Filed under adobe illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Design, design tutorial, Graphic design, Illustrator, illustrator tutorial, photoshop, photoshop tutorial, poster, Tutorial, Tutorials by Chris Spooner
My absolute favourite style of motorcycle is the custom “bobber”. I love the stripped down appearance and the raw vintage styling. It’s my plan to chop up a bike of my own one day, but for now I have to settle with designing custom motorcycle posters instead. Follow this step by step Photoshop and Illustrator [...]
Continue Reading "Create a Dark Vintage Style Motorcycle Poster Design"Filed under Freelance, Graphic design, Web Design by Keith Bryant
A fundamental difference between programming intensive web-development work and graphic-focused web-design is that everyone – client to business associates – has an opinion and an alternative vision for the latter. The technically-steep learning curve of coding, whether it be the front-end or server-side configuration, tends to elicit few opinions and observations, simply because only a handful of clients actually possess the technical skills to analyze and interpret such work. Not so with design. Design, in any medium or form, is [...]
Filed under Freelance, Graphic design, Web Design by Jake Rocheleau
WordPress has made it easier than ever for a web designer to setup their own blog. This system allows you to add content into your website and publish in a number of different ways. But with the ever-advancing Internet we are seeing posts transform into articles and webblogs are slowly turning into online magazines. In the realm of design we can find tens of hundreds of different design magazines. It really is a great way to get your name out [...]
Filed under adobe illustrator, Articles, custom, Design, Graphic design, Inspiration, lettering, logo design, logos, showcase, Typography, Vector by Chris Spooner
One way to create an absolutely unique logo design is to craft the lettering by hand, as opposed to selecting an existing font. This allows the designer to create the perfect logo with their own custom ligatures, tails and loops. This post showcases 20 inspiring examples of custom lettering logos, each featuring the designer’s initial [...]
Continue Reading "Inspiring Examples of Custom Lettering Logo Designs"Filed under Graphic design, print, printing by Jacob Cass
Every design project is different. When it comes to making a final decision on which commercial printing process to choose, designers must take into consideration the quality and volume they desire and their budget and timescale. The two main forms [..]
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Filed under Graphic design, Web Design by Sreeraman Mohan Girija
“Hey, I want to show you something I built. Ignore the design please, it is not finished yet.” From school science fair projects to real world product prototypes, if I had a nickel every time I heard that sentence I would be a lot richer by now. The truth is that a lot of people ask us to ‘ignore the design’ simply because we humans tend to judge anything new that is shown to us by its looks. It is [...]
Filed under Graphic design, Graphic Inspiration by DesignArticleWriters
It’s hard to believe that all of these beautiful pictures are pencil drawings and not digital. Pencil, paper, creativity and a heck of a lot skill are the only attributes of these masterpieces. Check them out: Gurn Drawing Christopher Reeve FuFu What a Lovely Picture Karlstadt Watermill Snow White Broken Heart Yendos Nature Pencil art by Rupak Rai The Tower Not a gammy leg in sight Mic the Dog Sin Titulo Katharine McPhee Faith Hill J.F.Kennedy Portrait of Dav Te [...]
Filed under Abstract, adobe illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, design tutorial, Graphic design, guide, How to, illustration, illustrator tutorial, lines, photoshop tutorial, Tutorial, Tutorials, vibrant by Chris Spooner
Follow this step by step tutorial to create a cool abstract lines design with awesome vibrant lighting effects. We’ll use Illustrator’s easy tools to create the vector linework then add a range of glows, colours and effects in Photoshop to finish the design with a cool grainy but luminous style. It’s difficult to describe this [...]
Continue Reading "How To Create a Grainy Abstract Lines Poster Design"Filed under Articles, Design, doodle, Graphic design, hand draw, illustration, links, Logo, logo design, sketch by Chris Spooner
Logos don’t always have to feature perfectly designed abstract icons or devices, sometimes a basic hand drawn sketch or doodle can express the casual or fun values a brand is aiming for. This post rounds up a huge collection of over 50 cool logos all based on a hand drawn style. Piccolo by Matt Vergotis [...]
Continue Reading "Showcase of Cool Hand Drawn, Doodle & Sketch Logos"Filed under Graphic design by Tara Horner
For every single quality graphic design tutorial out there, another 50 just plain suck. They’re poorly written, use bad graphics, are about bad graphics, or just altogether skip important steps. It’s a shame, but bad tutorials also create an opportunity for those who are willing to take the time to produce quality work. Writing and publishing graphic design tutorials is an excellent way to promote yourself as a designer and establish yourself as an expert. It’s also a great way [...]
