Photoshop Project Imagines What Late Celebrities Might Have Looked Like In Old Age
Retirement welfare website Great Senior Living has come up with an intriguing Photoshop project titled "Gone But Not Forgotten" that imagines what late celebrities might have looked like in their golden years. The list includes Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Princess Diana, Malcolm X, Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger, Amelia Earhart, and Selena. GSL asked … View Post ▸
Shit Clients Say – 13 Most Unforgettable Quotes
How many times have you had a client send a list of "final" changes AFTER they've approved the design? What about when they ask you to find an image from Google, or copy someone else's logo, or when they tell you to deliver designs by Monday after briefing on Friday? We all come across unreasonable client demands on a daily basis, but the folks at BeeWits … View Post ▸
Top 10 Web Design Trends For 2019
Previously, we featured the top graphic design and logo design trends for 2019. Today, we focus on emerging trends in web design with the help of this handy infographic by 99designs. The infographic features the top 10 web design trends to look out for in 2019, with relevant examples of each trend. These include black-and-white palettes, serif typography, … View Post ▸
Top Logo Design Trends For 2019
Previously, we featured the top graphic design trends for 2019. Today, we focus on emerging trends in logo design with the help of this handy infographic by 99designs. The infographic features 9 key logo design trends to look out for in 2019, with relevant examples of each trend. These include variable logo design, new age geometry, negative space, … View Post ▸
Japanese Artist Turns Product Packaging Into Amazing Artworks
Japanese artist Haruki transforms packaging of everyday items like Pringles chips, Oreo cookies, Nestle milk, etc. into amazing paper sculptures and artworks. He uses a technique known as kirigami, a variation of origami, which involves cutting and folding paper to create intricate designs. Kirigami is usually associated with traditional Japanese art, but … View Post ▸
The Top 50 Companies Creatives Would Love To Work For
Creative talent network Working Not Working has released its annual survey of the top 50 companies creatives want to work for. This is the fifth edition of the list, which started in 2014. This year's list has been compiled from the answers of 8934 creatives who are part of the Working Not Working community. 2832 companies were named, and the top 50 made … View Post ▸
7 Biggest Graphic Design Trends For 2019
Design trends are an important aspect of marketing for businesses and entrepreneurs. Using the latest design styles, imagery, and typography makes your brand appear contemporary to your customers, market, and competition. For designers and creatives, staying updated with the latest visual trends is even more important because you should be able to provide … View Post ▸
This Is Why You Should Never Hire Cheap Designers To Edit Your Photos
Irene Rudnyk is a professional photographer from Calgary, Canada, who shares photography and Photoshop tutorials on her YouTube channel. Recently, she decided to conduct a little experiment using the popular online marketplace Fiverr that lets you buy and sell services for $5. The objective was to check the value and credibility of cheap freelance … View Post ▸
This Brilliant Free Tool Can Remove The Background From Your Photo In Five Seconds
AI photo filter maker Kaleido has come up with a powerful online tool called Remove.bg that erases the background from any image in five seconds or less, and gives you a transparent PNG of the person/people in the image. It works 100% automatically, you don't have to mark the person or select the background and foreground layers manually. Just upload your … View Post ▸
Legendary Painters ‘Deliver’ Their Paintings In Brilliant Ads For Fine Arts Transport Company
Welti-Furrer is a leading Swiss company for fine art transports. Their experts transport valuable art with the utmost care. To communicate their services to museums, galleries, curators, and art collectors, agency Ruf Lanz (Zurich) came up with a brilliantly art-directed campaign featuring four legendary painters: Salvador Dali, Vincent van Gogh, Andy … View Post ▸
Designer Creates Clever Negative Space Logos That Visualize The Name Of The Company
Lithuania-based graphic designer Leo has come up with a series of clever logos that combine the name or initials of the company into one unique symbol using negative space. The logo in each case visually represents the name of the company. For example, the logo for Secret Chat is a pair of lips with a padlock in the negative space between the lips. The … View Post ▸
Learn In One Minute How To Wrap Text Around Any Image In Photoshop
How do you wrap text around images in Photoshop? Do you manually adjust the length of each line? In this one-minute tutorial, Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda from PiXimperfect shows you a simple technique to wrap text around any object, image, or shape, using a custom path created with the Pen tool. With this technique, you don't have to manually … View Post ▸
