SpeckyBoy
AUGUST 4, 2020
The web design community is great at sharing knowledge. But quite often what we share has some prerequisites attached. You’d likely need to already be a web designer or developer to get something out of it. But what about beginners? If you’re just starting your journey in web design, you may feel left out. With all of the expert tutorials out there, it can be hard to know where to begin.
Tuts Plus
AUGUST 5, 2020
Knowing how to use glyphs in Photoshop can help you use all sorts of different characters, ornaments, and swashes. Let's find where these are hiding! Word glyphs and swashes are individual characters that aren't standard to every font. We can say they are an extension of the basic characters we normally find in a set of typefaces. For instance, single characters with different accents are part of glyphs.
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Just Creative
AUGUST 3, 2020
Sunny Bonnell and Ashleigh Hansberger of Motto , a strategic branding agency in NYC, reveal what it takes to work with “rare breeds” – the leaders, rebels & entrepreneurs who do things differently. You’ll find out how to build more purposeful brands by better connecting with your clients, plus exactly how you can use your “vices” as superpowers, backed up by personal stories of failure and courage.
Spoon Graphics
AUGUST 3, 2020
The style of a pen stroke can completely change the perception of a lettering piece. Smooth, flowing calligraphy comes across as elegant and ceremonial, whereas faster and more direct strokes generate more of a raw and energetic mood. In today’s showcase I present 45 great examples of brush lettering with attitude! These lettering pieces are drawn with quick, aggressive strokes that in some cases don’t even give the ink time to transfer from the brush or marker to the paper.
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
BP&O
AUGUST 6, 2020
Text by Richard Baird. Oji is a sushi brand of firsts. It is the first in New Zealand to use fully recyclable and biodegradable packaging and the first to use all free-range products. This is a significant move forward and marks the brand out from well-established competitors. Oji opened in New Zealand with two locations in […]. The post Oji by Seachange appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.
SpeckyBoy
AUGUST 2, 2020
If you’re looking to add unique elements to your Illustrator designs or want to spice up your projects, you’re going to need a quality Illustrator brush pack. While Illustrator is a popular design program, you can’t find as many resources for it as you can for Photoshop. That’s why we’ve decided to round up the best high-resolution brush packs for Illustrator so you don’t have to waste time searching for them online.
Graphic Arts Today brings together the best content for graphic arts professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Spoon Graphics
AUGUST 7, 2020
Access All Areas members have a fab collection of Lightroom Presets to download this week, courtesy of PhotographyPla.net. The Fabulous Fades set contains 20 Lightroom presets for creating beautiful and stylish faded effects for your photos. Some of the presets apply darker fade effects and others produce lighter photos, all achieved with just a single click on your RAW, DNG, and JPG files.
ID Identity Design
AUGUST 5, 2020
Justin Devillier is one of New Orleans’ most celebrated young chefs, recently winning the James Beard award. Justine is the highly-anticipated new restaurant from he and partner Mia Freiberger-Devillier (the husband-wife team behind La Petite Grocery and Balise). We partnered with architecture and interior design studio Farouki Farouki to create this new Vieux Carré gem.
SpeckyBoy
AUGUST 3, 2020
Among the first things you learn as a freelance web designer is that everybody wants a deal. Whether it’s a new client or an existing one, you’ll receive plenty of requests for discounted pricing. It’s almost as if they mistake a web design firm for a used car lot. While haggling over price is as old as commerce itself, we still need to make a living.
Just Creative
AUGUST 3, 2020
Logo Lounge is the most respected and best-selling logo design book series in the world and I’m happy to share that 5 logos of mine were selected to be published in the upcoming Logo Lounge Volume 12, which is my 10th consecutive Logo Lounge book feature. The 42,000 logo submissions were juried by an international panel of design superstars and only 2000 of the world’s top logos made the cut.
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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.
Spoon Graphics
AUGUST 5, 2020
Every designer needs a variety of typeface styles that they can rely upon for every project. Usually a collection is built slowly as new fonts are purchased on an individual basis, but on rare occasions an opportunity arises to acquire a comprehensive library of top quality font families with huge savings. The Type Designer’s Luxury Font Library contains all the font styles you might need for your graphic design projects, including geometric sans-serifs, classy serifs, cool-looking display fonts
Speckyboy Design Magazine
AUGUST 7, 2020
A Lightweight Masonry Solution A nice lightweight solution from Ana Tudor. The minified JavaScript is under 800 bytes, while the strictly masonry-related styles are under 300 bytes. What is the difference between this & that? Learn the the differences between and in front-end development. Deep Dive into CSS Grid Dive deep into the CSS Grid Layout and explore almost all related properties and features.
The Logo Smith
AUGUST 3, 2020
The post Logo Process: RosyBee Plants for Bees Logo & Identity Designed by The Logo Smith appeared first on The Logo Smith All Content © 2020 The Logo Smith.™ |. The Logo Smith designed a new Logo and Identity for RosyBee Plants for Bees, who sell : flowering plants, packaged bee plots, containing a variety of perennial flowering plants to provide bees with a continuous mixed supply of pollen and nectar all season long.
Just Creative
AUGUST 4, 2020
Sometimes known as cursive fonts, a script font can add something unique to logo design or branding project. Maybe your project needs a casual touch to lighten the mood or mimic formal handwriting to give a more professional appearance. Whatever the reason is, we thought that highlighting some of the Best Script Fonts for Graphic Design, Branding and Logo Design would go a long way towards helping you add a new tool you can use to impress your clients.
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As the design industry evolves, teams are facing new challenges and a need to produce more outstanding creative work than ever. Leaders must learn how to adapt their processes to solve today’s—and tomorrow’s—unique design challenges. In this e-book, you’ll learn how to establish your creative workflow and leverage the power of CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite to streamline the entire design process, from start to finish.
