Wenwen Zhu on the Poetic and Meditative Parts of Illustration
Its Nice That
AUGUST 10, 2021
Born in China and now based out of New York City, illustrator Wenwen Zhu has an impressive editorial portfolio filled with “wabi-sabi” inspiration.
Its Nice That
AUGUST 10, 2021
Born in China and now based out of New York City, illustrator Wenwen Zhu has an impressive editorial portfolio filled with “wabi-sabi” inspiration.
Just Creative
AUGUST 10, 2021
It’s not every day that we get to experience a masterclass with some of the world’s most reputable personalities, but the e-learning platform MasterClass is giving us just that. Whether you’re an established professional with an enviable CV or an eager creative ready to build a portfolio, you’re sure to find a course that’s bound to resonate with you!
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Graphic Design Junction
AUGUST 10, 2021
Today we are featuring concept art, graphic designer and illustration artist Pablo Olivera , with his amazing concept art collection. He is a Freelance Digital Artist from Argentina, currently working in Film Production, Concept Art , Digital Sculpting, Matte Painting, key frame illustrations and presentation artwork. His passion is helping directors and creators bring their visions to life. from pitch to completion, specializing in film and gaming.
HONGKIAT
AUGUST 10, 2021
(Guest writer: Tapha Ngum). Designers are getting really good at Photoshop design , and with the right tools and the right skills, they can make it very difficult for us to tell what is real and what is manipulated. Occasionally, mistakes in design pop up to remind us that it is only human to err. The rest of the time, well, let’s just say that we humans are incredibly creative creatures.
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
Eye on Design
AUGUST 10, 2021
Ritu Ghiya is an artist, designer, and web developer. She helps design Sounds About Riso , a risograph fair founded by lucky risograph and Zinehug founded in 2019. In 2020, when the lockdown began in New York, Ghiya designed and built a new site to sell zines and prints online. Their selection is always thoughtfully curated, visually interesting, and narratively compelling so we asked Ritu to recommend some of her favorite books and zines.
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We And The Color
AUGUST 10, 2021
Check out these fully editable Bauhaus-inspired post templates for Instagram and other social media channels. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @Rawpixel , this amazing set of Bauhaus-inspired Instagram post templates comes with nine fully editable design options. Thanks to the use of customizable vector graphics, you can change every detail to match your personal needs.
Its Nice That
AUGUST 10, 2021
Anglia Ruskin University has launched an inclusivity bursary to help improve diversity within children’s book illustration, which remains a predominantly white, middle class profession in the UK.
Design Week
AUGUST 10, 2021
London studio Alphabetical has designed a suite of interactive elements for Thamesmead, located in south east London, in an effort to engage local communities with the environment. Alphabetical has created typographic installations for the area, an AR app with educational and gaming elements as well as a brand identity for the area. The work has been commissioned by Peabody estate, which owns a majority of the area’s land.
Creative Review
AUGUST 10, 2021
As events in the Tokyo Olympics and elsewhere in sport have shown in the past year, athletes are much more than simply the performance that they give on the day of competition. They come with back stories and personal lives which they carry with them – which may be the reason they have been able to achieve sporting greatness, but can also be a cause of difficulty too.
Advertiser: Issuu
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.
Design Milk
AUGUST 10, 2021
We’ve all experienced that frustrating moment when an umbrella gets blown inside out, the force of the movement breaking the spindles and rendering it useless. The thing is that the majority of umbrellas are simply not designed to last, with an average lifespan of just six months. In order to turn this frustration into something positive, Anti takes discarded and broken umbrellas, disassembles them, and upcycles them into desk and table lamps.
Creative Nerds
AUGUST 10, 2021
This is a short photoshop tutorial in the form of an easy to follow screencast. This tutorial will show you how to a futuristic style motion blur text effect. This is great technique your really enjoy learning. Tutorial Details Program: Photoshop CC 2021 Time estimation: Under 3 minutes Difficulty: Easy Preview ??? Video Transcript: […]. The post How to create a futuristic blur text effect using Photoshop first appeared on Creative Nerds.
