We And The Color

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Sink’s unique blend of assertiveness and softness works well on labels, boxes, and product tags, ensuring the text catches the consumer’s eye and conveys a sense of quality. To balance its boldness, pair it with a light sans serif or serif typeface for subtext or body copy.

Fonts

Design Beep

JULY 2, 2025

Each brush captures the bold, expressive nature of spray paint and marker techniques, perfect for creating urban-style lettering, tags, or adding edgy typography to your designs. Fire & Ice Free Procreate Brush Light up your dark backgrounds with this mesmerizing pressure-sensitive brush that creates stunning glowing effects.

Arts and Crafts

Its Nice That

JUNE 19, 2025

Share Words Emma Taggart — Date 19 June 2025 Tags Ones to Watch 2025 Features Creative Industry Advice Process Share Applications are currently open for It’s Nice That’s Ones to Watch – a talent showcase championing the next generation of creatives. VFX, light leaks, overlays, backgrounds and more on cutestockfootage.com.

Animation

Design Beep

JULY 1, 2025

Shades Waterfalls Photoshop Brushes A beautifully balanced set offering both subtle and dramatic waterfall effects with excellent lighting and shading details. Waterfall Free Photoshop Brush A high-quality free option that delivers professional-looking waterfall effects without the price tag. <p>The </p>

Photoshop

Creative Bloq

JUNE 20, 2025

He’ll then work on the main character separately, before Noiry takes over to talk about her process for using colour and light to make the character pop. The lines that convey less important information are kept very thin with little modulation; they’re light and subtle. Rim lighting also helps the character to pop out.

Art

Its Nice That

JUNE 19, 2025

Playing with natural light and shutter speeds to create suspense and dramatic shapes, Max transports the viewer into an alternate world, a paranormal event in which sharp flashes of adrenaline junkies are caught defying the laws of physics on camera.

Sports

Noupe

MAY 22, 2025

Dark/Light Mode Toggle Switch between dark and light themes using a simple CSS variable strategy. Flexbox Centering Utility Quickly center any element both horizontally and vertically using Flexbox. cssCopyEdit<code>.center-flex Button Hover Effects Add flair to buttons with glowing hover animations. cssCopyEdit<code>.button

Web Design

Its Nice That

JULY 31, 2025

Just before it gets too dark, the amber lights flicker on to hem the paths and leak into alleyways. In one painting, a car’s headlights beam into the night, but Ryan’s oil painted brushstrokes make the light feel physical, like it is curving down like water.

Advertising

Creative Bloq

JUNE 15, 2025

This colour canvas gives us our mid tone right away and makes our lights and darks easy to see right off because we already have something to judge them against. Im using a tablet that isnt pressure sensitive, so I start with a super light brush and build up the values through an overlapping of strokes. Light hits form perpendicularly.

Digital

Design Shack

JUNE 18, 2025

Perfect for numerous design projects, this classic font is versatile, compatible with TrueType and OpenType files, and great for creating impactful headlines, posters, logo designs, tags, and newspaper or magazine ads. ROUTE – Neon Light Sign Font The ROUTE is a unique, modern font and ideal for making your headlines and titles pop.

Fonts

Its Nice That

JUNE 25, 2025

Flicking through this book is like riding a screwball carousel, a kaleidoscopic history book that offers everything from black-and-white film photographs of punk movements, queer intimacy and nightlife, to ambient scenes that play with light, colour and shape.

Photography

Its Nice That

JUNE 30, 2025

Seeking to recreate the claustrophobia of digital spaces and physical bodies, Michael’s excellent airbrush technique flattens planes (reminiscent of core influence Alex Colville) whilst rendering fur, eyes and light in photorealistic detail, furthering the viewer’s unexplainable discomforts surrounding furry culture. “I

Animation

Inkbot Design

AUGUST 4, 2025

Your card needs to work in the real world—readable in dim lighting, memorable when someone finds it in their wallet three weeks later. ” Most business cards are just expensive name tags. Should my business card match my website design exactly? Matching is for curtains and cushions, not business tools.

