An Expert’s Short History of NYC Street Sign Design
This article is a guest post by Michelle Young, the founder of Untapped Cities, a publication that enables inquisitive city dwellers to rediscover their city through quirky architecture and urban...
View ArticleInfographic: Shutterstock’s Global Design Trends 2014
One of our favorite annual traditions at Shutterstock is sharing our hard-earned design-trend data with the world. For this, our third annual infographic, we used data from our 350 million all-time...
View ArticleLove Letters: A Typographical Exploration of Desire
Love, amour, kärlek — any way you say it, the word conjures up strong emotions of attraction, affection, and desire. In design, we often look to type treatments to visually convey that emotional power...
View ArticleThe Working Dead: What Kind of Designer Zombie Are You?
With less than two weeks to go before The Walking Dead returns to resume its fourth season, we’re double-checking our zombie-apocalypse survival kits and occupying our thoughts with all things undead....
View Article6 Design Lessons From a Major TV and Movie Title Designer
There’s a very good chance you’ve seen Erin Sarofsky’s work. She and her company, Sarofsky, have created an enviable list of main titles for TV shows and movies including Community, Brooklyn Nine-Nine,...
View ArticleHow to Make a Lyric Video: The Creation of Cobra Starship’s Newest Clip
Music and visuals go hand in hand, frequently exploring and influencing one another. When making a lyric video, both forms need to be considered — timing every syllable to the split second the artist...
View ArticleHow 2 Classic Approaches to Photos and Type Influenced Modern Design
The origins of graphic (and web) design owe much to the photographic field. The man responsible for what is arguably one of the central mediums of modern graphic design was László Moholy-Nagy. After...
View ArticleMastering Minimalism in Book Cover Design with Oliver Munday
Oliver Munday’s book covers are wonderfully simple. That might sound like a backhanded compliment, but take one look at Munday’s cover designs and you’ll see what I mean. He has an incredible talent...
View Article9 New Fonts You’re About to Start Seeing Everywhere
These new fonts will soon starting making a splash in the design world. You saw them here first! Picking the right typeface for your project is no easy task. While you may have a few go-to fonts for...
View Article101 of the Best Free Fonts on the Web
We found the best free fonts on the web, including free script fonts, free Christmas fonts, and free modern fonts. Finding a font to use in your next project is exciting, but the process of choosing...
View ArticleHow to Make 3D Text for Your Digital Craft Projects
Classic LP and CD art often combines touched-up photo collages with beautifully rendered fonts. In this tutorial, we show you how to make 3D text in Photoshop, perfect for album cover art and other...
View ArticleA Digital Craft Project for Photoshop
In our latest digital design tutorial, we teach you how to create a gold-foil stamped book cover. The post A Digital Craft Project for Photoshop appeared first on The Shutterstock Blog.
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