Noupe
AUGUST 19, 2020
As you move forward in your career, your logo designing skills should be honed as well if you keep practising it. However, to come up with something extraordinary, that would create a striking impression; simply practising is not enough. Listed below are 5 steps that can help you improve your logo designing skills and create a logo that leaves a lasting impression on the minds of your target audience. 1.
SpeckyBoy
AUGUST 18, 2020
Everyone has had the kind of clients that you wish you could punch – the scope creepers , the micromanagers, the non-payers. It’s very aggravating, but it is a long-established part of being a freelancer. But there’s a certain kind of client in particular who is as much a danger to themselves as they are to you. I’m talking, of course, about the panicky clients; the clients who see everything as the most urgent emergency ever.
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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.
Spoon Graphics
AUGUST 21, 2020
Access All Areas members have a great set of Lightroom Presets to download this week, courtesy of PSD Stack. These Travel & Beach Presets are designed to give your holiday and vacation photos a bright and high-contrast appearance for a nostalgic, retro effect. 10 photo effect Presets are included, each with an endearing name to complement its style, including Morning Punch, Soft Sand, and Orange & Aqua.
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
Just Creative
AUGUST 20, 2020
Since its introduction in 2011, the Chromebook has taken a firm place in the laptop market and has offered professionals and graphic designers alike a laptop that is built to handle any of the daily tasks that they need to accomplish. Choosing the best one for your needs, however, can be a difficult proposition with all the choices out there. To help, we wanted to narrow our focus to help you pick the best Chromebook you can use as a graphic designer.
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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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.
The Die Line
AUGUST 20, 2020
Not only do botany artist Maria Sibylla Merianher's beautiful depictions of plants and bugs continue to influence naturalist illustrators, but they also serve as one of the inspirations for the bottle design of distiller Marthe Bøhn’s latest spirit, the cask-aged aquavit Gullmunn Spritfabrikk.
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 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.
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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.
Envato Tuts+
AUGUST 18, 2020
Created by legendary type designer Adrian Frutiger and released in 1988, Avenir is one of the most widely used typefaces in corporate branding. Repeatedly voted by designers as one of the most beautifully designed typefaces, the Avenir font family was Frutiger’s masterwork and continues to be popular in logo design and brand identities today. Read more about Avenir’s origin story and how this humanist sans serif has gone on to become one of the most iconic fonts in type history.
Its Nice That
AUGUST 17, 2020
Inspired simultaneously by Peter Saville’s “visual poetry” and Dieter Rams’ modernist principles, the School of Visual Arts grad takes a logical approach to his confident and sophisticated work.
Noupe
AUGUST 21, 2020
As students head into the fall semester, every school needs to have a solid tech strategy in place, and this all starts with a well-designed website. This rings especially true since many schools are trying to connect with large volumes of students and keep them updated throughout COVID-19 challenges. Having a well-designed education website is an ideal way to establish your digital presence, regardless if you work at a school with an existing web presence or are building your brand from the gro
Speckyboy Design Magazine
AUGUST 21, 2020
WordPress 5.5 arrives with lazy loading, sitemap, automatic updates for plugins and themes – A look at the new features and improvements within the latest release of WordPress. The Just in Case Mindset in CSS – How to think ahead and prepare your CSS for content that is longer than anticipated. The Data Visualisation Catalogue – A resource for learning about the different types of data visualization, including examples.
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Spine Magazine
AUGUST 20, 2020
Melissa Four is a book cover designer and illustrator who has worked on a wide range of books for adults and children. Her illustrations have also featured in magazines, album covers and skateboard decks. Here she talks us through her process for designing Emily St John Mandel’s latest novel, The Glass Hotel. I was already a big fan of Emily St John Mandel so it felt like a such a privilege to be an early reader of The Glass Hotel.
Brown Paper Bag
AUGUST 18, 2020
View this post on Instagram. A post shared by Aure?lia Durand (@4ur3lia) on Aug 6, 2020 at 9:42am PDT. Illustrator Aure?lia Durand creates digital illustrations celebrating color and shapes. (You might know her work from the best-selling book This Book is Anti-Racist !) On her Instagram, she recently shared a series she created for Lonely Whale, an NGO based in the U.S. which works to protect the oceans.
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.
