Spoon Graphics
MARCH 30, 2020
Hand-drawn fonts are a crucial tool for creating an informal design style with a human touch, but as with all handmade art styles, you can’t beat the authenticity of artwork that has actually been created by hand. Brush scripts provide a quick and easy way to add hand-painted lettering to your designs, but traditional fonts can look a little fake.
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Speckyboy Design Magazine
MARCH 18, 2020
As I write this, the lives of potentially billions of people have been altered in one way or another. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an untold amount of changes – both big and small – not to mention tragic. To be sure, this is a crisis on a global scale. But this isn’t the only event that can disrupt our lives. True, most may not be this widespread.
Design You Trust
MARCH 18, 2020
Chinese artists created a sort of amazing illustrations to pay tribute to medical staff fighting the coronavirus. A lot of them are dedicated to Dr. Li Wenliang, the Wuhan ophthalmologist who warned of the coronavirus outbreak and who died from its effects in early February. More: Source.
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
Just Creative
MARCH 3, 2020
What I love about Skillshare is their short format classes, teaching you valuable skills in a short amount of time! They have thousands of classes in many different categories, as shown below. And with their Premium Membership you get unlimited access to all of them , so you can join the classes and communities that are just right for you, to help you keep learning and thriving.
I Love Typography
MARCH 18, 2020
The Black Death of the fourteenth century, a disease named after the symptomatic boils and darkened skin caused by internal bleeding, claimed as many as 200 million lives. Even by the fifteenth century, when populations were just beginning to recover, outbreaks of the same plague were still regularly reoccurring throughout Europe. Header image: Detail from […].
Graphic Arts Today brings together the best content for graphic arts professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
BP&O
MARCH 18, 2020
Words by Richard Baird Queremos Sonreír – Activar la Cultura Local (We want to smile – Activating local culture) brings together the voices of a variety of cultural agents–from citizen collectives and activists to artists and managers of cultural programmes–who are generating actions that intend to stimulate local culture, empower citizens, develop learning processes and further critical thinking. […].
Creative Market
MARCH 5, 2020
Social media is a phenomenon that you might love or hate. Regardless, you have to admit that social media brings numerous improvements to our personal and work lives. You might be an influencer, social media manager for a non-profit organization, small fashion studio, a large enterprise, or a freelance designer. No matter who you are or what you do, the chances are that it is part of your life.
Noupe
MARCH 30, 2020
Web development, especially freelance web development has been steadily growing as businesses are increasingly going online. Many talented developers offer freelance web development in addition to their day jobs or some of them have fully embraced the freelance life. Nevertheless, every web developer that wants to be successful needs to have their web developer portfolio on the internet where it can be accessed easily.
Just Creative
MARCH 22, 2020
This article has been contributed by Evan Fraser. This is a stressful and uncertain time for all of us. The last few weeks have brought on unprecedented circumstances around the world with the spread of COVID-19 causing nations around the world to close borders, shut down businesses and quarantine millions of people. These new restrictions leave many of us around the world out of work and struggling to make ends meet.
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Booooooom
MARCH 19, 2020
A selection of pastel drawings by Paris-based illustrator and background designer Clément Thoby. Clément Thoby’s Website. Clément Thoby on Instagram.
Spoon Graphics
MARCH 16, 2020
The cyberpunk aesthetic is commonly associated with densely populated, futuristic cities illuminated by bright neon signs and advertisements. Follow these steps in Adobe Photoshop to transform a regular street photograph into a neon-noir scene by applying heavy colour grading with bright blues and hot pinks, as well as neon sign effects to create a colourful yet moody atmosphere within the image.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
MARCH 20, 2020
Are you struggling to find that particular typeface that matches your creative vision? Then you’ve come to the right place! We do know how difficult and time-consuming it can be to find good, high-quality fonts, so we’ve done the searching for you. With over 100 free fonts to choose from, we guarantee that you will find the one, if not the several, you need.
Creative Market
MARCH 18, 2020
Typography, the art and science of displaying letters to make the written word read well and also visually pleasing, is a fickle beast. While you naturally don’t expect design fails to happen when you arrange type for graphic design, they occur with enough frequency to make you shake your head. Don’t these brands and people review their designs before making them public for all to see?
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Noupe
MARCH 23, 2020
We can all use a good laugh these days, that’s why we prepared you a list of what not to do while designing a logo while working from home. Hopefully, these logos will put a smile on your faces. Bad logos might be quite bad for your brand. Your logo is what the people remember you with after all. There are many different ways you can go with your logo. you have probably identified a business by looking at its logo before, even if their name isn’t on the logo.
Just Creative
MARCH 29, 2020
Peek behind the curtain of Jacob Cass’s set up and see the tools and other items he uses daily when working with clients all over the world. If you’re a beginner or watching your spending, you may want to consider our post on the top gear for all career levels & budgets. View All Buying Guides. The Workshop. When Jacob sits down to craft his next design, this is what’s in his office helping him do just that each and every day.
