Speckyboy Design Magazine
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Economies rise and fall. It’s a cycle that can impact all of us in both positive and negative ways. But freelancers can be particularly vulnerable to these shifts. Working as a solo web designer means that you’re always fending for yourself. Still, an economic downturn makes survival all the more challenging. Things can become precarious before you know it.
Graphic Mama
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Designing a website, it not an easy task. Like any design, the blank page is the most frightening aspect. Then you’ve got to think of all the aspects beyond the aesthetics, the content, branding, usability, and functionality. You’ll probably be working within limits or with guidance from a client and you’ll have to meet the expectations and rise up against the global competition.
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Design Roast
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Everybody knows that email has the highest ROI among all other marketing channels. The reason is quite obvious. It’s the channel most used for lead nurturing. You create a list of contacts interested in your product, send them timely and engaging content to get them to buy from you repeatedly. Emails allow you to send […]. The post Top 3 email design principles you need to use right away [Guest Post] appeared first on Design Roast.
Spoon Graphics
OCTOBER 7, 2020
Resizing an image sounds like one of the simplest things you could do in Photoshop, but there are actually some common mistakes you should avoid. If you’re a professional designer or photographer, it becomes complicated when you need to factor in print size and resolution. In today’s video, I’ll cover the basics of resizing an image in Adobe Photoshop, and explain when you should (or should not) choose the Resample option instead.
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
Designer Daily
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Doug Liddle is a guitar instructor who had the good idea to hire a creative graphic design to do his business cards. The design, Rory O’Sullivan , actually designed more than one card, as he used one side to teach Liddle’s contacts how to position their fingers to plays chords. As a result, on one side of the cards, you have a pretty standard business card, with just the necessary data.
ID Identity Design
OCTOBER 3, 2020
Sculpt is an interior architectural studio and workshop based in Birmingham. They needed a comprehensive rebrand to give them a stronger presence across all touchpoints, echoing Sculpt’s fundamental principles – reshape, redesign, refine. The rebrand needed to better communicate their offer and distinct approach, whilst giving greater visibility across the full client journey, from promotional materials, proposals and plans, to on-site visibility and custom material samples.
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Spoon Graphics
OCTOBER 5, 2020
My friends at Design Cuts are celebrating their 7th birthday over the next 2 weeks with an exciting lineup of live design sessions and fantastic discounts on their marketplace of design resources. 7 all-new exclusive products have been launched with 50% off, providing a great opportunity for you to be the first to pick up these exceptional quality tools that have been 5 months in the making before they go on sale at their regular price.
Just Creative
OCTOBER 6, 2020
This article has been contributed by Andre Oentoro. In today’s world, customers have an endless sea of choices when it comes to brands and products. And they’re only getting more and more fickle each day. If your brand can’t provide them with a product or service they need, they’re going to leave you for your competitors. This situation makes winning customers’ hearts an uphill battle, especially if you’re a small business owner trying to make ends meet.
Creative Review
OCTOBER 5, 2020
The Fund for Global Human Rights is a charity working with activists across Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Southeast Asia – four regions of the world that it is spotlighting in Face to Face, a new public exhibition in King’s Cross Tunnel and the surrounding Outside Art Project space, which launched earlier this year. The free exhibition has been curated by writer, broadcaster and former ICA director Ekow Eshun, who recently authored Africa State of Mind , a book examining new
Speckyboy Design Magazine
OCTOBER 9, 2020
Serenade – Tired of typing? Use this tool to write code with your voice. Looking at an Online School Through a Web Designer’s Eyes – The good, the bad and the ugly of the online school experience. Blacklight – See who’s tracking you with this real-time website privacy inspector. Get to Know Jeff Starr, WordPress Author and Entrepreneur – Jeff tells us about his journey within the WordPress community.
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Spoon Graphics
OCTOBER 9, 2020
As part of the Design Cuts birthday event, over the next week 28 of their most popular design bundles are being re-run! This is a great second-chance opportunity to pick up any of these fantastic 99% off deals that you might have missed. Usually, these offers are only available for 2 weeks before they expire, but as a birthday treat they are being made available to the community again.
Booooooom
OCTOBER 8, 2020
We’re very excited to announce an new open call for our 20~20 Art Editions for artists! Back in May, we had an open call for artist to submit work to our 20~20 Art Editions and had hundreds of amazing photo submissions. Out of that, we selected 3 artists to produce, Hanna Lee Joshi , Cory Feder , and Andrew Tavukciyan (two of which are now available in our shop here ).
Creative Review
OCTOBER 8, 2020
“I hope my work starts conversations,” says New York-based photographer Jon Ervin. “Though I never want it to tell you how to think. I like my work to be open ended, allowing the audience to make up their own viewpoints about it. I want it to encourage discussions around a particular subject, maybe even bring a different perspective that you had never considered before.” Ervin says he’s inspired by the everyday, getting inspiration from watching people, nature, anyt
Tuts Plus
OCTOBER 7, 2020
What You'll Be Creating Typography plays a huge part in the way brands are perceived and how successful brands become with consumers. A wise choice of type can make a logo more memorable, more aspirational, more trustworthy, and more exciting. Minimal typographic logos are simple to achieve, and can often have more impact than a symbolic logo design.
