Fotor
DECEMBER 6, 2019
There are few things in the design that are more important than color. Color can evoke reactions, emotions or even action all without using words. So how do we know which colors look good together? The answer is color theory in graphic design! The color theory describes the use of color in graphic design. Otherwise […].
Graphic Mama
DECEMBER 6, 2019
Are you looking for cool color combinations to try in your upcoming design projects? In this article, we’ve gathered and reviewed some of the trendiest color combinations in 2020 for web design, graphic design, and digital illustrations. We’ve included some absolute classics that would be a sin not to try. Other color combinations are super innovative, so you have to give them a go, as well.
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Speckyboy Design Magazine
DECEMBER 2, 2019
So often, I write about the details and observations I’ve had while running a freelance web design business. It seems like so many web designers have taken this path that I tend to forget about those who haven’t. The truth is that being a freelancer isn’t all rainbows and unicorns. And it’s not necessarily the right fit for everyone. The lifestyle is very different compared to having a steady job with a traditional employer.
Just Creative
DECEMBER 2, 2019
This is a guest article contributed by Claire Newton. Branding is chronically misunderstood. From people operating under the impression that branding is something that can be “done” in an afternoon to companies ignoring it altogether, it’s a key area that can make or break your business, especially in the long run. Today, we’ve gathered together 20 of the biggest and most common branding mistakes made by small and medium businesses like yours.
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
Canva
DECEMBER 6, 2019
Are you feeling the pressure to make a truly stellar holiday card or design this season? It can be hard work. What imagery do you use? What colors work best? What about the typefaces? Lucky for you, we’ve curated 50 Christmas and holiday-inspired fonts sure to make your designs giftworthy. And in the true spirit of giving — they’re free! 01. One Starry Night.
Creative Market
DECEMBER 2, 2019
The way old paper looks, feels, and smells can evoke nostalgia for bygone eras, from Celtic parchment to Egyptian papyrus to ancient China's rice paper. There are many different ways in which you can age paper without special tools, from crumpling to tinting. Each method allows you to achieve truly unique results. You can even go a step further and lightly burn the edges of the paper to give it a very ancient look.
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SpeckyBoy
DECEMBER 1, 2019
Christmas is just a few weeks away, and we know that all you designers will be starting to plan the design of your personalized Christmas cards, invitations, wallpapers and everything else in between that is Christmas or holiday season-related. So, just to help you out we have a fantastic collection of free Christmas related resources we know you will love and will hopefully help get you into the festive spirit.
Inspiration Feed
DECEMBER 6, 2019
Just because you’re creative and innovative does not mean you can conquer the design industry. Thought these are among the most important ingredients, there’s a lot more to the recipe.
Creative Market
DECEMBER 5, 2019
This post is part of the Decoding Creativity series from Creative Market. Follow me on Medium or subscribe to the Creative Market blog , and join the discussion by commenting with your questions and thoughts. First things first: Alex Cottles ( The Routine Creative on Creative Market ) is the kind of person you find yourself liking before you even know why.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
DECEMBER 3, 2019
If you want your design to immediately grab attention and stand out, consider using an outline font. You can use these fonts for headers in ads or on websites as well as logo or branding projects. In some cases, you can even apply the neon text effect to them and create beautiful and attractive posters, business cards, signage, and more. There is no shortage of outline fonts available online.
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Colossal
NOVEMBER 30, 2019
All photographs © Mikko Lagerstedt and shared with permission of the artist. Photographer Mikko Lagerstedt ( previously ) has once again captured the quiet beauty of his native Finland with a recent series centered around trees. Ethereal skies, virgin snow, and seemingly isolated pockets of nature serve as backdrops to twisted trunks and outstretched branches.
Shillington
DECEMBER 2, 2019
Margot Lévêque is a French graphic and type designer currently based in New York. Before becoming a designer, she studied biology then marketing, realizing that her true passion is design. She’s worked at Pentagram under Paula Scher’s team and now freelances, working across music, fashion and culture. She creates work that spans identity, type and editorial design, inspired by minimalism and new trends, while being flexible in style.
Spine Magazine
DECEMBER 5, 2019
Owen Gildersleeve is an award-winning artist based in London, specialising in handcrafted illustration, set design and art direction. Here he takes us through his process for creating Frankly in Love. At the time I was first approached to create the cover for Frankly in Love the manuscript had just emerged from a bidding war between 10 publishing houses, placing the novel as one of the most highly anticipated books to be released in 2019.
Its Nice That
DECEMBER 6, 2019
The Australian-based illustrator starts each project on paper, before moving on to hundreds of layers in Photoshop to make his incredibly detailed images. In his Where’s Wally? -style illustrations, he encourages the viewer to create their own stories. Read more.
