Graphic Design Link Picks
resources from newsletter #0144 #0145 #0146 #147 #148 & #149
Article written on Monday, 01 Nov 2021
Let's do this! Just like the web design link picks I have one ready for the graphic design followers as well. My guess is that you'll like the diversity of what's in there. There a few nice Illustrator tutorials included as well as a few inspirational logo related articles. I've found the Ugmonk article about 11 Things I’ve Learned in 11 Years of Running a Business particularly interesting. There's also some music with a sunset mix from Tycho. Ideal music to work with. Make your own rain in Photoshop and much more. Go ahead and start exploring.
How to Draw a Back to School Character in Adobe Illustrator
In this tutorial you'll learn to make a raccoon. Let’s use the Pencil Tool and other handy tools of Adobe Illustrator to draw a funny raccoon wearing glasses. Don't be afraid as the difficulty is intermediate.
Volkswagen's New Logo & Identity
With its focus on pure electric cars, starting with the ID.3, VW introduces its new in-house designed logo & identity. I personally would have kept all lines equally thick, and tweak the tiny gap between the 2 letters, but that's just me ;)
Läckerol New Identity & Packaging Design
Beautiful redesign of the logo and packaging of this Swedish sugar- and calorie-free pastilles brand. Cool how they've totally reworked the logotype while perserving the brand's soul.
Designing at Google: 10 Things I Know to be True
Kenny Chen reflects back at his first year as a designer at Google and shares 10 things he learned that he hopes will help you with your design journey.
Strandbags New Identity Design
Beautiful redesign of this bags & wallets brand. Seeing only the word mark, I thought that's nothing special, but after viewing the complete identity design I was positively surprised. Love the elegant typographical and flexible style.
Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas
Even if you have never been there you probably can visualise the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign. Here's the story of its design
Badge Making Process
Salih Kucukagaone, one of my favorite identity designers has posted his time-lapse process of the new badge logo for his YouTube channel. I love watching these.
Vita's Identity Design
Love the patterns & colors, and how it all goes hand in hand with the packages, interior and food truck. All very inspiring and perfectly executed.
How to Design Delightful Dark Themes
Dark themes are the latest trend in app design. However, it is difficult to create a delightful dark theme. You cannot simply reuse our colors or invert our shades. Some tips by Teresa Man.
Why are Today’s Employers so Bad at Hiring?
If you are in a position to hire (or influence how hiring happens on your team), this article is full of ways to improve the process for you and your candidates.
Home Sweet Sushi Kids
Beautiful packaging design for this kids sushi product. Perfect example of a strong communication achieved solely with beautiful colors and great illustrations and patterns.
Fresh Folk
A nice illustration library of objects and people (each character comes with a range of poses, outfits and skin tones). Free if you leave your email address.
How to Make a Pickle Pattern Brush in Illustrator
You'll learn how to create a pickle brush and how to save it correctly as a new pattern brush by following a few tips and tricks that you will be able to apply to other Adobe Illustrator brushes as well.
Correos Brand Update
Watch the logo evolution —static and animated— of the national postal service of Spain. Love how they managed to simplify this logo mark in such subtle way. The most drastic update here is that the wordmark is completely dropped. Don't forget to scroll all the way down to check out the typeface, the responsive set of icons, and much much more.
11 Things I’ve Learned in 11 Years of Running a Business
A decade ago Ugmonk started as a side project to design a few high-quality tees. Now it has grown to nice design items as well. This post has a list of 11 lessons Jeff Sheldon learned about building and running an independent brand.
Recursive | Recursive
Check out Recursive, a variable font that can switch between sans & mono styles, not to mention other adjustments.
MacOS Wallpaper Quest Sends Photo Crew on Epic Road Trip
We've all used these beautiful backgrounds at some point. A group of friends had this idea to try to recreate every default Apple wallpaper during a week long road trip
The Latest in the Signalnoise Universe: Off the Grid with James White
James White is the person behind the neon nostalgic 80's universe. Today James takes us back to his humble beginnings, shares what’s new with Signalnoise, and lends some powerful advice to all creatives on the hunt for their voice.
Tycho's Chill Two Hour Sunrise Set From Burning Man
I've never been to Burning Man but each year I look forward to Tycho’s annual Sunrise Set. Ideal music to work with.
Add Dramatic Rain to a Photo in Photoshop
This tutorial is labeled beginner friendly but it's pretty advanced imho. It's well explained and I wouldn't be able to pull it off without following this.
3 Positively Clever Ways to use Negative Space in Logo Design
Try designing a logo that makes clever use out of negative space isn't the easiest task. This article describes three of these different methods.
The Redefining Women Icon Collection
Adobe Design contributed to this Noun Project effort to better represent women in iconography. The result, 60+ new, public domain icons. Fantastic work.
Designing Accessible Color Systems
Learn how the Stripe team designed a color system with hand-picked, vibrant colors that also pass the accessibility test.
