Articles & Inspiration
As designers and illustrators there’s just something about skulls that we can’t resist. Maybe it’s the influence of our favourite metal bands or the creative inspiration we’re fed from tattoo culture. This post rounds up a collection of talented digital illustrators and artists and showcases their best skull based designs and artworks. Remember to follow the links through to each designer’s website, behind each artwork is a portfolio full of more amazing pieces.
I’ve seen some insane typography related designs and artwork pieces lately, which spurred me on to create some kind of roundup post to share this inspiration with others. This post pulls together an awesome collection of over 50 inspirational typography designs to help keep your creative fire burning. Follow each link through to the designer’s portfolio or showcase website, where in most cases you can find more inspirational design gems!
Instagram is one of the most popular apps for the iPhone, allowing users to quickly and easily apply retro style filters to their snapshots to create trendy effects based on authentic photography techniques. You don’t have to limit these effects to your iPhone photos, this post rounds up a collection of high quality Photoshop Actions that will recreate all your favourite vintage and retro styles on your high res photos with the click of a button.
The popular American sports of Football, Baseball, Hockey, Basketball, etc all have a recognisable and unique approach to their graphic designs. Unlike your typical logo, the badges and emblems used by sports teams often include detailed illustrated elements, usually include a mascot or character and make use of perspective to create three dimensional effects. This showcase roundups over over 50 awesome examples of American sports themed logos from various designers.
The traditional rule of thumb is that a logo is a flat design using just one colour, but as digital technologies develop these kinds of rules can be bent or broken in favour of more impressive and graphical designs. This showcase rounds up a collection of logos with impressive 3D elements in their design.
In this week’s question time I talk about whether it’s best to learn Photoshop or Fireworks, what software I use to create these Question Time videos and I offer advice for designers who are just out of school and are looking for design work.
