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Miscellaneous | Other Kinds of Whatnot
See the Optical Illusion Hidden in the MLB Logo
The silhouetted player in the MLB logo is ambiguous in more ways than one.
Visual Arts | Visual Arts
The Top 10 Best Free Fonts for Designers in 2023
For amazing typographic designs in the year 2023, take advantage of our top 10 free fonts selection that graphic designers can download.
Visual Arts | Design & Illustration
I'm A Graphic Designer — & I Made $200K By Starting My Own Business
In our series My Salary Story, women with long-term career experience open up about the most intimate details of their jobs: compensation.
Visual Arts | Design
This app is like Shazam for fonts
WhatTheFont is a Shazam for fonts — a designer’s dream. The app is a mobile version of the website previously developed by MyFonts, and recognizes any font you point at with your camera, including a variation of similar fonts to go with it. It also le
Visual Arts | Art & Design
This cool tool deletes the background from images so you don’t have to use Photoshop | TechCrunch
If you’re tired of firing up Photoshop for lightweight image editing tasks, this little tool is good news for you. Called Remove.bg, it can clear out the background of an image in seconds, no lassoing or any other editing hassle required. Because it use
Visual Arts | Visual Arts
David Klein's Magnificent TWA Posters - Flashbak
The illustrator and artist David Klein is best known today for his glorious posters for the Howard Hughes owned Trans World Airlines in the 1950s and 1960s. TWA at the time was one of the world’s most well known and admired airlines. It became the f
Visual Arts | Design
The Design Theory Behind Amazon’s $5.6 Billion Success
Amazon’s success brings into relief a principle that is sometimes hard to swallow in the design community: Successful design is not necessarily beautiful.
Visual Arts | Design
I Tested 10 Photoshop Alternatives to See How They Stack Up
Photography and Camera News, Reviews, and Inspiration
Miscellaneous | Other Kinds of Whatnot
Design Week’s 10 biggest stories of 2016 - Design Week Design Week
The news that got you talking this year – we look at the 10 most-read stories across Design Week this year.
Business & Finance | Advertising/Marketing
Optical corrections every logo designer should know about – Logo Geek
When designing a logo sometimes grid systems alone are not the solution - optical corrections should be used. This blog discusses the illusions & fixes.
Visual Arts | Art & Design
MeTV Network | These 21 old logos show that major brands looked much different in the 1960s
Rewind the clock half a century and the grocery shelves and neon-lit roadsides of America look much different. While many of our most recognized brands have been around for decades, their looks have evolved. Mascots come and go. Colors change with the sty
Business & Finance | Advertising/Marketing
The Precarious State Of Logo Design | Co.Design | business + design
Branding launches have morphed into a design industry telenovela. Here's how firms are adapting.
Visual Arts | Design
Assembly for iOS is a graphic design app for beginners and pros alike
Assembly is an iOS app that makes graphic design accessible, regardless of your experience or lack there of. Ok, so it’s not going to be winning you any pr
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11 More Hidden Messages in Company Logos | Mental Floss
As we've mentioned before, some logos like to sneak in some hidden symbols and meanings. Some might have been staring at you right in the face without you noticing.
Science & Technology | Tech
A fight is brewing over ads in the 'open-source Photoshop'
Far from just being that character in Pulp Fiction, GIMP is also an open-source alternative to Photoshop that's given away freely for all to use. Unfortu
Visual Arts | Art & Design
12 beautiful airline posters from the 'Mad Men' era from the British Airways Heritage Centre - Business Insider
In the "Mad Men" TV series, fictional ad agency Sterling Cooper memorably creates ads and concepts for airlines including Mohawk and American Airlines.
Visual Arts | Visual Arts
25 Fantastic and Funny Photos Celebrate Photoshop's 25th Birthday - My Modern Met
Happy Birthday, Photoshop! Twenty-five years ago, this week, a little graphics editing program named Photoshop was born. Fast forward a few decades and now we…
Visual Arts | Visual Arts
Using Levels in Photoshop to Image Correct Color and Contrast
You will learn how to colour correct your images and enhance contrast using the Levels Tool in Photoshop
Visual Arts | Visual Arts
The World of Mad Men Through a 21st-Century Lens
Mad Men fans will just love this graphic series created by the designers at Shutterstock. Entitled Mod Men: The World of Mad Men Through a 21st-Century Lens, t…
Miscellaneous | Other Kinds of Whatnot
25 Things Hiding in Sports Logos
We've looked at hidden messages in corporate logos before. Here are some examples from the world of sports, some more obvious than others.
Science & Technology | TECH
7 Tech Logos Before They Became Iconic
A great logo encapsulates the personality and promise of the business behind it. Some of the world’s most ubiquitous logos had humble beginnings.
