I Love Typography
MAY 25, 2020
Today I launched two short multiple choice quizzes. The first starts at the beginning with Gutenberg, with questions about his life and his famous Bible. Some of the questions are pretty easy; others you might find rather difficult. The second game, Glorious Glyphs, tests your font identification chops by having you identify individual characters or […].
Spoon Graphics
MAY 25, 2020
Download my new pack of textures to add detailed wood grain effects to your designs. After processing each photograph of wooden paneling to straighten and equalize the texture, the wood grain pattern was then extracted and exported as PNG files with transparent backgrounds. These PNG files preserve the details of the grain and make it easy to place the textures over your artwork.
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Just Creative
MAY 25, 2020
Procreate is an amazing program that helps you create amazing works of art, regardless of whether you’re a professional or an amateur. Watercolor for Procreate is an addon for the program that lets you paint using watercolor just as if you had an easel and paint in the room. Many different creators have designed their watercolor programs that you can add to Procreate to add unique looks and textures and we wanted to highlight some of the best options out there with our list of the Top 15 Best Pr
Tuts Plus
MAY 25, 2020
If you use Adobe Illustrator, then it's almost certain that you use the Pen Tool when creating your paths. This comprehensive Pen Tool Illustrator guide aims to introduce or remind you of features, shortcuts, and methods for working with what is arguably Adobe's most essential tool. In this Illustrator Pen Tool tutorial, you'll become comfortable using all of its features, from learning how to add anchor points in Illustrator to using bezier curves.
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
ID Identity Design
MAY 25, 2020
Design Pasar is a festival that we created and organised in collaboration with Roger&Sons and The General Co. We all moved into a new warehouse building in the industrial part of Singapore Jalan Besar where many of the traditional hardware businesses reside. The festival is about bringing design, craft, and arts to all our neighbours in the community.
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Booooooom
MAY 25, 2020
Jacob Howard. Jacob Howard’s Website. Jacob Howard on Instagram.
Trendland
MAY 25, 2020
French 'Oceanscape' photographer Fotomas has been shooting some pretty delightful surf photographs.
Booooooom
MAY 25, 2020
Christopher Beitz. Christopher Beitz’s Website. Christopher Beitz on Instagram.
Spine Magazine
MAY 25, 2020
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. Sometimes books can feel like a cozy place we come back to for the predictable comfort they provide. There are books people read because they can predict what’s going to happen. Like B movies, they’re just a fun break from reality, where nothing really unexpected happens.
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Speckyboy Design Magazine
MAY 25, 2020
The last time I regularly worked anywhere other than my home was ( gasp! ) 1998. When I became a full-time freelance web designer, it was at the very beginning of the work-from-home era. To put it in perspective, WiFi wasn’t even a common thing yet (nor was it called WiFi). Of course, a few things have changed since then. More and more people are working from home.
Design You Trust
MAY 25, 2020
The beautiful work of Wyoming-based photographer Mitch Rouse is bound to inspire reverie with its immersive collection of colors, patterns, and compositions. More: Mitch Rouse, Instagram, Behance h/t: plainmagazine An entrepreneur and photographer, Rouse started out making aerial photography with high-tech drones, before their limitations led him to opting to take to the skies himself.
Azure Magazine
MAY 25, 2020
When called in to redesign a 1970s-era apartment in the heart of Quito’s historic centre, Ecuadorean architect Aquiles Jarrín was tasked with more than just updating the finishes and furniture — he was asked to completely reimagine how a domestic space is occupied. . The clients — a young family of three — wanted a “more dynamic space that would allow for constant rediscovery and appropriation,” says Jarrín of his mandate.
Design You Trust
MAY 25, 2020
Hairstylist LaChanda Gatson decided to redefine the image of a traditional princess in a stunning photo series that showcase elegant, colorful and brave African American princesses. More: CreativeSoul Photography, Instagram, Facebook, LaChanda Gatson h/t: boredpanda Regis and Kahran, the duo behind CreativeSoul Photography, produced a series of 14 photographs showcasing princesses with “[their].
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.
Fonts in Use
MAY 25, 2020
Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: [link] The New York Times. License: All Rights Reserved. The front page of The New York Times for Sunday, May 24th, 2020 – Memorial Day – was a stark wall of type , and only type : a long and somber list of Americans who have lost their lives to the Covid-19 pandemic. Simone Landon, assistant editor of the Graphics desk, conceived the idea of compiling brief but evocative passages from obituaries of Covid-19 victims across the country as a way to c
Design You Trust
MAY 25, 2020
Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining featured a very creepy hotel that was haunted. The actual hotel used for the film was represented by Timberline Lodge at Mt. Hood in Oregon and was named the fictional ‘Overlook Hotel’. Timberline Lodge is a mountain lodge on the south side of Mount Hood in Clackamas County, Oregon, about 60 miles east of Portland, Oregon.
Trendland
MAY 25, 2020
In times of isolation and uncertainty, creativity flourishes in very beautiful ways. Brazil , a rich stage for thinking 'outside the box' has been faced with the circumstances to let all its natural creative force show up.
Old Brand New
MAY 25, 2020
GIVEAWAY NUMBER THREE • MAY 25, 2020 — ENDS 5/31 12PM PST Our third giveaway is here! Enter for a chance to win 50 sq. ft. of my cement tile designs with Saba Tile. To enter, you must follow @Dabito and @SabaTile on Instagram. And be sure to sign up for my newsletter below. And last but not least, leave a comment on my Instagram post and tell me your where you plan to use the tiles!
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Purple Rose Graphics
MAY 25, 2020
I’m on social media a lot. I’m in several entrepreneur groups and groups for graphic designers. At least once a day I see a post like “Ladies!! Who does your graphic design? Drop the deets below” and inevitably, without fail I see a chain of comments that boil down to “I do it myself!”. A lot of designers cringe when they see this. Here’s why: Most DIY-ers, even if they have help from an online template site, don’t always have the “behind the scenes” marketing knowledge that makes a design go f
Communication Arts
MAY 25, 2020
With her modular typography, designer Vanessa Zúñiga Tinizaray hopes to honor the cultural heritage of Latin America.
Design You Trust
MAY 25, 2020
While staying at home, many photographers turned their houses and flats into studios. In fact, some of them even turned them into cameras! Brazilian photographer Bruno Alencastro turned the “camera obscura room” concept into a fantastic collaborative project. He teamed up with other photographers, and each of them turned their home into a camera obscura.
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Communication Arts
MAY 25, 2020
Typography and structure roam free in the eclectic identity for NOMAD Music Productions.
Interaction Design Foundation
MAY 25, 2020
Design Thinking is not an exclusive property of designers—all great innovators in literature, art, music, science, engineering, and business have practiced it. So, why call it Design Thinking? What’s special about Design Thinking is that designers’ work processes can help us systematically extract, teach, learn and apply these human-centered techniques to solve problems in a creative and innovative way – in our designs, in our businesses, in our countries, in our lives.
Communication Arts
MAY 25, 2020
Designed by Corentin Magnetti and developed by Jordan Thiervoz, this site showcases the photography of Thomas Garcin with an intuitive experience.
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