Inspiration Feed
DECEMBER 9, 2019
The graphic design industry is tough. No matter where you go, you’ll see amazing talent through the work of other designers in the field.
Just Creative
DECEMBER 8, 2019
Entrepreneurship remains to be a growing trend for young adults of this generation. With more and more small businesses being established from different parts of the globe, the idea of establishing a business might seem easy for some people. But the fact is, a lot of things must be taken into consideration before an aspiring entrepreneur finds success.
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Graphic Mama
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Get inspired by a beautiful collection of black-and-white illustrations: fantasy and abstract, posters of people and portraits, animal artwork, and simplified illustrations. Less is more and when it comes to such amazingly creative black-and-white artwork, the lack of color only means a bigger field for creativity and imagination. In this collection, we’ve picked beautiful black-and-white art that will certainly leave you more inspired in the end.
Spoon Graphics
DECEMBER 9, 2019
It takes some real skill to draw realistic characters and portraits, but there’s a shortcut you can take by processing a photograph with various filters in Photoshop to give it a cartoon-like illustrated effect. In today’s tutorial I’ll show you a cocktail of adjustments that mimic the outlines, colours, and shading of a digitally painted image automatically, without the need to trace, paint or draw by hand.
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 Market
DECEMBER 12, 2019
From wedding makeup to that first dance at the reception, a wedding itinerary spells out the timetable for important things to do on a wedding day or wedding weekend. Wedding itineraries and planners are handy tools for members of the wedding party and wedding planners, but they can also provide directions to wedding venues, share a schedule for special events, and make pretty mementos for guests.
Canva
DECEMBER 8, 2019
There are plenty of tools you need to succeed as an entrepreneur, from a can-do attitude to the right team to an innovative approach to business, research, and development. If you’re at the stage of your business where you’re thinking about bringing in outside investors, there’s one more indispensable tool you’re going to need: An impactful pitch deck.
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Envato Tuts+
DECEMBER 11, 2019
What You'll Be Creating Ready to take the next step in layout design? In this tutorial, we show you how to create a booklet in InDesign. For this stylish design, we’ll use essential tools for setting up pages that will help you in your future projects. Booklets are a form of brochure containing more than four pages and not more than 48 pages (the page count should be divisible by four).
Creative Market
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Looking for color inspiration to spruce up your holiday-themed designs? Whether you're working on new designs for a client's holiday campaign, designing your family's Christmas cards, or planning a beautiful tablescape – these 8 Christmas color palettes are sure to inspire your next festive project. Save Color palette by Yulia, Yuliya Derbisheva. Palette HEX codes: #efdfd7, #c84d4e, #869987, #c0ced7, #717d8a.
Canva
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Soon you’ll be scrambling for ideas to make this February 14th the best Valentine’s Day yet. You can opt for a multiple-course dinner, a giant heart shaped balloon, a serenade, or a classic box of chocolates. But, even the most romantic gesture won’t stand a chance if it doesn’t come with a Valentine’s Day card. Common lore says you get bonus points if instead of buying a generic card, you make it yourself.
Graphic Mama
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Pantone Color of the Year 2020 is officially announced: Classic Blue! In 2020, we’ll be enjoying the classic elegance of the Classic Blue color hue interpreted into beautiful creations and combinations in all design niches. The Color Institute never disappoints as it always matches its annual choice of color with what the world needs. Carrying a deep meaning and symbolism, Classic Blue is the right tone that comes at the right time to convey calmness, stability, and honesty while it marks
Advertiser: Issuu
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.
Feature Shoot
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Ollie. Ex stock broker. Made his millions in the Dotcom boom and now spends 6 months of the year on his yacht in Monaco. Henry. Enormous introvert. Loves football, has no idea about the rules he simply cheers for the winning team. DOGG. Pronounced ‘D’ ‘O’ “double G’ as in Snoop. Impossibly cool. Fan of hip hop. “‘Dog’ was found on the side of the road,” the photographer and rescue advocate Emma O’Brien tells us.
Creative Market
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Did you ever look across the aisle at school and wish you could master the impossibly gorgeous handwriting of that one kid? You know the one: the kid who always got to write the announcements on the board because their script held everyone spellbound. Well, now you can -- because that handwriting wizard may have grown up and joined Creative Market! Amazing artists around the world are offering their personal handwriting to you, to download and use for anything you want.
Canva
DECEMBER 8, 2019
There’s an old saying “there’s nothing to fear but fear itself.” But if you’re like most people, you probably need to amend that statement to “there’s nothing to fear but fear itself…and public speaking.”. Public speaking is one of the most common fears in the world, affecting more than 25 percent of people ; for some reason, the thought of getting up and presenting in front of a crowd gives a lot of people serious anxiety.
Noupe
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Christmas is fun, but choosing gifts might become too overwhelming sometimes. You want to buy the best gift within your budget, and that may require a lot of research. It does not stop there, either. You are not just trying to buy the best item for the buck unless you are shopping for a robot. Even in that case, you might not want to exterminate the whole human race.
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Its Nice That
DECEMBER 11, 2019
The LA-based illustrator looks towards his immediate surroundings for inspiration. Whether it’s the market, the cafe, something stumbled upon in his home studio or found on a glorious morning walk, it’s the simple things that he finds most interesting. Read more.
