Speckyboy Design Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The rise of open-source software has been one of the most impactful things to happen to the web design industry. Just think about all of the apps – large and small – that have made life easier for designers and developers. And perhaps none have had an impact quite as large as WordPress. Many of us have used the massively-popular content management system (CMS) for our projects – and have made a living doing so.

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Spoon Graphics

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As commercial designers we often have to create various graphic styles on demand in all the projects we work on throughout the day. Being able to experiment with new looks keeps the job exciting, but it can be a challenge, especially when deadlines loom! Having a selection of tools at your disposal allows you to rise to those challenges and confidently explore new aesthetics within your work.

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Graphic Mama

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The right use of color in your designs, advertising materials, portfolio, or even personal projects is a game-changer. It can mesmerize the audience, attract new customers, impress the right employers and help you send your message in light speed to the right receiver. Color just innately “speaks” to us… and we respond. It’s exciting to work with color, it’s exciting to look at it.

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Colossal

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

“Year of the Ox” (2021). All images © Felicia Chiao, shared with permission. We’re ushering in the Year of the Ox later this week, an occasion Felicia Chiao ( previously ) kicks off with an illustrated homage to the horned bovine. Rendered with gilded details and Chiao’s signature aesthetic, the drawing is the latest in the California-based illustrator’s collection of works marking the Lunar New Year.

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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

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The Die Line

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Where no one utensil seems to match perfectly with another, still the cohesiveness of the products as a whole is clear.

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Design You Trust

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Alex Pick brings Disney back in the most unexpected ways. Last time, the German artist, known to his 123k followers on Instagram as apicollodraws, ‘humanimalized’ Disney’s universe by turning our favorite animal characters into humans and the other way around in his spot-on illustrations. This time, Pick took his creative ideas around Disney fanart in another direction and drew mashups of Disney and Hollywood.

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Abduzeedo

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Editorial Design Inspiration - Printed Portfolio. abduzeedo 02.10.21 Ognjen Gligorijevic shared a beautiful post on Behance, it was a printed version of his portfolio featuring work from 2019-2020. That’s what I understood, the reality is that it doesn’t matter what it is, it’s just a great example of editorial design and presentation. For some reason seeing this project makes me uneasy because it brings me back memories of when I was starting out my career, when we had to have a printed portfol

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Design Week

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Design studio 20something has created the new identity for ocean plastic enterprise Seven Clean Seas (SCS), which resists “surf and hippy-inspired” eco-clichés. The work includes a complete visual overhaul as well as strategy guidelines for the organisation as it begins to expand its reach. [link]. SCS was established in 2018 in Singapore and now spans five countries, attracting thousands of beach clean-up volunteers.

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Booooooom

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

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Its Nice That

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The Berlin-based designer aims to rethink and record the visual indicators of our time.

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Design You Trust

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The winners of this year’s Underwater Photographer of the Year contest were just announced, and Renee Capozzola was named Underwater Photographer of the Year 2021 for her image of blacktip reef sharks cruising beneath seagulls at sunset in French Polynesia. Prizes and commendations were handed out in categories including Wide Angle, Macro, Wrecks, Behavior, Portrait, Black and White, Compact, Up and Coming, Marine Conservation, and more.

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Just Creative

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

These days, it’s become extra important to make sure our homes are safe. More than anything, the pandemic has forced us to turn our personal spaces into offices, entertainment facilities, restaurants, and more! In other words, we do so many things at home now that it’s become imperative for us to truly enjoy being in the confines of where we live. Whereas our houses and apartments used to only be resting places after long days of work, it’s now become a hub where we do virtually everything. .

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Design You Trust

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Maybe it’s the bulging tights that elevate these from campy to creepy. Maybe it’s their eyes. Maybe it’s the unshakeable feeling that these children never forgot the day these pictures will taken. The photographs were shared by folks across the Plaid Stallions website sharing their childhood mall appearances from the 1970s and 1980s. More: Plaid Stallions h/t: vintag.es.

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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.

Graphic Design

Creative Applications

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Created by Jonathan Chomko, and inspired by a conversation with Yo-Yo Ma around a performance of a previous work, ‘A Heart from Space’ is a tool for collective GPS drawing.

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Design You Trust

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Childbirth was already an incredibly difficult and painful process that required strength and tenacity. But the pandemic added an entirely new layer to giving birth in 2020. While the childbirth photographers that capture these precious moments lost much of their work last year, the images that were captured only emulated the beauty of new life amid so much grief.

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The Die Line

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

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Abduzeedo

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

3D Pokemon Art made with Cinema 4D. AoiroStudio 02.10.21 With all the time we have been spending home in confinement. I guess we all have our share of streaming and binging TV shows and movies. I recently watched Detective Pikachu and somehow have this new appreciation for these cute characters. For this new finding, let's take a look at these amazing 3D illustrations of Pokemon made with Cinema 4D, created by ?

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Just Creative

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

While there are many illustration apps available for the iPad, the Procreate App stands alone as one of the most popular for professional and hobbyist illustrators. Companies such as Pixar and Disney use Procreate. Turning the iPad into a drawing table, it is truly a game-changer by providing the same outcome without having to get an expensive desktop or tablet dedicated to digital illustration.

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Communication Arts

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A Hong Kong–born, Brooklyn-based illustrator explores new approaches to visualize a surreal, dynamic world.

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Creative Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

However you think the apocalypse is going to arrive, The End has a tea to suit the occasion. Pandemic Chill, with its “harmonious infusion of lemon and ginger”, feels like a very current choice, but there’s also Meteor Calm, Nuclear Detox, Peace Invasion and Mint Wildfire. Niiiiice has matched each disaster with an appropriate set of flavours.

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Designmodo

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This post is originally published on Designmodo: Free Cryptocurrency Icon Packs, Vector Crypto Icons. Some say it is a universal fraud, nothing more than hype; others consider it not just our future but already our present. Cryptocurrency has become a big part of our life. “Bitcoin accepted here” is popping up everywhere. More websites, … For more information please contact Designmodo.

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Its Nice That

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The project comprises a series of posters submitted by designers, and invites everyone to download, print and place the posters in public spaces on 14 February.

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The Die Line

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Hunkered down and in hiding from pandemics and politics, our craving for escapism has never been greater. As we await the COVID jab, how can brands inject a little magic into our lives?

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Spine Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Bekki Guyatt is a Senior Designer at Little, Brown UK. Here she takes us through her process for designing the sexy new cover for Daisy Buchanan’s Insatiable. When Insatiable came up in our briefing meeting, it sounded like a challenging and exciting book, so I jumped at the opportunity to design it. It’s very sexy and ambitious, and seemed like a fun and unique project to work on.

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The Die Line

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A balance of sophistication and sustainability reinforces the brand’s overall belief that hygiene is linked to the wellbeing of people, and how it should be available to all.

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