Noupe
OCTOBER 30, 2020
If you’re wondering why your website conversion rate is painfully low after investing a lot of time (and money) into it, then you probably haven’t considered its page speed. Did you know that a whopping 1% of a business’s revenue is lost for every second a page takes to load? With statistics like that, there’s no denying that page speed has a lot to do with the success of your business.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Some design elements are so common that they almost become afterthoughts. The horizontal rule is one of them. It’s easy to simply place them within our content without any attention to detail. But this venerable HTML tag is capable of doing so much more – thanks to some clever CSS. Horizontal rules can be quite decorative, whether you prefer a bold or subtle design.
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Designer Daily
OCTOBER 27, 2020
It’s not so often that you find some truly well designed packaging, so I was delighted to stumble upon this wonderful work done for Volta by Stamp. Focused on typography and elements around it, the design uses lines, waves, and simple shapes to suggest the pasta rather than placing photos on it. The choice of colors and simplicity, along with simple line-based illustrations, are an amazing publicity for this Italian restaurant located in the heart of Osaka, Japan.
Just Creative
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Welcome to our massive compilation of the best 2020 Black Friday Deals and Cyber Monday Sales for graphic designers, web professionals, creatives, photographers freelancers and more. We will be updating this page frequently until all sales are over. If you have your own deal, email us and we’ll update the post with your deal. Keep in mind, many of these deals will only go live around Black Friday.
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
OCTOBER 26, 2020
With Halloween coming up this week, I figured it would be an ideal time to produce another morbid inspiration showcase featuring skulls! Portraits of people lacking their skin and flesh seems to be a weirdly popular subject for many artists and illustrators, with skulls and skeletons being depicted in all kinds of art styles ranging from nightmarish horror scenes to humerus cartoon characters.
BP&O
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Text by Richard Baird Shy Bird is a all-day café, rotisserie and bar in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its core mission is to elevate chicken, and the experience of eating chicken into the realms of the exceptional through gastronomic know-how, a beautiful interior and a visual identity designed by American studio Perky Bros. Drawing their inspiration from the red junglefowl, the “original […].
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Just Creative
OCTOBER 29, 2020
This article has been contributed by Alistair Knight. Being a freelancer can be extremely rewarding. You’re able to be your own boss and can work whenever and wherever you want. You can wake up early before the rest of the world or sleep in and hit the snooze button as often as you like. If you make it a priority, you can take better care of your mental and physical wellness while spending more time with your family, pets and other loved ones.
Spoon Graphics
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Access All Areas members have a versatile font to download this week, courtesy of Elena Genova from MyCreativeLand. The Lumios Marker Family has been carefully hand crafted using a Pilot Sign Pen for ultimate realism. It has both extended Latin and basic Cyrillic support that is enhanced with oodles of ligatures and alternates. With over 1300 glyphs, this is the go-to font adding handwriting effects to your artwork.
Booooooom
OCTOBER 27, 2020
A selection of portraits by Copenhagan, Denmark-based photographer Halfdan Venlov. Centered around themes of youth identity, coming of age, and a feeling of “being out of step with the world”, Venlov’s images are not tied to specific narratives. Depicting young characters, he explains his intention to allow the viewer to “inhabit a space of multiple interpretations.
Creative Review
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks is the latest in a series of monographs Little White Lies has created in collaboration with New York-based publisher Abrams. Written by film critic Adam Nayman and put together by LWW’s team of in-house designers, Masterworks is a psychedelic feast for the eyes. The design team initially started talking about making a book on Anderson around three years ago, and design director Fabrizio Festa was instantly excited. “His tone of voice, his choice of t
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Just Creative
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Some of the hardest-hit industries lockdowns have affected include those that gravitate towards creative work. For instance, several photographers, on-cam talents, and local film directors have had to put projects on hold to observe updated health regulations in the name of preventing Covid-19. . While a few cities have allowed productions to resume under stricter guidelines, more and more creatives are taking it on themselves to pursue artistic production undertakings in the comfort of their ow
Noupe
OCTOBER 27, 2020
An age-old SEO tactic, link building is simply the process of getting other relevant sites to link back to your web pages. As a digital marketer, you are probably guilty of either undermining the importance of link building or putting it on the backburner assuming the process to be time-consuming and complex. Well, it’s time you get rid of any such misapprehension as backlinking is more relevant today than it ever was.
Graphic Mama
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Web design trends – the pressure is on. Evermore competitive, evermore innovative, as we look to kick 2020 well and truly into the long grass, web designers are racking their brains for where the trends are likely to be. There is certainly no shortage of inspiration on the web, experimentation with new styles, adaptation of old styles all helped by new technological advances and developments are pushing the boundaries.
Creative Review
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Ray Harryhausen is known for having almost singlehandedly elevated stop-motion animation to an art form in the second half of the 20th century. Born in California, the filmmaker began experimenting with models as a teenager after discovering the work of special effects supervisor Willis O’Brien in the 1933 version of King Kong, which he ended up going to watch 33 times.
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Design Week
OCTOBER 27, 2020
London-based studio Sennep has collaborated with music technology company Roli on its new project Lumi, which aims to let people learn the piano from home by themselves. Lumi is an illuminated keyboard and app, which aims to make learning the piano “easier and more fun” and help even casual players “more musical in minutes”, according to Sennep.
