Spoon Graphics
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Sci-fi landscape scenes featuring Tron-style grids, mountain scenes, and a vibrant sunrise is a popular aesthetic that is associated with art and design from the 80s. This retro-futuristic style has remained in trend thanks to the retrowave/synthwave music movement, which has helped to bring back the visual elements from 80s arcades, action movies, fashion and pop culture.
SpeckyBoy
OCTOBER 11, 2020
For a freelancer, referrals can be an essential ingredient to a successful web design business. Booking new clients this way can allow you to forgo at least some of the costs involved with traditional marketing. Plus, there’s something to be said when an existing client goes out of their way to tell a friend about you. It means a lot. However, it’s not all rainbows.
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Just Creative
OCTOBER 12, 2020
This article has been contributed by Jason Khoo. When building exposure for your business, you need to get the word out to drive traffic to your website. And you need to use some sort of marketing strategy to do it. One of the most commonly used strategies to drive traffic to a website is SEO. Nowadays, most website owners have some basic knowledge of it, not least of all because it doesn’t cost you anything (except time) if you do it yourself.
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
Spoon Graphics
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Access All Areas members have a versatile new font to download this week, courtesy of Typologic. Neutro is a bold, sans-serif display font that comes in four styles: Regular, Bold, Extra Bold and an Outline version. It is a wide typeface with a modern style, making it great for typography purposes that require a strong identity. Typologic is the home of Fadiel Muhammad, a type designer who has a variety of display fonts available in his store, ranging from a futuristic space age font to an elega
Six Leaf Design
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Your logo is the literal face of your business. It’s the first thing people see and the main visual image that they will remember. That’s why it’s so important to make sure that yours is making the right impression from the very beginning. If your logo looks outdated, boring, or even cheap, you may be losing valuable business when potential customers walk away.
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Just Creative
OCTOBER 16, 2020
This article has been contributed by Michelle Deery. A great social media campaign has the power to raise awareness of your brand, strengthen connections between you and your audience and increase sales. In the US alone, there are some 233 million social media users, which is about 75% of the population. However, social media can be a minefield. If you don’t plan , execute and measure your campaign strategically, you can waste a lot of time, and sometimes money.
Graphic Mama
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Design trends for the coming year are always big news and 2021 is just around the corner, out with the old and in with the new has never been more wished for. To say that 2020 has been a strange year is more than just an understatement. But in the online world, lockdown, forced closure of stores and educational institutions, and so on have had an enormous impact.
Creative Review
OCTOBER 14, 2020
This year should have marked the release of the hotly anticipated 25th instalment in the James Bond film franchise, No Time to Die. As with much of the movie industry however, coronavirus has thrown a bit of a spanner in the works. The film’s release date was originally pushed from April to November when the pandemic struck, and since then has been further delayed until 2021.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Developing For The Semantic Web – Why semantic markup has become increasingly important for websites. Animating Number Counters – Whether you’re counting up or down, add some animation to your numbers. 5 Things to Tell Your Clients About WordPress Security – Educating your clients is a great step towards a more secure web. Dizzle – A tool that turns CSS selectors into functions that tests if elements match them.
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Just Creative
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Just about everyone loves using wireless earbuds to listen to music, answer phone calls, and do many other things. One of the best products out there is the AirPods from Apple. Whether you go with their original release or the Pro version, there is no doubt that they are a great piece of tech. The problem is, they can be expensive. With that in mind, we wanted to take a look at the best alternatives to the AirPods that could give you a great experience without breaking the bank.
SpeckyBoy
OCTOBER 10, 2020
If you’ve got gorgeous art your audience loves, don’t just settle for presenting it through prints. Instead, use mockups and show them what your work would look like in their apartments. Therein lies the magic of poster frame mockups. Used by both artists and graphic designers, mockups open new possibilities. Poster frame mockup templates are an incredible asset for increasing your sales and turning your art into a reality.
Noupe
OCTOBER 16, 2020
No matter whether you’re already a skilled professional or you’re only starting out in your freelancing career, you’re probably familiar with the many benefits of working as a freelancer. Aside from allowing you to work at your own pace, many home-based freelance careers can also replace minimum wage jobs by a long mile. According to some freelance statistics , 31% of freelance workers are earning more than $75,000 USD annually.
Creative Review
OCTOBER 14, 2020
For Singapore-based Radhiah Anis, a career in illustration was never something she saw for herself. “I had always just been doing it for fun, until I started posting my work on Instagram and receiving some commissions,” says Anis. “At that time I was waiting to get into a communication design degree at the Glasgow School of Art (Singapore).
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Just Creative
OCTOBER 15, 2020
This article has been contributed by Kevin George. It’s intriguing to know that there are around 12 to 24 million eCommerce sites across the world and the industry is growing 23% year-over-year. And 46% of American small businesses don’t even have a website yet. What’s even more interesting is that not many of these sites actually make much money. Fewer than 1 million of them sell more than $1000 annually.
SpeckyBoy
OCTOBER 10, 2020
The number of options, directions, and aesthetic approaches you can take from simply adding a texture to your design is mind-boggling. Of course, not every design benefits from even the most subtle of textures, but you might be surprised at how a high-resolution texture can bring a design to life. Knowing when to use a texture and which texture to use all boils down to the flow of the design and the priority of information on the page.
