Azure Magazine
MARCH 4, 2021
In 2015, after almost a decade of work, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) released 94 calls to action aimed at redressing the systemic disenfranchisement — past and present — of Indigenous communities across the nation. At that point, there were fewer than two dozen licensed Indigenous architects in Canada, a meagre statistic that was echoed in other countries.
Designer Daily
MARCH 25, 2021
If you are a graphic designer, or just a design lover that creates print work, you surely know how hard it can be to achieve satisfying work when working on a poster design. One of the main issues is that poster design can be quite constraining, mostly due to the importance of perfectly combining form and function in order to be efficient. In this article, we will give you a few tips in order to stay focused on what matters in terms of poster design. 1.
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Just Creative
MARCH 30, 2021
If you’re creating comic books or cartoons, a natural choice with their bold designs are comic and cartoon fonts, which are also a great choice for just about any design project. For some time, Comic Sans was one of the few fonts you could choose for a project that needed a comic book look. Thanks to the internet, those limitations are a thing of the past.
Spoon Graphics
MARCH 17, 2021
In today’s Adobe Photoshop tutorial I’m going to take you through the process of creating a WW2 aircraft ‘nose art’ inspired image, featuring the classic ‘girl-riding-a-bomb’ style pin-up. Traditionally this style of artwork was hand-painted on bombers to boost morale and to bring good luck to the planes, perhaps the most well-known being the B-17 Memphis Belle.
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
I Love Typography
MARCH 8, 2021
Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Women of Letters is the first in a new series of short interviews. We begin with a collection of four interviews with creatives from New York to Saigon: Lynne Yun a NYC-based type designer, technologist, and educator; Deb Pang Davis, a product designer with The 19th in Texas; Coleen Baik, a designer and artist in […].
Design Wizard
MARCH 31, 2021
What are the best things to write about on my blog? If you’ve ever been tasked with writing blog posts, then you probably know that coming up with the idea after idea can be difficult. You want to keep the blog fresh. You want to make sure the ideas for the posts are relevant. You want to get readers on the page and most importantly, keep them engaged.
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Creative Review
MARCH 19, 2021
When motion designer and illustrator Ardhira Putra was a kid he often drew Son Goku from Dragon Ball as well as copying characters from other comics such as Astro Boy, Doraemon and the Adventures of Tintin. When he was 16, it was all about MTV and its respective channels, where Putra fell in love with the idents and graphics that framed the music videos. “I also loved going to the bookstore to look at graphic design books and magazines,” he says. “At that time I was only using
Just Creative
MARCH 3, 2021
Domestika offers you an excellently curated collection of graphic design courses. These courses are available in multiple languages and segmented into modules in such a way that you get to grasp the entire spectrum starting from scratch to an advanced level with ease. There is no compulsion of attending the classes in real-time. You can complete them online at your own pace and convenience.
Spoon Graphics
MARCH 1, 2021
Access All Areas members have a useful collection of Lightroom Presets to download this week, courtesy of Hydrozi. These Film Emulation presets are inspired by classic film stocks such as Kodak, Fujifilm and Agfa. They are designed to give your digital images an authentic colour film look. Apply the effect with a single click, then tweak the individual settings if necessary to customise the result. 33 different film look effects are included for Lightroom Desktop, Lightroom Mobile, and Camera Ra
Speckyboy Design Magazine
MARCH 9, 2021
Every chef has their favorite tool. Mine happens to be a wooden spoon I’ve had since forever. I call it “Suzie” (because I’m a weirdo). Some people actually keep their wooden spoons in the family for generations – talk about a collector’s item! Today, I’m going to share some tips on how the tools you select as a designer can help improve your creative process , and aid you in creating work you can really stand behind.
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Design Wizard
MARCH 26, 2021
“A picture is worth a thousand words”. This archaic statement may seem like hyperbole, but saying that images speak louder than words is no exaggeration. We are an inherently visual species. Vision is the sense we rely on most, a fact reflected by how complex our eyes are in relation to other creatures, including our canine best friends. The truth is that humankind has communicated visually since the dawn of time.
