>be a copywriter>every marketing job now demands full Creative Suite expertise>even if you aren't applying for a graphic designer positionYou fuckers ruined my career.
>be a copywriter>think you can make an entire career out of bullshitting bullshit for product descriptions
Are you a woman? Don't tell me you're actually a man and doing copywriting...
>>464519you are not a unicorn for knowing how to write as a designer in the field of visual communication.
>>464519This.Also, people lie about their experience. Lot of people who've touched a software once will claim expertise in it. Same shit happens with programming, which is why companies require takehome tests, or god forbid, leetcode bs.
>>464550lol bro, i get your gist, but trust me - people cant fucking write.also "visual communication" lol not writing
In my experience it is a good free substitute for Photoshop. Much better than gimp and works more similarly to Photoshop. However, I'm an amateur at graphic design so my designs are mostly for memes. I know Krita doesn't share the latest additions to Photoshop's features, but what do you think of its potential for actual work? Here is my Evil Libertarian design as well.
>>464473fuck off with your libertarian bullshitkrita is for drawing, you dumb cunt, not for replacing photoshop, you dumb cunt.you are out of your depth
>>464473>lolbert in 2026
>>464473Photopea is a good free alternative to photoshop.
Just use affinity, powerful as photoshop, now free since canva bought it (it's not like canva since many people mistake this) you can do the same stuff and it's even cooler
>>464473Seconding this anon >>464478Who told you krita was a PS replacement? It's for illustration. Specifically drawing, as in drawing with a tablet. Has some timeline features for animation too, but they're pretty junk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUYlp1wByZ0Download the Jupyter notebook on Proton:https://drive.proton.me/urls/5D02RXJ2PW#qvphayoevaxa
I've developed a high-end operating system concept inspired by Vista. What are your thoughts?
>>463583This is not an operating system, it's a desktop. If you want some actually good (but also a lot of bad) desktop designs, check the desktop threads on /g/
>>463583This looks like it's straight out of a 2003 Flash animation
>>463583design is how it works
>>463583Is there a command line interface to this OS?Personally, I like it as I'm partial to the nostalgia >>463601 references.As for this though, I think it needs additional colors. "menu" text could be updated, if you want to keep the full word, you need to tweak the typeface, try DIN or something like that maybe? I would go with an icon though instead. Good chance for you to make your own logo.Blur the lines on the background quite a bit and add washed out colors (high level of transparency). You'll still see the 'wavy' effect but it'll look a more interesting and will offset the hard grey color of the taskbar etc.^Apple, Windows, Ubuntu, all do this.
>>463583god that button thing is killing me
What font do you use for terminal stuff?I like OCR-A.
>>464200This is what it looks like in konsole. For my needs I think it looks nice and it's very legible for me.
>>464200courier
this onehttps://fonts.google.com/specimen/Workbench
>>464200San Francisco Mono for Terminal.app, MonoLisa on macOS, Berkeley Mono on Linuxall at 200% zoom, of course
what is the best alternative to Pinterest for designers?
are.na but the concept is far from pinterest
>>464365pinterest is the best unfortunately. i use binternet.canine.tools as a frontend for pinterest though so i dont have to deal with the annoying stuff
>>464368are.na works very well. I might pay for it in the future, but for now I plan on deleting my thing once I fill up on connections.
Back when I was in my freshman year of college my school handed out free adobe accounts as a part of some sort of new educational projectBasically any student who was a graphic design/art major got a free planIt was a way to get more students into the programsFor the past 2 years since graduating I have had access to itWhen I first found out I still had access to my account after graduating I was confused but when I checked my subscription it said I had 5 years leftNo problem for me thenFast forward to last night and suddenly lost complete accessLuckily my files are backed up but now I have no access to AdobeSo how do I pirate the softwareI heard something called GenP worksWhat’s the best place to lookBut I heard if you had a subscription you can do it directly from your computer files
>>463840I understanding wanting to pirate to save a little money, and especially for privacy purposes. But if you're two years out of college, majored in anything to do with art or multimedia, $70/mo should not be considered a crippling expense or unworthy investment.If you do crack it, props to you. But if you can't, don't throw away your skills and education over not wanting to pay that.
>>464078this, actually. pirating it just becomes such a pain after a bit.
is this stuff done with the doodles a reference to illuminated manuscripts? this was done by &walshare there any other examples of design from the middle ages creeping into modern trends?
What do you call this 2000's dark blue urban body horror / tech aesthetic
>>464266faggotcore
>>464266idk but a very similar aesthetic is brutalism, is an arquitecture style but is very similar to the dark videoclips of internet
How is this logo?
>>464461It's aight.But not a logo.
