The Design Update: August 2016

Wednesday, 31 August 2016

The impact good copy can have on a product

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted September 01, 2016 at 05:36AM by rb6teen http://ift.tt/2bJmUpA

Coin Design: Futurama BENDER Hobo Nickel - Carved from a 1921 Morgan Dollar (90% silver, 10% copper) with added 14k gold inlays, by the Russian artist Roman Booteen

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted September 01, 2016 at 05:57AM by tellman1257 http://ift.tt/2bDutCJ

Richard Sapper's dark, alternate universe of tech design

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted September 01, 2016 at 02:39AM by jessek http://ift.tt/2cg3Vr9

What's the best free way to learn vector art for a complete beginner?

I'm trying to get into vector art, but haven't found any good tutorial that gives you a good grasp on the basics. Could you guys suggest me anything?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted September 01, 2016 at 01:58AM by Khiv_ http://ift.tt/2bIM0F4

How to Ditch Lorem Ipsum and Start Using Real Data in Your Designs

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 31, 2016 at 09:45PM by speckz http://ift.tt/2bSAsUP

Question for professional graphic designers...

How do you guys go about creating an invoice for your clients?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 31, 2016 at 08:11PM by JayKneeGrow http://ift.tt/2bDdGOz

My old boss designed these playing cards..when people ask "how do you do this style?" this has the answer. Manually.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 31, 2016 at 07:35PM by austinmiles http://ift.tt/2bD4FFf

Macbook for designer - Which one?

Hi guys

Just wanted to get your opinion on a matter. I need to purchase a Macbook for a new designer to join us soon.

I am looking at the Macbook Pro 15" and I saw there are 2 versions. One with and one without an AMD Radeon R9.

How much of an performance bonus can one expect from using Photoshop/Illustrator etc with the AMD version as compared to the "stock" version?

There's a significant price jump between the two models and I am just wondering if it's worth bumping up to the "deluxe" version

Thanks in advance everyone!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 31, 2016 at 06:03PM by SupremeHumanBeing http://ift.tt/2c0MZV7

Design Help? Laying out a location page

Hey Design pros, does anyone have any examples of LOCATION pages that are for maybe doctors office that they think is really sharp?

I'm redesigning my works site and trying to figure out how to do the Location pages. Each has hours (some have like 4 sets of hours), services, address, map. I'm having trouble figuring out the best way to layout this information, while still using 1/3rd of the page for a Sidebar.

Any suggestions?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 31, 2016 at 06:44PM by robocop201 http://ift.tt/2crpAxM

Does anyone here know any fonts similar to these? all-caps, circular-Os, etc?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 31, 2016 at 04:18PM by -popgoes http://ift.tt/2bGW5Co

Bloomberg Businessweek cover september issue (gif)

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 31, 2016 at 03:45PM by gorkins http://ift.tt/2bCmQLi

Where on the internet do get inspiration from?

I'm thinking of websites that have a large amount of just random pictures and design elements that scrolling through give you ideas for whatever you're currently working on.

One of my go-to's is Designspiration

Does anyone know of some others they really like?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 31, 2016 at 01:54PM by Fa11enAngeLIV http://ift.tt/2bBLXui

Why Won't Apple Fix The iPhone's One Huge Design Flaw

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 31, 2016 at 01:02PM by kouks http://ift.tt/2bGdriU

Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Have a question involving my title

Alright so I'm getting a Graphic Design degree right now. I love graphic design and honestly all kinds of design jobs really seem to interest me. My degree covers marketing, graphic design, all major arts, and industrial design. My major being Graphic Design but with my degree covering such a vast majority of things ( also including video production but that's not what I'm talking about here ) will I be able to advertise myself as just a designed and possibly get jobs in the industrial design field? Or because of the title of my degree am I only limited to graphic design jobs?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 31, 2016 at 03:06AM by Teyvo http://ift.tt/2bECjaS

Google should make this a profile option

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 31, 2016 at 03:37AM by guineapirate http://ift.tt/2c75BzR

Can anyone out there help me identify this font?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 31, 2016 at 12:32AM by theincrediblemrwoto http://ift.tt/2bQBEGx

innovative ways of learning design?