Logo Design Love
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Ji Lee’s short description: “This project started nearly twenty years ago as an assignment in my typography class at art school. Students were encouraged to see letters beyond their dull, practical functionality. “The challenge is to visualize the meaning of a word, using only the graphic elements of the letters forming the word, without adding any outside parts.
Shillington
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Courtesy of Olivia Beasley Photography. Despite a degree in physical geography, Robyn M-C always knew she was destined for a creative career. Gallery visits, lectures and a lot of reading eventually lead her to Shillington London and, knowing graphic design was the way forward for her, quickly enrolled. Three months later, she graduated and dived into a new career.
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Just Creative
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Just about everyone loves using wireless earbuds to listen to music, answer phone calls, and do many other things. One of the best products out there is the AirPods from Apple. Whether you go with their original release or the Pro version, there is no doubt that they are a great piece of tech. The problem is, they can be expensive. With that in mind, we wanted to take a look at some alternatives to the AirPods that could give you a great experience without breaking the bank.
Envato Tuts+
OCTOBER 13, 2020
The humble movie poster is one of the oldest and most effective promotional tools for movie studios. Whether you’re looking to emulate your favorite movie poster design or learn more about how to make a movie poster, consider this your ultimate guide to the anatomy of movie poster design. Double exposure poster template for Photoshop From action movie poster design to comedy movie poster design, pick up pro tips for crafting poster designs for every genre, including how to lay out a movie poste
Creative Review
OCTOBER 16, 2020
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), based in Melbourne, temporarily shuttered last year to allow for an ambitious refurbishment worth $40 million AUD. After some inevitable delays this year due to Covid-19, the redevelopment is now set to be revealed in early 2021. When the museum reopens, it will have a fresh look devised by UK design agency North, which will complete ACMI’s transformation from its beginnings as a local film centre in the 1940s to the most visited museum of
Shillington
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Out of the over thirty briefs that Shillington students complete on the course, the Campaign Brief is one of the biggest—both in terms of deliverables and length of deadline. Though it’s also one of the funnest. Students are given a free rein and can choose their own topic they want their campaign to cover. This means that the campaigns can be really close to their heart, producing some truly wonderful results.
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.
Design Week
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Bristol-based Taxi Studio has redesigned the identity for Scottish whisky Glengoyne, in an attempt to draw out the distillery’s “heritage and personality” Glengoyne Distillery was founded in 1833 in Dumgoyne, northern Scotland. It produces single malt whiskey, in a variety of age ranges. “Respectful rejuvenation” The new crest Taxi Studio creative director Karl Wills tells Design Week that the brand update aimed to be a “respectful rejuvenation” The bran
The Logo Smith
OCTOBER 12, 2020
The post Type Hero #10: Brule Typeface Designed by Andrei Robu at Typeverything appeared first on The Logo Smith All Content © 2020 The Logo Smith.™ |. Type Hero #10: Brule Typeface. Type Hero #10: Brule Typeface is a tribute to the 70’s graphic design era. A juicy iconic typeface full of opentype features, icons and special glyphs that will make your projects look amazing.
Creative Review
OCTOBER 16, 2020
The book, authored by Peter Mendelsund and David J Alworth, explores some of the recurrent motifs of cover design, delving into trends that have shaped the way books have been marketed over the decades. It charts some of the influential changes along the way – from the first dust jackets in the 1800s, through the rise of graphic design as a profession and into some of the stories behind more controversial titles such as Lolita.
Noupe
OCTOBER 16, 2020
The social event of the entire year, Halloween is just around the corner. Celebrating Halloween might get a little depressing this year. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t at least try to host a socially distanced, germ-free but fun Halloween bash. There’s nothing more exciting than opening your mailbox and finding a Halloween party invitation around this spooky season.
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.
Feature Shoot
OCTOBER 13, 2020
We all have that friend by Yarin Klein. Brown bears at Kuril Lake, Kamchatka, Russia. Yarin Klein / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2020. Sun salutation class by Sue Hollis. Sea lion in the Galapagos Islands. Sue Hollis / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2020. Lamentation! by Jacques Poulard. Polar bear in Spitzbergen, Norway. Jacques Poulard / Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2020.
Design Week
OCTOBER 13, 2020
London-based studio North has created the new visual identity for the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) to accompany the museum’s $40m (£22m) transformation. The work includes a new wordmark, a range of digital assets as well as physical merchandise like tote bags and reusable cups. Based in Melbourne, ACMI is dedicated to moving image from the world of film, video games, digital culture and art.
Creative Review
OCTOBER 11, 2020
The photographs belong to Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, who describe them as an ‘accidental’ collection of imagery. Just over 20 years ago, the pair stumbled across a black-and-white image, taken in the 1920s, of two young men embracing, and found themselves intrigued with who they were and how the photo had ended up in an antique shop in Dallas. “Taking such a photo, during a time when they would have been less understood than they would be today, was not without risk,”
Speckyboy Design Magazine
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Alright, freelancers – it’s time to confess! How many of you are guilty of not communicating regularly enough with your clients? Maybe you’re running behind on your deadline, and you’re too embarrassed to let your client know in a timely manner. Or maybe the client has done something to upset you, and you refuse to reply to one or two of their emails.
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