When people mention monochrome, it’s sometimes easy to think in just black and white or – more appropriately – “grayscale.” Monochrome can actually also mean the use of various shades and tones of one color. In this collection, we’ve compiled some very interesting use of monochrome color palettes in webdesign. You’ll notice that the designs are usually clean and has a quality of cohesiveness because of the way that the colors are used.
Recently, I had been thinking about the direction I wanted to take with my work as a photographer. Photography is my main creative outlet and it’s the medium in which I get to play around the most. However, as passionate as I think am about photography, I know I have a long way to go in terms of doing the work I really want to do with it.
As graphic or web designers we work with typography all the time, and even if we don’t all call ourselves typographers, setting type in one form or another is unavoidable. It’s a very large part of our job. And for hundreds of years it was our job alone (well, technically it was the type setter’s job, but bear with me here). Then desktop publishing came along and everything changed.
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We previously ran a giveaway for two 100-point credits — which are worth $99 — on TheAdStock, a site where you can buy stock photography images. In this post, we announce the two lucky winners.
I was cleaning out my office the other day – as I usually do every 3 or 4 months – and I immediately realized something as I was throwing out the garbage this time around: I enjoyed doing it.
Here at Design Instruct, we love great creative work no matter what medium it comes in. However, sometimes it’s best to venture off into other creative realms so that we can gain new insights and fresh perspectives. We believe that in order to do good design work, we have to draw from all aspects of life and let our work be influenced as such. Not only do we rid ourselves of only looking at our own work as merely “work” it also affords us the opportunity to see what we do as it relates to a much larger creative community.
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