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How to Apply Visual Communication Strategies to Design

Design Wizard

Nowadays, designers depend on a team collaboration app or software program to do share files and do a lot of their job for them. Here are some basic theories that help designers and visual communicators organize information and create eye-catching logos, brand images, and overall great designs. Color Theory.

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The 15 Best Brushes for Procreate 

Just Creative

The Procreate app is quickly becoming one of the most popular programs for creating art that the iPad offers. Procreate Pattern Brushes – $9. When patterns are used the right way, they are almost unnoticeable as they can add texture to give the image a grittier feel or shading to give the drawing depth. Learn More.

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Top 30 Logo & Branding Design Kits for Designers

Just Creative

Compatible with Adobe CS4 or newer, the files come in EPS format which works on a variety of programs including Photoshop or Illustrator, Affinity, Corel Draw, and InkScape. The radical set includes 10 fully editable 1980s logo designs along with a variety of selections of seamless patterns, textures, and illustrations. Learn More.

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15 Best Design Books for Learning to Make Website Textures, Icons, and More

SpyreStudios

These details might include repeating patterns, textures, logos, icons, and compositional techniques. Speaking of Illustrator, where should this program fit into the web design workflow? While Illustrator is the best program for vector icon design, Photoshop also has a Pen tool which can be used for building vector icons.

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Affinity Designer Quick Start Course

Envato Tuts+

Affinity Designer is an award-winning, vector design program from Serif, developers of the Affinity family of software. The Layers panel in Affinity Designer works a little differently than it does in some popular graphics programs, like Adobe Photoshop. So, for example, you could choose a Complementary color chord or an Analogous one.

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Important Concepts That Every Icon Designer Needs To Know

Design Freebies

Here’s a fun trick you can use to analyze an iconset: copy any full preview shot of a full iconset into Photoshop (or another program) and convert it to grayscale. When you look at a design in grayscale it forces you to only see tone but not actual colors. The common denominator of all great icon designers is that they practiced a lot.

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30 Inspiring UX Design Examples For Your Next Vision in 2022

Graphic Mama

Octaevo – Using Shape Patterns. Blueventure – Utilizing Color Theory. Genius Levels incentivize customers to spend more money and serve as loyalty programs. However, if there was one thing that makes Amazon truly awesome, it’s Amazon Prime – arguably the best loyalty program globally.