SpeckyBoy
MARCH 14, 2021
Sketch is a popular program that can be used to create beautiful mobile UIs and wireframes that’s rising in popularity. Thanks to its rise in popularity, you can now find tons of resources that cater to Sketch and speed up your design process. In this collection, we’ve rounded up the best free mobile UIs and wireframe kits for Sketch.app that you can use as a starting point for your designs or as an inspiration.
Creative Review
MARCH 24, 2021
There is an inherent nostalgia to Jazz Grant’s work, which has resonated with audiences and globally renowned clients at a time when the world has been forced to retreat indoors. For creatives as much as anyone else, the past year has presented an occasion to comb through materials and memories, whether archives of work or old home videos and photos.
Just Creative
MARCH 3, 2021
If you are looking to View Course about branding and logo design, there are so many different courses, classes, videos, and tutorials available online that can make it difficult to choose the right one for you. To help, we’ve compiled the best branding and logotype courses on Domestika. All of these courses are available in multiple languages and segmented into modules in such a way that you get a grasp of the entire range starting from the beginning to the end with ease.
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Spoon Graphics
MARCH 8, 2021
I have a new collection of textures for you to download today! It’s easy to get carried away with texturing, but sometimes just a subtle addition of grain is all that is required to give a clean digital design a tactile appearance. This collection of Subtle Grain Brushes & Patterns contains 6 grainy textures ranging from ‘so sparse you can hardly see it’ to ‘this is probably too much’.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
MARCH 24, 2021
One of the hallmarks of a top chef is his or her ability to do interesting takes on food combinations that, at first glance, seem like they wouldn’t go together at all. The first person, for example, to pair peas and wasabi together was a culinary genius. Think about it. Someone had to test flavors repeatedly – combining and recombining in just the right increments – to arrive at that particular fusion, which I’m told is quite tasty.
Design Wizard
MARCH 3, 2021
Hit Subscribe! With nearly two billion users monthly, YouTube is increasingly becoming a viable option for many looking to make money online by uploading video content in the hopes of acquiring a healthy following. That said, many an aspiring YouTuber approaches their YouTube dreams with an unrealistic perspective. Their thought process runs something along the lines of: all I have to do is post a video, attract an audience and then voila, advertisers will be clamoring to pay me for exposure to
SpeckyBoy
MARCH 28, 2021
If you regularly work on a certain type of projects, you probably have your workflow down path, which means you probably repeat the same steps over and over to achieve a specific result. But for a workflow to be truly efficient, it should also save you time. That’s where Photoshop actions come in handy. Photoshop actions are nothing more than a series of tasks you can record and apply to a single file or a batch of files.
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Creative Review
MARCH 11, 2021
New York-based designer Alex Merto says he got into graphic design by accident. Deeming himself a failed student in high school without a “clear path to anywhere”, he spent a lot of time making music in various bands and designing album art along the way. He eventually moved from California to New York to study at the School of Visual Arts. “I think the first piece of graphic design that I really noticed and impacted me was a book designed by Peter Buchanan-Smith for the band W
Just Creative
MARCH 3, 2021
Used in some of the most famous paintings in the world, watercolor is one of the oldest mediums, dating back to paleolithic Europe. These days, some incredible artwork can be created with the right watercolor tools such as Photoshop from Adobe. With our list of the best high-resolution Watercolour Brushes, Brush Sets & Actions for Photoshop, you can start creating beautiful works of watercolor art in no time. 15 Free & Premium High-Res Watercolor Brushes, Brush Sets & Actions for Pho
Spoon Graphics
MARCH 15, 2021
Access All Areas members have a fantastic brush set for Procreate to download this week, courtesy of Shoutbam. The ‘On The Road’ brush set is divided into 3 parts: Line brushes, Texture brushes, and Shader brushes. You’ll be able to go from sketch to a final piece with ease and give your illustrations a rough look with a total of 24 brushes optimised for variable pen pressure.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
MARCH 17, 2021
The difference between building a great website and a mediocre one is usually determined very early on. It’s often a matter of a web designer painting their project into a virtual “corner”. That’s where a design becomes inflexible and unable to accommodate various use cases. This tends to happen in the prototyping phase. We spend lots of time and creative energy on an idea that looks awesome.
