem a little overwhelming. This is why we have prepared a useful overview of the Design Thinking process, as well as some of the popular Design Thinking frameworks commonly used by global design firms and national design agencies. To begin, let’s have a quick overview of the fundamental principles behind Design Thinking: Design Thinking starts with empathy, a deep human focus, in order to gain insi

Agency 145
article thumbnail

Over 1000 Black photographers to hire, commission, follow and support

Its Nice That

Separated into two tabs, this Google sheet first highlights over 300 photographers currently covering protests and the second shines a light on over 700 photographers to hire and support.

139
139
article thumbnail

A Very Useful Work of Fiction – Mental Models in Design

Interaction Design Foundation

Mental models play an important role in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and interaction design. They relate to the way that a user perceives the world around them and are based in belief as opposed to being a factual concept. However, if you can understand your users' mental models, you can simulate these models within your designs to make them more usable and intuitive.

135
135
article thumbnail

A Plastic Planet Helps Launch The World's First Plastic-Free PPE

The Die Line

Non-profit group A Plastic Planet, along with Reelbrands and Transcend Packaging, created a plastic-free visor for doctors and nurses working in hospitals that are on the frontlines fighting the Coronavirus pandemic that is both recyclable and compostable.

111
111
article thumbnail

How to Create Stunning Typography With the Corel Type Tool Kit

Download this free eBook to learn how you can create stunning typography, using the basics, such as placing text, to advanced controls like ligatures, variable fonts, effects, tracking, range kerning, and everything in between. Learn how to: Use Character Control to add variety to your font styles. Use Paragraph Control to manage spacing, alignment, justification and more.