Why go the extra mile at work when you can go home early and chill? Today's post honours those genius men and women who showed a middle finger to professionalism and didn't budge an inch beyond their scope of work. Check out their masterpieces below. … [Read more...]
10 Awesome Wall Signs For Designers And Agencies
A creative business needs creative signage. Here's a collection of 10 must-have wall signs and posters for designers, studios and creative agencies. To be honest, if you tweak them a bit, they'll work for almost any business. Check them out below. … [Read more...]
10 Awards Every Designer Deserves
Leo's not the only one who deserves an award. Designers battle stiff deadlines, difficult clients, unreasonable bosses and technical snags on a daily basis. To honour these brave souls, Kevin Whipps from Creative Market has compiled a list of awards every designer deserves. Check them out below. … [Read more...]
15 Lies Clients Tell Their Designers
Remember 'Ten Second Tom' from the movie 50 First Dates? The guy had a rare medical condition that made him forget everything he said after ten seconds. That's what most design clients are like. They'll ask you for a design that's fresh and unique and then tell you to blindly copy their competitor's website. … [Read more...]
15 Signs That You’re A Font Addict
Do you spend more time on DaFont than you do with your wife? Is your font library bigger than Kim Kardashian's assets? Do you have an orgasm every time you see a beautifully designed ampersand? … [Read more...]
What Famous Logos Would Look Like If They Used The Products They Represent
What would brand logos look like if they used or consumed the products they represent? Italian industrial product designer Marco Schembri answers the question in this amusing project below. … [Read more...]
These Hilarious Travel Ads Use Calendars To Show What You’re Really Thinking At Work
McCann London has come up with an ingenious print campaign for UK travel agency Ethos Travel. The ads show what appear to be regular work calendars packed with meetings and things to do. If you zoom out or move back, the colored rows and columns form funny phrases that we usually say when we're overloaded with work (like "f*** my life"). The tagline reads "Time to get away." … [Read more...]
25 GIF Memes Only Graphic Designers Will Understand
For graphic designers, every day at work is like a roller coaster ride. There are highs, lows and most of the time we're screaming our lungs out. Gaby Izarra from Creative Market has compiled a hilarious set of situational GIFs that are so relatable, most designers will feel like they've relived their entire professional career in one post. Check them out below. … [Read more...]
Husband Asks Wife To Draw What’s On Her Mind, Gets A Lot More Than He Expected
Remember those 'male brain vs female brain' jokes that show how women think about a gazillion things all the time. Here's an actual incident that proves it. … [Read more...]
Two Comedy Writers Are Creating Brutally Honest Parodies Of Ads We See Every Day
London-based comedy writers Aaron Gillies and James Menzies create hilariously profane parodies of regular advertisements and share them on a Twitter account titled We Fix Your Adverts. Using Photoshop, they replace (or ‘fix’) the original taglines with their own one-liners that are a marketing team's worst nightmare. Check them out below. … [Read more...]
10 Ways To Annoy A Graphic Designer
Are you a design client looking for ways to de-stress? Do you believe people perform best under pressure? Is your designer producing top quality work with too much ease? Here's a handy infographic by UK printing company Print-Print that shows you how to play havoc with your designer's mind and show him/her who's boss. Check it out below. … [Read more...]
“Be Like Bill” Memes For Each Type Of Agency Employee
You must have seen those 'Be Like Bill' memes that took over the internet sometime back. We've created a similar series of memes for agency folks. Check them out below. … [Read more...]
32 Illustrations That Show The Funny Truth About Modern Life
Mexican artist Eduardo Salles has worked as an illustrator, designer, writer, Miami Ad School teacher, chief creative officer and is currently co-founder at Pictoline, a visual news and information broadcast company. Whenever he finds time from his many roles, Eduardo creates illustrations that reveal the realities of modern life, with a tinge of a smart ass-ness. They're … [Read more...]
Restaurant Ad Asks Musicians To Play For Free, Gets The Most Savage Reply
"If you're good at something, never do it for free." - The Joker (The Dark Knight, 2008). A Vancouver restaurant posted an ad on Craigslist looking for part-time musicians who want to "promote their work and sell their CD" (in other words, play for free). A musician came up with the most awesome reply that'll, pardon the pun, strike a chord with every creative out there. … [Read more...]
Funny Coffee Mugs That Show The Daily Life Of Agency Employees
Check out these cool coffee mugs from Toronto agency Zulu Alpha Kilo, that illustrate a day in the life of agency employees in different departments. Originally created to launch their internal café, Zulu received a large number of requests from people wanting to buy their own. So by popular demand, they decided to put them up for sale. … [Read more...]
15 Images That Show Why Letter-Spacing Is Important
Ever wondered why good designers focus so much on kerning, i.e., adjusting the spacing between characters in a piece of text? These 15 epic images show you why letter-spacing is important not just in logos and graphic design, but also in everyday handwriting. … [Read more...]
If Designers Talked Dirty, This Is What They Would Say
Using design terms as sexual innuendos, Florida-based designers Eric Thomas and Joshua Pittman have come up with a series of naughty one-liners titled ‘Designer Dirty Talk’. Most of the phrases are software-related and designers will obviously catch the double meanings in the first go. Some of them are suggestive enough (or should we say racy enough) to be understood by … [Read more...]
10 Funny Door Signs Every Designer Needs To Hang Outside His/Her Office
Ever been in the middle of a eureka moment when a sudden interruption by an annoying colleague screwed everything up? Fear no more. Creative Market has come up with 10 brutally honest door hangers for designers to hang outside their offices/workstations and express their true feelings. Check them out below. … [Read more...]
