Tag: Graphic Design

Graphic design tips and inspiration including resources for Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and more

Animography: Check Out This Free Animated Typeface for Designers

What happens when you let 110 animators do whatever they like to one typeface? Franchise Animated, a dynamic typography set by Animography, happens. The typeface was created by one type designer and a handful of contributing artists providing different animations. The project asked each artist to animate one glyph in Adobe After Effects using no more than… Continue reading Animography: Check Out This Free Animated Typeface for Designers

12 Clever Illustrations Morphed with Real Life Objects

Here at DashBurst, we often like to mix a little humor with more serious real world matters. So you can imagine how we felt stumbling upon Alex Solis, a talented artist based out of Chicago, who often combines illustration with reality. His drawings cleverly merge real objects and drawn ones as if they were one. The… Continue reading 12 Clever Illustrations Morphed with Real Life Objects

Fresh Looks for Classic Books: 10 Crowdsourced Cover Designs for Works in the Public Domain

Despite their age, classic works of literature like Dracula, War and Peace, The Time Machine, Crime and Punishment, and Madame Bovary are just as relevant to life today as they were to life when they were originally published. Luckily for us, when a book’s intellectual property rights expire they fall into the public domain. We… Continue reading Fresh Looks for Classic Books: 10 Crowdsourced Cover Designs for Works in the Public Domain

15 Spooky Yet Beautifully Animated GIFs That Explore the Duality of Life

Have you ever wondered about the duality often times presented to us in life? Like can there be life, without death? Or how in order to learn, you have to first be ignorant. The collection of art here today also has a unique quality of being both mysterious yet beautiful, combining vintage photographs from the… Continue reading 15 Spooky Yet Beautifully Animated GIFs That Explore the Duality of Life

Modern-Day Pangaea: Who Would Be Neighbors if the World Reverted to One Supercontinent?

Can you imagine a world where you could drive from Washington, D.C., to Abuja, the capital of Nigeria? Italian artist “Massimo” can. He illustrated what the world would look like if the continents reverted to Pangaea, the ancient supercontinent that broke apart to form the continents we know today. Incorporating today’s political borders, the map… Continue reading Modern-Day Pangaea: Who Would Be Neighbors if the World Reverted to One Supercontinent?

If Corporate Logos Were Reinvented as Chinese Ceramics

What would happen if you combined traditional art with contemporary corporate culture? Artist Li Lihong is able to carefully juxtapose familiar corporate logos, like those of Apple and MTV, with traditional ceramics and Chinese iconography. In these pieces Li creates fresh works of contemporary art while paying tribute to older design forms. Check out Li’s… Continue reading If Corporate Logos Were Reinvented as Chinese Ceramics

Adobe Updates Creative Cloud with Support for Multi-Page Web Design in Edge Reflow, Adds Kuler Themes to Edge Code

One of the biggest selling points of Adobe’s subscription-based Creative Cloud service is Adobe’s ability to send constant updates to its apps. Taking advantage of this functionality are Adobe’s first major Creative Cloud updates since the suite’s release in June. The updates include improvements to Edge Reflow CC, added features for Edge Code CC, and… Continue reading Adobe Updates Creative Cloud with Support for Multi-Page Web Design in Edge Reflow, Adds Kuler Themes to Edge Code