Just Creative
MAY 19, 2020
This article has been contributed by Ivio Agency. Any successful business starts with an effective branding strategy. A brand strategy is a long-term plan that affects all facets of your business. This can be overwhelming to put together when you are new to the game. But have no fear, if you are starting your brand from scratch, use the help of a brand strategy workshop to get the job done!
Spoon Graphics
MAY 20, 2020
I’ve been admiring the lettering work on vintage insurance maps lately. These old documents were originally drawn up by hand by master penmen, who illustrated the title page with ornate lettering and detailed embellishments. Painstakingly illustrating artwork like this by hand is a dying art form that would have taken years of training to become a master of penmanship, but we can create similar text styles with the help of digital fonts and modifications in Adobe Illustrator.
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I Love Typography
MAY 3, 2020
When books began to be printed in the fifteenth century, scribes were not immediately made redundant. The rich still commissioned them to produce deluxe manuscripts, governments and local authorities still required secretaries and copyists for administrative documents, and even printed books left spaces for decorated initials and other elements to be added in by hand. […].
BP&O
MAY 11, 2020
Words by Richard Baird In the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Greenpoint sits Vessel Floats, a new flotation and deprivation therapy spa that draws on the continuing interest in concepts such as mindful living and wellness. Through considered interior design and visual identity, the latter developed by New York-based studio Order, Vessel Floats intends to further develop and bring […].
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
Booooooom
MAY 22, 2020
New color in the times of slow coffee. Terrence Caviar & Kristin Texeira. We’re crazy about the paintings of our friend Kristin Texeira, so we had the idea to make photos inspired by the elemental shapes and soothing color palettes that make up Kristin’s beautiful abstract compositions. Everyone under stay-in-place mandates (Kristin in upstate New York, myself in San Francisco, and Michelle in Columbus, Ohio), we collaborated remotely and were reliant on using items we already had in our pos
Under Consideration / Brand
MAY 4, 2020
“Multiple Choice”. Established in 2006, OLX (short for On Line eXchange) is a leading classifieds platform that allows users to buy, sell, or exchange used goods and services. Owned by OLX Group -- which owns another 18 similar platforms across the globe and across industries -- OLX is available in 25 countries around the world, from Brazil to India to South Africa and every month, hundreds of millions of people use OLX to find and sell everything from furniture to musical instruments, cars, hou
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Spoon Graphics
MAY 25, 2020
Download my new pack of textures to add detailed wood grain effects to your designs. After processing each photograph of wooden paneling to straighten and equalize the texture, the wood grain pattern was then extracted and exported as PNG files with transparent backgrounds. These PNG files preserve the details of the grain and make it easy to place the textures over your artwork.
Creative Review
MAY 13, 2020
From donation initiatives thriving on social media to a wealth of eye-catching posters from leading designers, the Covid-19 pandemic has seen a great number of charitable efforts and creative responses. Graphic designer Raissa Pardini – known for her energetic designs seen across the music industry – is bringing the two together in a new project that puts the fun in fundraising.
BP&O
MAY 12, 2020
Words by Richard Baird Tangent GC began as a Scandinavian organic garment and shoe care company developing products that intended to increase the life of clothing and footwear, and entered the organic skincare market in 2016. The longevity of skin being an understandable extension of that original intention. The company’s graphic identity, a typographical system designed by Essen International […].
Booooooom
MAY 15, 2020
Giorgiko (pronounced jee-OR-jee-koh) is the product of a collaborative experiment between Darren and Trisha Inouye melding minimal, expressive character illustration with large-scale classical painting. Giorgiko. Giorgiko’s Website. Giorgiko on Instagram.
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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.
Graphic Design Junction
MAY 14, 2020
Download Adobe illustrator brushes for vector illustrations and effects. If you’r are designer and looking for high quality brushes for Illustrator , this is the best place to download vector illustrator brushes. This list contains thirty brushes packs with tons of different style of illustrator brushes. These brushes are very high-resolution and included brushes are Hand Drawn Brushes, Watercolor Brushes , Paint Brushes, Ink Brushes and Vintage Brushes.
Just Creative
MAY 13, 2020
This post has been contributed by Nick Kanter. The history of the old cliche “a picture is worth a thousand words” is a murky and, honestly, boring one. However, this does not make it any less true. Journalists know it. Politicians know it. Comic book artists know it. Marketers definitely know it. When we are talking about landing pages , most of us still believe that copy almost exclusively drives conversions.
Tuts Plus
MAY 22, 2020
A restaurant's menu holds a lot of responsibility. A good one will ignite hunger cravings and give customers a rundown of what to expect. So make the design count! Now you can create enticing restaurant scenes with high-quality menu mockups. Great for websites, profile banners, and more, these visuals help designers and restaurateurs make compelling imagery fast.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
MAY 17, 2020
Emoji seems to have invaded every part of our culture. What started out as a niche feature for mobile phone users and computer geeks has become its own phenomenon. Now, we see these little characters on t-shirts, marketing campaigns and even not-so-funny feature films. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that emoji have become a sort-of common language.
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BP&O
MAY 13, 2020
Words by Richard Baird Both Sides Now, a title borrowed from Joni Mitchell’s famous song, is a solo exhibition of Argentinian contemporary artist Leandro Erlich’s work that took place at the Seoul Museum of Art between December 2019 and March 2020. Erlich’s installations, often receiving international acclaim, mirrors, reflective surfaces, water and other various materials to create optical […].
