Typography Design Inspiration : This article is part of the Weekly Inspiration from Gillde. We bring you interesting content by designers, artists and photographers from around the world who pursue their passion and create magnificent artwork. We want to share high-quality designs to inspire your days and weeks and help you in your creative process.
Another set of GIFs and stickers created during May and uploaded to GIPHY to be used across all social platforms. This months inclusion features heavily on stretching & kinetic type with the odd exploration into 3D.
Type is a project that invites designers, illustrators and graphic artists to express their particular interpretation of the letters and numbers of the Latin Alphabet. In my works, I created a structure using print screen, type distortion and various photos. In my works, I created a structure using print screen, type distortion and various photos. I tried to create a family that is completely different from each other without rules. You can click on it to see the artwork in high resolution. You can visit the Instagram account for more.
We had the pleasure to design some type for NIKE. Along with three different fonts, we designed proposals for the retail design and campaign for the new NIKE shop at the Chelsea Football Club Stadium.
This article is part of the Weekly Inspiration from Gillde. We bring you interesting content by designers, artists and photographers from around the world who pursue their passion and create magnificent artwork. We want to share high-quality designs to inspire your days and weeks and help you in your creative process.
Best Packaging Design Inspiration : This article is part of the Weekly Inspiration from Gillde. We bring you interesting content by designers, artists and photographers from around the world who pursue their passion and create magnificent artwork. We want to share high-quality designs to inspire your days and weeks and help you in your creative process.
designers used illustrations and patterns to express their world views created from their own interpretations of the theme, “FUNxWAVE”, which resulted in a design that shows each of the members’ individuality.
Croissant Café & Bakery / Branding By Dave Arustamyan
My first branding project, which has been under development for almost one month. Since the beginning of the work, I have repeatedly changed it’s style and as a result I have chosen the most suitable one. This project is a concept idea. I’ll be glad to see your feedback and suggestions. Thank you for the attention!
The mooncake design is a collaboration with a Hong Kong-based social enterprise called mosi mosi. It is an inclusive design studio aims to help people with disabilities to have a better living. The mooncake packaging cooperates with autism people. Comma Leung from mosi mosi has organized art workshops and co-design patterns with the disabled artist Mike Ng, By making use of the illustration to create three sets of patterns. In the end, mosi mosi will share a percentage of the profits to the autism artist to bring empowerment to the disabled communities.
Tessere olive oil By Constantin Bolimond , Tamara Vareyko , Nikita Bulgakov
TESSERE olive oil Originally, the olives are harvested by hand, or by comb, when the fruit becomes very green. A cloth is used to spread under the olive trees and under no circumstances the fruit is picked from the ground. The olives are then transported by plastic rigid perforated boxes or bags with a capacity of 30-50kg. The time from the production to the pressing of the olive oil does not exceed 24 hours from the harvest to the production. The preservation of the olives until their pressing must be done in a cool place, and it is forbidden to store in a field full with olive trees, where it is exposed to various natural and microbiological hazards.
The ice-cream shop ” Bedont” was founded in 1921 with the intuition of offering a quality product to Italian know-how. The language used in communication, speaks to the customer creating engagement with a brand, establishing a lasting relationship.
The Brand must speak in a direct, simple way through images and menuboards. It must be clear the message of a product prepared with quality products and mastery of traditional recipes. Innovating but with strong ties to the past. Tradition and innovation are the double messages that underlie this project.
LUUX is a Swiss company founded by two women, which helps to build luxury brands, mainly focusing on perfumes. The double U means VALERIA & VIRGINIA (U = V in latin). ‘LUX’ means ‘light’ in latin, that’s why I designed a sun symbol as the part of the logo. I wanted to make a shiny and warm feeling, therefore I am mixing the elegant, pure pastel pink and the pale butter colors with a strong, vivid orange. The gold always symbolized the real luxury lifestyle. The playful, fashionable but a bit edgy logotype follows nowdays luxury trends, what is not always conservative but rather qualiutative and characterful.
