Creative Live
JUNE 26, 2019
Watching that social media follower count is like fast-forwarding your favorite Netflix series just to watch the credits — ineffective, and a complete waste of time. Most businesses get the importance of being active on social media, but few know what’s really important when it come to social media marketing, or even how to actually create meaningful interaction.
Graphic Design USA
JUNE 27, 2019
Graphic Designer: to provide visual direction on all marketing efforts in the areas of design for print, digital and all marketing collateral for a full service restaurant located in Los Angeles CA. Send ad/resume attn: Robert Kronfli to Bacari Americana, Inc., 757 Americana Way, Glendale CA 91210.
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Computer Zoom Design
JUNE 28, 2019
Drawing for Graphic Design: 6 Exercises to Sharpen Your Skills When talking about drawing for graphic design projects, we’re very often talking about a digital process. We’re so used to sitting in front of our computers, plugging away at pixels in Photoshop and Illustrator, that we sometimes forget to step away, grab a pen or pencil, and just draw. Here, we provide six simple drawing practice exercises that revolve around drawing for graphic design.
Under Consideration / Menu
JUNE 25, 2019
Bar in San Francisco, CA. Designed by Bootjack Creative. Through a combination of funky type, vintage illustrations, and ornate ornaments, these menus play up the mystical, carnivalesque, obscure vibes offered by Curio. Visit Curio. For bigger menu images see this post at Art of the Menu.
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
Creative Live
JUNE 24, 2019
I got to thinking about a few things I wish I knew before starting my business. Yes, I wish I knew more about the technicality of photography ( wait, so you’re telling me f-stop and aperture ARE THE SAME THINGS?!? Still asking yourself, ‘ What is aperture ?’ – check out the ultimate aperture guide ), but I wish someone would’ve sat me down and had a real conversation about expectations.
Lisa Maltby
JUNE 28, 2019
Chatsworth House needed to refresh their previous estate map in order to modernise it and make information clearer. Combining the use of traditional line drawing with flat colour brought the map up to date whilst retaining the sophisitcation of the Chatsworth brand. The map needed to be versatile and so it was created in vector in order for elements to be moved and updated.
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Emmeline Illustration
JUNE 28, 2019
AAHH I'M FINALLY ON PATREON !! I've set up a brand new page on Patreon to share illustration, comics, and the behind the scenes life of working as a freelance illustrator! Support on Patreon (via people signing up to pledge $1+ for a month or more) helps me focus on my own projects , and dedicate more time to writing creative industry advice articles, making videos, and brewing new ideas.
Creative Live
JUNE 28, 2019
If you’re in the process of trying to become a working artist , is it okay to start calling yourself one? Impostor Syndrome — the feeling that your success at various ventures is a fluke or a mistake, rather than the product of your own competence — is a real struggle for creative people. According to studies dating back to the 1970s , up to 70% of people, at some point, feel like they are walking frauds within their field.
Illustration Art
JUNE 22, 2019
When ancient Rome needed guidance on crucial issues such as whether to go to war or whether crops would fail, a priest called an augur was summoned to interpret the will of the gods by studying the flight of birds. The augur would look for omens in the direction that birds were flying, whether they flew in groups or alone, and the noises they made as they flew.
Computer Zoom Design
JUNE 24, 2019
7 Awesome Ways Illustrator is Being Used Today Who uses Adobe Illustrator? The better question might be—who doesn’t? Utilized across a vast array of industries, this vector-based graphics software has something for everyone who has a role in the wide world of design. From a company logo to a highway billboard to a birthday card—it was all probably first designed in Illustrator.
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Pixel 77
JUNE 28, 2019
The market is flooded with textual content. Don’t believe me? According to World of Meters, over 3.9 million blogs were written today. And while content is an asset, the truth is you can’t face cutthroat competition without having an ace up your sleeve. And unfortunately, creating more content won’t necessarily make you stand out. That’s.
Creative Live
JUNE 25, 2019
Quick, what’s your favorite myth about creativity? That it’s a divine thing that just happens? That big ideas only come from natural born creatives? Or better yet, from drugs? These are all good contenders, but speakers at the Adobe 99u conference offered a much more stubborn and solution-restricting myth: That the creative process happens in solitude.
One Extra Pixel
JUNE 26, 2019
Flexbox is a popular CSS layout module that helps you position HTML elements on the screen. There are multiple use cases when it can be a godsend; horizontal and. The post The Ultimate Guide to Flexbox Centering appeared first on Onextrapixel.
Computer Zoom Design
JUNE 23, 2019
5 Graphic Design Portfolio Mistakes to Avoid As a visual artist or graphic designer, your graphic design portfolio opens doors. A sub-par presentation of your work closes them (even if you have stunning graphic design work to show off) — and may lock them for good. But as a graphic designer how do you know what a “good” portfolio even is? Ram Castillo literally wrote the book on getting a job as a designer, and in his CreativeLive class, Create a Knockout Design Portfolio he talks about how esse
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SEGD Blog
JUNE 24, 2019
Read Time: 1 minute. I don’t usually do repeat visits to exhibitions; I get visually saturated quite quickly.
Computer Zoom Design
JUNE 22, 2019
FEATURED , ART & DESIGN 5 Drawing Exercises That Will Turn Anyone Into An Artist The post was authored by Emily Potts with contributions from Whitney Sherman. Whitney Sherman is an award-winning illustrator and director of the MFA in Illustration Practice at Maryland Institute College of Art. She is also author of Playing with Sketches, 50 creative exercises for designers and artists (Rockport Publishers).
Computer Zoom Design
JUNE 27, 2019
3 Crucial Design Principles to Factor Into Every Design In his class Create a Knockout Design Portfolio , award-winning designer and art director Ram Castillo unveiled crucial design principles that should be factored into every design you make. Here, in Ram’s words, are the first three: 1. Relevance Do not be led by aesthetics. I’ll say it again. Do not be led by aesthetics.
Computer Zoom Design
JUNE 23, 2019
1) Doodling Anyone can doodle and create simple shapes. It’s as simple as putting pen or pencil to paper and randomly sketching anything that comes to mind. You don’t even have to make straight lines. Doodles come in any shape or form, and in any color. But don’t let the simplicity of this exercise fool you! Get Into The Habit Of Making: Draw Inspiration From The Every Day.
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Computer Zoom Design
JUNE 26, 2019
Collaborate and Create: Top 10 Summer and Fall Design Conferences Whether you spend days designing in a home office with no one to talk to but your cat, or continually rework ideas alongside a team, design shouldn’t be a lonely endeavor. Bouncing ideas off other designers, taking tips from industry leaders and socializing with like-minded creatives can create serious kindle to bring that creative spark into a roaring flame.
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