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
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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 Week
AUGUST 18, 2020
Design Bridge has created a new visual identity for Hamburg beer manufacturer Holsten, which seeks to return the brand to its “honest, hardworking roots” Holsten was founded in 1879 and is now owned by the Carlsberg group. Design Bridge London creative director Mike Stride says the visual update was about bringing the beer to younger audiences. “It looked like something their dads or grandads might drink,” he says. “They wanted to add the character back into it.R
Interaction Design Foundation
AUGUST 21, 2020
Parallax design, contrary to some information online, has been around for a while. In fact, it was first found in computer games back in the early 1980s. The title Jump Bug, 1981, had elements of parallax design and both Moon Patrol and Jump Bug, 1982, had complete parallax design implementations.Today, parallax design is becoming more and more popular in website implementations and it’s a nice tool to have in your design toolkit.Though don’t forget as Joel Marsh, the author of The Composite Per
Noupe
AUGUST 20, 2020
Getting inked has become a lot more popular recently, but tattoos are not something recent. In fact, tattoos are deeply embedded in human history and play an important role in many cultures and traditions. The oldest evidence that tattooing existed comes from the Upper Paleolithic period in Europe, where there are tools that signal people got inked 40,000 years ago.
Colossal
AUGUST 19, 2020
All images © Beth Cavener, shared with permission. In the hands of Montana-based sculptor Beth Cavener ( previously ), clay transforms into mesmerizing, life-size animal figures charged with raw emotion and vitality. ? Human ?, her recently released and award-winning monograph, gathers and celebrates nearly two decades of these extraordinary creations, featuring 160 color plates of work from six series.
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.
Design Week
AUGUST 17, 2020
London-based design studio Made Thought has teamed up with computer company IBM on the “world’s first online encyclopaedia of plastic-free materials” The platform, called Plastic Free, aims to bridge the gap between packaging and product designers who are looking to reduce the use of single-use plastic and manufacturers of sustainable materials.
Inspiration Feed
AUGUST 20, 2020
Digital resources are everywhere nowadays. Whether it’s a stock photo or an animated illustration, you don’t need to look far (or for hours) to find what you need. But this can be a double-edged sword, too.
Noupe
AUGUST 21, 2020
For artists who are just beginning to draw people portraits, it may seem quite intimidating. In principle, the time you spend on drawings of people is directly parallel to the degree of life-likeness of your creation. As you devote more hours to a drawing you can naturally dive deeper into details and use your brush or pencil in a more cautious manner.
Abduzeedo
AUGUST 20, 2020
Beautiful Editorial Look Web Design by Anthony Goodwin. abduzeedo 08.20.20 I love the direction web design is heading. It more and more resembles editorial design with focus on great typography and beautiful imagery. A good example of this is the web site created by Anthony Goodwin for Dan J Wills. The attention to details and the clever way to showcase the photographer’s work, everything is really well-thought out.
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.
Design Week
AUGUST 20, 2020
Dalziel & Pow has redesigned Twinings’ flagship store in an attempt to move the focus from a traditional retail store to a more experience-led journey, based on principles such as wellness and lifestyle. The store is based in London’s Strand thoroughfare and was opened by Thomas Twining in 1706. It is the capital’s oldest tea shop.
Creative Review
AUGUST 19, 2020
We talk to agent Olivia Triggs, photographer David Ryle, and director, illustrator and animator Katy Wang for advice on costing up projects, negotiating fees and deciding how much to charge for your time. The post What should you charge for your work? appeared first on Creative Review.
Noupe
AUGUST 20, 2020
Content-based marketing has become the gold standard for boosting brand awareness, reaching customers, driving web traffic, and increasing the bottom line. But there’s one area of content marketing that’s still in its infancy: video marketing. Interest in video content marketing has grown as people’s preferences shift toward this dynamic medium. Businesses have naturally responded by allocating a greater portion of their marketing budgets to exploring and taking advantage of video, using it acro
Colossal
AUGUST 19, 2020
All images © Toby Coulson, shared with permission. When photographer Toby Coulson met iconic Senegalese fashion designer Oumou Sy in Dakar, they decided to photograph some of her most distinctive garments. “The city has an amazing energy especially as the sun goes down. I thought it would be an amazing accompaniment to Oumou Sy’s theatrical and outlandish couture pieces,” Coulson shares with Colossal.
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