Filed under app, Button, Design, dev, effects, font, Graphic, Graphic design, Illustrator, map, mobile, photoshop, Resource, Resources, Template, Text, Tutorial, Typography, Vector, web by Tara Horner
It’s election season! Time for graphic designers to start helping clients design posters for their upcoming campaigns. It’s a great time to be a designer as each and every city has candidates making their run for spots. Using Live Trace and Live Paint in Illustrator makes stylized posters an easy task. This tutorial walks you through how to quickly make stylized posters that are vector based. This lets you use and re-use designs in various sizes – billboards to coffee [...]
Filed under Graphic design, Illustrator, photoshop by Ben Fellowes
With this tutorial I wanted to create a club flyer design that was not your typical “scantily clad” affair that appeals to the more discerning club goers. So, with a few easy Photoshop and Illustrator effects, and my preference for black and white elegance, I created this enigmatic and outer space type design. Here is a preview of what we will be creating… …and here are the source files. Required Resources: Stock Source: http://browse.deviantart.com/ Swirl/Fractal Brush effect: http://www.brusheezy.com/brushes/1563-spirals-and-halftones Organic Brushes: [...]
Filed under adobe illustrator, cartoon character, character, Design, design tutorial, Graphic design, illustration, illustration tips, Illustrator, illustrator tutorial, screenprint, texture, Tutorial, Tutorials, Vector, vector graphics by Chris Spooner
I’m sure we all remember painting with sponge (or potato!) stamps as a child, but back then we didn’t really appreciate the cool distressed effect the printing technique created. Today designers and illustrators strive to add that retro/vintage style to their work with textures, so in this tutorial we’ll cover the process of creating a [...]
Continue Reading "How To Create a Vector Sponge Art Effect in Illustrator"Filed under Graphic design, Podcast, Web Design by Megan Kirby
As graphic designers, it is so important for us to always keep learning in order to stay at the top of our game. Outside of classes, and actual on-the-job learning, there are many outlets for us to teach ourselves new tricks. One of my favorite new places to go for a bi-weekly dose of design inspiration, education, and yes – entertainment – is a fairly new podcast available on iTunes called The Deeply Graphic DesignCast. The Details Started around the [...]
Filed under Graphic design, Web Design by Jessica Moon
Whether you agree with them or not, design trends can teach us important lessons on what works and what doesn’t for users. They’re popular for a reason. The true value of a trend, however, lies in its longevity. If you can identify trends that have the potential to last in the distant future, you will have a great advantage in making your own work successful — especially if you manage to pinpoint and isolate the core element in the trend [...]
Filed under app, book, Design, Freelance, Graphic design, minimal, Web Design by Addison Duvall
Let’s face it: when we eat out at a restaurant, we usually aren’t making the most logical choice on any front. Restaurants are quite a bit more expensive than cooking meals at home; they’re also less nutritious, less filling, and sometimes the quality of the food or the service can leave you more unhappy than you bargained for. Nevertheless, millions of us around the world eat at restaurants every day with our family, friends, co-workers, clients, parole officers…just kidding. My [...]
Filed under adobe illustrator, Design, design tutorial, Graphic design, illustration, Illustrator, illustrator tutorial, pattern, Tutorial, Tutorials by Chris Spooner
Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create the popular retro style pattern design made up of lots of colourful squares and triangles. The process is pretty simple, making this a good tutorial for newcomers to Adobe Illustrator. We’ll be using tools to accurately align our elements, then see how the Pathfinder can easily [...]
Continue Reading "Create a Retro Triangular Pattern Design in Illustrator"Filed under adobe illustrator, Design, design tutorial, Graphic design, illustration, Illustrator, illustrator tutorial, pattern, Tutorial, Tutorials by Chris Spooner
Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create the popular retro style pattern design made up of lots of colourful squares and triangles. The process is pretty simple, making this a good tutorial for newcomers to Adobe Illustrator. We’ll be using tools to accurately align our elements, then see how the Pathfinder can easily [...]
Continue Reading "Create a Retro Triangular Pattern Design in Illustrator"Filed under app, Button, buttons, Design, dev, flash, forms, Graphic design, Video, web, Web Design by Sreeraman Mohan Girija
The most important thing a designer needs to have is a good taste. A good taste at identifying great work. It doesn’t matter if your work doesn’t match up with your taste yet. It will slowly but steadily catch up. Ultimately your taste ends up defining your style. In fact your taste will be few steps ahead of your talent in the initial years of your career. Your taste can tell the difference in quality between what you want to [...]
Filed under adobe illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Design, design tutorial, Graphic design, illustration, Illustrator, photoshop, Tutorial, Tutorials, typographic, Typography, Vector by Chris Spooner
In today’s tutorial we’re going to create a typographic blackletter layout full of character with dirty textures. We’ll begin by creating the layout in Illustrator before importing everything into Photoshop to bring the design to life with colour, tone and weathered textures. The typographic design we’re going to create is the quote ‘All Roads Lead [...]
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