Board: /gd/
"/gd/ - Graphic Design" is 4chan's imageboard for graphic design.
This is a place to discuss topics about visual or graphic design. Requests for photoshopping or free work go on /wsr/ - Worksafe Requests or /r/ - Adult Requests as appropriate.
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http://graphicdesign.wikia.com/
>What literature should I read to get into graphic design?
The sidebar on the /gd/ wiki has plenty of book reccomendations.
>What programs do I need to get started?
-Vector
Adobe Illustrator
Corel Draw
Inkskape
-Bitmap
Adobe Photoshop
Gimp
-3d
Blender
Cinema4d
>Which program is the best for X?
It's usually subjective if you pick a program in each of the right categories above. Use vector programs if your making a logo/icon/illustraton, use bitmap programs if you're messing with a photo or stock image. Gimp, Inkskape, and Blender are free alternatives and have the same function as the paid programs but the paid programs tend to be used more in a professional enviroment.
>What font is used in this image?
Try these sites before posting a tread asking for fonts:
http://whatthefont.com/
http://www.identifont.com/identify.html pls rank from best to worst Two themes have been shortlisted. Here's your chance to make it bros
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr250131~611055a567.en.html All the Blender critics out there need to explain yourselves on this one. Also provide links to your own work that is better than this. ITT: We post mid-to-late 2000s graphic design styles, visual trends, and aesthetics.
Anything between 2005 and 2012 (or anything that is reminiscent of that era) is welcome here. THIS IS NOT A Y2K THREAD. DO NOT POST Y2K HERE.
Previous: >>445568 I kinda like it, I bet frutiger aero was inspired by retrofuturism. Should I learn Photoshop or Illustrator first?
I know both are practically essential, but which is better to learn first? Request and share non-free typefaces and identification of typeface samples.
> Previous thread
>>429862
> Older threads
archived <dot> moe/gd/search/subject/Font%20Share/
> Font identification
Before you request, do your due diligence by running your font sample through a font identifier;
whatfontis <dot> com
fontsquirrel <dot> com/matcherator (be sure to enable the myfonts setting)
myfonts <dot> com/whatthefont
If you're not getting a clear read then put your sample in PS, separate the letters and colour it to be pure black on a white background.
> Font requests
First of all, check;
vk <dot> com/board178186634
graphicex <dot> com
> Uploading
catbox <dot> moe is great for uploading small-sized zips containing fonts, especially since it doesn't expire.
If somebody helps you then pay it forward! Talk about designs that are /gd/-rated kino.
Share your favorite designs you think are good and tell us why they're good or ask for feedback.
>Tools
https://toools.design/
>Type inspiration
https://anothergraphic.org
>Random inspiration
https://behance.net/
https://dribbble.com/
https://designspiration.com/
https://cosmos.so/
https://savee.it/
https://soot.com/
https://are.na/
>Random design principles
https://principles.design/
>Books
"The Fundamentals of Graphic Design" by Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris"Grid Systems in Graphic Design" by Josef Müller-Brockmann
"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" by Edward R. Tufte
"Thinking with Type" by Ellen Lupton The models don't appear, why?
How do I fix it? Adobe Premiere Pro vs Adobe After Effects, which ones better?
Adobe After Effects as much more complex effects, although the UI is absolute dogshit
Adobe Premiere Pro is relatively standard and simple
Although After Effects has dogshit installation issues where you have to install 6 million .dll files for it to even function
So
Adobe Premiere Pro wins I started with graphic design on 2020 on and off. I am not a professional, I have never seen a single video or tutorial about graphic design. I made this with photoshop. I plan to work at low level companies full time, for an extra 30k a year, since my job in finance works overnight. Anyone want to design the new flag for Boise Idaho? 
pic related was my search on duckduckgo for "vapowave gradient pixel art" (NOTE NOT EVEN THE CORRECT SPELLING)
and there you have it. a watermarked "Oh you need this gradient thingy I made in about ten seconds and slapped a big VectorStock® on it and called it a day waiting for the eventual "busy but clearly too busy to ever dejpegnoise your malarky lengths of what exactly?
