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  • The Story Behind "Accidentally Wes Anderson"
    Photography

    The Story Behind "Accidentally Wes Anderson"

    We spoke to the creator of the popular Instagram account who has just launched a bestselling book for adventurers Accidentally Wes Anderson was created for adventures and explorers. It is a book brimming with beautiful photos and intriguing narratives for curious beings. Each photo looks like a frame straight out of a Wes Anderson film. Yet these are not film sets. They are authentic spots that you can visit, all over the world, and each spot has its own unique and enchanting story.

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  • 10 Essential Keyboard Shortcuts to Work Faster in DaVinci Resolve
    Film & Video

    10 Essential Keyboard Shortcuts to Work Faster in DaVinci Resolve

    Speed up your workflow when editing video projects with these shortcuts New controls and tools are constantly being added to video editing programs, making them more complex and creating the need to keep track of such tools. DaVinci Resolve, one of the most popular post-production video editing suites around, is one such program. For this reason, video editors must get familiar with basic keyboard hotkeys to keep their work flowing. If you are not using them already, check out the following 10 essential DaVinci Resolve shortcuts to get started:

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  • 7 Masters of Graphic Design Share Their Industry-insider Secrets
    Teacher Design

    7 Masters of Graphic Design Share Their Industry-insider Secrets

    Get to know these legendary international graphic designers and discover their industry-insider secrets Just like any other creative discipline, the key to graphic design is practice. Listening to and learning from the best of the best will help you to perfect your daily output. These 10 graphic designers from our Domestika Masters series share their experiences to help you develop your own library of references and reflect on the role of a graphic designer. Domestika Masters: Milton Glaser Not many designers have been able to say that they have produced several works that are considered iconic all over the world. However, US designer Milton Glaser (1929-2020) was one of them. Founder of New York Magazine and creator of the I ❤ NY logotype–to give just a couple of examples–Glaser was a gamechanger in the history of design.

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  • 5 Online Courses to Become a UX Designer
    Design

    5 Online Courses to Become a UX Designer

    Learn basic UX Design principles and concepts to start your projects like an expert After the technology boom and the widespread of digital devices everywhere, UX Design has become an essential discipline for all types of industries. If you want to impress your clients developing new apps and websites, these experts will teach you their secrets to become an expert UX designer:

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  • Domestika Diary: Olga Prinku
    Craft

    Domestika Diary: Olga Prinku

    The creator of flower on tulle embroidery takes us on a walk through the British countryside, where she finds inspiration and flowers for her creations Olga Prinku (@oprinku) is a designer and maker who created the flower on tulle embroidery technique, where she embroiders dried and handpicked flowers onto tulle. A trained graphic designer, Olga adapted her design skills to her botanical surroundings to create her unique and elegant style which has seen her collaborate with Swarovski, Anthropologie, and Ruth Eaton London. In this Domestika Diary, Olga shares her florally-inspired daily routine and creative process with us:

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  • Essential keyboard shortcuts for Adobe Animate and for animation in Photoshop
    Web & App Design

    Essential keyboard shortcuts for Adobe Animate and for animation in Photoshop

    Designer and animator Pablo Cuello shares the most popular shortcuts for animating with these software packages To achieve spectacular animations, you do not need complex resources. You can recreate frame-by-frame animation using a couple of tricks to make your design process a lot easier. Designer and animator Pablo Cuello (@pablocuello) shares the most common shortcuts in Adobe Animate and Adobe Photoshop to save time when creating effective animation work.

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  • 5 Textile Artists with Unique Styles You Should Follow on Instagram
    Craft

    5 Textile Artists with Unique Styles You Should Follow on Instagram

    Get to know some of Koral Antolín’s favorite textile artists In recent years, thanks to some excellent representatives around the world, textile art has been revamped. Textile artists who incorporate traditional techniques with contemporary experimentation have been creating unique and incomparable pieces. Designer, embroiderer, and art director Koral Antolín (@koralantolin) is one of these artists. She creates handcrafted textiles that embody her love for linear drawing and embroidery, with resulting painterly effects.

