UX Collective
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
How it’s done at Facebook Design and Spotify as well as my personal experience I’d like to share before you are ready to enter outer… Continue reading on UX Collective ». leadership design ux team-management product-design
Spoon Graphics
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
In today’s Adobe Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to create hand lettering illustrations the easy way! This popular art style combines a silhouette graphic and a quote that is distorted and manipulated to fit within the outline of the surrounding shape. Usually, illustrations like this would be created by hand with pen and paper, but it takes some artistic skills to be able to plan and craft the image with no ‘undo’ button!
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Design Wizard
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Discover creative advertising ideas to stop your target audience in their tracks and stand out from your competitors. Boost your brand identity with a unique ad campaign and increase sales to grow your business. Creating fresh advertising content that hooks your customers is getting trickier as attention spans shorten the huge number of ads that fight for your target audience’s attention.
HONGKIAT
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Infographics are one of the best ways to present data without making your audience yawn with boredom. There are a lot of people who have impressive data, but what they don’t know is how to create informative and well-designed infographics. Fortunately, there are many infographic tools that will help you create v ivid charts and graphs within minutes and without much effort.
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
Logo Smith
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
The post Logos without Eyebrows appeared first on The Logo Smith All Content © 2020 The Logo Smith.™ |. This still cracks me up every time I come across it: The Ottawa Senators Logo without Eyebrows appeared on Reddit a few years ago, and of course it went down pretty well. Obviously being Reddit, the comments were mixed; some stating that in fact it’s the eyelids and eyebrows, others saying it was just stupid.
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SpeckyBoy
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Minimalist design became popular in recent years and shows no signs of going away any time soon. However, minimalist design can sometimes be tricky to get just right. Luckily, there are hundreds of templates created with this design trend in mind that can help you save time. In this roundup, we’ve gathered the best minimally designed logo templates that are free for personal and commercial use that can be used as an inspiration or as a starting point for your design.
Graphic Design Junction
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Today we are featuring remarkable digital illustrator, Art Director and Concept art creater artist “ Adam Spizak ”, with his best concept art illustration work. Adam’s work has been featured in top magazines and web like: Maxim, Sci Fi Magazine UK, Web Designer, Computer Arts, Advanced Photoshop Magazine, Image FX and many places across the web.
We And The Color
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
VOID, a dreamlike illustration series created by Iris D’arbre. Iris d’arbre is an artist and illustrator who lives and works in Paris, France. Her artworks seem like reflections of dreams, fears, and various states of mind. Below you can find artworks of her VOID illustration series. For those who want to see more of the creative work by Iris D’arbre, feel free to visit her website or follow this talented artist on Behance.
Colossal
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
“Ice Waterfall” by Paul Nicklen. All images courtesy of Hilton Asmus Contemporary, shared with permission. Spanning the icy downpours of the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard to the intimate portraits of the people of Papua New Guinea, the profound photographs that comprise an exhibition at Hilton Asmus Contemporary in Chicago are a perceptive consideration of the issues at the center of today’s conservation efforts.
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UX Collective
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Illustration: Denis Novikov Digital, digital, digital. Among the many things this pandemic has shown, the need to develop a digital presence took centre stage and demonstrated how some brands have probably been clinging onto their real-life, physical origins for one year too many. User Experience and UI Design may be the future of the advertising agency, with businesses worldwide expected to spend trillions on digital transformation projects.
SpeckyBoy
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
You see them every time you go to the supermarket. Chances are, you’ve used one recently. Shopping carts have been a matter of course for supermarkets, grocery stores, and many retail outlets for decades, but did you know that Sylvan Goldman, their inventor, struggled with some of the same problems you face as a designer? We’re going to explore the history of the humble shopping cart, taking lessons from its design, marketing, and even the psychology of use, that you can start applyi
UX Collective
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Designers as stewards of AI Designers need to start thinking about AI in design as an augmented intelligence system and a creative partner. As design tools, workflows, and processes will inevitably be molded by AI in the coming decade, we need to shift our mindset from a human versus machine to a human plus machine mindset. This article is an updated and expanded version of my previous article “ AI and Design: why AI is your creative partner ” published in 2020 by the UX Collective.
