The Design Update: June 2018

Saturday, 30 June 2018

Kimball Furniture - Design Hack Competition

Might be a long shot, but did anyone else here submit an entry to the Kimball Design Hack competition they were running with Metropolis Magazine? The prompt was to design tech-integrated furniture, which I thought was pretty neat.

Upon submittal, I didn’t receive any kind of conformation, they pushed the entire competition deadline back a month and have some conflicting dates in their terms and agreements that aren’t matching up to the end of competition. I’m hoping they didn’t just abandon this competition because of low entry turnout. There’s some serious money on the line, and I’m sure those who did enter put some good time into the projects.

Just wondering if anyone’s kept up with it or entered.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 01, 2018 at 12:07AM by PM_UR_UGLY_SWEATERS https://ift.tt/2KBJ8vF

The campus security cars at Rhode Island School of Design

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 30, 2018 at 10:10PM by samvacc https://ift.tt/2tJcyBx

Tablet to show off my work

So within the next year I'll be having interviews for universities and I wish to show my digital portfolio. I don't really wanna bring my laptop with me and my phone is obviously too small. I wanna get a tablet to allow them to flip through my portfolio.

What's a good cheap tablet that I can use to show off my work at an interview?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 30, 2018 at 06:13PM by BreathOfHearts https://ift.tt/2Kx3p8U

Cool tshirt design!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 30, 2018 at 05:42PM by LickAkAbA https://ift.tt/2KAtJfd

App for creating & presenting a design work portfolio?

I would like to create an app to present my portfolio of work on an ipad. (Images, Strategy, research, animations.)

Can anyone recommend a tool to build an app for this?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 30, 2018 at 08:09AM by IWannag0h0me https://ift.tt/2lHJ96l

Amateur designer just messing around with this.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 30, 2018 at 07:25AM by CheezyCarrotz https://ift.tt/2Kw0SZq

Friday, 29 June 2018

I made a poster for my indie horror comedy but all of these rules are making me nervous

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 30, 2018 at 05:09AM by Your-Teacher-Is-Shit https://ift.tt/2KAke2A

Job Application: Brand refresh gig for 2 SF Music Venues

https://goo.gl/forms/XD5yLMxiuwA4EAWy1

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 29, 2018 at 10:16PM by brettruffenach https://ift.tt/2IEpVYp

Design channels/website recommendations.

Hi just like in a title. What kind of YT channels or website about design do you watch/read or recommend?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 29, 2018 at 09:45PM by dobik https://ift.tt/2NekXoS

An idea I’ve had for a while but just got around to making last week :)

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 29, 2018 at 09:06PM by CheezyCarrotz https://ift.tt/2tRWn42

Ocasio-Cortez scored a victory — for well-designed campaign posters

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 29, 2018 at 05:43PM by uieLouAy https://ift.tt/2NaLDqh

Wanted some feedback! Learning design with GIMP.

I went ahead and created a Thumbnail for an idea I picked off the internet and tried to make it in GIMP.

Cause I am learning Design on the side while I am essentially a programmer currently in college.
This was just a quick project and that I created in some free time.

So I wanted some eyes to look at it and tell me if I am on the correct route.?

https://i.redd.it/fh4fzzsbjy611.png

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 29, 2018 at 04:23PM by MinRaws https://ift.tt/2KhSNex

My latest project, hope you guys like it.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 29, 2018 at 03:27PM by Alv_31 https://ift.tt/2KxJcN5

A Designer’s Thoughts on Go-To Market Strategy for Startups

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 29, 2018 at 02:50PM by TheJMoore https://ift.tt/2IDo7Pn

Anyone interested in starting a Design Futures community?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 29, 2018 at 03:05PM by hipster_nietzsche https://ift.tt/2MxWyJG

Works In Progress Discussion - /r/Design Official Post

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

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 29, 2018 at 02:05PM by AutoModerator https://ift.tt/2IFY5uK

Thursday, 28 June 2018

Staten Island Pizza Rats

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 28, 2018 at 05:56PM by ChipAyten https://ift.tt/2lF5jGo

Rectangular Repeatable Pattern

So I made a pattern, cool.