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  • # 2MDomestika: The Creativity Challenge Winners
    Teacher Domestika

    # 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.

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  • 5 Free Classes to Learn How to Make a Mood Board
    Teacher Design

    5 Free Classes to Learn How to Make a Mood Board

    Learn to plan your creative projects like an expert with these lessons For any type of creative discipline, the planning and conceptualization of ideas is an essential moment in the development of projects. In these cases, the mood board is your best ally. By learning to make yours, you will be able to have visibility of your ideas and translate them in an orderly manner. Below 5 creative experts in different disciplines share with you practical advice to create your own mood boards. To watch each class, just click on its red title. Enjoy!

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  • What Is Social Listening?
    Marketing

    What Is Social Listening?

    Get to know this marketing tool that will help your social media accounts grow Perhaps you have recently heard the term “social listening”–it’s becoming more and more popular in the world of social media. It offers a valuable view of your audience as well as the direction of your brand. Learn how to implement this practice in your digital marketing strategy to obtain positive results for your personal brand or your customers.

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  • 3 Domestika Teachers Share Their Favorite Courses
    Teacher Domestika

    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.

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  • 5 Creative Ideas For Promoting Your Work
    Design

    5 Creative Ideas For Promoting Your Work

    Discover these top tips for making your work stand out and showing people what you do As creative professionals, we need to be able to balance intense periods of creation with the time needed to promote what we create. Knowing how to sell your work and show off what you do to secure more clients or gain a loyal following is essential. It’s how you’ll expand your horizons and get jobs, commissions, and opportunities to collaborate. Designer and lettering artist Martina Flor (@martinaflor) shares tips so that you can promote your work and connect with potential clients:

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  • Three Ways to Mix Watercolors
    Illustration

    Three Ways to Mix Watercolors

    Learn three methods for mixing watercolors to create different colors and effects, with Alex Hillkurtz One of the many reasons for watercolor’s popularity is the freedom and experimentation that it affords. Beyond the technique you use when putting brush to paper, the way you mix your colors offers an opportunity to add your own personality to the page. In this video, storyboard and watercolor artist Alex Hillkurtz (@alexhillkurtzart) shows three easy methods for mixing watercolors to create different colors and effects.

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  • 10 Basic Typography Design Principles for Creating Memorable Logotypes
    Teacher Typography, Calligraphy and Lettering

    10 Basic Typography Design Principles for Creating Memorable Logotypes

    Learn to use letter shapes to communicate beyond what your words spell out Typography is a crucial element in logotype design. Using shape, not only can we communicate verbally, but we can also channel the brand’s personality visually. Elias Mule (@elias_mule) is a graphic designer specializing in branding and typography. In this blog, he walks us through 10 basic typography design principles for creating memorable logotypes. They can be applied to any style of typography, whether that be with or without serif, italicized, monospaced, or display (which is often applied to logotypes). 1. Skeleton This is the internal line that defines the basic structure of your letter. It exists for the same reason that a human skeleton does, anatomically speaking. According to Elias, it’s a great starting point for working out how to connect your letters and define aspects such as height and width.

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  • Free Download: Botanical Punch Needle Pattern by Caro Bello
    Teacher Craft

    Free Download: Botanical Punch Needle Pattern by Caro Bello

    Graphic designer and artist Caro Bello teaches you how to create a gorgeous botanical design using a punch needle Caro Bello (@carobello) is a graphic designer and artist specializing in punch needle whose work has been featured in publications and exhibitions such as OHLALÁ magazine and the 2019 edition of Casa FOA. In her Domestika Live, she will teach us how to punch needle a gorgeous botanical design. Here you can download the free pattern she will be teaching.

