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10 Illustrations That Show The Two Types Of Clients In The World

There are good clients and there are clients who make you want to change your career path. There are clients who pay on time, and there are clients who dodge invoices like Keanu Reaves dodges bullets in The Matrix. Digital agency Buzzooka has come up with a series of posters that illustrate the differences between the two types of clients we come across in every industry. … [Read more...]

45 Brilliant Negative Space Artworks

Tang Yau Hoong is an artist, illustrator and graphic designer living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is known for his fascinating negative space illustrations that are surreal and fun in a simplistic and unique way. His past and present clients include Nike, Land Rover, Gap, DDB, Ogilvy, California Institute of Technology, Harvard Business Review, The Observer, Wired and more. … [Read more...]

Beautiful, Inspiring Hand-Lettered Tips For Designers And Creatives

Sean McCabe is a hand lettering artist, type designer, and illustrator based in San Antonio, Texas. He runs a media company called seanwes by day and creates gorgeous hand-lettered typography by night. Using Pigma Micron pens, Sean weaves his magic on paper, offering inspiring tips and mantras for artists, designers, creatives, and just about anyone. He has spent over 9000 … [Read more...]

34 Clever Posters That Visualize The Names Of Famous Songs

Here's an interesting project by Swedish designer Viktor Hertz that showcases a series of posters with pictograms of famous song titles. Using Adobe Illustrator, Viktor creates icons and symbols based on the literal meaning of the names of songs. For example, the poster for 'Highway to Hell' features the devil's trident underneath a highway with arrows pointing forward. The … [Read more...]

These Incredible Fountain Sculptures Use Water To Complete Their Story

Polish sculptor Malgorzata Chodakowska creates beautiful fountain sculptures that use water to complete their shapes and stories. Made entirely out of bronze, each sculpture takes two to six months to complete, depending on its complexity. Chodakowska first models the artwork on clay before pouring the sculpture into bronze. The final piece is a gorgeous amalgamation of art and … [Read more...]

36 Brilliant Negative Space Illustrations By Noma Bar

Negative space design is a technique that utilizes empty or background areas of an image to form shapes and convey additional meaning, often creating a dual visual narrative. This method is a fundamental principle of minimalist design and is widely studied in graphic design education and practice. Few artists have expanded the creative possibilities of negative space as … [Read more...]

25 GIFs That Show What Don Draper And Mad Men Would Be Like In Today’s Ad World

Mad Men Integrated is a hilarious GIF series by New-York based copywriter James Connolly that shows what Don Draper and his crew of the ’60s would be like in today’s jargon-heavy digital advertising world. Draper would pitch Snapchat campaigns to clients. Peggy would write banner copy and come up with emoji ideas. Pete would present tweet graphs and Lane would, of course, … [Read more...]

29 Clever Illustrations That Take The Most Unexpected Turns

Chinese artist Gao Youjun a.k.a. Shanghai Tango is a popular cartoonist on the Chinese social network Weibo with over half a million followers. His comics usually consist of two distinct objects or animals interacting with each other and their funny, coincidental connections. He began drawing these illustrations in 2010 when a friend advised him to open a Weibo account and … [Read more...]

27 Amazing Body Art Illusions That Will Make You Go Wow

Johannes Stoetter is a self-taught artist, musician and fine art body painter born and based in South Tyrol, Italy. After completing his education at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, he developed a curious interest in body art and crafted his own unique style and technique of body painting. In 2009, he joined the international body painting community at the World … [Read more...]

32 Creative Loading Animations That Are Worth The Wait

47% of users expect a webpage or an app to load in 2 seconds or less. After 4 seconds, the average user starts getting frustrated and after 8 seconds, they leave. In fact, a one second delay in your site speed can result in a 7% reduction in customer conversions. Loading time is crucial to the success of your site, app or program and if you can keep the user engaged for … [Read more...]

13 Colorful Animal Logos Made From 13 Perfect Circles

Paris-based designer and art director Dorota Pankowska was inspired by the simplicity of the Twitter logo, which was created using a pattern of 13 circles. She decided to challenge herself and see what other animals could be created using the same design principles. The result? Check it out below. … [Read more...]

37 Amazing Ads That Use Negative Space Brilliantly

In art and design, negative space is the background space around the main object of an image. In a two-tone image (eg. black and white), the object is usually depicted in a darker color (black) than the background (white), thereby forming a silhouette. Sometimes, the tones are reversed and white is used to fill the silhouette (refer Coke examples below). When an artist carves … [Read more...]

16 Clever Typographic Movie Titles

Istanbul-based digital creative Ali Erkurt has created a series of typographic movie titles that subtly hint at the plot or the central elements of the films. So, the 'w' in Jaws looks like the teeth of a shark, the 'i' in Matrix is replaced with the number 1 (the chosen one), the 'o' in Indiana Jones looks like his whip, and so on. Check them out below. … [Read more...]

Designer Shares 10 Lessons He Learnt From Working In An Agency

Agency life is not for everyone. The fast-paced, deadline-driven environment saps your creative juices faster than you can say "brand positioning". You do however learn a lot - like how to go three days without a shower, how to claim free meals by billing them to the client, etc. It's definitely an experience that every creative should go through before switching to the client … [Read more...]

