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Celebrities In Regular Day-To-Day Jobs

Kevin Bradford - Monday, November 16, 2015

Celebrities are by definition associated with living the high life, full of exclusive events, fabulous fashion, and copious amounts of Champagne. But we asked our creative DesignCrowd community to come up with Photoshopped images that would place these celebrities in regular jobs. Read more

Top 10 Italian Graphic/Logo Designers on DesignCrowd

Kevin Bradford - Friday, November 13, 2015

Italy is renowned for its flare for all things design. Whether it be the fashion or architecture, the country, and the people, ooze an almost unsurpassed level of style. Here are our Top Ten ranked Italian designers based on revenue, and some examples of their work. Read more

Who Will Play The Next James Bond? DesignCrowd Solves The Mystery

Kevin Bradford - Thursday, November 12, 2015

With Daniel Craig claiming he's over playing James Bond, the world is waiting to see if he will in fact continue on for a fifth instalment. Here at DesignCrowd, we decided to jump the [Walther PPK] gun and make it our secret mission to discover who could replace the 47-year-old if he chooses to call it a day. Read more

The World's Most Famous Bridges in the Wrong Places

Kevin Bradford - Friday, November 6, 2015

Bridges are some of the most iconic landmarks of any city, and are a defining cultural, historical and architectural element within their surroundings. Here at DesignCrowd, we challenged some of our community of 480,000 designers to imagine these recognizable structures spanning foreign waters. Read more

Design Using Adobe Illustrator – How To Use Different Brushes And Opacity levels For Shading

Danielle Tarroza - Thursday, November 5, 2015

Adobe Illustrator is one of the staple tools for anyone wanting to create beautiful vector art and illustrations. In this guest article, Danielle Tarroza explains three ways to use basic features to create shading in the popular design program. Read more

Ugly Words Made Beautiful

Jane Murray - Wednesday, November 4, 2015

When the Chrome browser extension PC2Respect went viral earlier this year, its popularity was driven by the fact it unveiled a hidden, ugly meaning behind what seemed like innocent words. Ever driven by aesthetic challenges, we at DesignCrowd got inspired to take the ultimate design challenge – to not only make ugliness acceptable, but beautiful. See how we did here! Read more

Typographic Terms Every Designer Should Know

Divya Abe - Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Fonts and typography may not appear like the most complicated design challenges out there, but they're a lot more technical than you think. Having a rudimentary understanding of the elements of typography, as well as knowing their names, can help you be more precise in your application and evaluation of typography, and give you some neat dinner table trivia. Read more

Rival Brands Nike, Adidas, Apple, Android and Google Combine Logos

Jane Murray - Monday, November 2, 2015

We wondered what might happen if some of the world's most ubiquitous brands joined forces with their competitors. Would they become the ultimate in brand awareness, or would they form something altogether new? To answer these questions, we asked our designers to come up with the logos of these new superpowers. Read more

How Iconic Landmarks Might Look After A Zombie Apocalypse

Kevin Bradford - Friday, October 30, 2015

With the launch of Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, and talk of a 28 Months Later movie, we asked our design community to imagine how the Earth would look if the living dead were to roam free. So as a Halloween tick-and-treat of the eye, here are our top Photoshopped images of iconic World landmarks after a zombie apocalypse.  Read more

Designer Interview: Logo Specialist Sonya Popova From Sofia

Kevin Bradford - Thursday, October 29, 2015

Creative to the core, Sonya Popova has spent her career in the design industry. Her expertise in logo design has seen her win dozens of competitions on DesignCrowd, which has elevated her to one of the Top 100 designers on the site. Read more

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