Motherboards Look Like Agricultural Fields In Brilliant Ads For Volkswagen’s Tech-Savvy Trucks
Volkswagen Argentina wanted to promote its Amarok V6 4x4 pickup truck to young, tech-savvy agricultural workers who work in crop fields and rely on technology to get the job done. The Amarok has 4x4 capabilities but also comes loaded with technology that these "rural millennials" will appreciate. Agency Geometry Argentina came up with a brilliant print … View Post ▸
Simple, Useful Design Tips For UI/UX Designers
'Sparklin Design Tips' is a series of short, useful UI/UX tips by New Delhi-based digital agency Sparklin, shared every Tuesday on their social media channels. Using before-and-after mockup images, the team at Sparklin explains good UI/UX practices with visual examples, making them easy to understand and comprehend. Whether you're a newbie or a seasoned … View Post ▸
What Logos Of Famous Painters Would Look Like
Brazilian art director Milton Omena has come up with an interesting project that imagines what logos of famous painters from Renaissance, Impressionist, and Modern Art periods would look like. He studied the painting styles and personalities of legendary artists like Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and created a unique symbol for each one … View Post ▸
How to Refresh Your Visual Design Process for the New Year
5 Simple Strategies to Help You Finish the Year Strong, and Get Next Year Off to a Great Start Many creative professionals-- from artists and designers to visual communications and advertising specialists-- chose their career because it’s something they are really passionate about. Unfortunately, no amount of passion will keep you from falling into … View Post ▸
Top Graphic Design Trends For 2019
With each passing year, we see new trends emerging in the world of design and old ones fading out. 2019 is all about finding a sense of order and beauty amidst all the chaos. Complex gradients and abstract geometry will remain prominent across design mediums. Expect to see more implementation of evolved patterns, broken grid layouts, brutalist design, … View Post ▸
2019 Color Trends: The World’s Most Popular Colors
Shutterstock has released its 2019 Color Trends report based on data from billions of image searches on their platform. By collapsing pixel data and hex codes, the team at Shutterstock was able to see what hues their users are downloading most frequently. Using this information they've compiled a visual report of the top three universally popular colors, … View Post ▸
These Hand-Sanitiser Ads Featuring Famous Celebrities Are Hilarious
You never know where people's hands have been, which is why you should always use a hand sanitiser. Based on this insight, Miami Ad School in Rio de Janeiro came up with a hilarious print campaign for Purell Hand Sanitisers that features photos of famous celebrities placed sequentially to get the point across. Check out the campaign below. … View Post ▸
How To Stretch Images With Complex Backgrounds Like Trees And Buildings In Photoshop
When you're designing a website or managing a social media page, sometimes you need a wide format image for your Facebook cover, Instagram post, or website hero image. But what if the image you like has a portrait orientation or isn't as wide as you want? A couple of posts ago, we featured a handy tutorial that showed you how to trick the Content-Aware … View Post ▸
Designer Uses Beautiful Gradients And Abstract Shapes To Describe Meanings Of Words
UK-based graphic designer Evgeniya Righini-Brand has come up with a fascinating project titled “Gradient Studies” in which she uses vibrant gradients and abstract shapes to visually describe the meanings of various words. For example, the visual for the word "flow" is an abstract liquid shape with multiple gradient meshes in blue and white. The visual for … View Post ▸
5 File Sharing Tips To Keep Your Group And Project Organized
Tackling a large project as a group has never been easier with online file sharing communities, but don’t let the convenience derail your organization By Rachel Lombardo Taking on a group project - whether it be for work, school, or a local organization you are part of - can be one of the more rewarding tasks you will work on. You’ll have the … View Post ▸
Adobe ‘Good Bones’ Lets You Change Vector Shapes Easily By Adding A Skeleton Structure
When you create artwork in Adobe Illustrator, the underlying geometry of the vector graphics can be quite complex. If you need to change the appearance of your vector figure, you'll need to edit each anchor point individually, which can be quite a task. For example, if you want to open the mouth of a vector dinosaur that you've created, you'll need to tweak … View Post ▸
15 Brilliant Art Tributes To The MARVELous Stan Lee
