This is a place to discuss topics about visual or graphic design. Requests for photoshopping or free work go on /wsr/ - Worksafe Requests or /r/ - Adult Requests as appropriate.#/gd/ @ irc.rizon.net#4chan-gd @ irc.freenode.nethttp://graphicdesign.wikia.com/>What literature should I read to get into graphic design?The sidebar on the /gd/ wiki has plenty of book reccomendations.>What programs do I need to get started?-VectorAdobe IllustratorCorel DrawInkskape Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>Can somebody photoshop X? Can somebody make me a logo?All requests for photoshopping belong on /wsr/ - Worksafe Requests or /r/ - Adult Requests. /gd/ doesn't take requests or do free or even paid work sometimes. However, if you're new at something, asking "HOW can I X?" rather than "CAN YOU make X?" will give you better results.>Can I post some of my work for critique?There is usally a critique/What-Are-You-Working-On thread, and that is where work for critique go.>Can somebody find [font]?http://www.mediafire.com/download/027xjs3ujvyqxmd/Fonts.zipalso check out your local torrent site or the font-share thread.Remember to share and not just take. Also remember that using liscensed fonts in commercial works is a bad idea.>Where can I find inspiration?http://www.behance.net/http://dribbble.com/http://graphicdesign.wikia.com/wiki/InspirationComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
What is a good color
>>454367the white text in these images is the aforementioned concrete
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>>454369and the black text on that concrete is this ship gray
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>>454370continue
Looking forward to be a Freelancer Graphic Designer and Blender Artist.I'm a 19 years old male, I decided to not attend to college because In my point of view, it's just not worthy it, paying thousands for something you can learn online. Here is my problem though, I don't know where I should start. I feel like I'm not confident enough, and I don't know many places where I could capitalize over my work.I'm currently working at my family's business, but it's so annoying having to work with public, and being at a family's business doesn't make you feel like you are independent. Which is what I'm looking forward to be.It's been hard since everyone tries to push me into college, because in their mind, college = easy life. And I really don't bother getting minimum wage as long, I'm doing something that I enjoy.
>>454284Based
>>454284based. this is my path too good luck to us
Make some shitty cover art?>Make some shitty cover art!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Randomhttps://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Randomhttps://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
>>454417https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Super_Metroidhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Plushttps://www.flickr.com/photos/hellie55/53667453700/https://youtu.be/4hVAT47PTlQ
>>454417this guy's good
>>454428https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Guardianhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Solheim_Cuphttps://www.flickr.com/photos/grannacass/53671485125/https://youtu.be/mJmKDR0cTOU>>454461...n-no u...(ty)
More pics like these please.
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Has been my favourite album cover since I was a little kid
>>454214Black flag
Vexillology/heraldryCan't find the link to the old thread edition
Oh shit, didn't realize this thread was up!Here's my design for Austria-Hungary's flag, based on an old poster showcasing the leaders of the Central Powers, along with their countries' flags.
>>453131looks gay
>>436245That's a very interesting image
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I no longer know how to make money as a graphic designer Its all so hopeless
>>454119>>454120>>454121Its so temping to give up & trying to be the BEST & give into feeding retards retarded shit >how do i get my mind to believe that getting attention & influencing others is > than becoming a good artist & mastering a skill
500k likes on facebook
>>453800I haven't seen an ad for a graphic design job in literally a year where I live. the last job ad I saw I got that job and I've been looking for a new one ever since, nothing.
>>454465happy birtady
Is going to college (either for a degree or a certificate in design) a waste of money when things like skillshare and udemy exist?I've been fucking with photoshop for well over a decade but only got seriously in to design recently, and I'm enrolled for a certificate but I can't shake the feeling that I'm spending several grand on an education I could match for several hundred dollars so long as I put the effort in.
>>453034if this anon is known for getting txetile jobs done well per client expectations and not for being an artist, the network wont translate over, most likely.but something made that network, some connction - people, the city, the nearby industries, and something got these people in position (ie the textile business they worked for)you have to get these pieces to fall into place. sometimes school is the bet place for it.i feel into a similar production team, met an older colleague who took me aboard and we did some shit together for awhile. but one thing we had in common? we went to the samereally arty school, at diferent times, and we had a whole background in common that we could trust in.so its not an either or, its a both and fr some of us. clients im working for now? went to school with them.
>>453563i think it looks kewl. op should check Mondo 2000 magazine. similar vibe.
