• Needle Felting Tutorial: A Step-by-step Guide To Making a Strawberry
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    Needle Felting Tutorial: A Step-by-step Guide To Making a Strawberry

    Learn how to sculpt a simple strawberry out of wool using needle felting techniques It takes great patience to sculpt art toys out of wool and create the shapes you desire. However, the results are worth the time they take: needle felted creations are simple yet beautiful, charming both children and adults. Portuguese artist Maria Filipe Castro, better known as droolwool (@droolwool), is a needle felting expert. She loves bringing colorful characters to life. She has exhibited her creations in galleries and also sells them through her online shop. In this tutorial, droolwool will show you how to make a simple strawberry using common needle felting tools and materials. Discover more in the video below:

  • The Visual Differences Between Online and Offline Communications
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    The Visual Differences Between Online and Offline Communications

    Learn how graphic elements online should differ from their offline counterparts The rules for online and offline communications are not the same: the things we say and do online are not exactly the same as those we say or do in real life. For companies and brands, this is no different, each space has different requirements that need different strategies to achieve a particular image. James Eccleston (@james80) is a Brand and UX Specialist with over 18 years of international experience working for major brand communication agencies in London, digital start-ups in Latin America, and running his own agency in Madrid. He considers the main different between successful online and offline branding campaigns is attention span, "When you communicate online," he says, "your users have a very short attention span. Usually, it's around 15 seconds." Keeping someone's attention is challenging enough on a desktop, but more so on mobile, when the screen space is smaller, and there are more distractions.

  • Louis Bicycle Creates One-of-a-kind Embroidered Clothing
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    Louis Bicycle Creates One-of-a-kind Embroidered Clothing

    Louis Bicycle creates hand-dyed embroidered clothing, from hoodies to bucket hats Being forced to adapt to new circumstances can take us down unexpected paths. Louis Bicycle (@louisbicycle) was taking a break from tattooing and selling his hand-made screen prints and linoleum block prints at a street fair in San Francisco when the pandemic caused the fair to shut down. During those first few days stuck at home, he picked up a tote bag that he had started to embroider a tiger onto a couple of years before. He finished the bag and put it online. “It got a decent response, so I made another the next day. It just went from there.” Since then, he has put out a variety of clothing—unique pieces that sell out almost immediately. “I've sewn for a long time, even a small amount as a kid. As I got older, I fixed clothes. I had a little wave a few years ago where I made some little embroidered patches. I just did it for a month or so and set it down. I hadn’t done hoodies in the past, just patches and tote bags. I soon figured out a way to put a backing on the hoodies so I could embroider them in a way that it would stay flat.”

  • What Most Websites Have In Common
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    What Most Websites Have In Common

    Why similar looking websites aren’t necessarily a sign of bad design Have you ever noticed that a lot of web pages look the same? You aren’t just imagining it: one study of over 10,000 websites found an increase in design conformity over the last few years. From large banner images to hamburger menus (those three horizontal lines that reveal a list of pages), the visual language of the internet has become more standardized. Why has this happened? Is this uniformity a sign of lazy design? We spoke with experts to discover the challenges, and needs, that web designers today are responding to. Turns out, there are a few major reasons why designers are creating similar looking websites, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for creativity.

  • 20 UX Design Books for Beginners
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    20 UX Design Books for Beginners

    This collection of books will help get you started with UX Design for apps and websites UX Design is a skill that's in hot demand. To keep up with current trends in this rapidly growing industry, it's important to constantly seek out new sources of information and inspiration. Professional web designers and developers Ethan Parry (@ethanparry), Mario Ferrer (@marioferrer), and Luz de León (@23design) share with us the essential books on UX design that you should have in your library:

  • 5 Free Classes to Learn UX Design for Beginners
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    5 Free Classes to Learn UX Design for Beginners

    Get started in UX design and get to know the world of digital usability One of the biggest trends in web design, whether for websites or for apps, is UX design, our user experience design. This simply means that all design decisions are made with the users' needs at the center. These 5 experts in UX design will help you to discover basic principles of this discipline to make your digital projects have a high impact. To watch each class, just click on its title in red. Enjoy!

  • 5 Courses to Perfect Your 3D Modeling and Design Skills
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    5 Courses to Perfect Your 3D Modeling and Design Skills

    Learn how to use different programs and techniques to improve your 3D design and modeling skills The world of 3D design and modeling is so broad that the possibilities are truly endless; that means that you can choose the software and style that bestfit your creativity and skill level. Whether you are taking your first steps or improving your 3D modeling and design skills, these five online 3D modeling courses will inspire you to reach new levels in your professional career. Low Poly Character Modeling for Video Games, a course by Daniel Gutiérrez The low poly style is one of the most attractive contemporary aesthetics in video game creation, animation, and illustration. The objects and characters created with this technique show clearly defined polygons and flat faces but achieve an emotional impact nonetheless. Daniel Gutiérrez teaches you how to make them perfect in this course.

