Post pobrano z: Design fail: this is what happens when you don’t proofread

Sometimes, when focusing on designing things, we forget the obvious and let horrible mistake slip through. In this post, you can find examples of what happens when you forget to proofread and go to print carelessly.

Welcome to Kansas City

What was meant to be a welcoming statement becomes a warning for most.

Not Lorem Ipsum

But not much better, looks like somebody slammed the keyboard.

Pedestrian hunters

The lack of punctuation and spacing turns this message in a different one.

Orignal

Making typos may be a way to be original, but it will not make you look more professional.

Hell

Sometimes replacing a letter with a picture can be a good idea, sometimes not.

For a special aunt

Some fonts are more readable than others.

Flicks

Some mistakes are not typos, but bad kerning can change the meaning of words as well.

Shitake

Bad kerning again, with too much space this time.

Porn & Beans

This looks like something autocorrect would do, but I doubt the designer was working with his phone.

School too easy for graphic designers

In this graphic designer’s defense, working for TV as a designer must be quite stressful as you need to always be producing new work quickly.

A Better America

This campaign slogan for Mitt Romney had a typo in the word America, which is a shame.

Post pobrano z: Adobe announces that it will acquire Magento for 1.68 billion

After last week’s announcement of a freemium business model for its UX tool Adobe XD, the design software giant makes another big move towards the web design industry. In fact, Adobe will acquire Magento Commerce, a key player in the eCommerce field.

With this acquisition, Adobe is aiming to add another essential tool to its Experience Cloud ecosystem. While the amount announced seems very high, it’s worth noting that Magento is a leader in its industry with over 250’000 platforms developed with its cloud solution, which generate an average of 155 billion dollars in annual sales.

On the practical side, Magento’s current CEO, Mark Lavelle, will stay in charge of operations in the new branch at Adobe. He shared his excitement of working with Adobe in a recent blog post. The Magento community, which represents 300’000 developers who will probably be happy about the news.

Post pobrano z: Design deals for the week

Every week, we’ll give you an overview of the best deals for designers, make sure you don’t miss any by subscribing to our deals feed. You can also follow the recently launched website Type Deals if you are looking for free fonts or font deals.

10 Full Font Families and Bonus Design Extras

Give your voice a new look thanks to this epic typeface deal full of 10 full font families! You’ll get multiple styles, resulting in 18 unique fonts, along with OpenType Features including Stylistic and Contextual Alternates. Not to mention multilingual support, additional glyphs and all sorts of fabulous design extras from Vectors to doodles.

$9 instead of $147 – Get it now!

The Wonderful Graphics Bundle

This amazing bundle includes 40 of the most popular graphic packs from the Design Bundles marketplace, all bundled together in this one-time offer.

$15 instead of $148 – Get it now!

Create Gorgeous Scenes with Floral and Stationery Mockup Sets

Add some real zip to your latest designs by creating some gorgeous and realistic scenes. This Mighty Deal features 200 high-quality items through a pair of Floral and Stationery Mockups. Easy to customize and sort using smart objects and organized layers, you can arrange a variety of flowers, leaves and stems or paper, envelopes and office supplies to build the perfect scene to show off your designs.

$19 instead of $49 – Get it now!

The Amazing Craft Bundle

Including 16 fonts and dingbats, monograms, hundreds of SVG’s and more! It’s a Crafters Dream Bundle!

$24 instead of $285 – Get it now!

Celestial Typeface Offers Antique, Victorian Style

Step back into the early 19th century with the beautiful, hand lettered font, Celestial. A gorgeous mix of modern and classic styles, you can give your latest project a true Victorian tone. Packed with 300+ glyphs, tons of OpenType features, and a trio of bonus items, the past never looked so good.

$9 instead of $18 – Get it now!

120 Stylish and Elegant Flyer Templates

Grab this stylish and clean Print Templates Bundle to showcase your business, products or services. Fully customizable, these hi-res files are ready to print and start sharing with the public. You can use the bundle for several activities: business, corporate, travel, mobile app, photography, menu, real estate, interior design, rent cars, etc.

$19 instead of $350 – Get it now!

Illustrator CC 2018 MasterClass Taught By One of the World’s Top Instructors

Always wanted to figure out how to use Adobe Illustrator? Now’s your chance! With Illustrator CC 2018 MasterClass, you’ll quickly learn everything there is to know about mastering Adobe Illustrator. From designing logos to using various brushes, these online tutorials feature hands-on exercises and quizzes to test your knowledge.

$17 instead of $97 – Get it now!

 

Post pobrano z: Yose-gi Stool by TAMEN

You may already have seen one of these videos showing how traditional houses are built without the need for nails. If you didn’t, I suggest you take a look at this article on the Interesting Engineering blog. The pieces used to build those houses without nails have their ending looking like puzzle pieces, they are assembled together and hold very good.

For his Yose-gi stool, Brooklyn-based Japanese product designer Yoshiaki Ito found his inspiration in these traditional elements. The founder of TAMEN, his design studio, made stools that can be assembled together in order to save space when the stools are not in use.

