Inspiration Feed
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
A logo is a very significant part of a business. It acts as the face of your brand and will be the first thing that your customers, competitors and pretty much everyone will notice.
Design Roast
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Even though there are thousands of available fonts you can easily download, there are also occasions when you need something unique. Knowing how to make your own font is an asset for any designer and gives you an edge over your competitors. Imagine a typography hierarchy that includes your font as the top of the [.]. The post How to Make Your Own Font appeared first on Design Roast.
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Creative Live
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
While we’ve already established that it’s perfectly ok to take a break during the holiday season , the raw reality is that a lot of creative types literally can’t afford to do that. Bills need to be paid, gifts need to be purchased, and tax season is coming up quickly. If your usual kinds of work — commercial, wedding, whatever — is extra-slow during the chilly winter months, the lack of income can be an extremely stressful and even scary experience.
Shillington
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Putting together a kick-ass graphic design portfolio isn’t just something you need to worry about when you’re a student. You need to think about maintaining, improving and evolving your portfolio throughout your graphic design career. We all know a winning portfolio is vital when you’re going for a new job. But that’s not all. You might be called in at a moment’s notice to chat with your art director to discuss a promotion opportunity or a hot new project you didn’t even know about.
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
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
The Wild West is a popular genre for movies, TV shows, games, and even comics, which means it is also a theme that commonly inspires artists to base their creations on, providing us with plenty of artwork we can admire to fuel our inspiration. In today’s showcase I present over 40 designs and illustrations, all with a western theme. Enjoy browsing this collection of digital paintings, posters, cartoons, advertisements and packaging designs that feature cowboys and gunslingers in a variety
Trendland
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
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Inspiration Feed
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
It’s reported that nearly 47% of people never visit a website again if they had a negative mobile experience. Approximately one-third of users are engaged when a video appears on their mobile device versus desktops.
Designer Daily
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Every week, we’ll give you an overview of the best deals for designers, make sure you don’t miss any by subscribing to our deals feed. You can also follow the recently launched website Type Deals if you are looking for free fonts or font deals. 100+ Christmas and New Year’s Vector Designs. It’s that time of year again! The holidays are upon us, so break out the Christmas cheer with this premium bundle of high-quality Christmas and New Year vectors!
Graphic Design Junction
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Clean and modern corporate Business Flyer Templates with catchy visual will help to transfer your business image in the best way possible. These templates are suitable for startup business industry and promotions. Twenty business flyer double sided templates you can use it as (flyer, poster, brochures cover…etc). All files are ready to print, all elements are easy to use and scale-able without losing quality.
Spoon Graphics
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
Access All Areas members have a great bundle of 5 premium typefaces to download this week, courtesy of James Dene of Dene Studios. Included in this collection is the Ancient Languages Typeface Bundle, which contains 3 fonts based on the first systems of writing in human civilisation (Cuneiform, Norse Elder Futhark and Egyptian Hieroglyphs), plus 2 additional display fonts with a futuristic style named Equinox and Perehilion.
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Just Creative
NOVEMBER 24, 2019
If you work in a small office or design studio, you know pretty well that the real estate on your desk can come at a premium and using a bulky desktop computer can take up a lot of room. This is why the all-in-one computer is such a great idea. With everything contained within one casing, it can easily free up some much-needed room. With our list of the Best All-in-One Computers for Creatives, we hope to change some minds into giving these computers a chance and hopefully help them find a place
Creative Market
NOVEMBER 28, 2019
During the busy holiday time, it’s easy to get caught up in the rush. To cultivate the spirit of gratitude, we encouraged designers to take a step back, reflect, and tell us: What is the moment in your design career that you’re most grateful for? We're sharing their responses below. Meaningful Jobs & Experiences. Some designers expressed gratitude for the experience of joining a certain company or working with a team they admired.
Graphic Design Junction
NOVEMBER 24, 2019
This is the 61st round up of Business Logo Design. This is the best hand-picked collection of Logo Templates , Branding, Visual Identity Logos for inspiration. Logo is the most important and key element of an effective branding identity system. In this logo showcase we are gathered professionally designed visual identity logo templates concepts that gives great ideas to make your next logo design.
