Just Creative
APRIL 18, 2021
This article has been contributed by Eddie Segal. Without a proper way to measure your marketing processes, you can’t tell if you’re making any progress or going in the entirely wrong direction. That’s why analyzing Instagram activity is crucial to the success of any business that uses Instagram for marketing. Fortunately, Instagram provides a native analytics tool, Instagram Insights.
Spoon Graphics
APRIL 19, 2021
Patterns come in all kinds of styles, from simple repetitive shapes to complex graphical arrays. In today’s Photoshop tutorial I’m going to share some tips for creating detailed pattern effects that are made with full-colour illustrations. We’ll first use a must-know technique for filling the canvas with randomly placed graphics, then I’ll show you a couple of manual methods for creating seamlessly repeating pattern designs.
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Booooooom
APRIL 22, 2021
Liam Cobb (previously featured here). Liam Cobb’s Website. Liam Cobb on Instagram.
Trendland
APRIL 21, 2021
Words Kylie McDowell. Fuel your wanderlust with intoxicating images created by these 3 ocean photographers from far-flung places around the world. From Italy to Australia, each captures the awe-inspiring natural world at its finest.
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
Just Creative
APRIL 18, 2021
If you have a clean and minimalist style in mind when designing your logo, a simplistic approach to typography is essential to achieve that look. There’s no doubt that these iconic logo designers would agree that minimalism and simplicity is what makes a logo timeless and memorable. See here for what makes a good logo. Searching for clean and minimal typography for your logo might be overwhelming given the number of sans-serif typefaces available out there.
Spoon Graphics
APRIL 23, 2021
Creating stunning designs with gruesome skulls has never been easier with The Bare Bone Skull Creator. This brilliant toolkit is an interactive collection of 139+ professionally drawn elements that can be organised and composed in infinite ways. Combine dozens of different skulls graphics with hundreds of accessories, horns, weapons, and more to easily create the coolest logos, T-shirt designs, product labels, and posters.
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Just Creative
APRIL 19, 2021
Tattoos have been around for as long as we can remember. As a matter of fact, experts claim that evidence of human tattoos can be traced from around 3370 BC to 3100 BC. That mentioned, it’s understandable why tattoos are still very much celebrated today. So much so, that, although tattoos are designed to be permanent body art, brands and designers are incorporating tattoo elements into their work.
Spoon Graphics
APRIL 21, 2021
We all love having a vast library of quality fonts to work with, but they can often be far too expensive for the average designer to afford. While the high price tags do justify the quality and craftsmanship that goes into premium typefaces, the total soon adds up when you’re trying to establish a varied collection. This brand new Design Cuts bundle brings you a range of the best-selling fonts from a select group of hugely respected type foundries.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
APRIL 20, 2021
If the internet has accomplished one thing (beyond giving us web designers a career), perhaps it’s the emboldening of cheapskates. The ability to get free and low-cost items online has outshined even the most fervent coupon-clippers of yesteryear. Now, everybody (even the grumpiest among us) loves a bargain. But when it comes to building websites, free and cheap don’t always add up to much.
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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
APRIL 17, 2021
While many things in this world have taken the digital route, if you work in any creative field such as graphic design, you know how being able to print physical copies of your work can help not only you get a better idea of how the final project will look but is also a great way for your clients to get an idea of how things are going. A sub-par printer can print but the results you’re going to get will make it less than worth the money you paid for it.
Abduzeedo
APRIL 19, 2021
Kandinsky Inspired Typography. abduzeedo 04.19.21 Jong min shared an incredible typography and illustration project inspired by Vassily Kandinsky 's style of painting. Jong reconstructed each letter based on the work of taro veron. The end result is a colorful and beautiful alphabet that definitely captures Kandinsky’s style. . Each letter. Applications.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
APRIL 18, 2021
We live in an era where web designers have become ultra-specialized. Many tend to have a narrow focus regarding the tools they use and types of projects they accept. It didn’t used to be this way. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the industry was a bit scattered. I certainly fit that mold. I tried a little bit of everything: building with static HTML, flat-file systems and a few assorted content management systems (CMS).
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Design Week
APRIL 21, 2021
London-based design studio The Clearing has created the branding for footballer Marcus Rashford and chef Tom Kerridge’s new initiative to end food poverty in the UK. The Clearing has created the the branding for Full Time, which includes the visual identity, naming and strategy. [link]. Rashford and Kerridge have teamed up to create a series of 52 easy to make meals, one for each week of the year.
