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Generate a color palette from PNG, JPG or GIF image/photo. Receive color suggestions, download Photoshop swatches (.ACO).
All possible with the fabulous Pictaculous tool. if you're a blogger or web designer, this tool is essential. Simply upload a photo and it scans and suggests color palette similar to the one in the photo above.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Here's a very cool web design, visual marketing and blogging tool that I depend on. Pictaculous. Free and highly recommended. 10/10 
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Horror movies have been around for about 120 years. Things have changed since Georges Méliès’s The Haunted Castle (although maybe not that much), not just with the movies themselves, but with the way they’re advertised, too.
Movie posters (usually featuring what’s known as “key art,” the singular image that is the foundation for a movie’s marketing campaign) have been around since the beginning of cinema. Many of the earliest have been lost to history, due to extreme wear and tear. Before the advent of television, movies toured the country from theater to theater for months, sometimes years, and the lobby posters naturally followed along with them.
They’d get torn, dirty, faded or worse, until the distributor would simply throw them away.
Still, collectors managed to rescue some of the extant film posters and restore them. Since it’s October, we thought we’d take you through a historical tour of the best (and a few of the worst) horror movie posters of the past decades....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
A historical tour of the best (and a few of the worst) horror movie posters of the past century, from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Halloween.
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Why do you want to create a site? Is it to deliver good looking visuals to your visitors? No! The objective is to drive conversions, generate sales, improve brand visibility and ensure your business reaches a wider audience.
Unfortunately, an unnecessary focus on visuals might see you creating a site that is low on ROI. Your target website visitors are interested in getting more information about your business and its products and services from your site. If great visuals help drive brand and business messaging forward, well and good and that should be their primary objective. If they haven’t been picked keeping the website’s goal in mind, they will just serve to distract visitors.
Here are two sites that have made great use of visuals, and they serve to illustrate the purpose of the site. The visuals are arresting but do not distract visitors from what the website is all about and the products/services it is bringing to them....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
If you're going to obsess about your website, focus on function, not just the photo.
rodrick rajive lal's curator insight,
October 13, 2016 12:01 AM
Are we too obsessed with visuals on our websites that we ignore the quality of the rest of the matter, like the written or descriptive part, or for that effect infographics? A good website will have a balance between the written content and the visual content! I would suggest a ratio of at least a sixty/forty between visual and written content as being ideal!
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This week's Six Pack features a vivid array of bold stylings from Pheist (Hamburg, Germany), Hector Mansilla (Ciudad Victoria, Mexico), Richard Vergez (Brooklyn, United States), Sarah Matuszewski (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Raluca Bararu (Bucharest, Romania) and Dylan Morang (Maine, United States)....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
A feast for creative eyes.
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For the last five years, Google and the font giant Monotype have been working together to fill in all those tofu squares—hundreds of thousands of them. With the help of hundreds of designers, researchers, linguists, and cultural consultants, the two companies created Google Noto (the name derives from "NoTofu"). It’s a typeface family of the world’s languages—many in the minority, or even extinct—which can be rendered in serif or sans serif across eight weights, totaling more than 300,000 unique glyphs in all. As a point of comparison, Helvetica supports 97 different languages. Google Noto supports more than 800. According to Google, Noto is nearly 10 times larger than the nearest universal typeface, Arial Unicode. "For everyone in the typographical field, this is a scale of language and script support that’s never been attempted before," says Kamal Mansour, linguistic typographer at Monotype. "And it would be hard to imagine anyone sponsoring this other than Google. It’s a very big investment."...
Jeff Domansky's insight:
For the past five years, Google and Monotype have sought to bring hundreds of alphabets online through a family of typefaces called Noto. It's a fascinating project.
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Minimalism is one of the most dominating styles of today- right from architecture, to design, to literature. It is a style used in almost every other form of art. People often confuse minimalism with absence of detail.
Minimalism is certainly not a grand style, but it is also not an absence of detail or design either. Minimalists just focus on how much of useless content can be stripped away from an item without losing its key purpose and identity. Minimalism is simple in form and function, devoid of pointless decorations, yet lavish.
What exactly do we understand from Minimalist design?
The simplicity of minimalist web design may seem too simple, but it is under the surface that the real content lies. Don’t think minimalism is easier just because it is simple. It gets even more difficult because with fewer elements you still need to provide the same usage with less interface.
The less-is-more attitude was first applied in architecture and then slowly moved on to other industries like- interior design, industrial design, and now web design. The basic idea was to eradicate any element that didn’t really contribute to the main purpose or function.
