Colouring. Hip Hop Kandinsky Murals by Nic Hahn on Prezi. Graphs Infographics. So you want to learn hand lettering? In 5 Years, Searches for “Hand Lettering” Increased Over 1000%! Hey, Friend! Sean McCabe here. Hand lettering has experienced a massive resurgence. In just a few short years, nearly one million people have read my lettering guide!
It’s no surprise you’re here: hand lettering is booming right now. Hand lettering is selling all kinds of products like prints and t-shirts too. As the world gets increasingly digital and automated, we find ourselves yearning for the hand-made and the authentic. We want to be reminded that there is a human with a soul behind the designs we see! Hand Lettering Gives You a Platform to Share a Message When you create beautiful lettering, it will attract an audience. People will slow down just to appreciate your beautiful art. You have people’s attention—now what will you say? Hand Lettering Tutorials & Classes Over the years, I’ve created countless lettering resources based on receiving thousands of emails from hand letterers like you.
Check Out the Lettering Resources ↓ Startups, This Is How Design Works – by Wells Riley. The Importance of Frustration in the Creative Process, Animated. By Maria Popova “Before we can find the answer — before we can even know the question — we must be immersed in disappointment.” Last week, Jonah Lehrer took us inside “the seething cauldron of ideas” with Imagine: How Creativity Works, his long-awaited (by me, at least) new book.
Now, from Flash Rosenberg — Guggenheim Fellow, NYPL artist-in-residence, live-illustrator extraordinaire, and Brain Pickings darling — comes this wonderful hand-drawn teaser for the book, distilling one of Lehrer’s key ideas in Rosenberg’s signature style of simple yet visually eloquent line drawings. When we tell stories about creativity, we tend to leave out this phase. We neglect to mention those days when we wanted to quit, when we believed that our problem was impossible.
Instead, we skip straight to the breakthrough. For a related treat, see Rosenberg’s live-illustration of John Lithgow reading Mark Twin at the New York Public Library. Brain Pickings has a free weekly newsletter and people say it’s cool. Omelas State University. These things should be simple: 1. When, as an adult, you come come across another adult raping a small child, you should a) do everything in your power to rescue that child from the rapist, b) call the police the moment it is practicable. 2.
If your adult son calls you to tell you that he just saw another adult raping a small child, but then left that small child with the rapist, and then asks you what he should do, you should a) tell him to get off the phone with you and call the police immediately, b) call the police yourself and make a report, c) at the appropriate time in the future ask your adult son why the fuck he did not try to save that kid. 3. 4.
Here’s what I think about that, right now. At Pennsylvania State University, a grown man found a blameless child being put through hell. Adobe Museum of Digital Media. LunaTik Touch Pen: The Evolution of the Stylus by Scott Wilson + MINIMAL. "Thanks for stopping by! If you have missed the LunaTik Touch Pen project, please come and visit us at LunaTik.com-- where you check out the latest news, updates and purchase product. We hope you will follow our progress! Or you can check out our new Kickstarter project, the TAKTIK Precision Protection for the iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 —Scott Wilson and the MINIMAL team—Scott Wilson and the MINIMAL team" Thank you for checking out our LunaTik Touch Pen project.
Ever since we launched the TikTok+LunaTik Watch Kits on Kickstarter last year we have been constantly asked when we were going to do another project. Paper and pen will never be replaced. While both are great on their own we would prefer to have our everyday pen be compatible with iPads and tablets with a click of a button eliminating the need to carry both items. We are also offering a LunaTik Plastic Touch Pen in a range of colors that are more expressive and less expensive in case you are always losing your pens like us. :)
Hollywood Designers Featured on Video – and a Filter Foundry Exclusive Promo! Inspiration, Resources March 5, 2012 We’ve teamed up with Filter Foundry to give you some videos to devour for a change, from Hollywood designers who have exclusive tutorials up on their network! They’re also generously giving You The Designer readers an exclusive promo code to sign up on Filter Foundry with, for free. Check all this out below! Top Hollywood movie poster designer, Tomasz Opasinski shows how he creates an amazing abstract design using Autodesk Mudbox. Hollywood concept artist Harald Belker (Tron, Minority Report) discusses with Filter Foundry how he uses Google Sketchup in creating designs for his best selling artbook: PULSE.
