Design Wizard
MAY 26, 2021
Elements of design are the parts of your work of art that you arrange and craft to create visually pleasing designs. It’s important to be aware of how these basic principles work together to find your way towards stunning designs more easily. . Use elements of design principles to guide you and to understand how design works but don’t see them as a strict set of rules.
Richard Bernabe
MAY 24, 2021
Photography is still in the NFT infancy stage but is on the rise. As collectors seek higher quality art, photography could be poised to boom. The post NFTs and Photography appeared first on Richard Bernabe.
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SpeckyBoy
MAY 24, 2021
When watching a great athlete perform, they often make it seem effortless. Demonstrating great speed, coordination and agility is just what they do. Yet, what our eyes don’t see is all of the hard work that went into making those amazing moments possible. Similarly, a beautiful and highly-functional website can exude simplicity. But that belies the great effort made behind the scenes.
Spoon Graphics
MAY 26, 2021
In today’s Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to add grungy, distressed, ink stamped effects to your type, logos, or illustrations. The effect resembles the letterpress printing style, or any other impact print method, like a rubber stamp, or an old typewriter. I’ll show you how to distress your clean digital artwork to give it a fuzzy, irregular appearance as if the ink is bleeding to distort the outline of the artwork, causing some areas to blend together.
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 Review
MAY 25, 2021
Victo Ngai is an LA-based illustrator from Hong Kong and she’s created editorial illustrations for titles such as the New York Times and New Yorker, while also working on storyboards and animation art for the likes of NBC and Dreamworks. “ I was an only child born to working immigrant parents. We moved around a lot when I was little so I didn’t have a lot of friends and started drawing to pass time,” Ngai says of how she got into illustration. “These drawings tend t
Its Nice That
MAY 28, 2021
Based in Chicago, Dan is a go-to name for drag queens looking to diversify their graphic art, logo design, art direction, photography, and more.
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We And The Color
MAY 22, 2021
Selected photographs by Kristina Varaksina from an ongoing series of self-portraits based on different struggles in life. Kristina Varaksina is a Russian-born art director, photographer, and video director currently based in London, UK. In her diverse creative work, she mostly captures human emotions along with psychological impressions in order to project internal realities.
Graphic Design USA
MAY 25, 2021
The vast majority of creative professionals expect an economic recovery in the second half of 2021 and an attendant rise in demand for graphic communications. .
HONGKIAT
MAY 24, 2021
We had a wonderful moment in the Kars4Kids design department recently when our manager said, and I quote, "So we all agree the design brief works, now how do we…" And the soundtrack played its crescendo in the background and I shed some happy tears and thought, "my work here is done.". The story leading up to this epic piece of drama is a delightful journey that goes something like this.
SpeckyBoy
MAY 26, 2021
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. In the real world, some workarounds may fix the situation and help you make a better general impression, but in the digital world, your prospects are poor. In most cases, if your website fails to produce a good impression at the outset, people will turn around and never come back. So whatever you are planning for your web presence, it’s vital to take care of the very first seconds of the user experience.
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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.
We And The Color
MAY 24, 2021
Discover Get it studio’s stunning contribution to the 2021 edition of 36 Days of Type. Based in Lausanne, Switzerland, the creative people at Get it studio are working at the threshold between CGI, photography, and animation. In 2021, they took part in the challenge of “36 Days of Type”, a creative project that invites designers, illustrators, and graphic artists to express their particular interpretation of the letters and numbers of the Latin alphabet.
Graphic Design Junction
MAY 26, 2021
The best professional Photoshop actions can make your photographs unique and attention-grabbing. The hand-picked high quality Photoshop actions that will transform your Photographs into Oily effect, newspaper print, abstract, watercolor effect, comic and dots effects within a seconds. Mostly Photoshop actions available with video tutorials that shows how to setup action files and how to use.
HONGKIAT
MAY 28, 2021
One of the things that I like being a web developer is that you never stop learning. There’s always something you could learn every day despite being in the industry for a decade. In this round of the series, we’ve gathered a couple of references to help you get better at testing web performance and a handful of new tools that can help you in being more productive.
SpeckyBoy
MAY 22, 2021
A professional slide deck can make all the difference between having a successful presentation or boring your audience and losing their interest. However, designing a slide deck from scratch is time-consuming so it’s a good thing that there are pre-made templates that can save you time. In this roundup, we’ve gathered the best templates and themes for Google Slides so you can design your presentation in the cloud, share it with others, and collaborate on it with your team members.
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We And The Color
MAY 23, 2021
Check out this great collection of abstract vector graphics that can be used in a wide range of design projects. This extensive collection of abstract vector graphics has been created by graphic designer and Adobe Stock contributor @Alex. You can use these fully editable graphics for plenty of design projects ranging from print to web. The collection includes countless individual sets of abstract vector graphics created using various shapes and colors.
Dexigner
MAY 27, 2021
Here Design has unveiled a dreamy pastel-colored design for Gelupo Gelato - a new ice-cream recipe book by renowned restaurateur Jacob Kenedy.
