• Find the Perfect Gift for Creative Minds at Domestika
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    Find the Perfect Gift for Creative Minds at Domestika

    Find out how to gift a Domestika course in a few easy steps Creative people love to learn: for their professional development, to discover new techniques, and to learn new skills. A restless mind will always enjoy the opportunity to learn something new. Find out different ways to buy a Domestika course as a gift, following a few easy steps: Plan your gifts by making lists If you enjoy planning and want to save a list of the courses you would like to purchase for yourself or others, use the option Course list. Simply access the Lists section of your profile page, and click on Add new list. You can make these lists public or private, and make as many as you wish. You can also add courses directly from the Courses page (without needing to go to your profile page) by clicking on the +List icon that appears when you hover the cursor over the course name. You can see some examples of lists shared with you by Domestika teachers on this link.

  • # 2MDomestika: The Creativity Challenge Winners
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    # 2MDomestika: The Creativity Challenge Winners

    A selection of outstanding designs to celebrate 2 million creatives on Instagram We are now 2 million Domestika creatives on Instagram! All kinds of artistic and creative projects have been shared on our platform with a common purpose: learning together. To celebrate, we invited the community to reinterpret the Domestika logo using any medium: drawing, illustration, animation, embroidery, or whatever method they preferred, according to their unique experience at Domestika. A few of our teachers shared their interpretations here.

  • 3 Domestika Teachers Share Their Favorite Courses
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    3 Domestika Teachers Share Their Favorite Courses

    Get to know the Course Lists tool with the help of expert teachers from different disciplines If you are looking for your next Domestika course to try, but are still undecided, you’re likely to find our Course Lists tool useful. It allows you to create and edit lists of your favorite courses from your profile page. Below, three teachers share the lists of courses that they have curated according to their personal and professional interests.

  • Contest: Create Your Own Version of Domestika's Logo
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    Contest: Create Your Own Version of Domestika's Logo

    Over 2 million creatives on Instagram! To celebrate, participate in this creative challenge At Domestika you always have the power to choose: you can learn to design, draw, embroider, sculpt... Each person's experience is unique and different, but one element is the same for everyone: the desire to create and to share. Now that there are 2 million followers on Instagram (@domestika) we want to celebrate with a creative challenge: create and share your own version of the Domestika logo (specifically its isotype) in your own style, using the technique of your choice. It could be designed in Adobe Illustrator, embroidered on fabric, painted with watercolor, 3D-printed... the options are endless. The most important thing is that it is uniquely yours, and that it reflects your experience as part of the Domestika community! Below you can see some examples:

  • Learn to Unlock Your Creativity for Free Drawing with Puño
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    Learn to Unlock Your Creativity for Free Drawing with Puño

    For 48 hours only, access this course for free to improve your drawing skills It doesn't matter where your skill level is at: if you like to draw and you still find it difficult to master elements such as color, shadow, perspective or proportion, this course is for you. Illustrator and educator Puño (@puno) is dedicated to teaching people who believe they would never be able to draw just that. He has perfected a teaching method by which, through simple and fun exercises, he will get your hand going and your mind to work, unlocking your creativity.

  • Share Your Sketchbook with the Community
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    Share Your Sketchbook with the Community

    Stimulate your creativity and share your work Creativity does not belong to a select few. We all have the potential to create and it is very important to foster that power since in doing so we are developing our imagination, intellectual curiosity, self-esteem, ability to solve problems, and many other things. Many people use a sketchbook to dump the ideas that spring into their minds, and it becomes their little treasure. We invite you to show us your creativity in this initiative: share your favorite page from your sketchbook, regardless of the technique used: it can be doodles, sketches, collage, photographs, lettering, illustrations, as long as it’s important for you and you want to share it.

  • Learn with the Domestika Live series while you #StayAtHome
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    Learn with the Domestika Live series while you #StayAtHome

    Get to know the creatives that will share their expertise on Domestika Live We invite you to watch our Facebook Live series, Domestika Live, where creatives from different backgrounds will share their secrets and answer your questions. Keep learning while you discover more about Domestika teachers and other members of the creative community. You can watch the talks here. All past episodes are available here. Come and join us!

