Creative Nerds
OCTOBER 24, 2021
This is a collection of design tools, which are alternative design tools you can use rather than illustrator. Illustrator is one the best industry tools for creating illustration, but there is lot of other applications you can choose from. This post we have rounded up all the best illustration application and tools, which is a […].
Design Week
OCTOBER 25, 2021
When Pringles updated its mascot for the first time in 20 years last month – snipping Mr. P’s hair and adding a pair of expressive eyebrows – the internet and design community were divided. Many mourned the moustachioued mascot’s former appearance, particularly his distinctive floppy hair.
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Design Beep
OCTOBER 26, 2021
When building a website for your brand there are a range of things to consider. You’ll know about researching your target market, deciding on your brand’s tone of voice and the importance of optimising your website for mobile, but what about the design? You may wonder how to maintain the same style throughout, especially when lots of people are editing the site.
Spoon Graphics
OCTOBER 27, 2021
In today’s Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a ‘speed lines’ text effect. This tutorial is an alternative to my original Speed Lines Type Effect tutorial for Adobe Illustrator from back in 2017. In that video, I showed how Illustrator’s shape building tools helped to add the fast movement lines, but I actually found this method for Adobe Photoshop to be much easier.
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
OCTOBER 26, 2021
With everyone creating stories these days, how do you get followers to notice you and not just scroll on by? Animated video can easily catch the eye and help get your messages across. Here are some awesome background options crafted by Creative Market designers to give your social stories just that boost they need. Pink Animated Vertical Videos. Content Factory created Pink Animated Vertical Videos to help you create more content that will stop people mid-scroll.
Eye on Design
OCTOBER 27, 2021
The following is an adapted excerpt from Briar Levit’s new book, Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History. The story of graphic design is not tidy and linear, as it is often presented. Our dominant narratives of one art and design movement leading seamlessly to the next can make conceiving the passage of ideas and events more palatable, but can keep us from understanding what is true.
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Spoon Graphics
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Access All Areas members have a great collection of vector textures to download this week, courtesy of GhostlyPixels. These 10 Wood Grit Distortions feature a variety of finely detailed textures, isolated with transparent backgrounds. Each texture is supplied as infinitely scalable AI & EPS files, as well as huge 8000x6000px PNG images, making them extremely versatile assets you can use as backgrounds or within layer masks to create all kinds of bold texturing effects.
Creative Market
OCTOBER 28, 2021
We asked our friends at Newspaper Club to share some of the most inspiring newspapers their customers are using to showcase creative work. From a pattern designer’s portfolio to a playful project from Mailchimp’s design team, the 8 examples below show you how to put your best foot forward in print. When much of what you create is experienced on a screen, getting to share your work in print is a rare thrill.
Creative Bloq
OCTOBER 26, 2021
A game-changer for creative collaboration.
UX Collective
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Focusing on meaningful change rather than big impacts An image of an imaginary rolling counter of climate actions taken by a person. The size isn’t the critical measure of an action, or the number of actions, but each adds to the collective amounts that all of us take. Image by the author. Being a designer has never been easy; not if you take the responsibility seriously anyway.
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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.
Graphic Design Junction
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Today we are featuring Professional Digital Illustrator Artist and Designer Yann Dalon , with his stunning illustration artwork collection in a unique style. He was born in Paris, France. French artist graduated from the universities of art and design Estienne and Olivier de Serres. He beauty to drew and paint with the desire to transcribe the movement, with the ambition of “moving a fixed picture” He wants to retranscribe a maximum of dynamism by the rhythm of strokes and the vibra
Eye on Design
OCTOBER 28, 2021
This is part I of the Processing oral history. Part II will publish next week. Computers and design have long been intertwined. This relationship dates back to the 1960s, when computational pioneers used code to create novel forms. Since then, programming’s grip on designers has only tightened, even as it’s been obscured by the user-friendly interfaces of modern creativity software.
SpeckyBoy
OCTOBER 29, 2021
51 git commands that you’ll ever need to get started with Git – This handy reference provides need-to-know git commands. Repetitive Typography Animation – Check out this experimental typography animation, where words get duplicated several times. Typographica Library – Level up your typography game with this digital bookshelf of type and lettering resources. 8 Free Maintenance & Coming Soon Plugins for WordPress – Use these free plugins to inform your visitors about ongoing maintenance
UX Collective
OCTOBER 24, 2021
A few days ago the BBC announced and presented it’s new branding system , and with tired predictability there was a backlash from anyone who doesn’t like change, people that are amateur designers and those who do not realise why change is needed for any organisation to become more inclusive. Both the BBC Blocks and Accessibility have been part of the BBC since the 1950s I had the honour of being part of the evolution of this project and I will explain why a project like this makes sense if an or
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Graphic Design Junction
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Creative, multi-purpose best WordPress themes designed for all types of responsive websites. Modern responsive themes built upon some fresh and unique features. The User Experience is among the best and the interface will blow your and your customers’ minds. All WordPress themes comes with lots of useful and modern elements, blocks; you can kickstart your new websites with ease and in no time.