Tuts Plus
OCTOBER 30, 2020
For most of us, a coffee shop is not only a place where we go to get our daily dose of caffeine, but also a place where we go when we need a break from our office space yet still want to be productive. Since coffee shops play an important role in our lives, make sure your coffee shop attracts your ideal customers. The right coffee shop logo is an important way to get noticed.
Colossal
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Peruvian Inca tern. All images © Tim Flach, shared with permission. From an Egyptian vulture with wispy feathers to a cockatoo with a vibrant fanned crest, Tim Flach ’s expressive portraits convey the subtleties and bold features of birds around the globe. The London-based photographer ( previously ) focuses on endangered and vulnerable species throughout his work, which includes a range of animal portraiture. “I am also interested in the perceptual divide between sentient beings.
Creative Review
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Set up by Óscar Raña and Cynthia Alfonso, Rapapawn is an animation studio based in Vigo, Spain and has a flair for the psychedelic. “ We met at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Barcelona six years ago. At first we worked on joint publications in the field of graphics, then we both studied a Masters in Animation,” says the duo. “Aware of our affinities, we had the curiosity to see our graphic work in motion, so we decided to create Rapapawn three years ago.” The name
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Design Week
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Tech company Argineering has revealed its RGKit Play product, which seeks to “reimagine” how designers approach motion in their work. RGKit is a “modular wireless motion control kit” aimed at a range of designers, from animators to illustrators and those working in videography, according to the company. The kits comprise a series of motors, light controllers and sensors which control how the camera moves as well as the designs being shot.
Noupe
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Want to create an amazing yet one-of-a-kind mobile application that grabs users’ attention? If yes, then you’re at the right place to question “HOW.” Discover some refreshing mobile app design practices that will surely help you to reap millions of downloads and skyrocket your sales funnel in 2020. What are the essential mobile app design practices to follow in 2020?
Trendland
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Words Camila Rigaud. Let’s dive into the colorful world of artist Alex Proba ! She is a multidisciplinary designer and art director from Lüdenscheid, Germany. After attending different design schools such as the Design Academy of Eindhoven, she developed a sensibility for spatial and graphic design but also object design.
Creative Review
OCTOBER 28, 2020
With the pandemic putting the entire live events sector on hold, D&AD needed some fresh thinking to celebrate 2020’s awards recipients in a virtual way. “Winning a D&AD Pencil is for many a career-defining achievement, so we wanted to make this year’s winners feel extra special in the absence of an in-person awards ceremony,” explains D&AD’s marketing director Laura Kelly. “We wanted to recreate the surprise and thrill that comes with being
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
OCTOBER 30, 2020
All images © Jill Burrow, shared with permission. From her home in Kansas City, Missouri, photographer Jill Burrow composes elegant dining tableaus captured in the fleeting light of golden hour. Complete with floral arrangements and unusual additions, Burrow’s fare distinctly exhibits the artistic potential of a simple meal when presented in unorthodox settings.
Brown Paper Bag
OCTOBER 26, 2020
This post contains some affiliate links. If you make a purchase, Brown Paper Bag may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more here. This article is brought to you by Brown Paper Stitch , my business that makes your wardrobe pawesome by embroidering your pets on clothing. Perhaps you’ve heard me talk about the daily embroidery project 1 Year of Stitches.
Its Nice That
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Released this week after winning the contract in 2014, the concept celebrates the connective power of nature – and transforms under UV light.
Creative Review
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Artist and designer Morag Myerscough spent three weeks in her London studio completing A New Now, which utilises her trademark blend of geometric shapes, neon colours and purposefully haphazard typography. It’s been commissioned as part of ongoing initiative Embellish Paris – led by 6M3 Collective – which sees the city’s ‘overlooked’ spaces invigorated with artworks.
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
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Gothic fonts are unusually attractive which makes them a popular choice in branding and design projects. They typically belong in the sans-serif category and derive inspiration from the Gothic era. Gothic fonts are akin to Gothic architecture and are best-suited for vintage or retro designs. Many words can be used to describe gothic fonts: grotesque, mysterious, grunge, artistic, blackletter, and others.
Design You Trust
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Acadia National Park Graphic artist Amber Share has heard your cries of boredom and used them as inspiration to create brand new tourism ads for America’s National Parks. Here are a few of her posters that are sure to make anyone comfortable settling on a staycation instead of camping this year. More: Instagram h/t: boredpanda North Cascades National Park Washington State “I’m an illustrator and I.
Azure Magazine
OCTOBER 27, 2020
From derelict houses to haunted hotels, subterranean tunnels to creepy compounds, much of the horror genre is predicated on a spooky setting — and for good reason. The ghosts that torment such spaces and their inhabitants are often subtle (sometimes blatant) metaphors for a litany of real-life terrors: racism, domestic violence, gentrification, social mobility and much more.
Trendland
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Words Emily Sandiford. Brooklyn-based Tyler Mitchell emerged into the limelight as the first black photographer to shoot an American Vogue cover. He has since been diligently compiling images for his book I Can Make You Feel Good.
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