Test Your Font - Free Downloadable Fonts. Hand-Selected! 10 Awesome Infographics for Graphic Designers As a graphic designer, you’ve probably designed at least a few infographics for your clients – or even for fun. You can create (and sell) infographics for any topic or industry, which means infographics can be a lucrative source of income. Some designers make a full-time living designing infographics alone. And while infographics always require the talents of a graphic designer, how many infographics have you seen that feature graphic designers? 1. Learn what different colors represent and what emotions they stir, and when and how to use them in your own designs. 2. This infographic serves as a quick reference for the basic elements of design, complete with tips for how and why each should be considered when creating any design. 3. A humorous look at the daily life of a graphic designer – super deadlines, tons of work, frantic environment and (hopefully) good pay. 4. Want to be a better, more successful, more inspired graphic designer? 5. 6. 7. How much do other graphic designers make?
Administra tus fuentes de manera simple | Diego Mattei Blog Hace unos días atrás recomendaba un programa para visualizar fuentes debido a la cantidad de consultas sobre como instalarlas en el sistema. Ya en comentarios había explicado que no conviene instalar todas las fuentes que descargamos en nuestro sistema, ya que esto ocasiona una carga lenta en todos los programas. Por qué? Cual es la solución entonces. De estos programas hay muchos, pero hoy les voy a hablar del que utilizo y que me resulta sumamente útil. Explicaré cuatro puntos básicos del programa que creo es mas que suficiente para trabajar con él. 1º. 2º. 3º. 4º. Como ven, el sistema es muy sencillo y de extrema utilidad, ayudándonos en la selección de la mejor tipografía para nuestro trabajo y evitar cargar la PC de fuentes que no nos serán necesarias. Descarga | The Font Thing (1.10 Mb) Enlace | Sue Fisher – The Font Thing Artículos Relacionados
Japanese graphic design from the 1920s-30s In the 1920s and 1930s, Japan embraced new forms of graphic design as waves of social change swept across the nation. This collection of 50 posters, magazine covers and advertisements offer a glimpse at some of the prevailing tendencies in a society transformed by the growth of modern industry and technology, the popularity of Western art and culture, and the emergence of leftist political thought. "Buy Domestic!" poster, 1930 [+] Cover of "Nippon" magazine issue #1, Oct 1934 [+] "Fuji Weekly" cover, Oct 1930 [+] Poster for Japan's first national census, 1920 [+] // "Health for body and country" poster, c. 1930 [+] Grand Nagoya Festival poster by Kenkichi Sugimoto, 1933 [+] Kyoto Grand Exposition to Commemorate the Showa Imperial Coronation, 1928 [+] Poster design by Shujiro Shimomura, 1928 [+] "NAPF" (Nippona Artista Proleta Federacio) magazine cover, Feb 1931 [+] "NAPF" (Nippona Artista Proleta Federacio) magazine covers: Sep 1931 // Oct 1931 "May 1" movie poster by Hiromu Hara, 1928-1929 [+]
Letritas Design Local gas companies occasionally add a touch of character to the giant spherical gas containers that dot the landscape of Japan. Here are a few examples. Nicotan (mascot of Shibata Gas) -- Shibata, Niigata prefecture [via] Watermelon -- Tomisato, Chiba prefecture [via] Hikari-chan and Gatto-kun -- Niigata [via] Zen monk-poet Ryōkan -- Tsubame, Niigata prefecture [via] Soccer ball -- Kiryū, Gunma prefecture [via] Tokkikki (Niigata prefectural mascots) -- Niigata [via] Ōnyūdō -- Yokkaichi, Mie prefecture Peach -- Akaiwa, Okayama prefecture [via] Ouchi dolls -- Yamaguchi prefecture [via] Welcome to Isesaki -- Gunma prefecture [via] "Taisha" wheeled fish toy -- Niigata [via] Morioka Gas character dancing the Sansa Odori -- Morioka, Iwate prefecture [via] Bunbuku Chagama tanuki -- Gunma prefecture [via] // Origami cranes -- Mie prefecture [via] Japanese irises -- Niigata [via] Watermelon -- Takizawa, Iwate prefecture [via] Godai-chan (tourism mascot for the city of Kashihara) -- Nara prefecture [via]
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Cynicism Humorously Illustrated by Eduardo Salles Eduardo Salles (Mexico City, 1987) is advertiser, designer, illustrator, writer and professor at the Miami Ad School. And a professional procrastinator!, he says. Ex Creative Director of Nike, Kit Kat and Red Cross Mexico.