Roy Lichtenstein, Whaam, 1963, Purchased 1966 © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein The other week I went on yet another bitterly cold day to London to see the Roy Lichtenstein exhibition at Tate Modern. I’d been really looking forward to this and was hopeful of a thrilling experience. When we went […]
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 […]
E. & A. Mele & Co., fashion, latest merchandise, Naples, from a series advertising Mele department store, Aleardo Villa (Italian, 1865–1906) Publisher: Officine G. Ricordi & Company, Milan, Italy, about 1900, Color lithograph on card stock Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Promised gift of Leonard A. Lauder Courtesy Museum of Fine […]
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 […]
Earlier this week I went with some students to London’s Design Museum to see two exhibitions that I anticipated might be full of shiny things to inspire for the Christmas season. Well, it wasn’t quite like that! The two shows were Unexpected Pleasures: The Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery and Digital […]
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 […]
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