Designer’s Bright, Striking CV, Portfolio Present His Life & Work Beautifully. Business Card Design: 50 Awesome Examples to Inspire You. Pokemon as corporate brands - Reimagining Pokemon as Company Logos - Pictogram: A San Francisco Design Shop. The All NewFoursquare - MRDAVENPORT's Portfolio. Branding ・ Visual Design ・ Iconography January - March 2014 The all new Foursquare is the best app for local search and discovery.
By learning what you like, Foursquare recommends nearby places you'll love and offers insider tips when you get there. Art Direction: Red Antler Collaboration with: Mike McVicar UI Design Lead: Sam Brown Read more on the process: 10 Graphic Design Hacks that'll Make You a PRO Designer Overnight! 2.4K Shares Facebook 1K Twitter 370 LinkedIn 720 inShare720 Google+ 247 Pin It Share 34 2.4K Shares ×
5 Ways to Use Shapes Creatively in Your Designs. Shapes are a versatile tool in your Canva tool kit.
Think outside the box and use shapes creatively in your designs. 7 Design Details Only Graphic Designers Can See. Articles November 19, 2014 There are things that are not visible to the naked eye like tiny particles and organisms that require special apparatus to be seen.
But there are also details that aren’t exactly tiny but are oftentimes overlooked because to others, they are unnecessary. In graphic design, attention to detail is very important. This is the most beautiful owner's manual you've ever seen. When you invest seven figures in securing one of the most exotic, exclusive vehicles ever made, perhaps you just expect that the owner's manual is going to be a work of art.
I don't know, I've never been in that position. Every owner's manual I've ever had has ended up stuffed in a glovebox, pages greasy, creased, and torn. With the McLaren F1, mishandling the owner's manual would be a crime — doubly so after you hear the amount of thought and effort that went into it. Mark Roberts, the man who hand-sketched the artwork for the manual leading up to the supercar's release over 20 years ago, describes the process in a video released by McLaren this week. Advanced Hair Selection Using Channels in Photoshop. Tutorials October 13, 2014 Masking out images with complex edges from their background in Photoshop can be daunting for some designers and Photoshop users — especially working on images with very detailed edges and textures that even Photoshop’s pen tool, at its finest, can’t handle.
Good thing Photoshop never ran out of ways to make things easier for us. In this short tutorial, I will show you an old but reliable method of masking out complex images using Photoshop’s channels. Learn the Basics of Color Theory to Know What Looks Good. New Logo and Identity for Airbnb by DesignStudio. Launched in 2008 by two RISD graduates, Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky, Airbnb (originally AirBed & Breakfast) is an online marketplace for people to list their property (owned or rented) for short- and long-term accommodations for other people to book.
Offerings range from a tiny bedroom in someone’s home or apartment to a remote villa to a full castle (of which there are more than 600 listings) and prices range from $10 to $1,000. In six years, Airbnb users have hosted over 15 million cumulative guests through more than 800,000 listings across 34,000 cities in 190 countries and has disrupted both the hospitality industry and all kinds of property laws where it’s unclear what’s rentable and what’s not. Design Inspiration & Tutorials. Visual News - The Cure For Eyeball Boredom. Design a stunning letterhead: 10 expert tips. There’s a huge difference between receiving a letter on standard blank paper, and getting one that sports a beautifully designed letterhead.
A letterhead acts as a marketing opportunity, provides the opportunity for brand engagement and, apart from anything else, lend credibility to the words on the page. Designing an effective letterhead is a unique challenge. Sometimes your letterhead design will be the first interaction a customer has had with a particular company, while other times it will be used to reinforce the brand identity. It’s crucial to get the details right, but to also produce something that’s tactile, eye-catching, and memorable. Here we’ve gathered together 10 useful tips to help you get the most out of your letterhead design, by considering the important aspects of what makes a successful letterhead. 01.
One of the most important principles behind designing effective letterheads is to keep the design as simple as possible. 02. How to Create Better App Icons, 6 Tips from Apple. This is a guest post by Martin LeBlanc Elgtved, the founder of IconFinder , a search engine for icons. You can follow him on twitter here Shortly after the WWDC event in San Francisco in June, a plethora of iOS7 resources became available on the web. Throughout the hundreds of sessions, speakers and keynotes, Apple unveiled its new iOS 7 to thousands of delegates lucky enough to be there.
Design Freebies For Creatives: March 2014. Great Tutorial: '10 Things Beginners Want to Know How To Do' in Photoshop CC. It’s likely one of the reasons Adobe decided to shift to a subscription model was so that they could bring in more beginners and amateurs that had never had affordable access to the software.
For them, justifying a several hundred-dollar purchase wasn’t always feasible, but $10 per month through Adobe’s perpetually-extended Photoshop Photography Program is more than reasonable, and so we’d bet there are more beginners on Photoshop CC than ever before. Now the hard part… actually using the software. Super helpful Photoshop CC beginner tutorial to the rescue! As Spiderman was told, “with great power comes great responsibility.”
Freebie Release: 10 Business Card Templates (PSD) Until the business card finds a better, faster, more convenient replacement, it serves as the most secure connection one can make with another in the offline world of business.
