Before the flamenco dancer, the hundreds of little faces with different expressions and a complete repertoire of different objects, dishes, flags and animals; long before that, emojis already existed. Primitives, with a 12×12 pixels dimension and plane colors, emojis timidly appear from the hand of the Japanese programmer Shigetaka Kurita in the 90’s. Today, almost […]
Digital Art
Lettering vs Calligraphy
Martina Flor is a lettering artist born in Buenos Aires. She’s being living and working in Europe for 7 years. Besides her commercial work for her clients, Martina considers her personal projects as a vital part of her work and creative development. Specifically, Lettering vs Calligraphy is a product of one of her personal projects […]
Dancing Skeletons
There isn’t a more symbolic image than the skull. We can find it in jewelry, science labs, emoji, poison warning labels, stickers, metal band t-shirts, tequila bottles and art. Some artist say that working with skulls is kind of difficult because its image is so universal. On the other hand, the complete skeleton results to […]
Horror Movie Plot Generator
John Atkinson is an artist and cartoonist from Ottawa, Ontario. His works comment on almost any topic, from history and mathematics to social media and popular culture. Atkinson’s humor can be easily understood by people from different cultures and ages. You can take a look at many of his brilliant works in his blog Wrong […]
Facebook launches Halloween reaction emoji
Yesterday Facebook released its latest seasonal experiment: a Halloween-themed reaction emojis. Now the “angry” reaction is represented by a pumpkin, there is a Frankenstein instead of “sad,” a witch for “haha,” a ghost instead of “wow,” a candy heart for “love” and a skeletal thumbs up for “like.” These new reactions appear on all […]
What is Canva and why should we use it?
Today we’ll talk to you about a program that surely will help you to develop all your creative abilities. Actually, with this wonderful program anybody can design. This tool puts the power of designing in your hands. Many times we sing up in different courses of image editing and we end up knowing a lot […]
7 curiosities about color
Many times we talk about color, especially about its use in design, its possibilities and combinations, and even how it can help us to get a specific objective when using its psychology. We never get tired of saying that each color represents a specific feeling or emotion. They are intrinsic to one another and most […]
Five female illustrators to follow on Instagram
Instagram is a social network loved by photographers, illustrators, designers, fashion victims and many other people. It is a space where creative works can be displayed and promoted thanks to hashtags. You can’t even know who will be ending up watching your work. Take a look at our list of five female illustrators from different […]
Football team t-shirts inspired in social media apps
These t-shirt designs are just the same as those that professional football teams use in their matches. But these sport shirts are inspired in the most popular social media apps available in the AppStore. They copied the distinctive colors of each social network and put the logo on the shirt as if it was the […]
Who designed the famous ‘We Can Do It!’ sign?
Many people associate the women showing her fist high and with her sleeve rolled up with the fight for women’s rights and feminist movements. The truth is that, although its objective was not this particular one, the ‘We Can Do It!’ sign has become a very significant and historic milestone for the development of women’s […]