Booooooom
AUGUST 4, 2020
Another lovely comic from New York-based artist and illustrator Evan M. Cohen (previously featured here ). I can see the forest. In the distance, I can hear my name. From above, I am alive, I am magnetic, The Earth pulls at my love. She wakes me. With her electric skies, She shows me. How to live. With graceful eyes. She is the wind. Through the trees, Moving silent sounds, I am the rain.
Azure Magazine
AUGUST 7, 2020
To say that this has been a summer for the (record) books is to put it mildly. But as the season comes to a close, there’s still time to enjoy the warmer weather and soak up some last-minute rays with a good read. From dense monographs to insightful takes on equitable space, here are the page-turners keeping Azure ‘s editors enthralled: 1.
Spine Magazine
AUGUST 3, 2020
David Wardle is a designer, illustrator and typographer who, along with his wife, founded Bold & Noble , a company creating and hand printing wall art and homewares. Here he explains his process for creating the vibrant cover for The Miseducation of Evie Epworth. I was commissioned to produce the cover for The Miseducation of Evie Epworth by Matt Johnson, the art director at Simon and Schuster.
Just Creative
AUGUST 6, 2020
When someone starts the process of buying tech to fill their office and help their business grow, the most likely piece that is forgotten about is the keyboard. Honestly, when you buy a desktop computer, are you really buying it for the keyboard or for the specs in the computer tower? Along with the mouse, the keyboard is easily the most important piece of tech you can own as you use it the most, so why not get the best one that you can?
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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.
Shillington
AUGUST 2, 2020
Aaron Douglas was a leading artist of the Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement. Douglas, along with the philosopher Alain Locke, whose important 1925 anthology The New Negro featured Douglas’s illustrations—helped set in motion a new visual language detached from traditional European art training and absorbing a distinctive African heritage.
Design Week
AUGUST 4, 2020
The Royal Mint can produce five billion coins every year. That enormous figure includes coins for circulation as well as commemorative designs which have an eclectic focus, from a full English breakfast to the Angel of the North. The government-owned organisation dates all the way back to 886, and was originally run from the Tower of London until it moved to London’s East End at the start of the 19th century.
SpeckyBoy
AUGUST 5, 2020
A great and effective intro for your video will help draw your audience in and encourage them to watch the rest. Creating a video intro from scratch can be time-consuming but you can easily save time with a premade, professional intro template. In this post, we’ve gathered the best free professional video intros for Adobe After Effects that you can use as a starting point in your project.
Just Creative
AUGUST 7, 2020
This article has been contributed by Anna Medina. Everyone’s talking about influencer marketing these days. But only a few really know how to benefit from it. The strategy seems like such a simple idea. I mean you partner with someone, sign an agreement, and have them promote your products. How hard could it be, right? Unfortunately, it’s more complicated than that.
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.
Booooooom
AUGUST 6, 2020
A selection of work by Boston-based painter and illustrator Kseniya Galper. Kseniya Galper on Instagram.
Spine Magazine
AUGUST 6, 2020
Clare Connie Shepherd is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Brighton, United Kingdom. Here she takes us through her process for designing Pondweed. The concept of the cover is to show an irregular and frustrated voice that is trapped and submerged in strands of pondweed that is set against a backdrop with a hopeful ray of sunlight. Pondweed is both beautiful and dangerous, displaying both light and dark areas.
Noupe
AUGUST 7, 2020
Technology always moves forward. That is why today we hardly see those old school phones we had in the 90s. Going way back in time, you will remember that our phones were not always this smart. There was a time when Nokia was the biggest company in the market and Nokia phones had a glorious reputation. Not to mention the brand was one of the first to launch a commercialized consumer handset, with the Nokia 1011 in 1992.
Just Creative
AUGUST 7, 2020
If you go online or even in a local electronics store and walk down the computer peripheral aisle, you’re bound to come across a selection of computer mice you can choose from. However, one type of mouse might not be on display. Left-handed mice are not very common as only 10% of the world is left-handed. We thought that if you’re a left-handed graphic designer, you should be able to use tools suited for how you work.
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
AUGUST 4, 2020
The team behind graphic design publishing imprint Standards Manual has announced the development of a new platform which aims to change the way designers create brand guidelines. Designers working with brands in 2020 are usually reliant on PDFs when it comes to presenting guidelines to clients. But Standards Manual duo Hamish Smyth and Jesse Reed want creatives to move past this format and instead turn to digital guidelines via their new platform Standards.
Creative Review
AUGUST 7, 2020
Designers will know that brand guidelines are only as useful as the client on the receiving end is prepared to make them. Months of work developing rigorous specifications and fine-tuning details can all be flushed away the moment they’re handed over. For clients, however, following – or indeed finding – guidelines can be an unwieldly, time-consuming chore, a never-ending trawl through a convoluted PDF that has likely been lost in a wormhole of computer files.
Noupe
AUGUST 7, 2020
The global workforce’s current reliance on remote work has proven to lessen many employees’ susceptibility of contracting the coronavirus. However, remote work has also proven to take a toll on the engaging employee’s physical health, causing them to experience muscle pain and fatigue. However, the coronavirus isn’t primarily to blame. .
Tuts Plus
AUGUST 1, 2020
The Futura font is one of the most famous geometric fonts, and it's still popular to this day. In this article, we tell you all about the Futura font history and its impact on the design world. What Is Futura? Designed in 1927, Futura is still considered a modern font that conveys progress. We’ve seen it everywhere from cars to furniture stores to the Moon.
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