We And The Color
JUNE 30, 2022
Take a look at our selection of the top ten best art blogs for your daily inspiration in 2022. It seems as if the international art scene will wake up from a slumber in 2022. Due to many COVID-19 restrictions, the past two years have been very difficult for artists and exhibitors. Apart from the NFT hype, even established art blogs often had a hard time showing interesting art projects and events from all over the world.
Creative Boom
JUNE 30, 2022
Pre-Freedom © Nikita Savinov. Many opt for the freelance way of life for its sense of freedom. Nikita Savinov did just that, having left his full-time roles as a designer – first in-house, then in a small studio, then in a big agency – to pursue a more flexible way of working. After working at an agency, his last job, he says: "I can't say it was a fun or interesting experience, as I've always worked with existing brand guidelines, mostly on mass consumer brands, and I often had to work overtime
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Eye on Design
JUNE 30, 2022
The packaging design of fireworks is at once easy and hard to ignore. As a category, it’s just loud enough to catch your eye, then dismiss as undeserving of analysis, or even a second look. The defining traits of the genre — bright colors, cartoonish illustrations, evocative names — can melt into one campy swath. But focus for a moment, and you’ll see something else: a reflection of pop culture, a barometer for the interests of the cis male population, and a surprisingly sophisticated design.
UX Collective
JUNE 30, 2022
Cooking from recipes is painful. RecipeBlocks is a new visual recipe format that aims to make recipes easier to follow and cooking more enjoyable. A RecipeBlock for marinara sauce (adapted from Marcella Hazan) For something that can both teach and reward you, I think that recipes are highly undervalued. Maybe it’s because they’re so abundant. Google a recipe for anything and you’ll likely come across dozens of results.
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
Vandelay Design
JUNE 30, 2022
Here are the best hand drawn fonts that will give your designs a genuine and authentic feel. You'll find everything from signatures to brush strokes and more. The post 33 Classic and Dreamy Hand Drawn Fonts appeared first on Vandelay Design.
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Design Milk
JUNE 30, 2022
With summer now in swing, and all-day pool parties on the horizon… we wanted to share our favorite zero-proof cocktail recipe from Natasha David’s new book, Drink Lightly. Inspired by her love of grilled vegetables, this drink perfects the balance of complexity and conviviality, while giving someone something more satisfying than a ginger spiked lemonade.
Graphic Mama
JUNE 30, 2022
Adobe Illustrator has become an industry standard. Used by many professional designers, it’s a robust program with plenty of tools and features that could help you create amazing vector designs. It’s very flexible and there are plenty of tutorials online. But to say it’s the perfect vector program will be exaggerated. Illustrator has its own flaws: its steep price (one license starts at $20.99 per month with an annual subscription) and a big learning curve.
We And The Color
JUNE 30, 2022
Discover Quarx, a unique font duo consisting of a sans and a serif typeface. Created by SilverStag, Quarx is a new sans and serif font duo that comes with regular, italic, bold, and bold italic options. The Quarx font duo offers a unique look that combines classic typography with modern trends. It supports multiple languages and comes with punctuation, numerals, and detailed instructions on how to use alternate letters, which are supported by professional tools such as known from Adobe’s C
Azure Magazine
JUNE 30, 2022
It’s always a joy to see Canadian designers in our travels to international design fairs — it’s even better when they’re the talk of the town. Such was the scene in Milan, where Andlight and Lambert & Fils both created stunning installations at Alcova, a beacon for brave design talents. We have also seen fantastic works from our fellow Canadians in New York (Anony, Simon Johns and Hamilton Holmes among them), in the global design media, and – yes, major AZ Awards plug – in our own inte
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Design Milk
JUNE 30, 2022
If you’ve been around here long enough , you probably know about my love of LEGO – from childhood to adulthood. Just because you’re an adult doesn’t mean you can’t partake in a little brick building – just think of them as three-dimensional puzzles. So if you’ve become burnt out on puzzles during the never-ending COVID crisis, give LEGO a try.
Abduzeedo
JUNE 30, 2022
Typography principles by Obys Agency. abduzeedo 0630—22 Obys Agency shared a beautiful project featuring typography, UX, editorial design, and you name it. Why did they choose this topic? More complex work with typography is becoming popular in web and web design is becoming more like posters and graphic design. Obys agency is pleased to share with you some of their principles of working with typography that will help improve your experience.
