Designer Daily
JANUARY 21, 2022
Any graphic designer, as well as an artist, would tell you that the right tools are the key to successful work. And as for graphic designers , it’s not about a canvas and brushes but powerful software. Specialists were limited to several programs in the past.For instance, nowadays, remote collaboration tools make the work more accessible and combined.
UX Collective
JANUARY 19, 2022
Simple rules guide you towards appropriate design decisions and help you make a more compelling case for decision-makers. Design Principles are an assortment of considerations that form the foundation of any good product design. You can find many articles online listing various principles, but often they lack concrete examples from products we encounter daily.
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I Love Typography
JANUARY 19, 2022
Read the book, Typographic Firsts. The year 2021 was mostly memorable for all the wrong reasons. And it feels like I published last year’s favorite fonts list about ten years ago! However, 2021 wasn’t a bad year for type design. In my determination to keep the list capped at ten, I’ve undoubtedly left out many releases that merit inclusion.
Spoon Graphics
JANUARY 17, 2022
Access All Areas members have a fantastic new set of Procreate brushes to download this week, courtesy of LeoSupply.co. These illustration brushes are designed for creating authentic-looking drawings with a natural textured appearance. The set contains 21 brushes that cover the entire illustration process from rough sketch to colouring and adding details, with a range of brush styles and effects.
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
Creative Market
JANUARY 17, 2022
If you’ve ever created or read text set in Open Sans, you’re already familiar with Steve Matteson’s work. Over the last 30 years, Matteson has designed or revived over 90 typeface families, crafting well-known typefaces like Segoe, Droid, and Andalé Mono. His impressive list of clients includes Microsoft, Google, Toyota, and Unilever.
We And The Color
JANUARY 18, 2022
All available for free download, this is our selection of the top 10 of the very best royalty-free stock images you can find in 2022 on Adobe Stock. For many creative professionals, Adobe Stock is the number one online marketplace to both offer and acquire stock images, illustrations, vector graphics, 3D objects, videos, audio files, or a wide range of templates for design tools such as Adobe Photoshop , Illustrator , and InDesign.
Graphic Arts Today brings together the best content for graphic arts professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Spoon Graphics
JANUARY 19, 2022
In today’s Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you a clever combination of Photoshop filters that converts an image into a realistic looking watercolour painting effect. A range of built-in filters will produce the foundations of the effect, then the addition of a paper texture and some finishing touches with a watercolour Photoshop brush pack adds an extra level of realism to produce a convincing final result.
Creative Market
JANUARY 17, 2022
Thinking of using a calligraphy font for your next design? We got it covered for you! Calligraphy fonts resemble the appearance of elegant handwriting, which makes them look like they’ve been drawn using pens or brushes. They are classified under script fonts and they often come with realistic effects such as drips, spots, and blotches. They also work best as a display font.
Graphic Design Junction
JANUARY 18, 2022
Professionally designed Brand guideline templates is an Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft PowerPoint compatible templates. The set of visual identity brand guidelines will look as good on screen as printed. Clean and minimal design templates perfect for branding guide for a new business / company or rebrand. Guideline presentation templates gives you an effective way to introduce your brand and proposes a new project.
UX Collective
JANUARY 18, 2022
Adobe Stock | 369425293 | Sonulkaster It may surprise some who know me professionally to learn that I identify as an introvert. It similarly almost certainly would surprise most of my neighbors & friends who know me well outside of work to learn that I work in what is often perceived to be a very extroverted profession. Yet, I hope to show today how this is a significant misconception.
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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.
Creative Review
JANUARY 17, 2022
Jiaqi Wang owes her career partly to Crayon Shin-chan, a Japanese comic following the escapades of a mischievous five-year-old boy; and partly to her mother’s exasperation: Wang was packed off to art school at weekends when cleaning up her constant doodlings on the walls of their home got too much. Hailing from Suzhou, China, Wang’s illustration and animation took her first to London College of Communication, where she followed her graphics degree in Shanghai with a postgrad animatio
HONGKIAT
JANUARY 21, 2022
The online learning segment has been witnessing significant growth in the last few years. As per market research, the US eLearning segment is expected to grow by $12.81 billion between 2020 and 2024. The expected growth can be credited to the unprecedented emergence of Covid-19 that catapulted the entire world and pushed companies to redefine learning.
Its Nice That
JANUARY 19, 2022
The illustration artist talks us through some of her most recent projects and shares some interesting tips on how to get creatively inspired.
UX Collective
JANUARY 19, 2022
Tips to defy UX complexity in the metaverse. Illustrated by Arthur Petrillo I first read The Laws of Simplicity by Dr. John Maeda 15 years ago. It came as a breath of fresh air at a time when the user experience of most online services was overly complicated and frustrating. I carried the learnings throughout my career, as I found them equally relevant for designing online services, mobile applications, interactive displays, or chatbots.
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Creative Review
JANUARY 18, 2022
Barney Bubbles is a designer who manages to straddle two camps: he’s truly a ‘designers’ designer’, but also one whose work is celebrated by those outside of that, well, bubble. Best known for his work with record label Stiff, his distinctive imagery demonstrates both a rigorous understanding of design’s technicalities in its lines, layouts, grids and colour selections, and a natural desire to reach for wildly original imaginative leaps.
