Inspiration Feed
DECEMBER 9, 2019
The graphic design industry is tough. No matter where you go, you’ll see amazing talent through the work of other designers in the field.
Just Creative
DECEMBER 8, 2019
Entrepreneurship remains to be a growing trend for young adults of this generation. With more and more small businesses being established from different parts of the globe, the idea of establishing a business might seem easy for some people. But the fact is, a lot of things must be taken into consideration before an aspiring entrepreneur finds success.
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Graphic Mama
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Get inspired by a beautiful collection of black-and-white illustrations: fantasy and abstract, posters of people and portraits, animal artwork, and simplified illustrations. Less is more and when it comes to such amazingly creative black-and-white artwork, the lack of color only means a bigger field for creativity and imagination. In this collection, we’ve picked beautiful black-and-white art that will certainly leave you more inspired in the end.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
DECEMBER 11, 2019
By now, most of the web design industry knows the importance of accessibility. We talk about it incessantly and implore our clients to take it seriously. There is no denying the impact it has on the web and those who use it. But sometimes the finer points get lost in the shuffle. For instance, we often hear screams from the virtual mountaintop of “Use alternative text on your images!”.
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
DECEMBER 9, 2019
It takes some real skill to draw realistic characters and portraits, but there’s a shortcut you can take by processing a photograph with various filters in Photoshop to give it a cartoon-like illustrated effect. In today’s tutorial I’ll show you a cocktail of adjustments that mimic the outlines, colours, and shading of a digitally painted image automatically, without the need to trace, paint or draw by hand.
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Envato Tuts+
DECEMBER 11, 2019
What You'll Be Creating Ready to take the next step in layout design? In this tutorial, we show you how to create a booklet in InDesign. For this stylish design, we’ll use essential tools for setting up pages that will help you in your future projects. Booklets are a form of brochure containing more than four pages and not more than 48 pages (the page count should be divisible by four).
Feature Shoot
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Ollie. Ex stock broker. Made his millions in the Dotcom boom and now spends 6 months of the year on his yacht in Monaco. Henry. Enormous introvert. Loves football, has no idea about the rules he simply cheers for the winning team. DOGG. Pronounced ‘D’ ‘O’ “double G’ as in Snoop. Impossibly cool. Fan of hip hop. “‘Dog’ was found on the side of the road,” the photographer and rescue advocate Emma O’Brien tells us.
Noupe
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Christmas is fun, but choosing gifts might become too overwhelming sometimes. You want to buy the best gift within your budget, and that may require a lot of research. It does not stop there, either. You are not just trying to buy the best item for the buck unless you are shopping for a robot. Even in that case, you might not want to exterminate the whole human race.
Creative Market
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Looking for color inspiration to spruce up your holiday-themed designs? Whether you're working on new designs for a client's holiday campaign, designing your family's Christmas cards, or planning a beautiful tablescape – these 8 Christmas color palettes are sure to inspire your next festive project. Save Color palette by Yulia, Yuliya Derbisheva. Palette HEX codes: #efdfd7, #c84d4e, #869987, #c0ced7, #717d8a.
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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.
Its Nice That
DECEMBER 11, 2019
The LA-based illustrator looks towards his immediate surroundings for inspiration. Whether it’s the market, the cafe, something stumbled upon in his home studio or found on a glorious morning walk, it’s the simple things that he finds most interesting. Read more.
Old Brand New
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Sponsored by Mazda. You never really know where inspiration is going to strike — but for me, so much of it comes when I’m traveling: exploring new territories or the hidden nooks and crannies of places I’ve been before. That said, when Mazda invited me and a crew of creatives to Montecito, CA for a few days to check out the new CX-30 , I was pretty excited to get out of town and immerse myself in a different landscape.
Noupe
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Creating eCommerce photos professionally requires some skill and expertise that can help you keep your budget frugally organized and within your reach. If you’re going to seek some valuable tips for capturing images for eCommerce business that will captivate customers’ attention, then we’ve gathered some tips that will be helpful for you to shoot products without spending so much.
Creative Market
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Did you ever look across the aisle at school and wish you could master the impossibly gorgeous handwriting of that one kid? You know the one: the kid who always got to write the announcements on the board because their script held everyone spellbound. Well, now you can -- because that handwriting wizard may have grown up and joined Creative Market! Amazing artists around the world are offering their personal handwriting to you, to download and use for anything you want.
