Unless you've been living under a rock, you know what Sarahah is - an app to send and receive anonymous feedback from your colleagues, bosses, friends, and anyone else. Created by Saudi developer ZainAlabdin Tawfiq, the app is meant for constructive feedback, but has come under scrutiny after people started sending lewd messages and death threats under the mask of anonymity. … [Read more...]
Fun, Quirky Animated Loops That Graphic Designers Will Like
Gal Shir is a product designer and art director based in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 117,000 followers on Dribbble, he is one of the most popular designers on the site. He also runs Color Hunt, a social platform that lets you create and browse a collection of beautiful color palettes. When Gal finds time off, he creates fun, quirky animated loops that designers love to … [Read more...]
23 Memes Every Graphic Designer Will Relate To
Bored at work? Have five minutes to spare before your boss comes back from lunch? If yes, then check out these graphic design memes that every client-bashing, mouse-weilding, Photoshop-loving designer will relate to. … [Read more...]
If Game Of Thrones Characters Worked In A Creative Agency, This Is What They Would Do
Indian digital agency Chimp&z has come up with a series of images titled "Game of Agencies" that imagines Game of Thrones characters as advertising professionals. The project draws parallels between the characters of Westeros and the ‘characters’ we find in every creative agency. … [Read more...]
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. … [Read more...]
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 and tell us which one … [Read more...]
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 pitches to showcase … [Read more...]
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 tools they use, and … [Read more...]
Adobe Pokes Fun At Annoying Bosses Who Micromanage Their Designers
To promote their stock photography service, Adobe has come up with a witty ad that spoofs hovering art directors who micromanage their designers. The 1:44 clip features a stereotypical art director providing constant inputs to his designer, who uses Adobe Stock to keep up with his demanding boss. Watch below. … [Read more...]
10 Types Of Relationships Between Clients And Agencies
Valentine's day is over but the love-hate saga between clients and agencies continues. Arun Verma Design Studio has come up with a series of valentine-themed images that describe the different types of clients and the relationship they share with their agencies. Check it out below. … [Read more...]
This Graphic Designer Wasn’t Able To Land A Job, So He Pretended To Be A Client
August Laustsen, a young Danish art director who recently moved from Copenhagen to Stockholm, applied to all the big advertising agencies in Stockholm but didn't get a reply from any of them. So, to catch their attention, he pretended to be a client looking for an agency and sent out the following letter. … [Read more...]
How Art Directors And Copywriters Can Avoid Annoying Each Other
Copywriter Stephanie Vicari and Art Director Caitlin Hickey wanted to tackle the potential complicated relationship that can exist between copywriters and art directors. The result? They created airline-style safety cards for budding creatives to ensure that no one steps on any toes. Check them out below. … [Read more...]
12 GIFs That Only Agency People Will Understand
Ever seen two cats playing hide and seek in the gutter? That's what it looks like when servicing tries to brief creative on Friday evening. Have you also noticed the "I hate everyone" expression on the face of creatives after every presentation? Like they're planning a massacre after a long and treacherous meeting in a room filled with brand "experts" throwing industry jargon … [Read more...]
11 Illustrations That Show The Two Kinds Of Graphic Designers
There are two kinds of designers in the world - those who follow a naming convention for layers and files (ProjectName_revision3_final.psd) and those who don't (Untitled-1-ok-final.psd). Similarly, there are designers whose desks resemble a war zone and there are designers who have an OCD attack if there's even one extra object on their desk. Design resource site Pixelo has … [Read more...]
Graphic Design – Expectations Vs Reality
When you graduate from art school, a career in Graphic Design looks like one big canvas which you're ready to paint with the colors of your talent. After spending six months in the business, things seem a bit different. Design resource site Pixelo highlights these differences in a series of illustrations titled "Graphic Design: Expectations vs Reality". Check them out below. … [Read more...]
The Top 50 Companies That Creatives Would Love To Work For
Creative talent network Working Not Working surveyed their community (77% freelance, 23% full-time) for the third consecutive year to find out which companies they would 'kill' to work for full-time. Here are the results from over 300 votes. … [Read more...]
11 Differences Between Designers And Clients
In a perfect world, the client-designer relationship is built upon a common sense of purpose, goals, and objectives. In reality, their varying perspectives make things a little bit more complicated. The client wants the logo to be bigger, colors to be brighter, and the typeface to be groovier. The designer wants more white space, subtle colors, and the font equivalent of … [Read more...]
