SpeckyBoy
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Here’s a scenario for you: a woman has three young children, each armed with a handful of crayons. They’re happily drawing on a large sheet of paper, cooperating and sharing colors. The woman leaves the room for a moment, and when she comes back, she is dismayed to find that the children have all begun scribbling on the walls. There are squiggly lines of color everywhere, ruining her pristine, white paint job.
Just Creative
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
This article has been contributed by Denise Langenegger. As businesses continue to divert their budgets toward content creation and digital marketing, so does the demand for marketing images, infographics, video content, social media marketing, packaging design and website design. In the age of digital marketing, graphic artists and designers have taken center stage.
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Designer Daily
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Graphic design is a highly competitive industry. In order to make it as a professional and stand out, hands-on experience is essential. At Designer Daily, we keep you updated on education resources that will help you acquire new skills and improve your portfolio. In this post, we’ll show you some of the online graphic design courses available at Domestika, an exciting platform and community championing the creative arts with online courses to keep on learning and exploring.
Spoon Graphics
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
The “Transform Again” command in Photoshop that repeats the previous adjustment with every press of the shortcut has many uses, but one of my favourites is to create faux 3D text effects. By layering up several copies of a text element with a basic Bevel and Emboss layer style, you can simulate a simple three-dimensional appearance complete with shading effects.
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
Creative Review
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
This year has been one of enormous upheaval for creatives. Livelihoods have been upturned, opportunities curtailed, stability eroded. Yet in the face of the uncertainty facing the creative community, Ronan Mckenzie has found her home. The photographer and curator, whose work covered last year’s issue of the Creative Review Photography Annual , has launched a new creative space in north London.
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SpeckyBoy
NOVEMBER 22, 2020
So you’ve been tasked with designing a book cover and layout. But what happens when the time comes to present the design to your client? Using a book mockup template is a great way to help them visualize how the book will look like once it’s printed. In this post, we’ve gathered the best free realistic book mockup templates that allow you to showcase book covers, bookbinding, and inner pages of the book. 17,000+ Book & Product Mockup Templates.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
Zest Free – 200 icons! – Download this set of free open source, handcrafted icons for use with Figma (and other projects). How brutalist design is taking over the internet – A look at how brutalism is starting to dominate web design. Here’s Why AI Is Unlikely to Harm Your Web Design Career – Artificial intelligence may end up being a valuable tool for web designers.
Creative Review
NOVEMBER 26, 2020
As the pandemic continues to create multiple challenges worldwide, reduced budgets and strained resources can make it an uphill struggle for agencies to invest in commissioning the craft specialists who can help elevate a campaign from good to great. Long seen as an alternative route by many ad agencies compared to photography, illustration is fast-becoming a first-choice option for a much wider range of commercial creative work – not least as shoots have proved a logistical challenge in t
Just Creative
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
There is a sweeping ambivalence about what branding truly is and its role, especially among small businesses and startups. It’s easy to dismiss its concept and reduce its idea to logos and color schemes, but what plenty of people don’t know is that its coverage transcends aesthetics and style. For starters, branding isn’t only how entrepreneurs make their business out to be; it includes everything an enterprise does and all they claim to achieve as an organization — even if it
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Graphic Design USA
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Brendan Murphy posits that while direct-to-consumer brands have given us a slew of both personal and personable names, the shift from the institutional to the human era has also given rise to much more human brand logos and brand expressions.
Graphic Mama
NOVEMBER 26, 2020
On average a presentation takes up to 20 minutes and experts say we make an impression within the first 30 seconds. That is why it’s important to “dress” our great product/idea with an equally exciting design. Most often, presentations are cooked up by non-designers, which creates a specific need – for powerful presentation software, which can help communicate a message beautifully, effectively, and to suit any user’s skill level.
Creative Review
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
New York-based illustrator Xinmei Liu is an only child, and says that as a kid she’d copy the images from her picture books to stave off any loneliness. “ When I played with my cousins we used to make narrative drawings with captions, and I think they were my earliest illustrations,” she says. Liu’s parents are scientists so art school never seemed like the obvious choice growing up, though she had always enjoyed drawing and painting. “When I was deciding on college
Just Creative
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
This article has been contributed by Freya Kuka. Your blog’s survival hinges on quality content – but perhaps just as importantly, ensuring your content is published regularly. That’s why it’s essential to have a good content calendar that allows you to schedule content production and publication. If you have a team, it will keep them focused and on the ball.
