Graphic & Web Design Blog
Chantry Academy secondary school in Ipswich approached me to design 30 posters to help year 11 remember quotes. The quotes are from three texts that the students needed to learn for their exams. I had to design 10 posters for each, Romeo & Juliet, An Inspector Calls and A Christmas Carol. Continue reading “Chantry Academy Poster Designs”
Using the website creativeallies.com Bayside and Say Anything set a competition to design a poster for their latest tour. Although my poster design wasn’t selected I wanted to share it. Continue reading “Bayside & Say Anything Tour Poster”
Let’s face it, when a band you love brings out their new album, you get hold of your physical or digital copy and can’t wait to play it. You might spend a couple of seconds looking at the artwork but your real focus is the music. I wanted to look into the artists behind these amazing pieces of art. The people that spent countless hours working to create the masterpiece surrounding the music.
I bring you the best rock & pop punk album artwork, artists.
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What makes a great logo design? Good Question!
A great logo design is distinctive, appropriate, practical, graphic, simple in form and conveys an intended message. It wont determine if your business is successful or not but it will certainly help. Your logo should give the outside world an instant impression of your brand, it does not sell (directly), it identifies.
This post is aimed at business owners/start ups that are looking for designers to work their magic on their branding. It will give you a bit of knowledge about what you should be asking/looking for in a designers work.
Let’s take a look at the most popular graphic design trends of 2016.
Trends, fluid by nature, no matter how transient they are or how deep-rooted in our pop culture they might be, don’t have a predetermined life expectancy. Constantly evolving, graphic design trends became more and more popular in a gradual manner. Living their short or long lives simultaneously in various domains until they, without much notice or fuss about it, fade away leaving room for the next generation of trends. Flat 2.0, geometric shapes, bold typography, motion, print-inspired, modern retro, abstract Swiss, minimalist logotypes, hand drawn illustrations ñ all have made an impression this year.
As we’re getting closer and closer to the end of this year, I think it’s proper to take a look at the most sought-after graphic design trends of 2016.
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Check out my free Web Design Icon Set.
I am giving you 16 icons for free, because I am awesome and everybody loves free stuff! You can download these at the bottom of this post. Let me know via the comments what projects you used these in and if available send me over a link.
Your looking to build a new website for you or your business and you don’t know whether to hire a web designer, or have a go at designing the site yourself using an online site builder. Do yourself and everybody who is going to see your site a favour and contact a professional web designer! This is why website builders suck!
Plugins are an essential part of any WordPress website. With over 44 thousand free plugins available, there is no shortage to the amount on functionality you can add to your website by installing one of them.
Due to the amount available sorting the good plugins from the bad ones can be a nightmare. Here are some of the best WordPress plugins of 2016.