Old Brand New
MARCH 30, 2020
I’m finally sharing our new master bedroom and bathroom! This was actually completed last October but I’ll be honest, it took me this long to finally post because this renovation really did me over (and under!). I nearly burned down the house because I couldn’t handle working with my dad anymore. I had to let him go (aka fire) and hire someone else to finish the shower because his presence really impacted my well being towards the end.
Under Consideration / Brand
MARCH 31, 2020
“It’s Change O’Clock Somewhere”. (Est. 2019) " Pollination is a specialist climate change advisory and investment firm, accelerating the transition to a net zero, climate resilient future. Our people are the key to unlocking change. Brought together from across industries, we are global leaders in finance, investment, technology, business, law and policy.
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Creative Review
MARCH 19, 2020
As creatives around the globe are feeling the impact of the pandemic, it’s spurring a wave of support from people and companies keen to help. Read on for CR’s guide to the programmes and initiatives that are on offer to help creatives through an uncertain time. Got something to add to our list? Get in touch via @creativereview on Twitter or email us.
Booooooom
MARCH 11, 2020
Seo Young Kwon. Seo Young Kwon’s Website. Seo Young Kwon on Instagram.
Noupe
MARCH 10, 2020
Dark mode is more popular than ever. More and more web designs, apps, and products have started offering a dark mode option to their users – catering for a unique stylistic demand in the market that has been, until now, a desire exclusive to coders. Where typical UI’s have focused on using dark colors on a white background (similar to a printed book), dark mode offers the reverse, flipping a traditional design fundamental on its head.
Just Creative
MARCH 8, 2020
Choosing the right font for your design is arguably as important as creating the design itself. It’s about selecting the one that complements your design and conveys the tone of your message. When I am choosing a font, there are a certain handful that are always top of mind. I listed them all out and came up with this list featuring 38 of my favourite fonts for 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.
Graphic Design USA
MARCH 3, 2020
Why is graphic design important to businesses? Here are four reasons.
Design Week
MARCH 27, 2020
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has changed everyday life for the time being. The government has enforced lockdown measures , and all but key workers have to work from home. A lot of design businesses have been working remotely for a couple of weeks now. And while a lot of work can be done from home , the design industry also relies on face-to-face “sparks” and live events.
Colossal
MARCH 19, 2020
“Miss Autumn.” All images © Christoffer Relander, shared with permission. During the first frost in the southern region of Finland, Christoffer Relander ( previously ) shot dense patches of branches, ferns, and blades of grass as part of a new set of double-exposure photographs. Titled We Are Nature Vol. 6 , the monochromatic project merges human figures with nature to generate a portrait of a woman whose forehead is substituted with overflowing brush.
Abduzeedo
MARCH 23, 2020
3D Animal Portraits by Maxim Shkret. AoiroStudio Mar 23, 2020 This is the best opportunity to share some colours into your feed. Nothing to bring joy and inspiration than the work of Maxim Shkret with our constant admiration of his 3D animal series. Maxim is a digital artist that is super-talented and it's always refreshing. We pleasurably featured his work before and it's what we all needed right now, at this time in the World.
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?
Noupe
MARCH 10, 2020
You might say it’s 2020, why are we talking about a game that’s almost twenty years old? You can consider it a reminder to revive our memories and a tribute for such a great game. The hack-and-slash action role-playing game, Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone was released on November 16th, 2004, and as you might expect it was set in the Forgotten Realms universe.
SpeckyBoy
MARCH 7, 2020
The demand for high-quality Photoshop brushes is huge. Every designer wants them. Every designer needs them. And as you will no doubt already know, we love to highlight and share as many free design resources as we can. And today we take a look at some of the best high-resolution Photoshop brush packs currently available in the design community. So grab them while you can and top-up your designer toolbox, you just never know when you will need them.
Azure Magazine
MARCH 27, 2020
The Japanese have a word for it: tsundoku , which is used to describe an all-too-common affliction — the acquiring of reading materials that are then allowed to pile up unread. It’s a condition — paired with a lingering feeling of guilt — that’s intimately familiar to the editors of Azure. But if there’s a silver lining to this period of physical distancing and self-quarantine, it’s the opportunity to finally confront that bookshelf (or bedside stack).
Design Week
MARCH 20, 2020
A typeface has been created for the Welsh language which celebrate the country’s heritage. The fonts have been designed by the Cardiff office of design studio Smörgåsbord, in collaboration with the Colophon Foundry. Graphic designer Joseph Burrin also consulted. The original Sans typeface The three fonts that make up the Cymru Wales typeface are Cymru Wales Sans (originally created in 2017), Cymru Wales Serif and Cymru Sans Transport, which is used for Transport for Wales (TfW).
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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