We never seem to slow down, but in many situations the creative spirit needs ‘rest’ — so sit down and take it easy while you go through this week’s creative tidbits. The need for creative inspiration goes on …. in this edition :
- Looking at the artwork of the Criterion Collection
- The Colorful History of California Graphic Design
- Design App is Apple’s App of the Year runner-up
- A Photo Exhibit That Examines Climate Change
- Inside the Cinelli and Columbus factories
- How big data is revolutionizing design
- 6 Common Mistakes in Graphic Design
- How To Design A Killer Gig Poster
- Why Aren’t You Creative?
- … and more!
We never seem to slow down, but in many situations the creative spirit needs ‘rest’ — so sit down and take it easy while you go through this week’s creative tidbits. The need for creative inspiration goes on …. in this edition :- Looking at the artwork of the Criterion Collection
- The Colorful History of California Graphic Design
- Design App is Apple’s App of the Year runner-up
- A Photo Exhibit That Examines Climate Change
- Inside the Cinelli and Columbus factories
- How big data is revolutionizing design
- 6 Common Mistakes in Graphic Design
- How To Design A Killer Gig Poster
- Why Aren’t You Creative?
- … and more!
Design App is Apple’s App of the Year runner-up
Professional Graphic Design Software for the Mac. Affinity Designer is the fastest, smoothest, most precise vector graphic design software available. Whether you’re working on graphics for marketing materials, websites, icons, UI design or just like creating cool concept art, Affinity Designer will revolutionize how you work.
t takes full advantage of OS X technologies such as OpenGL, Grand Central Dispatch, Core Graphics and is fully optimized for 64-bit and multi-core processors to squeeze every ounce of available performance from your hardware – so it’s seriously fast. Whether it’s a 100 megapixel image or the most complex vector drawing with thousands of curves, you still pan and zoom at 60fps, move objects in correct z-order and see live views of all adjustments, brushes and effects as you’re working with no compromise. Full story : Serif Labs Take a look at thisA Photo Exhibit That Examines Climate Change
Photographers play a critical role in driving home the effects of climate change—just try not to shudder after seeing a picture of a flood-ravaged city not so different than our own.
Four such image makers will be showcased this month in “Sink or Swim: Designing for a Sea Change,” an exhibition curated by writer and KCRW host Frances Anderton. Full story : la-confidential-magazine.com Take a look at thisNEXT : Big Data, Creativity and Design Mistakes
How big data is revolutionizing design
Picture an architect laboring over a blueprint, or an auto designer working out the basics of next year’s model. Once upon a time, this mental image probably included a drafting table and a clay model, but not much else.
With some variation, those were creative tools that designers, architects and artists relied on to render their inspirations, refine them into concepts, and finalize them into market-ready products. Full story : Paul Papas, IBM ~ Wired Take a look at thisWhy Aren’t You Creative?
Vice president publishing, NACS Media Group, at NACS, Erin Pressley writes :
My daughter is wildly creative at nine years old. She dances, she paints, she draws and she comes up with the most unique turns of phrases. Last week, after a particularly difficult night of sleep, she explained to me that she was “nightmaring” all night. What a beautifully invented word! I read recently, in a book titled Out of Our Minds, that all of us are born with this kind of unbridled creativity. Author Ken Robinson defines this creativity as “the process of having original ideas that have value.” Full story : Erin Pressley Take a look at this6 Common Mistakes in Graphic Design
There is nothing new in this article … these rules have been rules for the past 50 years or so. But it’s always important to revisit them, or, for you young designers, to learn them for the first time!
Graphic Designers have to be very detail oriented and often are required to wear more than one hat at a time. This can lead to simple mistakes and oversights. Here are some common graphic design mistakes and how to avoid them. Full story : Roberto Blake ~ Creative Pro Take a look at thisLooking at the artwork of the Criterion Collection
What makes the Criterion Collection what it is to be the movies.
No other video distributor has such an impressive, even indispensable catalog. That tilted broken-circle logo designates not just a company but a standard. If all the cinematheques and archives went up in smoke, so long as the Criterion Collection remained intact, a pretty good account of film history would survive. Full story : Boston Globe Take a look at thisNEXT : Killer Gig Posters, design at work, and California Design
How To Design A Killer Gig Poster
Four Designers speak to designing a killer poster. You’ll enjoy this
Adam Collins This brilliant graphic design artist is responsible for some of the finest poster work circulating around Australia right now. Sophie Miles Having cut her teeth as a radio announcer on the likes of 3CR and 3PBS to working as a freelance music journalist . . . Jack Stavrakis, a band booker at Melbourne live music venue Full story : www.tonedeaf.com.au Take a look at thisInside the Cinelli and Columbus factories
Behind nondescript walls, artisan pedigree meets strong artistic affection
From the outside, the adjacent buildings blend in with anonymous-looking warehouses, factories and other surrounding enterprises. There are no signs on the gates or walls to indicate the wealth of history, creativity and craftsmanship that lies behind them. Full story : www.bikeradar.com Take a look at thisThe Colorful History of California Graphic Design
Louise Sandhaus’s new book, “Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California & Graphic Design 1936-1986” ($55, Metropolis Books), is a collection of visual artifacts as eclectic as California itself. The volume begins in the year that the L.A. transplant Merle Armitage designed the nontraditionally laid-out book “Igor Stravinsky” and ends with April Greiman’s “Does it Make Sense,” a life-size digital nude self-portrait that heralded the arrival of Macintosh computer design. 1938922611 Full story : New York Times Magazine Blog Take a look at thisWhat did you miss in the last
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We never seem to slow down, but in many situations the creative spirit needs ‘rest’ — so sit down and take it easy while you go through this week’s creative tidbits. The need for creative inspiration goes on …. in this edition :
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Louise Sandhaus’s new book, 
