Just Creative
DECEMBER 14, 2020
This article has been contributed by Julio Perez. Creating content might seem like a difficult task at first. You need to what to create content about, how to create it , where to post your content, when to time your posts and more. But unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know you have to do it. Content is the first step of the sales funnel, even if you aren’t directly selling anything.
Inkbot Design
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Sans Serif vs Serif Font – Which Should You Use & When. Every designer knows that choosing a font makes a huge impact. Fonts have an essential role in our designs, so we should always choose them with care. You always have to decide which font is the right font for your website or any other piece of written content, digital product or graphic design.
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Designer Daily
DECEMBER 17, 2020
The interesting news of the past week if you are a graphic designer, web designer, product designer, or pretty much anyone that has an interest in design. How to estimate the ROI of design work? As designers, we have two options: We can wait for business people to learn design’s value or we accelerate the process by better communicating our work’s value.
I Love Typography
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Read the book, Typographic Firsts. For more than a thousand years the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs was completely lost. For centuries, many assumed that they were magical symbols that might never be understood by mere mortals. In the seventeenth century, the polymath and walking encyclopedia, Athanasius Kircher, came closer than most to understanding how Egyptian hieroglyphs worked, but the real breakthrough only came with the discovery of a 2,200-year-old black basalt slab.
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 15, 2020
A great opportunity to give your font library a major upgrade has just arisen, which will save you thousands of dollars on some high-quality typefaces, including some huge font families! This new Font Collector’s Handpicked Selection contains a total of 16 font families, each selected for its class and professionalism. Acquire some best-sellers from Set Sail Studies, Latinotype and TypeType, along with a well-balanced selection of serifs, sans-serif, and elegant script typefaces to provide you w
BP&O
DECEMBER 18, 2020
LogoArchive is a series of booklets dedicated to the modernist logo-making of the mid-century. It can be enjoyed as is and just for that. However, the ideas within these booklets, in the words of Ian Anderson “exist both on and below the surface” for anyone with the inclination to dig a bit deeper. These zines […]. The post LogoArchive: A Graphic Design Laboratory appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.
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Spoon Graphics
DECEMBER 16, 2020
I’m not entirely sure what to call the text effect I’ll be showing you how to create in this Adobe Illustrator tutorial, but it’s the kind of futuristic text style you might see on old VHS tapes, old sci-fi movie titles, or maybe even classic sports or tech brand logos. The best name I can come up with is ‘futuristic gradient speed lines’!
Azure Magazine
DECEMBER 18, 2020
When FreelandBuck was commissioned to create a permanent artwork for the lobby of a newly established behavioural health centre in Los Angeles’ Willowbrook area, the architectural design studio found its inspiration in a number of disparate sources, from digital photography and surrounding streetscapes to a local quilting group. “We are thankful to Silver Threads for opening their door and welcoming us to learn about quilting,” David Freeland, co-principal of FreelandBuck , says of the sewing ci
Speckyboy Design Magazine
DECEMBER 14, 2020
As a freelance web designer, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of clients. And it’s likely that some of them will want to enter into different types of working arrangements. One common example is billing. You may run into a client that prefers to pay a flat monthly fee rather than be charged hourly. Some might even aim for a yearly invoice.
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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.
Design Week
DECEMBER 18, 2020
“One day I’m designing a pair of socks, the next day I’m designing a campaign for the side of a bus,” William Allen tells Design Week. “You just never know what you’ll have.” Allen is one quarter of the Barbican’s in-house design team, established in 2011 and in more normal times based in the Brutalist arts centre itself.
Trendland
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Words Marta Knas. Weronika Kuc is a Warsaw-based illustrator and graphic designer mixing digital and traditional drawing techniques. She compensates her flair for minimalism with bold splashes of color, adding a metaphorical quality to each of her works.
Creative Review
DECEMBER 16, 2020
According to Eilidh Reid, her career to date has been a series of serendipitous opportunities and unexpected wins. After four years of multidisciplinary experimentation at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, her confidence was dealt a blow. An external examiner derided her portfolio as ‘too broad’ and said no one would ever hire her. “I was so worried,” she admits.