Tiny Advertising Tales That Sum Up Agency Life In Just 140 Characters
Remember the chaotic environment inside the Stratton Oakmont office in The Wolf of Wall Street? That, multiplied by ten, is what most ad agencies are like. Drawing inspiration from micro-storytellers Terribly Tiny Tales, Mumbai-based agency One September created a series of 'Terribly Tiny Advertising Tales' that give you a glimpse into agency life in 140 characters or … [Read more...]
Skoda’s ‘Bike Stealing Championship’ Is The Funniest Viral Video You’ll See This Year
Bicycle theft is a major problem in Europe, with a bike stolen every five minutes. We Love Cycling, an online magazine by Czech automaker Skoda, wanted to raise awareness and direct cyclists to take necessary measures like buying a good lock, registering their bikes, etc. … [Read more...]
If Doctors Drew Famous Logos, This Is What They Would Look Like
Doctors are known for their illegible handwriting which can only be understood by pharmacists and chemists. Today's post shows how famous brand logos would look if they were scribbled/doodled by doctors. Guess the 13 logos and cross-check with the answers given below. … [Read more...]
30 Comic Strips That Perfectly Describe The Life Of A Designer
Designers are like gladiators, battling ugliness in the client's colosseum. Creative Market depicts the best and worst parts of being a designer with #DesignerProblems, a weekly comic strip written and illustrated by Seth Roberts and Brian Hawes. Check it out below. … [Read more...]
10 Funny Charts That Show The Life Of A Designer
The only thing peaceful in a designer's life is the sound of the morning bird after a long night of creative ideation and execution. In the 4-5 hours of sleep that follow, designers are subconsciously evaluating font options and color changes after picturing the client dressed as the grim reaper playing a violin in the background. … [Read more...]
12 Pics That Show How Designers See Things Differently As Compared To Everyone Else
Contrary to what everyone says, designers are not aliens in disguise. They're more like mutants...X-Men...gifted with a heightened sense of observation, intolerance for ugliness, and an innate fondness for caffeine and alcohol. … [Read more...]
Designers & Agencies: Watch How People In Other Industries React When Asked For Free Work
Coffee shops don't let you taste an entire coffee unless you pay for it. Can you consult multiple lawyers for legal advice and then pay only one? Do architects hand over their designs and blueprints unless you hire them? Then why are designers and agencies required to showcase free speculative work ('spec work') as part of the creative bidding process in new business pitches? … [Read more...]
Scary Client Feedback Designed As Classic Horror Movie Posters
Brand design agency Serious Studio has come up with a series of funny posters for Halloween. Titled 'Creative Horror Stories', the series showcases stupid client comments in the form of classic horror movie posters of the 1920s - 30s. Check them out below. … [Read more...]
22 Funny Handmade Graphs That Show The Reality Of Adulthood
Lending visuals to the phrase "Don't grow up, it's a trap", Instagrammer Chaz Hutton has found a way to depict the perils of adulthood with a series of brutally honest graphs that will make you chuckle. Check them out below. … [Read more...]
Auto Mechanics Recreate Famous Renaissance Paintings In This Hilarious Photo Series By Freddy Fabris
When Chicago-based photographer Freddy Fabris stumbled upon an auto repair shop in the Midwest, he came up with an amusingly bizarre idea. He had always wanted to pay homage to the works of legendary Renaissance artists, but was looking for a conceptual twist. The auto shop triggered his creative juices, and 'The Renaissance Series' was born. Check it out below. … [Read more...]
Kit Kat Lists The Names Of Every Single James Bond Girl And Asks Him A Million-Dollar Question
Spectre, the latest bond film, releases today and Kit Kat has come up with a clever poster that lists every single Bond girl in the franchise's 53-year history and ends with the brand's famous tagline framed as a question for 007. Check it out below. … [Read more...]
10 Things That Make Every Designer Panic
With Halloween around the corner, Creative Market has created a series of funny posters titled 'Designer Fears'. From software bugs to irrational clients, the list covers common phobias that give sleepless nights to every designer. Check them out below. … [Read more...]
30 Honest Logos Of Famous Companies
What Clif Dickens did to advertising slogans, Viktor Hertz has done to popular brand logos. In a hilarious project titled 'Honest Logos', the Swedish designer shows us what famous company logos would look like if they were brutally honest about their product(s). Some are funny, some brash and some brilliant. Check them out below. … [Read more...]
Funny Volkswagen Ads Show How People React Differently To The Same Situation
People have different perspectives and viewpoints to the same situation. Based on this insight, Volkswagen Brazil came up with these clever print ads to promote the 4-zone temperature control on their cars. Click images for higher resolution. … [Read more...]
60 Brilliant Ads With Amazing Art Direction
Even the best advertising idea can get ruined if the art direction is not spot on. The design and execution of any campaign is as important as the idea itself. Good art direction makes the message the hero. It makes the consumer think about the product, the brand, and its benefits. Today's post is a compilation of the finest examples of design, illustration, typography, … [Read more...]
How To Charge Clients For Design Work
It’s important to start a business relationship on the right note. We’ve created a price list for design services that you can share with current and prospective clients. You can change the figures depending on your experience, skills, and patience level. … [Read more...]
LOL: 13 Error Messages Every Designer Hates After A Long Day’s Work
We've all been there. After a long night of editing 50+ layers in Photoshop, at 4 a.m., a three word message pops up on the screen: "Photoshop quit unexpectedly". There are two possible outcomes after this. … [Read more...]
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