Noupe
MARCH 29, 2021
After putting in multiple hours on researching, outlining, writing, and editing the first draft of your article, you’re eager to press the publish button. You want to share it with your audience, and earn some appreciation. But guess what? Your audience won’t bother reading your article unless they find its packaging appealing. You need to ensure a robust user experience (UX) on your website for your prospective visitors.
Communication Arts
MARCH 29, 2021
Inspired by fictional worlds, Tofunmi Yosola mixes the everyday and the fantastical in her illustrations.
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Just Creative
MARCH 30, 2021
If you’re creating comic books or cartoons, a natural choice with their bold designs are comic and cartoon fonts, which are also a great choice for just about any design project. For some time, Comic Sans was one of the few fonts you could choose for a project that needed a comic book look. Thanks to the internet, those limitations are a thing of the past.
Spoon Graphics
MARCH 29, 2021
Access All Areas members have a brilliant new font to download this week, courtesy of Floodfonts. Pulpo is a friendly and comfortable looking typeface inspired by Century Schoolbook and Clarendon. Longer extenders give the text more room to breathe and improves legibility at small sizes. The family is provided in four styles: Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bolt Italic, which can all be combined and paired together to emphasise certain words and phrases in your text.
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
Canny
MARCH 30, 2021
If a company ends up on our list of rebranding failures, chances are the financial repercussions for that said company have been huge. Branding any company is a huge challenge. Rebranding one of the world’s biggest companies is a project that many a design or branding agency would love to take on. Of course, when done right, rebranding can be incredibly beneficial to companies.
Design Wizard
MARCH 31, 2021
What are the best things to write about on my blog? If you’ve ever been tasked with writing blog posts, then you probably know that coming up with the idea after idea can be difficult. You want to keep the blog fresh. You want to make sure the ideas for the posts are relevant. You want to get readers on the page and most importantly, keep them engaged.
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Spoon Graphics
MARCH 31, 2021
In today’s video tutorial we’re going to take a look at a few different methods of replacing the sky within a photograph. You know how it is, you capture a great shot, but the weather at that particular moment results in a lacklustre grey, overcast sky in the background. With just a few simple steps you can replace the sky with much more interesting clouds and colours to enhance the sunset vibe or create a moody atmosphere.
I Love Typography
APRIL 2, 2021
Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Issue #3 of Fonts in Focus takes a look at Joona Louhi's weird and wonderful, high contrast display typeface, Louche. Unusual weight distribution and some unorthodox and quirky details make this new release well worth a second look. The post Fonts in Focus: Louche appeared first on I Love Typography.
Design Wizard
MARCH 31, 2021
Trendy Fonts In 2021. 2020 was a different kind of year. As people have been spending more time at home, they seem to have developed a few nostalgic feelings. This has affected several mediums of creative and cultural exchange. It’s also led to a new list of trendy fonts that are resurging. The world of design has been through a few changes that follow that nostalgic theme.
Just Creative
APRIL 1, 2021
In the commercial world, the age-old question of how to connect with new audiences continues to be a focal point of every business. Regardless of which sector of business you are in, reaching new audiences is constantly an underlying goal in order to survive. Sound marketing planning is needed to achieve this endeavor. However, the digital and online platforms through which content is delivered to your targeted audiences are equally important in capturing even great numbers of potential customer
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Creative Review
APRIL 1, 2021
The new logo delves back into Inter Milan’s roots, described by the club as “a modern reinterpretation of the club’s historic symbol, in a more streamlined and minimalist guise” This also makes it much more appropriate for use online and on-screen. The I and M letters have been translated over from the original mark, created by graphic designer and illustrator Giorgio Muggiani – who was also a painter, caricaturist and, fittingly, a football referee.
SpeckyBoy
MARCH 28, 2021
If you regularly work on a certain type of projects, you probably have your workflow down path, which means you probably repeat the same steps over and over to achieve a specific result. But for a workflow to be truly efficient, it should also save you time. That’s where Photoshop actions come in handy. Photoshop actions are nothing more than a series of tasks you can record and apply to a single file or a batch of files.
Its Nice That
MARCH 31, 2021
This delightful book by graphic designer Broos Stoffels and illustrator Lukas Verstraete brings noises to the printed page in unexpected ways.
Just Creative
MARCH 28, 2021
The technology that new computer monitors use has come a long way from the monitors that used cathode ray tubes. It feels like the technology changes every day and the latest monitors are available in not only 5k resolution but also 8k resolution, pushing the very limits of what the human eye can discern. If you do any kind of graphic design or even photo/video editing, having a monitor with the best possible resolution can help you focus on the finer details of what you’re working on.
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Creative Review
APRIL 1, 2021
The winner of the vote, which was opened to the public on March 6 on the milanocortina2026.org website, is named Logo Futura. It captured 871,000 votes from 169 countries, and 74% of the overall vote, so was a resounding win. This marks the first time that an Olympics logo has been decided by the public. Given the amount of feverish interest that Olympics logos tend to generate, it sort of makes sense to open the final decision to a public judgement, though it’s hard not to feel somewhat u
Design Wizard
MARCH 29, 2021
12 Product Marketing Ideas. Creating a new product takes a lot of time and work. Then, after all of that work is over, you need to figure out how to market a product. There are now more marketing tools than ever before. So, where do you start? As more businesses shift their marketing strategy to make it more visible online, there are a few things you can’t miss.