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Colossal
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Colombian illustrator Daniela Gallego takes us on a delightful journey through a world tinged with magic and brimming with plants. Her subdued color palette enhances the effect, firmly planting each of her drawings somewhere between fantasy and reality. The Barcelona-based artist creates works for children’s picture books , editorial, and corporate clients, and produces some of her own prints or calendars that you can request on Facebook.
I Love Typography
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Tens of millions of broadsides were printed from the very earliest days of printing. Many were cheap and ephemeral, eventually being recycled or ending up in the trash. Others, like rebus and puzzle broadsides were novel and engaging enough to live longer lives. This is my very brief look at some early examples of these curious so-called hieroglyphic broadsides.
Creative Review
DECEMBER 14, 2020
In 2020, people turned to photography for support, inspiration and sustenance, as well as to document their experiences of the pandemic and of the many protests that took place. Here, Diane Smyth looks back on a year that will be impossible to forget. The post Trends of 2020: The Year in Photos appeared first on Creative Review.
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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.
Colossal
DECEMBER 18, 2020
In an exquisite if not terrifying act of self-preservation, the Monkey Slug Caterpillar has evolved to disguise itself as a predator, mimicking the form and color of a Tarantula Spider on it’s back. Nature photographer David Weiller captured this particular specimen while in the Amazon Rainforest of Puyo, Ecuador. He shares: This mesmerizing caterpillar mimics a hairy tarantula spider with its oddly long hairy arms curling out.
I Love Typography
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Read the book, Typographic Firsts. For more than a thousand years the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs was completely lost. For centuries, many assumed that they were magical symbols that might never be understood by mere mortals. The breakthrough only came with the discovery of a 2,200-year-old black basalt slab. But what does that have to do with typography, dragons and unicorns?
DRAWTIFY
DECEMBER 17, 2020
The Drawtify team released an “Easy-to-use & Full-featured” logo design app , Drawtify Logo Maker & Animator. Start it and do it yourself. Easily create your own business vector logos, animated logos, animated banners. And save cost and time. Drawtify LogoMaker & Animator. The logo design aims to build your most attractive brand story and business.
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.
Abduzeedo
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Thoughtful Illustrations by Audrey Prokopenko. AoiroStudio 12.16.20 Some artworks are very straight-forward, it tells you the story behind them the second you looked at them. Some you'll need to think harder about its meaning. Some that will make you love or hate and then love or maybe hate again. Art isn't set into one vision for one's perspective, it reflects the emotion you had right in the moment.
Azure Magazine
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Less is more. But, bigger is better. While Mies van der Rohe’s old adage about purity in design remains as true as ever, Italy’s pioneering ceramics industry lends the phrase a refreshing twist: In the world of tile, a new degree of streamlined sophistication is possible thanks to expansive new formats that push the aesthetic and technological envelope.
Feature Shoot
DECEMBER 12, 2020
Camera by Alireza Rostami. “The history of photography is based on the experiments of amateurs,” the photographer Samuel Trachsel , who works at an analog photography store in Zurich, tells us. “Even today, a century and a half later, there is a very cool and active DIY community devoted to the craft of building cameras.” He’s right; as of this writing, Instagram has more than 7,000 posts under the hashtag #DIYCamera and 5,600 under #HomemadeCamera.
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.
Abduzeedo
DECEMBER 15, 2020
3D Movie Illustrations series by Roman Klco. AoiroStudio 12.15.20 Since the pandemic around the world, staying home and working from home is pretty much what we are all doing nowadays. Have you ever wondered how every person managed to live and work around their house? This tiny cubic house trend is everywhere, from 3d to illustrations to photographers, and architecture for small spaces is genuinely pleasant to look at.
Azure Magazine
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Since its founding in 2009, New York outfit Home Studios has crafted some of the metropolis’ most enticing and atmospheric eateries. There’s the richly detailed Elsa in Brooklyn and the decade-old watering hole Goat Town, defined by its shimmering vaulted ceiling, to name a few interiors that exemplify the practice’s deft combination of deco and moderne with contemporary restraint.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
DECEMBER 14, 2020
I’m going to tell you the story of two cooks: David and Jenny. Both are equally talented in the kitchen, and both are about to prepare a 6-course meal for a table full of rowdy dinner guests. They’re hungry and they’re hungry now. David gets his pots and pans out, pulls what he needs from the fridge as it’s needed, and dives hands first into the cooking.
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