Audio branding and motion design agency Why Do Birds has come up with an interesting quiz that features bird’s-eye-view images of famous logos, rendered in 3D. You have to guess which brands they belong to. You see these logos everyday, but it's tricky to recognize them from this unusual overhead perspective. As designers, we thought it'll be a cakewalk but it wasn't. The … [Read more...]
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This Guy Did A Horrible Photoshop Of A Flat Tyre To Skip Work, People Say He Should Be Promoted To CEO
We've all thought of creative ways to take a day off, but this guy takes the cake. In a tweet that went viral with over 150,000 likes and 28,000 retweets, Twitter user @PapaBoardslide revealed that he once Photoshopped a flat tyre on to his car just to get out of work. He also described it as the "proudest moment" of his life. What makes it funnier is that the shadow of the … [Read more...]
Memorable Feedback Received Over The Years
A big thank you to everyone who took the time out to appreciate our work at Digital Synopsis. Here are a few memorable comments and messages we’ve received over the … [Read more...]
32 Epic Memes For Graphic Designers
Stuck in the middle of tough project with a stiff deadline? Is your client being an unreasonable prick? Has your boss put the entire workload on you? If yes, then now is the time to indulge in some meme-therapy and brighten up your day. Memes have been scientifically proven to reduce work-related burnout by upto 57%. In a study of 480 designers and developers, … [Read more...]
11 Great Font Combinations For Your Next Design Project
One of the best ways to tell an amateur designer from a seasoned professional is by their font pairings. A good designer knows which fonts complement each other, and how to strike typographical balance by using contrast and hierarchy. Here's a list of 10 golden rules of typography that'll help you get it right. If you're looking for examples of good font pairings, Kalypso … [Read more...]
How To Overcome Common Challenges Of Designers
To help minimize the stress and maximize the fun! Although design can be a fun job with plenty of artistic freedom and rewarding interactions with clients, like all jobs, it comes with its headaches. In the digital age, almost all designing is done with computers — which makes the job easier, faster, and more efficient most of the time — but if you’re not a complete tech … [Read more...]
21 Beautiful Free Fonts For Your Next Design Project
As a designer, no matter how many fonts you have on your system, you always want more. You might use just a fraction of those fonts on a regular basis, but you need to have a gorgeous collection in your repository at all times. And what's the one thing designers love more than a beautiful font? A beautiful font that's available for FREE! Today's post is a collection of 21 … [Read more...]
What Type Of Creative Personality Do You Have? Take This Quiz By Adobe And Find Out
Adobe Create Magazine has come up with an interesting new quiz titled Creative Types that tells you what kind of a creative personality you have. The test uses psychological research to asses your basic habits, and helps you better understand who you are as a creative. The results will also tell you how to maximize your natural gifts, and what kind of creative … [Read more...]
3 Designer Friends Created An Alphabet Series Using Logos They’ve Designed Over The Years
Three graphic designers, colleagues, and friends, Alex Tass, Dalius Stuoka, and Deividas Bielskis decided to put together an A-Z alphabet series made from logo symbols, lettermarks, and monograms they've created over the years. All three designers have been in the industry for over 10 years, and have worked with a variety of clients, brands, and agencies. For this project, … [Read more...]
31 Beautiful Gradient Logos For Design Inspiration
When Apple launched iOS 7 in 2014, it not only changed the face of UI design, but also branding, graphic and logo design. Skeuomorphic interfaces and glossy app icons were out. Flat design, vibrant colors and gradients were in. In 2016, when Instagram came up with a bright new look and multicolored logo, a vast majority of its users hated the vivid gradients and demanded the … [Read more...]
Need Images For Your Project? Create Your Own With This Useful Drag-And-Drop Tool
Design resource site Icons8 has come up with a handy web app called Mega Creator that lets you create realistic stock photos using drag-and-drop images of models, objects, and backgrounds. The app features over thousands of images with transparent backgrounds, so you can place one over the other and create your own composite in any size or aspect ratio. You can rotate, … [Read more...]
How To Make Sure You Never Lose A File Again
Sync Your Design Files Now to Prevent Disaster Later You know that design file that you spent weeks pouring your heart and soul into? Wouldn’t it be a shame if it disappeared? Prevent this from happening by syncing your files now. Don’t worry, we’ve got your back in helping you with disaster recovery efforts if you’ve found yourself facing an L. In this article, we’ll … [Read more...]
NVIDIA Develops Incredible AI That Can Turn Rough Sketches Into Landscape Images
Researchers at NVIDIA have developed a deep learning model that can turn rough doodles into photorealistic landscapes using generative adversarial networks, or GANs. The interactive app has been named GauGAN, after the post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin. The deep learning model has been trained on a million images. When you draw the shapes of the objects you want, the … [Read more...]