Creative Review
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Designed by BBC Creative, the new campaign – which includes a series of posters featuring photography by Davey and a film directed by John Dower – aims to highlight how the London-based soap has infiltrated the hearts of people across the UK. To do this, the team matched group portraits of Walford characters with images of real people. Davey’s ability to capture naturalistic scenes yet elevate them with a painterly use of light is the perfect fit for the campaign, where the pho
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 Week
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
When Corinne Mynatt was browsing a French flea market some fifteen years ago, a garlic press and pitter prompted a thought about her twin loves of design and cookery. Cooking utensils like this “tell entire stories of material, craftsmanship, developments in industry and also food systems”, the design writer and curator says. Her new book Tools for Food explores some of the most significant objects of this kind, and the design stories behind them – a resource that was previousl
Graphic Design USA
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Alexis Du Mond Puchek, Executive Director of Design at frog, based out of Austin TX, on why it’s important for brands to prioritize experiential design (both in-person and virtually), even as lockdown restrictions lift.
Design You Trust
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
“I’m a motion graphics designer and art director born in Sao Paulo – Brazil, living in Dubai – UAE. Started working with video editing and colour grading when I was 13 years old, as an assistant to my dad’s little production shop (thanks dad!), and I’ve never stopped ever since. 18 years and 4 different countries later, still moving forward.” – Rafael Bergamini.
Eye on Design
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
How do you like your drinks? Sustainable? Functional? Merely hydrating? This month’s picks offer more than anyone really needs, but perhaps something you’ll want once that chill in the air brings activities indoors. As summer comes to an end, take comfort in these better-at-home beverages that are made to pour.
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Colossal
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
We shared footage of the mesmerizing mycelium networks pulsing underneath our feet back in 2019 to mark the opening of Louie Schwartzberg ’s Fantastic Fungi , and now the dedicated director takes viewers behind the scenes to show his painstaking process. Filmed throughout a 15-year period in his home studio, Schwartzberg’s timelapses zero in on myriad spores as they burst open, sprawl in every direction, and morph in color and texture.
Design Milk
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
This month’s Designer Desktop is a collaboration between long time favorite Calico Wallpaper and their guest, French designer Sam Baron. Titled Noir , the new wallpaper design is an exploration in refined restraint and essential materials. Paper, paint and brush were the only tools used in the creation of Noir , resulting in the detailed broad brushstrokes that characterize the collection.
Design Week
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
“It’s amazing how many people in this book have done extraordinary things, but who aren’t taught to us in design school,” says Dr Jane Hall of her new book, Woman Made. Published by Phaidon, the book seeks to present and celebrate women that have made a substantial mark on design in the last century, but who haven’t necessarily made it into design history.
Creative Review
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
In 2015, Carpenter – who runs brand studio Carpenter Collective together with his wife – found he was having a difficult time. Unsure whether he could attribute it to the “24/7 scrolling culture”, career burnout, or “the current toxic America”, he couldn’t help but question his creative output. “As a human, I was feeling overwhelmed, anxious, depressed, off, all of the emotional catchphrases you can think of, insert them here,” he remembers.
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Its Nice That
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
We catch up with the wickedly talented Maurice Andresen after they relocated from Glasgow to London, and discuss their ongoing project, Object Agency.
Logo Smith
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
The post Famous Brand Logos Redesigned in Retro 1980’s Style by FuturePunk appeared first on The Logo Smith All Content © 2020 The Logo Smith.™ |. This brand logo project by Reddit User ‘ FuturePunk ‘ is super fun. He’s taken popular modern brand logo designs, and reimagined them in a 1980’s retro style. FuturePunk : I recreated some modern internet companies logos in a retro style: Part 1 and Part 2.
Creative Bloq
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Boost your skills with these quality Photoshop tutorials.
Design Milk
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
To understand soft-geometry’s core aesthetic in this week’s DMTV Milkshake episode, the clue is in the name. “We design and hand-make furniture and objects for the home around the central theme of softness,” says Utharaa Zacharias, who founded the studio with her personal and creative partner Palaash Chaudhary in 2018. Now, the pair works between their two homes – in San Jose, California, and Kochi, India – all the while creating work like their gauzily translucent Elio lamp (named, yes, f
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