TEN’s 3rd PSD by Brazilian Artist Adhemas Batista Available Tomorrow, March 8th

Posted on March 7, 2013 by admin

Fotolia launched the TEN Collection last December 2011 worldwide: ‘TEN’, as in 10 artists, 10 themes, 10 months and 10 PSDs. As they continue this year for TEN Season 2, Fotolia will showcase some of the most amazing graphic artists in 12 countries to share their works and stories with the aim of inspiring all graphic artists across the globe.

TEN Collection Season 2

The ten digital artists plus two surprise artists for TEN Season 2 were from France, USA, Argentina, Brazil, Korea, Japan, Russia, Poland, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom and Germany. Each will share new beautiful work as well as the local cultural influences with the world. Internet users especially digital artists will discover the different creative techniques by downloading the PSD file of each artist’s work for free in 24 hours. It comes with a making-of video, shot in the native country of each artist, sharing their cultural background and creative processes subtitled in 12 languages. In addition to the 10 new artists, two surprise artists will be featured, unveiling all new creative works.

The third featured artist and work in the series will be unveiled tomorrow. March’s artist, Adhemas Batista, is known as a “color salesman” thanks to his use of bright and lively colors, which has inspired his slogan, “I’m selling colors”. Inspired by the vibrancy of his home country, Brazil, Batista’s work is highly energetic, detailed and urban.

TEN by Fotolia Season 2

“I think our environment and personal experiences directly influence our life, as artists or designers. My work is probably more Brazilian than I am. I can be very calm and serious, while it’s happy all the time,” says the now L.A. resident. According to the artist, his creation is a “graphic explosion evoking the urban and youth culture, a kind of energetic rebellion, with bright colors and complex shapes.

More than just a learning tool for other designers, every artist shares his or her personal style and influences, how they came to become the artists they are today, along with the techniques they used to create the PSD through short videos. These videos are released on TEN Collection’s Facebook page and on Twitter (@Fotolia), or view them directly on Fotolia’s TEN Collection channel.

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TEN’s 3rd PSD by Brazilian Artist Adhemas Batista Available Tomorrow, March 8th

Posted on March 7, 2013 by admin

TEN Collection Season 2

TEN by Fotolia Season 2

Tuts+ Live Workshops: Live Online Workshops Taught by Experts

Posted on March 5, 2013 by admin

Today, we are excited to announce a new site dedicated to Tuts+ Live Workshops and two fantastic new workshops; Professional Photo Retouching with Photoshop and An Introduction to Adobe InDesign.

Tuts+ Live Workshops are presented live by experts in their field with a talent and passion for teaching. And don’t worry, we record every workshop. So even if you can’t make it to the live workshop, you won’t miss out. We have two exciting new workshops available, and more on the way, so be sure to join the Tuts+ Live Workshops mailing list to stay posted on upcoming workshops.

For both of the new workshops we’re offering a special price of $49 for early takers. Places are strictly limited and the early bird tickets for our first workshop sold out in 48 hours, so act fast to make sure you don’t miss out!

Professional Photo Retouching with Photoshop

Do you love using Photoshop? Do you want to improve your photo retouch skills and jumpstart your career as a photo retoucher?

In this new workshop you will learn all the most advanced photo retouching skills you need for professional work in several fields in the industry. The photo retouch techniques we cover in this special workshop are used by high-end fashion photo retouchers, digital artists, professional photographers and graphic designers. Join Martin Perhiniak, Adobe Design Master Instructor for five intense but fun workshops if you want to learn how to use Photoshop for professional photo retouching and jumpstart your career as a photo retoucher!

Learn more about Professional Photo Retouching with Photoshop

An Introduction to Adobe InDesign

Do you want to learn to work with Adobe InDesign quickly and painlessly? If you always wanted to work on magazines, books and brochures this is the right place to start your career!