Designer Who Created Iconic Movie Posters Shares The Secrets Behind Hollywood Poster Designs
James Verdesoto is an artist and creative director who has designed iconic posters for movies such as Pulp Fiction, Ocean's Eleven, Training Day, Girl, Interrupted, and more. In this video for Vanity Fair, Verdesoto explains the role of color psychology and trends in movie poster design. He discusses the use of certain colors and palettes in specific genres, with relevant … [Read more...]
10 Tips For Creating A Portfolio With WordPress
Are you a designer, photographer or other creatives? Then, you’ve definitely thought about how to make a lot of people get to know about what you do. Today, the Internet is one of the most effective ways to share information about you or the services you offer. Creating a portfolio web page you let people see your brand new works, the process of their creation, or check your … [Read more...]
Only Expert Graphic Designers Can Reach The Platinum Level In This UI Design Quiz
Seattle-based UX designer Alex Kotliarskyi has come up with an interesting visual quiz that tests your UI knowledge and attention to details. Titled Can't Unsee, the web-based game presents two choices of iOS interface designs, and asks you to pick which one is correct. You earn coins for every correct answer. The game is divided into three rounds (easy, medium, hard) of … [Read more...]
28 Epic Memes For Graphic Designers
Are you in the middle of a tough project with a stiff deadline? Is your boss or client being a d*ck? Are you tired of creating "Buy Two, Get One Free" flyers and banners? If yes, then indulge in some meme-therapy and brighten up your day. Scientific research has proven that memes help reduce work-related stress by stimulating the release of endorphins that trigger a sense of … [Read more...]
Free Photoshop Pack Of Beautiful Gradients For All Your Design Needs
Vibrant colors and gradients are one of the major trends in graphic, web, and UI design nowadays. To make life easier for designers everywhere, Paris-based graphic designer Leo Simon has compiled a set of 300 beautiful gradients into a Photoshop gradient file (GRD), available for free. We've shortlisted some of our favourites from Leo's collection and shared them below with … [Read more...]
This Free Online Tool Resizes Any Image To Over 50 Sizes In Just One Click
The team at video editing app Promo has come up with a useful online tool that resizes any image to over 50 web and social media sizes with the click of a button. Simply upload your image or enter its url, and the app gives you a preview of what your image will look like across different formats like profile photos, cover photos, stories, newsfeed images, ads, email headers, … [Read more...]
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 image or enter its … [Read more...]
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 logo for Wine Rocket … [Read more...]
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 adjust the length of … [Read more...]
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 designer, these tips … [Read more...]
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 of them. Milton, … [Read more...]
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 the occasional … [Read more...]
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 Scale tool and extend … [Read more...]
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 the word "energy" is a … [Read more...]
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 opportunity to work with … [Read more...]
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 some basic tips, … [Read more...]
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 penalty. The book contains … [Read more...]
Designing Logos For Companies With Long Names Can Be Tricky, Here Are 25 Great Examples
When it comes to logo design, a long company name can be quite a challenge. You want to create a logo that's clean and memorable, but lengthy lines of text can look cluttered and uninspiring. Professional designers use different techniques to solve the visual challenges of a long brand name. These include: 1. Splitting the name into two or three lines 2. Using different … [Read more...]
20 Memes Every Designer Will Relate To
Are you in the middle of a tough project with a stiff deadline? Is your client or boss being a prick? Are you tired of creating "Buy One, Get One" ads and banners? If yes, then indulge in some meme-therapy and brighten up your day. Memes have been scientifically proven to help reduce work stress by stimulating the release of endorphins that trigger a sense of well-being … [Read more...]
This Hidden Tool In Photoshop Lets You Remove Backgrounds With Ease
Did you know that there is an actual tool in Photoshop that allows you to erase backgrounds from your photos? We're not talking about any selections or masks, we're talking about the Background Eraser Tool located under the Eraser Tool in the Photoshop Toolbar. You'll be surprised to see how powerful, customizable, and easy-to-use this tool can be. In this brilliant … [Read more...]
Designer Creates Clever Logos By Combining Two Different Things Into One
Indonesian designer Rendy Cemix has come up with an interesting project in which he combines the shapes of two completely different objects into one unique logo. The logo in each case is a visual representation of the brand name. For example, the logo for Mountain-Fox is an aesthetically designed symbol of a fox with ears that look like snow-capped peaks. The logo for … [Read more...]
Designers, You’ll Love These $5 Keychains Of Popular Graphic Design Softwares And Memes
Singapore-based graphic artist Yu Xin has come up with a cool series of $5 keychains for graphic designers, based on popular Adobe programs and their interfaces. If you've ever worked with a demanding client, you'll relate to the meme-based Photoshop and Illustrator keychains that feature PS and AI file icons with funny filenames. The idea came to Xin when she was working on … [Read more...]
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