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Now you can whip up a product mockup/screenshot in less than 10 seconds, all without even using Photoshop. Yep, it’s a snap with the Smartmockup app. Available for MacOS, Windows and Linux, this simple-to-use app features more than 300 stunning mockup templates. Each template allows you to easily upload and incorporate your product image into the mockup and thus saving you loads of time and money!
Classy, calligraphic, and confident. Yana’s classical proportions convey worldly sophistication and experience. Yet unlike more staid classical faces, Yana’s concave terminals and elegantly flared serifs suggest romance, mystery, and a touch of Victorian extravagance.
Designed as a versatile family for everything from text use to headlines and titling, you’ll find yourself using Yana in project after project. Yana is available in regular, bold, and italic variants, and includes two sets of swash capitals — each available in standard sizes and small caps, but also in mid-sized petite caps, ideal for adding beautiful, properly scaled flourishes to the middle or end of wordmarks.
With Mighty Deals Summer font collection you will receive over 30 fonts from 6 different designers! Included are script, brush and modern sans serif fonts, each with a variety of options. In addition, some fonts include stylistic alternates such as ligatures and swashes. This bundle also features an extended license which allows for personal and commercial use.
The Fonts Collection is an ensemble of 40 fabulous fonts worthy of any design or craft project. With a combination of brush, script and modern typefaces you are sure to find something you love. As always the bundles are PUA encoded so you do not need to worry about buying expensive software to access any extra glyphs that may be available. Included with the price is a full commercial license.
In recent years script fonts have found a renewed interest. Known for their fluid and varied strokes these digital counterparts draw inspiration from sign painting of the past and present. Since they are based on the gestures of the written word, they can add warmth and personality to a design often making it more approachable.
In today’s post we highlight a series of scripts from our sponsor The Hungry JPEG. Ranging in a variety of styles and weights the examples below represent just a small fraction of their current catalog.
chromount – A brush script that’s a little rough around the edges. Complete with fluid swashes and stylistic alternatives.
Allita Script – perfect for wedding invitations, greeting cards and logos.
Trademark font – A slick script that can be applied to a variety of scenarios.
Werewolves! vampires! spiders with top hats! These are some of the creatures featured in a new monster picture book series by author, illustrator, and character designer Ralph Cosentino. Inspired by his love for monsters this collection pays homage to the folklore and stories he admired as a kid.
In the first book, readers are invited to rediscover Frankenstein, not as a menacing beast but as a gentle giant with a love for reading and foreign languages. Joining him in his adventures are a chubby bat named Claude and a lovable cat named Bela. Together they explore alternative uses for windmills and learn the finer points of Spanish music and dancing (I suspect the later pays homage to Ralph’s own background as the son of Argentinian flamenco dancers). To help bring the story to life, Ralph employs auditory phrases and expressive typography to encourage parents and children alike to immerse themselves in the experience and pretend to be their favorite characters.
After years of burning the midnight oil, Ralph is ready to bring the series to light (but don’t tell Dracula!). To secure a copy and earn cool stuff along the way, you can help support his efforts via this Kickstarter campaign.
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Not having the right type for the job can make your design workflow suffer. While licensing a large collection of fonts can mean a major up front investment. We’ve got you covered, though!
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You’ll unlock the Monotype, Linotype and ITC typeface libraries, which feature signature designs like the Neue Helvetica®, Avenir® Next, and ITC Franklin Gothic™ families—as well popular new releases, including the Metro® Nova and Neue Haas Grotesk™ collections. See how easy and affordable it can be to have complete access to the world’s greatest type.
This post is brought to you by Fonts.com – a leading provider of desktop fonts and Web fonts. With an exhaustive inventory of type related products and subscriptions, Fonts.com can help you get your design work done quickly, easily, and more beautifully.
Squarespace has just released a free online Skillshare class called Creating a Website to Build Your Online Brand. In just one hour, instructor George Denison walks you through creating and maintaining an online presence that’s beautiful and helps you achieve your business goals. Lesson topics include: ways to grow your site over time, best practices for 5 essential site pages and tips for optimizing templates, images, and content.
All makers, creators, entrepreneurs, and small businesses welcome. No prior knowledge or skills are needed. Plus, students are encouraged to share their sites for feedback.
