Designious Times

At a first glance, when you hear “pavement drawings” you’d probably think: “So? What’s so special about them?”. But I’m not referring to your average drawings made with chalk! No, no.
A very cool thing about what I’m about to share with you are some special pavement drawings called anamorphic illusions: distorted 2D artwork  to give [...]

Every once in a while is hard to find work or maybe business is a bit slow so is good to have an extra income, a passive income. If you are a designer and you want to have a passive income here are few things that can help you achieve that.

Use the designs that [...]

You often hear clients that don’t have a big budget and they also want something fast but needs to look good. You have two options here, either refuse the client or create the design with stock vector images/elements. Creating a design with stock elements has the advantage that you don’t have to spend a lot [...]

Bert Monroy is a digital artist pioneer, specialized in photo-realistic digital painting. He spent 20 years in the advertising industry as an art director and creative [...]

“Yeah, how about if you change that color to green and make the logo bigger, oh and I don’t like the photo of the girl nor the background could you use something else? And could you have it ready by tomorrow?”
Sounds familiar? We’ve all heard this kind of speech. OH THE FRUSTRATION !Lots of time [...]

Art from Poland this week. Awesome!
Peter Jaworowski is an established freelance graphic designer and illustrator based in Warsaw, Poland at the Ars Thanea Studio. He is a design director. Debut Art represents Jaworowski worldwide, and Mushroom in Spain.
One big thing i like about Jaworoski is that he never compromises quality. Not for timeline, or anything [...]

This article tries to explain, define and make you understand some notions of typography. We tried to compile the essentials and give you an objective look of these elements.  Now let’s get started!
Typography
Is the art and techniques of arranging type , type design, and modifying type glyphs.
Arranging type involves: changing point size, leading, width, letter-spacing [...]

Welcome to the worst album covers part 1. You will be presented with a number of 15 album covers made by humans. If your monitor melts, for some reason, during the viewing of this post, we held no responsibility for it!
1. Mellow start. This 4 guys seem like very axe-fun to me! The girl doesn’t [...]

Thin, thin, thick, thin, thick, thick, thin. That’s what you get from an ordinary bar code, printed on the back of your daily nutritious whatever, from the supermarket.
Of course there is a “but”… but the design team at Design Barcode thought of using the bar codes to make something different, other than being dull on [...]

Paco Raphael worked as as senior graphic and webdesigner for   MTV and RedUrban before being a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. His work contains elements from the 60’s and 70’s .  You can also find some  American influences with a touch of a subtle blend of erotic elements and a warm color palette.