Lille P. Identity By Frank Oslo , Geir Solem Lysbakken , Elisabeth Limi
Lille P. is a café retailer placed in shopping malls. Their concept is based on providing healthy take away food that is hand-made at the spot, as well as a comfortable environment for a cup of coffee and a quick meal. They also offer each and every customer the chance to customize their own food experience.The challenge was to make a design that is strong and playful with a warm welcoming atmosphere in a busy and noisy indoor surrounding. We built the design around a charming logo placed in a soft circle, symbolizing harmony of eating good healthy food that lasts through the day.
Daily Dose of Design Inspiration : For this Daily we are selecting in digital art, graphic design, photography, illustration and more; our sources are usually from Behance, Dribbble or Unsplash.
it’s an opportunity to feature work from other designers, artists, and creators in general that we haven’t had the chance to write or featured.
Adobe Photoshop is one of the most popular and used graphics editing software. It was developed and published by Adobe Incorporation. Its uses are not only limited to graphics editing alone, but digital art as a whole.
PROS
Very widely used. This means that there are a lot of learning resources. Best resources for learning Photoshop can be found at the Adobe Website, PSDDude Photoshop Tutorials and Tuts+.
It has probably the most advanced engine for photo editing. In recent years Adobe perfected its machine learning & AI assist (Adobe Sensei Engine) that can do automated photo editing (content aware fill, content aware scale, etc)
Batch processing with Photoshop actions
Supports masks, alpha compositing and several tools
CONS
Quite costly and you need a powerful computer.
Updates are mandatory which means that in theory you are not allowed to use versions older than the latest. This creates some nasty problems with incompatible features (eg. old actions might not work anymore)
Has limited and selected features for iPad users
Limited support for raster and vector images like SVG files.
Can be very intimidating for a beginner graphic designer
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a graphic designing and editing software used for image editing and retouching. It can also be used to perform specialized editing and digital art designs.
PROS
It’s free and easy enough to use
Opens almost all file formats
Wide range of tools and features
Easily expandable and supports command line batch mode
CONS
May not have all features and user tools user needs to complete a task
Interface is cluttered and almost jam packed
Difficult to work with text
Unstable and prone to crashing in some installations
CorelDRAW is a vector graphics editor used to create logos, flexes, invitation cards and any kind of vector designing based on the lining. It has a wide range of existing images and logos that can be customized.
PROS
Very effective tool to design two dimensional images such as posters and logos
Allows user to create customized logos and posters
Allows users to import/export images
User friendly interface
Good for beginners and easy to use.
CONS
Has many features that might take a long time to learn.
Errors on drawings can be easily spotted, especially when images are enlarged
Performance issues and instability when working with large or complex documents
Xara Designer PRO X or Xara for short is an advanced but easy to use graphic design tool available on Windows. It allows its users to create, edit, and design media such as web pages, photos, and other illustrations easily. It has tons of features that make it an amazing graphic design tool and it is available at affordable prices of about $299 per year.
PROS
Easy to use
Drag and drop features
Anti-aliasing features that speed up the editing process
Can zoom up to 25,000% and more
Capable of syncing files with Dropbox and Google Drive
Supports importing and exporting Adobe PSD files, including layer support, alpha channel, and 16-bit color and CMYK layer conversion
Array of tools for drawing, 3D extrude, text handling, blends, page layout, live effects, transparency and feathering, and shadows and contours
CONS
Only available for Windows
Its advanced features are sometimes hard to use
The masking feature is cumbersome and difficult to understand
Procreate is a raster editor software for graphic design and digital painting. It is designed for iPad users to explore their artistic possibilities. It comes with many classic and digital art tools
PROS
It gives the natural feel of physical drawing.
Supports import/export to Adobe Photoshop
Can be used by beginners and professionals alike.
CONS
It was designed specifically for iOS and iPad users
Has limited abilities and features, edit and render texts and vector graphics.
Pricing Plan: FREE (option for Pro subscription from $9.99/mo – $30/mo)
Description
Canva is a graphic design platform that allows users create images, fonts and illustrations tool. It is very popular graphic design tool that allows social media users to create posters, graphics and presentations.
