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How To Design A Logo - Expert Designer Guide Part 4, Simplicity For Scalable Design

Josh Borja - Tuesday, January 5, 2016

You can certainly work intricacy into your logos, but at the end of the day they need to convey a message in a flash.If you can balance intricate design details with a clear, instantly recognizable message, your logo has done its job. Find out how to achieve that in this DesignCrowd guide. Read more

Famous Festive Faces Given A Hipster Top Knot

Kevin Bradford - Saturday, January 2, 2016

With the holiday celebrations winding down, we wondered how a whole line-up of classic festive characters would look if they now found time to get to the hairdressers to ask for the a top knot cut. Read more

How To Design A Logo - Expert Designer Guide Part 3, The Importance Of Typography

Josh Borja - Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Fonts are just as much a defining part of a good logo as the colors and illustrations used. When you're looking through your font collection at the start of a new project, ask yourself what each font says to you as you flip through. The font you use must be consistent with what the brand wants to convey. Read more

Famous Politicians Wear Terrible Holiday Jumpers In Awkward Festive Family Photos

Jane Murray - Saturday, December 26, 2015

Awkward family photos are as much part of Christmas as stockings on the mantelpiece and fairy lights on the tree. Somehow, the carefully arranged shots we imagine as serene, cute and festive, usually end up looking corny, weird and scary. DesignCrowd's Photoshop wizards imagined politicians posing in cringe-worthy scenes. Read more

What if Donald Trump and Other Politicians Appeared in Famous Festive Movies?

Jane Murray - Thursday, December 24, 2015

Everybody has a holiday movie they look forward to watching all year. But could you stomach these films if politicians hijacked the lead roles? After the amazing results of our Photoshop wizards to putting Donald Trump into horror scenes, we couldn't resist finding out what he and his contemporaries might look like in famous festive films. Read more

How To Design A Logo - Expert Designer Guide Part 2, How Color Affects Emotion

Josh Borja - Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Different colors and shades have different effects on people. Though we can predict how most people in a cultural group will respond, these effects can vary from person to person and culture to culture. Here are a few basic color psychology rules to guide your messaging. Read more

DesignCrowd Has Launched New Community Features

Jo Sabin - Wednesday, December 23, 2015

DesignCrowd has launched a new platform to host Community Contests as a way for creatives to interact with one another, showcase their talent, develop new skills and simply have fun! Contests are launched by DesignCrowd or directly by the community and is the first of some cool new features DesignCrowd will be launching to support activity and engagement between creatives. Read more

Yoda, Darth Vader, And Co As World Leaders In Star Wars Themed Photoshop Contest

Jane Murray - Friday, December 18, 2015

It's not often we see collective attention drawn away from Santa during the holiday season, but December 2015 is bringing with it perhaps the most hotly anticipated movie of the decade - Star Wars: the Force Awakens. Our design community imagined what the popular characters would look like if they were elected into politics. Read more

How To Design A Logo - Expert Designer Guide Part 1

Josh Borja - Wednesday, December 16, 2015

In this series of articles, originally featured on brandcrowd, we will explore five guidelines for how to create memorable and winning logos. First up is understanding the number on principle in design - "Be original". Read more

Celebrity Mums as Comic Book Superheroes (Funny Photoshop Designs)

Kevin Bradford - Saturday, December 12, 2015

With Kim Kardashian recently having her second child, it again threw the spotlight on celebrity mums who are balancing babies with a very public life in the media. So to recognize what we imagine would require some sort of superpower, our design community illustrated famous mums as comic book heroines. Read more

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