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Graphic Arts Today Submitted Articles
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Graphic Arts Today Submitted Articles
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Having a strong brand is crucial when differentiating yourself from the competition. Learn what brand identity is and how to build one for your business.
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
Graphic Arts Today Submitted Articles
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
I Love Typography
AUGUST 20, 2020
Decorated or illuminated initials were an important part of medieval manuscripts for a thousand years. From luxurious gold and silver letters to plain drop capitals, they functioned to illustrate, commentate, and adorn the text. Learn their history and purpose, why they eventually went out of fashion, and what replaced them. The post Make the Letter Bigger appeared first on I Love Typography.
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Just Creative
DECEMBER 29, 2020
As a graphic designer, there are many times when the project you’re working on may require you to flex your artistic muscles and pulling out sheets of paper and pencils is unlikely to satisfy the clients’ needs and unless you get it right the first time, is not going to make editing easy. These days, many artists, illustrators, and graphic designers have started to turn towards using tablets to complete their art projects.
Spoon Graphics
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Sci-fi landscape scenes featuring Tron-style grids, mountain scenes, and a vibrant sunrise is a popular aesthetic that is associated with art and design from the 80s. This retro-futuristic style has remained in trend thanks to the retrowave/synthwave music movement, which has helped to bring back the visual elements from 80s arcades, action movies, fashion and pop culture.
BP&O
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
Text by Richard Baird. Hanji is a new brand of traditional Korean papers from KCDF created to, not just inspire interest in both professionals and the general public nationally and internationally, but to also serve as a symbol of the craft inherent to the paper making workshops. And further, to promote the paper’s potential and excellence […].
Creative Review
DECEMBER 14, 2020
It’s been a strange year for cinema. Films like Wonder Woman 1984 and No Time to Die – what should have been 2020’s big blockbusters – have had their promotional campaigns thrown into a bizarre holding pattern; new variations of their key art emerging every now and then to keep audiences warm for those elusive release dates. One example of this perpetual eking-out: Andy Park’s poster for Black Widow was on our 2019 list , but now isn’t due to be released until
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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.
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.
Graphic Mama
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Design trends for the coming year are always big news and 2021 is just around the corner, out with the old and in with the new has never been more wished for. To say that 2020 has been a strange year is more than just an understatement. But in the online world, lockdown, forced closure of stores and educational institutions, and so on have had an enormous impact.
Envato Tuts+
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
What You'll Be Creating I've always been fascinated by smoke and have experimented a lot with it. So in this tutorial, I'll explain how to create a realistic smoky texture, make it into a smoke vector brush, and use it for type. Using the techniques in this tutorial, we will create the smoke illustration seen below. This is perfect if you want your words written in smoke, so let's light up our vector cigarettes and get started smokin'!
The Logo Smith
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
The post 8 Famous Logo Designs and their accompanying Final Logo Sketches appeared first on The Logo Smith All Content © 2020 The Logo Smith.™ |. Arek Dvornechuck has compiled a great post showing famous logo sketches and napkin doodle sketches for 8 famous brands and companies. There are plenty of blog posts that show one or some of these logo sketches, but this is a solid post by Arek that also puts the sketch up along side the final logo design.
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Spine Magazine
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
George Orwell's classic Animal Farm became 75 years old in August 2020. To celebrate this milestone, Berkley Books and Signet Classics have given their mass market and trade paperback editions some brand new covers. The equally seminal 1984 has had its editions revamped as well. Art Director Christopher Lin and designers Kaitlin Kall and Jason Booher share their experiences.
Its Nice That
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Influenced by 80s Japanese ACG subculture, the Taiwanese illustrator talks us through her visually explosive works.
Booooooom
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
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Just Creative
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
This article has been contributed by Ronita Mohan. Many of the brand design trends of 2021 will be a consequence of the events of this year. Some will also be a continuation of what has been successful in 2020. We explore the various trends taking over the branding sphere in the coming years and how marketing designers can make the most of them. What Are the Top Brand Design Trends for 2021?
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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 21, 2020
?. In the hypnotic realm of “ Catgot ,” bubbles explode into kaleidoscopic droplets, and beads of water bounce across the screen. Created by Ho Tsz Wing using Photoshop, the two-dimensional drawings mimic the look of a hand-painted animation. They’re set to an electronic track by ISAN and gracefully follow a series of fluid, synchronized movements.
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.
Creative Review
NOVEMBER 8, 2020
Photographer David Godlis is perhaps best known for his grainy black and white images of New York nightclub CBGB, when it was home to punk scene legends including the Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie and Talking Heads. Born in Manhattan in 1951, Godlis began taking photos in his sophomore year at Boston University. He has since become one of the most important imagemakers of his generation, working as the photographer for Film at Lincoln Center since the late 80s and the unofficial photographer of
Inkbot Design
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Why Invest in Branding? 8 Reasons to Build a Brand Identity. Branding is a term that’s still shrouded in a veil of confusion. Even some marketers believe that a brand is synonymous with a logo design and a trade name, but this concept is much more complicated than that. Yes, it incorporates a company tagline, brand colours, design, packaging , or brand voice , among many other things, but it cannot be reduced to any of them.
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.
Design Week
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Pentagram partner Eddie Opara has designed a new identity for The New Republic (TNR) magazine, which aims to “reflect its robust brand of liberal inquiry”, the studio says. The work includes a new brand identity, editorial work for the print magazine as well as a new look for the magazine’s digital platform and its sub brands. [link].
Feature Shoot
AUGUST 15, 2020
Zacharia Kipkirui, one of the primary rhino caretakers at Ol Pejeta conservancy relaxes with Najin. The caretakers live away from their families at a small camp within eyesight of the rhino holding area for 20 days on and 6 days off. Peter Esegon, one the rhinos’ primary caretakers, scratches Najin in her hind leg. Esegon says that she likes to be scratched behind her ears and behind her leg, saying that it calms her down, and puts her at ease.
Design You Trust
SEPTEMBER 6, 2020
Baboon When we see illustrations of dinosaurs done by Paleoartists in books the skeletal reconstructions are what many artists depend on when trying to draw dinosaurs. But what happens when you try to apply that to modern day animals? More: C.M. Kosemen, Instagram, Amazon h/t: canyouactually Hippo Artist C.M. Kosemen, in his book ‘All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other.
Typographica
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Annual review of the most interesting type of the year, as selected by graphic designers, type designers, and scholars.
Speaker: Michele Berdinis
This session will answer business law questions that people are asking most during the pandemic. If my business can’t pay its bills, can my creditors come after my personal assets? Do I have to pay the rent on my co-working space or office? Can my clients cancel signed contracts? Can I cancel contracts for things I no longer need because my business has slowed down?
Its Nice That
DECEMBER 2, 2020
The Basque country TV writer and comedian tells us why he started collecting hundreds of background images from the American golden age animation series.
Just Creative
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
We’re expecting a striking variety of exciting logo design techniques to flourish in 2021. Logaster logo maker has put together a list of the hottest logo design trends that are set to soar in 2021. Check it out! Logo Design Trends 2021. Simplicity. Inventive Typography. Gradients. Disappearing Letters. Overlapping Geometry. Negative Space. Fine Lines.
Colossal
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
All images courtesy of Mark Brooks, shared with permission. Full of extraordinary creatures, the illustrated series The Creative Specimens seamlessly combines species into unusual hybrids. Similar in color, each organism is bizarre in form. The feathered head of a bird is placed on a tortoise’s body, octopus tentacles sprout from the bottom of a cactus, and speckled coral comprises a deer’s antlers.
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.
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