PROS
Offers a wide range of easy-to-use designed templates
Allows for the import of customized photos and images
A huge library of templates and designs that can be used to make simple designs
CONS
Maximum functions are only available to Canva Pro users-subscribed users
Limited free icons, illustrations and graphic elements
PicMonkey is an online photo editing and graphic design service. It transcends the regular photo editing tool. It also comes with a wide selection of graphic elements such as: greeting cards, wedding invitation cards, announcements cards, business cards etc
PROS
Has an integrated cloud storage options where users can save pictures
Saved pictures are re-editable
Easy-to-use interface
Easy clicks and instant navigation of tools to edit image
CONS
May be slow to load on browser
Only premium users have access to full package and full design templates
Pixteller is particularly remarkable for its simplicity and easy navigation. Its Easy-to-Use Design & Animation tools can be used by anyone to create Images, GIFs & Videos for personal or business use, with no special know-how.
PROS
Great for personal or business use.
Can be used by everyone and anyone.
Doesn’t need special editing or digital skills to navigate
BeFunky is an excellent photo editing application with a wide range of picture editing tools. You can do a whole lot of activities like resizing, cropping and filtering options. With its 30+ tools, there’s a whole lot of effects you can bring to images.
PROS
Well-designed and functional interface
User friendly and easy to manipulate
Has an undo button to change a previous photo effect
CONS
It’s best for Android phones and users.
Plus account where users get to enjoy optimal use of the app isn’t free
Pricing Plan: FREE (option for Advanced and PRO $3.99/mo — $14.99/mo)
Description
Pixlr is a popular online photo editing application. It has an improved and advanced AI intelligence and Machine Learning used as a tool to enhance and improve photo outlook.
PROS
Easy to use and master for beginners.
Modern photo editing features and tools
Has different packages for beginners and pros.(Pixlr X and E respectively)
Availability of wide range of stickers, borders and other graphic elements just to perfect your photo editing.
AI powered tools for quick and professional editing
CONS
Is not compatible with all image and file formats
Limited features for text
There aren’t too many tutorials on how to use the tool
Adobe Illustrator is unarguably the most popular vector graphics editor for creating print or web. So far, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator have been the standard for creating logos, artworks, fonts, graphics comics and concept arts.
PROS
Advanced and sophisticated graphics tool
Has a wide range of tools and features.
Creates both print and web graphics.
It’s the standard for all other vector graphics.
CONS
No canvas rotation feature (users have been asking it for a long time)
Affinity is a graphics vector design software and shape drawing tool. It supports raster brushes and custom vector, dynamic symbols, stroke stabilization, text style management, and vector/pixel export options. It can be used to create graphics art and digital design.
PROS
Good alternative for Adobe Illustrator
Compatible with most graphics file formats
Can import data from files, especially Adobe Freehand (specifically versions 10 & MX)
Allows user to set up grid and isometric video game graphics.
Very intuitive and flexible gradient tools
Seamless in-application switching between vector and raster graphics editing (Affinity Designer)
Great tools for isometric design
CONS
Lacks image tracing
Doesn’t allow export of .AI files
Doesn’t provide tools for text warping
A bit of a complicated UI and sometimes it’s hard to find a certain tool
Has some minor performance issues on older computers
No support for RTL/BIDI languages
The brush engine isn’t as developed as with other tools
Pricing Plan: FREE (option to upgrade to PRO $49/yr)
Description
A free vector design application that’s great for logo making, photo manipulation, illustrations and animations. You can use Gravit online with their cloud-based software — though some reviews claim that it runs a bit slower than the locally-installed version. The layout is sleek and fully customizable.
Vectr is free, intuitive, simple,yet powerful to perform vector graphics editing tool. It is used by bloggers, digital marketers and website designers.
PROS
Handy and easy for new users of vector
User friendly interface
CONS
Limited templates for users
It’s mostly best for simple tasks and small projects.
Tailor Brands is a graphic design tool for quickly generating a logo. They have a wizard like logo building process, a very good tool for those with little design experience.
PROS
Design logo
Quick Images
Lots of presets
Covers a range of tasks (e.g. socal media)
Relatively cheap
Great for those with little experience
CONS
Not the most advanced tool for logo design
There is no free trial
Limited customization options of the end result
In Conclusion
Doesn’t matter if you are into vector graphics, logo design, photo editing, marketing design, etc. I hope that you found this list useful. For sure I could not include ALL of them, but I did try to include the most important graphic design software and the most trending graphic design software in 2020.
