Noupe
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
In 2020, cross-departmental collaboration is not optional anymore. It is a necessity for any small business wanting to provide consistent and user-oriented customer experiences. One such example is the collaboration between your marketing and customer support teams. In this article, you will learn how they can work together to improve user experiences, boost sales, and deliver better results. 1.
Richard Bernabe
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Here are 5 essential tips for photographers to capture the most wonderful time of the year, the autumn color season from filters, light, lenses, refections. The post How To Photograph Stunning Autumn Color appeared first on Richard Bernabe.
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Tuts Plus
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
What You'll Be Creating If you want to learn how to make product mockups but you don't want to use Photoshop, in this tutorial I'll show you how to make a mockup without Photoshop in just five easy steps. I'm going to use an iPhone mockup as an example, but this method can be used for many other products, too. Need help deciding what look to go for?
Just Creative
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
What makes a difference between a premium designer and a beginner? At first glance, the logos of a professional design studio don’t seem that much different from a freelancer’s work. That’s just the first glance, though. The truth is, there’s a whole other layer of design process that beginners ignore. It’s presenting your work to clients. Premium designers understood that a logo is only as valuable as the story and strategy behind it.
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
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Ever since I created the showcase of Unique Packaging and Label Designs for Whisky Bottles I have been wanting to have a go at creating some kind of liquor bottle label design of my own. I also have a resource in my collection that I have been eager to make use of, which would be the perfect tool for creating a Victorian style brand design complete with ornate flourishes.
BP&O
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Text by Richard Baird Both Sides Now was an exhibition of works by Argentinian contemporary artist Leandro Erlich. This took place at the Seoul Museum of Art between December 2019 and March 2020. Erlich’s installations employ mirrors, reflective surfaces, water and other materials to form optical illusions with the intention of transforming familiar, everyday spaces.
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Just Creative
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
We live in a digital world, and only those who adapt to new technology truly thrive today. Fast-tracked by a growing pandemic, people have had to resort to online solutions, and efforts to continue working, complete transactions, and socially connect with friends and family. As such, it only makes perfect sense to keep looking for ways to acquire new digital skills to not only remain relevant and relatable, but more so efficient and continuously income-generating.
Spoon Graphics
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Design bundles like this are the most affordable way to get the best creative tools to use in your projects. As designers, we always feel most inspired when working with amazing tools at our fingertips. From vibrant florals and cute illustrations, you’ll find countless hours of fun in this collection! The 99% discount drops the $2296 price tag to just $29 , making it a great opportunity to get some professional quality resources that will open up a whole world of new artistic styles to explore.
SpeckyBoy
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Every font tells a story. Once upon a time, serifs ruled the world. When we look at them today, we can’t shake the feelings of tradition and elegance. Then, we switched to sans-serifs; practical and highly readable. Fonts that amplify your message. Today, we use all kinds of fonts. Serifs for elegant materials, sans-serifs for making sure that our words resonate, and script fonts for that special aesthetic touch.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
The 12 Best Double Exposure Effect Photoshop Action Sets – Create incredible photo effects in no time with this collection of Photoshop actions. UX Design for Navigation Menus – A look at the principles of navigation design and providing the best possible experience. Parsel – Download this tiny, permissive CSS selector parser. Write fewer media queries with the clamp() CSS function – Use this handy technique to specify minimum and maximum values for things like font size and padding.
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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.
Just Creative
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Are you looking for the absolute best podcasts in the branding and brand strategy space? You may have already found a few ‘top branding podcasts’ lists through Google search and been disappointed that only a handful of them are truly about branding. Most of the podcasts found through Google are about content marketing, digital media, graphic design, advertising, or marketing in general and some are outdated or haven’t uploaded any new episodes in many years.
Spoon Graphics
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Access All Areas have a really cool collection of 3D letter graphics to download this week, courtesy of Dealjumbo. This futuristic neon lettering set contains A-Z characters constructed with detailed blue neon tubes within a dark letter frame. Each letter is supplied as a 3000x3000px PNG image with a transparent background, so you can easily lay out the letters to display any wording you require.
SpeckyBoy
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
When it comes to web design, there are a lot of misconceptions. Clients may not fully realize how much work goes into building a great website. Sometimes that leads them to ask designers to do things without understanding the required effort – not to mention the associated costs. Redesigns are among the toughest concepts for clients to grasp. In some cases, they may believe a website redesign is an easy process (“All of the content is already there, isn’t it?”).
Graphic Design USA
SEPTEMBER 13, 2020
GDUSA Publisher Gordon Kaye on our 57th anniversary American Inhouse Design Awards edition, which features a showcase of winners of the original and premier competition for inhouse design departments.
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Just Creative
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Many millennia ago, someone pretty important decreed, “Let there be light” and we’ve been basking in its glow ever since. While technology has certainly changed, the search for the best light to work by hasn’t. Whether you’re a graphic designer or work in another creative field, we have all felt the pain first hand of a desk lamp that either isn’t strong enough or is too bulky to help efficiently.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
SEPTEMBER 12, 2020
Posters are a great way to promote your event but they can also be used to promote your business or a cause. What’s more, they can be designed in many different ways and make use of illustrations as well as typography to convey all the necessary details. In this roundup, we’ve gathered the best Adobe Illustrator tutorials for creating beautiful and attractive posters for a variety of projects and industries.