What is InDesign? InDesign is the best tool for designing for print and digital publishing. It is a very powerful application with lots of great features and this is your best chance to learn everything you need from this online workshop led by Martin Perhiniak, Adobe Design Master Instructor. This is the ultimate InDesign how to, so sign up now, learn how to use InDesign, and become an expert!

Learn more about An Introduction to Adobe InDesign

Grab a Ticket During the Early Bird Period

For both of the new workshops we’re offering a special price of $49 for early takers, once those are gone the workshop will be $99 – still great value as an amazing investment in your future career!

If you’re interested in future workshops then definitely join the Tuts+ Live Workshops mailing list to stay posted on upcoming workshops and get notified as soon as they’re available, the early bird tickets for our previous workshop sold out in 48 hours so it’s worth getting ahead of the game!

We’re really excited about our two new workshops, Professional Photo Retouching with Photoshop and An Introduction to Adobe InDesign, but places are strictly limited so act fast to make sure you don’t miss out!

You! Be Informed! #0042 – Adobe Max, the Making of ‘Born & Raised’, and Saving Sally

Posted on March 5, 2013 by admin

Here’s another edition of You! Be Informed!

This week’s edition of You! Be Informed! will be a little bit of everything creative as we’ve compiled different projects that range from print media to digital media and animation.

Max: The Adobe Creative Conference

If you’re a creative looking for inspiration or ways on how you can further expand your creative process, you don’t have to look any further. Adobe will hold their annual creative conference dubbed Adobe Max on May 4 – 8, 2013 in Los Angeles, CA. The event will be attended by over 5000 creative individuals that are professionals in their own right.

The Making of John Mayer’s ‘Born & Raised’ Album

We’ve featured David Smith’s work on John Mayer’s Born & Raised Album before and we were amazed by the detail and level of his work. His works spans both the traditional and modern methods of creating graphic design. Recently, Freelance film-maker Danny Cooke posted a video featuring the process and how John Mayer found David Smith’s work and instantly fell in love with it.

Check out the finer details of David Smith’s work on the Born & Raised album in Danny Cooke’s documentary – The Making of John Mayer’s ‘Born & Raised’ Album:

David A Smith – Sign Artist from Danny Cooke on Vimeo.

A Pictorial History of London Tube

London’s underground tube has been an influential icon in graphic design. The logo of London’s tube has been parodied, used, and sold worldwide – from shirts to posters, and other accessories. But in their 150^th anniversary, Transport for London made an exhibition of their archived posters.

Over 150 posters where exhibited by the London Transport Museum. Check out some of the vintage and modern designs at Brain Pickings.

Save Saving Sally

Saving sally is an independent feature film produced by creative-extraordinaire Avid Liongoren. Why are we trying to save Saving Sally? Well, it’s been in production for almost seven hundred years, and the people behind the idea and the film are getting broke and they need some extra muscle. So here comes the internet to the rescue (well, hopefully). If you’ve got time check out the trailers on their website, here’s one for you guys:

Saving Sally Trailer # 1 from Avid Liongoren on Vimeo.

Know more about the film and how to help by visiting SavingSally.com

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Creative Advertising Ideas – 002

Posted on February 28, 2013 by admin

Last week we have featured some amazing creative advertising ideas like UTEC’s water-generating billboard and our personal favorite is the awesome arcade game named Last Barfighter for Big Boss Brewing Company. For this week we are featuring some interesting advertisement like the making of crazy contraption just to take out the cream of a cookie.

1. Qualcomm

Qualcomm takes away the pain in waiting at bus stops with a crazy advertising stunt using simple poster, a URL and an array of quirky and cool ways of transportation. What is nice about the stunt is that it enforces the idea of being mobile and above all the idea of kicking the boredom away by just using the mobile phone.

2. Oreo

Some people like cream while some people don’t and that is what Oreo’s Cream vs. Cookie campaign is all about. This new TV spot features David Neevel a physicist and a copywriter who doesn’t likes the Oreo cream and he decided to build himself a machine that not only separates the Oreo cookie but also gets rid of the cream.

