Speckyboy Design Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Today I’m speaking to those just getting started in design. Maybe you just graduated from design school, or you’ve read through all the fundamental lessons offered here and on other design blogs, and you feel you’re ready to start taking on clients. Or maybe you have a couple of projects under your belt and you’re looking for more detailed advice as to what path you should be taking to propel your career to the next level.

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Shillington

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At Shillington, we love to explore and celebrate great design from around the world. We’ve covered many different countries so far and are now exploring the creative scene in Portugal. It’s the oldest country in Europe and the official language in 9 countries! Portugal reminds us of the beautiful colourful tiles, fado folk songs and sweet port wine.

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Its Nice That

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Since we last covered the Icelandic studio five years ago, the graphic designers have found new ways of working, influenced by their time abroad.

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Spoon Graphics

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In today’s Adobe Illustrator video tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a retro text effect with colourful concentric stripes. Illustrator’s Offset Path command produces the basic effect, but we will eliminate the tedious process of adding each outline individually with the help of an Action, so you will be able to fill an entire poster with this retro stripe effect within seconds.

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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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Just Creative

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Technology changes every day and what was the best option out there even six months ago can suddenly be yesterday’s news. With 2020 in full swing, we wanted to make sure that we provide you with the best tech available so you can be successful all year long. With our list of the best laptops for designers in 2020 , the technology featured makes it a perfect time for a brand new laptop that can help all of your work wow your clients.

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Creative Market

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Adobe Illustrator is one of the frequently used programs among the graphic design community. Suitable for both professional designers and beginners alike, Illustrator offers a powerful range of tools and settings that can help bring design visions to life. However, Illustrator is such an in-depth application that quick and easy shortcuts that could simplify your design process aren't always obvious.

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Graphic Mama

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Looking for some great design examples in 2020? Read on. Towards the end of any year, predictions abound about the next 12 months, what will be in? What will be out? What will suddenly come from nowhere to be the next big thing? Even more so when it’s the start of a new decade. Design fashions are no exception and graphic design trends are more forward looking than most.

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Just Creative

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Back in 2018, we provided you with the best monitors you could use as a designer to do your best work. And today, we circle back and update our selections so that this year if you’re looking to upgrade your tools you can choose from the best of the best. Whenever you start shopping for new tech, a shopping list of what you’re looking for immediately enters your mind.

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Creative Market

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Ball terminal fonts, in which the end of a letter rounds off into a ball, communicate an artistic aesthetic. These rounded details have always meant that a font is carefully constructed by the designer, who has to precisely draw in each tiny ornament. Prized for their hand-made warmth, the curved lines of ball terminal typefaces can range from the purely playful to the sophisticated.

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Fonts Arts and Crafts Graphic Typography 178

Noupe

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

What piques your interest in a movie? What makes a movie great? Your answer might depend on what you actually look for in a movie. It could be its cinematography, soundtracks, actors, directing, theme, storytelling or an idiosyncrasy that you can’t characterize. True movie lovers probably would agree that a great movie should embody more than one of the elements above to be considered one of a kind and transcendent.

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Its Nice That

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Creative director Patrick Duffy explains how and why they made the glitchy graphics (with a Chladni plate), the punk-inspired typography and fan-focused photography.

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Just Creative

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Taking a trip in our Wayback machine, we came across our post for the best cameras for designers and believed it was time for an update. We wanted to present you with the best camera for creatives in 2020 in case you were looking to upgrade or even start a new side business. To get things started, we wanted to provide you with a handy shopping list for you to use before you buy your next camera.

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The Logo Smith

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

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Noupe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Wireframe tools, Prototyping tools, and mockup tools play a vital role in the development of an app or website. UI/UX is the main feature, and you need the best wireframe tool to design these features for your app or website. If you are planning to build a new website or an app, a wireframe tool will help you create a high-quality UI/UX design. In this blog, we will cover the best wireframe tools , which will make it easy for you to design the UI/UX for your app or website.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

“The King is Dead, Long Sing the King!”. Established in 2012, Sing King is the world's largest online karaoke track depository with a huge presence on YouTube. With over 3.3 billion views and 7 million subscribers, Sing King re-records thousands of tracks with simpler instrumental compositions, adds the synched lyrics, and posts new videos almost every day -- 2,193 videos to date.

