Magnet Art in Brighton!

Fancy having your work turned into a magnet? 

Brighton Open – ‘An Exhibition of Modern Magnetic Art’ is open for submissions until 1st April

Send up to two images to the link below – they will be exhibiting along Brighton seafront on May 7th!

http://brightonopen.blogspot.com/

Photoshop Advice & Short Cuts

Below = Photoshop Disaster!

This site will help with info and tips on using Photoshop (this & avoiding women with MASSIVE heads):

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/photoshop-secret-shortcuts/

Have fun designing…

Endangered Species Student International Graphic Design Competition

Call for entries

Tokyo Designers Week, Japan, together with designboom promotes an international graphic design competition.
Participation is open to students from every country in the world, free registration required.

In the time is takes you to read this call for entries, one of our planet’s unique species will become extinct. By this time next year, over 50,000 will have disappeared forever. This graphic competition focuses on recovering and conserving our imperiled species.

WHAT CAN GRAPHIC DESIGN DO TO HELP?
Global biodiversity is being lost much faster than natural extinction due to changes in land use, unsustainable use of natural resources, invasive alien species, climate change and pollution among others. This is usually brought about through patterns of human activity. Our goal is to raise awareness and stimulate action and funding for broader conservation efforts to reverse the alarming trend of human-caused extinctions that threaten the ecosystems we all share.

eClips: From the Horse’s Mouth

From EFF website: e-clips is an open-access, searchable database of video clips highlighting experiences and advice from entrepreneurs in a variety of industries, including the fashion industry. Cornell University’s Dr. Deb Streeter developed the original concept: to create a “virtual panel” of experts, to be used to stimulate discussion, illustrate concepts, and create a real-world feel in teaching entrepreneurship.

Check the EFF link for a collection of names to search for fashion related clips. Use the search function on the eClips site to search for clips related to art, design, graphics, business, training, advertising, PR and loads more.

Brock Davis: Creative and Graphic Design

This little interview with American designer Brock Davis brought his clever, humourous work to my attention, and I thought you might like it too …

hand made fonts

HandMadeFont.com creates fonts by taking inspiration from everyday things around them, like leather sofas, biscuits and Lego. They are constantly developing new ideas, and work on commissions for advertising, packaging and print. You can buy ten fonts or the whole collection.

what the font?!

WhatTheFont is a clever piece of trickery that can read an image file of a text and compare it to other fonts to tell you which one you might be looking at. Clever, eh? And if you’re so clever you fox the machine, you can send your image to the forum and let real live human beings see if they can find it.

Like photoshop but not

Aviary is a web based image editing application that works in a similar way to Photoshop, with powerful tools and layers. And the basic (but powerful) version is free. You can pay for the hotrod version if you want.

It appears to be broken down into 4 sub-programmes, so you produce a colour palette in one, move that into number two and play around with filters, then into number three to edit your image. There’s also a vector graphics section.  If you know your way around Photoshop then you shouldn’t have too much trouble picking it up, but check out the tutorials for a heads-up.

colourful science?

The Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC) is an international professional society dealing in all aspects of colour. It’s online journal, Colour: Design & Creativity is currently free to access and contains research- and practise-based work in colour and related design fields. Just register on the subscriptions page to read the articles.

These articles could be useful for any arts field. 

Articles include:

• The Golden Age of Couture (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 22 September 2007 to 6 January 2008)
• Colour as Idea: The Conceptual Basis for Using Colour in Architecture and Urban Design
• The Significance of Colour for Room Character
• Colour in Flux: The Art and Science of Colour
• Colour in Textiles: Colour and the Environment Since the 1990s