The personal page of a graphic designer is as important as a digital portfolio. Different platforms can be used for this and many of them offer quick access for creating image galleries as a means for visual communication. Official websites allow you to show not only your professional work but also your creativity and inspiration. […]
Creative Ability
The History of Typography – Animated Short
Ben Barrett-Forrest is a graphic designer and producer. He created an animation that explains history of typography from Gutenberg to our current procedures. Many have complimented Barret’s work, so don’t miss out on it. To develop this animation they recorded 291 hours, took 2,453 photographs and invested 140 hours of work. Beyond any doubt, this […]
5 top tips for graduate designers
Here are five things that newbies need to know. 01. A career in design is a mix of joy and pain Most of us choose to become a designer because we crave the adrenalised buzz that comes from being valued for our creativity. But this craving blinds us to the fact that being a designer […]
Professor uses facial recognition to spot bored students
He’ll know if his presentation is putting you off. A Chinese professor has created a facial-recognition program to read his students’ faces and try to determine if they are interested or bored while being in class. Wei Xiaoyong, science professor at the Sichuan University, formulated a “face reader” aiming to identify people’s emotions. His invention […]
The new Messages App of iOS 10
Apple keep on bringing new stuff for its users. Now, with the new operating system comes several big changes on the Messages app. The new iOS 10 allows you to delete those standard Apple apps you don’t use while designing more features of artificial intelligence and offering a much more interactive Messages app. Now, you […]
Google Museum revives dinosaurs
Thanks to Google, several cultural institutions and especially museums around the world now have the opportunity to offer their archives to millions of people in digital format. Using the best Street View, VR and Photos collections from more than 1,000 museums the Art and Culture app allows people to visit incredible exhibitions without getting out […]
Amazing Star Wars Illustrations by Greg Ruth
A couple of months ago we featured the superb work of Greg Ruth and in that post we shared a couple of his new Star Wars illustrations – something that we noticed was appreciated by a lot of you guys. What I didn’t know back then is that Greg is actually putting out new illustrations […]
The new and enhanced Daft Punk’s GuyMan Helmet
Two Spanish fans of the Daft Punk band have created their own and improved version of the GuyMan Helmet. It took these two members of the LoveProps company more than a year of daily work to finish their project, but the final result is unbelievable. The helmet is an identical replica of the original, or […]
The secret message of tattoos
Every tattoo is a statement and means something. “People get tattoos for an aesthetic reason and don’t realize there are often centuries-old stories behind the imagery,” says author Trent Aitken-Smith, 44, a long-time body-art fanatic and editor of industry bible Tattoo Master. Aitken-Smith‘s has written a book entitled The Tattoo Dictionary that serves as a compendium […]