I then decided I wanted some more variety in the pattern so I doubled the width and height, took some time but I made it double the width, but I didn't make it double the height.

The pattern still works, but it is no longer "square"

Will I run into any problems in the future with this method? Is there any good reasoning why I shouldn't make a rectangular pattern instead of a square pattern in practical uses?

I can't think of any, personally, it still repeats perfectly, but I might go back in and double the height just for more variety again, just wondered if anyone had run into any problems using a pattern that wasn't exactly w=h.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 28, 2018 at 03:41PM by xgoggsx https://ift.tt/2IyNEcy

Switching fonts is proving difficult on my new work's computer. How can I fix this?

This has been a slight issue with Adobe products for years but it's only been with the occasional font on my own computer. However, my computer at work is a nightmare.

In Photoshop or Illustrator, when I select text and click in the font dropdown to assign one, by scrolling on the mousewheel or pressing the up/down cursors, normally I can look at the text with every font until I find one that suits best.

However, it will either get stuck on the font and refuse to scroll down the list further, or it will jump right down to the bottom of the fonts list.

How can I fix this? Do I have to delete most of the installed fonts and start again?

Thanks for any advice you can give!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 28, 2018 at 04:25PM by RiggzBoson https://ift.tt/2yRTR3v

Round banjo shaped electric guitars

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 28, 2018 at 05:02PM by 77sevens https://ift.tt/2lI5RLQ

How Trajan took over movie posters

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 28, 2018 at 04:45PM by isevenx https://ift.tt/2tCYSrD

Café Creative: An Interview with Mexican Designer Emilio Cabrero

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 28, 2018 at 02:40PM by ncasiano https://ift.tt/2tNawjb

Just started my own design company would like it if you guys could go take a look at the work and spread the word! appreciate it and hope you guys enjoy!

#Mr.Nobody&Company,Inc. https://www.behance.net/mrnobodyandcompany

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 28, 2018 at 08:30AM by MrNobodyandCompany https://ift.tt/2KosB1l

Online CRM Software

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 28, 2018 at 08:08AM by trawexpros https://ift.tt/2KqpPbT

CNN gets new Breaking News Design

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 28, 2018 at 08:22AM by Clearbluegreen https://ift.tt/2MtZkQ8

Wednesday, 27 June 2018

Practical ways that designers can build a sense of calm into their work

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 27, 2018 at 06:39PM by geekteam6 https://ift.tt/2IwxK2g

Ocasio for Congress campaign design by Tandem NYC

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 27, 2018 at 06:00PM by chrisarchitect https://ift.tt/2yMEsS2

Logo for a coffee shop in Brooklyn, NY

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 27, 2018 at 05:53PM by SocialAnimal https://ift.tt/2tzMJny

I’m looking for some speciality hamburger posters that I think were posted here a while back. Beige background, burger top center, then description below

Like I say, each poster had a Beige/brown background, different poster for each burger.

Picture of the burger, like ‘the new Yorker’, then some text below about what’s in the burger.

Has anyone got a link to any of the posters?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 27, 2018 at 03:52PM by blaaaahhhhh https://ift.tt/2tAvemS

Logo for Department of Transfusion &Tissue Medicine of the Brno University Hospital,

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 27, 2018 at 06:20AM by s1RiS_yt https://ift.tt/2K8LHsO

Tuesday, 26 June 2018

Contract negotiations - putting work in my portfolio?

I'm going through the growing pains of going out on my own for the first time, as opposed to working for a company or agency.

Something I'm really having issues with is that 99% of clients do not want the work publicly displayed on a website or put in my portfolio.

I've done some reading; it seems that most designers don't just sign the client's contract, but have their own as well.

I feel like my portfolio is mostly made up of made-up projects due to this reason. To make matters worse, one potential client told me she needed to see more actual "client work." I informed her I had too many NDAs to be able to oblige, and instead of respecting my commitment to my contracts, that's when she dropped off the face of the Earth. One client actually e-mailed me to enforce the NDA, even though I thought the portion of the work I did display was very non-revealing and did not display any sensitive information.

In your experience, are most clients okay with signing your contract as well? Has anyone ever reacted negatively? Did it ever make you lose out on a job? What other advice do you have for ensuring that I'm able to put some of the work in my portfolio or on a website?