Author: Cadence Wu Cadence is You The Designer's senior blogger, and the most jack-of-all-trades of the staff. How to Find the Right Graphic Design Clients. Hitmo - hittin' the web. A CRAP way to improve usability. Within the field of user experience, visual design is sometimes perceived as a bit of an outsider. Indeed, some visual designers are apparently feeling a pressure to rebrand themselves as “user experience” designers to progress their careers. In my experience with clients, visual design is often likened to decorating the walls of your living room. It makes everything a little nicer, but it’s hardly a key part of the architecture of your house. In fact, visual design has an important impact on the usability of designs. But good visual design offers more than improving people’s attitudes to a design. There are at least four key principles of visual design that have an important impact on usability.
Let’s look at each one in turn. Contrast Contrast in visual design helps to direct the viewer’s eyes to what’s important and helps them focus on what to do next. In this example (Figure 1), the “Add to Basket” button is formatted identically to the “Cancel” button. Repetition Alignment Proximity. LA CÁSCARA AMARGA. How Helvetica Conquered The World With Its Cool, Comforting Logic | Co.Design. This is the second excerpt from Just My Type.
To read the first, "The 8 Worst Fonts in the World," go here. What is it about the Swiss? Or, to be precise: what is it about the Swiss and their sans serif typefaces? Helvetica and Univers both emerged from Switzerland in the same year--1957--and went out to shape the modern world. They would sort out not just transport systems but whole cities, and no typefaces ever looked more sure of themselves or their purpose. Helvetica is a font of such practicality--and, its adherents would suggest, such beauty--that it is both ubiquitous and something of a cult. A few years ago, a New Yorker called Cyrus Highsmith put his life on the line by trying to spend a day without Helvetica. His troubles began as soon as he climbed out of bed. At lunch he thought he’d try Chinatown but had to switch restaurants as the first had a familiar-looking menu.
After he undertook his non-Helvetica day, Highsmith posed himself a philosophical question. A Glimpse of Inspiration: 35 Gorgeous Package Designs | FreeDesignSource. The Horrors of Graphic Design. A very important part of a designer’s ability to create magic is the ability to focus on the project at hand. The need to stick to the brief and create something that the client wants is of utmost importance, even more so than creativity itself. However, in our quest to hit the highs of our professions, many designers tend to overlook the kind of work they should be doing and replace it with the kind of work they want to do.
Here’s a look at some common mistakes that designers tend to make: Missing the Point There are plenty of design creations out there that are completely fantastic when it comes to appearance and the overall effect, however, when it comes to highlighting the product or service, they are complete failures. While the entire concept of creating the design might be to highlight the product, how many times have you seen them actually making a probable customer think about that product or service? Too Much Fluff Portfolio Material Missing the Brief. The Talented Young Mr. Wiggleworth (Ogilvy New York) - Neat Designs. Nathan Wiggleworth is a talented young Art Director who currently works for Ogilvy in New York. Only 2 years ago, when his career started to rocket, he was still a student of Art Design. Now, in just 24 months, he has in his portfolio the campaigns from Doritos, Minute Maid or Smartwater.
That’s quite impressive, isn’t it? Nevertheless, here is some of his work! Enjoy and be inspired! Also, if you liked this article, please share it with your friends or community! Respect our work and the time we wasted! Doritos Campaign Below is the mother of screen savers. Smartwater Minute Maid OC Ramps UVA Spanish Cuisine Soho Sushi.
15 Hilarious Examples Of Poster Designs. I love posters and I collect them either printed or digital. A great poster can help get motivated, inspired or it will simply make you laugh. In this article you will see 15 hilarious poster printing designs which will surely put a smile on your face. Happily Ever After Pictogram Poster LP Auto Parts ‘The Matrix’ The history of Darth Vader The history of Michael Jackson Design is… Love Grows Portal Quotes Some people just need a high five. Invader Legen…Wait For It….Dary Keep Calm and Occupy London All Because of You. 99 Creative Logo Designs for Inspiration. Achieving a well designed logo requires really hard work and being up to date with the latest trends in design.
