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.
SpeckyBoy
AUGUST 4, 2020
The web design community is great at sharing knowledge. But quite often what we share has some prerequisites attached. You’d likely need to already be a web designer or developer to get something out of it. But what about beginners? If you’re just starting your journey in web design, you may feel left out. With all of the expert tutorials out there, it can be hard to know where to begin.
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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.
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.
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
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.
BP&O
AUGUST 25, 2020
Text by Richard Baird. The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) is dedicated to the artistic and professional development of young exceptional classical musicians. Working with ANAM for many years, Studio Brave have sought to help the institution evolve and grow their brand, with both drawing their inspiration from the energy and creativity of the students.
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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.
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.
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.
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BP&O
AUGUST 6, 2020
Text by Richard Baird. Oji is a sushi brand of firsts. It is the first in New Zealand to use fully recyclable and biodegradable packaging and the first to use all free-range products. This is a significant move forward and marks the brand out from well-established competitors. Oji opened in New Zealand with two locations in […]. The post Oji by Seachange appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.
Just Creative
AUGUST 24, 2020
While not a household name like some of their competitors, Gaomon continuously crafts incredible tablets for graphic designers and we felt that it was beyond time that we share with you, our loyal readers, what the best Gaomon tablets for graphic designers are. By the end of the article, we hope that you’ll agree that the next time you’re in the market for a new graphics tablet, the products that Gaomon offers will be at the top of your list.
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 28, 2020
Thumbnail to Full Width Image Animation – Utilize this stunning effect to introduce new content to your readers. Slate – A tool that helps you create beautiful, intelligent, responsive API documentation. Volt – Create something beautiful with this free Bootstrap 5 dashboard theme. Omatsuri – A set of browser tools to fit your everyday workflow. All design projects should start in a Google Doc – The benefits of collaboration before starting up those UI tools.
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Graphic Design USA
AUGUST 22, 2020
Thoughts on working with Jim Erickson, unflappable, patient and humorous, and one of America’s leading photographers.
Spoon Graphics
AUGUST 12, 2020
Follow along with today’s Photoshop video tutorial to create a bold and vibrant illustration of a snake. We’ll start with a loose, initial sketch, then I’ll show you some helpful brush settings for accurately outlining your illustration. The artwork is brought to life when colour is added, then it really starts to take shape when you apply the stipple shading.
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.
Just Creative
AUGUST 31, 2020
This article has been contributed by Colleen Gratzer. If you’re not providing brand style guidelines after designing a logo, you’re leaving money on the table, leaving the client without guidance and giving your hard work the opportunity to be mucked up. A lot of designers will design a logo and, at the end of the project, deliver the logo files and then be done.
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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.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
AUGUST 16, 2020
I’ve likely said it a million times and in various ways: there’s something incredibly special about the web design community. Sure, it’s highly-competitive. Yet is comprised of people who are willing to share what they know. Paying it forward seems to be a way of life. This has always stood out as one of the main benefits of being in the industry. But perhaps never more so than right now, when the world can seem out of control and devoid of common courtesy.
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.
Spoon Graphics
AUGUST 7, 2020
Access All Areas members have a fab collection of Lightroom Presets to download this week, courtesy of PhotographyPla.net. The Fabulous Fades set contains 20 Lightroom presets for creating beautiful and stylish faded effects for your photos. Some of the presets apply darker fade effects and others produce lighter photos, all achieved with just a single click on your RAW, DNG, and JPG 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.
Booooooom
AUGUST 6, 2020
A selection of work by Boston-based painter and illustrator Kseniya Galper. Kseniya Galper on Instagram.
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.
Graphic Design USA
AUGUST 12, 2020
By setting aside old-fashioned design tropes, campaigns can create authentic connections to 2020 voters. Political design is evolving to better represent diverse voices of candidates and communicate with citizens seeking change.
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.
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
AUGUST 31, 2020
Annual reports are a window into your company. They provide customers, investors, potential clients, shareholders, and employees with an overview of your business’ key achievements and annual performance. They generally include the following information: Company history Vision and mission statement Message from the CEO or Chairperson Overview of the business (eg. business segments, products or services, business operations , etc.
Spoon Graphics
AUGUST 26, 2020
In today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial I’m going to show you a really useful technique for creating isometric art, in particular an isometric city scene with loads of skyscrapers and bright neon lights. Usually, isometric illustrations would be drawn with the help of a grid, but this method makes it easy to build simple 3D objects in a range of shapes and sizes.
Booooooom
AUGUST 7, 2020
Yadi Liu. Yadi Liu’s Website. Yadi Liu on Instagram.
Just Creative
AUGUST 4, 2020
This article has been contributed by Georgie Peru. So you have a stunningly designed website that’s generating a lot of traffic, now what? Time to generate conversions! Admittedly, you’ve done a lot of the legwork by driving traffic to your website in the first place, but unfortunately, that’s not going to be enough to sustain your business or push sales.
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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