We And The Color
JANUARY 20, 2022
Available on Adobe Stock, these minimalist social media/Instagram post templates with photo placeholders are available as fully customizable vector graphics. @Phillip is a graphic designer and Adobe Stock contributor who focuses on modern and clean lines. This set of minimal social media templates is no exception. Using only simple graphic shapes with subtle typography, he created a fully customizable tool for social media posts on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and other cha
Eye on Design
JANUARY 18, 2022
Name : Pangea Afrikan. Designer : Christoph Koeberlin. Distributor : Fontwerk. Release Date : December 20, 2021. Back Story : In 2016, designer Christoph Koeberlin began work on Pangea—an inclusive typeface designed to feature a treasure trove of writing systems. At the outset, Koeberlin asked himself: “Can a typeface do any good?” He knew the answer: a resounding yes.
UX Collective
JANUARY 21, 2022
Because there is only Planet A and designers can do so much more to save it Image source As you might have heard, humanity has a lot on its plate recently: we are in the middle of a climate crisis, our oceans are turning into plastic landfills, animal species are going extinct by the dozens every day , and just in general we are destroying the very thing that keeps us alive, the planet.
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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.
Graphic Design Junction
JANUARY 20, 2022
100 free fonts are the greatest gift of 2022, for graphic designers. Fonts are used to add an appeal to your design and to your brand in order to attract potential customers. For our ease, there are numerous fonts available to download for free on the internet. The ideal fonts will make reading easy when used for a paragraph, even when it is read from a certain distance.
HONGKIAT
JANUARY 19, 2022
WordPress is the most popular open-source software system for building and managing websites. Creating a website on WordPress can be a quick and easy process, especially when you have hundreds of themes and thousands of plugins available. Plugins are essential for improving the functionality of a theme and making things work more efficiently. Since there are well over 40,000 cool WordPress plugins on the market, finding just the right one to serve a special purpose could prove to be a daunting t
Eye on Design
JANUARY 19, 2022
The first email I received from Ritesh Gupta was at 4:30AM. This could mean one of two things—he’s one of those founders who gets up early to start his day (a habit I’ve always coveted, but never been able to execute), or he’s pulling an all nighter due to the sheer volume of work on his plate. Gupta confirms it’s the latter. “I wasn’t ready for the on swell of reception on my posts, so I’ve been feeling that adrenaline for quite a while.
BP&O
JANUARY 20, 2022
LogoArchive launched in 2015, however, it dates further back as an attempt to discover and file some of the best modernist logos of the past. Since then, it has grown into an international programme with 30+ researchers, located all over the globe, been developed into a series of seventeen zines and a soon-to-launch purpose-built 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.
Graphic Design Junction
JANUARY 21, 2022
The retro / vintage style belongs to the 80’s. The Eighties are also well known for their extreme fashions, events, parties and festivals. Also called “old school days” The 80’s retro look in graphic design is commonly used these days to create amazing party flyers, brochures and retro brand guideline templates. For your inspiration we are gathered eye-catching modern retro flyers perfectly suitable to dance, music events and etc.
Design Beep
JANUARY 19, 2022
The digital sphere shows something new every year, setting trends for the market and forcing developers to adapt to them. And 2022 will also be promising in this regard, as we will soon see. Many experts say that the year of the Tiger promises to enter the digital channels in a varied and experimental way. Therefore, today we want to discover the most anticipated web design trends in order to put them into practice as soon as possible. 8 Innovative Web Design Trends For 2022.
Its Nice That
JANUARY 20, 2022
Through her wonderfully surreal and otherworldly images, the London-based photographer wants to produce a more diverse and multi-faceted depiction of Black womanhood.
We And The Color
JANUARY 17, 2022
Available for download on Adobe Stock, this smartphone screen mockup comes with two fully customizable iPhone-inspired layouts that can be customized with every design in no time. Adobe Stock contributor @Patrick specializes in a wide range of templates and mockups for creatives. The following smartphone/iPhone screen mockup for Adobe Photoshop comes with two design options.
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
JANUARY 19, 2022
Procreate is the most powerful iPad app for drawing, sketching and illustrations and only Procreate lovers understand the importance of Procreate Brushes. In this article we gathered 26 best Procreate tutorials taught by Pro Procreate Designers, illustrators and digital artists. You must check the best tutorials that will provide a lot of help, step by step draw different illustrations and drawings that make it easy to learn and understand.
Canny
JANUARY 18, 2022
Navigating an effective marketing meeting is one of the most difficult aspects of the marketers role. Don’t believe us? Ask anyone involved in marketing what part of their game they feel they could improve upon and we can all but guarantee they’ll mention something to do with meetings that stay on topic, or general meeting ideas to help shake things up a little.
SpyreStudios
JANUARY 20, 2022
Being able to select the right colors is key in designing an effective and intriguing design, whether for the web or for print. If you’re able to achieve a good balance within your design, then it’ll communicate a stronger message much more easily to the users or readers because certain colors “ activate ” certain types of emotions.
We And The Color
JANUARY 15, 2022
Download a professional marketing infographic template consisting of 16 customizable pages. Adobe Stock contributor @PixWork created this easy-to-use marketing infographic template. Equipped with numerous editable infographics and 16 customizable pages, you can use this Adobe InDesign for a wide range of graphic design and marketing purposes. The A4 InDesign file is completely print-ready but you can also export it as a PDF to send it via email to clients or business partners.
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