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Step by Step Guide To Setting Up Digital Illustrations

Step by Step Guide To Setting Up Digital Illustrations

Divya Abe - Wednesday, September 2, 2015

We recently showed you how to take your hand-drawn masterpieces to fully functioning vectors for digital finishing and implementation. Here, we share five steps to create a stunning digital illustration in Photoshop and Illustrator. Don't worry, once you know the process it's really straightforward, so if you get nervous at the thought of flawless digital artworks, read this tutorial, get practicing, and fear no more! Read more

4 Reasons Why Research Will Make You A Better Designer

4 Reasons Why Research Will Make You A Better Designer

Divya Abe - Friday, August 28, 2015

Being a designer is about more than just talent. Research is an essential part of the design process, as it refines your vision, informs decisions and helps you better translate your client's ideas into reality. Without research your horizons would never expand and you'd never know about the latest tools at your disposal. It's pretty simple, really: research makes for better designers. Find out why and how to do it now! Read more

4 Designs You Didn't Know Were Inspired by Michael Jackson

4 Designs You Didn't Know Were Inspired by Michael Jackson

Jane Murray - Thursday, August 27, 2015

On August 29, Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, would have celebrated his 56th birthday. Albeit much controversy, he was hugely influential not only in music and dance, but also in fashion, and design generally. Here we've collated 4 designs inspired by the icon, some of which may come as a surprise to you. Read more

Design Contest: Minions Take Over the World

Design Contest: Minions Take Over the World

Jo Sabin - Thursday, August 27, 2015

With Despicable Me 3 in a cinema near you, minion fever has taken over the world again. Giant inflatable minions rolling down highways in Ireland and there have been other sorta unsettling sightings of giant minions running amok. So we launched a photoshop design contest inviting our designers to create graphics that showed us what minions taking over the world could look like. Check out the pics now! Read more

10 Space Inspired Logos in Memory of Neil Armstrong

10 Space Inspired Logos in Memory of Neil Armstrong

Jane Murray - Tuesday, August 25, 2015

This article pays tribute to space hero Neil Armstrong, who became famous for being the first man to walk on the moon in 1969. At DesignCrowd, we love people with vision and drive. Space inspired designs - from spaceships, to moons, stars and galaxies - inspire designers and entrepreneurs alike with evocations of a spirit of adventure. Here are ten of our favorite space themed designs created by DesignCrowd designers. Read more

Four Steps to Improve Your Online Customer Service

Four Steps to Improve Your Online Customer Service

Jo Sabin - Monday, August 24, 2015

Effective customer service is just about as important as the product or service you sell – once word spreads that your company doesn't respond to queries, or worse, is rude or dismissive, you're in big trouble. Here's a list of things you can do to ace the online customer service game and keep everybody happy. Read more

If Famous Logos Were Honest

If Famous Logos Were Honest

Hanna Schenkel - Friday, August 21, 2015

There's a saying that "beauty is only skin-deep", and that not only applies to people. Companies often spend thousands, if not millions, on branding that reflects an impeccable public face, despite being less than perfect behind the scenes. Inspired by the corruption scandals engulfing FIFA and with tongue in cheek, we asked our designers to give big brands a makeover to reflect their behaviour. Read more

Buzzing Designs To Celebrate National Honey Bee Day

Buzzing Designs To Celebrate National Honey Bee Day

Hanna Schenkel - Friday, August 21, 2015

August 22 is National Honey Bee Day - a tribute to these hardworking creatures. It's not just their biologically importance to life on earth but their creative contribution DesignCrowd loves. Bees have inspired artists and designers for centuries not only because they are pretty but they symbolize fertility, energy, diligence and indefatigable effort. Bee (hehe) inspired by these buzzy designs by DesignCrowd designers! Read more

5 Startups Taking the World by Storm

5 Startups Taking the World by Storm

Hanna Schenkel - Thursday, August 20, 2015

In the startup scene, companies often grow so fast that they're industry giants before you even heard of their existence. But keeping an eye on those developments can be valuable – it gives insight into market demands, likely future developments, and ingenious new approaches to solving old problems. Here's 5 startups that are currently killing it on all fronts. Read more

Take Your Creativity to New Heights with These Top Tips For Book Cover Design

Take Your Creativity to New Heights with These Top Tips For Book Cover Design

Jo Sabin - Wednesday, August 19, 2015

When it comes to it, we often judge a book by its cover. A high quality book cover can have massive impact on the success – or failure – of a newly published work. If you want to venture into book cover design, there's a few things you should take into account. Here's what you can do to ensure your cover design will lead to a bestseller. Read more

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