Design Milk
JUNE 30, 2022
West Elm and Shaw Contract have teamed up to create a rug collection with residential warmth and commercial durability. West Elm x Shaw Contract fills in another missing piece to the hybrid work/home life we’ve been living. And it also proves workspaces can be made to feel more livable. It began when West Elm approached Shaw Contract to turn some of their inspiring patterns into performance commercial rugs, and the rest is history.
Abduzeedo
JUNE 30, 2022
Painted Plants Series - 3D illustration by Roman Bratsch. abduzeedo 0630—22 Inspired by natural shapes, forms and patterns, Roman Bratschi is an experienced 3D illustrator and animation director, who kick-started his career as a graphic designer. We have featured Roman in the past but it’s always awesome to see new work from him. With 15 years of artistic expertise under his creativity belt, his career path transformed as he began to tamper in alternative illustrative methods.
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.
Colossal
JUNE 30, 2022
All images © Sam Rodriguez, shared with permission. San Jose-based artist Sam Rodriguez might liken an abstract leaf sprouting from a young woman’s garment or a Pac-Man-esque rendering floating near a subject’s face to scenic elements. His portraits, which he’s been referring to as “cultural landscapes” for the past few years, are topographies of identity that involve replacing trees, rivers, and horizons with social markers. “It’s interesting to see the
Abduzeedo
JUNE 30, 2022
Contiki’s fresh design to inspire young people to travel after covid-19. abduzeedo 0630—22 The global pandemic hasn’t just restricted young people’s ability to travel. It’s also closed them off to the kind of social connections that are essential for personal growth. To reflect a brighter future for travel -as well as this bottled-up desire for authentic human connections - Contiki , the world leaders in youth social travel, has launched a bold evolution of its brand identity.
Feature Shoot
JUNE 30, 2022
Giant #49 , collected by anonymous. Giant #27 , collected by @graysonlauff. Before he released GIANT , a series of self-portraits, Artem Humilevskyi ’s finger hovered over the “publish” button for six hours. It was a personal project that required him to bare all, both physically and philosophically, and he had no way of knowing how people might react.
UX Collective
JUNE 30, 2022
Brian McGowan on Unsplash This year at Apple’s WWDC, they announced a new feature called Live Activity. This feature allows app developers to create a more persistent notification experience. From tracking the score of your favorite sports team to knowing exactly when your Uber will arrive without unlocking your phone. This is a powerful feature for the usability and user experience of certain apps.
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Creative Review
JUNE 30, 2022
Prestel has released a new book on the seminal work of German graphic designer and typographer Otl Aicher (1922-1991) to mark the centenary of his birth. Most known for founding the influential Ulm School of Design, and for the pictographs he designed for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, this publication also explores his achievements beyond the world of design, as well as his passion for.
Colossal
JUNE 30, 2022
Sandy Skoglund (American, b. 1946), “Revenge of the Goldfish” (1981), Cibachrome print. Bank of America Collection. Image © 1981 Sandy Skoglund. One of the more accessible mediums, photography has long been an entry point for those relegated to the periphery of the art world, and a group exhibition on view now at the Denver Art Museum celebrates those who helped develop and define the genre as it grew throughout the 20th Century.
Creative Bloq
JUNE 30, 2022
Realme reimagines smartphone design with its paper-inspired GT 2 Pro.
Design Beep
JUNE 30, 2022
The Pros and Cons of Google’s Smart Bidding. Paid search advertising has reached a maturity level where we no longer need to gamble on what works. With over 40,000 search queries per second , Google knows a thing or two about what you need to do to reach your goals. Digital advertising is still part art and part science… but the scientific part is growing by leaps and bounds.
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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.
Communication Arts
JUNE 30, 2022
Ultravirgo’s campaign encourages advocates for mental health reform to share their own missions with a protest graphic–inspired art generator.
Creative Review
JUNE 30, 2022
When Émile-Samory Fofana began his series Champions League Koulikoro four years ago, it became the turning point in his creative trajectory. “It’s the project that first drew me towards photography,” he tells CR. “Before that, I was working mainly in video, but I wanted to create a specific body of work and photography was the best way to put these images in perspective, one next to the other.
Its Nice That
JUNE 30, 2022
This month, we heard from four fascinating creatives about their processes, inspirations and aspirations: Hato and Simon Beckerman, A Vibe Called Tech, Anu Ambasna, plus Toby Treyer-Evans and Laurie Howell from Droga5.
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