This post is brought to you by Squarespace – a website publishing platform that makes it easy to create beautiful websites, portfolios, blogs, and online stores without touching a line of code.
The good folks at WebdesignerNews are offering a special font bundle to download and use. Included in the collection are 17 typefaces ranging from highly geometric designs to cursive scripts and modern sans serifs. Download the complete collection for free here.
Squarespace is the perfect solution for designers looking to establish an online shop or host their portfolio. With a variety of themes to choose from, you can have a clean and responsive website up in a matter of minutes – all without touch a single line of code. The completely inclusive, all-in-one service provides content management, hosting, domains, social integrations, 24-hour customer support and more for only $8 a month. And with their new Cover Pages tool, the deal just got a little sweeter. Using the tool, you can quickly and easily create standalone landing pages or an intro page to an existing web site. All of this adds up to a powerful platform that allows you to efficiently run your business instead of your business running you.
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Panton is a modern typeface that includes 34 different fonts, made up of 9 uprights, 9 italics and 16 icon sets! Easy to read, Panton is a great choice for using on everything from T-shirts to posters, thanks to its real softened geometric nature. See all the details here.
Panton Features:
Nine unique weights to seamlessly tell your visual story: Thin, Extra Light, Light, Regular, Semi Bold, Bold, Extra Bold, Black and Heavy.
Each of the 9 weights comes in a standard upright style, as well as an italics style, offering even more choices.
Sixteen different icon sets (that’s more than 800 pictograms!) to beautifully complement your text.
First impressions are everything, and with Squarespace’s new Cover Page tool, you can craft a bold, yet elegant standalone landing page in a manner of minutes! The twelve themes to choose from can be used in powerful ways for a variety of applications. Create pages to collect email addresses, promote your brand or even announce upcoming events. In addition, Cover Pages work independently of your core theme, so you can easily add them to an existing website. Combined with Squarespace’s robust e-commerce functionally, they can be used in unique and meaningful ways of connecting with your biggest fans and loyal customers.
Included with each Squarespace account are real-time analytics, a free domain, cloud hosting and award-winning 24/7 support.
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Squarespace is graciously offering grain edit readers a 10% discount off all plans for a limited time. Type in GRAINEDIT during checkout to activate the discount and launch your Squarespace experience.
This post is brought to you by Squarespace – a website publishing platform that makes it easy to create beautiful websites, portfolios, blogs, and online stores without touching a line of code.
1001FreeDownloads is a new site where you can find thousands of images which are not only free, but royalty-free, and can be used for commercial and business purposes.The free downloads available on the site are organized under nine image types and categories: Vectors, Photos, Fonts, Icons, Wallpapers, Brushes, Styles, Patterns and Clipart and can be downloaded immediately without registration. Just pick and download, it’s that simple.
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You likely spend hours every morning browsing through hundreds of posts on your RSS feeds, hoping to stumble across relevant stories. Webdesigner News was built to provide web designers and developers with a single location to discover the latest and most significant stories on the Web. Content includes: news, fresh tools and apps, case studies, code demos, inspiration posts, videos and more. Click here to visit Webdesigner News and see the latest stories of the day.
CreativeLive educates and inspires the creative world by providing affordable skill-based education 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Founded with the belief that world-class education can (and should) be available to everyone, CreativeLive is the first online education company to combine high production value, social interaction, and renowned experts with a live, free 24/7 format. The interactive nature of CreativeLive’s classes creates an environment that fosters community, creative breakthroughs, and lasting personal change.
CreativeLive launched their Design Channel this January with a roster of amazing instructors including James Victore, Stanley Hainsworth, Brandon Rike, and more.
Don’t miss Hand Lettering School this week on CreativeLive where you can catch rebroadcasts of the following classes and purchase them at sale prices:
Webydo is a professional website design platform that empowers graphic and
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Zelda is a gorgeous script font, from Artimasa, that is as classy as it is versatile. Use it on anything from wedding invitations to company branding. With more than 500 glyphs, you’ll get loads of OpenType features, as well as ornamental characters to keep you satisfied. See all the details here.
In a new campaign, IKEA honours the things at home that usually get very little recognition. Conceived as an epic homage, the lamp, clothes hanger and even the wall-mounted hook behind the door, are all portrayed as true heroes.
