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20 Aug 2017

Christoph Niemann: How to Overcome the 3 Fears Every Creative Faces

In this 99U talk, illustrator Christoph Niemann shares his three biggest fears: the fear of not being good enough, the fear that our work will be irrelevant, and the fear of running out of ideas. Each of these cripple our process in different ways, but as Niemann explains (complete with hilarious illustrations), there are solutions we can apply to each.

Video Talks Illustration Events Art & paintings

18 Aug 2017

BULLSHIT!

Harry Frankfurt is an American philosopher and author of the New York Times Best Seller "On Bullshit". Although first conceived as an essay over 30 years ago, his theory on bullshit is more relevant than ever before.

03 Jul 2017

Summer Break 2017

Bene is taking a summer break!

06 Feb 2017

SVG stroke made from beads

A cool pen made by Yoksel on Codepen: create SVG strokes made from beads.

09 Jan 2017

Powers of Ten

Watch Charles & Ray Eames’ Powers of Ten, the 1977 Film That Put the Scale of the Universe into Brilliant Perspective.

Expo Video Graphic Design

Decorative Stitch Brushes

11 Nov 2016

Decorative Stitch Brushes

For a client project, i created decorative borders in Illustrator. When this project was done, i decided to create a new collection of these decorative brushes for use on any vector element.
The brushes are made for vector border work, they have a shiny and decorative look and feel. The brushes are great to use for strokes in elements in illustrations.

Typography Illustration Art & paintings Graphic Design

14 Sep 2016

Tutorial: How to Make Seamless Pattern Repeats in Adobe Illustrator

Ever wondered how to create seamless patterns in Illustrator? This short video gives you short instructions on how to accomplish this. Video is by TheVectorLab

Tutorials Illustration

08 Sep 2016

Drawing a map in Illustrator

I'm currently in the drawing process of a map in Illustrator. In fact, it's a series of maps. The maps need to be in good print quality and also available online in a pdf. I searched for a good solution to cover both needs. Obviously, you go to Google Maps and take a screenshot of your map and location but this results in poor quality as the screenshot has a low resolution. I found some work arounds - i tried "my maps on Google" but the quality for print is not what i was looking for, it was poor quality and poor adjustment options. So i decided to draw them myself in Adobe Illustrator with the Google Map as a template layer as a starting point. I found some good, short video tutorials on how to create roads, rivers and labels in your maps:

Tutorials Illustration

30 Aug 2016

Do Schools Kill Creativity?

With a brand new school year starting within a few days, i watched again this brilliant talk by Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?

15 Aug 2016

How to use graphic design

Talks at Google: Michael Bierut about graphic design.

Talks Graphic Design Video

25 May 2016

Understanding vector graphics

Short and comprehensive tutorial on vector graphics versus bitmap

Illustration Tutorials

18 May 2016

The new Instagram logo

Designer Tobias van Schneider gives his thoughts after many people ventilated their opinion on Twitter on the new icon and Instagram design refinements. This is a quick video about this. Sums up my idea about it.

Talks Illustration Branding Graphic Design Video

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