Creative Live

JANUARY 9, 2019

As a visual artist or graphic designer, your graphic design portfolio opens doors. A sub-par presentation of your work closes them (even if you have stunning graphic design work to show off) — and may lock them for good. But as a graphic designer how do you know what a “good” portfolio even is? Ram Castillo literally wrote the book on getting a job as a designer, and in his CreativeLive class, Create a Knockout Design Portfolio he talks about how essential online portfolios are, and, perhaps

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Graphic Design USA

JANUARY 8, 2019

Mike Ruehlman of FRCH Design Worldwide sees graphic design as more important than ever in creating impactful hospitality and retail experiences.

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Illustration Art

JANUARY 6, 2019

Many people who saw the New York Times Magazine last week asked themselves this question privately. Here at the Illustration Art blog, we dare to consider such questions openly. At the end of every year the New York Times Magazine runs a special issue devoted to noteworthy lives that ended that year. In this year's issue they included seven full page portraits by contemporary artists.

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Enviromeant

JANUARY 8, 2019

Bosque is a Costa Rica-based brand design consultancy. They recently developed the environmental graphic design program for one of the world’s leading life science companies, Bayer. Inspired by chemistry and later reinterpreted into a visual signifier, the space becomes an integral experience for the user. Lighting, interior, and environmental graphic design come together to share a unified vision.

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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

Graphic Design

A List Apart

JANUARY 10, 2019

In late 2016, Gartner predicted that 30 percent of web browsing sessions would be done without a screen by 2020. Earlier the same year, Comscore had predicted that half of all searches would be voice searches by 2020. Though there’s recent evidence to suggest that the 2020 picture may be more complicated than these broad-strokes projections imply, we’re already seeing the impact that voice search, artificial intelligence, and smart software agents like Alexa and Google Assistant are making on th

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Logo Geek

JANUARY 11, 2019

The following is a guest blog post contributed by Preston Lee from Millo. — Being a logo designer is incredibly fulfilling. But it’s also intensely demanding. Every month, you’ve got to secure new projects, work on those projects, deliver final work to the client, maybe even deal with revisions or criticism. And almost nothing feels […].

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Paul Jarvis

JANUARY 6, 2019

State of the Union, 2019 (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016) (Not that I think I’m presidential or want to be the leader of anything, I just enjoy this routine of summarizing the previous year and looking at w.

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A List Apart

JANUARY 10, 2019

In late 2016, Gartner predicted that 30 percent of web browsing sessions would be done without a screen by 2020. Earlier the same year, Comscore had predicted that half of all searches would be voice searches by 2020. Though there’s recent evidence to suggest that the 2020 picture may be more complicated than these broad-strokes projections imply, we’re already seeing the impact that voice search, artificial intelligence, and smart software agents like Alexa and Google Assistant are making on th

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