crowdspring

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. startup ecosystem for many decades. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Best startup city rankings have reflected this truth for a long time. But this is becoming less true today, as more and more entrepreneurs find their way across the U.S.

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A List Apart

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Doesn’t CSS seem like magic? Well, in this third installment of “ URL to Interactive ” we’ll look at the journey that your browser goes through to take your CSS from braces to pixels. As a bonus, we’ll also quickly touch on how end-user interaction affects this process. We have a lot of ground to cover, so grab a cup of <insert your favorite drink’s name here>, and let’s get going.

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Lisa Maltby

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

If you go to Chatsworth House over Christmas you will see it transformed for their ‘Once upon a time’ themed trail. This year is all about the love of stories – from Cinderella to Mary Poppins – with lots of fun things to find along the trail. I was commissioned to create the A5 trail handout leaflet and so I created it as an old storybook, with the inner page spread giving the illusion of an open book.

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Smashing Magazine Graphics

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like&hellip; December (2018 Wallpapers Edition) It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like&hellip; December (2018 Wallpapers Edition) Cosima Mielke 2018-11-30T08:01:00+00:00 2024-04-15T18:04:54+00:00 What are you looking forward to in December? Spending time with family and friends during the holidays, watching the birds gather in your snowy backyard, or celebrating “Bathtub Party Day” maybe?

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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

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Envato Tuts+

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Visual content is king on social media. Whether you’re an individual or brand, if you want to establish your online identity and get noticed, you need to use eye-catching and engaging social media graphics. . In this post, we'll look at some important elements of successful social media graphics, and then we'll look at some simple ways to make them with social media image templates. 7 Elements of Awesome Social Media Graphics. 1.

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Graphic Design USA

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Here are some tips for cultivating an effective relationship with a digital marketing agency to get the results you expect.

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A List Apart

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Doesn’t CSS seem like magic? Well, in this third installment of “ URL to Interactive ” we’ll look at the journey that your browser goes through to take your CSS from braces to pixels. As a bonus, we’ll also quickly touch on how end-user interaction affects this process. We have a lot of ground to cover, so grab a cup of <insert your favorite drink’s name here>, and let’s get going.

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Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

A short post for those who have not seen my latest output: 'The Fox and the Cat' watercolour and gouache 24 x 13cm 'Shoemaking Elves' watercolour and gouache 24 x 13cm 'The Raven' watercolour and gouache 24 x 13cm 'The Cat and Mouse In Partnership' watercolour and gouache 24 x 13cm Some of you may have spotted these illustrations are all inspired by Grimm's Fairytales.

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Lisa Maltby

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Henleys Sweets needed a re-brand to encourage more customer sales and engagement from their website. We wanted to convey the company’s unique selling points, portraying that they are extremely knowledgeable about confectionery but also approachable and friendly with excellent customer service. The logo was developed from a hand-lettered device in order to convey tradition and authenticity and a typographic device was created from the strap-line: ‘connoisseurs of confectionery’ which complemented

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Envato Tuts+

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Color theory is one of the first things graphic designers get taught about. It deconstructs the subject of color, turning it into simple rules that can be easily applied in your work. It teaches you about the color wheel, primary/secondary/tertiary colors, color temperature, color harmonies, and color wheel psychology. However, because this fundamental color theory is so fundamental, it simplifies certain issues and skips over some nuances.

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Advertiser: Issuu

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.

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Inspo Finds

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Break Maiden have designed a strong, bright and first-rate brand identity for Olipop drinks brand. The first clinically backed digestive health beverage was desperately in need of a brand refresh and Break Maiden have they done just that. With links to old cola style typography, they’ve created a strong type approach with a classic look. This gives the packaging a fun, nostalgic look and feel with allusions to the simple and wholesome nature ascribed to many products of the past.

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crowdspring

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Online shopping grows in popularity every year. Between 2014 and 2017, the number of online shoppers increased from 1.32 billion people to 1.66 billion people – an increase of roughly 26%. And, the number of digital shoppers is projected to increase to 2.14 million by 2021. This means that more packages are arriving in homes every day – packages that should be ambassadors for your brand.

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A List Apart

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In our previous segment, “ Server to Client ,” we saw how a URL is requested from a server and learned all about the many conditions and caches that help optimize delivery of the associated resource. Once the browser engine finally gets the resource, it needs to start turning it into a rendered web page. In this segment, we focus primarily on HTML resources, and how the tags of HTML are transformed into the building blocks for what will eventually be presented on screen.

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Emmeline Illustration

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Autumn is by far my favourite time of year; the town I live in just turns into a giant colour palette of my favourite tones and I get to wrap up in cosy coats and scarves (who am I kidding, I wear scarves all year round!). My photo reel is full of snaps of gorgeous yellow ochre leaves, bright orange pumpkins and firey-coloured woodland. These colour collections definitely find themselves spilling over into my illustration work throughout the year!

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A Graphic Design Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Hi Guys, A client based in Lagos, is looking for a full time graphic designer, please see details below and if you are interested send your resume in PDF with a link to your online portfolio to mydesignsfouryou [at] gmail.com, the subject of the email should be GRAPHIC DESIGNER/AG11 otherwise your email will not be attended to. Requirements. Managing client/Marketers’ proposals from typesetting through to design, print and production.

