Speckyboy Design Magazine
MARCH 15, 2021
Don’t be alarmed – but it’s been said that the internet contains some misinformation. It’s also really effective at spreading various falsehoods. And because anyone can publish whatever they like, it can be difficult to tell fiction from the truth. Shocking, right? WordPress is no stranger to various myths and conspiracy theories. Some people are suspicious of big changes to the content management system’s (CMS) core.
Design Week
MARCH 18, 2021
“I’m going to Disney World,” said Mike Winkelmann earlier this month, after bidding closed on his digital collage work auctioned at Christie’s New York. Sold for $69 million (£49.5
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Noupe
MARCH 17, 2021
Web design and SEO are truly the backbones of any good e-commerce business model. Without a physical store, you have to rely on your website and content to create a visual and emotional experience for your customers. Many online stores struggle to balance aesthetics with content, and their copy is either too off-putting or lacks any search optimization whatsoever.
Just Creative
MARCH 15, 2021
Retro fonts remind us of the good old day and come with a kind of nostalgia that not many other typefaces can portray. The marker-inspired typefaces and vintage text visuals can naturally convey intimacy, creativity, and talent. The best retro font families can help you get the results you’re looking for whether that’s a classic look, giving your projects a distinct feel, or making everything you create appear authentic and top-notch.
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
Spoon Graphics
MARCH 17, 2021
In today’s Adobe Photoshop tutorial I’m going to take you through the process of creating a WW2 aircraft ‘nose art’ inspired image, featuring the classic ‘girl-riding-a-bomb’ style pin-up. Traditionally this style of artwork was hand-painted on bombers to boost morale and to bring good luck to the planes, perhaps the most well-known being the B-17 Memphis Belle.
Creative Review
MARCH 19, 2021
When motion designer and illustrator Ardhira Putra was a kid he often drew Son Goku from Dragon Ball as well as copying characters from other comics such as Astro Boy, Doraemon and the Adventures of Tintin. When he was 16, it was all about MTV and its respective channels, where Putra fell in love with the idents and graphics that framed the music videos. “I also loved going to the bookstore to look at graphic design books and magazines,” he says. “At that time I was only using
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Just Creative
MARCH 18, 2021
Looking for some hi-tech, techno or futuristic fonts for your next design project? These really can add a new layer of uniqueness to your projects. However, selecting just the right font for your project can get a bit complicated with all of the options out there. To help, we wanted to cut through the clutter and provide you with what we believe are the best techno and sci-fi fonts.
Spoon Graphics
MARCH 15, 2021
Access All Areas members have a fantastic brush set for Procreate to download this week, courtesy of Shoutbam. The ‘On The Road’ brush set is divided into 3 parts: Line brushes, Texture brushes, and Shader brushes. You’ll be able to go from sketch to a final piece with ease and give your illustrations a rough look with a total of 24 brushes optimised for variable pen pressure.
Canny
MARCH 16, 2021
Website design mistakes run wild online. In our line of work (branding, web design, and digital marketing) I come across a lot of people who think website design is getting easier. Platforms like WordPress and Squarespace are becoming more accessible. In turn, they’re making building your own website easier than ever. While it may seem to be more convenient to build a website yourself, it’s the same as designing your own logo, there is a greater chance you will make mistakes that could damage yo
Speckyboy Design Magazine
MARCH 19, 2021
The 20 Best Photoshop Actions & Layer Styles for Creative Text Effects – Give your regular graphics an extra oomph with incredible typography! This collection includes a massive variety of styles to choose from. Emoji Cloud – Tell the world how you feel by using this CDN for SVG emoji. Glassmorphism UI – Hop on board the glassmorphism trend with this CSS UI library.
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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.
Just Creative
MARCH 15, 2021
Fonts are a crucial part of any brand and marketing campaign. They determine the aesthetic of a project, and the target audience an organization has its eyes set on. The trouble is that there are so many free fonts for graphic design and branding that it would take you years to go through them all, let alone find the professional quality ones. Thankfully, that’s why we’re here.
Graphic Design USA
MARCH 19, 2021
Ryan Schmidt of Landor & Fitch contends that now is the time for brand leaders to reconsider how brand experiences truly integrate the physical, human, and digital to deliver authenticity and truth.
Noupe
MARCH 16, 2021
It could be a task as easy as pie or difficult as breaking a mountain, depending on how you implement the tips for creating effective business flyers. . We’re bringing some easy-to-digest tips for EFFECTIVE flyer design that sums-up our experience with successful & failing flyers. Big shots may have costly flyer maker at their disposal; small businesses are often vulnerable in this case.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
MARCH 17, 2021
The difference between building a great website and a mediocre one is usually determined very early on. It’s often a matter of a web designer painting their project into a virtual “corner”. That’s where a design becomes inflexible and unable to accommodate various use cases. This tends to happen in the prototyping phase. We spend lots of time and creative energy on an idea that looks awesome.
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Just Creative
MARCH 18, 2021
For small business owners looking to set up a website or online store quickly, website builders can answer a lot of owners’ prayers. Not every small business owner can afford to hire an agency to create their website or even have an in-house web developer. Many new business owners barely have enough time to create an online presence and start selling their products.
Trendland
MARCH 15, 2021
Words Mariana Bettinelli. Art director and stylist Elisabetta Bongiorni drew inspiration from botanical illustrations for the shoots of Lia Di Gregorio's jewelry.
