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Create a Sticky Summer Typography Printable Poster in Illustrator – Design & Illustration – Tuts+

Create a Sticky Summer Typography Printable Poster in Illustrator – Design & Illustration – Tuts+ | Best of Design Art, Inspirational Ideas for Designers and The Rest of Us | Scoop.it
In this tutorial I would like to show you a few techniques on how to create a typography poster perfect for closing of summer.
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Authentic Design | Smashing Magazine

Authentic Design | Smashing Magazine | Best of Design Art, Inspirational Ideas for Designers and The Rest of Us | Scoop.it

The recently popularized “flat” interface style is not merely a trend. It is the manifestation of a desire for greater authenticity in design, a desire to curb visual excess and eliminate the fake and the superfluous.

In creating new opportunities, technological progress sometimes leads to areas of excess. In the 19th century, mechanized mass production allowed for ornaments to be stamped out quickly and cheaply, leading to goods overdecorated with ornament. A similar thing occurred in recent years, when display and styling technologies enabled designers to create visually rich interfaces, leading to skeuomorphic and stylistic excesses.

In its desire for authenticity, the Modern design movement curbed the ornamental excess of the 19th century, making design fit the age of mass production. Today, we’re seeing the same desire for authenticity manifest itself in the “flat” trend, which rejects skeuomorphism and excessive visuals for simpler, cleaner, content-focused design.

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In this article, Dmitry Fadeyev explains what authentic design is, what authenticity means in digital design, and why it matters.

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