Creative Market
DECEMBER 13, 2019
The Creative Market team is growing! This week, we would like all of you to meet Kristen Vitale , our new Marketing Operations Specialist. Tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do for Creative Market. I joined Creative Market as a Marketing Operations Specialist back in August. I have an incredibly fun role because I get to contribute to the variety of marketing initiatives we have going on at Creative Market.
Colossal
DECEMBER 11, 2019
“Offerings” (2019), Pen, watercolor, ink, gel pen and colored pencil on paper. 26.75 x 42.5 inches. Sinuous, intertwined wildlife bridge worlds of the living and the dead in Lauren Marx ’s intricate multi-media work. Twisting fox heads, disemboweled deer, and lambs bursting with flowers and birds are rendered with watercolor, ink, pen, and colored pencil.
Old Brand New
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Sponsored by Mazda. You never really know where inspiration is going to strike — but for me, so much of it comes when I’m traveling: exploring new territories or the hidden nooks and crannies of places I’ve been before. That said, when Mazda invited me and a crew of creatives to Montecito, CA for a few days to check out the new CX-30 , I was pretty excited to get out of town and immerse myself in a different landscape.
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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.
Its Nice That
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Tom sees illustration and design as two media that “aren’t mutually exclusive”. Instead, he combines these elements across the board to build on his spontaneous process for clients such as Adidas, Jadu Heart, Low Island and Khruangbin. We caught up with him to find out more. Read more.
Noupe
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Creating eCommerce photos professionally requires some skill and expertise that can help you keep your budget frugally organized and within your reach. If you’re going to seek some valuable tips for capturing images for eCommerce business that will captivate customers’ attention, then we’ve gathered some tips that will be helpful for you to shoot products without spending so much.
Colossal
DECEMBER 13, 2019
All images © Yuko Shimizu, shared with permission. Award-winning artist Yuko Shimizu describes her detailed illustrations in a note to Colossal as “a bit off, weird, and dreamy.” Her work, which is often centered on but not limited to Japanese culture, frequently employs primary colors and repetitive elements. In one illustration, the artist portrays a marcher wearing a red uniform and blowing into a multiple-belled instrument with blue birds and yellow flowers in the mix; another f
Azure Magazine
DECEMBER 11, 2019
The second decade of the 21st Century saw significant cultural shifts that informed interior design across the world. In tandem with the rise of Instagram, a generation of influencers embraced “millennial pink” and brands big and small strove to create increasingly experiential and photogenic retail environments. Terrazzo took over on walls and floors – but dramatically veined marble gave the finish a run for its money.
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.
Its Nice That
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Encompassing both 2D illustrations and 3-dimensional sculptures, the illustrator’s work challenges and toys with the idea that objects need to have a use or a purpose, and that they should communicate a clear message. Read more.
Under Consideration / Brand
DECEMBER 11, 2019
“My, Oh, M-eye”. Launched in 2018 as an online archive and opening as a physical museum in 2020, MOKSOP , the Museum of Kharkiv School of Photography, is a new cultural institution that serves as a museum, an archive, and an education and research platform for the Kharkiv School of Photography. Not an actual school but a cultural movement, the Kharkiv (or Kharkov) School of Photography in Ukraine, began in the 1970s as an underground movement in reaction to the tightly controlled creative output
Shillington
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Whether you’re creating a poster, a brochure, a website or any other kind of design that includes text, the importance of typography cannot be underestimated. Getting your type right is crucial to readability, hierarchy, engagement, navigation and overall user experience, to name but a few things. And one of the most important factors in all that is choosing fonts that complement each other well, both aesthetically and functionally.
Noupe
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Whether you outsource your web design skills to third-party brands or actively work on your personal business website, creating a visual context within your layout and design elements is of utmost importance. According to Tech Jury , 73% of companies actively invest resources into refining their web design to differentiate their brand and reach a wider audience as a result.
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
DECEMBER 13, 2019
New York-based graphic design studio EyeBodega has put together one hell of a Christmas treat for the book-loving fans of the city. The studio has transformed Manhattan gallery Enorme into a pop-up shop featuring publications from small presses and independent artists from all over the world, providing a whistle-stop tour of the great and the good in illustration, independent publishing and print-making.
Under Consideration / Brand
DECEMBER 11, 2019
“All Eyes on Deck”. (Est. 2019) " Offftlv is a visual design festival hosting the most innovative creative creators. We are a community inviting all those who are eager to learn to participate and get inspired in a two day conferences journey of talks, workshops and inspiration. Nineteen years ago, Offf was born in Barcelona, Spain. Today, it has become a popular innovation and creativity festival worldwide.
Graphic Design Junction
DECEMBER 11, 2019
What makes a great logo? The colors, the novelty or the concept? If you think that all of these play an essential role in creating a solid logo design , then we’d suggest you add one more important factor that is often undermined. That important factor is generally known in the graphic designing realm as ‘font.’. When it comes to creating visually compelling logos, you must do a thorough research on fonts.
Design Week
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Germany’s diversity of design is perhaps best summed up in the complex legacy of Bauhaus , which turns 100 this year. Dedications to Walter Gropius’ movement are spread throughout the country; at Berlin’s Bauhaus-Archiv (which is temporarily closed) and the recently-opened Bauhaus Museum in Dessau (where Gropius set up his art school in 1925).
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