  • The Importance of Observation When Drawing Birds
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    The Importance of Observation When Drawing Birds

    When depicting plants and animals, careful observation is essential. Here are some tips for drawing birds Nature illustrator Antonia Reyes Montealegre (@antoniapajarito) is passionate about birds and their diverse anatomies, something she loves to capture in her drawings. Nothing’s as good as looking out to the treetops and capturing the essence of the colorful birds that live in them. It is necessary to focus on details to recreate a realistic picture of nature. For this reason, we must learn to observe these creatures.

  • Essential Keyboard Shortcuts for AVID Media Composer
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    Essential Keyboard Shortcuts for AVID Media Composer

    Discover the basic keyboard shortcuts of one of the most-used video editing programs on the market AVID Media Composer is one of the most complete, professional, and stable nonlinear video editing software available. A well-known name in the editing industry, it is mainly used by professional video editors worldwide, but casual and non-professional users will also enjoy its advantages. Speed and efficiency are the primary skills of a good editor, and as you progress in your use of AVID Media Composer, you will realize that there's a significant amount of time to be saved once you learn some of the most useful keyboard shortcuts. Below, we have compiled some of the basic ones for Mac and PC to get you started.

  • 5 Watercolor Artists Whose Work Will Inspire You
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    5 Watercolor Artists Whose Work Will Inspire You

    Be inspired by the work of these contemporary watercolor artists Few are lucky enough to grow up in a house whose walls are plastered in art. So, when it comes to launching your own creative career, you’ll need to seek out your own inspiration. Isabela Quintes (@isabelaquintes) –an illustrator and painter specializing in botanical watercolor painting–did exactly this. Quickly she found that one artist led her to another, and so on, and soon she had built a network of influential references. Today she shares five of her favorite watercolor artists with the Domestika community. Ana Victoria Calderón (@anavictoriana) Mexican artist Ana Victoria Calderón inspired Quintes to first experiment with watercolors. Calderón uses a diverse color palette that expertly mixes darker and lighter tones. She also shows off her technical versatility mixing in acrylics and employing tricks using salt.

  • What Is a Counterbrief?
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    What Is a Counterbrief?

    Andrea Galvez and Martín Bedoya, from FIBRA branding studio, show us the methodology they use to create an efficient counterbrief To understand the role of the counterbrief in a branding project, it is important to first remember the concept of the brief: a document or process with essential information and instructions on how to create a brand. From this document, the design process is born. The brief usually comes from the client, the counterbrief is the designers' answer to everything requested and, according to Andrea Galvez and Martín Bedoya from FIBRA branding studio (@fibra_branding), it is the most crucial step in their work process. It is through the counterbrief–the first delivery made to the client–that the project script and the refinement of the initial ideas are defined.

  • Challenge: 3 Fun Ways to Stimulate Creativity
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    Challenge: 3 Fun Ways to Stimulate Creativity

    Art director, graphic designer, and illustrator Rogério Puhl tests out his own challenge and surprises himself with the results Since he was a teenager, Rogério Puhl had always dreamed of being an artist. At the age of 14, he enrolled at Chapecó School of Arts in Brazil. After discovering the world of digital illustration at the age of 18, he began a career in advertising, and went on to work for some of the most successful agencies in Brazil: AlmapBBDO, DM9DDB, Africa, Ogilvy, WMcCann, Young & Rubicam, and more. His portfolio includes projects for clients such as MTV, McDonald's and Red Bull, and he has created copyrighted murals around the world. Thanks to many years of experience, Rogério has lots of tips on how to get your creative juices flowing. In this challenge, the artist shares three ways to keep your mind active. The exercises can be carried out anywhere using whatever tools you have at hand. Not only will you have fun but your brain will also get a workout. Rogério was in fact very surprised with the results he got when he tried it out himself.