SpeckyBoy
NOVEMBER 28, 2019
With UI design continually changing and moving forward, it can be an arduous task keeping up with the latest changes in icon design. Even though trend changes have not been as drastic this year as we”ve seen in previous years, the icons have clearly become more refined, more specialized, and they have fully embraced the beauty of simplicity by blending all of the minimal features from previously popular icon styles.
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Just Creative
NOVEMBER 24, 2019
These days, it’s more common to see people taking pictures or shooting video using their phones instead of having a full-size camera. The problem is that the cameras on your average smartphone aren’t made to handle all of the different types of photos you might want to take. Thankfully, some manufacturers realized this and started making lenses to provide people with better options for taking quality photos.
Graphic Design Junction
NOVEMBER 28, 2019
If you have a presentation, a company project or any form of official report you have to submit, then you would most likely need to attach pictures, graphics or images at some point. However, you won’t always have access to free photos or be able to create yours. In situations like this, there is only one last resort, using protected images. In the article we will have a look at 5 ways to get rid of the watermark , so that you could choose the best of them.
Its Nice That
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
The Tokyo-based illustrator and artist turns to the web rather than the outdoors for inspiration. She’s fascinated by the impartial gaze that Google’s location tool offers, and transforms this neutrality into subjectivity through silky-smooth, painterly interpretations. Read more.
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Just Creative
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
If you run your own business, one of the most important things that you can have is a website. It is your digital billboard. Good website design can make running your business easier, bringing customers to your site and if you own a brick and mortar shop, into your store. It is pretty unlikely that you are going to have the time to set up a website from scratch, designing a theme, post content and code everything line by line.
Graphic Design Junction
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
A logo is where brand development as such usually begins. This is what will cause the most powerful associations of customers, and with the help of which they will recognize your brand among hundreds of others. This is the main starting point, so in this article, we decided to tell how to use the latest trends in logo design in order to subsequently get the opportunity to create a powerful brand identity.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
When you need to showcase an app design, there’s no better way to do it than with an iPhone mockup. Not only can you use an iPhone mockup to showcase how the app icon looks on a screen but also to share the interface design of your app and various screens. This helps potential investors as well as app users to see what they are getting which is extremely important when it comes to digital products.
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.
Type room
NOVEMBER 28, 2019
Tags. Graphéine , France , Olympics , logo , visual identity , symbol , Eiffel Tower , Paris 2024 , Paris , agency , emblem. Almost a month ago Paris unveiled a gold-medal-shaped emblem for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympic Games. According to the official press release “the emblem embraces the shape and color of the most beautiful medal of all to express one of the core values of sport: striving for excellence.
Its Nice That
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Illustrated by the magazine’s cartoonist Liana Finck, Animate Objects is a new AR feature of the New Yorker Today app, which brings everyday items like coffee cups, bananas, plug sockets and bottles of wine to life with witty musings. Read more.
Just Creative
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
Using a camera today isn’t like when you were a kid. Long gone are the days of roll after roll of film being dropped off to be developed. Now, photos are saved digitally on SD cards can make taking photos and sharing them with family or online or even having a career in photography even easier. With this amazing technology though, there are always things you should consider before you decide to buy.
Design Roast
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
In this article, we will talk about making digital products more user-friendly. Reviewing your interface and adjusting visual feedback can not only influence user’s comfort positively while interacting with your product but in some cases, it can also increase the sales or help you to win a new customer. Illustration from Ouch What is [.]. The post How to Improve Visual Feedback of Digital Products [Guest Post] appeared first on Design Roast.
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.
Its Nice That
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
Trypophobics beware: the Korean illustrator’s work, including illustrations that merge his style with Rick & Morty’s for Adult Swim and large-scale animation work for Sogo in Hong Kong, is filled with holes that transports him to different worlds and realities. Read more.
Just Creative
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
In our daily lives, we work on so many different types of projects and with all of those projects comes multitudes of data that we need to save. Thankfully, the days of floppy disks are long gone and now, most external storage is done using USB flash drives. While they can be small, they can also hold a mountain of data from photos to video and everything in between so when we set out to create our list of the Best USB flash storage for creatives, we wanted to make sure our choices were the best
Creative Review
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
One of the most revered eras in cinematic history, the French New Wave marked a shift away from mindless tradition and solidified the birth of the director. Though filmmakers took different approaches depending on which bank of the Seine they were allied with, the movement saw a fresh take on everything from narrative structures to technical conventions.
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