You see this shit? Its a jpeg of something that could be more easily generated with slight to little (which is already eons above the average graphic designer) effort in MSpaint. (not dogging paint btw, that was an actual good for humanity win by microsoft with that genius softwae)
no im talking about the endless brainless revolting race to exploit peoples laziness on google images. What? So I need to pay to use your fucking checkers? Give me a fucking break with your art degree on your wall bitch.
now in the next post, you will see, after many sharpen layers and some color curve adjustments, just what im talking about, this shit is so psychologically primal subversion tactics it makes the amount of jpeg noise hurt my SOVL OI VEY So im new to the board, and ill cut to the point, I've been trying to grow as a nsfw artists, i started a little bit before ai started. Sometimes I don't feel motivated to draw, and i accept requests from ppl to expand, and I don't really care what I draw, as long as I can take it as a challenge, with a limit of drawing rape, gore, ect. But I've accepted drawing futa, trap, and loli, but I've been feeling like drawing loli might be a arrow to the knee in my reputation, the worst part is that it was the most popular illustration i did by the amount of likes.
I know that it's fictional character and there are a lot of popular nsfw artists who just draw stuff like that on the side and just never get shit for it. What is your opinion on this guys what is the "science" behind Vice City art style which adds so much sovl to it. Is it just a color palette? It has that 80-90s japanese cartoon vibes in in It's ugly. It's the ugliest shit you could possibly make.
99% of homophobia is due to this abomination. If the gay flag were cool, if the colors actually complemented each other, if it had some cool lesbian animal symbolism or something like that people would LOVE the gays.
I try to tell this to people but they're in denial I'm on my 4th semester and I always wondered why so many fags and trannies study this career, any answers? Give me some good reasons why CARI is not a good source of information for design and why should be avoided like the plague . They do some research at least unlike aesthetics wiki in which makes things up. If they are bad what can be done to fix it? smile have a good day smiley smile Explain yourselves, /gd/. Why is modern UI design stealing usable space by making massive paddings around everything and massive buttons?
Surely they focus on touch screens but why they ignore desktop users needs? What's the meaning of the red stripe? Is it retarded to use fountain pens? Don't know if anyone has any info on this but I love zooming into 600dpi scans of magazines and album covers, and was wondering if there was a filter I could use in something like GIMP to apply to high-resolution digital images I have saved (bonus points if you know the album of picrel) Probably not the most appropriate place for this question but I am looking for a gift for person with art degree background who wants to venture (try out) tattoo design.
The person is not using a pc or ipads/galaxytabs
What would be the best digital sketchbook/epaper for doodling beginners with solid styluses. Price range up to 500 buckaroonees or even cheaper with no additional caveats like OS that cant be upgraded.
It looks like the market is oversaturated with crap but I see no inclination to buy sn ipad pro for 2k How can I change a certain color but only in a certain area?
I want to change the black to white.
I tried Color Exchange in Gimp but the results sucked. Then you should know that at the current year of 2023 graphic design is pretty much dead. I was a professional gd for almost 10 years working in both studios and on my own and I can't really find a job anymore. It's not even because of AI to be honest, its because of how the industry works and how bad the corporate environment has become.
There's still web design, 3D and VFX/motion design(primarily 3D too) and if you want something similar or easy to transition then chose one of those but I'm not sure for how long they will be relevant themselves because of the AI which is basically a final nail in the coffin of gd. Of course there are and will be exceptions and maybe you will get lucky to find some obscure local business that needs you, but if you are young and looking for a career in the future you should stop consider becoming a graphic designer. This profession is dead. Looking for stuff similar to this. This is what you see when you close your eyes and start rubbing them with your hands. Hello /gd/ can you please tell me what are some good books on graphic design? I have to come up with a design for a website and I'm not used to designing things. I made a website - aphantasia.io
You don't have to tell me how it looks - like crap.
But how would you enhance the UI and UX to feel more polished? I would like to use a seamless tileable image as the background for a website. What are some good options to choose from?
Pic related is the type of thing I'm looking for, it's the background from YTMND. I've spent years doing UI, UX, and graphic design. I want to start building some web stuff myself, but I'm daunted by the steep learning curve. HTML and CSS come pretty easy, and I understand the fundamentals of flex. Jumping into this side of things isn't so bad.
But I'm daunted as shit by JS. Suffering through the initial Hello World tutorial sounds brutal, and even beyond JS, merely setting up and maintaining a workspace (vscode, the terminal, installing packages, git, etc.) looks painful.
Anybody know of a decent video course with a tolerable instructor and a focus on modern techniques (flex-centric, good JS framework)? What are you doing to combat corporate non art? >frutiger is bad and soulless
I like it. 2000's were better What do you guys think of the Logo for Humpty Dumpy? Is it a good logo and does it need a redesign? How do I cope knowing that the best logo ever is ruined by a retarded ideology?