3. Game of Thrones

With season 3 being a month away HBO’s Game of Thrones invaded the Monday edition of the New York Times to remind everyone that the award winning show is going to be back on air. The amazing reminder comes in a bunch of fake articles and extremely convincing shadow of a dragon. Looks like Daenaerys is going to finally have a good season.

If you haven’t seen the latest trailer yet better check it out now.

4. Audi

Renowned car maker Audi showed that their latest creation is something that you’d wish to drive someday and they did that with a paintball duel. The duel is comprised of the latest Audi RS 4 Avant with a mounted paintball gun and driven by UK’s top stuntmen.

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Tutorial Tuesdays – Adobe InDesign Tutorials for Beginners

Posted on February 26, 2013 by admin

Adobe InDesign is considered to be one of the most amazing desktop publishing programs to this date. With the last year’s release of InDesign CS6 designers are now given a faster, efficient and better tool to their advantage in creating amazing posters, brochures even book and magazine layouts . While Adobe InDesign may not have the bells and whistles of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator it basically makes up with its publishing and print capabilities.

We have covered some of InDesign’s capabilities in the How To Make A Simple Music Festival Poster tutorial before and that is why for today we are listing down the best tutorials we found around the internet. Here are some of the best tutorials to help you guys in further understanding Adobe InDesign and it’s processes adding another arsenal in your creative toolbox.

To get things rolling let’s start off with:

10 Things Beginners Want To Know How To Do

Terry White demonstrates 10 things that beginners should know and how to do it in InDesign CS6.

Now that you guys have a fair understanding about Adobe InDesign and what it can do let us now get down to business.

1. Working with Tools

Get to know the various tools in Adobe InDesign with Kelly McCathran.

2. Mastering InDesign Preferences

Customizing InDesign’s preferences not only helps you to suit your need but it also helps in streamlining the work process.

3. Work with type in InDesign

While Photoshop and Illustrator are known for their image and graphic making capabilities, InDesign takes text formatting to a whole different level.

4. Working with Frames

Everything in InDesign is in a frame, let it be a text or an image learning how to master frames is a must.

5. Working with Graphics

Kelly McCarthran show us the ropes of the basic know how in working with graphics and also teaching us how to work with different image formats.

SEE ALSO: 30 Awesome 2013 Movie Posters

6. Mastering the Page Tool

Multiple pages within a document is one of InDesign’s arsenal. Neshantheny Kumana teaches us how to manipulate, create folds and adding a spine using a fake magazine layout.

7. Alignment in InDesign CS6

Hasten your workflow by mastering the alignment tool with Jeff Witchel.

8. Clipping Paths with InDesign CS6

Joe Luxton shows us how to work on and manipulate clipping paths without breaking a sweat.

9. Understanding Liquid Layouts

Liquid Layouts is one of InDesign CS6′s newest feature. This tutorial shows us a brief tour of the said new feature.

10. Using Glyphs in making a Typographic Poster

Jo Guilliver showcase us how to use glyphs in making an amazing typographic poster.

11. Make a Grid Based CV in InDesign

Using a grid system in your layout does not only make your design aesthetically pleasing but it also helps speeding up the work process.

Special Mentions:
Adobe InDesign CS6 Tutorial
Adobe InDesign Tips I Wish I’d Known When Starting Out

We hope that you guys enjoy this humble list of tutorials that we have for you guys and be sure to drop some comments below if you have anything in mind and would like to share it to us. If you are a seasoned InDesign user looking for a library of print templates look no further! We have a huge collection of print templates here and it is absolutely free! Do check us out in Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+, do not forget to subscribe to get the latest news, tutorials and awesome design works for your inspiration!

You! Be Informed! #0041 – The Alva Fellowships, TED x Gettyimages, and the Search Engine with Good Taste

Posted on February 26, 2013 by admin

The Search Engine with Good Taste

We’ve seen different kinds of search engines on the internet the past decade – but all of them have not served graphic designers whole-heartedly. Google may have improved its image search functions, but it’s not as we’d want it to.

