Fri.Oct 25, 2019

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What Does a Graphic Designer Do?

Creative Market

Graphic design is all around us. It’s showcased as visuals across multiple different mediums to express a message or tell a story. Liz Meyer , Senior Brand Designer at Creative Market, explains that she likes “to think of Graphic Design as art that analyzes and solves a problem. The first question you ask yourself when being handed a brief or project should always be—what problem am I trying to solve?”.

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8 ideas you can borrow from famous logos

Canva

Ever wondered how brands create iconic logos that are instantly recognizable across the world? Did it happen by chance, or, was it the outcome of a strategic design choice? We like to think it’s the second option. Below, we share some ideas you can borrow from some of the most famous logos ever designed. When designing a logo for your business or personal brand, it’s helpful to think of it as the welcome mat to your home: the first thing guests see.

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Exit by George Stoyanov

Trendland

Digital artist from Bulgaria, George Stoyanov has recently introduced us his latest 3D illustrations series of random stacked objects & forms. His work is focused on CGI, 3D illustration and design. He’s using various colors, forms and conceptions to achieve more intensive emotions, closeness and sense of detail. Constantly aiming at improving his skills and developing a style of his own. www.georgestoyanov.com.

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11 YouTube Thumbnail Design Ideas to Catch More Attention

Fotor

We have talked about how to start a youtube channel and make money. Now, we are going to talk about YouTube thumbnails. Thumbnails are the most crucial aspect to leverage potential viewers and make them click to enjoy. Undoubtedly, this is one of the biggest deciding factors whether or not to click to watch […].

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Let's Talk Trends: Designing for Maximum Impact

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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Reviewed: Friday Likes 305: From Glasfurd & Walker, Marka Collective, and Buddy-Buddy

Under Consideration / Brand

“From Glasfurd & Walker, Marka Collective, and Buddy-Buddy”. Some more ornate and elaborate identities this week, with work from Vancouver, Varna, and Minneapolis. Caffe La Tana by Glasfurd & Walker. Caffe La Tana is a triple-threat Italian food establishment in Vancouver, Canada, functioning as a cafe, restaurant, and grocery store offering very nice Italian food, pastries, and goods.

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A visual history of arcade game typography

Creative Review

The landscape of gaming has changed dramatically since the rise of early arcade video games in the 70s. Despite the array of all-singing, all-dancing games vying for our attention today, there is a still a huge amount of nostalgia for the games that defined pretty much every 80s kid’s childhood (arguably helped by the Stranger Things effect ). While there has been much written about the influence of arcade games on popular culture, a new book is honing in on a small but vital detail of the gamin

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Simple yet beautiful, Tom Kariv’s animated short follows the story of a lonely postman

Its Nice That

Created during his final year at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, The Postman features minimalist line work, fantastic characterisation and morphing perspectives, following a solemn protagonist as he goes about his daily job. Read more.

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40 Examples of Clever Typography in Logo Design

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Typography in logo design says a lot about your business. When used correctly, typography can add balance to your logo. It can also make your logo more memorable if you use nothing but typography as simple logos are often the ones that we easily remember. When it comes to using typography or creating typography-based logos, there are a few things to keep in mind.

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Moscow-based illustrator Katya Dorokhina chats through her new zine Chill Pill

Its Nice That

Katya expands on her journey to becoming an illustrator as well as her most recent publication Chill Pill , revolving around awkward family photos and weird quotes from old school albums. Read more.

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The Democratization of Design: Giving Creators & Marketers the Tools to Succeed

Brands must create and share impactful content to thrive, but they have less people, tighter budgets, and fewer resources to do so. Learn how to publish and market digital content with the same professionalism as organizations with million-dollar budgets.

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Sublime Street Photographs Of Hong Kong In The 1950s And 1960s

Design You Trust

Hong Kong is all about the food. The smell of delicious stuff, some of it unidentifiable only to Bellamists and delving biology professors and coroners, hangs in air so soupy and thick it seems to be keeping the new skyscrapers upright. I’m wrong, of course. Hong Kong is all about human life, which is everywhere, packed tightly and possessed of an atavistic self-containment – the closest thing.

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Christoph Niemann creates an illustrated guide to Brexit for The New York Times

Its Nice That

Using photographs, text and illustration to explain the history and context of Brexit, The Breakup is an online guide to the UK’s relationship with EU, told through the eyes of an illustrator-cum-reporter on the ground in London. Read more.

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Fantastic Man, gal-dem, and NYT Magazine confirmed for magCulture Live 2019

Creative Review

The last few years have seen some of publishing’s big players fall victim to changes in the media landscape. Whether closures at Shortlist Media, a major reshuffle at Vice, or everyone from Marie Claire to NME waving goodbye to their print editions, it’s no surprise that the rhetoric around magazines is often negative. However, there have been new titles amid the closures, and a flourishing independent scene has paved the way for both underrepresented voices and niche topics to have a platform.

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Yosigo’s warm photography takes a look at where nature and civilisations meet

Its Nice That

Straddling the line between documentary, landscape and highly-polished snapshot photography there’s a playful element to Yosigo’s photographs of the ocean. “The theme of the sea is strictly linked to my land and my childhood, and I suppose it’s a resource that I’ll always return to," says the graphic designer turned photographer from Barcelona.

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From Visualization to Execution: Exploring Our Strengths as Designers

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.

