I saw this decoration hanging in the window of the Herman Miller store in NYC. I feel like I’ve seen the little smiling face before, but I can’t place it. I checked Herman Miller’s website, but the product isn’t listed or sold there. Does anybody recognize it?
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Hi! Can anyone send me a good tutorial how to make mock up for packaging?
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My work offers a stipend for education/training and I have to use it before January 1st. What are some good books you would recommend? I'm an art director, designer, and illustrator so things around those subjects are great, but also open to other ideas. We have a Lynda.com account, so looking mainly for book suggestions. Thanks!
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Submitted December 29, 2017 at 08:06AM by coconut170 http://ift.tt/2BSL2DC
I live in a small city, where there are at most 20 freelance designers. We're mostly friends, and supportive of each other, but competition can be fierce (and good/healthy, as we all work hard to have very strong personal styles, which helps).
However, I'm one of the older/more established in my scene and I continue to be financially undercut by crazy talented young designers who give away their working files, do a tonne of pro-bono work, and generally don't get payed their worth.
More and more often, I've been asked to give away all of my working files, to have the client develop a whole "brand" from a single poster design or they'll subcontract someone to "mine" the design and transfer it across platforms. I'm happy to stick up for myself, but often, I won't get a second callback if I do. It's a practice that's undoing a lot of good work that's gone into educating the local community to actually pay for design.
I've started asking beforehand if working files are required (and will adjust the quote accordingly) or how the work will be used, and it doesn't often help (sometimes it does though, and than, yay!)
I've also talked to some of the younger ones, who are totally receptive...i.e. there was a festival doing poster contests, and I spoke up publicly and suggested that the designers should be payed for their work, since bands were being payed for theirs (and the posters were being sold). I had a lot of the newbies thank me, since they hadn't looked at it in any way, other than getting "exposure" cuz the bands were well known.
So, my options, as I see them are: I just say fuck it, and charge the same as the (super good, but inexperienced with printing/production) newbies, or specialize like crazy, or try to educate clients on freelance etiquette, or just take a deep breath and let it all go?
Anyone else dealing with similar issues, or starting a design collective or group in a small city/community that helps address these problems, while still allowing for some healthy competition?
Submitted December 29, 2017 at 03:00AM by kizzlestick http://ift.tt/2E7vjlL
Ironic
Submitted December 28, 2017 at 05:26PM by glitchininthematrix http://ift.tt/2C6n6AX
I need to find a freelance designer to design a report template (see the link below for what I mean for a "report"). What keywords do I need to use to search for that kind of a designer? I have tried graphic designer (but the results are too broad, mostly illustrations), layout designer (mostly house plans), print designer (magazines & posters), information designer (infographics)...
This is an example of a (IMO well made) report.
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Submitted December 29, 2017 at 12:37AM by peehead911 http://ift.tt/2DukgC1
I don't know if others do this, I only just now noticed - I saw a mildly interesting link, thought about it for a second, and then clicked the comments instead of reading the article.
Then I asked myself "why did you do that? Why aren't you visiting the website that provided the interesting content? Why do you rarely click website links anymore?"
At first I figured that I'm just too ADD to read a whole article, when the headline is enough. But then I asked "ok then why aren't you just reading the headline and moving on?"...I realized I'm actually interested in reading more, but I really don't want to visit ANY mobile website to do it. Because mobile websites are 97% fucking awful.
This is what I get when I read the comments link -
• Any interesting bits will either be directly quoted or summarized, and at a glance I'm reading other people's reactions to these bits. So I'm getting the meat of the article, plus some hopefully interesting commentary, very quickly.
• The simple design of the RIF app is great. Plain white text on a dim gray background, ideal font size using up all the screen real estate, etc.
• It's loading text only, with no images, so it's very fast, even with nothing but weak 3G signal.
This is what I'm gambling on if I click through to the article -
• Wait for the browser to load, wait for the page to load, and if I'm unlucky the page has tons of images or even streaming video that I never asked for, so if I have a poor connection, I might wait forever for the text to appear and then give up.
• Most websites do not take into account content shifting... where new elements are loaded and then positioned before existing elements, causing blocks of text to jump around like some visual game of whack-a-mole. I can't keep reading once this starts happening, it's too irritating, I just go back.
• Many sites don't take into account the limited processing power of mobile devices and load all sorts of extraneous shit that bog things down to the point where your back button becomes unresponsive. See: the streaming video I never asked for, that plays without my permission.
• Even if the article loads ok, often I start to read the first sentence, and suddenly a big overlay pops up and covers all the text, with some stupid subscription begging that I instantly close. Sometimes I leave the site on general principle, because how does any site designer still do this when it's universally hated?
• It's pretty clear some mobile sites are being tested on some huge tablet screen or something. If I view them on a very common Galaxy phone, the menu bar at the top breaks in an ugly way causing two layers of menu when they clearly intended one... with text overlapping other text. It's just ugly.
• Still some half-screen flashing ads, even in 2017.
• I'm in public or at work... if I click a reddit comment page I know there's going to be no sound. I visit some unknown website, I might get some talking head from TV news start blasting from the phone speakers.
I guess this reads more like a rant than a revelation but it DOES interest me, as a designer, to know that a lot of websites are probably losing clicks despite the extra exposure they're supposed to get when they get mentioned on reddit. I wonder if they're aware of the potential lost views/revenue?
It's like, imagine if you made a website, and in addition to half the visitors blocking ads, someone else made a website that simply summarizes your content and puts it on a plain, better-designed page, and people just go to that better page instead of to your site. Shouldn't that prompt some sort of action from the site designers?
Submitted December 28, 2017 at 03:05PM by CreeDorofl http://ift.tt/2DsmAJY
I want to transition careers into motion design. That’s my goal for 2018. But I understand that design fundamentals are key to progression. Typography, layout, colour etc.
