Extreme Home Makeovers With Simple Pop Art Portraits!

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Are you considering giving your home a new makeover? Do you love colors and personalized adornments on your walls rather than the usual photo frames and pictures? Then, pop art portraits are the direction to head towards to! Everyone wishes to make their homes resemble their individual character and persona. This wish has indeed come to life for many people by using pop art portraits that have enabled them to express themselves and decorate their homes with portraits of things that have captured their attention and caused a change in their life.

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Print Ready Business Card Design with Custom Lettering

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While you can reach for a basic template for a business card, ideally you can control every detail on your own using software like Adobe Illustrator. In this tutorial, we walk you through a process for building a print-ready business card from scratch. You can take the tools we will give you and go a lot further, but these simple techniques are critical for customization of your design for business card printing. One of the specific areas we will focus on is building letters from scratch using simple shapes. We will also show you how to take any font you want and customize it, but that process has some drawbacks, as we'll point out.

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How to Create a Typographical Shape for Posters

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One great way to create a retro, grunge design for posters is to create a shape, such as a letter or number, made entirely of type. Add in some texture to the background and in just a short amount of time, you have an eye-catching design ready to send to your online printing company. Putting a block of text into a pre-designed shape is actually quite easy when following a few simple steps. The tutorial below walks you through these necessary steps, then shows you how to create a weathered paper background, and finally reveals how to put it all together to create a retro or grunge poster. We will first start in Illustrator and then move to Photoshop for the final touches.

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Japanese Poster Design and the Films of Studio Ghibli

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Japanese poster art is has a distinct look and many western appreciators (it is claimed by some that the Japanese poster tradition is fundamentally different because it didn’t grow as a tool for selling products). In the following gallery, I’ve collected examples of poster art for the films of Studio Ghibli – an animated film studio that has become famous in the west. The ‘Ghibli style’ is itself distinct in Japanese animation, despite being arrived at by different directors and character designers.

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20 Paper Artworks That Tell “Nothing Can Match the Basic”

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Let’s go back to basic. That’s the trend today for some artists like Helen Musselwhite, JolisPaons, Sher Christopher, and David Brownings. These creative individuals sheer away from today’s digital art frenzy. Instead, they chose to use paper as the prime medium for their masterpieces.

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20 Outstanding Examples of Black & White Posters

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Movie posters are designed to promote upcoming releases in order to maximise box office takings and create a buzz amongst people to see the movie. In order for the poster to be popular and successful, it needs to attract the human eye with bright colours normally, but funny enough black and white often draw more attention.

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