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Vibrant Illustrations Celebrate the Magic of Everyday Life Whether they're set in nature or in a dizzying urban environment, artist Pascal Campion's illustrations add a sense of joy to living life. The San-Francisco-based illustrator turns a walk at night in the rain into a spectacular experience vibrating with energy and a magical zest for life. It doesn't matter what time of day or year, there's always a reason to smile. Each drawing in Campion's growing collection features its own captivating narrative. Pascal Campion website via [iheartmyart]
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10 Color Tips from Graphic Designers - CreativePro.com by Kelly Kordes Anton InDesign power users spend a lot of time discussing how to make colors that reproduce accurately and consistently. But before you create a color, you need to know what color to create in the first place. Unless you’re confined to black and white or your clients’ brand colors, you need to create color palettes for new clients and projects. “When it comes to color, many designers—and especially clients—view its application as a purely decorative process without any thought given to what they’re trying to communicate, how the use of color relates to their product or service, or how it will affect their target audience,” says Hugh Enockson of Enockson Design. Think about your own process—are you a decorator or a communicator with your color? 1. When you start off with a new client or kick off a new project, first find out what colors the client likes and has in mind, recommends Eric Shropshire of Creative Quadrant. 2. 3. 4. 5. Red: Exciting, passionate, dangerous 6.
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50 Beautifully Illustrated Graphics With Tips To Make You A Better Designer “Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.” Tate Linden Designers illustrate stories for their audience with the application of type, color, images and other graphic features. Like a writer when telling a story, there are specific tips and techniques that designers use to ensure the tone is correct and the messages are being brought to life. Often it’s just a matter of adjusting the size of our text, or darkening the background image image so that your message is easier to read. But sometimes a small but significant alteration; like breaking up the lines of text into a rhythmic pattern, can dramatically improve how your graphic visually communicates with your audience. Here we offer 50 unique tips to help your visual story to be told with…. 01. By tightening the line height, the type is contained compositionally in a block. 02. Use scale and application of fonts to put emphasis on specific words. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
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Their / They're / There Announce New Ep 'Analog Weekend' Out December 10th 2013 Their / They're / There is the brainchild of Evan Weiss (Into It. Over it.), Mike Kinsella (Owen, Owls, Cap'n Jazz, American Football), and Matthew Frank (Loose Lips Sink Ships). Analog Weekend, the band's second EP, was recorded directly to tape at Ed Rose's Black Lodge Recording over a single weekend and features piano by James Dewees (The Get Up Kids, Reggie and the Full Effect, Coalesce). Tour DatesDec 15 - Chicago, IL (EP Release Show) @ Schuba's *Dec 18 - Boston, MA @ Great Scott *Dec 19 - Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory ^Dec 20 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church ^Dec 21 - Hamden, CT @ The Space ^* w/ Mansions^ w/ Mansions, Birthmark 'Analog Weekend' EP Tracklisting01. Photo Credit: Ryan Russell