The Design Update: July 2018

Tuesday 31 July 2018

Rethinking the macOS Font Picker

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 01, 2018 at 05:10AM by JoshGreat https://ift.tt/2LSwLPx

New Logo for Rolling Stone

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 01, 2018 at 02:26AM by westondeboer https://ift.tt/2AtWrgV

Interview in a few days at a small but famous agency

Any tips as to what questions I should be ready to answer? I've only ever worked for myself.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 01, 2018 at 12:50AM by WritingTherapy https://ift.tt/2LEJsOF

Designer looking for advice on how to connect with textiles manufacturers in China

Hi there, I'm a designer based in the UK looking to work with a factory in China to produce a range of throws for a homeware collection. Has anyone got any advice on where to begin this process- specifically, how to find a trusted company, and whether or not to use a middle man? Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 01, 2018 at 12:33AM by Mombi87 https://ift.tt/2AtJmEl

Inspired by the London 2012 Olympic Games post on here the other day, I designed one with Usain Bolt

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted August 01, 2018 at 12:42AM by weerox https://ift.tt/2ApyxDk

4 Tips for emerging designers (I graduated 4 years ago)

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 31, 2018 at 10:18PM by jonsorre https://ift.tt/2LIxAv5

poster of the PARASITE event in France. Review?

Disclaimer: I am one of the founder.

My friend is an artist with no background in design, what do you think of her first poster design?

https://i.redd.it/ebtztvtu9cd11.png

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 31, 2018 at 08:56PM by YolanonReddit https://ift.tt/2M6lJDa

Career advice? [Experiential Marketing]

Hey y’all, I’m a Graphic designer based in Nyc looking to break into experiential marketing. Are there any people that have experience in this form of marketing and could give me some tips on how I can get into this industry?

Much appreciated :)

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 31, 2018 at 06:56PM by anime_niac https://ift.tt/2n1rWpc

Firefox is getting new icons; Mozilla shows off two competing designs; Which gets your vote?/

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 31, 2018 at 06:56PM by teksimian https://ift.tt/2KcOaOg

Any ideas where I can find a heart template similar to this?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 31, 2018 at 05:59PM by PM_ME_AMAZON_DOLLARS https://ift.tt/2OAOlX4

Career Advice, Master's in...???

Sorry if this isn't the appropriate place to post this. I am currently employed as a designer in a position that potentially will pay for my master's education. My current roadblock is what exactly I want to get a master's degree in.

Currently I'm considering business management. I would like to either advance my career here to art director or even beyond that, but also have the potential to sign on other places at a higher level.

Would any design professionals with experience in this realm be able to give me some insight to the best path here? I am definitely getting a master's in something and ideally would be doing it for a position/pay increase rather than just for the title.

Thanks a ton, and if this needs to be moved I'll do it.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 31, 2018 at 06:16PM by gammamantarays https://ift.tt/2KdoPDV

Lightweight Photoshop alternative for 3d and digital artists

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 31, 2018 at 05:16PM by kika-tok https://ift.tt/2OyvX0H

How do I create this printed style text?

How are they creating that custom printed look? ie making the edges slightly rough but not uniform in any way?

https://www.instagram.com/loveandrentx

I was thinking maybe rasterise the text and rotate a few of the letters, make the kerning irregular and then scale up to pixelate it real bad, then bitmap at 50% threshold?

Any other ideas?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 31, 2018 at 05:08PM by SpaghettiBollocknase https://ift.tt/2vnfIeq

Art gallery, arts , social critic, clothing

Ladys and gentlemen, i created this website with the objective of creating a brand that pretends to be revolutionary.

No social correct, no bullshit, the objective is go to the core of the problems that affect out modern society and exposing those problems trough art, spiritualism, and marketing. The brand englobes different areas, so if you like the concept and you are interested in an serious collaboration , send an email to [eridu1universe@gmail.com](mailto:eridu1universe@gmail.com), or just chat with me.

check the website www.eridu1universe.com to see this concept developing with your eyes and mind. Lets make magic happen.

Good vibes to everybody

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 31, 2018 at 03:46PM by newbornXXI https://ift.tt/2M4VmO0

Evolving the Firefox Brand

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 31, 2018 at 03:51PM by julian88888888 https://ift.tt/2v5tbYP

Schools built by AI look like a brain

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 31, 2018 at 01:06PM by lmikles https://ift.tt/2LD6YM2

Why Are So Many of Today’s Logos Wordless?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 31, 2018 at 08:20AM by koavf https://ift.tt/2vnDwyv

Monday 30 July 2018

/u/Idontlikecock aka Connor Matherne made a 4k wallpaper consisting of his favorite astronomy images through the years. See comment for the mobile version.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 30, 2018 at 09:23PM by speckz https://ift.tt/2AqopKH

