Just Creative
AUGUST 10, 2020
This article was contributed by Nathan McKinley. The logo represents the most recognizable face of any business brand, and it can play a crucial role in creating a first impression that can stay in the minds of customers. Naturally, designing a strong logo is very important for any business brand. If designed well, a logo can quickly become a great asset for any business brand.
I Love Typography
AUGUST 20, 2020
Decorated or illuminated initials were an important part of medieval manuscripts for a thousand years. From luxurious gold and silver letters to plain drop capitals, they functioned to illustrate, commentate, and adorn the text. Learn their history and purpose, why they eventually went out of fashion, and what replaced them. The post Make the Letter Bigger appeared first on I Love Typography.
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Designer Daily
AUGUST 24, 2020
There are many graphic design tools and resources available in the market to guide and enhance your creativity. Besides various templates, icons, and user interface elements, high-quality vectors are as important. The designer toolbox naturally is a collection of various elements and out of all those the vector graphics are considered as the most versatile to use.
Spoon Graphics
AUGUST 3, 2020
The style of a pen stroke can completely change the perception of a lettering piece. Smooth, flowing calligraphy comes across as elegant and ceremonial, whereas faster and more direct strokes generate more of a raw and energetic mood. In today’s showcase I present 45 great examples of brush lettering with attitude! These lettering pieces are drawn with quick, aggressive strokes that in some cases don’t even give the ink time to transfer from the brush or marker to the paper.
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
AUGUST 2, 2020
If you’re looking to add unique elements to your Illustrator designs or want to spice up your projects, you’re going to need a quality Illustrator brush pack. While Illustrator is a popular design program, you can’t find as many resources for it as you can for Photoshop. That’s why we’ve decided to round up the best high-resolution brush packs for Illustrator so you don’t have to waste time searching for them online.
Noupe
AUGUST 17, 2020
In this article, I’m considering the concept of Japanese minimalism, its implications in the user interface design of digital products, and its key principles. Are you ready to immerse in Japanese art trends leveraged in the context of the modern digital world? “Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” — Lao Tzu.
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ID Identity Design
AUGUST 5, 2020
Justin Devillier is one of New Orleans’ most celebrated young chefs, recently winning the James Beard award. Justine is the highly-anticipated new restaurant from he and partner Mia Freiberger-Devillier (the husband-wife team behind La Petite Grocery and Balise). We partnered with architecture and interior design studio Farouki Farouki to create this new Vieux Carré gem.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
AUGUST 20, 2020
Great typography can elevate any project and make it look more polished. But when you take text and apply creative and unique text effects, you create a completely different work of art. In this roundup, we’ve gathered the best Adobe Illustrator tutorials for designing highly creative text effects. By following these tutorials, you’ll take your Illustrator skills to a whole new level and be able to make your design projects more interesting.
Spoon Graphics
AUGUST 31, 2020
I have to admit, I’m not much of a football fan (or should that be soccer?), but these concept kits really piqued my interest! I don’t even recognise some of the teams, but their fan-made strips provide some amazing alternative designs to the real kits, many of them staying true to the team colours, but with subtle enhancements such as patterns and colourful graphics.
SpeckyBoy
AUGUST 3, 2020
Among the first things you learn as a freelance web designer is that everybody wants a deal. Whether it’s a new client or an existing one, you’ll receive plenty of requests for discounted pricing. It’s almost as if they mistake a web design firm for a used car lot. While haggling over price is as old as commerce itself, we still need to make a living.
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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.
Under Consideration / Brand
AUGUST 14, 2020
“Soccer and the City”. (Est. 2019) " St. Louis City SC will begin play in MLS in 2023, joining Sacramento as the 29th and 30th teams in the league. The team will feature the only majority female-led ownership group in Major League Soccer, led by Carolyn Kindle Betz.". Design by. “A diverse group of over 20 local designers”. Related links. MLS press release.
Just Creative
AUGUST 3, 2020
Sunny Bonnell and Ashleigh Hansberger of Motto , a strategic branding agency in NYC, reveal what it takes to work with “rare breeds” – the leaders, rebels & entrepreneurs who do things differently. You’ll find out how to build more purposeful brands by better connecting with your clients, plus exactly how you can use your “vices” as superpowers, backed up by personal stories of failure and courage.
Noupe
AUGUST 21, 2020
After you give your blood, sweat, and tears filming the video and already get the footage you need, it’s time for the other half of the battle: the editing process. This process is where all those footages you have molded into a story. In this matter, you can say that smooth video editing is much more than just straight cutting. It’s creating an enticing story and vision.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
AUGUST 11, 2020
I’m going to talk about something controversial today. Everyone strap in and brace yourselves. Freelance designers like to encourage newbies entering the industry to learn as many skills. But generally speaking, these ‘generalists’ who try to design, code, write copy, take photographs, do SEO, and anything else they think their clients might need with an equal amount of success are inferior to design specialists in every way.
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Azure Magazine
AUGUST 27, 2020
“Everybody poops.” Or so says the almost-canonical children’s book. And, too, everybody pees. Not only does everyone pee, but everyone has a right to pee. From park pavilions and sprawling mall interiors to the depths of subway stations, public washrooms have provided countless individuals (myself included) much needed space to relieve themselves.