Nothing comes even close to the swastika. It makes me depressed to the point of giving up logos completely. Hi awesome graphic designers, recommend me a carpet for this room (preferably circular)
I was thinking a simple yin-yang or Lina Cavalieri but it‘d probably be ugly af So Im looking to get my van wrapped up for my plastering business located in the Netherlands. I have been working on this design lately. The business name translates to: Plaster Corner. The business name AND products already imply for a design with squar (plastered)wall like shapes. So for the sides i made a square like shape in white space, so my logo can be placed in full color. Which im pretty happy about. For the backside im trying to get the following hierarchy, Attracting interest -> contact details ->logo. Im having a hard time on the backside of the van which feels a little cheap for now.
I could use a opinion outside of my (supportive) friends and family. Am i going in the right direction or do i miss out with this design as a whole. I made it better, can still use some work though. desperately looking for patch mockup psds I was browing through the internet when I found a VHS presentation of a cartoon. It had a really cool font and I want to find it!
It was also used in a flash site and the menu of the DVD promoting it.
It's not Press Start 2P or 04b11, I checked. Not matter where I try to look, I can't find it anywhere.
Does anybody know what exact font this is? Thanks! First time doing graphic design, how did i do :D I've been designing this album artwork. don't think I can top this, all things considered. can someone change taros hoodie to red? i'm pretty sure it's supposed to be red Trying to do a poster for a movie i like. I know it doesn't look good, but don't know why. What is missing? How can I improve it? what's the name of this design? how does one achieve the composition and the colors in illustrator? is it even in illustrator since it's made in early 1900s. who the hell designed the 4chan banners, they are so simple yet so fun
share some of your favorites Image limit reached edition
>>436245
No gay reddit NAVA shit first up, cattle decapitation Best fucking console UI of all time, everyone and even their grandmas knew how to use this thing. How do you even make awesome renderings like picrel?
All of mine look like poor video game renders.
Will be grateful for any and all helpful ressources you could point me to. I have 25,000 images like pic related. Old timey engraved images. I found them in old books from Internet Archive before it went belly up. I cleaned them, vectorized them, converted them to backgroundless PNGs. Where can I sell them? I'm trying to get 250 - 300 USofA dollarinos a month. Etsy? What image service should use? Do they even exist anymore?
Also, you have a freebie in pic related. Former designer at Bloomberg Businessweek and The New York Times. Now, she does "design goodness" for Homer, Frank Ocean's design magazine.
She apparently got ahead being a minority woman who makes designs that "challenges the power old, white men have over every day [non-white] people," and people laud her for it.
Is she the real deal or just a DEI LARP? This link is down, does anyone have a copy of fonts.zip from the pinned thread? Super disheartening to see this. Any designer could have done an illustration, any number of local artists could have created a piece for this event. It's a seminal event that marks the reopening of Detroit’s Michigan central. Truly monumental moment for Detroit, highlighted by the crazy opening concert directed by Eminem and it wasn't worth getting a person to do the poster? Very sad.
This is one of those moments in the history of ai that I will look back on with genuine disgust.
A soulful event with a soulless AI facade. How do you get over creative block in design? I used to have no issue churning out poster after poster just for practice but for the past few months, I can barely even start on a project let alone finish it.
I feel creatively bankrupt and thought a break would help but I still just have absolutely no ideas coming to mind and hate everything I start to put together. Make some shitty cover art?
>Make some shitty cover art!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Random
https://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days how do i nail the early 00s magazine advertisement look? Up and coming Graphic Designer, do I have what it takes? I primarily dabble in wallpapers and I'm finally going to school for a degree which is a story I'm sure people on here have heard a hundred times but I'd like to hear some feedback Looking at how I can make flames round text similar to the image attached. I'm unsure if they are hand drawn round the front "hippie movement" or if they used something else to generate them. Not entirely sure how to ask this, but does anyone know how to create this type of shape/joint/ligament in Photoshop? I know this specific image is probably just a typeface, but I wanted to do the same kind of shape to create two (connected) text boxes. Any help would be much appreciated! Maybe this element/style has a specific name I can research? this image is uncanny for some reason i feel disturbed I set my project to RGB mode, and I’ve made sure I’m not just selecting the layer mask!
However, I still can’t get Photoshop to change one color (in this case, black) to another color (gold).
I’ve tried everything I could find online, but nothing is working so far!
