With the growing popularity of advanced artificial intelligence (AI), you’d be hard-pressed to find a process that can’t be automated. These automated technologies can write for us, chat with us, bank for us, and even drive us around. So, why can’t they also assist us in creative processes? In the ever-evolving marketing and advertising landscape, …
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Check out this content aggregator for design inspiration and creative industry news. One of my absolute favorite internet browser extensions has to be the Panda plug-in. Panda, as it?s known, is a widget that displays design-specific content as the default page when opening a new tab in your browser. The widget is semi-customizable, in which …
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Recently, someone asked me what I like about being a graphic designer. My wheels started spinning because there are so many reasons. Besides the fact that I’m obsessed with color and typography, design, in my humble opinion, affects almost every aspect of our lives. Design is not just about making things look pretty (although, that …
If you have ever created motion graphics on a large scale, sometimes the simplest tasks (such as full-screen transitions and graphic emphasis) can be very tedious and time-consuming. As I’ve covered in recent posts, it’s completely acceptable to streamline repetitive tasks with the use of plug-ins and extensions. These tools automate many different types of …
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The concept of “wireframing” finds itself near the beginning of the creative process, in which a blueprint of a website or interface is laid out to represent the skeletal framework of the content before any major design work has begun. It is a pivotal part of understanding the larger picture on an extremely simplified level. …
We asked our summer intern, Christian Rusli, to write a blog summarizing his time here at bk and some of the lessons he learned while working with us. While we’re not sure about the “dysfunctional” part, we’re happy that he viewed his time here as being as valuable as we did. *** I suppose it’s a …
Choosing a typeface for any project can sometimes prove to be a cumbersome task. Not only do you have to identify the type of typeface (e.g. serif, sans serif, script, display, slab serif—the list goes on and on), but you also have to make sure you don’t pick a dud! A poorly chosen typeface can really …
As designers we grow accustomed to the trends in the web design world and try to utilize them to the best of our abilities while also trying to initiate our own trends in the process. Sometimes a trend is truly progressive and takes the field as a whole in a new direction – like flat …
To whom it may concern, I speak cautiously as I represent roughly 80 million Americans born between the 1980s and the early aughts, but yes, I am a millennial. Listen, I understand if you can’t really keep up with our blazing fast lifestyle, our innate urge to publicly document every fleeting moment, our overindulged sense …
One of my greatest inspirations, Mike Parker, died last Sunday, February 23rd at the ripe old age of 85. He has been described as “the font god” which, to be fair, is probably an accurate description for the man who helped bring Helvetica to the world. However, he is also credited with the development of more than …