Without thinking, we rely on them daily and it’s not until they’re gone that we miss them dearly. Unlike furniture we proudly place in the centre of a room for people to gather around and admire, the life of an everyday hero is secluded and sometimes, quite dreadful. But still, day in and day out, they do their best to improve our lives at home.
This week we’re excited to bring you Kapra, a font family inspired Polish magazines from the 1960s. Included with the set are eight variants and a huge collection of glyphs. See the complete collection here.
The complete Kapra Family includes 8 different variants: Kapra Regular Condensed, Kapra Regular Condensed Italic, Kapra Regular, Kapra Regular Italics, Kapra Bold, Kapra Bold Italic, Kapra Extra Bold, and Kapra Extra Bold Italic.
For fans of Scandinavian modern design, leading furniture retailer Bo Concept has teamed up with Mads Mikkelsen for a short film entitled The Call. Mads who is best known for his roles in Casino Royale and more recently The Hunt, plays the role of a well-to-do actor with a lust for modern furniture. Playing alongside him is Malin Buska, a Swedish actress who received the Rising Star award at the Stockholm International Film Festival in 2011. The Call is the first installment of a two-part series to be released this year.
To bring the sophisticated yet edgy drama to life, Bo Concept called upon veteran actor/director Dejan Cukic. Technical director Thomas Busk who most recently worked with Mikkelsen on the film The Salvation was also brought on board. Shot on location in Valencia, Spain at the home of BoConcept designer Morten Georgsen, the film prominently features Bo Concept’s most iconic pieces including the Mezzo sofa and the Imola chair.
To coincide with the release of the film, Bo Concept has launched a special giveaway. The grand prize includes a consultation with an interior decorator and $5000 worth of Bo Concept furniture and accessories. See boconcept.com for complete details.
This Exclusive Font Bundle includes 10 beautiful script font sets that range from whimsical to incredibly high class. Included are popular fonts like Hipsteria, Shepia and Ragazza Script by Latino Type. See the complete collection here.
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Today, I have the pleasure of introducing Hannah Tomlinson, a designer living and working in Manchester. A former account executive, she stumbled upon the world of graphic design while working for an advertising agency. This new found interest sparked a desire to adjust her current career path and pursue an education at Shillington – a design school with campuses in the U.K., Australia and the United States. There, she received invaluable guidance from teachers such as Sarah McHugh and grain edit fave Jeffery Bowman. By honing her skills through a series of internships after graduation, she eventually landed a full-time gig at the multidisciplinary firm RetroFuzz. Today Hannah shares insight into the types of projects that drive her and how her experiences at Shillington better prepared her to enter a competitive work force.
When and how did you become interested in illustration and design?
I ended up working at an advertising agency after graduating university and that was my first real insight into what it meant to be a graphic designer. I became more and more fascinated in the field and starting hanging around the design department more than was probably necessary, I bought a huge notebook to start doodling and collecting inspiration from anywhere and everywhere, and I also starting taking evening classes in graphic design at the local art college.
As a designer, what types of projects are you most passionate about? What attracts you to that type of work?
I get excited about working for brands or companies which I really like – ones that I’d be a customer of it’s great to be able to help further their business. That applies to working with start ups and local independents as well, it’s the most rewarding work. I also love being able to take a project from the very start to the final product, it’s really satisfying to see months of hard work pay off.
How did you discover Shillington and what factors weighed in on your decision to attend to their program?
After a series of evening classes I soon decided to steer towards a career in design. I looked into doing a Masters, but found it hard to get a real idea of what to expect from university prospectuses or their websites. I came across Shillington by accident and was really impressed with the amount of information on their site and, after going to an Info Session and a graduate exhibition, I was completely head-over-heels and signed myself up.
In what ways did Shillington directly or indirectly prepare you for your first design job?
After three months of really, really, hard graft, I was proud of my portfolio and felt confident meeting other designers and talking through my work. My first day in a studio was a shock, of course, but I didn’t feel out of my depth, and felt confident taking on new projects and talking through my ideas with new colleagues. The technical training is second to none and, although I learn something new every day, I felt like I had the best grounding I could to begin my career.
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We would like to thank Hannah for taking time to share with us. Her work is available online at hannahtomlinson.com.
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This is the third installment in a three-part interview series. Following along by reading parts one and two of the series.
This interview is brought to you by Shillington School. A place where students can learn from teachers who are practicing designers in a realistic studio environment.