  • Free Download: Template for Making Origami Envelopes with Cartoncita
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    Free Download: Template for Making Origami Envelopes with Cartoncita

    Cartoncita, who specialize in origami and scenography, show us how to create origami envelopes and mini boxes Estela Moreno Orteso is the founder of Cartoncita–a studio workshop specializing in creating objects, spaces, and decorations out of paper and card. Their clients include big brands such as Vespa, Samsung and Hermès. In her live, Estela will show us how to create an eight-sided envelope, which is called a “tato” in Japanese, and a small box using the millennium-old art of origami. Here you can download the templates for free:

  • Download Over 15,000 Comic Books for Free
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    Download Over 15,000 Comic Books for Free

    Comic lovers can now access thousands of high-quality gems from the Golden Age Are you a comic book lover? An illustrator curious to explore character and background designs popular before the Sixties? Or simply interested in researching historical commentary through graphic storytelling? In that case, the Digital Comic Museum has a massive treat in store for you. A vast archive of pre-1959 comic books in excellent condition, uploaded by users, has been compiled by the museum and keeps growing. The comics are available under public domain restrictions and fully downloadable. All entries have been meticulously checked by the site’s moderators and administrators to avoid copyright infringement, and contributors are encouraged to keep on entering new scans adhering to the rules.

  • What Is Zentangle?
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    What Is Zentangle?

    Learn about the abstract pattern drawing style that will help you relax and refine your mark-making The term Zentangle comes from the words 'zen' (the Buddhist meditative philosophy for balancing the mind) and 'tangle'. The goal of this art practice is to achieve calm. It was developed as a concept in 2004 in the United States, from the minds of Maria Thomas and Rick Roberts. Zentangle is a style of drawing, mainly abstract, that uses repetitive patterns and represents an artistic method of relaxation for many.

  • 12 Creative Ideas For Your Stationery Design
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    12 Creative Ideas For Your Stationery Design

    12 creatives from the Domestika community share the designs they've created for brand stationery If you are working in branding or brand identity design, or are interested in working in this field, you will know the importance of a brand’s stationery. Despite living in a world where everything is digital, printed material is still standing its ground as clients try their best to stand out from the crowd. Read on as 12 creatives from the Domestika community show you ways to produce stationery designs for different brands, in mockup version or printed, and inspire you to start your own projects. Click on the red titles to access every entry in detail. 1910, by HUMAN (@human_) This was part of a brand identity project for a Mexican restaurant in London. The contemporary design draws from elements from traditional Mexican culture and a color palette inspired by the work of architect Luis Barragán. Learn more about this creative studio in the course, Principles of Concepting and Branding.

  • 20 Watercolor Paintings by Ana Victoria Calderon's Students
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    20 Watercolor Paintings by Ana Victoria Calderon's Students

    Check out these projects of the Domestika community made with the watercolor painting technique Ana Victoria Calderón (@anavictoriana) is a painter and illustrator, who has found watercolor one of her favorite means of expression. She is inspired by elements of nature to create illustrations that you can also find applied to all kinds of products.

  • The Story Behind "Accidentally Wes Anderson"
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    The Story Behind "Accidentally Wes Anderson"

    We spoke to the creator of the popular Instagram account who has just launched a bestselling book for adventurers Accidentally Wes Anderson was created for adventures and explorers. It is a book brimming with beautiful photos and intriguing narratives for curious beings. Each photo looks like a frame straight out of a Wes Anderson film. Yet these are not film sets. They are authentic spots that you can visit, all over the world, and each spot has its own unique and enchanting story.

  • 10 Essential Keyboard Shortcuts to Work Faster in DaVinci Resolve
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    10 Essential Keyboard Shortcuts to Work Faster in DaVinci Resolve

    Speed up your workflow when editing video projects with these shortcuts New controls and tools are constantly being added to video editing programs, making them more complex and creating the need to keep track of such tools. DaVinci Resolve, one of the most popular post-production video editing suites around, is one such program. For this reason, video editors must get familiar with basic keyboard hotkeys to keep their work flowing. If you are not using them already, check out the following 10 essential DaVinci Resolve shortcuts to get started:

  • 7 Masters of Graphic Design Share Their Industry-insider Secrets
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    7 Masters of Graphic Design Share Their Industry-insider Secrets

    Get to know these legendary international graphic designers and discover their industry-insider secrets Just like any other creative discipline, the key to graphic design is practice. Listening to and learning from the best of the best will help you to perfect your daily output. These 10 graphic designers from our Domestika Masters series share their experiences to help you develop your own library of references and reflect on the role of a graphic designer. Domestika Masters: Milton Glaser Not many designers have been able to say that they have produced several works that are considered iconic all over the world. However, US designer Milton Glaser (1929-2020) was one of them. Founder of New York Magazine and creator of the I ❤ NY logotype–to give just a couple of examples–Glaser was a gamechanger in the history of design.