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As the design industry evolves, teams are facing new challenges and a need to produce more outstanding creative work than ever. Leaders must learn how to adapt their processes to solve today’s—and tomorrow’s—unique design challenges. In this e-book, you’ll learn how to establish your creative workflow and leverage the power of CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite to streamline the entire design process, from start to finish.
Its Nice That
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Tom sees illustration and design as two media that “aren’t mutually exclusive”. Instead, he combines these elements across the board to build on his spontaneous process for clients such as Adidas, Jadu Heart, Low Island and Khruangbin. We caught up with him to find out more. Read more.
Colossal
DECEMBER 11, 2019
“Offerings” (2019), Pen, watercolor, ink, gel pen and colored pencil on paper. 26.75 x 42.5 inches. Sinuous, intertwined wildlife bridge worlds of the living and the dead in Lauren Marx ’s intricate multi-media work. Twisting fox heads, disemboweled deer, and lambs bursting with flowers and birds are rendered with watercolor, ink, pen, and colored pencil.
Shillington
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Whether you’re creating a poster, a brochure, a website or any other kind of design that includes text, the importance of typography cannot be underestimated. Getting your type right is crucial to readability, hierarchy, engagement, navigation and overall user experience, to name but a few things. And one of the most important factors in all that is choosing fonts that complement each other well, both aesthetically and functionally.
Creative Market
DECEMBER 13, 2019
The Creative Market team is growing! This week, we would like all of you to meet Kristen Vitale , our new Marketing Operations Specialist. Tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do for Creative Market. I joined Creative Market as a Marketing Operations Specialist back in August. I have an incredibly fun role because I get to contribute to the variety of marketing initiatives we have going on at Creative Market.
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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
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Encompassing both 2D illustrations and 3-dimensional sculptures, the illustrator’s work challenges and toys with the idea that objects need to have a use or a purpose, and that they should communicate a clear message. Read more.
Colossal
DECEMBER 13, 2019
All images © Yuko Shimizu, shared with permission. Award-winning artist Yuko Shimizu describes her detailed illustrations in a note to Colossal as “a bit off, weird, and dreamy.” Her work, which is often centered on but not limited to Japanese culture, frequently employs primary colors and repetitive elements. In one illustration, the artist portrays a marcher wearing a red uniform and blowing into a multiple-belled instrument with blue birds and yellow flowers in the mix; another f
Creative Review
DECEMBER 10, 2019
We might be living in a post-album era but there are still a wealth of great album covers to be found in 2019. Granted, most of us now interact with covers at thumbnail size, but the album cover can still be a powerful tool for communication – and thankfully, there are plenty of artists and designers who are adopting a creative and playful approach to the format.
One Extra Pixel
DECEMBER 7, 2019
Some consider the color theory to be a science in itself while others consider it to be also a standard in all forms of design. Either way, we can. The post What is Color Theory? — A Comprehensive Guide For Designers appeared first on Onextrapixel.
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
DECEMBER 13, 2019
New York-based graphic design studio EyeBodega has put together one hell of a Christmas treat for the book-loving fans of the city. The studio has transformed Manhattan gallery Enorme into a pop-up shop featuring publications from small presses and independent artists from all over the world, providing a whistle-stop tour of the great and the good in illustration, independent publishing and print-making.
Trendland
DECEMBER 11, 2019
‘Earth CelebrAction’ is the new 2020 Lavazza Calendar, honoring the relationship between man and nature. Introduced in 1993, the Limited Edition Lavazza Calendar was first photographed by Helmut Newton and this year, through the lense of photographer David LaChapelle, they captured expressive actions designed to cohere humanity and Earth. Best known for his surreal celebrity portraits, Lachapelle shot the 2020 edition in Hawaii – And with this new title, the Lavazza team wanted to spectacu
Creative Review
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Héloïse Courtois, Victori Jalabert, Chloé Plat and Adèle Raigneau all met while they were studying at MoPA, an animation school based in Arles, France. Sharing a common aesthetic, the foursome decided to work together for their graduation film and the result is Grand Bassin, which they released into the world last month. Taking us back to long summer days, the six and a half minute animation is set in the public swimming baths and depicts the different characters you might encounter. .
Shillington
DECEMBER 9, 2019
A big welcome to Kate Gallé , our latest guest author! Kate is a Creative Director at Design Bridge , a studio that has been in the game for 33 years and now has five studios across the world—in London (where Kate works), Amsterdam, Singapore, New York and Shanghai. Kate also came to Shillington earlier in the year to talk to our graduates all about job searching and applications in the design industry.
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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