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Design Inspiration: Ideas for Designers
When you’re inspired, creativity flourishes. So as a designer, finding inspiration is essential Let the successes, lessons learned and stories of others feed that inspiration and approach your graphic design career with a new invigoration. You’ll find not only tips and advice, but also the amazing design work of other professionals. Get inspired and then get to work on your own design project.
Color Trend: Using Bright Paper Stocks and Inks
Vivid color trends are back and they’re making a bright statement and creating lasting impressions with an audience. Check out the following techniques for inspiration when creating your next colorful piece.
Do You Suck at Selling Your Ideas?
Phenomenal ideas, like that for the Dyson vacuum cleaner, are sometimes the hardest ideas to sell. Take tips from James Dyson on selling your next big idea to decision makers.
Categories: Design Business Clients: Communication & Management, Design Business: Industry Issues & Advice, Design Exercises for Inspired Designers, Design Inspiration: Creative Ideas for Designers, Design Inspiration: Ideas for Designers, Featured, On the Job: Advice & Tips for Designers
Tags: creativity, creativity exercises, Idea Selling
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Designer Spotlight: Foundry Collective
The Oklahoma boys of Foundry Collective pay homage to the values and drive of their Midwestern forefathers who toiled in oil fields and farms. They do this by infusing simple, hard work into every design project.
Categories: Design Inspiration: Creative Ideas for Designers, Design Inspiration: Ideas for Designers, Designer Spotlight: Famous Graphic Designers, Design Firms, HOW Magazine, HOW May 2011
Tags: Design Firm Profile, Designer Spotlight: Famous Graphic Designers, Design Firms, Foundry Collective
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July 2011: Top 10 Websites for Designers
Each month, HOW editors peruse hundreds of websites to find the best of the best—the Top 10 Sites for Designers. In reviewing these websites, the editors are looking for exceptional design as well as functionality.
Behind the Design: Escape Artist
Australian creative services firm Houdini landed a magical name, but needed an identity to bring it to life.
Yulia Brodskaya’s Mesmerizing ‘Papergraphics’
Yulia Brodskaya refers to her innovative artwork as “papergraphic.” She uses thin strips of paper to create intricate illustrations full of fluid lines and decorative curls and swirls.
Categories: Design Inspiration: Creative Ideas for Designers, Design Inspiration: Ideas for Designers, Design Projects, Designer Spotlight: Famous Graphic Designers, Design Firms, Featured, HOW July 2011, Typography + Fonts: The Best Fonts for Web & Graphic Design
Tags: Editorial Design, illustration, Paper, typography
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Google Doodle Archive
Google Doodles—the funky historical and cultural retakes of Google’s lettered logo—are flat-out stellar. But with graphic designers churning out new creations on a continual basis, redundancy can become an enemy. If you take the time to have fun, enjoy the …