10 Funny Murphy’s Laws For Designers
Murphy's Law is a popular proverb that states "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong." The law's author was Edward A. Murphy, Jr., a U.S. Air Force engineer. He coined the famous statement in 1947, when he was involved in a rocket-sled experiment in which all 16 accelerator instruments were installed in the wrong way. … [Read more...]
5 Things Every Designer Should Know When Dealing With Clients
If you're making changes to a project in front of a client, you're doing it wrong. You might think you're saving time, but you end up making the design process look simpler than it actually is. Here's a handy infographic by Basekit and Josuedric that shares five such important tips you should keep in mind when dealing with design clients. … [Read more...]
10 Times Designers Should Just Say “No”
It's good to go the extra mile for your clients but sometimes it can be detrimental to say yes to every unreasonable request - like copying another designer's work or working for free in exchange for "exposure". Design resource website Pixelo shares 10 situations where designers should learn to say NO. Check them out below. … [Read more...]
After Working With A Funny Client For A Year, This Agency Created A Book Of His Quotes
This deserves a Cannes in itself. New Zealand-based agency Strategy Creative have created a book titled 'We said some shit' that contains a curated collection of funny quotes and comments from a client they worked with on a year-long project. … [Read more...]
29 Memes That’ll Make Every Designer Laugh
Need something to stare at to pretend you’re working? Have a look at these hilarious memes by Instagram account screensaviors that’ll fill your day with laughter and self-doubt. When you’re done, share this post with a designer working on a deadline and waste his time as well. … [Read more...]
20 Funny Comic Strips That Designers Will Love
Award-winning cartoonist Jerry King draws a weekly comic series for Web Designer Depot that focuses on the funny situations designers and developers face in their daily lives. Check out a few good ones below. … [Read more...]
After Working With Difficult Clients, This Designer Turned Their Comments Into Funny Posters
In the design business, if you put a nickel in a jar every time a client says something stupid, you'll have a jar full of nickels by the end of the week. After receiving his fair share of nonsensical client feedback over the years, Jonathan Quintin, founder and creative director of UK agency Studio–JQ, decided to collate a few of them into a poster series titled "The Client … [Read more...]
The 10 Types Of Designers – Which One Are You?
"The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness." - Massimo Vignelli. Although we're all working towards the same objective, we designers have our distinct skill sets and preferences. There are designers who love flat design and there are designers who love skeuomorphism. Similarly, there are designers who like pastel shades and minimalism and there are … [Read more...]
Life In An Agency Shown Through Funny Stock Photos
The Incumbent Agency, an online store for agency-related merchandise, has come up with a fun project that depicts agency life using cliché stock photos. By adding funny situational captions, they've transformed the mundane images into relatable portrayals of agency life. Check out some of our favourites below. … [Read more...]
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...]
A Closer Look At Web Designers And Their Funny Habits
We web designers are a peculiar species. We like to do things with <style>. We refuse to eat at restaurants where the <table> layout sucks. We search for the Ctrl/Cmd Z button every time we spill our coffee. Our relationship with developers is similar to Donald Trump's relationship with immigrants. We like to keep 'other' humans at a distance, unless they know the … [Read more...]
40 Little Things You Can Do To Break Your Creative Block
We're all short of creative juice sometimes. Panic-driven deadlines, unreasonable clients/bosses and lack of proper rest can sap the positivity out of your system, leaving you in a frame of mind that is seldom productive. The key is to (re)find your inspiration, trust your abilities and distance yourself from all things negative. … [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...]
16 Tips For Better Brainstorming Sessions
The best ideas come from great minds working together. But group brainstormings can be tricky. Senior members can end up dominating. People can be wary of contributing due to lack of involvement or fear of rejection. Every year, more than $37 billion is spent on unproductive meetings according to research compiled by online meeting service provider Fuze. … [Read more...]
LOL: What Common Advertising Terms Actually Mean
You hear them all the time in meetings and brainstormings but what do buzzwords like viral, deck, bandwidth, status, concepting, etc. actually mean? YouTube channel Advertising Dictionary answers the question(s) in these videos below. … [Read more...]
Art Director Creates Memes That Show What A Designer’s Life Is Really Like
Using the famous 'crying girl' meme, Utah-based art director Matt Warren has created a series of memes that highlight the everyday struggles of designers. From Photoshop tools to plain ol' client stupidity, Matt has covered some relatable topics that every designer will identify with. 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...]