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Does design shape your everyday life? These... Illustration Friday. Adobe TV. Good-Tutorials - Newest Tutorials. Layers Magazine « The How-to Magazine for Everything Adobe. Graphic Design Classes / Overview. Graphic Design Program Strath Haven High School Graphic Design Program Ms.

Graphic Design Classes / Overview

Leslie Taylor - ltaylor@wssd.org The overall goal of the Strath Haven High School's Graphic Design program is to develop the creative talents and skills of students using computer driven software programs. Graphic Designers shape our visual environment through the experimentation and use of image, form, and typography. Americans live in a society that is communicating more and more through visual images. 25 Creative Vector Text Art Tutorials in Adobe Illustrator. At Vectortuts+ we love seeing new talent and encouraging readers to take part in a variety of design challenges.

25 Creative Vector Text Art Tutorials in Adobe Illustrator

Last week we launched Tuts+ Workshop: Alphabet Design Challenge. It's aim is to create illustrative letter designs, which will then be showcased in a series of articles. As part of the workshops series of tutorials, I'd like to share with you previously published illustration based vector text effect tutorials here on Vectortuts+. How to Create a Bone Calligram with Art BrushesPerhaps try B is for Bone? We're going to show you how to create a "Bones" calligram in Adobe Illustrator. How to Create the Letter S in the Shape of a Slinky ToyWhy not S is for Slinky?

Create a Stylish, Vector Hair Typography IllustrationH is for Hair perhaps? Quick Tip: How to Create a Tangled Text EffectHow about, T is for Tangled? 50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory. 1,200+ courses and ebooks. Kids think design. Young athletes from many nations gather every two years to compete in the Olympic games.

kids think design

Through sports, the games promote themes of excellence, fair play and world peace. Let’s take a look at the role graphic design plays in communicating the spirit of the games. The symbol of the Olympic games is a flag of five colored rings, one representing each of the five continents of North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. A separate brand identity is created by each host city for a specific Olympic competition, such as the 2012 summer games in London or the 2016 games to be held in Rio de Janiero. This year, the official logo for the London Olympic and Paralympic games is an abstraction of the numbers in 2012 rendered in jagged-edge shapes.

The games consist of 35 sports. Ever since the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, mascots have become an integral part of the Games. What do you think graphic designers were trying to communicate through the choices for the 2012 games? Graphics & 3D. Graphic Design 101 : How to Design : Basics of Graphic Design for Beginners : Introduction to & What is & How to. GRAPHIC DESIGN 101 MENU Visit our Graphic Design Blog What is Graphic Design?

Graphic Design 101 : How to Design : Basics of Graphic Design for Beginners : Introduction to & What is & How to

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Drawing Index Page

Basic Drawing Equipment - 1 2. Basic Drawing Equipment - 2 3. Basic Drawing Equipment - 3 4. 5. 6. Graphic Design Inspiration - Tutorials & Web Design Resources. Proximity: Principles of Graphic Design. Worth1000 Home. Welcome fans of Worth1000.com. If you're looking for Worth's amazing creative content, then you've rocked up to the right place! Just in case you missed the news, Worth1000.com is now part of DesignCrowd.com - and we've preserved all the amazing Worth1000 content here so you can search the archives to find old favorites and new contest art.

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Tutorial: Creating Animated GIF's in Photoshop

Each layer should have something changed. And you should see a screen much like this - with your animation palette, your layout, and your layers palette. If you don't see one of your palettes go to Window>and find the palette you are looking for. Create a new layer on your animation palette on your new animation layer, change the visibility of a layer on your layers palette to the next sequence you would like in your animated gif. Now change the interval you would like the layers to play at. and change your animated gif to play however many times you would like. Now you can save your animated gif. See, wasn't that easy!!!! Graphic Design Inspiration, Tutorials, Resources, Freebies, and More! - You The Designer. Blog.SpoonGraphics. From up North - High quality design inspiration. The Nike Portraits on Behance. Student Competitions - The World's Premiere Site for Student Competitions.

Design insights & tutorials. High School Group Games. Basic design principles explained. I work in the web design industry and I’m amazed every single day by the lack on knowledge, respect and understanding of the basic design principles that I take for granted.

Basic design principles explained

I trained for 4 years in Graphic Design by some of the best, or more accurately traditional, designers in the business where I had these principles drilled into me. Taking these basic design principles and any talent for design and creation, I have forged another 7 successful years in the industry. My aim with this post is to lightly guide those of lesser experience in the right direction with a series of examples and explanations, gliding over some pretty basic teachings so that we can approach our next job with a real educated grounding in the why’s, how’s and when’s of design.

Proximity The basic theory of proximity is concerned with the arrangement or categorisation of elements that relate to one another. Visual Hierarchy Visual weight refers to the relative size and scale of the various elements in a design. Unity. PRESTON HIGH SCHOOL GRAPHIC DESIGN - Home. 22 fresh Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorials for the week. 1 comment By Rajasegar Chandiran on June 13th, 2011 Tutorials of the week is a weekly roundup of the most bookmarked tutorials on Photoshop and Illustrator that brings you the best of the tutorials from the popular design blogs.

22 fresh Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorials for the week

In this week’s collection we have tutorials from Skyje, BloomWebDesign, Photoshoptutorials, DesignInstruct, PSDFan, VforVectors, WeGraphics, DigitalArtsOnline, WebExpedition18, PhotoshopStar, VectorDiary, VectorTuts+, ComputerArts, AdobeTutorialz, PSDTuts+, Abduzeedo, PSDBox, PSDVault and SpoonGraphics.