Design Roast
JANUARY 14, 2020
Just like some people have personalities that mesh well and others don’t, some fonts go together better than others. When you’re working on a project, you’ll often need more than one type of font. Using varied typography creates a more interesting design and considers the different sizes fonts appear in. Fortunately, some font pairings stand [.].
Noupe
JANUARY 14, 2020
Your business plan can be an exceptionally useful tool if you take the time and care to ensure it is complete, accurate, and well-thought-out. Many entrepreneurs see a business plan as a required deliverable when pitching investors. It can certainly be used for that purpose, but it is also a valuable resource and road map for your business. Of course, the value of your business plan depends entirely on its contents.
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Design You Trust
JANUARY 14, 2020
Golsa Golchini is an Iranian artist who combines layers of paints with digital art to create miniature worlds. Using acrylic paint, the Milan-based artist paints 3D waves and slopes, whilst the tiny figures are done digitally and added to the abstract landscapes via ink transfers and applied by hand. More: Instagram h/t: playjunkie Golchini says that her art pieces are made to look understandable.
Envato Tuts+
JANUARY 14, 2020
Get professional designs in less time! Check out these incredible flyer templates. 31 New Event Flyers for 2020 . Make 2020 a year to remember! Kick off your festive celebrations with modern event flyers that are stunning and surreal. Today we bring you another wonderful collection of design assets from Envato Market and Envato Elements. This selection includes awesome flyer designs featuring the latest trends in graphic design.
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
Spine Magazine
JANUARY 14, 2020
Luke Bird is a graphic designer specialising in book design, branding, food packaging and limited edition packaging for music and books. Here he takes us through his process for creating modern and distinct covers for Granta Editions and, in particular, Don’t Look at Me Like That by Diana Athill. Since 2018, I’ve been designing a sort of ‘standalone series’ for Granta in the UK, called Granta Editions.
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Colossal
JANUARY 14, 2020
All images © Selçuk Y?lmaz, shared with permisison. By hammering and welding more than 20,0000 metal pieces together, artist Selçuk Y?lmaz ( previously ) creates massive sculptures that manifest the energy of the natural world as it becomes more damaged by humans and climate change. The Turkey-based artist’s latest project, Blue Planet , took almost two years to complete and features a human figure in addition to Y?
The Die Line
JANUARY 14, 2020
Heinz UK wants to remind the vegan-curious that their familiar beans are 100% free of animal products.
Shillington
JANUARY 14, 2020
Over Shillington’s three month full-time or nine month part-time course, our students undertake over 30 briefs—from start to finish. Narrowing these down to just 6 or 7 projects for their final portfolio is a difficult but there’s also one project that shines through as a firm favourite. Just take a look at our Student Showcase to see some of the incredible work they have to choose from.
Abduzeedo
JANUARY 14, 2020
Eerie Futuristic Digital Art by Cristian Chierici. abduzeedo Jan 15, 2020 I love mixing photography and Photoshop to create incredible light effects. If you follow the blog since the beginning you probably already know that. I love that eerie feeling you can create by imagining a supernatural reality and there are many digital artists pushing the limit.
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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.
The Die Line
JANUARY 14, 2020
Inspired By London's West End, This Plastic Free Unisex Deodorant Balm Brings The Bold Spotlight.
Under Consideration / Brand
JANUARY 14, 2020
“I Want the Truist. You Can’t Handle the Truist.”. (Est. 2019) " Truist is a purpose-driven company dedicated to building a better future for its clients, teammates and communities. With 275 years of combined BB&T and SunTrust history, Truist is one of the nation's largest financial services holding companies offering a wide range of services including retail, small business and commercial banking; asset management; capital markets; commercial real estate; corporate and institutional banking; in
Communication Arts
JANUARY 14, 2020
Collaborating with other designers, Mr Cup Studio’s 2020 Letterpress calendar inspires us to be creative through wise sayings and foil-printed designs.
Design Week
JANUARY 14, 2020
In the past year, entry-level designers experienced bigger pay rises (10%) compared to mid-level (2.86%) and senior (2.34%) roles, a report shows. The research has been carried out by global creative recruitment agency Aquent, and is based on the 2019 placements it made in the UK. According to Aquent, there is a “soaring demand for junior design talent” Junior roles that have performed particularly well over the last five years include graphic designers (average salary of £28,00
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.
The Die Line
JANUARY 14, 2020
Love of classical Chinese poetry and the moon inspires these illustrated wine can labels.
Design Week
JANUARY 14, 2020
Entries are open for the Design Week Awards 2020, which builds on the new format introduced last year and awards design excellence across even more categories. This year we’re looking to drive change further with an overhauled digital section. New for 2020. After speaking to readers and former judges we found that some of our awards like Website Design didn’t fully capture the holistic nature of modern digital projects, which have a number of touchpoints – including website des
Colossal
JANUARY 14, 2020
Paris-based director and animator Charlotte Arene has created an uncanny stop-motion film centered on sleep that wavers between a nightmare and a peaceful slumber. Released in December 2019, “ La mer à boire ,” or “Unrealizable,” is shot in a typical bedroom, although the sheets, closet doors, and slippers move similarly to an energetic coastline.
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Azure Magazine
JANUARY 14, 2020
IDS Toronto and DesignTO are back , transforming Toronto this week and next with visual, tactile and experiential playgrounds, and giving the city’s design-inclined plenty of things to see – in fact, there might be too much for any one person to see it all. But don’t fret: we’ve gone through the 135 events, exhibitions, and installations and picked out what can’t be missed.
Hi-Fructose
JANUARY 14, 2020
Lisa Lach-Neilson’s vulnerable oil paintings often examine identity. The artist, hailing from Denmark, has shown across the globe over the past few years. She’s been painting professionally since 2012, with a background in clothing design as a master's student at Royal Danish Academy of Design. More.
Colossal
JANUARY 14, 2020
“The Visit” (2016), oil on linen, 122 x 102 cm. All images © Prudence Flint. Focusing heavily on the female figure, painter Prudence Flint combines pastels and flat, geometric shapes in her minimalistic works. Rarely showing their faces directly, Flint’s oil paintings often portray women lying down, sitting, or performing daily tasks like showering while they look straight ahead, adding to the pieces’ pensive atmospheres.
Noupe
JANUARY 14, 2020
The nature of employment has changed drastically over the last couple of decades. At the turn of the 21st century most employees were looking for full-time job stability. Now an increasing amount of employees are entering into the so-called ‘Gig Economy.’. The Gig Economy is a termed used to describe what many know as freelance work. It centers around the idea that employees do short ‘gigs,’ rather than working exclusively full time at a specific business.
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The Die Line
JANUARY 14, 2020
Modesta Cassinello Is A Unisex Personal Care Brand That Brings Minimal And Delicate Design To Their Packaging.
Creative Review
JANUARY 14, 2020
This Girl Can has returned with a new spot, Me Again, which focuses on the “unfiltered reality of women being active” From periods and cramps to juggling childcare – not forgetting your average lack of motivation – the ad spotlights the difficulties faced by many women trying to get active. In keeping with previous ads, Me Again features women with a wide range of body types, but marks a concerted effort to increase representation of disabled people and LBGTQ+ communities
Booooooom
JANUARY 14, 2020
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Creative Review
JANUARY 14, 2020
The days of wandering down the aisles of Toys “R” Us are long gone, replaced by a new breed of shop that’s catering to kids’ digital dependence and need for new experiences. We find out what it takes to make a modern toy store. The post What does it take to design a toy shop? appeared first on Creative Review.
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