Envato Tuts+
MARCH 19, 2015
What You'll Be Creating. When I was starting out in graphic design, without a doubt the most terrifying and intimidating aspect of the job was preparing and sending my work to print. . Sure, your layouts might be tip-top and your typography skills may well be 'awesome', but all of these skills will mean next-to-nothing if the printed result comes back looking less than perfect.
Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art
MAY 18, 2015
For my previous posts click here, Part 1 and Part 2 Below are a series of progress photographs taken as I worked my way through the painting. Moving on from basic blocking in of colour. You can see here I am starting to get past the local colour stage and really moving into finding form using colour. For example look at the fox playing skittles. He is lit from the top by the warm glow of the lanterns (lots of cadmium yellow, yellow ochre and burnt sienna), however the majority of his head is fac
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Design Roast
SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
Google changed their logo. To many folks, this would register as a big, “So, what?” However, to web designers and folks who don’t like things to change (present company included), it is a big deal. This isn’t the first time Google has fixed something that wasn’t broken. Anyone remember Google Lively? Of course you don’t. […].
Tom Kenny
SEPTEMBER 30, 2015
Homepage. The homepage is incredibly simple. So simple that it only includes two headlines, a button and an image but it’s well targeted to the type of people they want to help: “Your product can be copied in a heartbeat, your prices undercut, your people poached.”. “Uncover the one thing that can never be stolen.”. The headlines speak directly to business owners’ common fear of being copied.
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
Ohn Mar Win
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
I've just submitted my 30th illustrated recipe for They Draw and Cook, so they can consider publishing them in a book. It's been a true labour of love and far trickier than I anticipated. The trade off is I've received much work from clients seeing my ideas, and I hope they continue to check in on the TDAC site. Here are the last two recipes, for easy baguettes and Christmas gingerbread.
Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
DECEMBER 9, 2015
App developers lavish such care creating thoughtful, lovely experiences, places where users can return again and again, and always feel at home. For all the time we spend browsing the web, we’re spending more and more time using our devices’ native apps, a trend that’s poised to continue with the arrival of mobile-minded projects like Facebook Instant Articles and Apple News.
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Emmeline Illustration
OCTOBER 27, 2015
Every so often, I'll stop for a second and be hit with the realisation that I haven't drawn anything in ages. It can be surprising how little physical drawing time can go in to running an illustration business sometimes! Yesterday was one of those days, and I fancied a little bit of a warm up before delving in to some serious work. You may have seen The Big Draw floating around on social media or the news recently - they're, very basically, a huge campaign to get people drawing.
Black Bear Design
FEBRUARY 16, 2015
Black Bear Design - Atlanta Web Design, Web Development, SEO, Internet Marketing, Graphic Design, Logo Design, Social media. From the days of hand cut letterforms, through the wave of digital technology and into current day, logo design has wonderfully transformed, adapted and shape-shifted. What logo design trends lie ahead in 2015? If you’re in the process of changing your logo design, or planning a re-fresh of your existing brand for your business, then you’ll love today’s post!
Illustration Art
JUNE 8, 2015
The great Mort Drucker is famous for drawing funny, not sexy. Yet, if you look back at his stories for MAD Magazine, you'll see they were often packed with beautiful women: At the recent annual conference of the National cartoonist Society, Drucker was awarded the first NCS Medal of Honor for his lifetime achievement. I had the good fortune to interview him before the ceremony and he remarked that beautiful women were the most difficult subject for him to draw.
Fifi Lapin
OCTOBER 15, 2015
I have always been a fan of old school photography. You know the sort; the one that involves taking a leap and committing to pressing the shutter button and seeing what fate has dealt you instead of composing 100 shots on your phone and picking the best. Some don't always work out but the ones that do seem to be more special somehow. Perhaps it's because you have the actual photographs in your paws to show friends or put on your noticeboard?
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Envato Tuts+
MARCH 6, 2015
What You'll Be Creating. Sometimes you want to quickly liven up an Adobe InDesign layout without the need for creating custom images in Illustrator or Photoshop, or having to track down and purchase stock images. But how can you avoid the need for importing images when you want to give your text document more of a visual edge? This is when the InDesign Glyphs panel really comes into its own.
Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art
MAY 6, 2015
See my previous post here. My drawing was approved so it was time to start work on the painting. The process to get the finished drawing on to stretched watercolour paper can be a bit tedious but it has to be done. Firstly I enlarge the scanned rough drawing in Photoshop and then I print the image on A3 layout paper. The layout is just thick enough to go through my printer and thin enough to act like tracing paper.
Paul Jarvis
MARCH 14, 2015
Many emails I receive start with, “I hate doing X, but…” and go on to explain that the sender wants to figure out how to force themselves to do something they don’t like in order to achieve something.
Tom Kenny
OCTOBER 15, 2015
Buying train tickets is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. It could be a good experience with one particular train company or a terrible one with a different operator in the same country. Then it all changes again when you visit another part of the world and you won’t know what you’ll get there either. Captain train gives you the opportunity to book train tickets with several European train companies without having to deal with them individually.
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Ohn Mar Win
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
Some of you know I take part in daily arty challenges. Last August it started with month of hand lettering daily, then a month of food, then desserts and biscuits. There was no major thought process behind them, it was to keep up with my drawing skills without engaging my brain as to its final use, if any. I am still taking part in daily doodles #365doodleswithjohannafritz if I can, and sometimes mashing it up a daily watercolour in my moleskin and even further mashed with #alittleart that Victo
Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
FEBRUARY 25, 2015
Whether they’re typeface designers, graphic designers, web developers, or part of our business group, nobody at H&Co is immune to the charms of found typography, and we’re all compulsive sharers. Recently, our chief operating officer paid a visit to the garage to have her car serviced, and returned with a souvenir that made us smile: a paper tag left dangling from the rear view mirror, designer unknown, indifferently printed with a giant number in four inch block type.
