Design Roast
JULY 20, 2020
Designers often spend years figuring out the best placement for different elements, from everything from web design to print ads. There needs to be a set amount of white space and a certain alignment to various items, plus numerous other factors. It is difficult to stay up to date on all of these features that you have [.]. The post Logo Placement: What You Need to Know appeared first on Design Roast.
Just Creative
JULY 20, 2020
This article has been contributed by Val Razo. Back in 2010, when Instagram was released as a simple photo-sharing app, no one could have predicted this social media platform would evolve into a great marketing tool. Today, when over 1 billion people use Instagram each month and 90% of them follow at least one business profile in-app, it’s no wonder that brands of all sizes and niches seek out Instagram marketing tips for business.
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Speckyboy Design Magazine
JULY 23, 2020
SEO has become one of my least favorite topics. It’s something that I’ll begrudgingly discuss with clients, but only when I have to. And writing about it? I’d rather hide under my bed. In some ways, it feels like one of the dark arts. But here I am, attempting to change my own sentiment. Why? Because it’s simply too important to ignore. Both web designers and their clients need to have an understanding of how SEO works.
Spoon Graphics
JULY 20, 2020
Follow along with today’s Photoshop tutorial to create your own fantasy world, just like the fictional story settings of Neverland, Middle-Earth or Westeros. We’ll use Photoshop’s built-in tools to establish the landmass and sea, then construct hills, mountains and deserts with some simple filter combinations, before finishing off the artwork with a vintage paper texture and place names to simulate an old world map.
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
Under Consideration / Brand
JULY 21, 2020
“The King is Bread, Long Live the King!”. Established in 1790, originally as Henry Wood & Company, later Sands, Taylor, & Wood Company, followed by The King Arthur Flour Company, and, as of this week, the King Arthur Baking Company is the oldest flour brand in the United States and one of the most used today. Headquartered in Norwich, VT, a certified B Corp, and 100% employee-owned, King Arthur Baking Company got its name in 1896 when Sands, Taylor, & Wood Company introduced its own
Just Creative
JULY 18, 2020
Graphic designers work with print more than most other creatives today. Once everything is approved and sent out for printing, your commercial printer will do an amazing job for sure, but until then you need to show your client that it’s worth the investment long before your design goes into full production. Effectively presenting your vision to a client is next to impossible if your final product doesn’t look like a final product.
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Spoon Graphics
JULY 24, 2020
Access All Areas members have a lovely typeface to download this week, courtesy of Dealjumbo. The Mustang Brush font is handwritten brush style display font with a dancing baseline, making it a great choice for use in creative and artistic projects. The family contains three fonts, the main brush font and an alternative version with different character styles, plus a third Swashes font full of decorative underlines.
Under Consideration / Brand
JULY 24, 2020
“Puck Yeah!”. (Est. 2018) "The Seattle Kraken are a professional ice hockey expansion team based in Seattle, and will begin play in the 2021-22 National Hockey League (NHL) season. The team will compete in the NHL as a member club of the league's Pacific Division in the Western Conference. The team is owned by Seattle Hockey Partners and will play their home games at Climate Pledge Arena." ( Wikipedia ).
Just Creative
JULY 23, 2020
While many of us fully believe that we have good penmanship, the truth is that when it comes to using it in the world of graphic design, we might as well have the penmanship of a doctor. Not exactly the best choice when you’re working on the branding or a logo for a new client. To help, we thought that giving your wrist a break from trying to perfect your skills by offering our choices for the Best Handwritten Fonts for Graphic Design.
The Logo Smith
JULY 24, 2020
The post Simple Icons – 1382 Free Searchable SVG Icons for Popular Brands by Dan Leech appeared first on The Logo Smith All Content © 2020 The Logo Smith.™ |. Inadvertently stumbled across “Simple Icons: 1382 Free Searchable SVG Icons for Popular Brands “, by Dan Leech @bathtype , whilst searching and researching specific icons for a new logo & brand identity project.
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Spoon Graphics
JULY 22, 2020
Affinity Live has kicked off today with 50 of the best Affinity products on offer with a huge 50% discount. This is your chance to own the best brushes, patterns, ornaments, creators, and much more. Throughout this week there will also be several FREE Live Sessions with some of the biggest names in the Affinity community, so you can learn how to use your new tools for lettering, illustrating, and creating effects in Affinity Designer. 75 Affinity Products. 50% Off!
SpeckyBoy
JULY 21, 2020
Ideas: the germs that grow into those great, award-winning designs we all want to have our names attached to. We all get dozens of ideas constantly, which typically range from fairly good to amazingly good. Ideas are an abundant commodity that we all have, as creative people. In fact, most designers have more ideas than they know what to do with. Yet, most jealously hide their ideas, paranoid that someone will “steal” them and do something that will undermine their own fame as a desi
Creative Review
JULY 21, 2020
Founded in 1972, the V&A’s annual illustration awards honour professional and student artwork, with prizes celebrating great book covers, book illustrations and illustrated journalism. Past winners include Quentin Blake, graphic memoirist Nora Krug and children’s book illustrator Yasmeen Ismail. This year’s winning projects were selected from over 800 entries, and include a modern retelling of a classic fairytale, a charming children’s book cover and a powerful image
Under Consideration / Brand
JULY 21, 2020
“The Car Formerly Known as Toyota”. " Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA (TME) oversees the wholesale sales and marketing of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, parts and accessories, and Toyota's European manufacturing and engineering operations. Toyota directly employs around 20,000 people in Europe and has invested over EUR 9 billion since 1990. Toyota's operations in Europe are supported by a network of 29 National Marketing and Sales Companies across 53 countries, a total of around 3,000 sales outlets, and n
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Speckyboy Design Magazine
JULY 19, 2020
Ask a dozen web designers how to build a specific feature – and you’ll likely get a dozen unique answers. That’s part of the beauty of web design. You don’t need to stick to one specific formula to achieve a desired look or functionality. However, not every solution is on equal footing. The fact that it works nicely in the browser isn’t enough. The potential downside is that some approaches are going to be more resilient than others.