What were things you did that really helped you progress?
Submitted December 28, 2017 at 12:01PM by essexlfc5 http://ift.tt/2pMi4Ur
I've been working on a personal rebrand and a new design portfolio from scratch the past few months. I've been tinkering around with Tumblr, Markdown, Liquid, Handlebars, Metalsmith, Jekyll, static CMSs...
I bought a new domain to host my portfolio and saved usernames on the sites I planned to use (specifically Behance, Facebook, Instagram and Medium) and set up a custom domain email.
I originally planned to use social media this way:
I then, inspired by this design case study on Medium, came with the idea of posting my complete case studies on Medium instead. So my social media lineup would look like this:
I came with this idea for the following reasons:
Still, I'm afraid I look unprofessional to employers or potential clients because of the presentation. I don't want to look like I don't know how to run website when I'm advertising some freelance web design services.
What do you guys think?
PS: There are plenty of reasons I don't want to build my main portfolio on Behance. Also, I hate Dribbble.
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Wanting to make a change and use 2018 as the year I do it. I have been doing graphic design in the publishing industries and distribution industries for almost 10 years now and career-wise I have been comfortably successful regarding both salary and the places I’ve worked, so this is less about misery and more about mystery? I have really wanted to become more adept in web design & dev/UX/UI. I have dabbled in this on a small scale for the last two years in my current position and I found myself really intrigued and motivated by these aspects I was not too great at. I’ve been looking into all the various web academies and courses as well as local groups and even certification programs through my local universities. So to those of you who have transitioned from a similar place, what steps did you take and what kind of timeline did you personally experience while preparing for making the leap? I’m giving myself the year of 2018 to put aside about 12-15 hours a week to put into this new chapter and just want some personal success stories or insight into any struggles you came across along the way. Cheers, merry Christmas and happy new year to all ya fine folks!
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Here’s an example (macbook touch)
I’m curious as to what programs people commonly use to produce concept images like these
Thanks
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Don't just say vaporwave, or something - too easy.
I'm thinking about the Seinfeld logo. Text that breaches the edge of its background shape, the strange contrasting color scheme, necessary italics/embossing. How do you describe this?
What are some other examples of this style?
Submitted December 23, 2017 at 06:54PM by spiffywhale http://ift.tt/2DEFZs2
Hi all! I may be over-thinking this, but when it comes to color, I always try to ask before making changes.
I've been designing professionally since 2013, but managed to work almost exclusively in black-and-white. Anyway, things have picked up quite a bit recently, and I'm getting A LOT more color requests.
I'm not completely colorblind, but I have issues with reds/greens, blues/purples, and some tones. I've managed to develop workflows that help me avoid a lot of issues from my colorblindness; however, I've been working a lot between programs and just learned about Color Settings in Adobe Bridge.
Currently it is set to "North America General Purpose 2," but I wanted to shift it to "Monitor Color" since most of what I do is meant for digital production.
So here are my questions:
1 - Does changing this effect anything beyond my own programs? (as in, does it change the end result for clients if I work in one setting or the other?)
2 - Are there any limitations that either option creates which I need to be aware of?
Submitted December 23, 2017 at 05:37PM by matthewsmazes http://ift.tt/2BV6etu
Hi everyone, as the title states, a student a year behind me plagiarized one of my projects, pretty obviously.
In spring of 2016, I took Typography II, as it was a required course. Our entire semester revolved around creating a book about four languages (Chinese, Farsi, Arabic, and Devenagari), which included writing the content as well as creating the layouts and the whole shebang, basically.
Yesterday, the art department (or maybe just people who took her class) was sent an email about a show in that was showcasing a lot of the student's books that were made for that class. Included was this photograph (I zoomed in on the relevant part). This is the cover created by a girl who took her class this previous semester, fall 2017.
If you look at typography, the colors, the aesthetics.... it's all pretty blatant. Even the descriptions are EXACTLY the same.
I emailed the professor of the class alerting her to the situation at hand, but she has yet to respond (she was never the best with emails).
I decided to message the girl who plagiarized my work on Instagram and address my concerns and hope that she would fess up or apologize but she did not apologize. We took a class together this semester and I had talked to her about the project as I had previously taken the course. I showed her my website and the project on it as well, but she states she didn't remember ever seeing it.
Then she blocked me on Instagram.
So that's where the situation currently stands... it's incredibly frustrating. I've never been in his situation and I'm not sure how to move forward.
Thanks for reading.
TL;DR: Girl copied almost identically a book cover design I created and will not admit to it.
EDIT: I apologize for the poor quality images, I'm doing this all from my phone.
Submitted December 23, 2017 at 01:53PM by JewBoySandler http://ift.tt/2DEXKar
Hello guys! I would like to ask for some important insights. Im designing a print magazine, its my first time, so i would like to know some important things to have in mind. Thank you very much and merry xmas!
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Share what you're working on at work, for a client, or on your own. Top comments must have an image or link to the work in progress
Submitted December 22, 2017 at 01:05PM by AutoModerator http://ift.tt/2BmJoKn
This past year I have been interviewing with a number of different companies. A handful lead to receiving a design challenge or take-home assignment. These bucket into one of two categories: something fun/irrelevant to the company or actual problem the company seeks to solve.
When companies choose the latter, it often feels like a means to get free consulting. Is there a tactful way to handle these scenarios without corrupting the entire interview process?
Submitted December 21, 2017 at 10:19PM by amchan03 http://ift.tt/2zbQeAz
Hello everyone, i made a post on this sub about a month ago asking about a sub which looks at Design Science from an academic perspective (or more like a structured approach to design processes). Well the sub has been activated here now r/designscience. A lot of people seemed interested back then, so I am posting the link here.
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