Smashing Magazine Graphics

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Exploring New Worlds: A Smashing Creativity Challenge Exploring New Worlds: A Smashing Creativity Challenge Cosima Mielke 2018-02-06T11:30:09+00:00 2024-02-19T16:35:14+00:00 Time flies! Did you know that it has been more than nine years already since we first embarked on our wallpapers adventure ? Nine years is a long time, and sometimes we all should break out of our comfort zones and try something new, right?

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Grain Edit

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Motif Wine by En Garde Interdisciplinary GmbH. Do you have a project you’re really proud of? Do you think it could win an award? Start off the New Year by taking a chance and entering the A’Design Awards , the largest design competition in the world. The annual event is held in Como, Italy and accepts entries for both conceptual and realized projects.

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Inspo Finds

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s been a brilliant start to 2018 over at Inspo Finds, with over 2.5k new followers and a huge leap in project appreciations on our Instagram. We thought we’d write our latest post about a January favourite, Tartine. Recent graduate Shui Chang was briefed to rebrand the bakery and meeting place Tartine. The independent cafe needed an upgrade from their dated brand, with an approachable and welcoming feel.

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Illustration Art

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Continuing our daily series of artists who draw in a slick, polished style. Allan Kass drew these1960s illustrations for clients such as Esso Oil Company and Vauxhall automobiles. Some will object that this was drawn from photo-reference, but there's a reason Esso didn't use a photograph for its ad. It cost Esso more time and money to commission a drawing, but a photograph would've lacked that snazzy brushwork on the fender and headlights.and in a photograph, that asphalt would be solid black, r

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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

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Smashing Magazine Graphics

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

77 Hand-Drawn Space Icons That’ll Take You Into Unexplored Territories (Freebie) 77 Hand-Drawn Space Icons That’ll Take You Into Unexplored Territories (Freebie) Cosima Mielke 2018-02-08T15:30:03+00:00 2024-02-20T05:05:53+00:00 When you were small, haven’t you ever dreamt of becoming the commander of a space mission? Of exploring outer space and seing the Earth from above?

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Illustration Art

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Once upon a time audiences prized clean sharp, draftsmanship. Alex Raymond's Rip Kirby Slick, controlled lines, sparkling use of blacks, fast descriptive strokes-- all of these projected an aura of confidence and virtuosity. Alex Raymond's Rip Kirby Alex Raymond's Rip Kirby Smooth, evenly spaced, connected lines completed with pen or brush: Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon See the closeup below: Flash Gordon (detail) Cartoonist Leonard Starr described how his friend Stan Drake wielded his "flexible r

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Illustration Art

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Continuing our daily series of artists who draw in a slick, polished style. One current comic artist who draws sharp as a razor is Sean Murphy , creator of series such as Tokyo Ghost and Punk Rock Jesus. Note how Murphy's range encompasses the sleek speed lines and mechanical drawing for that boat as well as the imagination and courage necessary for that heavy brush treatment of the explosion: Murphy clearly loves to draw; he often inserts splash pages with ambitious architectural drawings and g

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