Where To Find Dirt Cobain’s Insta-Famous Street Art In NYC
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New York City is always booming with amazing new street art from local to world-renowned artists. On any given day, you can take a stroll around SoHo, the Bowery, or Bushwhick and are guaranteed to come across newly painted gems set against brick walls, garages, and mailboxes. Recently, one of the hottest street artist to take on New York City is the talented Dirt Cobain. This LA native got his start a few years ago when he decided to take his old canvas paintings and turn them into life-size visuals on the famous Melrose Avenue, where street artists are invited to paint in specific lots every weekend. Some of his most well-known works of art are the multi neon-colored faces of Sade,”Cruizin for a Boozin” bottle, “Dirty Style” bunny skull, “Hard Times,” melted ice cream cone, and “BAR’D SIMPSON” face. But right now, the most popular piece to hit New York City and flood your Instagram feed is Dirt Cobain’s “You Get Me So High” bottle in Nolita. This #TumblePink creation seamlessly flows into the facade of the pink-themed restaurant Pietro Nolita. Everyone from artists, to fashion bloggers, to foodies, are heading to this hot spot with one goal in mind— “do it for the ‘gram.” read more…
How To Correctly Format Image Files For All Creative Projects
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Everyone wants to know how to create great content. A simple Google search will lead you to dozens of articles that claim they know the secret to achieving this, or videos of digital influencers consulting on this topic. Throughout our search to find various techniques to create sought-after content, one thing has revealed itself to be crystal clear— visuals are everything.
Design & Creative Links To Make Your Monday More Interesting
From incredibly successful entrepreneurs obsessed with design to new looks for your desktop, here are 10 design and creative links that are guaranteed to make your Monday morning a bit more interesting.
Futuracha Pro: A New Wonderfully Wacky Font With The Most Bizarre Backstory
by Christine Scott
Futuracha Pro, a brand new creative and wonderfully wacky type just hit the market and has become the most successful crowdfunded font to date. The fine-bone Futura is adorned with edged swirls giving it its quirky demeanor. It’s meant to be used for fun and free-spirited logos and designs, and any kind of marketing collateral. This beautifully bizarre font has an equally bizarre history. It was created by Odysseas Galinos Paparounis, designer and founder of branding agency Høly based in Athens, Greece. He said that his inspiration came from the look of Caribbean cockroaches. The name is actually a combination of Futura and la cucaracha, the Spanish word for cockroach. If you take a closer look, he mentions that you’ll begin to see little antennas and arms of these bugs shown in the swirls of the font. read more…
Free Downloads For Creatives: Curated Resources, Freelance Advice, Photos, Templates, And More
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As designers and creatives, we’re always searching for resources to inspire us, guide us, and aid us in curating projects. Luckily for us, there are plenty of platforms that offer all of this, and in the form of free downloads. Whether you’re looking for fonts, vectors, photography, advice on cost of projects or orchestrating your own business, there are various websites that provide all of this. Today, wanted to share three of our favorite go-to places that always provide great material for creative projects. Enjoy! read more…
RAM Usage and Composition Settings Tips in After Effects
Adobe After Effects has every tool needed to create an amazing animated or motion graphics piece. Unfortunately, even the best of programs might give you some issues. Most projects created with After Effects are large files, and therefore, tend to slow down the program and your computer. This means your projects might take longer than expected to complete and will result in an overall slower productivity rate. Luckily, there a few things you can do to help minimize the time and make the process more seamless, such as understanding RAM using and composition settings. read more…
Why Snapchat Stories Will Remain More Popular Than Instagram Stories (For Now)
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As was expected, Instagram Stories has officially blown up. With all of its new features, it’s now just as popular as the original 10-second story maker, Snapchat. In fact, Adweek recently reported that “after months of relentlessly copying Snap Inc.’s features for its own version of vertical video, Instagram says it now has 200 million people using the Stories feature on a daily basis.” That’s 42 million more daily users than Snapchat is currently reported to have. With that said, there are some kinks in the stats; Instagram considers a user to be someone who posts a Story or simple clicks on a Story, whereas Snapchat requires a person to actually open the app in order for that user to be noted. For now, that’s neither here nor there. As Instagram continues to copy all of Snapchat’s features, it’s blatantly evident without any hard data that both apps are now neck-in-neck in the race to see which Story will win the popularity vote. read more…
Adobe After Effects: Important Points To Optimize WorkFlow
by Matthew McKinnon and Brie French-Sorgini
Out of all of the Adobe programs, After Effects is by far one of the most complicated programs to master. Used for post-production in filmmaking, it has many different elements, tools, and layers that need to be used to make a piece come together. While there undoubtably more than a handful of valuable tips to know, today we’re going to touch on three important points for rendering your work in Adobe After Effects. read more…
Facebook live: New Ways Birchbox, Tastemade, and Tough Mudder Are Engaging With Customers
by Eris Doble
Today, businesses rely heavily on social media to come up with unique and refreshed ideas to market their products. While a solid argument could be made as to what platform is the best one, Facebook has always been at the top of the rankings. One of its latest initiatives has only solidify this even further—Facebook Live. read more…
4 Simple Tips to Make your Website Disability-Friendly
by Christine Scott
There are a billion people in the world with some form of disability according to World Bank. That means about 15% of the world’s population has difficulty accessing or navigating the web because of it. Creating a disability-friendly website will help you increase the number of potential new viewers by tapping into an entirely new demographic that many don’t think to consider. Making minor changes to your businesses website can make a world of a difference, and is simple to execute. Here are 4 simple tips to make your company’s website disability-friendly: read more…