Why Some Web Designers Are Feeling Forced into Change
Graphic Arts Today Submitted Articles
OCTOBER 4, 2022
In my thoroughly unscientific observation, web designers appear to be frustrated with the state of things. We take a look at why that is.
Graphic Arts Today Submitted Articles
OCTOBER 4, 2022
In my thoroughly unscientific observation, web designers appear to be frustrated with the state of things. We take a look at why that is.
We And The Color
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
In 2023, these will be some of the best and most popular fonts that graphic designers keep coming back to. Some trends remain popular for years, while others come and go very quickly. The world of typography is no different—there are always new fonts and typefaces being designed, based on current trends. Here at WE AND THE COLOR, we have put together a handpicked selection of the top ten best fonts for use in 2023.
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We And The Color
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
In need of a creative boost? Make sure to check out our top 20 picks for the best graphic design blogs in 2023! We want to make sure that the year 2023 will be full of creativity and inspiration for you! To help keep that motivation high and those ideas flowing, we’ve compiled a list of the twenty best graphic design blogs. From trends to editing skills, these bloggers and graphic designers are sure to give you the great content you deserve. 20.
Creative Boom
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Image licensed via Adobe Stock. No, you're not imagining it. In 2022, social media increasingly sucks for sharing content and finding work. Creatives share their views on the way forward. Have you noticed how different social media feels at the moment? More ads. More videos. More Stories and Reels. But fewer posts you want to click on. And less engagement on any content you post yourself.
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
BP&O
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Property development continues to boom in London. It’s difficult to see how any of this is really benefitting those most in need, or whether housing is even being designed to be resided in at this point, acting as a ‘store of value’ for those much wealthier individuals. Recently developed areas appear like ghost towns at night. Having just moved, and.
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HONGKIAT
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Adobe Photoshop is a powerful platform for designers, but sometimes it may seem lacking of features that can help improve productivity and workflow and make life just that much easier. Luckily for us, Photoshop supports using an extension or a plugin, which help extend its capabilities. And lucky for you, we have collected some of the best and free Photoshop plugins available out there.
SpeckyBoy
JULY 25, 2022
To a prospective client, you as a freelance web designer are often perceived only to be good as your portfolio. They’re checking you out for the first time, and if you don’t make that positive first ion, you may not get their work. And if you don’t get work, you don’t get paid. And if you don’t get paid, then you… aw, you get it.
Designmodo
OCTOBER 25, 2022
This post is originally published on Designmodo: Slides – Free Static Website Generator. Static website builder with a drag and drop generator that will help you create a website and landing page in a few minutes. The online app contains ready-made website templates and UI elements. Also, you can create beautiful animation elements on … For more information please contact Designmodo.
Creative Review
DECEMBER 14, 2022
This year’s selection of the best movie posters of the year once again demonstrates a wonderful array of traditional techniques and styles – photography, painting, collage – and a refusal to homogenise into any singular form. One pleasing commonality: as yet, the world of film poster design has resisted any incursion from AI-generated art.
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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.
Interaction Design Foundation
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
UI Animation is a valuable skill in a designer’s toolkit. You can use UI animation effects to reduce cognitive load, as well as adding personality and charm to an interface. More importantly, animation will help you overcome language and culture barriers in interaction design. However, if done poorly, animation can seem distracting and even nauseating!
Richard Bernabe
JULY 9, 2022
Neutral density filters may not exactly be an essential accessory, but they will allow you longer exposures and help you to get shots you could never have captured otherwise. The post Long Exposure Photography: Neutral Density Filters appeared first on Richard Bernabe.
Design Milk
MAY 31, 2022
Artist Josh Sperling’s current exhibition of shaped paintings is on view at Perrotin in New York. Open through June 11 th , “Daydream” pushes the possibilities of precision, color, and curiosity through multiple series of joyful works. Josh Sperling paintings on canvas combine an obsession for color selection with the precision of a CNC router. Each painting feels too perfect to be human but too human to be a computer.
We And The Color
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
For amazing typographic designs in the year 2023, take advantage of our top 10 free fonts selection that graphic designers can download. We have searched through many free fonts on different platforms and gathered a collection of the 10 best fonts for graphic designers to download in 2023. This set contains a variety of styles, as mentioned before all selected fonts are available for free with designated options for private or commercial use. 10.