Hello everyone i'm doing some research and i'd like to ask all of you, if you ever did college for design or if you know any college that teaches design in any way that is out of standart for exemple using VR or doing projects in colaboration with communities, any exemple helps! Also please if you can and are confortable with, state name of institution.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 30, 2016 at 10:58PM by Brave33 http://ift.tt/2bz1IYX

The Making of 7 Iconic Movie Posters (including Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, and Babe)

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 30, 2016 at 09:49PM by Tanglebrook http://ift.tt/2bYjL9m

From a Product Perspective

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 30, 2016 at 10:07PM by julian88888888 http://ift.tt/2c6oLGe

The History of Numbers & Why They Look the Way They Do

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 30, 2016 at 07:45PM by articulateantagonist http://ift.tt/2c97L2g

I'm making a sketchbook for iPhone designers like me. what do you think?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 30, 2016 at 07:17PM by meholstein http://ift.tt/2bDmJfF

Think Less. Design Better.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 30, 2016 at 05:48PM by speckz http://ift.tt/2bPJ39a

iPad Air 2 or Mini 4 For Digital Painting/Design? (X-Post From DigialPainting)

Hi, my budget is limited with this devices. I used Wacom Intuos before for a while and actually I like it. But I want to buy something mobile. I don't want to carry my notebook and Intuos. Anyway, I sold my Intuos few months ago. I'm planning to buy Air 2 or Mini 4 and pressure sensitive pen. So I got few questions:

Is 9.7" really worth over 7.9"?
Will iPad + pressure stylus feel good as Intuos + PC? (or even better)
Will iOS apps for drawing/digital painting be good enogh for improving myself?
Is there anybody using iPad + stylus as a main device?

Note: I'm just hobbyist, not a professional.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 30, 2016 at 05:13PM by khanjui http://ift.tt/2cc6vOO

Collection of Ted Talks from tubikstudio on Type/Design.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 30, 2016 at 04:29PM by tjuk http://ift.tt/2bPibYo

Last time, it was screenprinted concrete. This time, I made Letterpress Copper wedding invitations.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 30, 2016 at 12:09PM by mwengerd http://ift.tt/2bX0ogE

Have you ever had this problem in indesign?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 30, 2016 at 12:17PM by craytagger http://ift.tt/2c55iFS

One more alternative for free artistic CC0 images.

Positioned itself as "artistically loud" collection: http://skuawk.com

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 30, 2016 at 10:15AM by miacoder http://ift.tt/2by1xu4

I love that room

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 30, 2016 at 08:39AM by kbform http://ift.tt/2c1yO0g

Monday, 29 August 2016

what do you put in a portfolio when you've been doing boring work since school but want to get back into doing creative things professionally?

I graduated with an interior design degree in 2013. Apart from a brief stint with the most satisfying job ever (money/work ran out), I have been chasing a mouse around my desk making CAD drawing pretty. I am now actively looking for a job in which I create things, but I don't have any creative work to show from the past three years. Should I show work from school? I have done a lot of side projects to keep me sane, but none of them are very substantial.

I'd like to get input from anyone who's been in this situation before as well as people who hire for amazing jobs.

Thanks!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 30, 2016 at 02:27AM by masherbator http://ift.tt/2c5ZyMt

An interesting alternative to decorate walls for those of us who prefer vinyl over digital

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 29, 2016 at 01:38PM by Majonez http://ift.tt/2c2nZKa

Can anyone suggest me an influential designer?

For a university assessment, I need to select an influential designer - from any medium - that worked within the 1930s to the 1980s, and deliver a presentation on how I think their style would translate to a medium that they didn't work with, e.g. an architect making a phone case.

Any suggestions on who I should pick and why?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 29, 2016 at 09:16AM by thrills- http://ift.tt/2bKYFdQ

It’s a designer’s job to ask good questions

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 29, 2016 at 04:31AM by larsbenderssen http://ift.tt/2c1x4Df

Sunday, 28 August 2016

Currently open for new UI/UX projects!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 28, 2016 at 07:18PM by dotmariusz http://ift.tt/2bZRigR

Help. Forced to work at night?

I, a very inecperienced designer, have been asked to help woth a design. So far so good. I can handle the programs and creative aspect well, but the people I'm working for are a nightmare. We were supposed to go into "test printing" over a week ago, but they completely ditched that, because they couldn't send me the material I needed to finish on time. Now, they are planning on printing tomorrow and I have a few problems. (Keep in mind I am a 19 year old girl trying to work with 3 grown men in their 30s.)