Post pobrano z: Adobe makes its prototyping tool XD CC free to download

Dominant in the graphic design industry with tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign, Adobe is not as successful with its web designing tools. Apps like Sketch or InVision are very popular among people who design for the web, which is not what Adobe wants. The company decided that its XD CC software wasn’t getting enough attention, so they changed their model to make it more accessible. It’s worth noting that you will still need to pay to get the full experience, as only the starter edition is free.

Adobe XD is a comprehensive solution for going to concept to a working prototype very quickly, the type of tool that all UX/UI designers need to be more productive. With the free version, you even get access to great icon sets you can use in your designs. Once ready, your designs can be previewed with Android or iOS transitions, then easily shared.

Are you a developer? Create plugins for XD. Adobe has even created a $10 million fund to invest in new features proposed by developers. This great announcement and the whole excitement around XD shows that Adobe is looking to make their UX/UI tool one of their flagship product. Scott Belsky, who is no less than the Chief Product Officer & Executive Vice President at Adobe, was quoted saying that XD may even become bigger than Photoshop.

Post pobrano z: Stunning 3D graffiti by Peter Preffington

For the past twenty years, Peter Preffington (aka Pref) has been creating art that he published in his homeland, Great-Britain, or abroad. On top of the prints he exhibits in art galleries or online, the British artist also creates stunning street art that plays with type.

Playing with letter and dimensions, the street artist designs words that can be read in two ways. His multi-layered typography is not only fun and clever, it also looks great. You can obviously not purchase the designs that lay on walls, but you can buy some of his artworks as prints on his online shop.

Post pobrano z: Kernit: a typeface developed for The Jim Henson Exhibition at The Museum of Moving Image

When Collins & MCKL designed a new font for an exhibition about Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppet Show, the naturally named it Kernit, a word referencing to both Kermit the frog and kerning, a typographic term.

The font, intended for the Jim Henson Exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image, features bold characters inpired by the show. You can download it in bold and outline on this website.

Post pobrano z: Spectacular Link Building Techniques For Your Website

There are numerous techniques you could use to build links, some of them white hat while others black hat. Google is very keen on sites that use black hat techniques and will place penalties on such sites, so while building links through ghost marketing, you should be careful to avoid falling in the hands of Google algorithms because this will literally take you back to zero. With that said, you still have white hat methods that are natural and safe that you could utilize.

Here are some guidelines you may use to generate high-quality links.

Content marketing

The first step you should take in building links is content marketing, which is basically producing high quality content that is sharable. By far, this is the most legitimate link building solution because you will naturally get links from different sources. Choose a relevant topic and conduct in-depth research to come up with an original article. Curate comprehensive advice and publish on your website and newsletter. You could also share on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. If your content is good, your target audience will share it and this will give you natural backlinks.

Broken link building

Broken link building includes identifying broken links on blogs and sites and giving the site owners an alternative resource. You need an SEO tool like Ahrefs to identify sites in your niche that have broken links for articles. Export data about the sites and reach out to as many as possible because most of them will definitely not agree to the offer. How this works is that after approval you create an article on the topic highlighted on the broken link, then ask the site to use your link instead of that which is not available.

Guest posting for SEO link building

Guest blogging is an effective technique and this works because you give valuable input to sites then they give you a link in return. Choose your targets wisely and build a diverse link profile including authoritative inbound link profile. Reach out to the sites you have identified and show them a sample of the article you intend to publish. After they have approved your request create a high-quality article and include one link to your site in a natural flow.

Link building with social shares

One of the options for getting links is encouraging social sharing. Although this does not impact ranking directly, social shares could impact the number of people who see the content and eventually link to it. This explains the reason posts that have many social shares usually rank high on search results.

Build links with reviews

Another way to build links is through reviews. There are many review platforms that you can join that will link back to your site. You could also talk to an online influencer to get them to review your content and this could get you some links. Sites like Trustpilot give you an opportunity to link back to your site and reviewers could also help to spread the good news about your business if your services or goods are perfect.

Link building is a diverse specialty and you can use different methods to earn links for your site. The rule of the thumb to good link building is to always avoid strategies that would be classified as spamming or black-hat because this will bring down the reputation of your site in the eyes of Google. Try the ideas mentioned here coupled with other white-hat methods and you will see results.

Post pobrano z: Mini People in the Jungle: beautiful grayscale illustrations by Dawid Planeta

Dawid Planeta is a graphic design, illustrator, and artist from Poland. One of his most prominent work recently is his series of illustration titled “Mini People in the Jungle“. It features dark, colorless scenes with gigantic animals with glowing eyes. As one could have guessed, the artist’s inspiration comes from the dark side, from his own personal struggle with depression. The result is stunning and can be followed with recent artworks regularly added on his Tumblr.

Post pobrano z: Loyto L1: a modern take on the traditional analogue watch

Many designers choose to design for smartwatches because the digital screens allow them to create modern interfaces and innovate. Innovating with a technology that has been around for hundreds of years is harder, especially when the technology behind is more restrictive.

With the Loyto L1, the designers found a way to give a new, modern graphic representation of “reading time”. You can find this beautiful watch on Loyto Watches.