Inspiration Feed
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
A logo is a very significant part of a business. It acts as the face of your brand and will be the first thing that your customers, competitors and pretty much everyone will notice.
Design Roast
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Even though there are thousands of available fonts you can easily download, there are also occasions when you need something unique. Knowing how to make your own font is an asset for any designer and gives you an edge over your competitors. Imagine a typography hierarchy that includes your font as the top of the [.]. The post How to Make Your Own Font appeared first on Design Roast.
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Creative Live
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
While we’ve already established that it’s perfectly ok to take a break during the holiday season , the raw reality is that a lot of creative types literally can’t afford to do that. Bills need to be paid, gifts need to be purchased, and tax season is coming up quickly. If your usual kinds of work — commercial, wedding, whatever — is extra-slow during the chilly winter months, the lack of income can be an extremely stressful and even scary experience.
Shillington
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Putting together a kick-ass graphic design portfolio isn’t just something you need to worry about when you’re a student. You need to think about maintaining, improving and evolving your portfolio throughout your graphic design career. We all know a winning portfolio is vital when you’re going for a new job. But that’s not all. You might be called in at a moment’s notice to chat with your art director to discuss a promotion opportunity or a hot new project you didn’t even know about.
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
Spoon Graphics
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
The Wild West is a popular genre for movies, TV shows, games, and even comics, which means it is also a theme that commonly inspires artists to base their creations on, providing us with plenty of artwork we can admire to fuel our inspiration. In today’s showcase I present over 40 designs and illustrations, all with a western theme. Enjoy browsing this collection of digital paintings, posters, cartoons, advertisements and packaging designs that feature cowboys and gunslingers in a variety
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Tuts Plus
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
What You'll Be Creating Welcome to How to Make a Gradient in Illustrator! In this tutorial, you will learn the step-by-step process of how to create basic gradients in Adobe Illustrator. 1. How to Make a Gradient in Illustrator Step 1 To create a gradient, you must first have access to the Gradient panel. This should be located in the toolbar on the right.
Inspiration Feed
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
It’s reported that nearly 47% of people never visit a website again if they had a negative mobile experience. Approximately one-third of users are engaged when a video appears on their mobile device versus desktops.
Just Creative
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
If you run your own business, one of the most important things that you can have is a website. It is your digital billboard. Good website design can make running your business easier, bringing customers to your site and if you own a brick and mortar shop, into your store. It is pretty unlikely that you are going to have the time to set up a website from scratch, designing a theme, post content and code everything line by line.
Creative Market
NOVEMBER 28, 2019
During the busy holiday time, it’s easy to get caught up in the rush. To cultivate the spirit of gratitude, we encouraged designers to take a step back, reflect, and tell us: What is the moment in your design career that you’re most grateful for? We're sharing their responses below. Meaningful Jobs & Experiences. Some designers expressed gratitude for the experience of joining a certain company or working with a team they admired.
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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.
SpeckyBoy
NOVEMBER 28, 2019
With UI design continually changing and moving forward, it can be an arduous task keeping up with the latest changes in icon design. Even though trend changes have not been as drastic this year as we”ve seen in previous years, the icons have clearly become more refined, more specialized, and they have fully embraced the beauty of simplicity by blending all of the minimal features from previously popular icon styles.
Design Roast
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
In this article, we will talk about making digital products more user-friendly. Reviewing your interface and adjusting visual feedback can not only influence user’s comfort positively while interacting with your product but in some cases, it can also increase the sales or help you to win a new customer. Illustration from Ouch What is [.]. The post How to Improve Visual Feedback of Digital Products [Guest Post] appeared first on Design Roast.
Just Creative
NOVEMBER 24, 2019
If you work in a small office or design studio, you know pretty well that the real estate on your desk can come at a premium and using a bulky desktop computer can take up a lot of room. This is why the all-in-one computer is such a great idea. With everything contained within one casing, it can easily free up some much-needed room. With our list of the Best All-in-One Computers for Creatives, we hope to change some minds into giving these computers a chance and hopefully help them find a place
Type room
NOVEMBER 28, 2019
Tags. Graphéine , France , Olympics , logo , visual identity , symbol , Eiffel Tower , Paris 2024 , Paris , agency , emblem. Almost a month ago Paris unveiled a gold-medal-shaped emblem for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympic Games. According to the official press release “the emblem embraces the shape and color of the most beautiful medal of all to express one of the core values of sport: striving for excellence.