SpeckyBoy
JULY 24, 2020
The bokeh effect has a multitude of uses within digital art. It can be overused, sure. But it can also be simply stunning. Trying to recreate this look on your own would be a time-consuming task. Thank goodness for Photoshop actions, right? What you’ll find here is a fantastic set of Photoshop actions that greatly simplify the process for making the bokeh effect.
Booooooom
JULY 20, 2020
A lovely series by Dutch artist Maarten Rots. Working in the medium of photography, “Konvergenz” explores the area around sommergalerieZöbing (Zöbing am Kamp, Austria), where he stayed as an artist in residence in 2019. “With my photography I want to reveal abstract qualities that can be found in everyday life, often with architecture as a prominent ingredient and a strong focus on composition, texture and color.
Tuts Plus
JULY 23, 2020
What You'll Be Creating In today's tutorial, I'll show you how to make a fairy-tale book cover with a vintage-inspired look. Vintage-style covers are big news in publishing right now, and clothbound covers are enjoying a well-deserved resurgence. Here you’ll learn how to make a vintage book cover and recreate the look with woodcut-style illustrations and calligraphy type.
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Speckyboy Design Magazine
JULY 20, 2020
Sure, the thought of web developers downing caffeinated beverages by the gallon is a stereotype. But if you browse social media enough, it sure does seem like many of us partake in the ritual. You also see various homages to that liquid lightning on CodePen. Through clever use of the latest web technologies, developers have crafted virtual drinks and the machines that make (or dispense) them.
The Logo Smith
JULY 23, 2020
The post HK Grotesk Wide Free Font by Alfredo Marco Pradil for Hanken Design Co appeared first on The Logo Smith All Content © 2020 The Logo Smith.™ |. I do like a good wide font, and HK Grotesk Wide fits the bill perfectly, more so given it’s also a freebie free font offering. HK Grotesk Wide was Design & Developed by the supremely talented type designer, Alfredo Marco Pradil , for the Hanken Design Co.
Spine Magazine
JULY 22, 2020
Linda Huang is graphic designer based in New York. She is currently an Associate Art Director at Vintage & Anchor Books, an imprint at Penguin Random House. Here she takes us through designing the paperback edition of Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory. When I learned that Knopf was going to be publishing a book of short stories by the creator of the Netflix show Bojack Horseman , I asked my colleague Tyler Comrie — who was designing the hardcover — for the manuscript so I c
Under Consideration / Brand
JULY 20, 2020
“A Subtle Crescendo”. Established in 1822, the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) is the oldest conservatory in the UK that received its Royal Charter in 1830. Located in London, it offers undergraduate and postgraduate education through more than 400 teachers to approximately 800 students across four categories: Performance, Conducting, Composition, and Research.
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.
SpeckyBoy
JULY 24, 2020
Icons can be used in a variety of projects when you need to add extra visual appeal or make it easier for people to visualize a concept or memorize something. While icons are usually associated with websites and printed material, you can also use them in your video projects. There are a plethora of animated icon packs available online that you can download and use in your projects or use them as an inspiration when creating your own.
Tom Kenny
JULY 23, 2020
As designers, simplicity is a goal we strive for with everything we design. We want our designs to be usable and intuitive but that can often be mistaken for clean or minimal visual designs. This simplicity can be misleading and it could be harming the usability of your designs. I’ve picked out a number of examples of false simplicity and what to do to actually make them simple and usable.
Brown Paper Bag
JULY 22, 2020
Inspired by “all things decorative and surreal,” illustrator Stephanie Singleton creates images that incorporate floral beauty with subject matter bordering on the bizarre. I especially enjoy her portraits of people that explore the element of emptiness. A face of a person is replaced with the sky, while the outline of a dress reflects the environment around it.
Its Nice That
JULY 22, 2020
With clients increasingly expecting illustrations to be animated for digital campaigns, illustrator and animator Abbey Lossing spells out the skills you need to have a leg-up in a competitive sphere.
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.
Under Consideration / Brand
JULY 23, 2020
“The Lion’s Share”. Established in 1872, Rangers Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, playing in the Scottish Premiership, the top division of the Scottish Professional Football League. The Rangers are one of the most successful clubs in world football in terms of trophies won, including the Scottish League title 54 times, the Scottish Cup 33 times, the Scottish League Cup a record 27 times, and the European Cup Winners' Cup once.
Creative Review
JULY 22, 2020
The Unsigned Prize for Illustration was launched this year to support emerging illustrators, designers and typographers. An extension of BBH’s Unsigned initiative – which was set up to showcase creatives without commercial representation – it offers five creatives a chance to have their work featured in an exhibition at the agency’s London HQ.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
JULY 19, 2020
Toggle switches may not be the most noticeable UI elements in a form, but they’ve arguably done more to spice up a mundane task than anything else. Before toggles came along, we often used a single checkbox element to “switch” something on or off. While it got the job done, the look wasn’t very compelling. Toggles, on the other hand, offer designers the chance to further personalize the UI in a way that matches the rest of a website.
Tuts Plus
JULY 18, 2020
Aesthetic design is a new post-modern style of art: a blend of groovy 70s, digital 80s, and grungy 90s. This mix is sure to create something eye-catching—let's take a look! We've seen it everywhere on social media and can't quite pinpoint what it is. Pink hues, neon colors, pastel gradients, and a mash-up of multiple seen-before trends with a dash of pop culture.
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