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Graphic Design Junction

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Fresh free Adobe Photoshop tutorials from 2020. There are 30 new tutorials to learn exciting manipulation skills and learn how to create Photoshop Actions and how to convert boring photos into dashing portraits, photo editing and much more. As we know Adobe Photoshop is the one of the best tools for photo editing, manipulation and graphic design. We are here to help you to learn Photoshop tools and improve your graphic design skills.

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Booooooom

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Swedish photographer Martin Brink takes us exploring with him in his ongoing series “Walks”

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Creative Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Designing a logo for any corporation, brand or cultural organisation today almost invariably requires that the designer also create a bespoke font to accompany it. Sometimes the font is derived from a newly designed mark that has some form of an eccentric character and can be extended to create an entire font. Or the font can be created from a wordmark that could also be extended to a complete alphabet.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

“System of a Crown”. Established in 2010 as the Print Room, The Coronet Theatre presents a risk-taking, eclectic program of theatre, film, dance, music, poetry, and visual art in London, UK. Originally housed in a converted printing warehouse, the Print Room moved into The Coronet, a historic, listed building in Notting Hill that started life in 1898 as a theatre, became a cinema in 1924, and in 2014 Print Room took over and began a gradual process of restoring the neglected venue.

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Shillington

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Big congratulations to our two Shillington winners of the TDK ’19 Awards ! The competition was competitive this year, with entries coming from around the world and only 30 winners. Full-time Manchester graduate Juan Villascusa Candela was selected by Tess Robinson of Smack Bang Designs in Sydney and part-time London graduate Juliette van Rhyn was selected by Craig Parsons of Parsons Branding from Cape Town.

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Graphic Design Junction

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Amazing collection high quality Logo Templates. These logos can make your brand identity look professional. Each logo template is 100% editable, resizable vector graphic. Logos can be used in web technology, startup, entrepreneur, software house branding and related any subjects. This is the best hand-picked collection of modern Custom Logo Templates.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

If you’ve worked as a web designer for any length of time, one thing you might have figured out by now is that learning never ends. New technologies are developed, styles come into favor and fashion, and UI features change, necessitating the ability to stay abreast of these changes. Many professionals do this by listening to web design podcasts regularly.

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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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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Julia Fullerton-Batten. Julia Fullerton-Batten’s Website. Julia Fullerton-Batten on Instagram.

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Shillington

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Can you imagine working on a huge mural project that millions of people will see every year? Sometimes, a dream opportunity comes along that lets us travel to cool locations and be immersed in bringing a project to life. This was the case for Shillington Sydney teacher Maddy Ritchie when lettering legend Gemma O’Brien invited her to travel to China with a team of creatives to work on a huge mural project inside Tiffany & Co in Shanghai.

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Its Nice That

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

As creatives, we’re constantly on the hunt for inspiration and live in fear that it will desert us for good. But how much do we truly understand about this elusive phenomenon?

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Inspiration 143

Graphic Design Junction

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

High quality, Adobe Illustrator Brushes , super detailed and realistic brushes for Illustrator. This list contains twenty two sets of brushes with tons of different style of illustrator brushes. These brushes are professionally designed Hand Drawn, Watercolor Brushes for Adobe Illustrator. All brushes were hand-made. The brushes are great to use for simple black and white sketch or graphics or they can also be used to give a handcrafted feel illustrations.

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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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Noupe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

No business-to-consumer (B2C) company could survive —never mind thrive— without doing some kind of marketing. B2C marketing, which differs from business-to-business (B2B) marketing in that it focuses on promoting goods and services to individual consumers (rather than other organizations), is the wizardry that makes a company both visible and attractive to their target audience.

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Shillington

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Oyinkan Karunwi first developed her interest in design while studying law at the university. She dedicated her free time to designing posters for parties and events whenever friends needed some help. She continued her work in law for 3 years as a business advisor in Nigeria but still felt the creative itch—wanting design to be more than just a side hustle.

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Arts and Crafts Brand Branding Inspiration 96

Its Nice That

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The 73 kinetic icons designed by Masaaki Hiromura and animated by Kota Iguchi each show their sport in motion, representing 22 Paralympic sports and 33 Olympic sports.

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Graphic Design Junction

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Professionally designed elegant PSD presentation mockups to showcase your print design projects. Fully layered and smart object Mockups feature with ultra realistic presentation design that can be used for commercial or personal and save your time and make your brand look awesome with amazing effects. These mock-ups are easy to use with smart objects , simply double-click the Smart Layer, copy & paste your artwork, save your project and it’s done. .

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