It's probably the best way of establishing brand identity, making an impact on customers and ensuring that they'll remember your site and come back for a second visit. Most logos communicate ideas, for instance the kind of quality services a company can provide for its customers. Today we've gathered 99 creative logo designs for your inspiration, hope you find them useful. Take a moment and let us know which are your favorites in the comments below. Stylectrical: An Exhibit Exploring Apple's Evolution Under Jony Ive | Co.Design. When Apple held its public "Celebrating Steve" memorial, it’s no coincidence that the eulogy was delivered by Jonathan Ive. Promoted by Jobs to Senior Vice President of Industrial Design in 1997, Ive oversaw the product design of Apple’s incredibly successful return to power. The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg is running a retrospective exhibition that examines the history of Apple’s industrial design under Ive.
The exhibit is curated from a cultural studies context and is a wide survey that ranges from formal influences to the economic effects of Apple’s iconic products. The big attraction of the exhibition is the museum’s comprehensive collection. They boast that it contains every product produced by Apple under Ive. This includes iconic devices like the iPod, and the Bondi Blue iMac as well as more humble products like the Airport Express or the Apple battery charger. Stylectrical aims to reveal more than just the formal look of industrial design. 11 Great Examples Of How A Logo Is Born. Creating a logo is a hard thing to do because you have to emphasize a whole ideology in just one illustration. You can’t afford to screw it up because the logo will be as important as the company’s name, so that’s why is vital to create something great.
To be effective, a logo must be used consistently whether on stationery, business cards, publications, advertising, clothes, exhibitions, signs or the Internet. Making a logo requires serious brainstorming, hours of sketching and dozens of retries. In this article you can see a few great examples of how great artists are working on a logo. Kaviart Final design Houdini Project Moon Xoko Watermark Final design Final design Grooveshark Talk To Vero David Pache Ecometrica. What to Do When Someone Steals Your Work.
How do you feel when someone steals your ideas? At some point in your freelance career, you may find yourself successful at what you do. Chances are, if you're reading this, that you have or that you're on your way. Unfortunately, one common indicator of success is the proportion of individuals who attempt to copy, borrow or steal original content from you. Realistically, this has likely already happened to you at some point in the past without your knowledge. I've been frustrated by this numerous times. You'd think that this would get easier with time. How to Prepare At a minimum, make sure to include the following phrase at the bottom of your creations, substituting Your Legal Name with your name and the year with the first year that your content was copyrighted in: Copyright 2009 Your Legal Name.
Making it Legal If you simply leave things as is, you're technically using what some people refer to as a "poor man's copyright". The Psychology of Influence How to Stay Vigilant How to Respond. Nike Better World. Why Infographics Matter [Video] | Co. Design. Photoshop vs Fireworks in Web Design - The Last Battle. Most people try to compare Fireworks and Photoshop in the field of web design. Everybody knows that a lot of things you can do in Fireworks, can also be made in Photoshop. This is a fact but is not demonstrating that Photoshop was built for making screen layouts. It was built for image editing, image manipulation. In fact, it’s the best image editing software available on the market, since 2003, when it first appeared. Photoshop can’t create pixel-precise layouts for web design and can’t make quick changes to screen layouts. Too many web designers tend to use it in this way because they know the program very well and they forget that Fireworks was designed from scratch for this specific purpose.
Fireworks is at the core of the design process and the following video will demonstrate some of the most important features . This tutorial was made by Andre Reinegger on Vimeo. It will be very interesting to discuss about what people tend to use and why. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Let “The Fight” Begin ! 15 Top Resources For Learning Photoshop Online. 45+ Free Lessons In Graphic Design Theory. Open Source CartoSet Makes Beautiful Maps Fast & Easy. Don’t Do TOO Good Of A Job! Adobe's Muse Lets Designers Make Websites Without Knowing Code | Co. Design. Periodic Table of Typefaces. Beautiful Catalog Design Ideas to Spark Creativity. Make Grids Quickly in InDesign. Understand the Psychology of Design. ChangeOrder: How to Conduct Post-Mortem Project Evaluations. These Brands Allow Users To Design Them. How'd They Pull It Off? | Co. Design. An Ex-Pixar Designer Creates Astounding Kids' Book On iPad | Co.Design.
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