Vandelay Design
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Web design needs to do several things at once. It must look good. It must make sure the navigation of the website is clear. It must hold an internet user’s attention for as long as possible. And it must gently lead the user down the conversion funnel, quietly urging the user to take whatever action. The post The Psychology of Color in Web Design appeared first on Vandelay Design.
Graphic Design Junction
SEPTEMBER 11, 2021
All designers make mistakes. No matter how experienced or amateur one can be, they could fall or trip over some and can affect their work in general. Knowing and being mindful of even the slightest mistakes in design can help you improve your work and develop better strategies. If you’re still an amateur, this article will be more helpful for you, because, in this post, we’ve listed some of the common mistakes made by graphic designers. 15 Common Mistakes Graphic Designers Do.
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Its Nice That
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
We talk to Helen Rabbitte AKA Hello Rabbit on designing all things music, and how the “trippy and bizarre” moments of decades gone inspire her.
Spoon Graphics
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
In today’s Adobe Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to create hand lettering illustrations the easy way! This popular art style combines a silhouette graphic and a quote that is distorted and manipulated to fit within the outline of the surrounding shape. Usually, illustrations like this would be created by hand with pen and paper, but it takes some artistic skills to be able to plan and craft the image with no ‘undo’ button!
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
I Love Typography
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Read the book, Typographic Firsts. In this second episode of our new monthly column, the legendary Steven Heller takes a closer look at one of his favorite fonts. Oposta , designed by Pedro Leal for DSType , with swashes aplenty, is an unabashed and oversized slab serif that seamlessly melds flamboyance and finesse. The post Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Oposta appeared first on I Love Typography.
Canny
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Content marketing. Is this a strategy that your business is already using or are you still contemplating whether it’s worthwhile? This type of marketing involves creating, publishing, and distributing content to either engage, inspire, or educate your audience. It’s designed to trigger a response that encourages your ideal consumer to buy. In terms of what it can do for your business, the potential is huge.
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Design Wizard
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Browse our YouTube video ideas and get inspired to start your new channel or go for a new angle. YouTube is a platform that can provide huge rewards for channels that get a lot of views. The most successful YouTubers can do what they love and make a significant amount of money at the same time. But if thinking of viral ideas was easy, everyone would be a YouTube influencer.
Logo Design Love
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
Born on May 3rd, 1931, in Çorum, Turkey, Sait Maden started writing poetry at the age of 13 and began learning French and Ottoman at the age of 16. He learned Spanish to be able to translate Lorca from his mother tongue. From 1949–55 he studied at IDGSA Painting Department in Istanbul, graduating from Bedri Rahmi Eyübo?lu Workshop. As a side job between 1955 and 1960 Maden designed logos, billboard displays, theatre decors, and cinema posters.
Spoon Graphics
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Textures with lots of detailed grainy speckles are my most-used type of texture resource. They are useful for adding subtle texturing to backgrounds, or for giving text and objects a letterpress style ink stamp effect. The textures in this collection are actually the same ones I used in my Free Ink Stamp Texturizer kit , but reprocessed to create seamlessly repeating graphics.
HONGKIAT
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
(Guest writer: Tarif Kahn). Web design can get complicated, especially when it’s difficult to know where to put your focus. As a designer, having a concrete goal to work towards is vital. Reaching that goal is how we measure our success. But when the question revolves around our main focus for a page or a site overall, answering that question is what enables us to set our goal.
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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.
Canny
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
We often get asked about what our ‘packages’ look like, or how much they cost. The issue with answering that question is: we don’t offer branding packages. we don’t offer web development packages. Our content offering does come at different levels similar to traditional content marketing packages, but we also offer so many other content marketing services that the content marketing services we do offer end up looking more like bespoke offerings anyway!
Creative Market
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Iris: a flower with sword-shaped leaves, the Greek goddess of rainbows, the part of your eye that lets light in. As we discover what this new normal can look like, here’s a color that captures our quest for the unknown. The curiosity in experiencing familiar places with new eyes. Cosmic Iris is a blue-to-purple hue that takes us to a place of wonder.
Design Wizard
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Good student council ideas are hard to come by. That’s why you are here. If you are preparing to run for student council, you will need some solid ideas that can be the foundation of your campaign. With some planning and research, you can start to understand which ideas will work best for your campaign and put a pull strategy together. Devising a campaign strategy is easy.
We And The Color
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Graphic paintings and bold colors by Brazilian illustrator Douglas Lopes. Douglas Lopes is a black Brazilian illustrator with a background in graphic design and advertising. He started illustrating professionally in 2017. Today, he mostly focuses on editorial illustration for books, newspapers, and magazines. Below you can see a small selection of illustrations created by Douglas Lopes.
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Spoon Graphics
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
In today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial I’m going to share some tips and techniques for creating vintage badge logos. This popular design style is based on the way brand identities were created in previous centuries, with hand-lettered layouts that clearly described the company, unlike modern logo designs of today that are condensed into a simple icon graphic.
