German 15th Century, The Sacred Monograph with the Crucifixion and Passion Symbols [recto], in or after 1470, metalcut, hand-colored in light green, rose, and yellow, Rosenwald Collection Presenting for you on Good Friday a selection of images (from the ever-great NGA Images) that show some parts of the Easter story. […]
Welcome to our Spring Offer on online design and art projects for creative beginners and portfolio builders! Topics range from basic design layout and type all around, custom shoes and packaging, to more challenging projects like book jackets, illustrated lyrics, graphic novels and promotions. There are fashion, retail, environment, animal […]
If you would like to take part in our seasonal project, The Easter Image Project, you might want to start thinking about beginning now to be ready at Easter itself. The project helps you to create a fabulous poster for a community gathering at Easter. This could be a large […]
Those of you who read this blog on a regular basis will know that my university students are taking part in the Design Museum’s competition called The Design Factory. This year the brief investigates hand made and high tech – the uses of craft and industrial processes. So we’ve been […]
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 […]
Philadephia Museum of Art is currently hosting an exhibition called Double Portrait about the American graphic designer, Paula Scher, and illustrator, Seymour Chwast. He is notable for being one of the founders, along with Milton Glaser, of the very influential Push Pin Studios. Scher and Chwast not only worked together but […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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