HONGKIAT
MAY 24, 2021
Magazines are a good way to keep yourself updated and entertained about your favorite topic. And it makes an even better pastime when you can read your favorite magazine on your mobile device. In this post, we are featuring a list of free magazines for iOS. You can subscribe to any of them, download for offline reading, and even share the content with friends and followers.
Design Milk
MAY 27, 2021
We’re longtime admirers of British designer Lee Broom and while London is the city he calls home, he spends a lot of time in New York City for both work and pleasure. Wanting a place to return to in the evenings after long, hectic days, Broom acquired a duplex apartment occupying two floors of the White Street in Tribeca. The light-filled penthouse spans 3,000 square feet giving him a spacious backdrop to work with, as this project marks his first interior design project since 2015.
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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.
We And The Color
MAY 26, 2021
Build stunning vintage collages in no time using a multitude of simple drag and drop design assets including photos, text, illustrations, and textures. Created by the team of Graphic Goods, a small studio specializing in creating illustrations, templates, fonts, and other vintage-inspired graphic design resources, this amazing vintage collage creator is packed with 750+ design assets sourced from a variety of vintage photos, illustrations, art, and ephemera.
Canny
MAY 25, 2021
Inexpensive small businesses branding strategies that work can be difficult to find. And at times, finding budget friendly branding strategies can seem nearly impossible. Without the budget of a large company or the resource of a branding agency, it can be difficult to set your advertorial goals and achieve them. free ebook. The Branding Brief Template. get for free.
Vandelay Design
MAY 24, 2021
Affinity Designer is a powerful Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop alternative. It’s a cross between Illustrator and Photoshop because it allows you to create vector or raster designs. It doesn’t offer the same photo editing capabilities as Photoshop (they have Affinity Photo for that) but the design tools and capabilities are very impressive.
Graphic Design Junction
MAY 24, 2021
Beautiful vector Animal Logo Templates or Pet Logos for animal lovers and animal related business and mascots. Hand-picked collection of highest quality animal logos vector templates all are fully editable and scalable logos without losing resolution and quality. Animals are very attractive and popular choice for logos because of the deep connection we feel to them and easy to remember.
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.
We And The Color
MAY 25, 2021
Get some super-stylish Bauhaus-inspired poster designs as fully editable vector templates. Available on Adobe Stock, these beautifully designed Bauhaus poster templates have been created by @Tartila. Thanks to the use of fully editable vector graphics, you can customize each poster in any possible way. The modern and minimalist design is well suited for a wide range of topics.
Its Nice That
MAY 25, 2021
If the idea of your dream client seeing your post resonates with you more than the idea of your crush seeing your post, then Elliot Ulm’s memes on life as a creative are what you have been looking for.
Trendland
MAY 25, 2021
Words Cyril Foiret. After almost a full year of work, young Slovakian designer Martin Vargic is introducing the brand new Map of the Internet, up to date for the year 2021. This fun and extensive project aims to concisely, but still comprehensively visualize the current state of the World Wide Web today. .
Colossal
MAY 25, 2021
The rain is so intense in Serra do Divisor National Park that it looks like an atomic mushroom cloud. State of Acre, 2016. All images © Sebastião Salgado, courtesy of Taschen, shared with permission. Photographer Sebastião Salgado spent six years immersed in the Brazilian Amazon as he documented the world’s largest tropical rainforest in black-and-white.
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.
We And The Color
MAY 24, 2021
The Language of Water, a poetic photo series by Australian visual artist, photographer, and musician, Lana Eileen. Lana Eileen is a visual artist, photographer, and musician based on the beautiful island of Tasmania in Australia. Through painting, photography, and sculpture, Eileen’s creative work fuses abstract elements with fine details, combining seemingly disparate fragments to evoke a sense of magic realism.
Eye on Design
MAY 24, 2021
What does it mean to design “normal” things for “normal” people? Western society defines certain individuals and communities as average and ordinary, while everyone else is something other. People living inside the norm bubble often don’t recognize their own special status, because norms aren’t supposed to be special. Synonyms for the word normal include standard, average, typical, and ordinary.
Design Milk
MAY 28, 2021
Swedish designer Jesper Ståhl is well-known for his distinct Scandinavian design. His meticulous attention to detail and care for the user can be seen in his creative process, as well as in his own twist in the results. His work spans from furniture to lighting to cutlery to tools and accessories. Jesper has designed furniture for Design House Stockholm, bathrooms for Vedum, smartphone cases for Nudient, a bicycle for Skeppshult, and lighting fixtures for Lystra.
HONGKIAT
MAY 27, 2021
A high bounce rate is frequently caused by the poor visual accessibility of a website. When fonts are too small, or they are hardly legible, when there are too many distractions or not enough whitespace, many people just leave the site without a second thought. One of the most frequent reasons for early abandonment is the poorly selected colour schemes that decrease the readability of the content.
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