Creative Live
AUGUST 28, 2015
The one thing all successful apparel brands have in common is a strong point of view, a unique perspective that informs every one of the many details that go into creating a garment: concept, silhouette, materials, graphics, presentation, and so forth. Few brands do a better job of articulating their point of view than Homage , largely driven by Design Director Shawn Khemsurov’s taste for design that’s a little odd, naive, and off-kilter.
Emmeline Illustration
DECEMBER 20, 2015
Christmas is juuuust around the corner now, and so you may have seen my Christmas gift guide pop up on my blog earlier this week. Putting the gift guide together made me feel incredibly nostalgic for the late nights scrawling my childhood Christmas lists and (our little family tradition) sticking them halfway out of the letterbox for the robins to collect for Farther Christmas!
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Black Bear Design
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
Black Bear Design - Atlanta Web Design, Web Development, SEO, Internet Marketing, Graphic Design, Logo Design, Social media. Font choice seems like a daunting task. There are millions of fonts available for your use. The hard part is not finding a font, but finding the right font. There are no simple rules about font choice, but don’t despair. At Black Bear Design Group, our designers have a few tips to help you narrow down your choices.
Illustration Art
AUGUST 26, 2015
This is a loose preliminary sketch by Bernie Fuchs for a coffee ad in the 1960s. Some people will be quick to note Fuchs employed photo reference in this picture: But that's not the part that interests me. I like the way his sketch reveals Fuchs probing for the design elements in his subjects. His handling of the elbow (below) displays knowledge of both the anatomy beneath the cloth and the design above the cloth.
Fifi Lapin
DECEMBER 21, 2015
Today I'm wearing Rodarte I like to think this is the dress the fairy on the top of the Christmas Tree wishes for at Christmas! Well who wouldn't!? Not long to go now! bunny kisses Fifi Lapin xxx.
Envato Tuts+
NOVEMBER 26, 2015
It’s party season (hooray!), and there’s no better way to advertise a fun event than with an awesome flyer design, whether in print format or circulated online. . This post is packed with awesome flyer design ideas and event flyer templates like this one. I’ll share 10 professional flyer design ideas for making your flyer designs look special and stylish.
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.
Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art
AUGUST 24, 2015
August Is Artist Appreciation Month Recently, I was informed by the folks at Patience Brewster about a project called 'Artist Appreciation Month,' in which artists are invited to talk about an artist(s) who has inspired them to create. Patience is an artist as well and designs ornaments and unique gifts for Christmas and year round décor. I knew straight away this would be the perfect opportunity to share with you a FANTASTIC artist and hopefully shed light on my early days of struggling to find
Paul Jarvis
AUGUST 14, 2015
This is a good thing. Social media and really anything digital is setup to be a near-constant stream of editorialized data. That means, we pick which bits and bytes we share. In doing so, we’re only.
Tom Kenny
OCTOBER 28, 2015
Warby Parker disrupted the eyewear market back in 2010. “Warby Parker was founded with a rebellious spirit and a lofty objective: to offer designer eyewear at a revolutionary price, while leading the way for socially conscious businesses.”. As of April 2015, Warby Parker has been valued at a cool $1.2 billion. Quite impressive for a young eyewear company.
Ohn Mar Win
NOVEMBER 15, 2015
A few days ago I made a short video on Periscope about Pinterest, tall pins and foodie illustrations. As these videos are only around for 24 hours I've decided to blog about the main points I mentioned, as many folks found it very useful. I'd like to point out one important aspect of Pinterest: approx 80% of pins on Pinterest are repins, so the image has kind of been 'recycled' over and over which is great as that's how your work is spread, and found in searches.
Speaker: Michele Berdinis
This session will answer business law questions that people are asking most during the pandemic. If my business can’t pay its bills, can my creditors come after my personal assets? Do I have to pay the rent on my co-working space or office? Can my clients cancel signed contracts? Can I cancel contracts for things I no longer need because my business has slowed down?
Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
JULY 1, 2015
Over instant messaging at our office, the typographic obsessions of our typeface designers, graphic designers, web developers and businesspeople have lately coalesced into a game of photographic oneupsmanship. We thought it time to share with the rest of the world, so pop over to Instagram and you’ll find the goods. Included are some typographic artifacts that have escaped scholarship, a few excerpts from our studio library , and some typographic moments that we’ve encountered in our
Creative Live
JUNE 22, 2015
Entrepreneur and baker du jour Jason Sigala wanted to open his own bakery in Southern California, offering quality, old-fashioned American desserts made from scratch. He wanted his shop’s branding to have a decidedly mid-century East Coast look and feel. Tim Frame was commissioned to create the brand identity for this foodie start-up, that would be called Towne Bakery.
Emmeline Illustration
AUGUST 3, 2015
So here it is, finally , the full collection of What Emmeline Wore In July illustrations (click here to see it in more detail)! It's been a busy month juggling this project with my other illustration work, but it's been so very worth it. I mentioned this in an earlier post, but it's surprisingly draining on your creativity being tied to create (and write about) illustrations every single day.
Black Bear Design
MARCH 4, 2015
Black Bear Design - Atlanta Web Design, Web Development, SEO, Internet Marketing, Graphic Design, Logo Design, Social media. How to Make Your Business Card Work for You. Your company business card is a direct extension of your business. Designed correctly, it can also be a very effective tool for marketing your company and yourself to prospective clients.
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.
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