But fret no more my dear friends, there’s a search engine now for graphic designers and for those are looking for quality and beautiful imagery – Niice.co.

Niice.co is a search engine for designers and those who are looking for inspiration. Its current primary image sources are dribble and behance, and are working to get more on board.

TED x Gettyimages

Last week, Getty Images, the world’s leading creators and distributors of multimedia product announced its partnership with TED, the non-profit organization dedicated to empower the world’s most inspired thinkers.

Getty Images, as part of the partnership, will be providing complimentary access to its multimedia gallery – which spans photos, music, and videos to TED2013 and TEDGLobal 2013. The aim of the partnership is to provide creative and inspiration visuals to the creative and inspired thinkers that are attending the TED conferences.

The Alva Emerging Fellowship Program

Behance’s Alva Award has now a new program under its wing – The Alva Emerging Fellowship program. The program aims to provide a seed grant to young creators and inventors that have remarkable potential to innovate and create new products.

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If you’re looking out for free stuff you can check out freebies page and our free print templates page where you can download templates for calendars, brochures, business cards and more! Stay cool, fellas!

You! Be Informed! #0041 – The Alva Fellowships, TED x Gettyimages, and the Search Engine with Good Taste

Posted on February 26, 2013 by admin

The Search Engine with Good Taste

But fret no more my dear friends, there’s a search engine now for graphic designers and for those are looking for quality and beautiful imagery – Niice.co.

Niice.co is a search engine for designers and those who are looking for inspiration. Its current primary image sources are dribble and behance, and are working to get more on board.

TED x Gettyimages

The Alva Emerging Fellowship Program

You! Be Reminded! February 17 – 23, 2013

Posted on February 23, 2013 by admin

Hello Creatives! The week’s about to end and we’d like to throw in a recap of what the awesome things we saw this past week.

Minimalist Monday – Less is More

First off, we started the week with a feature about minimalism last Monday. Featuring some creative works from graphic designer Noma Bar and a couple of stunningly beautiful and intelligent ads from Amnesty International and Lego.

You! Be Informed! #0040 – Core77 Design Awards x Penguin Design Awards

This week’s feature in You! Be Informed! are some of the notable graphic design awards events that’ll be coming up in the next two months. Check out Core77’s and Penguin’s Design Awards and take part – challenge your creative and show off mad skills.

Tutorial Tuesday – 5 Amazing Vector Portrait Tutorials!

In our tutorial feature, we’ve compiled some of the best and in-depth tutorials about how to transform your self-portrait into vector. We’ve featured Beto Garza’s amazing step-by-step tutorial allowing you to transform your image to geometric vector graphics. Minecraft, anyone?

Artist Feature – The Vintage Style Graphics of Neil Beech

This week’s featured artist is Neil Beech, a UK-based graphic designer and illustrator who uses vintage styles on his works. Neil’s works feature a lot of vintage typography, grunge textures, and retro themes.

Web Design Wednesday – Navigating the Web with Parallax Scrolling
In our feature about web design, we discussed how Parallax Scrolling will probably change the way we navigate through the web. Also, how it can be used to naturally yet creatively narrate a story. We’ve put up some of the most creative Parallax-driven websites we can find on the web, such as Evan Halshaw’s inforgraph featuring James Bond’s cars.

Guest Post – Mobile Web Design Tips

In another web-focused post, we talked about a couple of key points when you’re designing your web for the mobile platform. We tackled subjects such as navigation, content, and visibility.

Creative Advertising Ideas of the Week

This week’s creative advertising ideas came from Fanta, Emirates, and Big Boss Brewing Company. I’ll hop on and tell you, check out Big Boss’ advertisemen —it’s awesome. Anyway, in the same post is UTEC’s innovative billboard design that generates drinkable water for the people of Lima, Peru.

Typography Thursday — How to Tell Your Client That Some Typefaces are Better than Others

This week’s typography post is about how to handle projects that require sensitive typography, and how to tell your client why you chose a certain typeface for the project.