Creative Market
MAY 8, 2020
Zoom calls have transitioned from a predominantly work-related tool to a social app used to bring together family and friends all around the world. In the process, we're all trying to add a bit more fun and bring more personality into the whole experience of video conferencing. Whether you've become more intentional about the clothes you wear or your surroundings, hopping on a call is probably looking a little different lately.
Graphic Design Junction
MAY 12, 2020
Today we are featuring professional Graphic Designer and Illustrator artist Richard Davies , with his amazing digital illustration artwork. He is from Carmarthenshire, Wales. He has worked as a graphic designer and illustrator for almost fifteen years. Inspired by the movie poster and commercial art of his youth. He’s working is predominantly used in the entertainment and publishing industries.
onextrapixel
MAY 23, 2020
These days it is quite difficult to imagine a modern website without any dynamic elements. Small, big, medium-sized they — will be there on many websites. Web user interfaces. The post 7 Examples of Scroll-Triggered Animations in Web Design appeared first on Onextrapixel.
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Under Consideration / Brand
MAY 14, 2020
“Of the Same Stripe”. Set to open in the Fall of 2020, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum will document the history of the United States Olympic and Paralympic participation, and celebrate the achievements of Team USA's competitors. Located in southwest downtown Colorado Springs, CO - known as Olympic City USA -- construction on the project began in June of 2017 on a 1.7-acre site.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
MAY 15, 2020
A Complete Guide to CSS Functions – Yes, CSS has functions! Learn how they can benefit your projects with this in-depth guide. A case study of complex table design – A look at redesigning a feature for better usability. What to Do When a Web Design Client Leaves – Tips for making the best of an awkward situation and lost revenue. Creating an Accessible Range Slider with CSS – Use this tutorial to learn the finer points of form accessibility.
SpeckyBoy
MAY 18, 2020
All content management systems (CMS) have their own strengths and weaknesses. Some are meant for very niche offerings such as eCommerce or membership sites, while others are a jack-of-all-trades. In addition, these systems range from open source to proprietary. Beyond the market-leading WordPress, I have had the opportunity to dabble in a few other systems.
Creative Review
MAY 12, 2020
The canine world is an enduring source of inspiration for creatives, as seen with everything from The Gourmand’s annual calendar Dog Eat Dog , in which dogs named after food are photographed with their namesakes, to Jean Jullien’s playful take on man’s pesky best friend in illustrated card game Dodgy Dogs. As a studio full of dog lovers, getting the opportunity to build a pooch-focused brand from scratch was a dream project for New York based ThoughtMatter – which is exac
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.
The Logo Smith
MAY 29, 2020
The post An on-going Lettering Series Project of Famous Logos Designed by Rafael Serra aka FAEL appeared first on The Logo Smith All Content © 2020 TheLogoSmith.co |. Lettering Series Designed by Rafael Serra aka FAEL. Came across these wonderfully alternative takes of various famous logo and icon designs, by Rafael Serra aka FAEL. Rafael is a Portugal-based type designer and this is his ongoing series where he creates these unique letterforms for various words and logos.
Noupe
MAY 6, 2020
Are you sure everyone on the web can easily access your website? ‘Cause if it is not accessible to everyone, you are losing some great business opportunities! This article is going to put some shades on this “web accessibility” term. Also, you will get to know why it holds so much importance in today’s digital market. . So, What Does “Web Accessibility” Refer To?
Under Consideration / Brand
MAY 18, 2020
“Put all your Eggs in this one Basket”. (Est. 2019) Bowl & Basket is a new private label food and beverage brand from ShopRite , a retailers' cooperative of supermarkets with stores in six states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Design by. Pearlfisher (New York, NY, office). Related links. N/A. Relevant quote To take ShopRite beyond value, Pearlfisher ensured that the overall creative approach and vision conveys both quality and modernity and still ma
Speckyboy Design Magazine
MAY 26, 2020
When you think about it, buttons are the drivers of online interaction. We use them to add products to our shopping carts, learn more about a service, confirm our decisions and submit contact forms. In that way, a button click is sort of like the successful conclusion designers are trying to draw us to. That’s why it’s so important to choose buttons that both look great and provide obvious visual cues.
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?
Its Nice That
MAY 6, 2020
For many it’s a first chance to see within the famously secretive animation studio’s museum where photography is banned and tickets are scarce.
Creative Review
MAY 15, 2020
Tokyo 2020 might have fallen to the global coronavirus crisis , but Japan 2020 – the BFI’s new film season – is going full steam ahead in an online capacity, with a view to open in physical cinemas later this year. The season is showcasing filmmakers who helped to define over 100 years of Japanese cinema while shaking up movies on the world stage.
Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
MAY 19, 2020
Type designers love a good pangram. Pangrams, of course, are sentences that contain each letter of the alphabet at least once, of which the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog is surely the most famous. Lettering artists of the previous generation bequeathed us jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz; puzzlers are fond of the impossibly compact Mr Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx for its 26-letter world record.
Noupe
MAY 27, 2020
Drawing is a great way to express yourself. It’s therapy for your mind, and it’s relaxing for your soul. . You don’t need to spend all your money on different tools for drawing either, all you need is a digital sketchbook. You can even use your Android or iPad tablets for drawing and creating real art. . iPad and an Apple Pencil is a great combo for drawing, if you have these two you won’t be needing any other tools other than iPad drawing apps.
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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