BP&O
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Text by Richard Baird. “Graphic Design” / ?????????? was a monthly magazine from Diamond that moved between the flourishing practice of graphic design (commercial art) and more broadly, visual culture (historical and of the present) both nationally in Japan and internationally. The magazine was distinctive in its proportionality (nearly square), and in its mix of papers.
Noupe
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Keeping an audience interested nowadays is no easy task. Especially when it comes to explaining how complex or highly technical products ( or services ) work. . Luckily, marketers and business owners have a fantastic resource – whiteboard animation videos – to make that job a bit easier! Now, this style provides an effective canvas that lets you unfold your ideas and synthesize important information in effective and engaging ways.
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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.
Just Creative
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
This article has been contributed by Vaibhav Kakkar. Perhaps one of the most popular searches on the internet is how to improve your website ranking. Brands now understand the huge value that organic web traffic represents, so it makes sense that everyone wants to cash in on it. Whether you’re a business looking to boost your ranking and web traffic, or an SEO freelancer brushing up on your craft, there are always a few quick fixes that will give you results.
Juxapoz Magazine
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Jeremy Booth is a Louisville, Kentucky-based illustrator with a penchant for classic design works and what he calls a "vector noir" style. Immediately when you are inspired by a classic "noir" era of art, you have our attention, and we reached to his management team at Artistique International (IQ) to see more of Jeremy's commercial work and their entire roster of designers and illustrators making all sorts of campaigns and projects visually come to life around the world.
The Logo Smith
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
The post DUNE Hardcover Artwork of the Penguin Classics Hardback Version of Frank Herbert’s Classic Book Designed by Alex Trochut appeared first on The Logo Smith All Content © 2020 The Logo Smith.™ |. Stunning artwork, design and typography , by Alex Trochut , for The Penguin Classics DUNE Hardcover version of DUNE by Frank Herbert. The version of the DUNE logo on the back of the DUNE Hardcover is particularlay beautiful, and a tiny bit cunning.
Noupe
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
The concept behind having a logo is to communicate with customers and presenting something memorable. There aren’t any set of fixed rules that you should follow when it comes to designing logos. If anything, the only thing you need to keep in mind is sticking to what your customer wants. A good logo only makes sense when it’s natural, attractive, and easy to grasp.
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.
Just Creative
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
In this episode we sit down with the wonderful Kaye Putnam, a psychology-driven brand strategist from South Carolina. We geek out about all things brand thinking. We get into the meaning of ‘psychology-driven branding’, about knowing your brand and living your brand. Kaye shares her ‘4C Brand Strategy Framework’ which helps to bake psychological principles into brands.
Design Week
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
“I always try to present my female characters in a similar way — as strong and feminine, in the hope that some of their qualities will reflect on me, as well as my audience,” says Marylou Faure. “My characters never care about what other people think about them and neither should we.” The above is a quote from the Parisian illustrator’s new monograph — a 216-page compendium of illustrative work published by Counter-Print.
Colossal
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
All images courtesy of Mark Brooks, shared with permission. Full of extraordinary creatures, the illustrated series The Creative Specimens seamlessly combines species into unusual hybrids. Similar in color, each organism is bizarre in form. The feathered head of a bird is placed on a tortoise’s body, octopus tentacles sprout from the bottom of a cactus, and speckled coral comprises a deer’s antlers.
Design You Trust
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Instagram account ‘Animals In Things’ is exactly what it sounds like: it’s a glorious page full of photos of animals seamlessly combined with food and everyday items. Scroll down to see the best examples! More: Instagram. Source.
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.
Interaction Design Foundation
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
As with every design decision, the answer to the question “Should UX designers learn to code?” is: “It depends.” When you work with digital products, you may not always need to write lines of code, but it is an added advantage to know how to build the product that you design. In the early days of web design, graphic designers, who had previously worked in print, learned to write code so as to become web designers.
Design Week
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Manchester-based design studio Creative Spark has created the “vibrant” branding for recently-launched hospitality app Peazi. Peazi has been created in an attempt to maintain social distancing measures as restaurants begin to serve customers once more post-lockdown (though measures are being changed often). [link]. Customers can scan a QR code at each table to view menus.
Colossal
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
All images © Uli Kno?rzer, shared with permission. Fascinated by the transient expressions and feelings of his subjects, Uli Kno?rzer attempts to capture a moment in time. The Berlin-based illustrator draws richly detailed portraits that are simultaneously revealing and elusive. By positioning each subject against a solid backdrop, Kno?rzer eliminates the contexts that inspire their particular looks and moods. “Because a tilt of the head and look to the side or a smirk could be just that b
The Die Line
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
This is the margarita I need in my life right now. Designed by Nicola Broderick, the Golden Rule brand pack bar-strength cocktails in a can. The cans feature vintage matchbook style, mid century inspired illustrations to tell the story of each cocktail. .
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