Speaker: Eden Spivak, Design Expert and Editor at Wix & Nir Horesh, Accessibility Lead and Senior Product Manager at Wix
When we design products or websites for people like ourselves, there are many others who are, as a result, left out. From visually impaired users who rely on assistive technology, to people with a temporary injury such as a broken arm, tech users are forever diverse and beautifully unique. The products we design can, and should, reflect the extremely wide range of human experiences and needs.
ID Identity Design
MARCH 7, 2021
Foundry is a brutalist-inspired progressive art, culture, and co-working space created for Emaar communities. Emaar defined an opportunity to add culture destinations into their mass scale communities spread across the Emirate, starting with Downtown Dubai. Their plan was to develop multifunctional spaces to engage the surrounding community through expression and culture.
Design Wizard
MARCH 3, 2021
Edit in Design Wizard. Facebook – The king of social media. Facebook still reigns supreme in the world of social media. With over 2.3 million monthly active users, it is still a major source of traffic and brand engagement for businesses all over the world. . There are tons of different tools out there that are great for leveraging Facebook to the best of its abilities to help your brand.
Booooooom
MARCH 9, 2021
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Just Creative
MARCH 15, 2021
Retro fonts remind us of the good old day and come with a kind of nostalgia that not many other typefaces can portray. The marker-inspired typefaces and vintage text visuals can naturally convey intimacy, creativity, and talent. The best retro font families can help you get the results you’re looking for whether that’s a classic look, giving your projects a distinct feel, or making everything you create appear authentic and top-notch.
Speaker: Michele Berdinis
This session will answer business law questions that people are asking most during the pandemic. If my business can’t pay its bills, can my creditors come after my personal assets? Do I have to pay the rent on my co-working space or office? Can my clients cancel signed contracts? Can I cancel contracts for things I no longer need because my business has slowed down?
Spoon Graphics
MARCH 29, 2021
Access All Areas members have a brilliant new font to download this week, courtesy of Floodfonts. Pulpo is a friendly and comfortable looking typeface inspired by Century Schoolbook and Clarendon. Longer extenders give the text more room to breathe and improves legibility at small sizes. The family is provided in four styles: Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bolt Italic, which can all be combined and paired together to emphasise certain words and phrases in your text.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
MARCH 19, 2021
The 20 Best Photoshop Actions & Layer Styles for Creative Text Effects – Give your regular graphics an extra oomph with incredible typography! This collection includes a massive variety of styles to choose from. Emoji Cloud – Tell the world how you feel by using this CDN for SVG emoji. Glassmorphism UI – Hop on board the glassmorphism trend with this CSS UI library.
Creative Review
MARCH 7, 2021
The pair had the idea for the Think Food Bank project after noticing that most donation stations are placed, unhelpfully, by supermarkets’ exits – meaning many people only see them once their shop is done and paid for. To encourage shoppers to remember food banks while they’re still browsing the aisle, the two designers created a set of illustrated stickers that can be stealthily stuck around the store – each tailored to the colour scheme of a different supermarket brand.
Noupe
MARCH 31, 2021
The year 2020 drove us all to the edge, pushed us over in some moments, stretched us too thin in others. The ripples of this disruptive pandemic have been felt by businesses across multiple industry verticals. A McKinsey report suggests that the worst-hit sectors may take up to 5 years to bounce back in a muted recovery scenario. Besides, consumer behavior and the way they interact with digital content has also changed drastically.
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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