Hi! I’m Elena Martinez and today’s topic is very close to my heart: The revival of antique print making techniques. This amazing revival has not only attracted artists but also art lovers, collectors and those who are fond of beauty and handiwork. Print making is more than a mere technique, it is a complex of…
The transformation to minimalist design has become a phenomenon rather than just a niche. Let’s be fair, nobody hates this look and most of us are getting inclined to it. It seeks the heart of the matter to bring forth the essentials while discarding the rest. For instance, imagine entering a space where there is…
Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW are the two glaring names when it comes to the talk around graphic design and its essentials. Each software has a group that prefers using it and the arguments about which one stands out seems to get designers charged up. The memory of my first interactions with any design tools is…
You see, the intersection of art and fashion epitomizes endless possibilities with a tantalizing charm. It creates something fascinating that can reshape cultures or spark imaginations. Now consider if you walk into a statue or painting filled art gallery, you can comprehend the feeling imbued within the providing behind the walls, now visualize that feeling…
There is something wonderfully captivating about the brush strokes you master as an artist. Be it your first time even picking up a brush for the first time, or you have been doing it for years, For painting, it’s as if you’ve found your distinctive signature that is solely yours, and fittingly so, a means…
To be honest, have you ever found yourself in a position where you need to go through hundreds of stock photo sites to find that one ideal picture? I, for one, am guilty of doing that. Just last week, I was preparing my performance for an art exhibition in my region. I aimed to find…
Have you ever experienced a sense of recognition instantly after opening an app or a website? That’s how effective a Design Language System (DLS) is. A design language system, in its simplest terms, is a set of rules which allows developers and designers to ensure that they give users the same experience across different devices….
Have you ever taken parts of a puzzle from several different boxes and tried to solve it? You know, the one where the colors don’t fully match, the edges are all jagged and there is no piece that seems to click in properly? To a web developer, this is how it would feel like without…
The art world has recently undergone monumental changes, and minimalism has always been at the core of design concepts throughout history. Minimalist posters are one of the forms of art that became and still remains popular within the realm of art. This post aims to briefly introduce the reader towards the development of the minimalism…
As an aspiring design enthusiast, I encountered several hiccups owing to my part time jobs at college alongside an unbounded need for creativity. All I had back then was passion and the will to create. The biggest hurdle in my path was looking for zero-cost design software, only to rely on the internet for hours…
Are you one of those people who while gazing at a beautiful scenery, wish to sketch it down for eternity? Taking inspiration from nature’s rich color palette and creating landscapes is indeed a fulfilling experience. By using pastels, you can bring your imagination of the stunning landscapes into reality. The first thing that caught my…
The leap-by-leap techniques of ink drawing can unleash the creative vision in you. Ink drawing is somewhat of a fusion of discipline and free expression where every line, every stroke bears emotions and brings beauty from even the simplest of the things. Artists have relied on ’ink’ since ages for visual communication which means ink…