>>464461meh. its just some photoshop. not even a good dog picture. wtf expression even is that? mild perplexity?
>>464457you dont have any.
>>464457pretty good
Good, i like the style, but the dog seems really innocent for this style, i suggest you make a poster with it. And of course this is not a logo (too complex, use text instead, not everywhere)
I will destroy you all.
>>463586why
Based! Fuck designers.
>>464468I hope you diehttps://derpibooru.org/images/139829Thought you’d be a hero by posting this, didn’t you?>>>/aco/9234140
>>464491?This is my thread, tell me now what are you doing.
Lmao
my passion is graphic design xd
this shit is on sale on https://ko-fi.com/s/9df2dc4d06
why are they so powerful in graphic design?
in what fucking universe does japan have good graphic design? i hate you weebs so much
>>463449yeah fuck that hokusai guy and all that calligraphy
>>463428How many places do graphic designers have to make their typography work with 4 writing systems combined into one written language? and have a sustainable creative economy?
They’re not good with western typography. They overdo it with the minimal at times. When you figure it out you see it often. Otherwise they’re really good generally speaking. I link it to the spirituality and modesty they have. Good at encapsulating a vibe.
They have an inherent understanding of typography.
how do i create such designs? i love them, the ones in mde and extreme peace, they are so fucking cool
>>460958>Emigre is actually good and the og shit, not basic in anyway. Sam just copied egregiously from it, but you can cope awayemigre been bit so many times already that it feels normal when people are overt about biting it.the transitional video stuff on world peace looked really good i thought, but that was less emigre and more just dumping AE effects on clips and dumping the dr bronners random text shit everywhere. I don't think sam did any of that shit though
>>460697The only post-processing I see is that the framerate is super low and it looks like it was exported with a lower than normal quantity of colors and pattern dithering to make up for that.
>>461049the fuck software is this?
Your main software stack is After Effects and Cinema 4D. Hyde has been using these for 20 years.Hyde was an illustrator first, not necessarily a designer. You used to be able to find bits and pieces on his deviantArt but he has since deleted it and I'm unaware of any archives. Some early MDE stuff features his illustrations along with their book, How To Bomb.Konzept (the one who led graphics and art direction since 2022ish for shows like Happy World Daddy, Ecstasy of Car, and Extreme Peace) also studied illustration as mentioned here >>460979It's important that this is mentioned because it explains their skill and craft. They learned the basics of design from an illustrator-first perspective.Hyde recommends reading Manfred Meier's "Basic Principles of Design" and practicing the exercises as if you're taking a legitimate course. You can find scans on Anna's Archive, as physical copies now cost $800+ USD.Genuinely study design. You need to know how to make the skeleton function before making things "look good". People usually default to slapping a lot of texture stuff over their designs because they subconsciously know that it's not good enough. They're missing something essential under neath and they're trying to cover it up. Avoid this at all costs.Hyde pulled from all sorts of places when it came to designing for MDE. Emigre #58 was mentioned here and they're right. World Peace's second episode is pretty much Emigre 58. Hyde doesn't care about making things that are original, but rather things that look good.A lot of the stuff in Happy World Daddy (the later half when Konzept took over art direction) had specific themes per episode. Konzept took from medical charts, diagrams, old web pop-up ads, product brochures, shit like that. WP2/EP was pretty weak in terms of art direction.
>>464484 (cont.)Picking apart what OP posted >>460697This is a interstitial from Extreme Peace episode 1. The main 3D title in the blocky-sans-serif font was most-likely done in C4D, along with the titles scrolling on the top and bottom of the screen in blue.The main text in the serif font is just keyframed to be squashed and stretched with an echo effect behind it in AE.The Chinese characters in the back were likely captured on a legitimate CRT display, maybe along with the rest of the elements.The serif text has a harsh drop shadow and some beveling(?) to make it look like early 3D text. I believe it's all 2D.I attached an earlier version of the graphic. You can see what's going on under the hood a bit better.
Post color palettes.
>>460530>>460531Depends on the project doesn't it?
>>460530not quite a palette but I made my own color wheeldo you think the names fit well?
I made like a inspo board kinda thing ages back. First column was from motorsport liveries, second was taken from logos and brand packaging, fourth column was sport teams patches. I think the third column was stuff I grabbed from the Redline anime cause I love the aesthetic of that but I'm not sure.I don't really use it anything other than the occasional idea board.Any of you guys got some tools, tricks, rules, etc. you use to come up with your palettes?
>mfw adobe color trends is gonefuck. i did a small scrape of it a few months ago and was coming back to scrape the rest and the faggots just pulled the entire thingwhat a fucking waste
best thread in a whole year.