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Design Week
OCTOBER 8, 2020
While the V&A’s blockbuster Alice in Wonderland exhibition has been delayed until next year, people will be able to experience the fantasy world thanks to virtual reality (VR). London-based games studio Preloaded has collaborated with HTC Vive Arts and the V&A on three VR set pieces ahead of Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, which opens March 2021.
Shillington
OCTOBER 7, 2020
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s to value and treasure independent retailers. Some of the best and most creative shops have been vulnerable to the effects of lockdown and, if we want them to survive, it’s very much a case of ‘use them or lose them’ in the months and years ahead. Especially if you’re a lover of unique and beautiful stationery. In a world dominated by digital, the most authentic, artisanal and quirky stationery can help visually inspire you as well as getting you organised in
Speckyboy Design Magazine
OCTOBER 4, 2020
Building and securing a WordPress website is always a challenge. Developers take great care to write solid code and implement features such as security plugins to mitigate the inevitable attacks. Even so, we’re not out of the woods. To paraphrase the old saying: a website is only as secure as its weakest link. Beyond potential exploits due to code, the weakest link tends to be an uninformed user.
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SpeckyBoy
OCTOBER 6, 2020
With Halloween just a few weeks away, we have a free set of spooky vector vintage stamps for you to freely use in both your personal and commercial projects. You can use them to create graphics for your social media campaigns, for your websites, for your newsletters, or for anything Halloween-related that you can imagine. There are 12 stamps included in the download, and the stamps come in AI, EPS, SVG, PSD and transparent PNG formats.
Design Week
OCTOBER 5, 2020
A new photography and illustration agency has been launched which aims to shine a spotlight on creatives from underrepresented backgrounds. Studio PI has been by co-founded by Bridge Studio creative director Sachini Imbuldeniya who tells Design Week that she was frustrated by the lack of diversity in the commissioning talent pool. The new agency has a roster of nine photographers and ten illustrators, who will be represented by two agents working across the sector.
Graphic Mama
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Is it really worth asking what a web design company does, the answer appears so obvious at first that it seems a pointless question. A company that designs websites, clearly. And that on the face of it is exactly right, so is there any more to it than that? The key element of good web design is making an often vague concept real, bringing it to life, and getting it functioning exactly how you want and expect.
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.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
OCTOBER 7, 2020
The world moves quickly. That’s why having access to the latest news and information has never been more important. What’s more, users have developed high expectations when it comes to staying in the know. They want up-to-the-minute news about the subjects that affect their daily lives. Not to mention a healthy dose of sports and entertainment as well.
Colossal
OCTOBER 5, 2020
All images © Ceci Lam, shared with permission. Hong Kong-based illustrator Ceci Lam envisions a whimsical dream world of mushroom-headed figures, adventures through tropical landscapes, and cozy nights in. Her drawings feature anonymous characters who are full of personality, whether daring and bold as they peer up at towering cacti or more subdued in their plant-filled homes.
The Die Line
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Mexico City-based design agency Hispánica has managed to find the silver lining of 2020, taking the time to reassess what inspires them in the first place and how they want to move forward.
Feature Shoot
OCTOBER 4, 2020
“Photographers are the hidden heroes of getting out the vote,” Andy Bernstein, the Executive Director at HeadCount , a non-partisan organization that works with musicians to register voters and promote participation in democracy, tells us. Over the past few months, his organization has worked with photographers to take pictures of hundreds of musicians and influencers wearing VOTE masks or holding ‘Register to Vote Now’ clipboards.
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.
Noupe
OCTOBER 9, 2020
You already know the value of your nonprofit website. Your website serves as the touchpoint for most online engagements and centralizes all relevant information about your organization and mission. . With COVID-19 pushing many to remote work and with in-person interactions on pause, fundraising has become a challenge for many nonprofits. Your nonprofit website is more important now than ever before, serving as the focal point of many of your current engagements. .
Colossal
OCTOBER 7, 2020
Image © Andrei Savitsky, cupoty.com. Winner: Micro. “Glass worms can vary in length from about half an inch to two inches. On the right side of this image you can see the large tracheal bubbles that serve as hydrostatic organs (or swim bladders). These bubbles allow the larva to keep its horizontal position in the water column, while also helping to regulate the depth of its immersion.
The Die Line
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Utilizing a playful lined illustration of a palm tree holding a disco ball, this hip brand appeals to a younger generation who are looking for a beautiful alternative to sip by the pool.
Interaction Design Foundation
OCTOBER 9, 2020
As digital designers, we know the bulk of our day is spent looking at screens. Give your eyes some rest, and tune into podcasts instead. They are a great way to stay updated, gain insights, be inspired or experience “A-ha” moments. The best part about podcasts is that unlike reading or watching videos, you can move about and perform other tasks while you listen – the perfect companion for a morning jog, the office commute or doing the dishes.
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