Stan Lee, the legendary writer, editor and publisher of Marvel Comics, passed away on November 12, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. He was 95. In collaboration with artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, Lee co-created iconic superhero characters like Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, and Daredevil. He also … View Post ▸
Adobe ‘Fast Mask’ Lets You Quickly Select And Mask Any Moving Object In A Video
In After Effects, if you want to add text or an effect behind an object in a video, you can use the Roto Brush to select the object, and then apply a mask. However, the current Roto Brush is not a very intuitive tool and in most cases the mask breaks after the first frame, specially if the object is fast-moving (like a dancer or a person running). You can … View Post ▸
8 Biggest Graphic Design Trends That Could Dominate 2019
2018 was all about big, bright, and bold graphic design. Brands vied for attention with the use of vibrant colors and powerful typography. These trends will continue to dominate in 2019, with more and more brands implementing vivid colors, complex gradients, duotones, bold fonts, and geometric shapes in their designs. Expect to see more vibrant hues, … View Post ▸
Top 20 New Features In Photoshop CC 2019
Adobe has released the newest version of Photoshop CC (version 20.0) that comes with exciting new features for designers, photographers, and illustrators. The new Frame Tool lets you easily mask images into placeholders. There's a new Content-Aware Fill workspace that provides you an interactive editing experience with plenty of customizations. There's a … View Post ▸
Short, Useful Animations To Help You Create Icons Easily In Adobe Illustrator
Melbourne-based designer and entrepreneur Marc Edwards has come up with a series of speedrun videos that show you simple techniques to create vector icons in Adobe Illustrator. Each video lasts only a few seconds and takes you through an optimal (and sometimes surprising) method to create common UI icons like bluetooth, headphones, inbox, settings, … View Post ▸
Adobe ‘Moving Stills’ Turns Static Images Into 3D Animated Photos And Videos
When you're browsing through old photos do you sometimes wish you could view a video or a 3D animation of the same scene? Although companies like Apple and Samsung let you capture Live Photos or Motion Photos with their mobile devices, those are just flat video recordings taken a few seconds before you click a picture. The images don’t really give you a … View Post ▸
Funny 30-Second Animation Shows What Every Website Looks Like Nowadays
A seamless user experience (UX) is one of the most important factors for website success, but most websites nowadays display annoying pop-ups that ask you to enable notifications, accept cookies, follow them on social media, subscribe to their newsletter, etc. Most of these pop-ups just end up diverting the user's attention for a few seconds before they … View Post ▸
This Brilliant Free Tool Tests Your Logo For Balance, Scalability, Color Blindness, And More
Kentucky-based designer Brandon Shepherd from Studio Bros. has come up with a useful online tool called Logo Lab that assesses your logo on 10 key factors like balance, scalability, color blindness, recognizability, etc. All you have to do is upload your logo in PNG or SVG format, and the app will display what your logo looks like under each parameter. You … View Post ▸
Adobe Fontphoria Can Capture Text In Images And Convert Them To Fonts
How many times have you wanted to know the name of a font used in a particular design or artwork? In some cases, the letters have been hand-drawn and the font doesn't actually exist. But imagine if there was a technology that could scan the text in an image and create an entire font out of it. Well, Adobe is working on a brilliant new tool called … View Post ▸
Projecting Confidence, Sending Large Files, And Other Skills Every Designer Must Master
4 Skills that Will Turn New Designers Into Pros You’ve scored your first design gig? Awesome, congratulations! Let us be the first to welcome you to the world of professional design! It’s an exciting, creative, rapidly-evolving place-- and to perfectly honest, it can be a little bit intimidating at first. Don’t worry. In this article, we’ll cover … View Post ▸
You Can Now Fine People For Design Offenses With This Typographic Ticket Book
The designers at type foundry Hoefler & Co. have come up with a 'Typographic Ticket Book' that lets you write people up for 32 common design crimes. These include poor typeface choice, improper kerning, inappropriate typeface weight, excessive use of boldface, insufficient leading, and more. Each offense has its own violation code and appropriate … View Post ▸
10 Great Fonts You Should Use, And 9 Awful Fonts You Should Avoid
"Typography is an art. Good typography is art." - Paul Rand. Font and typography choices can make or break your design. But with so many fonts to choose from nowadays, which ones should you use, and which ones should you avoid? Tom Cargill from Satori Graphics has come up with an excellent video that features ten prominent fonts used by professional … View Post ▸
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