Art & Design

  • An introduction to Medium’s new evolved brand identity

    An introduction to Medium’s new evolved brand identity

    A little background Over the past several months, Medium has been rolling out a series of upgrades, all of which are “helping us build a more relational Medium.” One of the most notable upgrades they’ve made is allowing more creative expression for the writers and brands on their platform, so that your home on Medium can…

  • 16 tricks to turn your Medium drafts into beautiful looking stories

    16 tricks to turn your Medium drafts into beautiful looking stories

    16 tricks to turn your Medium drafts into beautiful looking stories

  • Erion Makuo – the magic art of folk fantasy

    Erion Makuo – the magic art of folk fantasy

    Erion Makuo is a freelance fantasy illustrator from Siberia, working in themes such botany, grisly old folk tales, skeletons, and the dappled cat next door. Erion has worked with multiple private clients, several self-published authors, and is an artist-in-residence for Apparition Literary Magazine (2021). Erion is passionate about creating character illustrations, especially those with a tinge of…

  • Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait Film 

    Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait Film 

    An engrossing study into the dynamic of ageing and the process of self-representation. One of the most celebrated painters of our time, Lucian Freud is also one of very few 20th-century artists who portrayed themselves with such consistency. Spanning nearly seven decades his self-portraits give a fascinating insight into both his psyche and his development…

  • Free Stuff for Creative Folk

    Free Stuff for Creative Folk

    Free Stuff for Creative Folk The idea for Premium Pixels came about after a fruitless search for a particular style of Photoshop brush. In the end, I made my own. Premium Pixels is where I share my design resources and I sometimes even throw in the odd tutorial for good measure. “And who am I…

  • Jim Lambie is a demiurge, a magician.

    Jim Lambie is a demiurge, a magician.

    Glasgow-based artist Jim Lambie can transform any space into a visual delight with his geometric tape designs. Here is an artist who apparently works in a frenzy of pure creativity, spewing out fun and beauty with energy, grace, and a strange, unfettered, totally unpretentious imagination. Without claiming any obvious social or political or indeed personal…

  • An Illustrator who cant get her head outta the Clouds

    An Illustrator who cant get her head outta the Clouds

    Animator & illustrator Zandra from Detroit, USA, creates fantastic digital art. “Making things and drawing stuff is what I love to do! When I’m not drawing, I play piano, practice and occasionally teach Tang Soo Do, and ride horses in the summer.” zandraart

  • The Secret of the Apple’s New San Francisco Fonts

    The Secret of the Apple’s New San Francisco Fonts

    It’s a subtle change but the system fonts of iOS 9 are now changed to the Apple’s new San Francisco fonts, replacing the previous Helvetica Neue. San Francisco fonts have been used in Apple Watch already, and San Francisco is now the standard font unifying the Apple platform: Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad and Mac. Apple…