Noupe
APRIL 2, 2021
Whether you’re using blogging for business growth or affiliate marketing, you need to have the right tools at your disposal. Using the right blogging tool can make writing, editing, and outreach faster and more efficient. Online tools and platforms can also speed up your blog post creation process, giving you more time for research, analysis, outreach, ideation, and even taking on more work.
Envato Tuts+
MARCH 29, 2021
What You'll Be Creating. Learn how to take advantage of Photoshop's Smart Objects to mock up your logo with photorealistic results. Thanks to the use of multiple layer styles, we can create wood branding Photoshop Effects for our businesses and projects. But first, do you need to design a logo? Check out this simple, easy-to-use online logo maker. Over 745 smart logo templates to design your custom logo all in one place, Placeit.
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Speckyboy Design Magazine
MARCH 29, 2021
Trust is the foundation of a good client/designer relationship. It provides confidence and security to everyone involved. Without it, there is no means to achieve any sort of comfort level or positive productivity. Just about every freelancer has a story about an untrustworthy client. Someone who promised the moon and delivered significantly less. Perhaps they weren’t truthful about their ability to pay or put you through one bad situation after another.
Design Week
MARCH 29, 2021
Wikipedia turns 20 this year. The online, collectively-edited encyclopedia – which has always remained free – is one of the most visited websites in the world, familiar to students reading up on subjects, writers of trivia quizzes and fans of obscure culture alike. What is likely less well-known is its design output. Its in-house team – known as ‘the brand studio’ – is responsible for telling Wikipedia’s story, often in places it hasn’t reached yet
Design Wizard
APRIL 2, 2021
Beer Logos Designs for Inspiration. The history of beer is almost as long as the history of civilisation. Knowing that beer is one of the oldest drinks produced by humans, there’s little surprise that beer art is old as well. But in the modern half-trillion dollar global beer market, standing out is important. This is where beer logos are incredibly important.
SpeckyBoy
MARCH 28, 2021
Adobe Premiere Pro is a powerful video editor but it can be a little intimidating to learn. On top of that, it has tons of features that can help you take your videos to the next level. However, knowing where to go to find quality tutorials for Adobe Premiere Pro is time-consuming, which is why we’ve done the work for you. In this collection, you will find the best Premiere Pro tutorials suitable for intermediate users.
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
MARCH 28, 2021
Whether you’re a WordPress user or build websites for a living, it’s likely you’ve relied on a few plugins along the way. These additional pieces of software enable the content management system (CMS) to perform new and exciting functions. Everything from contact forms, shopping carts to SEO are just a few clicks away. Even better is that it’s possible to build your own custom WordPress plugin.
Spine Magazine
APRIL 2, 2021
Natasha MacKenzie (aka miss nat mack) is a coffee-addicted book designer primarily based out of Manchester. With a professional background in marketing, branding and book design, she helps authors and publishers across the globe bring their stories to life! Here she takes us through her process for designing the wonderfully weird cover for Everyday Monsters.
Shillington
MARCH 29, 2021
Simoul Alva is a Visual Designer and Art Director based in New York. She works across identity design, storytelling and visual strategy. Her clients include The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review, The Atlantic, Adobe, WIRED, Slack, New York Magazine and Wieden+Kennedy. She represented India at the 44th Worldskills and won a ‘Medallion Of Excellence’ for the country.
Creative Review
MARCH 31, 2021
Leomi Sadler has been working in the comics scene for over a decade now, alongside running UK-based publisher Famicon Express. As well as comics, Sadler has also worked with commercial clients including Givenchy, Nike and Vice. Their personal work has stayed relatively under the radar though, so when Breakdown Press approached them to create a collection of their comics, they decided to tackle it in a way that felt right to them. “I couldn’t help but feel like if I made a big compend
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.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
MARCH 31, 2021
One can never have too many Photoshop brushes. After all, a Photoshop brush is a versatile tool that can help you create a work of art or add those few missing finishing touches to your design. Not to mention, Photoshop brushes help you save time as you don’t have to recreate a certain effect or design from scratch. While you can create Photoshop brushes yourself easily, there is little point in reinventing the wheel.
Design Week
MARCH 31, 2021
Sports Direct has revealed a rebrand in the attempt to unify the retailer’s identity and keep up with trends in the sports industry. The work – which includes a new logo, name change and in-store details – has been carried out by London-based brand consultancy Venturethree. Sports Direct has not been without controversies in the past, mostly thanks to its founder Mike Ashley.
Feature Shoot
MARCH 30, 2021
© Jak Wonderly for WildCare. “It’s one thing to read about cat predation,” the photographer Jak Wonderly tells us. “It’s quite another to hold 232 victims in your hands.” In 2020, he teamed up with Melanie Piazza from WildCare , a non-profit hospital for wildlife in California, to help memorialize and tell the story of hundreds of wild animals who died after being caught by cats in 2019.
Creative Review
MARCH 30, 2021
It’s hard to tear your eyes away from Qianhui Yu’s alluring animations. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art last year, the animation director, illustrator and visual designer has developed a knack for creating candy-coloured worlds and populating them with intriguing characters. Born and raised in China, Yu loved to draw as a child.
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