If you are looking for a tool for your next graphic design project, now you know what your options are regarding graphic design software.
Daily Dose of Design Inspiration : For this Daily we are selecting in digital art, graphic design, photography, illustration and more; our sources are usually from Behance, Dribbble or Unsplash.
it’s an opportunity to feature work from other designers, artists, and creators in general that we haven’t had the chance to write or featured.
Typography Design Inspiration : This article is part of the Weekly Inspiration from Gillde. We bring you interesting content by designers, artists and photographers from around the world who pursue their passion and create magnificent artwork. We want to share high-quality designs to inspire your days and weeks and help you in your creative process.
3D Type sculptures completed for 36 Days of Type, a project that invites designers, illustrators and graphic artists to give their unique view on letters and numbers for 36 days of nonstop creativity.
The last couple of months I’ve been mixing letters and illustration to see how I can marge those 2 things I love. It’s been a fun process that will continue throughout the year!
Daily Dose Design Inspiration : For this Daily we are selecting in digital art, graphic design, photography, illustration and more; our sources are usually from Behance, Dribbble or Unsplash.
it’s an opportunity to feature work from other designers, artists, and creators in general that we haven’t had the chance to write or featured.
I had the pleasure to create this opening for Mtv top 100 Germany It was really interesting for me explore and create some music-machines mixing musical instruments with gear and mechanism , each machines get points in a sort of challenge between different music style.
Coolorist is a manufacturer and distributor of acrylic paints. The task was to develop the naming, logo, branding and appearance of the product packaging. The logo and naming reflect the main essence of the brand. The colorist – for the great creators. The company’s mission is to provide all its resources to cool artists.
How to perfect your brand presentation : Back in the day, the concept of a full “brand identity design” applied mostly to major corporations with a huge marketing presence. Everyone else got along well enough with just a logo; at best, one that could be stamped on letterhead and business cards too.
Now, even small businesses have to think right from the start about how their brand is going to work across a website (on several types of device), social media, print media, product packaging and swag; and, yes, letterhead and business cards as well.
And you, the designer, have to find a way to present your design in a way that proves it is up to the task. How on earth do you fill such a tall order?
To find the answer, we sifted through the best, most professional and innovative brand presentations and campaigns of 2016—among them Grubhub, Guinness, AT&T and the Tate—to see how the world’s best design firms presented their initial work. We grouped our findings into the 10 categories below.
Most logos have an underlying concept or idea, even a simple one. Manual’s design for Fort Point Beer Company, for example, uses one of the steel trusses from a picturesque bridge near the brewery’s location. By including a handsome photograph of this object in their brand presentation, they really make their concept click.
The same firm also designed a new identity for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. By itself it might just look like an abstract polygon, but in fact the concept was based on the unique shape of Yerba Buena’s site, and is also meant to represent arrows expanding outward to signify growth. The concept behind this one is a little less obvious, so their map image, which they also animated to illustrate the expansion component, really makes a difference.
As any art lover will tell you, knowing the story behind how a great work was created can really add to your appreciation of it. The same goes for your branding work. DesignBridge had an especially impressive process in creating Guinness’ new, more realistic harp logo. They went to one of the oldest harp manufacturers in the United Kingdom to actually spend time with the instruments and capture their visual essence. They make sure to highlight this special effort in their brand presentation, and also include sketches to show their working process.
Interbrand took a simple but effective approach in their brand presentation for AT&T. They simply included a collage of photographs documenting their creative process. It gives a sense of the many iterations they considered before arriving at the finished product.
If a company has hired you to create their first ever brand identity, then you have a clean slate. But if you are replacing an existing one, then you need to make an extra effort to demonstrate how your work is superior to what came before. Wolff Olins‘ approach was to juxtapose their sleek new design (shown at left above) with a motley collage of old brand materials (right), which together show how crude and disjointed the old brand had become.
Interbrand’s AT&T design is very similar to the old one. Their task was not a complete overhaul, but rather a small tweak to make the brand more effective across new 21st century media. Thus, their approach to presenting their work was simply to overlay their new design on top of the old one and point out its small but significant improvements.