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HomesAlivePets Case Study: Logo & Brand Identity ReDesign & Tag-line

The Logo Smith

The post HomesAlivePets Case Study: Logo & Brand Identity ReDesign & Tag-line appeared first on The Logo Smith. HomesAlivePets Logo & Brand Identity Redesign Case Study for logo and brand redesign & update, including coming up with a new tag-line for HomesAlivePets, a pet store located in Canada. This is a brief ‘before & after’ of a brand logo redesign (featured image above) that I completed for HomesAlivePets, a Canadian pet store chain.

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Bizarre Animals Challenge the Bounds of Recognizability in Hybrid Assemblages by Debra Broz

Colossal

“Winged Elephant” 6 x 7 x 7 inches. Winged elephants, multi-eared rabbits, and carrot-legged babies ready to be dipped in hummus: recent sculptures by Debra Broz ( previously ) continue to expand her collection of odd mashups formed from found ceramics. By carefully sourcing, separating, and re-fusing juxtaposed components of otherwise unremarkable ceramic knick-knacks, Broz forms entirely new creatures that are equal parts bizarre and humorous.

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An Amsterdam Office Meets the Harbour with Quiet Drama

Azure Magazine

East of the city’s historic centre , the industrial vestiges of a century-old Amsterdam wharf are gradually giving way to a new milieu of intimately scaled urban neighbourhoods. At the confluence of two eras, Amvest’s new office stands out – literally – as a harbinger of a city in the making. Cantilevered over the water’s edge, the glass and steel office sits above the harbour.

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Davis Divan Three-Wheeler: The 1940s Unique Concept Car That Lost In History

Design You Trust

Post-World War II America was ravenous for new cars and the Davis Divan featured aircraft-inspired styling details that captured imaginations. Sadly, only 13 were built and Davis’ company president, Glenn Gordon “Gary” Davis, spent two years at a “work farm” labor camp in Castaic, California for grand theft. h/t: vintag.es The Davis Divan is a three-wheeled convertible built by the Davis Motorcar.

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Rethinking Creative Workflows: Increasing Efficiency in the Design Process

As the design industry evolves, teams are facing new challenges and a need to produce more outstanding creative work than ever. Leaders must learn how to adapt their processes to solve today’s—and tomorrow’s—unique design challenges. In this e-book, you’ll learn how to establish your creative workflow and leverage the power of CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite to streamline the entire design process, from start to finish.

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Designing for the cinema renaissance

Design Week

With today’s film fans being pulled toward streaming services, you could be forgiven for thinking cinemas were suffering at the hands of Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. The reality, however, is quite the opposite. In 2018, UK cinemas saw their highest attendance since 1970 , with 177 million trips being made over the course of the year. This success has been explained by several factors, the most obvious being the number of blockbuster pictures released.

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Finding beauty in vintage airline maps

Creative Review

Work by designers including Henry Beck – who created the London Underground map – and FHK Henrion is featured in the book, which includes adverts for the first ever passenger flights. It offers insight into some of the creative liberties of early maps which, according to author Mark Ovenden, took a “laissez-faire attitude to geographical accuracy”.

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Stretched and Stacked Textures Become Elongated Female Figures in New Work by Johanna Goodman

Colossal

Towering female figures fill the frame in large-scale collages by Johanna Goodman ( previously ). Using a range of contemporary and historic materials and visual motifs, ranging from bright red glitter to greyscale photos of classical sculptures, Goodman builds powerful protagonists from disparate materials. Elongated torsos are with clipped vintage photos, contemporary model shots, and even sculptures and paintings.

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An Innovative Photographer Attached A Camera To A Remote-Controlled Car, Allowing Him To Capture Wild Animals

Design You Trust

Over the last 11 years, Chris Bray has been taking pictures of animals using his toy car contraption while he takes guests on photography tours in Kenya. Bray purchased an ordinary remote-controlled car, stripped it of anything that could chewed or ripped off, leaving the chassis, then strapped a GoPro to the top of it. When a herd of animals has been sighted, Bray uses the toy car to approach the.

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Creative Insights: Data-Backed Trends to Help You Design Successful Content

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.

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Graphis Master Adam Voorhes Presents Bold Ideas Through Creative Use of Lighting and Color

Graphis

Adam Voorhes is an acclaimed photographer that shoots editorial and commercial photography from his studio with his partner and wife, Robin Voorhes. Together they compose and photograph simple items, with an almost surreal quality to them. Color has always been an important element of his photography. Voorhes won Gold in the Photo Annual 2019 for […].

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Wonderful Pictures Of South Wales During The 1970s Captured By The Local Newspaper Photographer

Design You Trust

Pill, Newport, South Wales, 1974 In the 1970s Robin Weaver was a newspaper photographer in South Wales. When he wasn’t covering hard news or local events for his paper, he liked to photograph the people and everyday scenes he came across. For years his photographs remained in his private collection but then, 40 years on, he revisited his old negative files, placing the images in photo libraries.

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Photographer Spotlight: Damien Maloney

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Bitnaneun’s founder Siyoung Park on the art of designing film posters

Its Nice That

Historically, the film poster is a rather tricky thing to design. It has to be big, bold and punchy in both its visuals and message. The Seoul-based designer lets us in on some of his trade secrets having designed for Wes Anderson’s, Jonah Hill’s and several independent films to date. Read more.

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How to Create Stunning Typography With the Corel Type Tool Kit

Download this free eBook to learn how you can create stunning typography, using the basics, such as placing text, to advanced controls like ligatures, variable fonts, effects, tracking, range kerning, and everything in between. Learn how to: Use Character Control to add variety to your font styles. Use Paragraph Control to manage spacing, alignment, justification and more.