Please help! what rules/ guidelines are there to make a good character design? A lot of perspective that CARI misses entirely-
Knowing Your Design History is Crucial to Aesthetic Innovation
>"When design and context are inextricably linked, it is good. When design detaches from its context, we are left with cliches, embarrassments…deaths. Wild’s Great Wheel of Style plays out as design oscillates from the intriguing to the unimaginative. It’s a helpful reminder for designers and design students today: if you borrow from a certain style, it’s important to know where that style came from, as well as the social and cultural contexts that gave that style its rise." Europoor here, where can I find high resolution .tiff images to download and print some posters for home? Looking for some pic related posters, ukiyo-e, etc. Thanks. I made these book covers for two hypothetical academic books. It's both the front cover and the back cover. Any criticism will be helpful. You can also post book covers that you find inspiring. tried my hand at designing a book cover, how did i do? based on a real novel but i changed the names I have a yard sale coming up and I am planning to put posters up everywhere to advertise it. What are some things I could do to make a genuinely interesting poster design for a yard sale? I know this is probably a silly thing to ask for advice on, but yard sale posters are always so boring and simple. I genuinely think having a poster that is fun/interesting to look at could make a difference. WHAT ELSE DO EMPLOYERS WANT??
I can't believe that I spend my whole day, reading your terms, answering your questions with long ass paragraphs (which is redundant since the info is already in my resume). spend hours making a short video presentation, which has to be one take, so about an hour to memorize and get it right. Uploading documents and self identification shit, making a couple of graphics to show my abilities, have to kiss ass and be presentable, all for a job that I don't even want in the first place. I HAVE to work for you because I don't want to Die of hunger!! "Why you want to work for us?" I don't. Nobody does.
I have a decade of experience, wore many hats, making me overqualified for the position, speak three languages and you still won't hire me. "Not good enough" What the fuck.
WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT???
I studied for you, I've wasted my life in 9to5's for you, dedicated all for job security and still not good enough! Does anyone have a rotating animated solar system project in Maya
I just lost all my work due to a crash and my boss needs something like it promto
It doesn't need to be textured so does anyone have a file? Which one do you like the most? I heard that calling companies and annoying them with your stuff is what you have to do to get a foot in this industry
I don't get it personally. Why don't people take E-Mails seriously, they just ignore it. Why is making a call so important, what makes it so different? How bad are these? Can they be saved?
I'm not really a graphic designer. I thought it was good enough but I showed it to someone and they didn't even get what it was supposed to be. Can anyone give me some ideas for a logo design with the word vivafication in it hey friends, what do you think, any opinions? i tried to remember as much asian as i could so that the cover could look as artful as possible. it's just a compilation of awful tracks i made over the decades and i wasnt even in asia i was in pittsburgh and whatever, but i was, however, asian I was watching a Minecraft ARG video when I saw this font (the image) and I liked it
Does anyone know what it is? I think its a bold variation of something
Thanks! how to master the basics of composition, color and typography. give book/video course recommendations What is the next big aesthetic wave after Flat Design going to be? How much longer will Flat Design last? Need help with facebook banner for my aunty's small business, im trying to meet SEO requirements by having it be seeable in in mobile devices (meaning that a fraction of each lateral side will have basically no relevant info)
am i over doing it?
i know the amber must be in the center, but then how do i integrate the whole "amber sale" thing smoothly?
a square is too rough, and a circle is not consistent with the brand's jewelry-like patterns aesthetic.
white is blends too much with the background, and black looks cheap, any graphic design principle i am missing? I need a logo for company Botanic Artsy, it basically sell plants. I need suggestion for fonts, color schemes and logo. I'm really confused. I'm trying to recreate the distress on this text. Any ideas? I tried with some difference clouds at first but realized it's very grid like on the original, not so random. Illustrator is making a beeping sound whenever I select a white object.
It only started this morning. I don't know what happened. >all women but me and this fag
>tattoed goth oversocialized whores abound
>if not that, then they're retarded tumblr users
>if not that, just retards all around
>IF there is another guy, it's some fag who wants to draw tatoos or tranime
I want to fucking kill myself. I have to do trade school classes to escape military conscription but after the first day, i'd rather go to the fucking army or commit suicide. I can't stand being around these worthless nobodies who think they're going to change the world. I don't plan on pursuing graphic design because it's a dead profession but I did have a passion for it and was autistic about typefaces and logos way back when. AI just had to roll around just as I was planning to pursue it as a profession. I had to go through with it because as I said military and because I don't want to work a wagecuck job if I can help it. You get gibs for being a student too so that's another plus. but I know i'm going to piss away 2 years of my life for nothing. you gotta be fucking kidding me with this garbage Which of these is purple and which is violet? You're my only hope, /gd/. Am I the only one who misses this style of t-shirt design? Pictures, simple geometric shapes, scattered text with not much meaning, no attempt to look vintage?
I swear they stopped making modern designs like this, it's all vintage or back prints. Umfortunately I have no idea where to find this style on a shirt. I just love the vibe. >should we stick with our unique, soulful, colorful mascot that stands out from the crowd?