Business Cards Design

Creative Bloq

JULY 12, 2025

They have a few small shelves on the right side to hold animation paper, and a light table underneath to help with traditional animation. We rarely end up using the light tables since most of our work is done digitally using our iPad Pros and Clip Studio Paint. Linnea wants to install more cool lighting into the desk.”

Animation

Creative Bloq

JUNE 8, 2025

Find the real colour Image 1 of 2 (Image credit: Joe Foley) (Image credit: Joe Foley) Colour and light are other aspects where our brains can trick us when we try to draw what we see (just check out our piece on optical illusions ). tag=3,n.payload={element:null};var r=t.value;return n.callback=function(){Ql||(Ql=!0,Xl=r),sl(0,t)},n}function

Internet and Software Development

Its Nice That

AUGUST 6, 2025

Share Words Sudi Jama — Date 6 August 2025 Tags Features Digital Film 3D Process Share Chris Barrett and Luke Taylor are the directing duo behind the studio Us Films. The artefacts of a photo, like a light leak, motion blur, or haze, were crucial in this idea.” Luke continues: “You don’t know what you’re going to get.

Arts and Crafts

Its Nice That

JUNE 12, 2025

Words Harry Bennett — Date 12 June 2025 Tags Work Event Graphic Design Illustration Festival Identity Share In Guanzhong, within the Chinese province of Shaanxi, there’s a traditional custom called Mangba Hui, which entails rural farmers inviting friends, family, and opera troupes together to celebrate the summer harvest.

Art

Its Nice That

JUNE 11, 2025

Most recently, Stranger Things renewed a cultural interest in 80s creature features, neon lights and synthwave soundtracks and vapourwave, a musical subculture sometimes associated with 80s consumer capitalism, became popular in 2015.

Photography

Creative Bloq

JUNE 9, 2025

It was making all the right headlines thanks to its easy-to-use tools and free price tag. To go alongside these new materials, SketchUp has also launched more realistic environment lighting that is driven through HDR and EXR image files. Again, this will be a dream for interior designers and the like but not for a dedicated 3D artist.

Templates

Its Nice That

JUNE 30, 2025

A master of many tools, Pete’s end results bring home the dazzle of stage lights, in the visual language of ‘lights, camera, action’, alongside a multitude of imagery in quick succession. Zooming in on the Maxxing logo and motifs alongside it, flood lighting cosplays as stars in the sky around the icon M.

Graphic Design

Creative Bloq

JULY 13, 2025

The lighting and flooring does not pass code. Designers are already working in space, material, and light. tag=3,n.payload={element:null};var r=t.value;return n.callback=function(){Ql||(Ql=!0,Xl=r),sl(0,t)},n}function We’ve all seen those AI-generated interior design renders that look like they came out of a sci-fi movie.

Arts and Crafts

Creative Bloq

AUGUST 5, 2025

While painting on location, I try to capture how light, colour, and atmosphere combine and reveal the true feeling of a place. So far, I’ve created more than 150 oil paintings of Presque Isle Park, a rugged stretch of Lake Superior coastline in Michigan. These pieces hold more meaning for me than any photo or souvenir.

Art

Creative Bloq

JULY 6, 2025

Having not updated its logo since 2003, Ford is well overdue a new look, and while this sleek alternative design sadly never got to see the light of day, Id love to see it have its time to shine in the future. tag=3,n.payload={element:null};var r=t.value;return n.callback=function(){Ql||(Ql=!0,Xl=r),sl(0,t)},n}function

Graphic Design

FlowingData

MAY 26, 2025

Bloomberg mapped the damage through the lens of lights from above. A Bloomberg News analysis of satellite imagery collected by NASA found that Kharkiv City experienced a 94% drop in the intensity of nighttime lights in the autumn of 2024 when compared to three years before Russias invasion.

Animation

Inkbot Design

JULY 15, 2025

Their product was light years ahead of the competition. They question your price tag. You know it makes you look amateurish. If you don’t believe in it, why should anyone else? I once worked with a software firm. Genuinely brilliant engineers. However, their branding looked like it was designed in 1998, with a clunky word-art logo.