Colossal
AUGUST 10, 2021
?. Digital effects are no match for Tokyo-based designer Tomohiro Okazaki , whose mesmerizing new animation is a striking feat of stop-motion techniques. Using squirts of paint, strips paper, and other household objects, Okazaki deftly manipulates matchsticks into dozens of individual studies that endlessly bend and buckle their basic structure. Each analog distortion sparks a host of others that become increasingly complex and speedy, spanning from simple tricks of the hand to more elaborate cl
Its Nice That
AUGUST 10, 2021
Illustrator Ellen Walker says that growing up, Charles Schultz’s Charlie Brown “spoke the language of my neurodiverse brain” and yet teachers said comics weren’t “real books”. Here, she argues why they were so wrong.
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.
Design Milk
AUGUST 10, 2021
Mehmooni , the debut furniture collection of Kouros Maghsoudi , was designed to foster and cultivate the spirit of a Mehmooni, which means “gathering” or “party” in Farsi. A first generation Iranian-American, born in the Frank Lloyd Wright suburbs of Chicago, Maghsoudi was inspired by Persian traditions and customs central to his culture and lighthearted postmodern design.
Its Nice That
AUGUST 10, 2021
Frank Ocean shows off his multifaceted creativity as he takes to the camera in order to showcase his new line of jewellery and the process of its making.
Graphis
AUGUST 10, 2021
This week’s photography submissions perfectly illustrate the themes of elegance, style, and luxury, so it should be no surprise they took home Gold and Silver awards in Graphis’ 2021 Photography Annual. The first submission, “Caffe La Tana” (above) by Canadian photographer Adam Blasberg, depicts a sophisticated couple dining in the Canadian-based restaurant of the same […].
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Design You Trust
AUGUST 10, 2021
Diana Prince And Steve Trevor (Wonder Woman). Gal Gadot and Chris Pine. According to Hidreley Diao: “In movies and TV series, we often see couples that radiate chemistry and immediately become fan favorites. But sadly these couples are fictional and sometimes don’t even end up together on the TV screens. Even if they do end up living their happily ever after, we rarely get to see what their kids would look like (if they decide to have any).
Mindsparkle Mag
AUGUST 10, 2021
Today we’re showcasing a project that’s lit, pun intended. LIT works to connect businesses across the cannabis supply chain. The current process is fragmented and complex, and LIT aims to change that by rebelling against current cannabis business processes and cannabis stigma. Jess Bright , an experienced graphic designer, specialized in illustration, was creatively in charge of LIT’s visual identity.
Design You Trust
AUGUST 10, 2021
When you’re an artist, everything is a canvas. Don’t believe me? Meet Dain Yoon, a South Korean classically trained painter who uses her own body as a canvas. You might remember us covering her extraordinarily intricate art that makes people look twice at it to fully understand that there’s a face or entire body hiding behind it. Since then, Yoon’s been hard at work, so here’s a handful of her new art pieces, neatly packed and presented in a curated list below.
The Dieline
AUGUST 10, 2021
Forget that new Coke Zero nonsense. Here's the latest collab from Morphe and Coca-Cola.
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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.
Its Nice That
AUGUST 10, 2021
Nine years after the death of his father, Harry travelled to Scotland with his boyfriend to grieve the loss he had yet to process.
Logo Smith
AUGUST 10, 2021
The post Outlaw Triathlon & IronMan Triathlon Personalised and Customised Typographic Posters appeared first on The Logo Smith All Content © 2020 The Logo Smith.™ |. These Outlaw Triathlon & IronMan Triathlon Personalised Typographic Race Posters, can be designed with your own unique race information. Admittedly, it’s a bit of a specialised area, not everyone would have heard of the Outlaw Triathlon brand (full IronMan distance triathlon: 2.4m Swim, 112m Bike and 26.2 Run) , but
Designspiration
AUGUST 10, 2021
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