Trying to ignore the horrible weather and feeling like you’d like to create instead? Then look no further than GDP’s featured projects. For music lovers we’ve got The Visible Sounds Project and The Words Project. The first introduces you to a fantastic range of imaginative designers, artists and animators who […]
This time of year sees organisations in both the USA and UK collecting data from garden bird counts that we can all join in with. GDP folk have been engaging in garden bird counts for years and it is really interesting to monitor the decline and increase of varying bird […]
Christmas cards are a great resource of imagery. Much of their design is narrative or story-based imagery, such as the Nativity or simply just children playing in the snow, or bringing wood home for the fire. So this provides a good opportunity to help train your eye, or the kids’ eyes, in making analysis of narrative […]
Want something to do to pass the holiday season time? The Graphic Design Project is looking for a few teens (or older!) to try out some of our projects and to give us feedback about re-developing them. Projects are for beginners in graphic design and portfolio-builders. If you are 14 […]
The Celebration Project is perfect if you want to begin to learn about graphic design or are wanting something different to do during the vacation period. As we mentioned in our post a few weeks back (Self Promotion Time) this time of year is perfect for exploring all the design […]
For those of you who want to start out or continue in graphic design, now is the time of year to start thinking about the many promotion opportunities that are coming up. Christmas, for example, is a good time to remind your would-be clients of how talented you are. A […]
Welcome to our new website at http://www.thegraphicdesignproject.com for online graphic design education. Many, many thanks to Sean de Burca for the overall design concept and to Mike Houghton for putting it all together and making it work so well. If you know any design beginners, homeschoolers or portfolio-builders that may […]
The Design Museum in London has a current exhibition that ties in with the Olympics, called Designed to Win. This features objects to do with sport, from equipment to clothing. Design and sport, it is remarked, share their drive to better human endeavour. Announced this week is the fact that […]
Very excited because our main website is coming soon!! As well as the projects listed on our About Projects page we are busy writing a whole range of new ones, including ones about design for performance and one about sport and dance. More to follow. If you don’t want to […]
Like type? If you want to experiment with designing typographic items, such as these hand rendered logos, prints and ambigrams in the slideshow below, then you might like some of the Graphic Design Project short courses.