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Viktorija Illustration

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

I loved working on these series of illustrations for Afternoon Crumbs last year (bakery run by two amazing young women who happen to be sisters). It’s a lovely family business and Nicole (creative and baking side of business) is such a joy to work with. I created a series of illustrations which became cards, notebooks, pins and backings for these pins.

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Inspo Finds

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

In 2016, Leeds based design agency, Passport , designed the much acclaimed brand identity for The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. The biennial award is awarded to any British or UK-based artist, of any age, at any stage in their career, who has made a significant contribution to the development of contemporary sculpture. The award returned for its second instalment in 2018 and The Hepworth asked Passport to be involved again.

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crowdspring

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

We all have days when we want a delicious dinner delivered right to our door. Luckily, many restaurants and meal delivery kit services are ready and waiting to fulfill that dream. But, poor packaging design decisions can ruin the experience. Let’s take a closer look at why food packaging is important and how you can improve your own packaging to stand out in a crowded marketplace.

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A List Apart

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In our previous segment, “ Server to Client ,” we saw how a URL is requested from a server and learned all about the many conditions and caches that help optimize delivery of the associated resource. Once the browser engine finally gets the resource, it needs to start turning it into a rendered web page. In this segment, we focus primarily on HTML resources, and how the tags of HTML are transformed into the building blocks for what will eventually be presented on screen.

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Emmeline Illustration

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Last week I expanded my map and travelled down to Guildford in Surrey to kick off the first in a series of Artist Talks run at The Boileroom. Fellow illustrator Andrew Thomson invited me down to speak about my illustration career, answer insightful questions, and run a drawing workshop for an audience of wonderful, creative people! It was so great to spend time talking honestly about my career in the creative industries, show some of my secret projects, give an in-depth step-by-step look into my

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Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

I'm busy getting things framed and wrapped for my first show at the Tesco Superstore Showroom in Calne. It is very easy to get there and of course there is a huge free car park. From the outside, as you look at the front of the superstore, I will be in a large seperate room to the left which has its own entrance from the car park. Here you can see the listing on calnewiltshire.com.

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Graphics Expert Ltd.

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Photo Editing. “Images can speak a million things”. There are several features you can change in photo editing to enhance the image creatively to suit your preferences. Below is a discussion on some features you can alter. Selecting a part of the image to change. You can use a lasso, marquee, magic wand or vector-based pen tools. Repositioning, altering and blending the layers.

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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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Six Leaf Design

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Every once in a while an email floats into my inbox asking me about how to get started freelancing. “ Where do you get your clients from? How do you price your services? What’s the most important skill you’ve learned?” All great questions and I love to answer them when I have the time. So, I thought I’d put together some of my thoughts and give you my (possibly unsolicited) advice on getting started as a freelancer.

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Illustration Art

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

George Lichty is an important data point for those trying to chart the line between loose drawing and drawing like a careless slob. Not everyone cares about that line. This may be due to the Great Acceleration: internet audiences with unlimited content and shorter attention spans, less patience for pictures that don't move, a coarsening of taste. It may also be due to a lack of interest in the kinds of pleasures that excellent drawing can provide.

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Enviromeant

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Drakes Supermarkets is Australia’s largest independent grocery retailer. When they asked We’re Open to reimagine what the interior of their new Wayville Supermarket, they wanted to create an in-store environment that felt like it belonged to the Drakes brand and where customers would love to shop. The graphic design studio based in Adelaide, South Australia, brought in a good friend of the studio, Jaquie Hagan, and got down to work to develop an interior and signage system that reflected t

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Graphic Design USA

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Ondrej Kruk, President of Pantone/X-Rite, discusses four shifts that have increased the demand for getting not just the color, but the appearance, right.

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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?

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Logo Geek

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

If you want to learn logo design there are heaps of premium books and training resources out there that you can invest in, but if you want to learn on a budget thankfully there’s plenty of free resources out there too, but it can be quite overwhelming to know where to start and what to […]. The post How to learn logo design for free first appeared on Logo Geek.

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Graphic Springs

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

We all imagine Santa as the bearded old man in his iconic white and red suit, black belt, matching boots and reindeer drawn sleigh. But what if Father Christmas was rebranded for today? We asked people how they would modernise Santa. Based on the results, we've updated Santa's winter wardrobe and transformed his transportation. In it, he ditches his iconic suit and adopts some skinny jeans, trainers, and a hover-board to name just a few.

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Six Leaf Design

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Hello! It’s the second to last month of the year, can you believe it? The weather in Denver this week took a turn for the colder, so it’s really feeling like autumn now. It’s been a crazy last few months if I’m being honest. I’ve been working my patootie off to get everyone’s sites launched before the end of the year, and I launched FOUR client websites in October (check them out here by the way: Gray’s Compass , Cut The Fluff Consulting , Dialect Interior Design , and Stacey Russell Booth ).

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A List Apart

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In our previous article we described how the browser uses CSS to render beautiful pixels to the user’s screen. Although modern CSS can (and should!) be used to create highly interactive user experiences, for the last mile of interactivity, we need to dynamically update the HTML document. For that, we’re going to need JavaScript. Bundle to bytecode. For a modern web application, the JavaScript that the browser first sees will typically not be the JavaScript written by a developer.

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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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