The Die Line
APRIL 21, 2021
Gaieté celebrates femininity through an elegant and happy-go-lucky personality. With joyful products and services, the brand has the packaging to match through soft typography, botanical illustrations, and a color palette full of whimsy.
Creative Review
APRIL 20, 2021
Growing up on the books of artist Tomi Ungerer sparked a desire within French illustrator Simon Bailly to tell tales through images. While studying illustration, the most important lesson he learned was about telling a story simply through one picture or a series of them. “It’s something I use every day in my work,” he says. “For example, in my work for newspapers, I have to understand an article, take the essential ideas and draw an image to create a more compact compreh
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Shillington
APRIL 22, 2021
Shillington Melbourne graduate Ximena Jimenez’s LinkedIn bio states “Born in Trujillo, Raised in Lima, Shaped in Neumünster, Fashioned in Bangkok, Based in Melbourne” and we think that’s a great way of summing things up. The Peruvian designer started her design career with an Arts and Business Design degree in Lima before travelling round the country designing and collaborating.
DRAWTIFY
APRIL 21, 2021
Art text is a way to make text have special effects. Generally, art text is only used as a graphic design element that appears in other design projects, such as banners, posters, social media pictures, and videos, etc. Of course, it can also be independent graphic design work, such as an eye-catching art text logo. In addition, art text can also be unique artistic typesetting.
Creative Review
APRIL 19, 2021
Copywriting can at times feel like a poor cousin to images in our visually dominated world. Yet with access to all manners of ideas, opinions and carefully crafted bon mots just on our mobiles, we are arguably reading more than ever before. And, as anyone who spends any time on Twitter knows, words matter – get the nuance of your argument or your brand message wrong and all hell can break loose over just a few lines.
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.
Envato Tuts+
APRIL 21, 2021
What You'll Be Creating. Ever wanted to know how to make a trifold brochure? Trifold brochures can be an excellent tool for getting information to people in an easy-to-use, eye-catching way. In this tutorial, I will show you how to make a brochure template in Adobe InDesign CC. This versatile pamphlet template will allow you to change the information as you need.
Shillington
APRIL 19, 2021
At Shillington, we often get approached by prospective students who are eager to learn skills to start a graphic design career. Below we will demystify the pros and cons of getting a degree, share alternative learning resources and a variety of study options to learn design and how you can launch a career as a graphic designer. Do You Need A Degree To Be A Graphic Designer?
Creative Review
APRIL 22, 2021
The director, who’s made work for Great Ormond Street and BBC2, based the film around the song’s lyrics, which she says made her think of someone writing to a friend on another planet. In the video, Dora – who’s inexplicably stranded on the moon with a snake – receives a letter from her friend persuading her to come back home.
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.
Design Week
APRIL 20, 2021
In Perth, Australia, a series of public bus stops represents a personal journey for graphic designer Kevin Wilson. The redesigned signage features Aboriginal artwork, rendered in a minimalist style and simple colour palette. The interconnecting lines symbolise the younger generations who pass on stories and the new energy they carry, according to Wilson. “The way I saw the project,” the designer explains, “we were retaking the space.” Wilson is a Wongai man, an Aboriginal
Speckyboy Design Magazine
APRIL 20, 2021
It’s been said many times that, if you want to learn more, you should teach. Taking on proteges, apprentices, students – whatever you want to call them – who will appreciate and absorb your knowledge not only boosts your ego, it can also help you learn and grow as a designer. And no, you don’t have to become an actual teacher at a school or university.
The Branding Journal
APRIL 22, 2021
Introducing Gap. Gap is a well-known, well-established clothing and accessories retailer founded in 1969. It stands as one of the largest global specialty retailers due to its popularity amongst a broad demographic of consumers. In 2010, following slumped sales after the Financial Crisis of 2008, Gap decided to redesign its 20-year longstanding logo, giving rise to the ‘Gapgate’ phenomenon.
Creative Review
APRIL 18, 2021
When Sally Rooney’s Normal People was released in 2018, it felt like you couldn’t get on public transport without spotting a copy of the distinctive green hardback, its cover depicting a young man and woman packed together like sardines in a tin. The Irish author’s second novel quickly became a cult classic, earning her accolades such as ‘the first great millennial author’ and spawning a hugely popular BBC Three and Hulu TV adaption last year.
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