By putting all your contact and business information into one handy 3.5 by 2 inch piece of paper, this is the best reminder you can leave with your potential and existing clients. There are plenty of things one must look into when designing a business card, but if budget is a big constraint for your business or the new startup you are working on, these 10 business card templates may be the break you need. Created by Meng Loong of Free-Business-Card-Templates.com, these exclusive business card templates are available in PSD format for hongkiat.com readers to download and use.
20 Exceptional Websites for Learning Adobe Illustrator. Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard when it comes to scalable vector artwork. As a designer, Illustrator is the right tool for graphics that need to be scaled. A prime example are logos which often need to be adapted for small mediums such as business cards, larger mediums like billboard signs, and converted to grayscale or black and white for mediums such as newspapers. In this collection, you’ll find 20 excellent websites and blogs that provide high-quality tutorials and information on vector illustration and Adobe Illustrator.
10 data visualization inspirations for mobile and app. Data visualization is getting more popular as a means for users to understand information. As mobile usage increases, knowing how to do data visualization on the app or mobile becomes more important. However, due to the smaller screen size, it takes a bit of creativity work to design a useful and easy to interpret data visualization for the phone. Fortunately, some designers have done it and we can all learn from their experiences and knowledge. Here are some of the more interesting concepts which I have stumbled upon, presented here to help you draw inspirations and references.
Where the best designers go to find photos and graphics. This is my collection of the best websites to find free photos, icons and patterns. If you’d like to suggest a resource, send me an email. Photo Blogs Quality over quantity. Usually a photo blog is one photographer releasing photos as they shoot them. Generally these blogs have around 300 high-quality photos. 11 Nuggets Of Advice For Design Students, Direct From The Pros. It had been a good dozen years since Frank Philippin and Billy Kiosoglou graduated from Camberwell College of the Arts. Startup Design Framework: Presentation Sources - Designmodo Journal. Hey guys! As you know, Startup Framework was finally released on Monday and we are glad that the release phase was a success. 31 Most Wanted Web Design Freebies of 2013. “Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions: there is no single definition.
12 of the Best Photoshop Tutorials Created in September. It’s now December, so its time for Evolutionary Designs’ monthly Photoshop Tutorial collection. the last few months have been crazy busy so some of our regular articles were not posted on time. One of our regular articles is the monthly Photoshop tutorial collection and I hope to get us caught up soon. With that being said, I hope to post four months worth of Photoshop tutorial collections to help catch us up.
As with previous collections, we look for only the best Photoshop tutorials created each month. Get Your Inspiration For Creating Your Brand's Identity - 20 Gorgeous Logos. We see logos everywhere we look and they all are trying to make us consider using the products that they represent. 50 Inspiring Examples of Flat User Interfaces.
A Guide to Make Money as a Graphic Designer. If you’re interested in designing field or a good designer, this post would guide you to make money as a graphic designer. I am wondering with the internet technology advancements, because it has some remarkable places to show our variety of skills and we could earn money with it. Yes, here I am gonna discuss about the graphic designing jobs through this post. Gestalt Principles: How Are Your Designs Perceived? 30 Clever Logos With Hidden Messages. If you are a designer or just an average Joe, you’ve seen hundreds of logos in your lifetime. Graphic Design. Hand Picked Web Design and Development News.
Designs Gallery and Inspiration. FreelanceSwitch. Graphic Design Blog – An Ultimate Resource for Graphic Designers. Graphic Design, Free Fonts, Vector Graphics, Business Cards, Logo Design, Icons, Tutorials, jQuery Plugins, Wallpapers, Photography. Onextrapixel - Web Design and Development Online Magazine.
Design Instruct. Creativeoverflow - Design Blog for Anything Creative. Your daily dose of design tips and inspiration. Abduzeedo Design Inspiration. VideoScribe - What's your story? Fantastic logos with a hidden meaning. Studio Output illuminates BBC's Glastonbury identity. Tue, 25 Jun 2013 | By Emily Gosling. Inspiration, Technique, Great Design. Awesome Infographics Inspiration, Creative Examples. Understanding the Use of Color in Design. Anatomy of a Logo: Star Wars. National Geographic Rebranding Project by Justin Marimon. Digital image file types.
Business Stationery Designs for Akamai. What a Designer need to ask from Client to Start a good logo? 14 Rules for Designing a best Logo (for beginners) Illustrated QR Codes by 'Am I Collective' Studio. 25 Examples of Creative Graphic Design Resumes. Gurafiku: Japanese Graphic Design. Information is beautiful. Iconmonstr. NounProject. 50 Striking Vintage and Retro Logo Designs. Stanley Chow Soccer Prints — Products. Outstanding Illustrations by UK Artist Petros Afshar. Viktor hertz - official website & portfolio. Pictogram music posters by Viktor Hertz. 83 Crazy/Beautiful Letterhead and Logo Designs. Minimal Disney Posters by Rowan Stocks-Moore. Creative pop-ups by Jenny Chen. Eye Candy, Literally. Gestalten TV. Fully Illustrated - The Portfolio of Michael Heald.
Learn the Basics of Photoshop: The Complete Guide. 45 Epic Blender Tutorials. Behance Network. Graphic Design Blog, Tips and Jobs. Great Resume Designs that Catch Attention–and Got People Hired. Give Your Resume an Edge by Making It More Modern. Freelance Graphic Design Inspiration and Design Gallery.