Freebie – Tools of Mass Creation Photoshop Brushes

This week’s freebie is a brush made up mainly of drawing and writing tools we use every day. Download it for a tweet or a share on facebook, then you can do whatever you want with it.

Fanart Friday – Fictional Logos Compiled by FAUXGO
If you’re looking for some logo inspiration, you don’t need to look far and wide for beautiful and memorable brand logos. All you have to do is revisit the video games, films, and TV series that you’ve watched and you’ll find that some of the fictional companies you loathed and fought against have some sensible branding in them.

Surreal Saturday – The Dreamy Illustrations of Victo Ngai
This Saturday’s feature for unique and otherworldly artwork is graphic designer and illustrator Victo Ngai. She has worked with big companies such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Leo Burnett, McDonald’s, Adidas Hong Kong, Bank Simple, Tor Books and more.

Watch out for more creative articles and freebies next week!

Do you want to pitch in an article or an idea? Let us know, send us an email or just leave a comment bellow. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

Fan Art Friday – Fictional Logos Compiled by FAUXGO

Posted on February 22, 2013 by admin

Stories are driven by different elements – from the characters’ actions to McGuffins whose true purpose are never revealed on-screen or within the story. But apart from the active elements that make up the story, there are also other notable things that make a story interesting, one of these are the fictional companies that either directly or indirectly affects the story.

We probably won’t be able to trace back when or what was the first fictional company that was ever created for a film or video game. But what we can do now is document them, just like what FAUXGO is doing right now.
FAUXGO, a portmanteau of the french word “faux” and “logo”, was initiated by Tymn Armstrong to recreate fictional logos of companies, groups, and other entities that can be seen in television, film, video games, and has crept its way into today’s popular culture.

Here’re a few of what Tymn has recreated:

N7 — a fictional special forces from the Mass Effect video game series.

Shinra Electric Company – a company prominently featured in Squaresoft’s Final Fantasy VII series.

The Dharma Initiative – a fictional research project that primarily deals with fringe science, it was prominently appearing in the Lost TV series.

Paper Street Soap Company – a company featured in the film Fight Club, it was introduced in the film as being owned by Tyler Durden.

Fan Art Friday –Fictional Logos Compiled by FAUXGO

Umbrella Corp. – Featured primarily in the video game series Resident Evil.

FOXHOUND – a fictional elite black ops unit of the United States Army that appeared in the Metal Gear video game franchise.

Momcorp – a company prominently featured in the animated TV series Futurama.

These fictional groups and companies have provided an important backstory in their own respective franchises. Although sometimes barely seen throughout the whole run of the TV show or video game, these logos are so well-designed that it can easily be recognizable to someone who has encountered it either on TV or video game.

Check out FAUXGO for more fictional logo inspiration.

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TEN’s 3rd PSD by Brazilian Artist Adhemas Batista Available Tomorrow, March 8th

TEN’s 3rd PSD by Brazilian Artist Adhemas Batista Available Tomorrow, March 8th

Tuts+ Live Workshops: Live Online Workshops Taught by Experts

Professional Photo Retouching with Photoshop

An Introduction to Adobe InDesign

Grab a Ticket During the Early Bird Period

You! Be Informed! #0042 – Adobe Max, the Making of ‘Born & Raised’, and Saving Sally

Creative Advertising Ideas – 002

Tutorial Tuesdays – Adobe InDesign Tutorials for Beginners

You! Be Informed! #0041 – The Alva Fellowships, TED x Gettyimages, and the Search Engine with Good Taste

The Search Engine with Good Taste

TED x Gettyimages

The Alva Emerging Fellowship Program

You! Be Informed! #0041 – The Alva Fellowships, TED x Gettyimages, and the Search Engine with Good Taste

The Search Engine with Good Taste

TED x Gettyimages

The Alva Emerging Fellowship Program

You! Be Reminded! February 17 – 23, 2013

Fan Art Friday – Fictional Logos Compiled by FAUXGO