I got my logo animated, really like how it turned out

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 30, 2018 at 09:56PM by made_by_edgar https://ift.tt/2K8IKnr

Evolving the Firefox Brand

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 30, 2018 at 09:10PM by iamvinoth https://ift.tt/2vjWBSd

What happens when you let computers optimize floorplans

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 30, 2018 at 08:07PM by julian88888888 https://ift.tt/2mTRhkX

Milton Glaser Designed this logo for Trump’s Space Force

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 30, 2018 at 08:12PM by westondeboer https://ift.tt/2OtOwDu

Codier - Front-end Coding Challenges and Creations

https://codier.io/

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 30, 2018 at 07:19PM by flatulentgypsy https://ift.tt/2K9M4yJ

Photoshop versus Affinity for design?

(Hopefully this is the right place).

I've recently been researching alternatives to PS due to preferring a flat payment to a subscription model (I did't use PS professionally). I was mostly using PS for drawing and character concepting, while also regularly using it for photo manipulation and composition. I was recommended Affinity Photo as an alternative with a similar range of functionality. However, I'm not sure that it's as suitable for character/environment/other drawing-based design as it is for purely photo-based projects. Can anyone who's used both programs, or perhaps Affinity Designer, give me their opinion?

EDIT: For clarity, most of my drawing-based projects were scanned and then coloured/traced as opposed to being drawn directly in Photoshop.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 30, 2018 at 05:16PM by telechronicler https://ift.tt/2mVDtq4

Our dispute resolution tool for designers. Also any feedback on the landing page design is appreciated!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 30, 2018 at 01:05PM by Elik7 https://ift.tt/2vgBUqp

What product designers can learn from game theory

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 30, 2018 at 11:38AM by locomucho https://ift.tt/2K7Tgvf

What type of design is this called?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 30, 2018 at 08:31AM by ArtieVAM https://ift.tt/2LSDUzG

Sunday 29 July 2018

Starting to Design Again After a Long Hiatus.

Hello everyone! Recently, I realised that the IT work I have been doing since 2012 isn't fulfilling me the way that my brief stint in design had from 2010-2012 had. While the money is pretty goid, the work is leaving me pretty dead inside, so I'm starting to slowly get back into design.

I know that this will be a very broad way of asking the question, but how would people here tackle getting back into design after such a long time away? While I was doing design, I primarily did IA and visual design for web.

I'll be happy to hear any ideas and answer any questions you all may have!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 30, 2018 at 02:44AM by architecht13 https://ift.tt/2NVqErc

Restaurant Menu Nightmares

tl;dr - Does anyone have a recommendation for custom menu design software that is easy/free for non-designers to edit?

I'm an in-house designer for a winery and high end restaurant; same company, different properties. I'm at my wit's end with the beverage manager at the restaurant. At the CEO's request, I had designed custom menus for the restaurant including their wine & spirits list, which is extensive. The bev manager often changes brands and vintages; no problem, I can make those changes and send the menu file back over to be printed with little delay. However he insists vehemently on having editing power. Alright no problem, I built a fillable form so he can plug and play and the menu will match the others and remain in line with the brand. We've been back and forth over this for a few months. I went to the restaurant recently and found the beverage menu to be in disastrous shape, none of the fonts match, the registration is different on each page, the edges are hastily cut and torn- it's an embarrassment for a restaurant with $100 entrées. Bev manager redid my design as a frankenstein between Word and Publisher. I feel I've tried every angle with this guy- I'm out of ideas and would love to hear any suggestions. I'm hopeful there's some software that can do this for us that I simply haven't found.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 30, 2018 at 01:15AM by savvyleigh https://ift.tt/2LJwRJh

Artist/Designer needed

I’m looking for someone to design a cover for a poetry book I’m going to self publish on amazon. If anyone is interested please comment of message me. And no I’m not asking for free labor, I’m not that dick head who expects free shit from people.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 29, 2018 at 07:28PM by Lillis717715 https://ift.tt/2Ah0Xze

Refresh – A fresh approach to the web browser

https://refresh.study/

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 29, 2018 at 06:25PM by boramalper https://ift.tt/2uXgW0s

Found my first ever design project from sophomore year of high school! 6 years ago already... time flies.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 29, 2018 at 04:32PM by cockbaseball7 https://ift.tt/2LZsM0H

Mac OS X Snow Leopard Intro HD - Please bring life back to OS's

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 29, 2018 at 08:13AM by PGwojowski2 https://ift.tt/2LAanvi

Saturday 28 July 2018

What is a reasonable turn-around time for a basic business design kit?

