Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

12 Graphic Design Tips to Boost Your Design Skills Being a graphic designer can be very rewarding as the job gives you many opportunities to express yourself creatively. On the other hand, graphic design can be challenging as well. That's why most designers aim to improve their skills and become more comfortable with what they do. Hence, here are twelve graphic design tips to boost your design skills. #1 Evaluate Your Current Skillset First, you need to evaluate your current skill set.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Many clients don't fully appreciate what graphic designers can offer them. Leading practitioners explain why and offer advice on the way forward. There are many good things about graphic design, including the potential to earn a decent salary, engage in hybrid or remote working, and do fulfilling, interesting work. But while those things are all important, there's something else that's often missing and eats away at the very heart of us: respect.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Design and Illustrations by Giovani Flores using GT Pressura It's Valentine's Day this week, a celebration of love, passion and obsession. And if there's one obsession that designers feel truly passionate about, it's typography. But while font choice may be deeply personal, that doesn't mean you can't play the field once in a while. After all, passions ebb and flow; similarly, designers' love affairs with fonts can sometimes be fleeting – like short, intense affairs that come and go.

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Spoon Graphics

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Traditionally, holographic effects were only achievable by printing onto holographic foil and paper, but with a large portion of our design work now being consumed on screens we can recreate those colourful holographic effects digitally with the help of creative tools and design resources. In this roundup I collate 40 of the best holographic textures, graphics and assets out there, including both free downloads and high quality products. 5 Free HOLOGRAPHIC TEXTURES from Indieground 10 Free HOLOG

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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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Graphic Design Junction

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Procreate Brushes set was created to help you try out different techniques and styles, such as oil painting, watercolor, pencil sketch, digital illustration and more. With the best Procreate brushes you can create amazing realistic illustrations, drawing portraits and landscape for newspaper, magazine and websites. Download the high quality 31 brush sets with over 2500 hand-crafted , pro-quality brushes, all finely tuned to take advantage of Procreate 5’s powerful brush engine.

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SpeckyBoy

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The ability to manipulate text content’s shape and path are powerful. It allows designers to create a unique flow and make specific elements stand out. But it seems like these effects have always worked better in print design. While web designers have had access to floating images around text, other bells and whistles have required hacks. That’s changing, thanks to modern CSS and JavaScript.

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Graphic Design Junction

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

A logo should be designed in such a way that it is easily recognizable or memorable to its target consumers. Take the example of the Nike Swoosh, it serves as a simple logo and is one of the most creative logo design of this world. Your logo presented the essence of your brand to your clients. Your company will discombobulate your target demographic if your logo does not complement your company’s identity.

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We And The Color

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Available for download on Adobe Stock, with this 3D magazine mockup, you can create hyper-realistic visualizations in Adobe Photoshop. The skilled team of Adobe Stock contributor @Pixelbuddha created this fully customizable open magazine mockup. Based on two standard sizes A4 and US Letter, the mockup was made using hyper-realistic 3D renderings. Using this Photoshop file, you can visualize the style of an open magazine with any content you want in no time.

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Graphic Design Junction

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Amazing hand lettering and typography design, digital lettering quotes with positive vibes for your inspiration. Nowadays graphic designers and artists are using watercolor, chalkboard, paper, and gold glam textures to make attractive inspirational quotes and lettering designs with goodtype thoughts. Today I’ve gathered amazing lettering quotes, calligraphy and typography designs for type lovers.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Deciding what to charge is one of the biggest challenges of being a freelancer. But you don't have to work it out all by yourself. We've rounded up some great advice from professional creatives, based on the benefit of their experience. It's one of the most maddening things about freelancing: how do you set your rates?

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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.

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Just Creative

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Do you know a graphic designer, artist or illustrator? Yes? Ok, how hard is it buying gifts for these creative folk? I know, right? We feel your pain and thought there’s no better way for us to help, being creatives ourselves than to offer up a list chock full of great gifts for the creative in your life, whether they be an artist, graphic designer, or illustrator.

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I Love Typography

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Read the book, Typographic Firsts A brief post today to introduce you to three quality free fonts. There are plenty of poor quality free fonts out there. Some are missing important characters, others are just poorly drawn, or are bastardized versions of popular font families. But some $0 fonts are great quality and make welcome additions to anyone’s font library. […] The post Three Free Fonts appeared first on I Love Typography.

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BP&O

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The hamburger is an American icon. It conjures associations with all-American diners and drive-thrus, backyard cookouts and family gatherings; American values, such as entrepreneurship, as well as less positive attributes of Western countries, like obesity. The burger’s visual identity is inseparable from its history and has been solidified time and time again as the big fast food franchises conquered the The post Tugg by Kurppa Hosk appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.

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Spoon Graphics

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This grainy heatmap effect gives a photo an abstract, retro vibe with its ultra-bright colours that resemble thermal imaging. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create it using three examples, each with a different colour scheme. First we’ll convert the photo with a gradient map to generate the surreal colours, then the addition of some blur and grainy filters really helps to enhance the effect.

