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.
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.
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
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.
Graphic Arts Today brings together the best content for graphic arts professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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.
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
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
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
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
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Ohn Mar Win
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
When my first child turned one I gave up any pretence of trying to be an editorial illustrator, as I just couldn't find the time to be a mother and meet deadlines. It was a tough decision, as I had no savings to fall back on, and my then husband was freelancing erratically in London. I call this the end of my first illustration career. When my son started kindergarten (age 4) I decided that the stack of unused art I had from nine years of freelancing myself could be repurposed, so I uploaded it
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
Design You Trust
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
The Himalayan Monal “The Himalayan Monal is the national bird of Nepal.” Photographer Tim Flach has three goldfish and two Burmese cats. The latter, Hunt and Blue, eagerly keep their owner company while he works, even though they would probably gladly devour some of his subjects. Flach is known for his striking portraits, where animals are treated with the same care as any human model.
Noupe
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
Maximizing any marketing task’s potential comes down to having the right tools and Instagram apps for business that boost your posts’ quality and save time. From customizing your bio link, creative storytelling, scheduling of posts, content curation, insights, audience engagement , visual commerce, and data analytics, great apps can transform the way you market and manage businesses on Instagram. 1. url.bio.
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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.
The Die Line
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
The significant change in the role of hygienic goods inspired the new line of Kleenex products, positioning them as preventative items that protect while providing a sense of control and confidence.
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
Design Week
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Graphic designer Camille Walala has revealed a “radical reimagining” of Oxford Street, showing the popular London destination as a pedestrianised, verdant meeting place. Known for her colourful and playful installations , the French designer has lived in London for 23 years. She has worked with product visualisation studio Omni Visual on the images.
crowdspring
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
A look at the branding elements you need to get your side hustle off the ground to create a strong brand.
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.
Spine Magazine
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Ben Prior is a graphic designer at Head of Zeus. Here he tells us about his process for designing Sebastian Fitzek’s The Package. The idea of designing a cover for a book titled The Package , to look like an actual package is far from an original one. It sounds simple but the design and approval process for The Package was quite long and involved lots of tweaking and refinements.
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.
Noupe
NOVEMBER 22, 2020
Starting November 20th and going until December 2nd, TemplateMonster is slashing prices on all retail products and one subscription web development kits by 70%. TemplateMonster’s vast digital marketplace has always attracted web designers, web developers , marketing specialists, and other creatives with a huge collection of products available for all purposes and topics.
Its Nice That
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Lucienne Roberts, Matt Willey, David Pearson and more have created We Are Type artworks to mark the institution’s 125th anniversary, supporting a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds to continue its work in printing, type, graphic and book design.
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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