Illustration

Data Visualizations, Challenges, Community. Christian Schloe. How to Create an Andy Warhol Inspired Pop Art Portrait in Illustrator. Andy Warhol's screen print series of Marilyn Monroe portraits were probably the main reason I was interested in creating vector art.

Craft a Vector Collegiate Notebook Design. A few times a each month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Vectortuts+.

This tutorial by Jonathan was first published on January 20th 2009. Learn to create how to create a vector collegiate notebook design, which consists of a realistic vector notebook and accessories. It's also the perfect base for creating a cool website header theme! Advanced knowledge of Adobe Illustrator is required to complete this tutorial.

Let's get started! Final Image Preview Below is the final design we will be working towards. Step 1 Use the Rounded Rectangle Tool to draw the basic notebook shape. Step 2 Apply a complex gradient. Step 3 Duplicate the notebook and trim it in half using the Pathfinder. Step 4 Duplicate the left page and place it on top of itself. Step 5 Using the Pen Tool (P) to draw a page curl shape. How Not To Make An Infographic. Five Manifestos for the Creative Life. By Kirstin Butler How a numbered list can start a personal revolution.

Some days everyone needs a little extra encouragement. The words or lines or colors don’t want to come, or worse, we don’t even want to sit down to create. That’s when we turn to these inspiring manifestos, any one of which is guaranteed to give our uncooperative creativity a sharp kick in the pants. Here are five of our favorite contemporary manifestos that nudge ideas out of your head and into the hands of the world. We’ve long been fans of the amazing work of Frederick Terral, the creative visionary behind design studio Right Brain Terrain. 22 Inspirational Creative Resume[CV] Designs. I think it’s about time to redesign my Resume/CV, often this thought runs through our mind.

Then the first thing to do is, to do a little research on latest trends and go through different well designed and creative Resumes/CV’s of the people who you adore. When you go through 10 – 20 different designs what your mind does is, it starts blending all those ideas / colors into something that you can do to refresh your current CV. Not To This does not means that you have to mix the designs and create your own, inspiration is for, to see the possibilities and give your brain some refreshing ideas.

So that is what this post is about, collection of Creative Resume that i have seen in couple of months. Creative Resume Designs Hope It Helps! Author: Tamuir khan I am a Designer and Web Developer at Emrialo, I have been in this industry for over 5 years now. Vintage Visual Language: The Story of Isotype. By Maria Popova The Transformer: Principles of Making Isotype Charts is the first English-language volume to capture the story of Isotype, an essential foundation for our modern visual language dominated by pictograms in everything from bathroom signage to computer interfaces to GOOD’s acclaimed Transparencies.

The real cherry on top is a previously unpublished essay by Marie Neurath, who was very much on par with Otto as Isotype’s co-inventor, written a year before her death in 1986 and telling the story of how she carried on the Isotype legacy after Otto’s death in 1946. Life in Five Seconds: Minimalist Pictogram Summaries of Pop Culture and Historical Events. Donating = loving.

The Lives of 10 Famous Painters, Visualized as Minimalist Infographic Biographies. By Maria Popova Pollock, Dalí, Matisse, Klimt, Picasso, Mondrian, Klee, Boccioni, Kandinsky, and Miro, visually distilled.

For their latest masterpiece, my friend Giorgia Lupi and her team at Accurat — who have previously given us such gems as a timeline of the future based on famous fiction, a visualization of global brain drain, and visual histories of the Nobel Prize and the 100 geniuses of language — have teamed up with illustrator Michela Buttignol to visualize the lives of ten famous painters, using the visual metaphors of painting and the specific stylistic preferences — shapes, colors, proportions — of each artist. From Rapunzel to The Little Red Riding Hood, Beloved Children's Classics as Minimalist Posters.

By Maria Popova Visual hyper-distillation of iconic storytelling.

As a lover of children’s books, especially classic ones with timeless wisdom for grown-ups, and an admirer of minimalist posters that distill complex stories or ideas in clean graphic elements, I am infinitely delighted by these hyper-minimalist takes on beloved children’s classics by designer Christian Jackson. Positively the most delightful children’s classic remix since The Little Red Riding Hood infographic animation. via Quipsologies.

Paris vs. New York: Minimalist Illustrated Parallels of Culture. By Maria Popova For the past two years, graphic designer Vahram Muratyan, a self-described “lover of Paris wandering through New York,” has been chronicling the peculiarities and contradictions of the two cities through “a friendly visual match” of minimalist illustrated parallel portraits.

Today, Muratyan joins the finest blog-turned-books with Paris versus New York: A Tally of Two Cities — an absolutely charming collection of these vibrant visual dichotomies and likenesses. From beverages to beards, hands to houses, Muratyan captures the intricacies of cultural difference in a way that blends the minimalist and playful visual whimsy of Noma Bar’s Guess Who? With the side-by-side parallelism of Mark Laita’s Created Equal to deliver something entirely new and entirely delightful. (You might recall the above from the excellent Visual Storytelling: Inspiring a New Visual Language.)