With two little boys in my life I have, over the last several years, come to really appreciate the art of illustration and in particular illustration for children’s books. I have also always wanted to learn to draw and have in the past month, finally began to work towards that goal. In looking around at [...]
Brian Yerkes is compiling a collection of business cards of bloggers on his site, and I thought I would throw mine into the pile. I happen to have a business card because of my design business, and my blog is listed prominently because it’s sort of “Randa Clay Central” when it comes to my design [...]
I just posted at the Blog Herald about how to design a great ad. I’d like to follow that up here with some further comments and examples for inspiration as we consider how to maximize the relatively small number of pixels and small share of a reader’s attention many blog ads receive. I’d [...]
Do you keep a notebook of ideas and sketches? Apparently filming the contents of one’s moleskine notebook has become quite the phenomenon, and I find it fascinating to peek inside the creative mind of designers, illustrators and artists as I watch these videos. The City Notebook exhibition by Detour offers some of the [...]
Of all periods of graphic design, my favorite has to be the early 20th century. I love the use of color, and the typography is just beautiful. Recently I’ve found a nice source of inspiration in that vein at InternationalPoster.com where there is a huge collection of vintage posters searchable by subject, period, style, artist, etc. [...]
While in the sketching process for a logo design, after the first couple of ideas are on the page, I regularly get stuck. When that happens, I find the best way to get unstuck is to do some browsing through logo collections online. Here are some sites that always jump start my creativity when [...]