>that's so yesterday, let's change it to generic clipart of testicular torsion instead there's no other place to post this shit, so here it is.
Post your delightful autismo thoughts on your PSA of choice, stay safe. my mommas friend told me she would pay me 10 bucks for a birthday collage photo with her pic, i could just smash the pics and write "happy birday!!!" in comic sans but i feel like i should tryhard this time, someone give me examples of kino bday cards collages etc this shit is not centered Client didn't want it. Maybe you'd do? i'm so fed up with fucking vegas pro
i'm using vegas pro 20 and Sapphire OFX plugin
and it's always freezing and fucking crashing when i try to use any fucking effect or transition so i need to save my project every 2 - 3 minutes
also when it's unfreezing my project going crazy and having green screens glitches and shit
i even updated from 8gb to 16gb ram and it's still doing this shit like what the fuck how do i fix this? More ram? 32gb ram???? Delete fucking Sapphire? My videos ain't even long man i'm so fed up with this shit I have a Wacom tablet but I can't draw for shit.
I can't look at the screen and draw at the same time.
Should I just pick a tablet with a screen, even if it's more expensive? Post'em (extra points for foreign /rare) > Be me, Design student, shy, strange, dumb, 20
> Now, jaded, no longer an incel and a bit far right. Due to bad experiences in college
> How do I navigate design world without letting my prejudice by my negative experiences in design influence my work or opportunities what is a WEBP file and why is it suddenly everywhere? Magazine ad for a watch. I liked my previous iteration before my professor told me to change stuff. Everything shown has to be included. Not sure what I can do to make it look better. Any advice? Much appreciated what is /gd/'s favorite album artwork? This is it. Graphic design can now end as a discipline.
The pinnacle has been achieved. It's all downhill from here. I work for figma - give me your hot takes / feature reqs / q's.
in b4 ligma >go to uni for animation
>half the professors insist on using picrel for animation
are they mentally challenged? this is actually the single most unintuitive way to animate things, probably because it wasn't made for that I'm trying to make a 31-EDO keyboard and am stuck on deciding how it should look like.
An octave has 31 keys and the white ones, for now, correspond to the regular piano white ones
Any suggestion? I could try to not make it look like a piano eventually So a stationary company reached out to me asking if I’m interested on doing some contract work for them. I said yes, however they want to do a paid test run.
The first task of the test run they are looking to establish an email welcome flow. They have a basic welcome flow with one or two emails but not enough to capture the entire email funnel.
That’s all the info I was given. Based on that, do I just go ahead and start designing, or should I ask if they have specific copy in mind?
I’m used to doing design work where a creative brief, copy, brand guidelines, and access to a DAM platform with licensed graphics, logos, and photos to work with are already provided for me. But this while I worked for production agencies.
Should I ask the client for all of this info, or is the client expecting me to come up with my own copy and graphics? Give it to me straight, lads.
How is the move from Adobe to Affinity?
And how does Affinity square up with Photoshop? No Jaguar thread? What in the actual fuck. examples of schizo designs? tried my hand at it in audacity, then did some extra work in PS. what do y'all think? I mean this gold thing. Tried to recreate it with photoshop liquify but thats just not it. I'm being paid to design the logo and interior design for a medical college
So i'll be creating a new logo for this dna research program as well as the images/colors/accents for the entire lab and office space
I've never done a project this big before so i have no idea what to charge
Have any of you done something this big for this big of a client? and what was your compensation? they are asking for a number and i don't know what's reasonable to ask for How do you market your services and get clients. >Company handed out this software for free
>Fully functional, no paywall
>Decided it must be a scam and didn't trust the company
>Retards installed the update
>Surprise, surprise, got baited and switched to a subscription called Linearity Curve with no refunds
>Still have the original Vectornator, works perfectly.
>Was clever and got free software out of the scam
Anyone else or am I the only one who didn't fall for it? ITT: Share your favorite or most hated YouTube channel banners and branding, rate the picks of others, or share your channel artwork. Share designs and graphics utilizing noise. hi /gd/ this is my cat rupert i made some artwork for his grand birthday tour, what do you think? a picture of him next to it for reference its what the title said i used after effects for this since idk where else to put it i hope this dosent bother anyone Feeling unproductive AF this past year. Everything I make feels like garbage, desu. Thinking of quitting in 4 months and taking a 3-month break for personal development, maybe make the switch to UI/UX after. Anyone been through a phase like this? How’d you get your groove back and start making stuff you’re proud of? my portfolio’s solid, but all I’m landing are these small freelance scraps. Can’t seem to score an actual job. Should I rework my portfolio? Puff up my experience? Switch up the location? halp pls. 