Creative Review
MARCH 18, 2021
One time the butt of jokes that its sole purpose was to supply middle-class Londoners with the latest pretentious food items, Ocado’s business has undergone a huge transformation in recent years. The online grocery delivery pioneer has emerged as one of the clear winners of the pandemic. It is now the world’s largest dedicated online supermarket with over 625,000 active customers, and last year overtook Tesco as the UK’s most valuable retailer , after its stock market value soa
Colossal
MARCH 19, 2021
All images © Cat Johnston, shared with permission. A moth-human hybrid, striped coral, and a smoking frog sporting a tracksuit inhabit Cat Johnston ’s fantastical ecosystem crafted from paper and textiles. The playfully bizarre creatures are inspired by monsters, mythology, and folklore, evoking deities and magnifying the strange qualities of plants and animals.
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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 24
MARCH 15, 2021
Vector change Vector change is the cycle whereby a raster picture is changed over into a vector picture. To comprehend this all the more effectively, we will initially need to comprehend what a raster picture and what a vector picture is. A raster picture is comprised of pixels which are little hued boxes. So in this picture, lines and bent edges are developed by the legitimate arrangement of the pixels for example putting the crates in such a manner close to one another that they make the ideal
Noupe
MARCH 19, 2021
Although email marketing may seem a rather still industry, it constantly undergoes changes. They may not be obvious to regular users, but email marketers today have way more tools than they would have even 2 years ago. Gamification is one of such tools. Primarily, before live stories and streaming, game-like content was heavily used on social media to engage followers and prompt shares and likes.
Creative Review
MARCH 16, 2021
“I think I’ve always been interested in subcultures and visuals that other people don’t find conventionally pretty,” says Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy. Born and raised in Brighton, the illustrator’s stylised aesthetic is hugely influenced by her time growing up in the city. “Some of my earliest drawings are of characters with mohawks, based on the punks who lived down the road from me,” she says. “I went to a lot of gigs and all-ages punk shows as a tee
Design Week
MARCH 18, 2021
Renault has revealed a new logo, a geometric version of its diamond-shaped design which has been in use since the 1920s. While the brand’s diamond logo has existed since 1925, the previous iteration had not changed significantly since 1992. The new flat logo comprises two intertwining diamond shapes which can be animated for digital media. It appears without a wordmark and can also be lit-up on vehicle grilles.
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.
Colossal
MARCH 16, 2021
All images © Thomas Jackson, shared with permission. 2020 was a year of many realizations, but for Thomas Jackson ( previously ), the most profound was “proof of the adage that creativity thrives under constraints.” Known for suspending swarms of everyday objects on the rocky shores of the Isle of Man or desert locales across the southwest U.S. , the photographer shifted his practice as lockdowns spread and limited his ability to travel beyond nearby landscapes.
Design You Trust
MARCH 14, 2021
David Yarrow is a British fine-art photographer, conservationist and author. He has travelled to isolated locations to capture images of wildlife, indigenous communities and landscapes. Known for his oversized, monochromatic images, David’s approach is as immersive as it can be. When possible, David takes his photographs of dangerous wildlife using a remote-controlled camera, acknowledging that a photographer can achieve perspective by capturing shots that look up at the animal from the ground.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
MARCH 15, 2021
There’s nothing like 20/20 vision but unfortunately, cameras still aren’t able to magically transport viewers into the world of our photos. In order to get there, we need editing. There’s a good reason why it’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words. You can tell an entire story without writing a single line. Normally, photographers use Adobe Lightroom to give their photos that extra oomph, or to convey a specific atmosphere they felt while on the location.
Lisa Maltby
MARCH 19, 2021
Some projects involve working for a flat day rate and others are priced according to commercial use of the work. This can present some ambiguity around why jobs are priced differently and who owns the rights to the work created. It’s always important to be clear on terms and fees at the start of the project, but more detailed clarity is sometimes needed to ensure both clients and illustrators feel they are getting a fair deal.
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.
Colossal
MARCH 19, 2021
“Cleo” (2020), 8.2 x 11.6 inches. All images © Lola Dupré, shared with permission. Glasgow-based artist Lola Dupré ( previously ) continues her practice of slicing and rearranging photographs and art historical works into cleverly surreal collages. Her newest manipulations include a blockheaded Léon Bonnat, an entire row of irresistible puppy eyes, and a twisted rendition of George Stubbs’s “ The Kongouro from New Holland.” Dupré’s cat, Charlie, still finds hi
Noupe
MARCH 15, 2021
Low poly has been a hot topic on and off in the last couple of years. Even if you haven’t heard the term before you probably have seen it at least a dozen times. The term low poly is the shortened version of “low polygon” which mainly consists of simple 2d shapes coming together to form a pattern/shape. Low poly art is made of numerous low polygon shapes put together to create images, games, etc.
Design Week
MARCH 15, 2021
New York-based design studio Loyal Kaspar is behind the branding for Paramount+, a new streaming platform from ViacomCBS. Designed to compete with the likes of Netflix, Disney Plus and Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+ will offer subscribers access to more than 30,000 on-demand TV shows from places like MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. It will also offer live sports coverage and 24-hour news. “Rich heritage” alongside a “digital entertainment ecosystem” Loyal Kaspar chie
Creative Review
MARCH 18, 2021
It’s Hawker’s first book, and came about when writer and editor Laidlaw spied an image the artist had made for the Clap for Carers applause that took place in the UK during the first lockdown. The pair worked on the book remotely, collaborating over Zoom in the absence of being able to meet in person. For Hawker – a London-based artist who frequently makes architectural illustrations and has exhibited his work across the capital – Together is intended as a more hopeful ta
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