Either way, it's got some kickass stuff on there, including tutorials for a bunch of amazing effects in Photoshop and Illustrator. My favorite part though is all the examples of work from artists, graphic designers, architects and photographers. Under the "Inspiration" menu you can choose which category you want to explore. Now, for the Meredith projects, here are my tips. First of all, there's a logo category. Most of them are corporate logos and such, but I still think it might be useful to get into the mindset of creating a brand for something (and seeing all the crazy things you can do with letters and graphics). Second, under the typography category they have a weekly post called "Friday Fresh Free Fonts". Yay alliterations. But these are super helpful as they go back 138 posts and counting with about 3-4 fonts and links to download (FOR FREE) on each post. Can you say awesome? Because I just did. And they're better quality and more reliable (in my experience at least) than the fonts from dafont.com (which I've found can come out pixelated or janky sometimes).
Ok now that I'm done rambling about fonts, I will ramble about another favorite thing of mine: concert posters. These. Are. So. Cool. They are definitely my favorite kind of graphic design work and I wish I had enough pure creativity to make them. Maybe after I'm done stressing about GPAs and making it through the j-school my brain will be able to settle down and just "imagine" again. Anyways, away from my daydreaming and back to the professionals. Grain edit has a "poster pick" each week and this one's is as good as any other. The poster is for the band The Hold Steady (one who I've recently gotten into coincidentally).
Now, the editorial designer in me is saying, "Hey, you can't really read the information." But you know what? It's art. I don't really care. Once you recognize that the towers actually have info on them, you can't un-notice it. And that's good enough for me. Usually, these will be a bit easier to read, but this still keeps true to the concert poster style of freedom of imagination and conceptualization. I just love how most of the posters have nothing to do with the bands or the venues or anything. They're just wacky illustrations and ideas with great typography. Here's the site where grain edit pulls most of its picks from: Poster Cabaret (oh in Austin, you say...I'll have to check out their headquarters when I live there). And here's the artists' (it's a team) site: Landland. You can see their style in the rest of the prints with the great use of muted colors and texture.
If any of you are interested in seeing more amazing concert posters, I have this book:
and I'd be more than happy to bring it in and pass around :)
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