Creative Review
AUGUST 9, 2020
Penguin Classics has published a new series of ten sci-fi books that aim to give the genre something of a rebrand. The books included are written by authors from around the world and span the sci-fi spectrum, from satire to dystopia, yet they are unified by striking jacket designs that throw caution to the wind as far as mainstream sci-fi aesthetics are concerned.
Feature Shoot
AUGUST 15, 2020
Zacharia Kipkirui, one of the primary rhino caretakers at Ol Pejeta conservancy relaxes with Najin. The caretakers live away from their families at a small camp within eyesight of the rhino holding area for 20 days on and 6 days off. Peter Esegon, one the rhinos’ primary caretakers, scratches Najin in her hind leg. Esegon says that she likes to be scratched behind her ears and behind her leg, saying that it calms her down, and puts her at ease.
Just Creative
AUGUST 31, 2020
This article has been contributed by Roli Edema. One of the most widely acknowledged principles in business is the importance of understanding your customer and designing for them. A deep understanding of your target customer often translates into perceptive design decisions that help you build strong brand awareness. In recent years, the concept of human-centered design has emerged as an approach to involving the human perspective in all stages of the problem-solving process.
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Noupe
AUGUST 14, 2020
Planning to host a webinar? Not surprising. Webinars are a great tool for marketing, training, internal communication, and networking. If you use the right tools and plan your webinars well, you can use webinars to promote your business with a limited marketing budget. Additionally, the multi-dimensional experience and two-way communication of webinars makes them engaging and resultful.
Design Week
AUGUST 4, 2020
The Royal Mint can produce five billion coins every year. That enormous figure includes coins for circulation as well as commemorative designs which have an eclectic focus, from a full English breakfast to the Angel of the North. The government-owned organisation dates all the way back to 886, and was originally run from the Tower of London until it moved to London’s East End at the start of the 19th century.
Its Nice That
AUGUST 25, 2020
The overhauled identity features a redrawn word mark, a digital-friendly icon based on the car’s statuette, modern colours and typography, and a computer-generated set of patterns.
Creative Review
AUGUST 7, 2020
Designers will know that brand guidelines are only as useful as the client on the receiving end is prepared to make them. Months of work developing rigorous specifications and fine-tuning details can all be flushed away the moment they’re handed over. For clients, however, following – or indeed finding – guidelines can be an unwieldly, time-consuming chore, a never-ending trawl through a convoluted PDF that has likely been lost in a wormhole of computer files.
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.
Colossal
AUGUST 20, 2020
All images © Gladys Orteza, shared with permission. A visual insights designer at Nike by day, Gladys Orteza spends her off-hours transforming otherwise dull stock market charts into brilliant landscapes. The dips and rises of companies like Ford, Tesla, Apple, and Disney become rocky gorges and distant city skylines. Prompted by trading practices pre-pandemic, Orteza began to envision buildings and natural features when diving into Robinhood. “I remember sitting on the couch looking at o
Just Creative
AUGUST 9, 2020
This article has been contributed by Owen Baker. Building your backlink profile – the number and type of links to your website from other sites – is an essential component of any content marketing strategy. Guest posting, or writing content for other sites in exchange for a link back to yours, is one of the best ways to do it. According to the Content Marketing Institute, guest posts develop “off-site thought leadership” by catering to, and thereby drawing in, a new audience.
Noupe
AUGUST 21, 2020
Here’s the thing: No matter how great your web development idea is, you are likely to fail without the right management system. To become a successful web developer, you need to be effective in managing your web development projects. Doing so allows you to deliver a project on time. In case you are not aware, your revenues do not grow overnight.
Design Week
AUGUST 25, 2020
When Damilola Marcus and Seyi Olusanya started Lagos-based Dá Design Studio in 2015, they say there was a lack of “authenticity in the way brands were presented” At the time, brands were not as conscious of their design choices or catering to international audiences, though Olunsanya singles out Paystack as an exception. The studio created the branding for the payment app when it launched, and since then, he says that at least twenty Nigerian tech brands have launched — al
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?
Design You Trust
AUGUST 11, 2020
There is no doubt that a logotype is the face of the company; that‘s why each element of some of the most iconic and well-recognizable logos is carefully thought out, even though they might seem simple. More: Emanuele Abrate, Instagram, Facebook, Behance h/t: boredpanda Often, simplicity is the key. Selecting the right typeface and font for a logo is crucial and combined with size, color.
Creative Review
AUGUST 6, 2020
Fresh from designing their own building in Amsterdam, Thonik’s Nikki Gonnissen and Thomas Widdershoven discuss what sets graphic designers apart from architects and what that could mean for a more collaborative future. The post Should more graphic designers design buildings? appeared first on Creative Review.
Colossal
AUGUST 13, 2020
All images © Nastia Calaca, shared with permission. As a child, Nastia Calaca dreamed of illustrating the magical stories she devoured. Five years ago, she tried her hand at ceramics and soon was sculpting physical iterations of the anthropomorphized characters she loved. Her current collection of handmade creatures includes dopey pups and startled anteaters that are crafted with distinct personas in mind.
Just Creative
AUGUST 31, 2020
This article has been contributed by Patrick Chism. We’re more than halfway through 2020, and the freelance gig economy continues to expand full-throttle as a viable primary source of income for all types of professionals. Growing by 15% in the U.S. alone within the last decade, freelance work will only continue to thrive – presenting more and more opportunities to the solopreneurs and side hustlers of the world.
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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