Feel like you’re in the mood for some inspirational wedding design? How about an elegant wedding program template that you can edit yourself from home? Read on to learn about both.

Take moment and think about what the best looking invitation you’ve ever got looked like. Did it impress you so much you still remember it to this day? Wouldn’t you want a wedding invitation that people would remember years after?

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If you think the most famous graphic designers are all men, allow me to introduce Paula Scher, probably the most famous female graphic designer in the world.

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I decided to write today about design minimalism, the web and effective poster ideas.

Smashing Magazine held a poster design contest called: Redesign the Web, Redesign the World! which I entered. The challenge was to design thought-provoking poster that challenged people’s ideas about web design, both in functionality and aesthetics.

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If you’re a freelancer or starting out a small business then take a moment to look though this selection of well designed invoice templates.

Design is probably not at the front of most small business owners minds and who can blame you? Who care’s what your invoice looks like right? It’s just an official document that’ll probably get filed away somewhere and never see the light of day again. So why bother with buying an invoice template? —In short—because anything that has your business’ logo on it, is a representation of the quality of your brand. A scruffy invoice represents a scruffy business.

Invoice templates are a great solution to the classic design conundrum that most small business’ face. You want something that looks great—nice and professional—but a designer wants to charge you a disproportionally high fee for something unique. It also requires meetings and reviews which take time. An invoice template can solve both problems.

Browse this great, reasonably priced, selection of premium designer invoice templates and find something that will suit your business requirements.

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When it comes to famous graphic designers, the American designer Paul Rand is right up there with the best of them.

He was a household name in publication, advertising, and corporate identities which is why today he is regarded as one of the innovators of modern corporate American design. He should also be praised for having convinced many large business groups of the value of investing in a designed identity.

As a boy he showed interest in typography—painting signs for his father and events held at school. Despite his obvious inclination towards this area, his father apparently didn’t support his career. He wasn’t convinced that this was a skill set to build a career with. As such it’s not surprising that many sources cite that he was largely a self-taught designer.

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I’ve been trawling Vimeo again and found some lovely CG typography shorts to give you a shot of inspiration this morning.

These use a combination of type, design, CG compositing and visual effects to create visually appealing motion graphic, although all with very different methods.

Popular CG programs for rendering type are Maya and Cinema 4D. After it’s rendered post-production, like color grading, is done in After Effects.

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Design balance is very rarely described by non-designers because it’s more of a feeling that people will get. A person will just have a positive reaction to something that seems to sit neatly, look clean and be arranged in a logical order. This theory is discussed in Design Theory 1: Composition.

Balance and composition go hand in hand. It is immpossible to arrange a good composition unless it’s balanced correctly, so balance forms the underlying structure of composition and page harmony.

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You’ve heard of menus in the context of website navigation but have you ever heard of a Mega Menu? What about an Uber Menu? Well if you haven’t here’s a short introduction.

A mega menu is essentially a single drop down menu that creates sub-menus in large ordered categories usually with some kind of iconography or graphic implementation to assist in visually navigating the content.

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Here’s your obligatory vomit bag. —I studied advertising for three years, graduated as an art director and then begrudgingly worked in the advertising industry for 2 years.  I found it a very unpleasant area to work in personally. Mostly due to the nauseating vapidity of the industry but also some-what due to the long hours, low pay and no credit for my work.

I soon became very disillusioned and bored so I decided to leave and work as a designer while I started my journey as an internet entrepreneur.

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A high dynamic range image is a photographic technique used to create extreme tonal contrast which has many applications, one of which is lighting in 3D renders.


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Composition can be thought of as the foundation of a house. The theory behind design composition is the second most important part of visual communication, the first begging the message that you’re attempting to convey.

Every kind of designer starts a new piece of work with a blank page, blank canvas, blank sheet. They then begin to build elements onto each other. The methods of how they place these elements is thecomposition. It is the entire process from where they start right the way through to what you end up with. Composition then is the mother ship, the wrapper that envelopes the entire work from beginning to end.

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I’ve always found the notion of having you entire skill neatly displayed on one piece of paper for your future employee to ponder over both beautifully elegant and intrinsically functional.
In today’s world though it seems that the age old curriculum vitae is slowly fading away in favour of the more practical show-me-what-you-can-do method.
So that raises the question, why would I want to buy a template?


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The history of storyboarding can be traced back to ancient history in my opinion. If you think about old civilizations like the ancient Egyptians or some of the very old African tribes,
they were the first to incorporate story telling into their culture using crude paint materials.

If you analysis some of these cave paintings you’ll realize that each illustration represents a part of a great story. A frame if you like.

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Take a look at these great looking photography website templates.

Kazuo Miyagawa was a Japanese cinematographer. He was incredibly forward thinking and visually creative, drawing on his knowledge of traditional Japanese art, such as sumi-e, and applying it to film photography which ultimately resulted in some of the most revolutionary cinematography of the 1950's.

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House of Wook is a blog about design and everything digital media related. I started this blog to gain access to the global design community and share my thoughts about the world of new age media. I like to regularly update my blog with articles, idea and sources of inspiration. I’m always excited to get community feedback on my idea and work.


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Gindhouse Theatre - Poster Template

Grindhouse films were typically a genre of exploitation films that were shown in old drive-in movie theatres back in the 60′s.
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