Everyone feels like they should be saving more money. However saving money is hard and stressful. That’s why we built Digit. Digit automatically saves money for you, so you don’t have to think about it. Our hope is, with Digit, we can remove some of the money stress from our lives. So far Digit has saved over $700,000 for our members.
Jotform is an online service that allows you to easily create and host forms for a variety of applications. Working with Jotform’s form builder you can conceive and construct forms for registration purposes, applications, surveys and more. However, until recently you were limited in design options. All that has changed with Jotform’s latest update, which allows you complete control over the look and feel of your forms. Easily manipulate the colors, fonts and layout without knowing a single line of code.
To complement the release of the enhanced form builder Jotform has also launched a new theme marketplace. This should be of special interest to designers looking to showcase and sell their work. From now until June 15th, 2015 Jotform is waiving their fees so designers will earn one hundred percent of their theme sales. After the 15th, Jotform will retain 30%. To submit a theme, click the “new theme” button in the upper right corner of the My Themes page.
Continuing on in our interview series we chat with Catherine Adreani. A recent graduate of Shillington, she has quickly established herself as a thoughtful and capable designer with a well-polished portfolio. Today we discuss how her previous work in the film industry shaped her approach to design and what factors led to her decision to attend Shillington.
When and how did you become interested in illustration and design?
I actually used to draw a lot as a kid, and all the way through high school (where I became obsessed with calligraphy), I just never thought I could make a career out of it. I majored in Liberal Arts in College and went on to Film School after that, but the entire time I was there, I was usually more interested in the subtext that the art direction was conveying than in the main stories we were trying to tell. I ended up going heavily into editing after that, but eventually realized that I really wanted to be a designer. Being an editor is a powerful thing, but because your “canvas” is tied to the material you’re handed (and somebody else’s vision along with it, most of the time), the limited authorship was always just a little unsatisfying to me. I’m happiest when I get to create things out of nothingness.
How did you discover Shillington and what factors weighed in on your decision to attend to their program?
I had been thinking about properly pursuing design for a while, but doing another bachelor’s degree seemed silly, not to mention very inconvenient in terms of time and money. I also didn’t want to have to sit through too many of those general ed classes that pad up the curriculum (again), I wanted a program that was strictly about design and as straightforward as possible. I found Shillington online and was immediately attracted to the visual language of it, but the quality of the student work I saw was probably what sold me. I also liked the fact that they had a three month intensive option, that it was affordable, and that it was offered every quarter, which meant I could start right away as opposed to having to wait, like, a year.
On your web site it mentions you have a background in film post-production. How did your previous training in film editing influence the way you design?
Working in post made me realize how much power you have as an auteur, not just to communicate, but to create the context in which your message will be received. I think establishing a mood is so important. Every medium has different tools and ways to go about it: filmmakers have music, mise en scene, pacing; designers have color, the use of white space, type treatment… it all works. I also think it’s important to appeal to both the visceral and the intellectual components of a person’s reaction to something. I prefer to assume people are smart, and humor myself in trying to embed something funny, sarcastic or irreverent in the choices I make on a design any time I can get away with it. Even if only a few people get it, it’s worth it.
In what ways did Shillington directly or indirectly prepare you for your first design job?
The main thing is of course the fact that I came out with a portfolio. That was probably one of the main reasons for going through with the program as opposed to attempting to do things on my own. I think it’s fair to say that it’s nearly impossible to land a job in this field without a proper portfolio and a website, so right out school that’s the one thing that gets you in the door. Shillington has a very structured portfolio process (and a lot of guidance during) at the end of which I came out with a curated selection of my work, as well as the rest of the assets I needed for my job search, like a website, a resume, a business card, a leave-behind, etc. It has helpful that they set such tight deadlines for us on everything, because these turned out to be pretty realistic. I’m also really thankful for the frequent one on one chats we had with the instructors where we had to justify our design choices in ways that would hold up to an art director, because presenting to directors and clients and being assertive about it turned out to be an important part of my job.
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We would like to thank Catherine for taking time to share with us. Her work is available online at catherineadreani.com.
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This is the 2nd installment in a three-part interview series. See part one here.
This interview is brought to you by Shillington School. A place where students can learn from teachers who are practicing designers in a realistic studio environment.