They want to immediately print the final product, since there's barely any time left. What if there's an error, like the quality of a picture or two... or all... Not being okay? It's going to be pinned on me, I already know that. And that might be just. I don't know...?
I have just been informed that I will recieve the information I STILL need to finish the design around 9-12pm. I don't work at home, so if I want to finish on time, I'm going to have to work through the night to make it. Again. I was already up until 4am today, finishing up EVERYTHING else just because my "boss" decided it was necessary to be done in the morning today. That was bad time management on my end for a part, but the fact that he said he needed it and now won't even start working on his end of the stuff until 7 or 8pm is frustrating.

Those are my biggest issues right now, which are just worsened by my lack of confidence in the field and the fact that these people sometimes make me feel like my pay should be seven times higher. Should I just tell them it's impossible? Or can I tell them that I'll work for a significant increase in my pay during these hours?

I honestly want to cry, because these people are such a nightmare to work with. And it really makes me question if I want to start a formal education to work in the creative field. Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, I have no idea where to go.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 28, 2016 at 04:05PM by dontcallmebrobuddy http://ift.tt/2bIWB6a

What's the difference between a Winecard and a Menucard?

Hello.

In my Corporate Design course we're supposed to do a CD for a restaurant, they gave us a list of what has to be done. And they listed three different cards.

Menucard
Winecard
Drinkcard
Dessertcard

But what is the difference between them design-wise? I struggle with it a little, because usually I would just make it all look the same, but it isn't apparently... We have ti hand it in on wednesday. And the course is on tuesday, so there isn't a lot of time I have. This whole project wasn't really thought through of the teachers, because we didn't had enough time to do everything.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 28, 2016 at 01:17PM by Manedblackwolf http://ift.tt/2buA91M

Are there any tutorials/Techniques for some cool print advertisings, catalogue covers and flyers?

I'm looking for some new inspirations. Personally I like a minimalistic style like this but I appreciate any kind of tutorial. Actually I'm struggling with presenting a product in a cool way. I would also love to learn some new techniques and styles.

Thank you very much in advance.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 27, 2016 at 04:24PM by zlep http://ift.tt/2bqMO4h

Saturday, 27 August 2016

UI comparison: Appliance vs. Remote

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 27, 2016 at 11:52PM by kibble http://ift.tt/2c4RcHt

I need a software to merge fonts of the same family into a real "Font Family"

I'm sure you have seen this issue where you have all the fonts in a family as different fonts: http://ift.tt/2bPL1GU What I want to do, is merge (p.e.) all the Courier fonts into one Courier, and all the Courier New into one Courier New.

I already used FontLab TransType 4 (specifically v4.0.1 build 5095) but there's a bug where "Semi Bold", "Heavy" and "Extra Black" types don't actually work. I mean, I can select it and convert the fonts, but there are issues (like, Black appearing before Heavy in the font listing). So I need better software because TransType is probably abandoned (it's a great software, though, and has a fully functional 7 day trial).

I'll accept and and all recommendations, I'm super new to this. For now, I'm using the fonts "as-is", but would love a software where I can actually fix my fonts.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 27, 2016 at 11:12PM by HumanismAboveAll http://ift.tt/2c4PdmQ

I am Designing a logo and i feel like An idea i like has already been done. is this idea already in use? can you help me find the company that has a logo like this? Thanks!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 27, 2016 at 03:00PM by tactlesswonder http://ift.tt/2bGlYFE

I've made up my own fashion brand, please give it a look, like and a follow!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 27, 2016 at 05:33AM by WallMatt http://ift.tt/2bpTgdk

All those new job announcements on medium.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 27, 2016 at 05:15AM by janeboo http://ift.tt/2bH8YkK

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 26, 2016 at 04:50PM by tangerto http://ift.tt/2c1O5Ae

/r/Design Official ''How Is This Done?'' Weekly Discussion

This is a bi-weekly discussion, automatically posted at around 9:00 AM PST every 2 weeks on Friday.

Ask how a specific design is made in this weekly discussion. Top comments must have an image or link of the design included.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 26, 2016 at 05:02PM by AutoModerator http://ift.tt/2buWNnN

Ingo Maurer Delirium Yum

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 26, 2016 at 12:47PM by kbform http://ift.tt/2bCPLPz

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