Must read: designer handbooks

Design Must read: designer handbooks Professional books will help form the basis for your work, develop the necessary skills and help you avoid the mistakes that predecessors stuffed the bumps on. The selection features the top 5 most popular designer handbooks based on a survey of everyone in the AIC ...

Indentation in design: a systematic approach

Design Indentation in design: a systematic approach Hello, we are Kelnik agency, and we often work with large projects – corporate websites, development projects and sophisticated touch-table interfaces. To speed up development, we come up with systems that help clean up the mess. One of such systems is working with ...

10 videos from Mail Design Conference

Design 10 videos from Mail Design Conference The conference participants – designers, developers and product managers, use their examples to tell how effective modern digital products, design tools and illustrations are created. Dima and Leta Stolz – Vivid illustration We closed the main program with a story about our illustration ...

Liza Krasnova “Markers!”

Book Liza Krasnova “Markers!” Bright, juicy, fashionable … markers! This material blew up the Internet a couple of years ago, excited the sketchers and still does not let go. What is the secret of popularity? “Markers!” – a novelty from the publishing house “Bombora” (formerly “Eksmo”), released in the #instartist ...

John Lawes “Diary of a Naturalist Artist”

Book John Lawes “Diary of a Naturalist Artist” How to keep the rapidly slipping away summer?– No way. But you can try to keep rich colors and a little warmth on the pages of a naturalist’s diary. And where to start and how to enjoy the process and the result, ...

Sara Simblet “Botany for the Artist”

Book Sara Simblet “Botany for the Artist” The Complete Plant Drawing Tutorial will help you immerse yourself in the world of botanical illustration. The most delightful specimens from the botanical collections are the basis for hundreds of drawings and photographs in this book. It includes about 550 plant species from ...

7 rules for working with a design agency

Design 7 rules for working with a design agency The executive director of the studio “Turum-Burum” Dmitry Kukuruza talks about the rules of working with any design studio or “Why is your blue not blue enough?” Effective work on a project for an agency and a client is like a ...

12 principles of visual hierarchy

Design 12 principles of visual hierarchy What is the difference between a really cool composition and not so much? The devil is in the details. The Visme team visualized and described them – the basic rules for creating awesome content. 1. Size and scale Size matters, of course – but ...

49 useful resources to help a designer

Design 49 useful resources to help a designer In modern realities, a designer cannot afford to wait for a muse, but having good sources of inspiration at hand, he is able to tune in to the desired “wave” without it. We bring to your attention a selection of useful resources ...