  • Embroidery Tutorial: Basic Techniques for Beginners
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    Embroidery Tutorial: Basic Techniques for Beginners

    Learn how to use a hoop, thread, and needle to begin embroidering, with Kseniia Guseva Embroidery can make everything from your empty wall to the hole in your sneakers that bit more beautiful. While it may seem intimidating at first, learning the basic steps of this ancient craft will open up a world of upcycling and patchwork possibilities. Kseniia Guseva (@faimyxstitch) has been embroidering every day since 2016, creating stitchwork cityscapes—an interest shaped by the architecture of her hometown St Petersburg—as well as feeding her other passion: upcycling. Here she shares a few basic embroidery steps to help you get started, from how to set up your hoop to the various ways you thread the needle, that will help you start your embroidery journey right. Learn more in the video below:

  • 5 Online Courses to Become a UX Designer
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    5 Online Courses to Become a UX Designer

    Learn basic UX Design principles and concepts to start your projects like an expert After the technology boom and the widespread of digital devices everywhere, UX Design has become an essential discipline for all types of industries. If you want to impress your clients developing new apps and websites, these experts will teach you their secrets to become an expert UX designer:

  • Domestika Diary: Olga Prinku
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    Domestika Diary: Olga Prinku

    The creator of flower on tulle embroidery takes us on a walk through the British countryside, where she finds inspiration and flowers for her creations Olga Prinku (@oprinku) is a designer and maker who created the flower on tulle embroidery technique, where she embroiders dried and handpicked flowers onto tulle. A trained graphic designer, Olga adapted her design skills to her botanical surroundings to create her unique and elegant style which has seen her collaborate with Swarovski, Anthropologie, and Ruth Eaton London. In this Domestika Diary, Olga shares her florally-inspired daily routine and creative process with us:

  • Essential keyboard shortcuts for Adobe Animate and for animation in Photoshop
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    Essential keyboard shortcuts for Adobe Animate and for animation in Photoshop

    Designer and animator Pablo Cuello shares the most popular shortcuts for animating with these software packages To achieve spectacular animations, you do not need complex resources. You can recreate frame-by-frame animation using a couple of tricks to make your design process a lot easier. Designer and animator Pablo Cuello (@pablocuello) shares the most common shortcuts in Adobe Animate and Adobe Photoshop to save time when creating effective animation work.

  • 5 Textile Artists with Unique Styles You Should Follow on Instagram
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    5 Textile Artists with Unique Styles You Should Follow on Instagram

    Get to know some of Koral Antolín’s favorite textile artists In recent years, thanks to some excellent representatives around the world, textile art has been revamped. Textile artists who incorporate traditional techniques with contemporary experimentation have been creating unique and incomparable pieces. Designer, embroiderer, and art director Koral Antolín (@koralantolin) is one of these artists. She creates handcrafted textiles that embody her love for linear drawing and embroidery, with resulting painterly effects.

  • # 2MDomestika: The Creativity Challenge Winners
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    # 2MDomestika: The Creativity Challenge Winners

    A selection of outstanding designs to celebrate 2 million creatives on Instagram We are now 2 million Domestika creatives on Instagram! All kinds of artistic and creative projects have been shared on our platform with a common purpose: learning together. To celebrate, we invited the community to reinterpret the Domestika logo using any medium: drawing, illustration, animation, embroidery, or whatever method they preferred, according to their unique experience at Domestika. A few of our teachers shared their interpretations here.

  • 5 Free Classes to Learn How to Make a Mood Board
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    5 Free Classes to Learn How to Make a Mood Board

    Learn to plan your creative projects like an expert with these lessons For any type of creative discipline, the planning and conceptualization of ideas is an essential moment in the development of projects. In these cases, the mood board is your best ally. By learning to make yours, you will be able to have visibility of your ideas and translate them in an orderly manner. Below 5 creative experts in different disciplines share with you practical advice to create your own mood boards. To watch each class, just click on its red title. Enjoy!

  • What Is Social Listening?
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    What Is Social Listening?

    Get to know this marketing tool that will help your social media accounts grow Perhaps you have recently heard the term “social listening”–it’s becoming more and more popular in the world of social media. It offers a valuable view of your audience as well as the direction of your brand. Learn how to implement this practice in your digital marketing strategy to obtain positive results for your personal brand or your customers.

  • 3 Domestika Teachers Share Their Favorite Courses
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    3 Domestika Teachers Share Their Favorite Courses

    Get to know the Course Lists tool with the help of expert teachers from different disciplines If you are looking for your next Domestika course to try, but are still undecided, you’re likely to find our Course Lists tool useful. It allows you to create and edit lists of your favorite courses from your profile page. Below, three teachers share the lists of courses that they have curated according to their personal and professional interests.