  • Ji Lee Challenges You to Make Someone Happy in This Creative Challenge

    Ji Lee Challenges You to Make Someone Happy in This Creative Challenge

    Join the #DMSTKHappyChallenge, with creatives like Ji Lee, Joluvian or Zenzuke Ji Lee, a Domestika community professional and freelance designer currently working as creative director for Instagram and Facebook, is a strong believer in the power of personal creative projects. For him, projects that really touch and move us are the best way to expand our horizons. For this reason, his Challenge is called 'Make Someone Happy', and the goal is to use our creativity to, well, make someone happy. To kickstart this creative challenge, Ji Lee turned to two professionals from the Domestika community: motiongrapher Carlos 'Zenzuke' Albarrán and graphic designer Joluvian. Both had to apply their creativity to meet Ji Lee's goal: build something creative capable of making someone else happy. Find out if they succeeded in the following video:

  • 10 Tips For Being More Productive Working From Home

    10 Tips For Being More Productive Working From Home

    While some are still reluctant, it’s becoming more common every day for businesses to allow their employees to work from home As a worker, it sounds great: you don’t have to get up hours in advance to get ready, you don’t lose hours in traffic jams, you don’t even have to shower! All that means you get to spend more time in bed. But all that glitters is not gold.. Adapting to the routine of working at home comes with its own inconveniences and it’s necessary to look for solutions that don’t leave you feeling caged in after hours indoors. This is why we wanted to share our top ten tips on how to be more productive when working from home.

  • Meet the Creatives Launching Domestika Courses Over March
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    Meet the Creatives Launching Domestika Courses Over March

    Discover all the new material dropping this month so that you don’t miss out Meet the creatives who are launching courses this month on Domestika. This month, newcomers to the community, as well as members who you probably already know, present courses across a range of creative disciplines. Get to know them all as you prepare for a month packed with creativity. Design Create your identity as a designer with Sagi Haviv Sagi Haviv is a designer and partner at Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv–the legendary studio that handles design for brands such as Mobil, PBS, NBC, Showtime, and National Geographic. In this course, Sagi will show you how to add personality to graphic design and make the most of your creativity in every one of your projects.

  • 5 Ideas to Dedicate a Day to Your Creativity

    5 Ideas to Dedicate a Day to Your Creativity

    Get to work and dedicate a whole day to your creativity, and focus on your personal and your professional projects There are many small actions we can take to invigorate our professional and creative lives. The Domestika community shared their ideas for what to do to give new life to your career. Try them out and see what you can achieve in just one day.

  • Top 10: Best Projects from February
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    Top 10: Best Projects from February

    We run through our favorite February projects shared by members of the Domestika community As we do at the end of the month, today we’re sharing our favorite projects shared by members of the Domestika community over the last 30ish days. Among these top projects, you’ll find projects by some of our course teachers and work that has been created by students on our courses, as well as personal projects. This month we’re sharing illustration projects, collage, animation, photography, embroidery, and editorial design. Which is your favorite? Ground Zero by Carles Marsal (@carlesmarsal) This digital illustration was created by visual artist and graphic designer, Carles Marsal. Just like his characters, we feel like explorers about to discover this post-apocalyptic world. You can learn to create fantastic scenes like his in his course, Secrets of Photomontage and Creative Retouching.

  • 10 Creative Accounts You Should Be Following On Instagram

    10 Creative Accounts You Should Be Following On Instagram

    Which are your favorite creative accounts to follow on Instagram? We asked our followers and this is what they said… Our Instagram feeds are overflowing with content to a point where it can feel overwhelming. Accounts need to go above and beyond to make themselves stand out, engage with their followers, and offer something fresh. The following 10 are doing just that. From a candy-colored magazine based in Beirut to a Slovakian 3D artist revealing his process working in Blender, these are the creative accounts that our Instagram community insist that we should all be following.

  • The 14 Most Inspiring and Creative Books

    The 14 Most Inspiring and Creative Books

    We asked the Domestika community what books inspire them most and boost their creativity Books have always been a great tool for creation. Not only because of the knowledge they contain, but for their ability to spark creativity. That is why, through Domestika's Instagram profile, we asked the community what their favorite books are when they seek inspiration. Here are 10 of them, ranging from artistic compilations, to stories about personal experiences or comics: