36 Beautiful Color Palettes For Your Next Design Project
Looking for color palettes for your next design project? Whether it’s UI, branding, or web design, the right combination of shades can set the tone and make your work stand out. Color Hex is a great tool with nearly 40,000 ready-made palettes you can explore, copy hex codes from, and even download as PNGs for quick use. We’ve handpicked some of the most … View Post ▸
This Animated Video Brilliantly Explains How To Choose The Right Colors For Your Designs
Choosing the right color palette is essential to the success of any design project. But how do we know which colors look good together and which ones don't? How do the pros do it? The answer is color theory. Artists and designers have used color theory for centuries, but anyone can learn more about it. … View Post ▸
These Clients Wanted To Pay Artists With “Exposure” Instead Of Money
At some point or the other, every artist comes across a douchebag client who expects them to work for free. These requests usually come with promises of "exposure" or future collaborations. Rookie designers with little or no skill fall prey to them and ruin it for the rest of us. … View Post ▸
The Homepages Of America’s Fastest Growing Companies Have These Elements In Common
“You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” – Will Rogers. The homepage of your website is a user/customer’s first impression of your company. You have 0-8 seconds to engage a user, after which the majority of them leave. A one-second delay in your site speed can result in a 7% reduction in conversions. The key ingredients of an effective … View Post ▸
These Brilliant Recipe Posters By IKEA Make Cooking Easier And Fun
When it comes to cooking, most people are hesitant to try new foods and recipes. IKEA Canada wanted to show people that getting creative in the kitchen can be deliciously simple. To inspire them, IKEA created The IKEA Easy Recipe Series - fill in the blank recipes printed with food safe ink on cooking parchment paper. … View Post ▸
25 Beautiful Free Fonts For Your Next Design Project
Fonts are to designers what shoes are to women. They can never have enough of them. And what's better than a beautiful font? A beautiful font that's available for FREE. We've compiled a list of 25 stylish and contemporary fonts that designers will love to get their hands on. Check them out below. … View Post ▸
8 Types Of Graphic Designers On Social Media, Which One Are You?
Do you critique Facebook’s UI every time they change it? Do you unfriend people who use Comic Sans? Or are you the ‘Hashtag Bomber’ who drops 20 design-related hashtags with every status update? Design resource site Pixelo has come up with a fun series of illustrations that list the different types of graphic designers on social media. Check them out below … View Post ▸
45 Clever Alphabet Logos With Hidden Meanings
Last week, we featured 50 monogram logos that merged two or more alphabets to form one unique symbol. In today's post, we focus on logos that use just one alphabet and typographical creativity to form a distinctive brand identity. Single-letter logos are trickier to execute than monogram logos because you just have one letter to play with. But the … View Post ▸
Beautiful Logos Of Animals In Charging Positions
Bodea Daniel is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator based in Timișoara, Romania. A travel buff by nature, his love for beer is second only to his love for design. Bodea is also one of the most popular designers on Behance, with over 342,178 project views and 9,506 followers. One of our favourite projects from his portfolio is a series of animal … View Post ▸
How To Stay Creative, Even When You’re Not In The Mood
Every artist faces creative block at some point or the other. In this short video, filmmaker and photographer Sean Tucker discusses how he deals with the three major resistances to his creative work - perfectionism, rationalization, and fear. Watch below. … View Post ▸
7 Hidden Tricks That Could Change The Way You Use Photoshop
Did you know that the 'Recent Files' menu in Photoshop can show more than (the default) 10 files? You can change this number in Preferences > File Handling. Here's another tip: The tiny star (*) at the end of a document tab indicates that you have unsaved changes in that file. The forward arrow (▸) in the status bar at the bottom of every document provides a … View Post ▸
Two Venezuelan VFX Artists Are Making Jaws Drop With Their Special Effects Videos
Alejandro Benzaquen and Kevin Lustgarten take everyday life situations and give them unexpected twists using visual effects. The duo, known as 2Venezolanos, use post production and VFX compositing to create crazy videos that'll make your jaw drop. Watch below. … View Post ▸
31 Brilliant User Interface Animations
Animated interface elements don't just attract attention, they enhance user experience and help guide user flow. They reveal the functionality and process of a user interface much better than static text. Like any other element of good design, UI animations should have a purpose without being too noticeable. They should be functional above everything … View Post ▸
30 Brilliant Logos That Turn Simple Letters Into Hidden Genius
Letterforms have always played a central role in logo design. At the most basic level, they’re just there to represent a name, an initial, an identity. Simple enough. But in the hands of a skilled designer, letters can be shaped, extended, and reworked to carry meaning, turning something functional into something more expressive. Monograms: A lot of this … View Post ▸
Funny Ads For Digestive Pills Show Food Items As Characters In Troublesome Situations
Agency Dhélet Y&R in Buenos Aires has come up with a cracker of a campaign for Hepachofa Digestive Pills. The 3-ad series imagines food items as characters inside the stomach, that are about to face a troublesome (or should we say gut-wrenching) situation. For example, the first ad shows a 'pizza husband' coming back home from a long day at work, and his … View Post ▸
25 Funny Illustrations That Designers And Agencies Will Relate To
The Instagram artist known as Cauliflower Time undertook a 100-day project where she illustrated funny problems that designers and creatives face on a daily basis. Titled 100 Days of Pencils, the series is an accurate representation of agency life and the bowel-numbing experiences that come with it. The artist uses a pencil as the primary product of her … View Post ▸
Artist Shares His Everyday Life With Wife Using Comic Illustrations
Picture this: It’s a cold winter night. You’re snuggled up in your quilt with the TV remote in one hand and a tub of popcorn in the other. Life couldn’t be better. Suddenly, out of nowhere, your wife presses her ice-cold feet against the warmest part of your body and you scream like a banshee, much to her sadistic delight. Situations like these, and more, … View Post ▸
You Can Get Sued For Using These 8 Colors In Your Designs
Companies can trademark colors, granting them exclusive use in their industry. For example, Mattel's Barbie Pink (Pantone 219 C) is trademarked in over 100 categories. Tiffany & Co.'s blue color has been trademarked since 1998. Its custom Pantone number, 1837, is the year the company was founded. … View Post ▸
11 Famous Logos That Look Ridiculously Similar
In the competitive world of logo design, where distinctiveness is key, noticeable similarities between logos often ignite discussions about the line between inspiration and outright imitation. As brands compete to differentiate themselves in a bustling market, their logos occasionally reveal surprising resemblances or secretive connections. Such instances … View Post ▸
35 Creative Invoices Designed To Leave A Good Impression On Clients
A good last impression is as important as the first one. In the design/creative business, every single item of stationery you present to a client speaks volumes about your capabilities and attention to detail. Most designers, agencies and studios put a lot of thought into designing creative business cards, letterheads and envelopes. But when it comes to … View Post ▸
41 Minimal Logos With Hidden Meanings
There’s something deeply satisfying about a logo that’s both simple and smart. As designers, we know how deceptively hard that is to pull off. You try to reduce, refine, remove, and somewhere along the way, the soul of the idea can slip through the cracks. But when it works? When a minimal logo manages to be clean, memorable, and packed with meaning? That’s … View Post ▸
A Day In The Life Of A Designer
What does a day in the life of a designer look like? YouTube channel The Futur has released a short video that takes you through 24 hours in the life of Matthew Encina, creative director at Santa Monica-based design consultancy Blind. You get an un-romanticized look at the everyday hustle of a designer/creative director, the routines, the challenges, the … View Post ▸
Gorgeous Animations Of Hand-Lettered Logos Where Every Frame Is Hand-Drawn
Mantas Grauzinis is a freelance illustrator and animator based in Vilnius, Lithuania. He loves good stories and "splashy, smoother than butter movements". His passion for the latter can be observed in a series of slick animations of hand-lettered logos created by him, that are extremely satisfying to watch. … View Post ▸
The Winners Of The A’ Design Awards Have Been Announced And They’re Brilliant
The A’ Design Award & Competition have announced their list of winners for 2016-2017 and most of them are pretty damn cool. The categories included packaging, furniture, architecture, interiors, apparel and more. We've shortlisted some of our favourites below. … View Post ▸
A Useful Guide To Different Font Formats That Every Designer Should Know
There are many choices of font formats but not a single one works across all browsers. You will have to use multiple font formats to deliver a consistent experience. These include TrueType Font (TTF), OpenType (OTF), Embedded OpenType (EOT), Web Open Font Format (WOFF) and Scalable Vector Graphics font (SVG). … View Post ▸
Visual Effects Artist Creates Epic Video To Sell His Old Car, And Now Everyone Wants To Buy It
Eugene Romanovsky is Creative Director and VFX Supervisor at Tel Aviv-based agency Gravity. After owning a Suzuki Vitara '96 for ten years, he was looking to sell it and hopefully strike a good deal. But unlike regular people, Eugene didn't want to simply place an ad in the local classifieds. Instead, he chose to use his VFX skills to create the most epic … View Post ▸
This Guy Sucked At Photoshop, He Spent 10 Years Mastering Microsoft Paint To Illustrate His Book
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way." - Edward de Bono Boston-based artist Patrick Hanes has worked exclusively in Microsoft Paint for over 10 years. By his own admission, he "sucks at Photoshop and other programs". He honed his craft in MS Paint working long overnights at a hospital … View Post ▸
Beautiful, Colorful Animal Logos Based On Circular Geometry
California-based designer Anuja Kanani has come up with a series of colorful animal logos using circle geometry. Being an animal lover, she wanted to undertake this design experiment to highlight their elegant structure and form. For each logo, Anuja initially sketched a basic structure guided by circles. She then defined the animal using just line forms. … View Post ▸
Dad Photoshops His Baby Into Dangerous Situations To Freak Out Relatives
Dublin-based designer and dad Stephen Crowley decided to use his Photoshop skills to have some fun with his family and relatives. He photoshopped his 18-month-old daughter Hannah into situations that would give anyone a heart attack - like driving a car, holding a kitchen knife, climbing a ladder alone, etc. The images went viral online when Stephen shared … View Post ▸
These Brilliant Ads Use Optical Illusions To Promote Pet Adoption
McCann Worldgroup, Mumbai, has come up with an ingenious print campaign for World For All animal welfare organization in Mumbai. The three ad series features portraits of a family, a couple and a pair of kids. Using clever framing and lighting techniques, the photographs also reveal the silhouettes of a dog, a cat and a rabbit in the negative space … View Post ▸
Google AutoDraw Turns Your Rough Scribbles Into Beautiful Icons For Free
Google's latest A.I. experiment is a web-based drawing tool called AutoDraw that converts your rough scribbles and doodles into beautiful, symmetrical icons/clipart that you can download for free. It works on your phone, computer or tablet and uses artificial intelligence to guess and suggest a more polished icon or symbol to replace your drawing. … View Post ▸
‘Draw This Again’ Challenge Proves That Practice Makes Perfect
DeviantArt users conducted a ‘Draw This Again’ meme challenge wherein they invited artists to re-draw their old artwork and present them side-by-side for comparison. The objective was to showcase the artist’s dramatic progress over the years and highlight the fact that drawing skills can be improved considerably with practice. Here are some of the best … View Post ▸
This Clever Pen Tool Technique Shows You How To Place Anchor Points And Curves In Illustrator
The Pen Tool is one of the most powerful tools in Adobe Illustrator and also the hardest to master. You don't always know where the anchor points have to go and where the bezier handles are supposed to be directed. Too many anchor points result in choppy curves and can also cause printing errors. The bezier handles need to be in the right direction and at … View Post ▸
Smooth, Clean Animations Of Beautiful Hand-Lettered Logos For Design Inspiration
Russian designers Starov Evgeniy (lettering artist) and Alexey Dubnichenko (motion designer) have come up with a series of impressive animations of commercial lettering work they've created over the last year. The objective of this collection is to show lettering logos in a new perspective. … View Post ▸
Photographer Creates Epic Outdoor Scenes Using Miniature Models And Landscapes
Vatsal Kataria is a New Delhi-based commercial photographer and creative director. He loves doing conceptual photoshoots and his forte lies in miniature photography. His photos look like they've been shot at exotic locations on a high budget, but they're actually small scale models and landscapes made to look like the real thing. … View Post ▸
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