Spoon Graphics
APRIL 16, 2021
Access All Areas members have a wonderful collection of illustrations to download this week, courtesy of Pretty Little Lines. This handcrafted pack of illustrated graphics features the most adorable drawings of cat characters, along with complementary birds, flowers, and wreaths to compose sweet designs for greetings cards, invitations, wedding stationery, and much more!
Speckyboy Design Magazine
APRIL 16, 2021
We travel to feel alive. But as soon as we come back home, we want to share our experiences with the people we care about. Unfortunately, not even our cameras can really capture the atmosphere of a special moment; the vibrant sights, colors, smells, and the wind blowing in from the east that makes us feel like this is it – this is the moment we have been waiting for.
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Noupe
APRIL 16, 2021
Logo designing is no walk in the park; there are a few, in fact, many peculiarities that the designer must be aware of before selecting the final logo for the brand. Your logo is the brand’s identity, do not let an amateur jeopardize your brand identity to save some bucks. You may end up paying a lot more later if your designer messes up your logo.
Graphic Design 24
APRIL 16, 2021
Photoshop's Pen Tool Using for Tracing Vectors Photoshop offers heaps of drawing, delineating and imaging apparatuses for a website specialist to exploit. In this instructional exercise, we will be allowed a chance to figure out how to utilize the Pen Tool for following pictures in your PC and apply them to make a vector designs impact by following.
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
Speckyboy Design Magazine
APRIL 16, 2021
2021 Redesign or: How I Learned to Stop Art Directing and Love the Blog – One designer’s mission to bring consistency to their blog. Yoome Free WooCommerce Theme – A free WooCommerce WordPress theme for creating stunning online shopping stores. Guide to building a UI design system – Helpful tips for those wanting to craft their own design systems.
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Azure Magazine
APRIL 16, 2021
When it first opened its shop in Oslo in April 2020 , Norwegian retailer Moniker was already taking a risk. Could a bricks-and-mortar destination withstand the challenges of the pandemic? Now, a year later, and with the recent completion of its own expansion, it has proven that yes, retail is still alive and well. Design has a big role to play in this success.
Design Week
APRIL 16, 2021
“People think it’s just a place for posing and dancing, but it’s so much more than that,” says Jon Sorrentino. Sorrentino is a designer and creative consultant based in New York. Alongside his client work, he also creates content for his 22,000 followers on TikTok. Known on the app as @thedesignguy, Sorrentino’s videos capture “behind the scenes” life as a designer.
The Die Line
APRIL 16, 2021
Just because our pets can't tell us how much they love good packaging, doesn't mean that they don't have an opinion. New Zealand-based, Think Packaging, has ideated and structured the design for Animals Like Us' pet-food packaging that delivers the food as if a pup were cuddling it.
Design You Trust
APRIL 16, 2021
Cartoons and anime have been and are a big part of a lot of people’s lives. They offer us grand adventures, fun, and exciting plotlines and storylines, unique, driven, and lovable characters. But have you ever wondered what the characters we all know and love would look like if they were realistic? Shenoa Loewy had the same question. So they decided to put that to the test using artificial intelligence, more specifically an app called Artbreeder.
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Abduzeedo
APRIL 16, 2021
Redesign of Rudo and Tecnico Tequila Labels. abduzeedo 04.16.21 Anton Burmistrov shared a beautiful branding and illustration work for the redesign of the Rudo and Tecnico tequila labels. Tequilas Rudo and Tecnico are inspired by Lucha Libre, an extremely popular Mexican style of professional wrestling, and its rich cultural tradition. All Lucha matches are based on the eternal battle between forces of good and evil, represented by two groups of wrestlers: Tecnicos, noble fighters and heroes, an
Design Week
APRIL 16, 2021
Colombian renewable energy start-up E-Dina and WPP’s Wunderman Thompson Colombia division have developed a device which converts salt water into electrical power. WaterLight is a portable light that can turn half a litre of salt water into 45 days of light, according to Wunderman Thompson. It has been prompted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) which showed 840 million people worldwide are currently without access to electricity.