6 Elements to Consider in Minimalist Web Design...
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Minimalism applies the theory of less is more, but less is more if only less does more. Here is the everything you need to know about Minimalist Web Design.
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Some trends last for ages while others are cyclical, but whether classic or fleeting, design trends are both inspiring and incredibly useful when it comes to your graphics work. So what’s been hot in 2016? The five styles that have dominated the year so far are outlined here to help you develop eye-catching and relevant concepts, while still staying true your unique creative vision.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Abstract Swiss is particularly interesting design.
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Good typography may be hard work, but designers shouldn’t forget to have some fun with it! While crafting fonts and typographic characters can sometimes feel stiff and overly mathematical, we want you to help you find the joy in creating more expressive and playful typography.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Lots of creative inspiration here and tips on how to use fun and playful typography in your design..
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There’s no denying it… Bright, bold colors have been a huge trend this year—not only a 2016 web design trend, but across all mediums. This color palette is popular with good reason; when bright color pops in design, it can conjure excitement, joy and intrigue. For that reason, it’s a great skill to master as a designer.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Looking to add some design creativity to your blog? Lots of inspiration here. Recommended reading. 9/10
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Are you including images in your social media content? Looking for easy-to-use tools to help you create images for your content strategy? If the idea of using Photoshop makes your head spin or hiring a graphic designer isn’t an option, there are many easy-to-use, low-cost alternatives available to you to create social media graphics. In this article, I’ll show you 6 easy tools that will help you create compelling graphics for social media.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Six easy-to-use design tools.
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Organ designers, chief drone experience designers, cybernetic director. Those are some of the fanciful new roles that could be created by the global design industry in the next few years. But what about current design roles? How will they favor over the next 15 years? Will every company by 2030 have a chief design officer, or will they all go extinct? Should a generation of creatives who grew up worshipping Apple's Jonathan Ive put all their eggs in the industrial design basket? We talked to a dozen design leaders and thinkers from companies such as Frog, Artefact, and Ideo to find out which design jobs could die out in the next 15 years, and which could grow. There's no empirical evidence behind these picks, so they shouldn't be taken too seriously. Still, they represent the informed opinions of people who get paid to think about the future....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Will you be a designosaur in the near future? Interesting to speculate in this Fast Company article.
Marion's curator insight,
January 13, 2017 12:05 PM
Design is meant to evolve. From a cosmetic role located at the end of the innovation process, its going to instill much more strategically throughout all the touchpoints a company has with its users.
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A decade ago, the internet was a very different place. The celebration of Envato’s 10th birthday has us feeling nostalgic, and so we’re taking a look at the 2006-2016 era of web design.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Fun website design nostalgia trip.
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The concept of creating movie color palettes has made an internet splash in recent years. Websites like Movies In Color and The Colors of Motion have interpreted many films into correlating color palettes. With this trend in mind, we want to share our own take.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Fun look at color palettes.
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Typographic characters don’t always need to come from font files. Many of today’s brilliant designs manifest typographic characters through drawing, squiggling and doodling.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Get a burst of design creativity from these fun fonts..
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One of the keys to making your design come alive is choosing just the right color combination.
Whether you’re attempting to evoke the feelings associated with a breathtaking landscape, a romantic sunset or a dynamic scene bursting with color, it takes a trained eye to bring together the perfect hues to drive your message home.
To save you some time and effort in your search for the ideal color combination, we’ve created a list of beautiful color schemes you can use in any of your projects.
These color presets are already available for you within Visme, so you can easily apply them to any of your own designs by simply clicking on the color combination of your choice, as seen below....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
An original selection of 50 color combinations you can use in your infographic and presentation design. Excellent resource, highly recommended! 9.5/10
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
October 14, 2016 10:40 AM
An original selection of 50 color combinations you can use in your infographic and presentation design. Excellent resource, highly recommended! 9.5/10
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Snappa makes it easy to create any type of online graphic. Create & publish images for social media, content marketing, and more!
Hundreds of ready made templates Don't want to design from scratch? No problem! Just choose from our growing collection of beautiful templates to get started in seconds.
