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14 votes
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Public archive of over 600 type specimens from Germany
21 votes -
Highly inappropriate book covers
20 votes -
Concrete stamp from Swiss Post
11 votes -
“The Famous F40” vector illustration by David Rumfelt
9 votes -
How one company owns color
18 votes -
To build a more lethal force, the Marine Corps needs a font for the 21st century
14 votes -
‘They found ways to do the impossible’: Hipgnosis, the designers who changed the record sleeve for ever
8 votes -
Will AI really make graphic designers obsolete?
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How are you reacting to the current climate in the product design and UX space?
I have been a product designer and experience architect since before “UX” even meant anything. I’ve never wanted for work, and I’ve always been confident in my skills as a leader both on the...
I have been a product designer and experience architect since before “UX” even meant anything.
I’ve never wanted for work, and I’ve always been confident in my skills as a leader both on the product and business strategy side.
But especially recently, I’ve started to feel some tremors I’ve never felt before:
- A massive amount of young talent has flooded the industry via UX programs and boot camps - and much of them are quite talented!
- Layoffs have further upped the available workers
- AI and Automation have made good designers even more efficient, and even inexperienced designers can now move at the speed of light.
I also have some personal situations at play:
- I took the last few years to launch and grow my own product business - scaling that eventually to an exit. So I’ve been out of the “product designer” game a bit - as I’ve been immersed in everything that comes with being a founder and startup growth.
- I now have a family - I can’t grind as hard as I used to.
All this gives me some qualms about the ability to find work in the future.
With an industry now flooded in talent, and AI that commodifies and democratizes UI design - making it easier than ever to spit out good design - is there job security for product designers the next few years?
What does that look like? How will pay be affected? Where will the opportunity be?
14 votes -
The icon sets proposed in the icon contest
8 votes -
Adam Savage's advice for pricing freelance work
6 votes -
The olympic pictograms are miniature design masterpieces
9 votes -
King Charles III's new cypher is a design classic
14 votes -
Making of mathematical instruments - transforming a public domain book into a website
14 votes -
Occlusion Grotesque. An experimental, organic typeface
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The great design of the Dutch government
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Recommend me a version control system for design assets (primarily Photoshop & Illustrator)
I'm a software developer working with a small team, and our Google Drive folder tree of UI assets/illustrations/app icons/etc. is becoming increasingly difficult to deal with. Aside from proper...
I'm a software developer working with a small team, and our Google Drive folder tree of UI assets/illustrations/app icons/etc. is becoming increasingly difficult to deal with. Aside from proper versioning, symlinks would be a major plus. Both are kinda-sorta possible with GDrive, but not in a reliable way.
I'm happy to take on a reasonable amount of management myself, although the easier it is for the designers themselves to work with the software, the better. Paid solutions are fine, although open source would be preferable (even as a hosted service) to avoid vendor lock-in down the line.
My instinct is to go with git/GitHub on the basis that we're already deeply familiar with it from the dev side, the GitHub desktop app isn't too onerous for non-techies, and we're already paying for it. That said, I'd be very interested in anyone's real-world experience of git for multiple gigs of 10-200MB binary files. I've heard that it's not especially well suited, although that might be out of date knowledge?
Beyond that, I'm open to almost anything. I'm kind of surprised that I haven't been able to find a single "gold standard" piece of software here, in the way that git is for developers, but maybe I haven't been searching well enough? Any pointers in the right direction or stories of what has/hasn't worked for your teams would be a huge help!
17 votes -
Mastering the basics of icon design
5 votes -
The slanted text in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s logo, and its break from the traditional red, white and blue color palette, has formed a new graphical language for progressivism
17 votes -
Discord celebrates six years, changes logo and font
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Recommended training courses for graphic arts?
My fiance is an artist who was laid off because he worked for a major employer in the entertainment industry that required him to be in contact with people. So he's been unemployed for a long time...
My fiance is an artist who was laid off because he worked for a major employer in the entertainment industry that required him to be in contact with people.
So he's been unemployed for a long time now, but he has been trying to find work, but there isn't really anything available that uses his particular skills. So we invested in a digital art workstation (basically just bought a monitor with a digitizer built in to use a pen with) so that he could work on becoming an independant artist. But he's so bad at marketing and he spends so much time worrying about fine details that it takes him over a week to finish a single piece, so he hasn't had any success.
So if you combine this with a broken tooth that he hasn't been able to get taken care of because of a lapse in his dental insurance, he's not been in a good place.
I just bought a Mac and was looking for mac-native graphics programs (I sometimes work on marketing, so I need to do photo editing from time to time. Also I used to do photography as a hobby and want to get back into it), when I came across Serif's Affinity Designer Workbook. And I thought to myself that getting my fiance a training course in graphic design would allow him to shift gears into a segment where there is more work. It'll also give him a bit of a kick in the pants to get him moving and feeling better about himself.
I'm sure everyone knows there are millions of online training courses available right now, so I'm hoping someone might have any recommendations. I have some money saved up, so I don't mind paying a little bit extra if it'll result in better results. I'd prefer if it were a class that didn't rely on Adobe Illustrator if possible, but I know that it's the 'standard' and he'll probably have better luck if he has experience in it.
9 votes -
The incredible video game packaging designs of Hock Wah Yeo
13 votes -
The Burger King rebrand: Design fit for a king?
18 votes -
What goes into designing a wine label?
7 votes -
Some of the best book covers of 2020
7 votes -
History of graphic design at US Open tennis tournament
8 votes -
How Cooper Black became pop culture’s favorite font
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Death of a typeface
13 votes -
The design of the “Incalculable Loss” front page of The New York Times for Memorial Day, 2020
14 votes -
Inspired design decisions with Otto Storch: When idea, copy, art and typography became inseparable
4 votes -
The BMW logo – meaning and history
4 votes -
The weird world of Apple Watch workout artwork
7 votes -
Seattle’s Queen of Neon: Meet the designer of the city’s most iconic signs — from the Elephant Car Wash to Dick’s Drive-In
6 votes -
Letterpress business card printing with five Pantone colors
5 votes -
The iPod silhouettes
6 votes -
How a new logo saved the city of Oslo $5 million a year
8 votes -
Sans serif, sans progressive policies: How campaign branding came to be a way for candidates to signal their progressive bona fides without actually having them.
7 votes -
‘I think therefore I cycle’: Fifty years of Dutch anti-car posters – in pictures
16 votes -
The corporate logo singularity: Against the creepy cheerfulness of a thousand smiling san serifs
14 votes -
Times Newer Roman is a sneaky font designed to make your essays look longer
11 votes