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Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A/B Testing in UX Design: Boosting User Experience and Engagement Welcome to the world of UX design , where every pixel and click counts. As a UX designer, you know that user experience is everything and is not just about making things pretty. It's about creating a compelling and engaging experience that keeps users returning for more. But how do you know if your design is working?

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Colours are a fundamental part of graphic design, but even using them in a seemingly 'incorrect' way can produce striking, eye-catching results. And it's these colour schemes that rip up the rule book, which is the focus of a new book recently released by Counterprint. The book is titled Colour Clash and is the latest offering from editor Jon Dowling, who also provides a foreword to this graphic design deep dive.

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Just Creative

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Regardless of whether you’re looking to record music files, edit files to go along with your video, or even work on your podcast, finding the best audio editing software/sound designing software should be at the top of your priority list. Working on software that’s most suitable for your work as well as what skills you wish to develop is crucial.

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I Love Typography

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Read the book, Typographic Firsts Typefaces for editorial design need to be expansive enough to support complex typographic hierarchies. They need to be readable (people read magazines & blogs) — but they also need to fulfill roles as titles, captions, pull quotes, drop caps, etc. The post Fonts for Editorial Design appeared first on I Love Typography.

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BP&O

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Train related rebrands are often some of the most divisive when it comes to the design community Twittering classes. That’s perhaps unsurprising when you consider the ubiquity of Standards Manual books on design studio coffee tables – and the fact that they’re among the rare graphics projects that get broadsheet attention (for better or worse, as the swathes of National The post Eurostar by Design Studio appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.

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Spoon Graphics

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Access All Areas members have a great collection of logo templates in the style of outdoors badges and patches to download this week, courtesy of JeksonGraphics. These travel and adventure inspired designs feature camping, hiking and mountaineering graphics in a retro style. Edit the text to create custom artwork for T-Shirts, stickers, logos, and more!

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Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

How to Start a Design Blog to Grow Your Business Well, well, well, if it isn't my fellow design ninjas! Listen up, my friends, because I've got some important news for you – if you're not blogging , you're missing out on a chance to level up your business. It's like not having a secret weapon in your arsenal. And who doesn't want a secret weapon, right?

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Putting together samples of your work for art directors, editors, and others might sound straightforward, but many illustrators find it anything but. We share some tips from the Creative Boom community on presenting your illustrations in the best possible light. How do you create a successful illustration portfolio? It's a question that many have asked, and recently a tweet along these lines from Ellis Brown , an illustrator based in Portsmouth, caught out our eye.

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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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Just Creative

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For business growth, a “business card” is one of the most important aspects of gaining an audience. Though people have evolved and are used to technology, a few people still consider and follow the old traditions. These days, it’s essential to establish your authority and advance your reputation, performance, and capabilities wherever you go. So, it’s important to start with the ideal modern business card template.

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I Love Typography

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Read the book, Typographic Firsts Expressive script fonts are a great way to introduce some energy into your designs. They can be use in standalone words as logos, for packaging, and in editorial design. They're also a great way to change pace as part of a system of typographic hierarchy, as headers or subheads. Here are 3 of our favorite expressive script fonts to get you started.

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BP&O

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

‘The weaker the brand character, the greater the need for distinctive visuals’. Said someone, at some stage. And of course, the principle works in reverse. It’s an important point: if the core is strong, the exterior can – and often should – be more malleable, softer, less obviously an exercise in ‘branding’. Countries, cities, communities; we all have a sense The post Urban Climb by Base Design appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.

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Spoon Graphics

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

If you’re a keen photographer—as either a hobbyist or a professional—this new bundle from Design Cuts will be right up your street! Inside you’ll discover beautiful overlays, actions, presets, templates and more. Whether you’re looking to clean up your wedding or portrait photography, apply visual effects to your images, or add the finishing touches to make your work look better than ever, this collection has you covered!

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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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Graphic Design Junction

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Setup your portfolio websites with these Creative WordPress Themes. A modern, minimalist creative Portfolio WordPress Themes built with state-of-the-art technology including HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery frameworks , offering extreme functionality and speed. The WordPress portfolio themes are SEO friendly for ultimate discoverability, and is 100% responsive and retina ready, ensuring your portfolio looks perfect and functions flawlessly on any device.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock We all suffer burnout, but you don't have to suffer alone. Ahead of this year's Valentine's Day, leading creatives share their top tips on reigniting your passion for creativity. Are you feeling uninspired, burnt out, or just plain tired of your creative work? It happens to us all, but most of us don't really talk about it.

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Just Creative

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Grunge textures are easily any designer’s favorite effect because of the organic ruggedness they extend to designs. Not only do they add depth to illustrations and works of art, but they also help humanize photos too, making them fit vintage catalogs even better. From purpose-driven advocacy campaigns to straightforward social media banners, there’s a lot the grunge aesthetic can pull off.

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I Love Typography

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Read the book, Typographic Firsts Sisteron , from the brilliant folk at Beasts of England Foundry, achieves a delicate and beautiful balance between stellar and stupendous. From vintage outer-space to Art Nouveau and Jugendstil, Sisteron is a typeface that evokes the ’20s, ’70s, and the 21st century. The post Stellar Serifs: Sisteron appeared first on I Love Typography.

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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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