Just Creative
MARCH 4, 2021
The realization that your business isn’t quite working out the way you’d planned isn’t a fun one. You might look back at your last few projects and see that the clients weren’t the type you want to be working with. Or you might not have any past clients to look back on and feel like you’ll never see consistent income. I’ve been there. We’ve all been there.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
Sushi has been popular in the Western world since the 1970s, when it was introduced to diners in the U.S. You probably have a strong opinion about it – either you love it and are always looking for ‘the best’ sushi in your neighborhood, or you absolutely hate it and can’t understand how anyone could go near it, much less put it in their mouths.
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Spoon Graphics
MARCH 1, 2021
Access All Areas members have a useful collection of Lightroom Presets to download this week, courtesy of Hydrozi. These Film Emulation presets are inspired by classic film stocks such as Kodak, Fujifilm and Agfa. They are designed to give your digital images an authentic colour film look. Apply the effect with a single click, then tweak the individual settings if necessary to customise the result. 33 different film look effects are included for Lightroom Desktop, Lightroom Mobile, and Camera Ra
Design Wizard
MARCH 3, 2021
Hit Subscribe! With nearly two billion users monthly, YouTube is increasingly becoming a viable option for many looking to make money online by uploading video content in the hopes of acquiring a healthy following. That said, many an aspiring YouTuber approaches their YouTube dreams with an unrealistic perspective. Their thought process runs something along the lines of: all I have to do is post a video, attract an audience and then voila, advertisers will be clamoring to pay me for exposure to
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
Just Creative
MARCH 3, 2021
If you are looking to View Course about branding and logo design, there are so many different courses, classes, videos, and tutorials available online that can make it difficult to choose the right one for you. To help, we’ve compiled the best branding and logotype courses on Domestika. All of these courses are available in multiple languages and segmented into modules in such a way that you get a grasp of the entire range starting from the beginning to the end with ease.
Creative Review
MARCH 3, 2021
The book captures the strange, wordless exchange the pair shared from their respective home towns of Amsterdam and Beijing, which has been transformed into a set of split-screen postcards, published by Atelier Éditions, that others can tear out and send on. Author Kingston Trinder has assembled the archive of imagery into a kind of bizarre narrative, bringing together photographs that somehow resonate with one another.
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Design Wizard
MARCH 3, 2021
Edit in Design Wizard. Facebook – The king of social media. Facebook still reigns supreme in the world of social media. With over 2.3 million monthly active users, it is still a major source of traffic and brand engagement for businesses all over the world. . There are tons of different tools out there that are great for leveraging Facebook to the best of its abilities to help your brand.
Just Creative
MARCH 3, 2021
Used in some of the most famous paintings in the world, watercolor is one of the oldest mediums, dating back to paleolithic Europe. These days, some incredible artwork can be created with the right watercolor tools such as Photoshop from Adobe. With our list of the best high-resolution Watercolour Brushes, Brush Sets & Actions for Photoshop, you can start creating beautiful works of watercolor art in no time. 15 Free & Premium High-Res Watercolor Brushes, Brush Sets & Actions for Pho
Graphic Design USA
MARCH 1, 2021
Thanks to q30, while it waits for the day for the museum doors to reopen, the Ontario Science Centre is ready to welcome online visitors with a flexible, accessible, and engaging website.
Shillington
MARCH 3, 2021
It’s no secret that Japanese design—encompassing architecture, fashion and, of course, graphic design—is renowned all over the world. Japanese graphic design is a hugely diverse mix of different styles, approaches and methodologies. This, combined with a very Japanese approach to creating and the idiosyncrasies of Japanese culture, means that Japanese graphic design has an incredibly unique style.
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Design Wizard
MARCH 3, 2021
Edit in Design Wizard. Why is Brand Awareness Important. There are a lot of misconceptions about what branding is , as well as what brand awareness is. It’s not just about getting people to recognize your brand, it is also about getting them to identify with that brand. In other words, you want your audience to embrace your brand within the context of their lifestyle.
Just Creative
MARCH 4, 2021
The Procreate app is an amazing tool that makes it easy for anyone to create beautiful artwork right on their Apple iPad. In all honesty, though, the mobile app is much more than a simple drawing tool. Not only does it give you the ability to draw creations from scratch but you can also create painting, illustrations, graphic designs, and more with incredible detail.
Spine Magazine
MARCH 4, 2021
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!
Noupe
MARCH 1, 2021
There are many wonderful things about running a business, but doing payroll and administering benefits usually don’t make the list. For many small businesses, HR is an afterthought, but that doesn’t make it any less time-consuming. Fifty-four percent of small business owners handle HR work themselves, and it takes up 35 percent of their time. That’s time that could otherwise be spent interacting with customers, generating new business, and strategizing for the future.
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SpeckyBoy
MARCH 2, 2021
Capture their interest before you even capture a photo! Berenice Abbott once said that photography helps people to see. However, if you’re a photographer (or if you’re working with a photographer), then you know that it’s your logo that convinces new customers to come and take a look at their portfolio. Competition in photography can be tough.