The Die Line
APRIL 16, 2021
Cacaosuyo, which translates to "cacao territory," seeks to represent the legendary origin of fine chocolate. The refresh's goal was to give the packaging a look that would be refined enough to be in a museum.
Creative Review
APRIL 16, 2021
Digital platforms including Decentralise and the People’s Graphic Design Archive are helping people to learn about creative and cultural history. We speak to their creators about redefining who gets to tell stories and what interactivity brings to the table. The post The digital archives retracing art and design history appeared first on Creative Review.
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.
Its Nice That
APRIL 16, 2021
Inspired by the plots and aesthetics of horror films, the New York-based photographer’s portfolio is suffused with cinematography.
Graphis
APRIL 16, 2021
McCandliss and Campbell are an award-winning team of designers based in the United States. They are the creative directors of Earnshaw’s, Footwear Plus, and MR magazines, all published by Wainscot Media. The duo also work together as design consultants, helping their clients fine-tune their brand strategies and build a strong relationship with their consumers.
Design You Trust
APRIL 16, 2021
London’s IDEA Books have a rare 1979 cocaine calendar for sale. The calendar was published in San Francisco (of course) by Red Dog Productions (no idea) in 1978 (duh) and is a relic from a time when cocaine use, while illegal, wasn’t considered all that bad. Seriously. “What more could you ever want? Once seen – it must be bought and owned.” In 1975, a DCDATF (Domestic Council Drug Abuse Task Force) report for President Gerald Ford stated that cocaine was ‘not physically addict
Spine Magazine
APRIL 16, 2021
It was the lovely Jessie Gang of HarperCollins who first pointed out this trend to me back in February 2021, and since then I seem to be seeing them everywhere. A square-centric magazine-esque layout usually featuring a photograph (often jauntily set off-center) along with either some cool, modern, lower-case serif or bold upper-case sans serif. Here are some examples of the best I’ve seen so far.
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Design You Trust
APRIL 16, 2021
History can be something to learn from, something to study, or just plain boring to some people. However, for some, it’s a source of inspiration and a way to unleash their creativity and style. Dr. Christine Na-Eun Millar is a “historical costumer, board-certified doctor, gamer, mother, wife. Not always in that order,” as she describes herself in her Instagram bio.
Abduzeedo
APRIL 16, 2021
Hiero Experimental Display Typeface. abduzeedo 04.16.21 Scott Newland shared a personal typography project titled Hiero. Hiero is a self-initiated experimental display typeface. The project aim was to create a collection of simplistic, block-like characters whose designs are limited to the use of four geometries: a circle, 3x7 rectangle, isosceles-acute and isosceles-right triangle.
Design You Trust
APRIL 16, 2021
Figure and acrylic modeling artist @ume_k_bou writes in his Twitter profile that his motto for his craft is “free, easy, and dirty self-satisfaction”, and a quick look at his works proves that to be true. One of his most recent works involves a little DIY creation to “freeze” your models to give them an aesthetic boost that can be done with the help of a 100 yen store and household items.
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The Die Line
APRIL 16, 2021
The concept for Tequilas Rudo and Tecnico, designed by Anton Burmistrov, comes from Lucha Libre's, a type of professional wrestling in Mexico. The packaging highlights the roots and quality of tequila and furthers the connection with the customer base.
Designmodo
APRIL 16, 2021
This post is originally published on Designmodo: A Beginner’s Guide to the Latest Bootstrap 5 Utilities. Bootstrap has been one of the widely used web frontend frameworks for responsive development with cross-browser compatibility features. It allows you to quickly build a prototype without spending a large time commitment to build layout designs of your choice and … For more information please contact Designmodo.
Trendland
APRIL 16, 2021
Words Guest Writer. “Logging is the most dangerous job on the planet, the hazardous tree removal end of it, the climbing end of it, that’s another level of it, another level of danger.”.
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