Branding

Its Nice That

JUNE 16, 2025

The photos in Cracks And Dents inspire openness and light interpretation, allowing meaning to be dictated whenever and wherever. Unlike the aforementioned Crash, Lycien’s work isn’t tied to the idea of fetish or masochism, but celebration and storytelling. Cultural differences helped to buoy the photobook’s subject of the automobile.

Graphic Design

Creative Bloq

JUNE 9, 2025

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Artist

Creative Bloq

JULY 14, 2025

Great compositions and subjects are everywhere, not to mention the moods and light that the weather and seasons bring! I consider the position of the sun, how much of my subject is in light/shadow, and so on. This will be the main focus of the image and the light angel against the dark backdrop should make for a nice graphic read.

Digital

Creative Bloq

JUNE 27, 2025

Also try your local museums – they have great lighting conditions 02. 05: Overcast I picked a day with grey sky which we define as overcast light. Anyone who ever painted from life will know how frustrating it can be to have light changing in a matter of minutes. Lay-in I fire up Sketchbook. c.toString():(l=l||[]).push(d,c))}n&&(l=l||[]).push("style",n);var

Digital

Creative Bloq

JULY 1, 2025

Transfer with a light table (Image: © Chuma Hill) Once the sketch is printed out on paper, place it on a light table and trace the entire drawing, line by line, onto watercolour paper. tag=3,n.payload={element:null};var r=t.value;return n.callback=function(){Ql||(Ql=!0,Xl=r),sl(0,t)},n}function c.toString():(l=l||[]).push(d,c))}n&&(l=l||[]).push("style",n);var

Art

Creative Bloq

JUNE 27, 2025

“We’re adding new content, tweaking lighting, and remaking assets from scratch where needed. ” From destructibles and lighting systems to the AI logic and weapon handling, everything on Ready Or Not is being refined, and its being done so within the framework of the games need for realism. c.toString():(l=l||[]).push(d,c))}n&&(l=l||[]).push("style",n);var

Art

Creative Bloq

JULY 6, 2025

Software like Blender has made it much easier to get into 3D modelling, in which objects are built using polygons, curves or sculpting tools before surface textures and lighting are applied (see our guide to the best 3D modelling software and our roundup of up the best 3D art ). c.toString():(l=l||[]).push(d,c))}n&&(l=l||[]).push("style",n);var

Digital

Creative Bloq

JULY 7, 2025

He takes us through the steps used to create a detailed cinematic look for the environment, from basic sizes and proportions to object placement and composition, lighting, shadows and volumetric fog, adding decals for more details, setting up the camera and finally colour grading. c.toString():(l=l||[]).push(d,c))}n&&(l=l||[]).push("style",n);var

Color

Creative Bloq

JULY 14, 2025

The ability to layer and adjust meant he could capture the ephemeral quality of changing light. tag=3,n.payload={element:null};var r=t.value;return n.callback=function(){Ql||(Ql=!0,Xl=r),sl(0,t)},n}function The portability meant he could work outdoors in ways impossible with traditional painting. And guess what? c.toString():(l=l||[]).push(d,c))}n&&(l=l||[]).push("style",n);var

Art

Its Nice That

JUNE 10, 2025

Camera flashes light up alternative women of the 80s as background figures submerge into complete black, almost like memory itself – focusing on a centrepoint whilst obscuring the rest. People exit cars on their way to the party, pub patrons light cigarettes with matches – indoors. Each photograph is a flurry of activity.

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Design Beep

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

It is often seen as a free alternative to Adobe Lightroom, offering advanced features for photographers to manage and edit large collections of photos.

Photoshop

Creative Bloq

JUNE 27, 2025

Just from the opening prologue that you can play from the Steam demo, you can appreciate how the low-res pixel aesthetic is executed, all the more impressive with its nighttime setting, where all the effects you see are hand-animated with some intentionally wobbly backgrounds and without any modern lighting effects. c.toString():(l=l||[]).push(d,c))}n&&(l=l||[]).push("style",n);var

Art