Thank you in advance!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 26, 2018 at 04:20PM by WritingTherapy https://ift.tt/2KkWxrH

When you get superglue on your brand new cutting mat

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 26, 2018 at 01:19PM by roddstar https://ift.tt/2MZouHu

Questionnaire : How do you learn new creative skills ?

Hello everyone,

I'm Tanguy, a French student in UX Design

In order to complete my class project i would like to know how do you learn creative skills like new Adobe software, photography, etc. for your pleasure or in a professional way. The data gathered will help me design a social media based on learning communities. A kind of reddit for creative people only.

Datas will be shown here at the end of the survey.

I hope I don't break any rules, and i apologize in advance for the bad English.

Link of the survey

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 26, 2018 at 10:17AM by ze_Hi_Hat https://ift.tt/2yFLFna

The Bauhaus kitchen

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 26, 2018 at 09:09AM by tiggerclaw https://ift.tt/2KiqGrL

What would you say if during a job interview you were asked: what you would change about the company’s logo?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 26, 2018 at 03:27AM by ka-ylor https://ift.tt/2MpyCbs

Made this on Sunday.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 26, 2018 at 06:31AM by freezer9 https://ift.tt/2yHz16V

Monday, 25 June 2018

Design Challenges and Ideas

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 25, 2018 at 04:09PM by julian88888888 https://ift.tt/2lwka5V

In honor of summer finally being here, I made a funky crop icon with good summer vibes 🙌🏼☀️

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 25, 2018 at 03:56PM by OptimisticPsychopath https://ift.tt/2lwRKbV

Design Help

I am currently a student studying graphic design and I want to practice some skills to keep me fresh over the summer. Right now I feel like all I have been doing is trying to create logos and not really any advertising material (brochures, posters, magazine,etc.). I mostly haven't done these because I really don't know many techniques on how to create these and make them look really appealing. Do any of you have any tips besides just looking around for inspiration on how to create these? Or do you have any practice projects that helped you get better? Any advice is helpful :)

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 25, 2018 at 02:58PM by Coreybib https://ift.tt/2lBF5Ex

Five rants from a cranky designer

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 25, 2018 at 02:30PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2Inw3nD

My last name is Winn, and here is my updated personal branding. What do you think?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 25, 2018 at 02:19PM by Upvote_Responsibly https://ift.tt/2Kj30qt

Sunday, 24 June 2018

How did we do?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 24, 2018 at 07:22PM by Shadowvines https://ift.tt/2lvKNb1

Made an animation on the trials and tribulations of logo design. It’s not helpful. Enjoy

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RgfBHM535pk

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 24, 2018 at 11:48AM by Sampion https://ift.tt/2lvjcqw

Saturday, 23 June 2018

Couldn't find an embroidery patch I liked, so I made my own

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 23, 2018 at 08:17PM by Bubba-J-Murray https://ift.tt/2Ik3TKq

How do you work on High PPI displays? (on, not for)

I've working for a while now both for and on high PPI displays. ( @2x and @3x)

Working FOR them is pretty standard, but working ON them really changes from person to person.

For example, when working on a web design on photoshop, do your work on your standard resolution ( let's say 1920x1080) and look at it @ 100% and sometimes 200% or do you work on 1920x1080@2x (3840x2160)

What's your workflow like?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 23, 2018 at 04:01PM by kdu3142 https://ift.tt/2tx4OBU

What is the current most recommended software to easily create UI mockups?

Hello! I'm learning android development and need to find a way to easily create material design / mobile UI mockups.

The problem here is that I don't have experience nor do I have the money to pay for tools such as photoshop. So, what I'm kind of asking is creating a basic UI with drag and drop tools.

I've worked with designers and I know this is not ideal, but it'll do for now as I get the hang of things.

Furthermore, since this is strictly personal and not for business, I do need it to be free or as cheap as possible!

I know that's a tough one, honestly. But I was hoping there was such a tool that would allow me these type of mockups.

Is there any software recommended for that?

Thank you!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted June 23, 2018 at 05:06PM by DanielTaylor https://ift.tt/2Kl2JmK