It was always my dream to attend an arts college and get my degree in Graphic Design. After many years on a winding and unfocused path, I decided to pursue my dream and return to school on my terms at age 39.
Pantone is doing its part to help lift the mood of the country, and indeed the world, in these tumultuous times. As they do every year, the folks at Pantone name a new color of the year, and those colors tend to turn up in fashion, home interiors, and even graphic design and the web.
If you shop at Target with any frequency, you’re well familiar with the Market Pantry line of store brand food products. Up until now, the Market Pantry packaging has been rather generic, reinforcing the common practice of store brands looking plain as compared to their brand name counterparts. They almost always featured a red band at the top, the Market Pantry logo, a generic (and in some instances unappealing) hero shot, and bland typography.
A lot of the advice that CreativeBloq gives for interviewing might seem self-evident, but these are actually common mistakes people make while interviewing for that dream design job.
British design magazine Digital Arts is shaming UK companies who try to get designers to work for free in the form of spec work and contests.