Digging around on Fiverr, one artist is highly rated but also says they take their sweet time and despite many excellent reviews, there are some 1 star reviews about cancelling orders due to timeliness. What's a reasonable turn-around time for a $200-$400 business logo (including the vector file and social media kit, stationary, option for a few revisions)?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 29, 2018 at 02:14AM by Grep2grok https://ift.tt/2AiFDJU

Would anyone be interested in setting up/helping me setup a sub for helping people with free design and help with designing?

Broadstrokes I'm thinking a place with three main functions:

Somewhere where people can come and get quick jobs done, i.e. background removal or their logo changing colour. While this work would be free we would encourage people we do the work for to make a smol donation to our bi-monthly charity.

Somewhere to provide assistance for designers that have questions, hopefully reducing the flow of [help] posts to this sub.

A place where we can co-ordinate pro-bono 'fix-ups' of smaller causes that cannot budget for design. Be they local causes, international but niche - so long as they make the world, a community, or anyones life better they can qualify. I have a lot of experience in the charity sector and some people can be very hesitant in where they give their money. Their fear is usually unfounded but improving the brand image of smaller causes can be a big deal in increasing their donations.

It's just a thought, but if anyone is interested I'd rather you post here so we can get a public discussion going rather than DM'ing me.

Many thanks for reading,

James.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 29, 2018 at 12:03AM by Mirilliux https://ift.tt/2Or17r9

(Media) Design student need help with deciding between DELL G7 and ASUS ROG STRIX SCAR II(GTX1060version) as a mobile workstation for school. • x-post r/pcmasterrace

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 28, 2018 at 09:11PM by ZedNg https://ift.tt/2mRTAVC

I love the page for the corn cup on the McDelivery app in Japan.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 28, 2018 at 03:04PM by REO_SpeedDealer https://ift.tt/2mOqIO3

Friday 27 July 2018

Seattle Sounders of the the MLS created a promotional poster featuring the flags of the birth nation of all their players and coaches.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 28, 2018 at 05:45AM by I_Am_A_Sock_AMA https://ift.tt/2Ae2Fle

Does anyone in this sub have a career in design, or went to school for some type of design field? I'm looking for someone to Skype with my students

I'm teaching a yearbook course, but my standards cover a lot about designed and careers, in which I'm not an expert. It would be great if they could talk to someone who went to school for art, design, or something along those lines. The class is in small high school in Atlanta.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 28, 2018 at 02:47AM by safia1172 https://ift.tt/2LtYzuq

What is the best recreational vehicle or camper designs that you have come across? What features made them special?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 28, 2018 at 12:51AM by opentoinput https://ift.tt/2Aen7lI

Anyone ever sell any design invites on Etsy yet?

Just curious how the process went and if it's profitable.

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 27, 2018 at 11:49PM by heyfrank https://ift.tt/2AiaNRF

An image for each of the 37 poems in my new book of poetry, Sweat. What's your favorite example of a design and poetry crossover?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 27, 2018 at 10:36PM by seatraveler https://ift.tt/2LXoab8

How do you land clients/what are the best sites that connect designers to clients?

I’ve been messing around w graphic design for about 2 years and feel capable enough to start working on album covers/gig posters but have no clue how to go about finding clients. I’ve had a few reddit posts get decent traction but have had very few inquiries, what would be the best way to find clients?

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 27, 2018 at 09:59PM by awesomeflunk https://ift.tt/2mMO7PR

Looking for random design brief generator/pre stabilized briefs.

Does anyone know a website that generates briefs for brochures, magazines, flyers, user guides, logos, complex branding and so on(Just for practice and portfolio material)? Or if there's no website to do that, are there websites with pre stabilized briefs for practice?

Thank you in advance!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 27, 2018 at 06:31PM by Grizzly2308 https://ift.tt/2AduAlh

Pay for logo design

I'm not sure if this is the correct subreddit for this - and if it is not, I apologize. I would like to pay someone to design a logo for my new business.

The name of the firm is Wrigley Development Partners and we are a solar developer in Chicago.

What is a fair price for whomever designs the best logo? I'm happy to negotiate.

Please let me know if I should post this elsewhere, I read the rules of the sub but they seem fairly nebulous on this topic.

Thanks!

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 27, 2018 at 06:35PM by pjm7 https://ift.tt/2vczHfs

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 July 27, 2018 at 02:05PM by AutoModerator https://ift.tt/2AcSj55

This spicy beef jerky logo

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 27, 2018 at 09:30AM by cookiez https://ift.tt/2vbcDxR

Thursday 26 July 2018

Where can I go in order to help me learn how to make something like this?

I think artwork like this is really cool, and I wanted to start learning the process of how to eventually get to this point.

http://justinmaller.com/wallpaper/430/

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 27, 2018 at 04:59AM by JurassicKong https://ift.tt/2OpbStY

I designed 3 band posters for a friend's birthday

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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) Submitted July 26, 2018 at 09:19PM by motersk313 https://ift.tt/2LSr3dx