Typographic wordmark designs require a tremendous amount of precise crafting. Unfortunately, to a layperson client, it might look like you did little more than select a font. To show them that your design is more than “just a font,” do what Uber did: go in to detail with a grid that shows all the specific lengths, widths and angles that make your wordmark aesthetically successful.
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5. Show your design’s flexibility
Recognize that hexagon? It’s the outline of Manual’s logo for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (discussed earlier). This image is a mockup of how their design could be modified to visually organize Yerba Buena’s advertisements, season catalogs or even signage. Such flexibility is a key value in contemporary branding. If you can show that your design can unify a complex platform of marketing elements, you will be in good shape.
Can you spot the logo here, by Interbrand Australia for Australian Design Center? This “modular” logo’s basic form is the third one from the left, consisting of three simple blocks topped by a triangle. Its genius lies in its flexibility: it is able to expand to incorporate other visual and textual elements, or contract into smaller shapes to fit on smaller screen sizes. If the designer had simply presented the logo’s primary form to the client, it might have seemed ridiculously simple. But by showing its various iterations, it looks marvelously versatile.
Being flexible doesn’t have to be as complicated as Australian Design Centre’s acrobatic manuever. Wolff Olins made a more simple effort to show how their elegant wordmark can shift and bend into different formations while still being recognizable as the brand that it is.
This suggestion is similar to the last one, but not quite the same. Proving flexibility means showing your design is capable of shape shifting to work across different environments. Proving adaptability means showing how one single design can maintain its integrity within different parameters. Here, Interbrand shows its client how their logo can look good in front of white backgrounds, black backgrounds, colored backgrounds and photographs—something that was not true of the old, three dimensional looking design.
Another example is Design Bridge’s Guinness logo. Here they show how it still looks good in black and white, and in an embossed gold form. Very handsome indeed.
The color scheme is one of the most tricky and ineffable, yet crucially important, aspects of a brand identity design. There are tons of questionable studies out there about the psychology of color, but at the end of the day it largely comes down to sensible taste. How do you convey something like that to a client? Skip the Pantone swatches and demonstrate your color scheme using real brand elements, like Manual did with their stationery for YBCA.
Uber took a more more innovative, adaptable approach to color: the color scheme and graphic background patterns for their app change depending on one’s location in the world. This idea is somewhat opaque in theory, so their visual demonstration is very helpful. Each of these collages shows a city and a typical local pattern or landscape, next to the color schemes into which these translate.
Kudos to you if you have the skills to create a custom typeface for your client, like Enchilada (great name, by the way) did for Rotterdams Harmonisch Orkest. But even if you’re just selecting a typeface from existing options—which is totally fine—it’s still a good idea to do what Enchilada did and present an industry-standard sample to your client. Take Enchilada’s cue and ditch “Lorem ipsum” in favor of a brief explanation of why your typeface is the right choice for the brand.
Showing off a product packaging design to a client is especially difficult, because you have to convey something three-dimensional using just two. Roll-outs are of course a necessary component, but it’s also a smart idea to show how the design will look in real life. This Budweiser mockup by Jones Knowles Ritchie is especially effective because of how they angle each bottle to provide a view of the design as a whole.
This image by Manual for Fort Point is also a lesson in presentation. By filling up the whole frame with their can designs, rather than having them stand before a white background, they create a much more compelling image.
Like we said at the start, nowadays designers must assume that their design will appear absolutely everywhere, from tote bags to iPhone screens to architecture. North does a good job of showing how their refresh of the Tate brand will look on pins, t-shirts and even shoes. This photo looks like it is of actual merchandise, but if you are creating a brand presentation for a client, you could easily do something similar in mockup form.
This image of Interbrand Australia’s design for Australian Design Centre conveys an important lesson: always try to show how your brand work will look in the actual space where it is going to appear—not just a generic one. If you can add it to a photograph with real people, all the better.
Lastly, don’t forget to keep in mind the hottest, newest technology. Wolf Ollins was quick to show its client, Grubhub, how their design would look on an Apple Watch interface.
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