Books that go beyond the story and present their content in an intriguing or clever way hold a special place on my shelf. Here are five memorable books with exceptional typography and layout, and story of course!
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Texturing goes a long way towards making a piece feel complete; it adds a certain richness and depth. This tutorial will quickly take you through a vector illustration from beginning to end, and focus on how to create a colorful vector texture brush from scratch.
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Lovecraft lore is amazing. It’s vast, dense, and varied enough to offer plenty of opportunities to grow a brand. This is a small personal project based on a design brief to create packaging for a fictional brand of coffee. Let’s get Lovecrafty!
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With millions of users monthly, SignUpGenius’ sign up page has remained largely unchanged for over 10 years. This article explores a few ways to modernize the page and improve the experience for both the users and the development team, and considers some possible challenges.
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If you're into neutral colors, subtle palettes, muted tones, and pink creamy salmon hues, boy are you in for a treat! Here's a collection of 57 color palettes distilled from this large collection of like-minded websites.
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Draw Inside is a method to add textures, brush strokes, and other patterns directly into shapes without worrying about creating complicated masks. Think of it as the more streamlined cousin to the other forms of masking in Illustrator.
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More than just a redesign, this was a bottom-up, back-end to front-end rebuild of the entire sign up creation tool. Wireframes were made and plenty of iterations happened.
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This tutorial covers the various ways to mask and clip in Adobe Illustrator — such as simple clipping masks, transparency masks, compound clipping paths, and cleaning up masked art with the pathfinder.
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This tutorial will take you through creating a pop art portrait in Adobe Illustrator, and will use a few simple tools & techniques to make the process fast and painless.
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