Creative Review
OCTOBER 27, 2021
Based in Accra, Ghana Sianeh A Kpukuyou (known as ASKphotos on Instagram) was first introduced to photography through her mother. “During my senior year at American International School, I was asked by my friends to take their senior pictures,” Kpukuyou tells CR. “When I shared those images with my mother she got extremely excited and told me she saw a future in photography for me.” Kpukuyou’s own interest in the medium grew when she realised she could have an impac
We And The Color
OCTOBER 23, 2021
Create lovely Instagram stories for Christmas with this set of Adobe Illustrator templates. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @Rawpixel , this set of Christmas greetings Instagram story templates consists of eight unique designs. Based on the standard size of 1080 x 1920 px, every design is fully customizable to make your stories as unique as possible.
UX Collective
OCTOBER 27, 2021
Illustration by Olga Epikhina for this article. Edge cases can be difficult to define. Thankfully there are strategies to spotlight where edge cases are likely to hide, and you can use these strategies without changing much of your existing design process. Considering edge cases matters because what inevitably happens when they’re ignored is something, somewhere gets overlooked.
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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
OCTOBER 25, 2021
List of new fresh free fonts , download free for commercial and personal use. Modern fonts perfect for logo design, branding, business cards, wedding invitation and any kind of typography artwork. This collection included sans serif , script fonts , handwritten fonts and brush fonts which can make your design more professional. The following fonts are ideal to make an creative design and perfect for any artwork.
SpyreStudios
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Web design is an ever-evolving world of art and creativity. Design trends for 2022 are sure to be exciting and intriguing. A lot of design trends are sure to disappear while others are sure to stay. As web designers, we should be on our toes to watch out for these. Or better yet, we should take it as a challenge to set our own. What are we expecting for web design in 2022?
Web Design Ledger
OCTOBER 28, 2021
If you want to share your create talents with the world having a portfolio website gives you the most effective way to do so. If you don’t have the time or the wherewithal to build one from scratch and you don’t want to spend a fortune to putting one together, your best approach will be to find an affordable website-building tool that will do the heavy lifting for you.
Smashing Magazine Graphics
OCTOBER 29, 2021
50 Resources And Tools To Turbocharge Your Copywriting Skills. 50 Resources And Tools To Turbocharge Your Copywriting Skills. Freya Giles. 2021-10-29T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-29T14:05:28+00:00. I believe that copywriting is the most valuable skill you’ll ever learn. Great copy engages your readers, builds connections, turns readers into consumers and consumers into brand evangelists.
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
OCTOBER 24, 2021
Landing page design it is the first web page or the “ lander ” page that people see when they click on a search engine optimized search result. There will always be possible improvements to be made and it will be an ongoing process of A/B split testing in order to constantly improve. Landing page is an online marketing concept. This is an important page of any website and mostly is a direct sales copy.
Design Milk
OCTOBER 28, 2021
A Design Milk community favorite, Four Point Puzzles , the Canadian jigsaw puzzle company with a specialty in contemporary art and design, is back with a new collaboration that’s sure to challenge and delight. The brand’s latest release stars two original works by contemporary artists – Designing Destiny by Ryan McGinness and Tangled by Vratislav Pecka.
Envato Tuts+
OCTOBER 28, 2021
What You'll Be Creating. Let's explore the letter C in different font styles and take a look at some creative ways to design a single letter. In this article, we want to ignite your creativity by designing the letter C in different font styles. This is a great opportunity for designers to explore different C font styles, text effects, and even color schemes. .
Creative Review
OCTOBER 29, 2021
A new outdoor exhibition is showcasing art and photography by a range of UK-based visual artists whose work embodies the idea of Black joy. Curated by photographer Ronan Mckenzie, the display has kicked off with 12 creatives in outdoor locations in north, east and south London. Among the artists chosen for the London edition are Olivia Twist , whose illustrations capture the intricate moments of daily life, and photographer Christina Ebenezer (shown top), one of the standouts in a recent exhibit
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.
We And The Color
OCTOBER 29, 2021
Located on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca, the team of Beef Architekti designed this beautiful villa. Mallorca is a Mediterranean island known for its beautiful landscapes and picturesque historic stone towns. Beef Architekti designed Casa Fly, a modern villa that reflects the Majorcan way of life by using traditional techniques and materials as stones from a local quarry.
Colossal
OCTOBER 28, 2021
All images © Vorja Sánchez, shared with permission. In Vorja Sánchez ’s ghostly dreamworld, spectral creatures plunge from the sky with long, wispy appendages that grasp onto the landscape. The Barcelona-based artist and illustrator ( previously ) disrupts otherwise peaceful photos with the massive forms that haunt unsuspecting hikers and farm animals as they peek out from behind a hill or congregate in airborne groups.
Creative Bloq
OCTOBER 26, 2021
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ID Identity Design
OCTOBER 26, 2021
The Audo is a hybrid space in Copenhagen, Denmark, facilitating and celebrating human interaction, connection and artistic expression. As a hotel residence, restaurant, café, concept store, material library, creative work and event space, The Audo beautifully unites design, work, hospitality and community under one roof. We’ve been delighted to work on the brand identity, bespoke stationery, packaging, wayfinding and signage system, photography, website design, and various other print and digita
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