Just Creative
MARCH 2, 2021
In art, the term outline refers to lines that are real or apparent by which a figure is defined in or bounded by the plane of vision. Essentially, an outline is used to create a border around an image or lettering. Outlines can add a level of detail that other brushes cannot add. With our selections of the Best Procreate Brushes for Outlining, you can start adding detail to your work right away.
Azure Magazine
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
When urban planning students across North America returned to their studies amid a global pandemic, all classes had moved online and opportunities for invaluable co-op placements providing real-world experiences were drastically reduced. As two Black women and second-year graduate students at Toronto’s York University, we went back to school with these concerns, plus feelings of trauma and loss resulting from the anti-Black violence taking place across our cities.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
MARCH 3, 2021
Booking new projects is a key revenue driver for any freelance web designer. But a lot of time and effort goes into both finding projects and getting the details hammered out. Then you still have to do the actual work. It’s not always an efficient process. And, unless those projects are quite large , you might also need to find other ways to boost cashflow.
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Abduzeedo
MARCH 1, 2021
Paperwork - Artistic Booklets of Tear-Out Papers. abduzeedo 03.01.21 VELKRO shared a personal project highlighting their graphic design, editorial design and typography skills titled “Paper Work”. As they describe it: Red square on a blue triangle. Yellow circle over a grey rectangle. Paperwork is an alphabet book consisting of 36 hand-made creative and artistic booklets of tear-out papers.
Just Creative
MARCH 1, 2021
This article has been contributed by Jenn Pereira. Web designers are often confronted with numerous challenges, many of which can involve miscommunication with clients. Designers and clients often don’t ‘speak the same language’ in a professional sense, so conveying design ideas and progress can be tricky. This is just one way that prototyping tools can be helpful, by making web designs more tangible for clients before final signoff.
Graphic Mama
MARCH 4, 2021
To create data visualization in order to present your data is no longer just a nice to have skill. Now, the skill to effectively sort and communicate your data through charts is a must-have for any business in any field that deals with data. Data visualization helps businesses quickly make sense of complex data and start making decisions based on that data.
Creative Review
MARCH 4, 2021
“The name of the song, j0_0j, can be translated to ‘Jouj’ That means ‘two’ in Moroccan Arabic,” explains animator Franz Impler, the brains behind the new music video for Zouj (aka Adam Lenox)’s new track. “For me the song is about standing inbetween two worlds and the process of entering a new one,” Impler adds. “I tried to translate this through the different worlds in the video.
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.
Abduzeedo
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
Motion Design Inspiration - Random Loops. abduzeedo 02.28.21 Tony Babel is a multidisciplinary designer, animator and illustrator specialized in rich animations for digital products. With a portfolio full of very inspiring motion design work. I am a huge fan of the Vintage Loops series but I wanted to share this series of random loops with you, just hilarious.
Just Creative
MARCH 3, 2021
Created initially as acrylic resin in 1934, acrylic paint is a water-based paint that is made up of pigment particles that have been dispersed in an acrylic polymer emulsion. We don’t know about you but that’s a lot of technical terms. Painting using acrylic paints can be fun. They are fast-drying, have a low odor, it’s easy to clean up, and are heavily pigmented.
Booooooom
MARCH 1, 2021
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Colossal
MARCH 4, 2021
Image © James Crombie, licensed for use. After months of chasing starlings alongside his colleague Colin Hogg , Dublin-based photographer James Crombie captured a phenomenal shot of the flock as it swelled into an enormous bird-like murmuration. Hogg recorded the awe-inspiring experience in a short clip that shows the winged formation taking shape and hovering over Lough Ennell , a lake near Mullingar in central Ireland.
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.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
MARCH 1, 2021
When building a website, it’s important to find efficiencies wherever you can. Those little tricks that save you time without sacrificing quality are always welcome. The WordPress Gutenberg block editor has plenty of hidden productivity gems built-in. Features such as keyboard shortcuts and UI enhancements that can help us get things done faster. They’re especially nice for those menial tasks like duplicating blocks or repositioning them to fit a particular layout.
Just Creative
MARCH 3, 2021
If you could look at the tools that a graphic designer uses daily like opening a toolbox, one of the biggest tools you’re likely to see is Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop is a Swiss Army knife that helps graphic designers the tools they need to create amazing logos, designs, and branding for their clients. One of the best ways they do this is with the use of brushes and with that in mind, we wanted to take a look at 30 of the best free & premium Photoshop brushes out there so you can add th
Design You Trust
MARCH 3, 2021
Felix Tindall‘s shadow playfulness allows him to create illustrations that will fall to the ground. Playing mainly with silhouettes, and taking his inspiration from video games and movies, this artist manages to create wonderful posters. They represent the essence of these works, often with their main characters, but also striking details, reminding me what makes us love these works.
Colossal
MARCH 1, 2021
All images © Calvin Nicholls, shared with permission. In Calvin Nicholls ’s sculptural forms, feathered and furry creatures are meticulously crafted from small pieces of white paper. When viewed up-close, their texture resembles the fullness of a wintery landscape, but in full form, the Canadian artist’s animals are so vivid that they appear as though they could leap, fly, and spring out of the canvas.
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