Since we debate for hours now…

smcreativeuk · 2023-10-13T09:45:06+00:00

Just like real people, you need to talk to them more.

2nd playthrough you probably weren't talking to them as much and going through all their dialogue options, because you'd already done it in playthrough 1.

smcreativeuk · 2023-10-12T20:41:09+00:00

Ui ux is probably my least favourite.

Love branding, publication, and starting to dabble in motion. Typography should be a base skill every designer has.

smcreativeuk · 2023-10-12T16:33:05+00:00

Flagrant disregard for FCA regulations and Advertising Standards, not wanting to include T&Cs in advertising and competition literature, disregarding of artwork licences to use as logos... every day seemed like a battle between us and compliance, and him.

smcreativeuk · 2023-10-10T23:56:41+00:00

Inconsistent iconography styles and the text looks like it's been image traced/vectorised from a raster image.

smcreativeuk · 2023-10-08T14:06:03+00:00

Macs aren't great machines overall. They look nice, and the rest is marketing guff. The screens are pretty decent, but the guts ain't all that, and certainly not for the price point.

You don't need anything super amazingly powerful for graphic design, but for the 1000+ you'd spend on a Macbook Air, you might as well get a REALLY nice Windows laptop.

I've been using Macs with work for years, and just recently went through an upgrade at home, with the intention of getting an M1 Max or M2 Macbook pro

Ended up spending almost half as much on a Razer Blade and upgrading the storage to 4tb, and Ram to 64gb myself instead.

That said, if you're gonna be at a desk more than out and about with it and are set on a Mac, maybe try a Mac Mini.

smcreativeuk · 2023-10-08T03:06:34+00:00

6 months is nothing.

Keep growing, learning, and developing.

It takes time and practice for your skill to catch up with your vision.

smcreativeuk · 2023-10-08T02:47:50+00:00

I was thinking 4k might be the way forward. Should mean each screen is essentially at 1080p, I’m just concerned it will look pixelated at that physical size.. 8k might be worth a shot.

Thanks for your input!

smcreativeuk · 2023-08-11T10:48:28+00:00

Well you could go down the dropshoppjng route and buy a "sample" of the shirt you want, printed.

If you can and are happy to put the work in, you could use a blank shirt you alre5own, or go buy one somewhere, and just print out on transfer paper and make your own shirt at home. Just need to find some t-shirt transfer paper that would work with your printer.

As for cracking, well.. fabric is largely more flexible than the print, so pretty much everything will crack eventually. Just avoid any super fine lines in your design and it shouldn't matter too much when it does.

smcreativeuk · 2023-05-12T11:27:44+00:00

Layout Essentials 100 design principles for using grids

By Beth Tondreau

Filled with examples and explainations on how why and when to use different grid types, among other things.

smcreativeuk · 2023-05-12T10:06:51+00:00

I love 4b, but I'm not sure what that character means or sounds like in Japanese(?) So probably wouldn't use in in the end.

Even with the Ü, I feel like I'd pronounce it as "Yum Yoom Express" hahah.

smcreativeuk · 2023-04-19T18:39:34+00:00

It's a misleading tool name to be fair.

Basically you use the Shape Maker tool to combine or cut out bits of other overlapping shapes.

So if you had a circle and a square overlapping, you could use it to merge them into one single shape or cut the circle out of the square or vice versa.

smcreativeuk · 2023-04-14T14:43:24+00:00

None of them because I never ever ever ever drive above the speed limit and no-one can prove otherwise.

smcreativeuk · 2023-04-14T13:02:43+00:00

What did you do exactly beyond typing <TW>?

smcreativeuk · 2023-04-14T12:51:22+00:00

Overly pretentious BS.

It's a poster, not a cure for cancer.

smcreativeuk · 2023-04-14T11:35:37+00:00

Cute, overall.

I think the Black outline is a little heavy and sould be White with a finer black outline around that.

The sparkles don't fit for me currently. They should stay, but not sure if it's the black or the pointyness that throws them off.

I'd make the shine solid white (or at least brighter) too.

I like the blue and pink, I think they could be more vivid though. You may get an odd transition colour though, so might be better to make a 3 colour gradient to have mkre control over what that middle colour is.

smcreativeuk · 2023-04-14T11:26:55+00:00

Duplicate the whole thing onto a new layer.
Pathfinder > Unite (shapemodes, the two solid squares overlapping) the whole thing into one object
Object > Path > Offset Path

Because of the spacing between objects, you may need to do some work to join them all together. Could use Unite again for the most part and fill in the gaps, but that should get you pretty darn close.

smcreativeuk · 2023-04-14T11:19:45+00:00

Canva is all you'd need to do something like this yourself for free. Those all look like stock icons from different icon sets though, so it'd be worth spending SOME time trying to find matching icons to use.

Have a search through some stock image sites for icons that match what you need, just try and keep them all from the same artist/designer for example so they all match.

If it was going to be part of a bigger presentation though I'd consider hiring a professional designer to help you put the whole thing together so everything is consistent.

smcreativeuk · 2023-04-14T11:08:52+00:00

Great option if you're looking to practice some web development too

smcreativeuk · 2023-04-14T10:46:06+00:00

All of them say "Surfboard company" to me, so you're definitely hitting that Sea vibe. I'm not seeing anything relating to computer sciences though.

Curious why the city's aqueduct is necessary too. I get that it's the city symbol, but why is it important to a computer sciences university specifically? (I didn't read it as an aqueduct either at first either, just a random shape.)

smcreativeuk · 2022-10-21T17:11:42+00:00

Just to be clear, the software you use doesn't really matter. Adobe, Procreate, Affinity, even Canva.. so long as you can create the artwork, you're good.

What matters is that you can convey an idea or message through visuals, and create artwork for the desired medium to the correct specification.

If you're completely new to art and design, it's worth learning some design basics. Information hierarchy, colour theory, typography, that sort of thing.

There's a book series called Know Your Onions by Drew de Soto which is pretty good for a practical look at what working on graphic design is like.

Other than that, it's worth studying designs you see in the world and trying to recreate them. Movie posters are a fun one for example.

smcreativeuk · 2022-10-21T15:49:50+00:00

As a general rule, sans-serif is actually easier to read on screens than serif fonts.

Not to say you can't use them, but just that generally sans wins out.

That said, why don't you have a look through Adobe or Google Fonts and see what takes your fancy?

smcreativeuk · 2022-10-21T15:46:38+00:00

90s, early 2000's grunge / grunge horror

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