Established in 2010 and hundreds of millions of photographs ago, Instagram is a “fun and quirky way to share your life with friends through a series of pictures”. Obviously, that’s an understatement. For its 100 million users, Instagram is as much part of life as texting and e-mailing and Facebook (who we all know paid a cool billion dollars to acquire Instagram in April of 2012 — who’s laughing now?) and its filters have established a new lingua franca for documenting food, clouds, and POV of places you are not in. Point being: Instagram is big. And important. Small changes are big changes. And its latest update, version 3.5, brought along with it a redesigned wordmark crafted by Denver, CO-based Mackey Saturday.
Adobe Creative Suite Subscription Only
Adobe’s flagship product, Creative Suite it’s going to be subscription only.
That means that users won’t be able to buy Photoshop CC or other apps individually from Adobe for a flat rate (known in the industry as perpetual licensing). Instead, users can pay a monthly subscription to access all of Adobe’s products.Adobe introduced its Creative Cloud subscription service last year with Creative Suite 6. Users could pay $29.99 to access one Adobe product each month or $49.99 to access the entire Creative Suite (the equivalent of the CS6 Master Collection).
Shifting completely to a subscription model — especially after building its business on perpetual licensing — is a big shift for Adobe. Still, the company maintains that this shift is necessary for the future.
Free Typography
FreeTypography.com is an online magazine about great typography works, fonts, inspirations, portfolios and of course freebies.
We all LOVE to work with typography to create lovely designs, posters and layouts. FreeTypography.com want to show the BEST things in the web.
Portable espresso machine
The Nomad™ is a revolutionary portable espresso machine. If you are a coffee lover you’ll love having the Nomad with you wherever you go. It makes the highest quality espresso, and it does this anywhere you have coffee and hot water. The Nomad is clean and green. It needs no electricity, batteries, or high pressure gas cartridges. There are no expensive wasteful coffee pods or capsules to be discarded.
Helvetica and the Subway
The story begins with the ornate original mosaics, dating as far back as 1904, and their tangled mess of serifs, sans-serifs and various decorative elements that amounted to visual cacophony of the most overwhelming kind. So much so that in the 1960s, the city transit authority hired a design firm to overhaul the signage with more consistent typography, but the effort didn’t garner the public acclaim it had aimed for. In fact, iconic New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger famously wrote that the city would be better off if the signs weren’t there at all. It wasn’t until the late 1980s that Helvetica became ubiquitous, but what happened in those interim years has been the subject of much speculation and urban mythology.
In Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story, graphic designer and calligrapher Paul Shaw unravels this fascinating typographic changeover in an absorbing narrative augmented with over 250 photographs, sketches, type samples and original documents. As much a design treat as it is an exercise in understanding the fickleness of urbanism, the book is an esoteric gem of the shiniest kind.
35 Amazing Gig Poster/Flyer Templates
Posters and flyers are an integral part of promoting concerts and music festivals. A well-designed gig poster can help any band to look more professional and can help to generate interest for upcoming events and shows. Getting a quality gig poster doesn’t have to be expensive and doesn’t have to involve hiring a designer for a custom design. There are a lot of great-looking templates available that can be purchased and used to create your own gig poster for an affordable price.
If you’re a designer, using one of these templates as a starting point for client work can also help to reduce the amount of time that you have to spend on the project, which can also allow you to reduce the cost.
Here we’ll take a look at 35 gig poster/flyer templates that are available for less than $10.
Free Download: 4 High-Res Concrete Textures
Today we have a set of 4 high-res concrete textures that are available for free download. The textures are at least 3264 pixels by 2448 pixels, so they can be used for a wide variety of purposes.
These textures are free for use in your personal and commercial design projects.
Brands Icons And Color Style Guides (100 Icons, PNG, CSS)
Another weekend, and yet another freebie. Today, we are happy to feature a useful icon set, the Simple Icons by Dan Leech. Dan’s set contains 100 PNG icons for popular websites, apps and organisations, all in eleven sizes (16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048 and 4096 pixels squared).
The white icons have transparent backgrounds, which makes them ridiculously simple to style with CSS. As a bonus, simpleicons.org maintains a list of official background colour values that can be used in conjunction with the icons, thoroughly researched and derived from official branding guidelines of each brand.
DOWNLOAD THE SET FOR FREE!:
Free Outline Icons
Today we have a huge set of free icons. They are minimal icons designed with an outline style, and are highly useful for a wide variety of web and app design projects. The set includes almost 200 icons. They come in .png format in 3 different colors (black, white, gray), and the PSD files are included as well.
This icon set has been designed by Grandiz for our readers. They can be used in your own personal and commercial projects but cannot be sold or re-distributed.
Download the icons (2 MB zip file)
The 5 Stages of Designer Grief
You’ve heard of the “five stages of grief” model, but with the amount of original work designers have to mourn all the time, they deserve their own grieving process.
In this comic, Angela Liao of 20px shows us exactly what it takes for a designer to get to that final stage — acceptance.