19th Annual Designing Women THREE

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We continue the 19th Annual Designing Women edition surf with this third round of extraordinary designers.
* Jackie Matelski: Toast Ceramics simple, graphic design and comfort food
* Sweet C : Make a Chalkboard Effect in Photoshop
* The excellent hand lettering of Martina Flor
* Kerry Butters : Designing with words
* Katherine brings your: Soul To Call
* Ariane’s Design Dimensionality
… and more to come!

19th Annual Designing Women #3

19th Annual Designing WomenWe continue the 19th Annual Designing Women edition surf with this third round of extraordinary designers.
* Jackie Matelski: Toast Ceramics simple, graphic design and comfort food
* Sweet C : Make a Chalkboard Effect in Photoshop
* The excellent hand lettering of Martina Flor
* Kerry Butters : Designing with words
* Katherine brings your: Soul To Call
* Ariane’s Design Dimensionality
… and more to come!

Sweet C : Make a Chalkboard Effect in Photoshop

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It’s no secret that chalkboard anything is totally in style right now. Courtney is a designing woman doing some special stuff. Her tutorial uses Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and some basic photoshop knowledge to simulate chalkboard type.
      Courtney’s blog has some interesting stuff… including a whole set of blogging tips and tricks — and her Crafts and DYI department is not to be missed!
Cool graphic design inspiration Full story : Sweet Cs Designs
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The excellent hand lettering of Martina Flor

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Look at Martina’s gallery and you’ll see a graphic artist with a diverse palette seldom seen! No wonder she speaks at all the TyPE conventions, teaches workshops, and
      Martina Flor combines her talents as both a designer and an illustrator in the drawing of beautiful letters. Based in Berlin, she has worked in the creative industry for over 12 years with an emphasis on type design, lettering and illustration. Working by hand as well as digitally she has developed an wonderfully elegant style with a love for detail and flourishes. lettering vs calligraphy ALSO SEE : “Lettering vs Calligraphy” http://www.letteringvscalligraphy.com/
Cool graphic design inspiration Full story : martinaflor.com
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Kerry Butters : Designing with words

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Kerry specializes in Web design articles, SEO writing, writing about all things technology inc. digital marketing, social media, cloud, gadgets, news, SEO, enterprise and consumer tech, mobile apps, mobile devices and much more!
      She and her husband, Martin, run markITwrite Ltd and while it’s mostly about writing … we are also going to include her in “Designing Women” because her writing is very important for graphic designers.
Cool graphic design inspiration Full story : SitePoint & markITwrite Ltd
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NEXT : Ariane, Jackie and Katherine brings your Soul To Call

Ariane’s Design Dimensionality

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Ariane Spanier Design is a Berlin based studio for graphic design and art direction, founded in 2005. She works with clients in the fields of culture such as galleries, artists, publishers, architects etc. what we like best is the dimensionality of her work, from pencils to sand piles.
      Check out some of her inspired work at arianespanier.com … but also don’t miss this interview at designboom.com
Cool graphic design inspiration Full story : ARIANE SPANIER DESIGN
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Jackie Matelski: Toast Ceramics simple, graphic design and comfort food

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Madison artist Jackie Matelski’s company, Toast Ceramics, captures her interest in mid-century design, a lifetime of artistic pursuits and her love for the simplest of comfort foods: toast.
      The business name also correlates with the baking or “toasting” of clay and Matelski’s hope that buyers will toast each other with her mugs and cups. Toast Ceramics is the culmination of many years of creative pursuits, including professional photography and an art degree from UW-Madison.
GO jackiematelski.com
Cool graphic design inspiration Full story : host.madison.com
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Katherine brings your : Soul To Call

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Julia Smith writes : We are living in the digital age and there are so many things to do on the internet. One of the things you should be doing is reading webcomics. They are exactly what they sound like: comics published on various websites that give the artists a kind of freedom that doesn’t exist in the comic book industry today. Webcomic artists set their own deadlines, decide their own content and are free from the kinds of censorship or political agenda that comes with working for one of the powerhouses of the comic industry like DC, MARVEL or Dark Horse.
      Graphic design student, K. E. Lang of Canada publishes her webcomic, “Soul To Call,” each week and follows her characters in the world after the Fall. Katherine, AKA Rommie is a graphic design student hailing from Canada. She loves music, cats, video games, and tormenting the specters in her head by drawing and writing about them.
Cool graphic design inspiration Full story : elm.washcoll.edu
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–>Stay tuned because we’ll be adding new entries all month long . . . and will continue into April! Remember, if you would like to suggest a Designing Woman for this series, there’s still time. Just check it out here:
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Fred Showker

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