>>453698good shout, I've been looking for stuff like thisit's hard to find scans of the 80s-90s i-d mags but all of these are on archive
>>451915Learn2punctuate
>>453037This is really motivating. I work at a wholesale printing company and I've gotten to know a lot of the ins and outs of effective design for production. I would like to go freelance full-time at a later point, and I feel I'll have an advantage because of the production knowledge I've acquired. It's staggering how often designers don't think about how their design fits into the end product, most of my job revolves around fixing their shit.
Can anyone tell me which software was used to draw and create these two styles of images please ?https://twitter.com/Briun_Armstrunghttps://twitter.com/mochi_tokenThey're both cryptocurrencies but the graphics used for them look very clean and I'd like to use the same
Early 2000s webdesign
>>454450Wait what the fuck? That's so much more simple than i thought it'd be.Do you know any good books on 2000s website design?
>>454451Don't know any books but most of 2000s web was built on simple basic javascript, html and css which can be learned on w3. You're essentially getting creative with limitations, fucking around with divs and tables.
>>454451>>454452I wanted to share one other trick though if you're new and just getting started, something you can play with.that image >>451546I haven't been to the website to check, but my guess on those red buttons is that they change based on clicks and mouseover. You could change the color or image of them by using thesehttps://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_image_overlay.asphttps://www.w3schools.com/CSSref/sel_hover.phpUsing a mouseover or onmouse click to dynamically change elements of a webpage.
>>454453Ah yeah, I'm familiar with some basic CSS functions but that's helpful, thanks.And I couldn't find the right webpage from archive.org, but I did find this cool page. A bit broken even with Ruffle but I can still feel the sovl.https://web.archive.org/web/20060528211354/http://www.conspiracygames.com/
>>454466Those sounds. I love those lo fidelity sound effects they used to use in stuff like that and flash.
Then you should know that at the current year of 2023 graphic design is pretty much dead. I was a professional gd for almost 10 years working in both studios and on my own and I can't really find a job anymore. It's not even because of AI to be honest, its because of how the industry works and how bad the corporate environment has become. There's still web design, 3D and VFX/motion design(primarily 3D too) and if you want something similar or easy to transition then chose one of those but I'm not sure for how long they will be relevant themselves because of the AI which is basically a final nail in the coffin of gd. Of course there are and will be exceptions and maybe you will get lucky to find some obscure local business that needs you, but if you are young and looking for a career in the future you should stop consider becoming a graphic designer. This profession is dead.
>>453285*safe
>>445759I'm glad that my old post generated so much salt.
>>445757The goal is to have a place I can point clients to when they ask "Do you use AI in your work?".It's a polarizing, nuanced topic - so I wanted to share deeper context and examples of how AI-generated assets can be part of brand identity. For me, AI speeds up the execution phase, unlocking more time for exploration and creating new modes of visual expression that would often be cost-prohibitive for early-stage companies.
>>454445Jesus, are we really going to have AI "designers".
>>454445Makes sense. Whenever I made a logo, I'd want to spend 90% of the time in strategy, instead of execution, but it was very difficult to get people to pay for it. "We just want something simple" well yeah, I can recreate any logo in about 5 minutes but probably a good idea to research if it's a new idea or if there are better ways of doing it rather than going with one of the first 5 iterations.
form an artistic viewpoint
>>452605Why is this aesthetic wrapped in with the Windows 8 "Metro" theme? They were not even in the same decade. The colorful/grungy and flat style was a thing of the mid to late 00s. Windows 8 was released in fucking 2012. The style was already dying by the time Windows 8 came. There was nothing in this style that look remotely related to Windows Metro. And why is "Frutiger" even in the name? It doesn't have anything in common with Aero other than being in the same decade.These names people are coming up with make no damn sense.
People who decided to 'own' these things to show their merit to the world as in 'educating' others are 'undergraduate art students', 'neets' and 'young, so don't have a recollection of things in a time span of a decade or two over 14 years ago but thats ok'.Do not expect them to do things like filtering Google results by a time range. Some of them are convinced that the truth is as good as the 'emotion it invokes', that's why the nonsense clustering and naming. They live in some timeless void where they are driven by emotional stimulus and attention.
fyi a gaanoo/linux now has a font manager, that is basically the same as nexusfont on windows or the macos built-in one, and also provides a font file viewer:https://github.com/FontManager/font-managerfeel free to discuss any other freetard design software that may have emerged or improved recently.krita looks like a much more ok replacement for photoshop than gimp at this point, including smart layers and free transforms, but can be a bit buggy.there seems to be nothing that can properly replace illustrator, adobe xd or affinity designer (inkscape has no concept of paragraphs, scribus is too procedural and hard to use for fast web/ui design iteration, the color picker lacks hsl and hsv) unfortunately, but you can prove me wrong.