10 GIF Memes Only Graphic Designers Will Understand

The best part about being a member of the creative tribe is that we can relate to one another, no matter which part of the globe we're in. It's not just our passion for creativity, our quirks, and our intolerance for mediocrity that bind us. It's because we all have that one annoying ass client from hell. … [Read more...]

What Logos Of Famous Companies Looked Like When They First Started Out

The logos of brands like Apple and IBM are iconic now, but when most of these companies started out, their logos were awkward, clip-arty and looked like they had been designed by amateurs on a budget. With time, they shed their extra weight and evolved into aesthetically pleasant shapes thanks to legendary artists like Paul Rand who were masters of brand identity … [Read more...]

28 Creative Tea Bag Designs For Tea Lovers

Which is the world's most widely consumed drink after water? It's not coffee or Coke. It's tea. And we're not surprised. Not only is it healthier and cheaper than coffee but also predates it by about 3000 years. It even keeps Mother Earth happy by leaving a smaller carbon footprint and wasting fewer resources in trade. … [Read more...]

Color Palettes From Famous Movies Show How Colors Set The Mood Of A Film

Color sets the tone and mood of a film before any of the actors have even uttered a word. Directors Lilly and Lana Wachowski used a green tint in The Matrix (1999) to create a mood palette that was suggestive of the early monochrome computer monitors. Yellow was used in Kill Bill (2003) to depict Uma Thurman’s character’s madness and instability. Romantic comedies use pastel … [Read more...]

27 Beautiful Sci-Fi GIFs That Will Leave You Mesmerized

New York-based artist Carl Burton blends elements of science fiction and surrealism to create stunning monochromatic GIFs/cinemagraphs that have a hypnotic, dream-like feel to them. He uses Cinema 4D, Photoshop and After Effects to create these animated illustrations that are "influenced by nature, architecture, mundane environments and the news," he says. … [Read more...]

15 Signs You Need To Let Your Client Go

We creative types are not known for our patience. We freak out over what to eat when we see an ugly menu at a restaurant. We don't follow road signs if they're written in Comic Sans. But when it comes to clients, we listen, we hear and we understand. We're patient because (a) we want to use our creative skills to solve their problems and (b) they're paying us, damn it. … [Read more...]

This Graphic Designer Uses Her Design Skills To Make The Most Awesome Cookies

Los Angeles-based graphic designer Holly Fox combines her passion for design and baking by creating these yummy sugar cookies that are adorable to look at. Her culinary creations double as aesthetic delights, turning each bite into a colorful visual feast. Holly started baking in 2011 to try and see if she could figure out royal icing. After experimenting with different … [Read more...]

19 Pun-Filled Posters That Graphic Designers Will Relate To

Here's a cool collection of funny posters about graphic design and typography from Dubuque-based marketing executive Sara Heffernen. Using puns on design terms and font names, Sara tells you to "Crop it like it's hot" and have a "Helvetica good time". The posters also advise you to practice safe sex design by using a condom concept and to choose sensibly between common sense … [Read more...]

20+ Clever Illustrations That Have The Weirdest Twists

If you like witty visual humour you'll love these illustrations by Chinese artist Shanghai Tango that take the most unexpected turns in the final frame. Tango, whose real name is Gao Youjun, graduated from Tsinghua University's Academy of Arts & Design. He's been working in advertising since 1995 and now runs an agency of his own. Alongside his day job, Tango is a … [Read more...]

25 Amazing Sculptures That Will Make You Go Wow

Cities across the globe are home to beautiful modern works of art, forged out of stone and metal by master sculptors and artists. No matter where you are or where you travel, you’ll find awe-inspiring sculptures that demonstrate the creative capacity of the human mind. From Singapore to Switzerland, New York to New Zealand, here’s a list of 25 such masterpieces that will leave … [Read more...]

Artist Uses Everyday Objects To Complete His Sketches

Renowned illustrator and graphic designer Christoph Niemann draws a fun series of doodles he calls 'Sunday Sketches'. He uses everyday objects like fruits, cutlery, household tools, etc. as the centrepiece and draws the artwork around them in a way that the item completes the sketch. So, a comb becomes the front grill of a Rolls Royce, an avocado becomes a baseball glove, an … [Read more...]

Pun-Based City Logos Created Using Words Within Their Names

Bucharest-based designer/photographer Raluca Popescu was trying to create a representative banner for a travel agency, when she came up with the idea of creating pun-based city logos using words within their names. So the logo for Moscow has a cow in it, the logo for Cambridge has a bridge, Budapest has Buddha, and so on. Check them out below. … [Read more...]

Honest Graphs That Show What Group Brainstorming Is Really Like

Are you lonely? Tired of working alone? Do you hate coming up with ideas on your own? Then hold a brainstorming session. You can see people, show charts, feel important, point with a stick, eat donuts, and impress colleagues - all on company time. On that note, the cool folks at Creative Market have come up with a series of graphs that show what most meetings and group … [Read more...]

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