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SpeckyBoy
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Even if you’re a design veteran with years of experience of working with Adobe Photoshop, they are constantly coming up with new features that make it near impossible to master every single feature available to you. Not to mention, learning how to achieve certain effects from scratch is time that you could spend working on other client projects, creating an additional income stream or marketing your business.
Shillington
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
We’re very excited to announce the launch of Shillington’s brand new podcast—Pathfinder! Pathfinder exists to support Shillumni and other graphic design graduates across the world entering the creative industry. The podcast host, Shillington New York teacher Jimmy Muldoon is an Australian graphic designer and will offer relatable content that helps designers navigate the highs and lows of the journey from graduate to working designer.
Creative Review
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
New York-based photographer Melissa O’Shaughnessy’s street photography has already been featured in numerous exhibitions and books including the re-publication of Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz’s Bystander: A History of Street Photography (2017), yet Perfect Strangers: New York City Street Photographs is the first monograph of her work. “The book is a culmination of seven years of work on the streets of New York City,” O’Shaughnessy tells CR. “Good
Illustration Art
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
The thumbnail preliminary sketch is where artists first attempt to capture a spark of inspiration. Before the layers of refinement have been added, before the details and finishing touches, before the mistakes have been corrected, a concept takes its initial raw form in a thumbnail. Sometimes it's fun and educational to look at pictures in their embryonic state.
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Graphic Mama
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Everybody loves pastel colors and today we’re going to talk about it. There is a reason for the obsession with these soothing eye-candy palettes that are once again trendy in their full power. It’s their light- weighted way to communicate the soft emotions of optimism, joy, and peace that we all need, so in today’s article, we’ll indulge in some really amazing and satisfying pastel color palettes.
Spine Magazine
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Alban Fischer is the author of the poetry collection Fake Moon (The Magnificent Field, 2020) and founding editor of Trnsfr and Trnsfr Books. He has designed over 350 books, and worked with more than sixty organizations, including 826CHI, Alice James Books, The Believer , Coffee House Press, Levine Querido, Open Letter Books, Turtle Point Press, and Verso.
Creative Review
NOVEMBER 22, 2020
Originally a US import, Black Friday has become firmly embedded in British culture over the course of the last few years. More recently, however, there has been somewhat of a backlash against the annual retail free-for-all. Recent examples of retailers and organisations taking a stand include Patagonia’s 1% for the Planet stunt , which saw it give away $10 million worth of profits taken on Black Friday, and WWF’s flash sale of ‘limited stock’ – which turned out to b
Colossal
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
“Axiom” (2016), mixed media on ledger, 16 x 16 inches. All images © Chris Pappan, shared with permission. In his mixed-media portraits, Chicago-based artist Chris Pappan draws on the tradition of ledger art, a practice that flourished among Native populations throughout the Great Plains from around 1850 to 1920. Rooted in narratives, the renderings depicted the ways of life of Indigenous people and the nuances otherwise left out of mainstream conversations. “The mid-19th Centur
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.
Azure Magazine
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
We know it, you know it: Designers and design lovers can be notoriously difficult to shop for. But while guaranteed hits – a subscription to Azure, anyone? – are few and far between, our curated selection of holiday gifts is sure to please even the most discerning tastes. From housewares to timepieces, totes and panettone tins, these 13 covetable pieces cap off 2020 in style.
Noupe
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Despite what some may think, brand awareness and brand equity aren’t the same. While brand awareness is how aware customers are of a brand, brand equity refers to customers’ perceived worth of the brand. We often see the terms “ brand awareness ” and “brand equity” used interchangeably in the branding space, as if they’re one and the same. But they actually refer to rather different things and knowing the difference has the power to improve your bottom line and bring your business to a whole new
Creative Review
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Astrid Stavro’s team at Pentagram have unveiled the new typographic identity created for Maker Mile, which launched as part of Venice Design Week 2020. The new platform (not to be confused with the east London initiative of the same name) aims to promote the tradition and development of craft in the platform’s home city of Venice, with subsequent editions set to spotlight cities around the world.
Design Week
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
A new film and visual culture journal dedicated to Black, Brown, Indigenous and other artists of colour has launched. Seen is the creation of BlackStar Projects, the production organisation behind BlackStar Film Festival, an annual event celebrating the visual and storytelling traditional of “the African diaspora and global communities of colour” This month is the inaugural issue of Seen, which has been designed by Oslo-based graphic designer Jelsen Lee Innocent and edited by BlackSt
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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