Shillington

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Maybe you have some extra free time to yourself or perhaps you’ve hit that one major hurdle that every graphic designer dreads: a creative rut. Designers look to the former as an exciting opportunity to experiment with new graphic design projects, while the latter can be a disappointing, albeit inevitable season of life for any creative. Yet, what feels like a lull in creativity is actually the best time to lean into your projects.

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Design You Trust

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Happy Every After According to an artist Lim Heng Swee: “What is Love? Love is made up of little things all around you. Because love is everywhere, all you have to do is open yourself up to it. Try to see, listen and feel things differently, you will find that everything is in love. My name is Lim Heng Swee, I’m an illustrator based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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SpeckyBoy

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It makes perfect sense: If you want to design a compelling website, find other sites out there that inspire you. And, while this works, it’s not necessarily the best way to create something original. Increasingly, the web is becoming homogeneous. This encompasses the tools we use and yes, the designs we implement. The result is that it can be hard to distinguish one site from another.

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Just Creative

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This article has been contributed by Abhishek Talreja. Hardworking and smart business owners seldom have to worry about making money. Several platforms offer online entrepreneurs a way to explore their skills to the fullest. The internet paves the way for individuals to build the right connections, provide products and services and keep earning money.

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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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Spoon Graphics

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In today’s Photoshop video tutorial I’m going to show you a combination of filters that produce distressed halftone effects, which gives an image a high-contrast, newsprint-style appearance. The main effect is made of halftone dots, but I’ll also show you some additional tweaks you can apply to produce other pattern effects too, like the kind of engraved illustration style you find on bank notes.

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Canva

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

You want your logo to feel fresh, modern, and on-trend. Which is why, when you’re designing your logo, it’s so important to keep your finger on the pulse of what’s happening in design—and embrace those trends and ideas to create a modern logo. But what’s modern is always changing. So what, exactly, does a modern logo look like today? Let’s take a look at 20 modern logo ideas and tips to help you design a logo that feels timely and on trend in 2020.

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Just Creative

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

With recent articles on JUST Creative about the Procreate app for the Apple iPad and the best brushes for the app , we started to think that even though the Procreate app is an amazing tool for artists and graphic designers, not everyone likes to use the Apple Pencil on their iPad. With that in mind, we wanted to share our picks for the Best Apple Pencil Alternatives for Procreate.

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Booooooom

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

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Canva

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Thinking of designing a pink logo ? Or want to know why they are so popular? Step this way. Long associated with femininity, frivolity and fun, the color pink has reemerged as a fashion-forward, desirable color that’s almost always applied with little restraint. In the preceding years before Millennial pink exploded into films, restaurants and social media, Rose Quartz was earmarked by color experts Pantone as a color to watch back in 2016 and has continued to rise in popularity.

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A Beautiful Mess

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Did you know that A Color Story has a huge section of photography tips and tutorials on its website? It’s pretty rad, so I wanted to highlight a few for you here in case you hadn’t seen them yet. I don’t know about you, but this time of year I’ll take any extra creative inspiration I can get! Love this post about great filters to use for food photography.

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I Love Typography

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

For the first in this new series of Fonts in Focus, we visited the New York offices of Hoefler & Co. For this second installment, we remain in New York, just fifteen minutes’ walk from Broadway to Lafayette street and the stateside offices of Commercial Type, established in 2007 and headed by Christian Schwartz in […]. The post Fonts in Focus: two appeared first on I Love Typography.

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Noupe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

When it comes to creating and maintaining a website, the first thing that comes to any person’s mind is a site’s design. Well, design matters indeed, moreover, it can even influence your website’s traffic, which in turn has an impact on the amount of money you make. In fact, a decent layout makes any website look more professional and trustworthy, which attracts more visitors and affects your website’s conversion.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Several years ago, I worked as an in-house copywriter and designer for a prominent marketing firm. When I first applied for the job I didn’t have any of the credentials my employers were looking for, and yet I got the job anyway, out of a pool of more qualified competitors. Why did I get chosen? The boss liked my story. I had no experience with working at a firm, nor was I technical enough to get deeply involved in the backend work.

