SpeckyBoy
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Booking new clients for your web design business is challenging. First you have to find someone who is interested in your services. Then it’s a matter of hammering out an agreement so that you can start your journey together. When read aloud, it sounds easier than it really is. The process can feel a bit like being involved in a reality show competition – even if you’re the only designer involved.
Spoon Graphics
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
In today’s Adobe Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how you can easily create cool looking vintage logo designs by combining antique illustrations with some visually interesting text styles and layouts. This kind of artwork is really popular as T-shirt graphics, so I’ll show you how to set up your document at the appropriate size for a T-shirt design.
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Noupe
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Concept art has been around for quite a while but we have started to hear and, in this case, see more about it only recently. Movies , video games, books, all utilize concept art during their creation and the internet allows us to glimpse into the journey a masterpiece takes before coming to life. Simply put, concept art is the first piece of visual art designed for a media piece.
BP&O
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
The spray paint packaging on shelves in Ukraine is usually sad, and often amusing: ‘sad because someone made it… amusing because someone put it into production,’ Kyiv’s Madcats Agency admits. There’s a riot of colour, a sea of tasteless typography and a catalogue of dreadful names (Auto Email, Body 999 and Rector are among the competition). Mitka is different.
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
Interaction Design Foundation
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
We want to show you a tool so vital that it may amaze you as a designer. It’s as underrated as silence between musical notes. However, it’s powerful enough to mean keeping people on your page – survival, in other words. Many elements form the layout and structure of an interactive design. Often neglected, one of the most vital is white space (or negative space), the space found inside and surrounding the other design elements.
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Creative Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Dutch textile studio Febrik was first acquired by Danish textile giant Kvadrat in 2018. Now known as Kvadrat Febrik, the company is showing off its penchant for knitted textiles in a new exhibition to coincide with Copenhagen’s 3 Days of Design. Knit! features a series of art pieces by 28 different designers that celebrate and explore the potential of knitted textiles.
Creative Review
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Each title is linked to the museum’s archive and collection of magical history, which formed the starting point for the four writers involved. The editions cover a broad range of subjects within the supernatural realm, including goblins, the magical secrets of water, and the devil himself. The writers have adopted a variety of approaches to the subject matter, with Jen Calleja penning an essay exploring her relationship with goblins via films, puppets and modern art, and David Bramwell doc
Abduzeedo
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Branding & Full Visual Identity for La Mala Pub. abduzeedo 09.09.20 Estudio Nuar shared a beautiful branding project for La Mala Pub. Right in the heart of Palermo, La Mala Pub leads Buenos Aires nightlife. Only a few months after opening, it became so trending that generated the need for more space. In consequence, an extra space was attached and Malita was created.
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Design You Trust
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Canadian painter Peter Ferguson has been working had a career as a professional illustrator since graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto in 1992. He has been very successful over the years and has had many clients such as Marvel Comics, The Wall Street Journal, and has illustrated the covers of the Sisters Grimm collection.
Design Week
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Brentford FC has been given a new visual identity by London-based design studio Thisaway, which hopes to establish the club’s forward-thinking ethos. [link]. The work includes a new typeface and updated colour palette as well as a pattern system that can be used across visual assets. It is currently being rolled out. A natural time for redesign.
Abduzeedo
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Italians Who Design: a repository to showcase Italians work to the world. abduzeedo 09.09.20 Italians Who Design is a showcase of the most talented Italian designers out there. It aims to help people find notable and relevant voices to inspire others, increase and diversify their network and (why not?) to find someone to work with. There is a number of Italian designers that are working abroad designing products used by millions that are less known in the international scenario as they deserve.
Design Week
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Ascend Studio has created the branding for Better Origin, the world’s first AI-powered insect mini-farm, which hopes to revolutionise the food industry. The work includes a logo and wordmark, as well as a new name which seeks to establish the company more closely to a lifestyle brand, instead of resorting to environmental clichés. Better Origin was founded by Fotis Fotiadis and Miha Pipan as a way to reduce waste in the food production industry.
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
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Carving out her own stylistic approach to illustration over the past few years, Stella Murphy discusses her practice and a want to make work where you “aren’t sure if it’s hideous or appealing.”.
Design Week
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Gay Times magazine has been redesigned as it moves from monthly to quarterly publication. First published in 1984, Gay Times is the world’s longest-running magazine for the LGBTQ+ community. It has been in print every month since its launch, but as part of a new strategy to see it into the future, it will now move to four issues a year published seasonally.
Design You Trust
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Smoke from multiple wildfires burning in the Santiam Canyon area and around Oregon blew into the Willamette Valley. Salem residents woke to dark orange and red skies. Source.
Abduzeedo
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Colorful and Geometric Branding for Baglioni Hotels. abduzeedo 09.09.20 Drogheria Studio has developed a specific branding project for Baglioni Hotels aimed at emphasizing their special Italian style of hospitality through the free gifts that Baglioni offers to their clients. The project is based on Italian design and architecture from the '50s where inimitable designers/artists such as Gio Ponti and Piero Fornasetti met and collaborated, influencing many designers in the years to follow.
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Design You Trust
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
This iconic and multifunctional piece emblematic of futuristic 1970s design presents with a solid white shell within which two benches and a shelving unit are incorporated. When seen in person, the lighting system presents with a slightly cooler, whiter light than pictured in the catalogue photography. The painted steel surfaces present with surface and textural irregularities throughout which are.
Its Nice That
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
For this Hong Kong-based illustrator, “it’s about the little things that bring joy in life,” and her work certainly provides this.
Booooooom
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
New paintings from Vancouver-based painter Eric Louie (previously featured here ). Speaking to the will to live, adapt and survive, Louie’s latest work evokes a sense of strength and vigour. “Examples of characters in their glory,” as he states: “Something celebratory thrives within each painting for myself. The work combines elements of still life, abstraction and figuration to create something that dwells in a middle ground.
Brown Paper Bag
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
I know quilted coats are nothing new, but modern makers have given them a contemporary spin with their designs. Take the work of Psychic Outlaw , a small team that creates unique clothing using vintage and antique textiles. Their special jackets feature some familiar quilting motifs, but my favorites are the ones that incorporate an unexpected color combination or placement of patterns.
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Noupe
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
When you are a company owner or a manager of a business of any size and think of creating a website, all you have to do is to hire a web developer. They should be the person who will improve your company by contributing their talents to front-end and back-end development. This team member should be chosen carefully so that the website will accomplish the following tasks: Improve the credibility of your company and do it in the most user-friendly way; Help to get quality leads or customers with a
Azure Magazine
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Even for the most privileged among us, our natural, physical processes are often imbued with occasional feelings of shame and inconvenience. Simply finding a bathroom can be a fraught and even hostile experience, with such basic bodily functions often relegated to the faraway fringes of North American public life. It shouldn’t have to be that way; in Tokyo, it isn’t.
Its Nice That
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Emi Takahashi investigates how a typeface can communicate the linguistic nuances of onomatopoeic Japanese expressions.
The Die Line
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Mohawk, the makers of premium, crafted papers for designers, brands, and printers, released a beautifully curated swatchbook that details the introduction of their latest line of sustainable offerings made from hemp, straw, and recycled cotton fiber: Mohawk Renewal.
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