Eye on Design
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Two things about capitalism: graphic design is totally bound up with it; and it really has to end. . You won’t hear much debate about this first point, only a dizzying range of views about how capitalism and design relate. One diagnoses design as commodity culture full-stop, while another celebrates it as an engine of innovation. Yet another sees it as a basic human capacity to solve problems, which only became entangled with capital during the Industrial Revolution.
SpeckyBoy
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Infographics are one of those elements that have become equally popular in both print and web design. Regardless of the medium, these graphics help readers to better understand a concept or process. At their best, infographics take something complicated and turn them into a highly visual, yet simplified experience. The web offers its own unique advantages for infographics: Interactivity and responsiveness.
Creative Market
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Note-taking in 2021 is easier and more powerful than ever. There are plenty of feature-packed apps that give you some smart ways to make and keep track of your important and not-so-important notes, but which note-taking apps stand out above the rest and have those extra features that make them perfect for creatives to use? Let’s take a look at 10 beautifully designed note-taking apps that have some unique, visual note-taking features that are ideal for creatives.
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In today’s competitive markets, how do you make sure that your content not only stands out but performs well? How can you predict whether certain design choices will result in clicks, engagement, downloads, and other drivers of ROI? Shutterstock’s Creative Insights Report (Q3) is your window into the hottest trends that are transforming the creative world.
Design Wizard
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Discover creative advertising ideas to stop your target audience in their tracks and stand out from your competitors. Boost your brand identity with a unique ad campaign and increase sales to grow your business. Creating fresh advertising content that hooks your customers is getting trickier as attention spans shorten the huge number of ads that fight for your target audience’s attention.
We And The Color
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
Graphic designer Charline Groën created a beautiful brand identity for Andréa Peronne. Charline Groën is an art director and graphic designer based in Paris. She is passionate about typography and lettering. Charline loves to combine letters, graphics, and illustrations to create unique and colorful visuals. For Andréa Peronne, Charline Groën has created a unique brand identity.
Spoon Graphics
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
Access All Areas members have a fantastic collection of vector textures to download this week, courtesy of Shapeshift. These vintage engraving lines textures are based on the detailed linework that forms an engraved illustration. This pack contains 10 vector graphics with various wavy and circular line patterns. Use them as backgrounds to your designs or clip them within text and shape outlines to add interesting texturing effects to your work.
HONGKIAT
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Infographics are one of the best ways to present data without making your audience yawn with boredom. There are a lot of people who have impressive data, but what they don’t know is how to create informative and well-designed infographics. Fortunately, there are many infographic tools that will help you create v ivid charts and graphs within minutes and without much effort.
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.
Canny
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
SEO stands for search engine optimisation. This is the process of refining your website so that it is the most appealing to Google and other search engines. This process involves curating content and pages for user experience and sending all of the right quality signals to the Google crawler. It also involves creating a sensible internal linking structure so that the Google crawler (and users) can navigate the site and figure out what content is important and what content isn’t.
Creative Market
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Artists looking to increase their income streams usually turn to selling merchandise that feature their art, but working with traditional business models can be a challenge to set up and sustain. With print-on-demand, artists like you can earn more without dealing with the enormous tasks of production, inventory, and shipment. And by using Creative Market’s vast library of graphic design and digital assets, you can start a print-on-demand business that stands out.
Richard Bernabe
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
For many years I’ve been working to create online photography classes with KelbyOne, a worldwide leader in photography education and Photoshop/Lightroom instruction. The post Richard Bernabe Online Photography Classes appeared first on Richard Bernabe.
UX Collective
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Why I joined Brilliant.org. Learning something new takes trial and error. You make a hypothesis, then you discover if you were right or if your thinking was off. Learning is a give-and-take process, and it can be messy?—?you’re muddling through something new and often challenging. To learn, you need space to explore freely, you need to experiment, you need to be free to make mistakes, and you need to enjoy the journey.
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?
Spoon Graphics
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
In today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial I’m going to take you through the process of creating this cool type-based artwork that combines wavy distortions with 3D text effects. It’s ideal for creating interesting quote art or visually interesting poster designs. We’ll begin by applying the wavy distortion to the type, then I’ll show you how you can really enhance your text effects with Illustrator’s 3D tools.
HONGKIAT
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
There is lot happening this month in the tech industry; from Docker updating their business and plans , prominent WordPress businesses being acquired, Web3, NFT , as well as new resources and updates keep coming in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This is why we’ve put a few of these to keep you updated. First, we have some cool JavaScript libraries to create animations, a CLI tool to help you manage and deploy your WordPress site on DigitalOcean, there are also a couple of resources on CSS cate
Its Nice That
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
We talk to the Illinois-born and Chicago-based young artist on the vast expanse of her incredible talents, and marvel at her unwavering positive disposition.
Creative Market
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Trends give us a hint of the underlying patterns inspiring creative professionals around the globe. As we’ve mentioned here before, design trends are meant to serve as starting points to kickstart your own creative process. A set of insights to spark a design that is still uniquely yours. Inspire your perspective as we go over some of this Fall’s most popular design themes.
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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