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Creative Boom
AUGUST 31, 2022
Eat Whatever You Want by Shenzhen Baixinglong, 2021 Gold Pentawards winner. Speakers at the Pentawards Festival 2022 share their insights into where the discipline is going. Want to know about the latest packaging trends? The good folks behind the Pentawards are the people to ask. Founded in 2007, Pentawards is the leading global platform and community for packaging design.
BP&O
AUGUST 2, 2022
Agricultural practices are constantly changing to provide greater crop yields. In an effort to achieve this goal, modern farming has created a host of ecological side effects. Most notably, overconsumption of water and a reliance on chemical fertilisers, GMOs and pesticides. Plenty is an indoor vertical farm providing green produce to the masses through sustainable practices, using less space and.
Inkbot Design
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Hiring a Graphic Designer? Check These Top 10 Tips. Do you need a graphic designer? How do you find one? What do you do once you find a great graphic designer? The answer is simple; you need to read this article to figure it out. With the growing popularity of online businesses, graphic design has become a critical skill for every entrepreneur. As an entrepreneur, you want your business to look professional and aesthetically pleasing.
HONGKIAT
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Getting a little bored with how your photos are presented online? How about injecting some fun and humor into it? You don’t really need to be Photoshop literate to edit and add effects to your photos. There’re some really great sites out there that allow you to add effects to your photo by using their existing effect templates. The best part is – they are free, output is shown immediately on the fly,, and no installation of apps is required.
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UX Collective
MAY 19, 2022
Seemingly outmoded technologies sometimes hold the key to better user experiences. I started my career as a user interface designer and human factors engineer 20 years ago. As a designer who focused on medical devices, most of the user interfaces I worked on back then were relatively “low tech”; user interfaces that convey information via LED lights or simple displays, like dot matrix or segmented LCD displays, and enable user interaction via physical controls such as push buttons, snap domes, a
Its Nice That
JULY 5, 2022
The Sao Pãulo-based illustrator and designer on loving to laugh while she works and how recent Arabic classes have expanded her type design repertoire.
Creative Review
JULY 20, 2022
The original Aston Martin wing logo was introduced in 1927 – when it was more of a wing-shaped wordmark – and has undergone various adjustments since then. In 1930 it was adapted to appear more speedy, and tightened into more of a v shape, and in 1932 it was updated again to the scarab beetle-inspired wing shape it’s retained ever since.
Colossal
DECEMBER 9, 2022
All images © Masayuki Oki, shared with permission. The archipelago of Japan consists of more than 6,800 islands, of which around 280 are inhabited, and in a few places, known as neko-shima or “cat islands,” felines vastly outnumber the human residents. Fishing villages like the one on Aoshima , the most well-known of around a dozen cat islands, introduced the creatures in the early 20th century to combat rodent infestations.
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 You Trust
MAY 18, 2022
Inspired by the comfort of the classic dog bed, a couple of obviously extremely bored university students designed Plufl, the world’s first dog bed for humans. If you’re thinking that the Plufl is just an oversized dog bed, you’re technically correct, but according to its creators, Noah Silverman and Yuki Kinoshita, it’s much more than that. In their own words, the Plufl was engineered “to provide the optimal napping experience” and “maximize comfort and foster a sense of security, delivering re
Creative Bloq
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Fans already want a whole series.
We And The Color
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
Anastasia Dunaeva and Evgeniya Tsareva created some aesthetically pleasing Instagram templates inspired by crafts and paper. The two skilled graphic designers Anastasia Dunaeva and Evgeniya Tsareva at studio Taste released a digital product made specifically for graphic and brand designers. It is an Instagram template collection named “Crafts & Paper” The collection of post and story templates was made to help designers present their work in the most aesthetically pleasing way.
Creative Boom
APRIL 20, 2022
Smoothie © Helga Stentzel. During a spot of laundry a few years back, London-based Russian-born artist Helga Stentzel got the idea for a unique series featuring clothes on a washing line cleverly staged as different animals. Thus began a viral Instagram account that gained thousands of fans and likes. "I saw a sock on the floor next to some pegs and realised that it looked like a horse's head," she tells Creative Boom.
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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