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Its Nice That
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
The Tokyo-based illustrator and artist turns to the web rather than the outdoors for inspiration. She’s fascinated by the impartial gaze that Google’s location tool offers, and transforms this neutrality into subjectivity through silky-smooth, painterly interpretations. Read more.
Creative Review
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
One of the most revered eras in cinematic history, the French New Wave marked a shift away from mindless tradition and solidified the birth of the director. Though filmmakers took different approaches depending on which bank of the Seine they were allied with, the movement saw a fresh take on everything from narrative structures to technical conventions.
Just Creative
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
Using a camera today isn’t like when you were a kid. Long gone are the days of roll after roll of film being dropped off to be developed. Now, photos are saved digitally on SD cards can make taking photos and sharing them with family or online or even having a career in photography even easier. With this amazing technology though, there are always things you should consider before you decide to buy.
The Logo Smith
NOVEMBER 23, 2019
The post Logo and Art: Famous Logos Merged with Classical Paintings by Eisen Bernard Bernardo appeared first on The Logo Smith. Logo and Art: Famous Logos Merged with Classical Paintings by Eisen Bernard Bernardo Logo and Art: An examination of art and consumerism; of expression and function; of personal and corporate. Logo and Art is another wonderful logo study by graphic designer, Eisen Bernard Bernardo, based in Los Baños, Philippines.
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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
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Illustrated by the magazine’s cartoonist Liana Finck, Animate Objects is a new AR feature of the New Yorker Today app, which brings everyday items like coffee cups, bananas, plug sockets and bottles of wine to life with witty musings. Read more.
Graphic Design Junction
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
New premium PSD mockups are best print design mockup templates to showcase your brand, identity design or print design in creative style. These mockup templates are full layered PSD and used smart object feature with ultra realistic presentation design that can be used for commercial or personal and save your time and make your brand look awesome with amazing effects.
Creative Review
NOVEMBER 28, 2019
We talk to renowned graphic designer Milton Glaser about turning 90, what’s wrong with design today and why retirement is the furthest thing from his mind. The post How I Got Here: Milton Glaser appeared first on Creative Review.
The Logo Smith
NOVEMBER 28, 2019
The post NYC Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual by Massimo Vignelli appeared first on The Logo Smith. NYC Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual by Massimo Vignelli What I love about this story is how the NYC Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual was discovered: “The manual was found in a locker beneath old gym clothes.” There are a number of these vintage Graphics Standards Manuals: NASA, British Rail, I Love New York, and the 1976 Montreal […].
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
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
A couple years back, we dove into the portfolio of graphic designer David Wise, the then creator of somewhat chaotic compositions, filled with texture, typography and reconstructed imagery. David has since taken on a new position at the Aspen Art Museum and launched his own creative studio called Forthcoming. Read more.
Graphic Design Junction
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Clean and modern corporate Business Flyer Templates with catchy visual will help to transfer your business image in the best way possible. These templates are suitable for startup business industry and promotions. Twenty business flyer double sided templates you can use it as (flyer, poster, brochures cover…etc). All files are ready to print, all elements are easy to use and scale-able without losing quality.
Colossal
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Jacobian Pigeon. All photographs © Tim Flach and shared with permission from the artist. London-based photographer Tim Flach travels the world capturing the nuanced expressions, unique patterning, and unusual profiles of animals large and small. Often focusing his lens on endangered and vulnerable species, Flach highlights the traits of animals that are at risk of disappearing due to habitat loss, climate change, and human activity.
Design Week
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
Paula Scher’s appearance at the Design Manchester conference has been a highly sought-after event for years. Conflicting schedules and prior commitments have previously prevented her involvement, so when she finally walks out onto the 2019 stage, it is to rapturous applause from the 1,500 people in the audience. In her near-50-year career, Scher has designed for some of the world’s most recognisable brands.
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.
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