Just Creative
AUGUST 4, 2020
This article has been contributed by Georgie Peru. So you have a stunningly designed website that’s generating a lot of traffic, now what? Time to generate conversions! Admittedly, you’ve done a lot of the legwork by driving traffic to your website in the first place, but unfortunately, that’s not going to be enough to sustain your business or push sales.
Booooooom
AUGUST 4, 2020
Another lovely comic from New York-based artist and illustrator Evan M. Cohen (previously featured here ). I can see the forest. In the distance, I can hear my name. From above, I am alive, I am magnetic, The Earth pulls at my love. She wakes me. With her electric skies, She shows me. How to live. With graceful eyes. She is the wind. Through the trees, Moving silent sounds, I am the rain.
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SpeckyBoy
AUGUST 4, 2020
The web design community is great at sharing knowledge. But quite often what we share has some prerequisites attached. You’d likely need to already be a web designer or developer to get something out of it. But what about beginners? If you’re just starting your journey in web design, you may feel left out. With all of the expert tutorials out there, it can be hard to know where to begin.
Creative Review
AUGUST 4, 2020
Design studio Hey has worked with restaurant and brewery Caravelle on creating colourful packaging for its new range of craft beers. The Barcelona-based studio previously teamed up with Caravelle back in 2017 on its initial beer range, and was enlisted once again to help it flesh out the existing design system as the brewery relocates to a larger location to keep up with demand.
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
Design Week
AUGUST 4, 2020
The Royal Mint can produce five billion coins every year. That enormous figure includes coins for circulation as well as commemorative designs which have an eclectic focus, from a full English breakfast to the Angel of the North. The government-owned organisation dates all the way back to 886, and was originally run from the Tower of London until it moved to London’s East End at the start of the 19th century.
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Colossal
AUGUST 4, 2020
“S” (2020), metallic rose gold screenprint on black Plike art paper, 330 gsm, 24.4 x 24.4 inches. All images © Seb Lester, shared with permission. Centered on the letter “S,” an anachronistic print from Seb Lester ( previously ) blends hundreds of symbols into one embellished form. Rendered in metallic on black paper, the typographic piece captures an incredibly long timeline, from prehistory to the Dark Ages to the Renaissance to present day.
Design You Trust
AUGUST 4, 2020
Austin-based artist Chet Phillips offers a new spin on some of the most iconic movie characters of our time. In his latest artistic installment, the illustrator depicts pop culture icons as vintage, taxonomic pieces in his series entitled, “Unnatural History.” Each fresh take of a character adds an elemental surprise to some of the most recognizable figures on television.
The Die Line
AUGUST 4, 2020
For their latest drama Perry Mason , set in Prohibition-era Los Angeles, HBO draws inspiration from the past and the present to create their latest influencer kit.
Juxapoz Magazine
AUGUST 4, 2020
During Italian architect and designer Aldo Rossi's lifetime he accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international recognition in four distinct areas: theory, drawing, architecture and product design and winning the Pritzker Prize in 1990. His obituary in the New York Times back in 1997 comments that "his work combined unabashedly grand forms with the most reductive geometric shapes; it invoked the resonance of a recurring dream or the lyricism of a de Chirico painting.".
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Design You Trust
AUGUST 4, 2020
Remember when you were little and you were building sandcastles on the beach? In your mind, they were tall, abundant, rich, but in reality, there were…well, not that great. These incredible sand sculptures by Andoni Bastarrika are so lifelike and cool, that I wish I had him around when I was a kid playing in the sand. More: Instagram h/t: theawesomedaily By the look of it.
Colossal
AUGUST 4, 2020
All images by Shafik Kadi and © Victor Solomon, shared with permission. Celebrating the restorative qualities of sports and basketball’s return this past week, Victor Solomon has repaired a deteriorated court in South Los Angeles through the ancient art of Kintsugi —the Japanese method of repairing broken pottery by using metallic substances to mend the fractures.
Design Week
AUGUST 4, 2020
Liverpool-based design studio Uniform has created the look of the official match football that will be used during the next season of the English Football League (EFL). The ball has been developed on behalf of sports equipment brand Mitre and has been inspired by the associations playing football has with “positive mental health”, according to Uniform.
Creative Review
AUGUST 4, 2020
Creative inspiration can come from many sources: sometimes it’s best to look far outside your field for new methods of working, writes CR's ad correspondent Ben Kay. The post How Abba and Beyoncé can help you write 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.
Graphis
AUGUST 4, 2020
You know a João Machado piece when you see one. His style is unmistakable when it comes to simplistic designs and illustrations. For the Protest Posters 2, the Portuguese designer enters his poster series “Save Me” (above) that consists of images of a zebra, a fish, and wings. Machado often uses his posters to raise […].
Its Nice That
AUGUST 4, 2020
Creating the latest music video for The Magic Gang, Laura's new short is a perfect example of her animation brilliance.
Abduzeedo
AUGUST 4, 2020
Andrew Hawryluk shared the motion design work done for SHOWTIME is an anime short film set in a dystopian cyberpunk setting and an original IP created by Maciej Kuciara. It is a stylistic homage to some of the most iconic Japanese anime of the 1990's. I had the pleasure of designing and animating various motion graphic elements throughout the short, including a digital elevator display, a robotic user interface, and the final title card.
Its Nice That
AUGUST 4, 2020
Designer Richard Pay explains the unique challenges of designing football graphics – particularly this year’s – as the new ball is unveiled today on the plinth at Wembley.
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The Die Line
AUGUST 4, 2020
These simplistic yet bold illustrations allow for easy identification of the preferred flavor.
Its Nice That
AUGUST 4, 2020
In the final session of our Nice Hour series, we’ll be sitting down with illustrator Karabo Poppy to advise on how best to work with pattern and colour in varying styles.
Design You Trust
AUGUST 4, 2020
The Square America Archive While we’re all cooped up inside we might as learn how to protect ourselves from knife wielding villains. Here’s a small series of photos instructing you how to deal a knife wielding fiend. h/t: vintag.es The Square America Archive The Square America Archive The Square America Archive The Square America Archive The Square America Archive The Square America Archive The.
Abduzeedo
AUGUST 4, 2020
New week, another abdz. 'Raw Design Inspiration' to kick it off. No theme, absolutely 'raw' inspiration. Being an abdz., inspiration is one of the biggest fuels in my everyday life. Whatever it is for life and work balance, it comes in many shapes and forms. For me, I do appreciate a good surf on Dribbble. It's all about how we consume our feeds, I noticed a shift of change from designers on sharing their work on social media platforms like Instagram.
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Just Creative
AUGUST 4, 2020
Sometimes known as cursive fonts, a script font can add something unique to logo design or branding project. Maybe your project needs a casual touch to lighten the mood or mimic formal handwriting to give a more professional appearance. Whatever the reason is, we thought that highlighting some of the Best Script Fonts for Graphic Design, Branding and Logo Design would go a long way towards helping you add a new tool you can use to impress your clients.
Booooooom
AUGUST 4, 2020
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The Die Line
AUGUST 4, 2020
The plastic-free brand initially focused on the hospitality market but found that their bathroom products appealed to travelers because the dry, solid cleansers do not fall under TSA liquid restrictions.
Trendland
AUGUST 4, 2020
Words Marta Knas. Minéral Bar is a new concept in Montreal designed by Blanchettes Architectes combining different ambiences - from "late-afternoon opening to late-night peak".
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