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Creative Market

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If you're a font connoisseur, you're familiar with the subtle differences between today's best sans serif fonts. Each creator adds their own artistic flair to glyph design, in one of the subtlest possible expressions of design. Spend time with any of these 15 clean sans serif fonts, and you'll find that each one conveys a slightly different aesthetic —but they all deliver a message that's fresh and contemporary. 1.

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Booooooom

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

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Graphic Design USA

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Editor and Publisher Gordon Kaye with thoughts on our 2020 People To Watch feature. This column – The Best Way To Predict The Future Is To Create It – was originally published in our Jan/Feb 2020 print edition. GK.

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Its Nice That

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Created by illustrator Javi Aznarez, the poster gives clues to the fictional magazine front covers he has made for the film, which is loosely inspired by The New Yorker.

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Creative Market

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The importance of versatile and realistic scenes to represent your artwork is impossible to quantify. These 15 amazing poster mockups sets are both inspiring and aesthetically pleasing. 1. Glued Poster Mockups Collection. The poster collection was created by Pixelbuddha , a design shop that offers a wide range of fonts, graphics, templates, and add-ons.

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Booooooom

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Jesse Rieser. Jesse Rieser’s Website. Jesse Rieser on Instagram.

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Canva

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When is an apple not an apple? When it’s the logo for the tech company Apple, of course. Although apples have their own long-standing identity, the global tech giant has successfully pinched this humble fruit and made it synonymous with innovation, progressive thinking and modern design—so much so that just the image of it in its logo form reminds us of the company before the food.

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SpeckyBoy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Have you ever been looking through design annuals or other publications, keeping up to date on what’s happening in the industry, when you happen upon a bunch of work that’s leaps and bounds more creative and technically proficient than anything you’ve done so far? I don’t mean a little bit better – I’m talking about work in a completely different stratosphere of good.

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Under Consideration / Brand

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

“Mix to the Max”. First celebrated in 2012 (under the name of Moritz Pop Up Design Market), Design Market Barcelona is an annual event at the end of year that brings together over 100 independent designers who showcase everything from decoration and objects for the home, fashion and accessories, contemporary jewelry, crafts, and graphic art, all in time for the holidays.

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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.

Graphic Design

Booooooom

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

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Photography 148

Canva

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Green is a classic choice when it comes to branding, and one that’s unlikely to go out of style anytime soon. From Starbucks to Spotify, some of the world’s biggest and most recognizable brands have used green in their logos. Not only does green pair beautifully with many other colors, it’s extremely versatile—taking on different personalities depending on the shade and depth.

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Noupe

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Did you know that roads are deadlier than wars? Throughout the entire 20 th century , a period when the First and Second World Wars took place, the generally accepted death toll stemming from political conflicts was 108 million. However, around 1.35 million individuals lose their lives as a result of a road traffic accident every year , according to the World Health Organization.

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Under Consideration / Brand

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

“Push Forward”. Established in 1998, Saudi Telecom Company (stc) is a telecommunications company in Saudi Arabia providing cable, landline, mobile, internet services, and computer networks for residential and business customers. In official parlance, they offer a "variety of ICT solutions and digital services in several categories including telecommunication, IT, financial technology, digital media, cybersecurity, and other advanced digital solutions".

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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.

Web Design

Booooooom

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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Photography 142

Speckyboy Design Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Over the past decade, I’ve worked with WordPress on a (pretty much) daily basis. It’s my go-to solution for building websites for clients of all sizes. And, as I’ve gained more experience with the highly-popular CMS, I’ve advocated for building WordPress themes from scratch. These days, I use a fairly barebones starter theme based on Underscores. It’s set up just the way I like it and helps me get new projects off to a fast start.

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Graphic Design Junction

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Free PSD Mockups with Smart Objects and easy to customize. Fresh useful Mockup templates for photo-realistic presentations. High quality Mockup templates that can be used for commercial or personal work and save your time and make your design look awesome with amazing effects. These mockups 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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Templates Presentation Photoshop Graphic Design 99

Canva

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It’s no small feat to capture the heart and soul of a brand in a single image, so when designing a logo for a company—be it your own or that of a client—you’ll want to go deep. In this article, we’ll explore the 30 questions to ask when designing a logo. These questions will help you suss out what a company stands for, who it’s targeting and what makes it special before you so much as blink at the drawing board.

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