Everything you need to create stunning graphics Snappa combines the best visual assets with a fully-featured graphic editor....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Snappa is my favorite new graphics tool. Many great features, free version, easy to use yet lots of powerful features in the Pro version for just $10 a month. Highly recommended! 10/10
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
October 11, 2016 11:02 AM
Snappa is my favorite new graphics tool. Many great features, free version, easy to use yet lots of powerful features in the Pro version for just $10 a month. Highly recommended! 10/10
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I was curious what colors were being used by large, popular sites, so I decided to find out.Alexa.com maintains a list of the most visited sites on the internet. I wrote aPHP script to scrape the ten most popular sites and record all the colors used in the sites' home pages and style sheets. I plan to rescrape the data on a regular basis. Because of this, I'll keep analysis to a minimum, since it could become outdated when the data changes. Once I have data over a larger time period I'll be able to examine and graph trends in web development. I also plan to examine the difference in color usage between popular websites from different parts of the world....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Fascinating look at use of color on top websites.
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Book covers can teach us a lot about condensing complex ideas into simple designs that attract consumers and sell products. The best covers manage to give book browsers an idea of the book's plot, tone, themes, and genre, all without revealing too much. To inspire your next design project, we've compiled a list of 20 beautifully designed books that beg to be judged by their covers....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Get inspired by this collection of truly creative book covers by talented designers.
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I come to you today with my best tips for how to create awesome, attention-grabbing event posters.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Practical design tips for creating a poster that works to promote your next event.
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So what is product packaging? It’s a practical tool, yes. (I mean, how else are you going to effectively get beer into your mouth?) But it’s also more than that.
Like any good design, packaging tells a story. It’s also a sensual experience, literally engaging us through sight, touch and sound (and possibly smell and taste, depending on the product/package). All of these details help us understand what the enclosed product is for, how it should be used, who should use it and, maybe most importantly, if we should buy a product or not.
In the Ultimate Guide to Product Packaging Design we look at how to get your packaging to tell the story you want....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
99 Designs' ultimate guide walks you through every step of the package design process. Valuable resource! 9.5/10
Gonzalo Moreno's curator insight,
October 3, 2016 10:11 AM
PRODUCT DESIGN is also PACKAGING... Here is some specific content on it!
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It’s the color of power and strength. As well as love and Disney romance. But the meaning of red goes way beyond fast cars and heart-shaped chocolate boxes. Through evolution, and thousands of years of human civilization, red has been used to tell stories, stir emotion and to get us to spend more money. Learn what the color means to different cultures around the world, and find out how to best use it for your business in our exploration of the color red.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Red. It's the color of emotion and it can add emotion to your designs.
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A lot of these lists just cram everything and anything into the lineup. So, we decided to pick our designers’ brains to bring you the best resources that we are using on a daily basis.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Caroline Reder shares a useful list of best design tools. Recommended reading. 9/10
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The psychology of color as it relates to persuasion is one of the most interesting — and most controversial — aspects of marketing. At Help Scout we believe the problem has always been depth of analysis. Color theory is a topic of complexity and nuance, but splashy infographics rarely go beyond See ‘n Say levels of coverage. Green Lantern can’t turn lemons into lemonade and I’m left equally unequipped to make smart decisions about the spectrum which shades our world. But why is such a potentially colorful conversation so unwaveringly shallow?...
Jeff Domansky's insight:
The psychology of color will forever be a fascinating topic. Why, then, does writing on “color psychology” feel so shallow?
Gerald Sifringer's curator insight,
September 13, 2016 11:39 AM
Interesting when you want to design your logo for example
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Humans are, by nature, very visual beings. In the brain itself, there are hundreds of millions of neurons devoted to visual processing, nearly 30 percent of the entire cortex, as compared with 8 percent for touch and just 3 percent for hearing. Each of the two optic nerves, which carry signals from the retina to the brain, consists of a million fibers, compared to the auditory nerve carrying a mere 30,000. That’s all to say that social media images are a vital part of your content reaching the maximum amount of people, people who are very visual beings! Marketers that have dabbled in creating engaging images for social media know just how tough and time-consuming it can be. I’m no expert, but I’ve learned a thing or two about creating social media images after lots of practice (and mistakes!), and I’m excited to share with you my favorite social media design tips and principles to help enhance your social media images.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Here are 11 practical ways to make your social media images more effective
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Selecting a color palette is one of the most impactful choices you can make while developing your brand aesthetic. Choosing the right logo colors can highlight your business’ strengths and help you attract the right customers. And, as you might guess, the wrong combination can have the reverse effect.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Interesting look and logos and color psychology.
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Here's a very cool web design, visual marketing and blogging tool that I depend on. Pictaculous. Free and highly recommended. 10/10