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Colossal
DECEMBER 3, 2019
All photographs © Kristina Makeeva, shared with artist’s permission. Photographer Kristina Makeeva creates captivating scenes centered around Lake Baikal. The lake, located in Russia, is the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, holding nearly a quarter of the world’s fresh surface water. Makeeva takes advantage of its vastness in forming otherworldly images that seem totally separate from the built environments most of us reside in. “The first time I visited Baikal,
Speckyboy Design Magazine
DECEMBER 1, 2019
The 20 Best Free Fonts for Comic Books & Cartoons – High-quality fonts to spice up your designs. Playing Sounds with CSS – Use CSS to control audio on a webpage. 10 Useful Firefox Developer Tools You Should Know – Inspect your websites like a pro using these powerful tools. The Bright Side of an Increasingly Homogeneous Web – The web is becoming more consolidated, but it’s not all bad news.
Creative Review
DECEMBER 5, 2019
While the conversation around new working styles took place across all sectors, these ideas felt particularly pertinent to the creative industries, where 9-5 office life isn’t always the most successful or popular way to create projects. The creative industries also suffer from some particular dilemmas, including overwork, under pay (or no pay at all in some instances) and challenges for parents – especially mothers – to juggle the often all-consuming demands of creative projects with a family l
Its Nice That
DECEMBER 6, 2019
At the age of 12, Seoul-based designer Heesun Seo first ventured into the world of graphic design when she came across an online forum for Photoshop and HTML. She talks us through her unusual route into the medium and how she “didn’t know what the term ‘graphic design’ was," finding it out for herself. Read more.
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Colossal
DECEMBER 1, 2019
Italian artist Michele Volpi tattoos highly detailed conceptual pieces using black ink and the negative space of her clients’ skin. With a surrealist style and a monochromatic palette, Volpi inks diagrams of insects, plants, and human anatomy that resemble vintage illustrations borrowed from science textbooks. With precise lines and controlled dotwork, each tattoo looks as if it were printed rather than done by hand.
Spine Magazine
DECEMBER 2, 2019
We welcome you to another in our ongoing feature in which notable book cover designer Jordan Wannemacher periodically highlights a selection of recent university press cover designs. Please enjoy this celebration of amazing work. This list is in no particular order. Credits are listed below. If you are a book cover creative and want your work or the work of your department reviewed by Jordan be sure to get in touch with us!
Creative Review
DECEMBER 6, 2019
While the movie industry is fighting to adapt to the changes wrought by streaming, one thing that remains eternal is an awareness of the importance of the movie poster to get people into cinemas. In fact, one could almost say that we’re in a golden age of the poster, as studios – especially independent film companies – see the value of bold, striking imagery.
Its Nice That
DECEMBER 5, 2019
Together Swiss illustrators Luca Schenardi and Lina Mueller have formed a delicate line-based style that is radically different to their individual practices – proof that collaboration and travel can inspire work you would never have come to alone. Read more.
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.
The Die Line
DECEMBER 5, 2019
Inspired by the Hollywood teenage party movie genre, Unblvbl Branding Agency uses bright colors and vintage-style typography to evoke the joyful carelessness of youth.
Design Roast
DECEMBER 5, 2019
Choosing the perfect colors for your project isn’t easy. You have to consider those already associated with your brand, as well as the emotional impact of specific schemes. Once you narrow your options down to a few shades, you have to ensure the hues work together. Certain color scheme ideas will work better for one [.]. The post 15 Color Scheme Ideas for Your Next Project appeared first on Design Roast.
Booooooom
DECEMBER 2, 2019
Fang Tong. Fang Tong’s Website. Fang Tong on Instagram.
Its Nice That
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Full of food-related aphorisms and idioms, the graphic designer takes on big dairy and the meat industry through her practice that combines graphic design with painting. Inspired by the surrealists, the humorous works take on names like Your Ass Sucks Buttermilk, How Now Brown Cow and The Milk of Human Kindness. Read more.
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.
Graphic Design Junction
DECEMBER 5, 2019
The premium Truck Mockup and Van Mockup are perfect to show your branding in a professional way. There are twenty different mockup sets with 100+ perspectives view. Branding mockups are available in 4K resolution editable work van Toyota HiAce mock up, perfect to showcase your ad campaign, brand or marketing design. Give your client an opportunity to see his branded Truck, Van and Car before it gets to productions.
Design Week
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Unicef has launched a mobile game to teach children in Latin America and the Caribbean about their rights. Right Runner has been designed by London-based design studio, Nexus (which also has offices in Los Angeles). Deborah Casswell, the studio’s creative director, says that the studio worked with UNICEF to work out an “engaging” way to educate children about their rights.
Creative Live
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Great photography captures the imagination and pushes us to do ever-better work. It inspires us to try new things and explore new boundaries. Want to indulge and inspire the photographer on your holiday gift list this year? Check out one of these photography books written by one of their favorite CreativeLive instructors. Creative Calling by Chase Jarvis.
Its Nice That
DECEMBER 5, 2019
Launched by the team behind journal Kajet, the digital archive shows the richness and variety of Romanian graphic design as well as challenging the worrying trend of revisionist history sweeping Europe. Read more.
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