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Design a Swiss Style Music Festival Poster in Photoshop

Follow this step by step process of designing a timeless swiss style poster design for the imaginary ambient music festival “Bella Musica”, which was held on Ibiza in July 1978. The design process involves turning digital photos into imperfect analog photos with light leaks, dark vignettes and blurred focus, creating patterns, mixing images, textures and blend modes to achive the final design.

“Bella Musica” poster design is directly inspired by the works of Swiss designer Josef Muller-Brockmann.

Negative Criticism – How to Turn the Menace into Blessing

It doesn’t matter which profession you belong to, you will always have to face criticism. Positive and negative criticism will always be a part of your life so it is better to learn to handle it rather than running away from it. You will not only face criticism in your professional life, you will have to deal with it in your personal life as well. So, it is good to be open to criticism and not only that, you should be well prepared to handle any sort of criticism. In most cases, criticism is for your own good and it will help you in making improvements to your personal and professional life. However, you cannot face positive criticism always as you may become a victim of negative criticism as well. If someone critiques your business cards, learn from their comments and make adjustments with future designs.

Web Interface Roundup of Web Design Inspiration

Today we are happy to bring back a post people have often loved to be inspired by, we are showcasing a roundup of great web designs for you all to be inspired by.

Photoshop Tutorial: Creating a Reflection in Shattered Glass

Creating the reflection of a woman, whose scream may or may not have broken the glass in question, into a shattered mirror.

How to Design a 1980s Movie Poster in Photoshop

In this article, we’re going to start by looking at a few inspirational movie posters from the 1980s which we’ll use for inspiration. Then, we’re going to use Adobe Photoshop to create a 1980′s style movie poster for our fictitious film titled “The Designer’s Mansion.” This tutorial is aimed for designers with a fair understanding of Photoshop.