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  • A Brief History of Book Covers
    Design

    A Brief History of Book Covers

    Discover how book covers evolved over the centuries with Silja Götz In the beginning, books were leather-bound, made to fit someone's library. Only in the 19th century, images started to appear on covers to give us an idea of a book’s content. Silja Götz (@Silja) is a German illustrator who has worked with press clients like The New Yorker, Elle, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Die Zeit, Outdoor magazine, and more. Her book cover illustrations adorn the books of publishers like Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Gräfe und Unzer, and Doubleday. In her Domestika course, she reveals the secrets of conceptual illustration to create eye-catching book covers and tells us how book covers evolved over the last century.

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  • The First Steps to Tell Children's Stories
    Illustration

    The First Steps to Tell Children's Stories

    Illustrator and author Estelí Meza presents you with an exercise to create and organize the initial ideas of any story Estelí Meza (@estelimu) is an author and illustrator of children's books, book covers and magazines, working acrossMexico, Spain, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates. She is an expert in creating engaging stories and has worked for publishers such as Scholastic, Anaya, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Kalimat, and Penguin Random House. She has created an exercise which will help you learn successful storytelling steps, regardless of where your story is destined for.

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  • 3 Websites to Download Free High-Quality Mockups
    Teacher Design

    3 Websites to Download Free High-Quality Mockups

    These are the websites the designers use to get the best mockups The icing on the cake for any great design project is to see that smile on the client's face during the presentation thanks to high-quality visuals. Mockups are editable images that allow you to show a design the way it would look if it were applied to the product or in real life. Without a doubt, they are one of the most significant assets for designers when it comes to publicizing their work. Pattern designer Laura Varsky and members of the design studio The Branding People have shared with us the websites they usually trust when looking for resources for their presentations. Mockup world This website houses a wide variety of mockups and editable resources of different styles that can be adapted to the design you are working on. Laura Varsky (@lau_varsky) points out the importance of choosing the ones with smart objects and, above all, looking for those that offer you higher-quality images — especially if you are going to end up printing the mockups once you have applied your design to them. Most of the website's resources can be downloaded on the site, but some will redirect you to the creator's webpage.

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  • Writing Tutorial: 3 Ways to Overcome Writer’s Block
    Teacher Writing

    Writing Tutorial: 3 Ways to Overcome Writer’s Block

    Use these three activities to overcome writer’s block and get back in the writing game, with Shaun Levin Writer’s block, the blank page, self-doubt, and fear are challenges every writer must learn to overcome. You may want to wait for inspiration to strike but that, more often than not, will lead to nowhere. In the words of E. B. White, the author of the classic children’s tale Charlotte’s Web, “a writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper”. Shaun Levin (@shaun_levin) is no stranger to these difficulties but has still managed to write numerous novels, a collection of books on creative writing, and has even created a series of writing maps–illustrated creative writing prompts to inspire writers on the go. In this tutorial, Shaun shares three simple activities to help you beat writer’s block!

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  • Domestika Diaries: Verónica Cerna
    Photography

    Domestika Diaries: Verónica Cerna

    The conceptual photographer Verónica Cerna shares her creative routine and describes how her profession has adapted to lockdown Pictures, by definition, require the presence of two people: the photographer and their subject. So restrictions like those imposed in the wake of Coronavirus, which oblige us to maintain distances between one another and avoid moving from one place to another, can complicate or even stop the work of a photographer. Verónica Cerna, photographer and cofounder of the audiovisual studio BAF, whose work has been recognized in the International Photography Awards and The Photo Phore, explains to us in this installment of Domestika Diaries how her creative process as a photographer has changed during the current situation. You can see the video below:

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  • Halloween Masks Made by Domestika's Community
    Teacher Craft

    Halloween Masks Made by Domestika's Community

    Take a look through the Domestika community's handmade Halloween masks Fashion designer Inés Aguilar is the creative director of the La Casita de Wendy brand (@casitadewendy), which sells its products in prestigious international stores. To celebrate this Halloween, she challenged the Domestika community to step in and customize their masks with a seasonal theme. Here is a small selection of the projects that were shared in this thread on the Domestika forum:

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  • Social Media Tutorial: How to Make a Video Selfie
    Teacher Film & Video

    Social Media Tutorial: How to Make a Video Selfie

    Marcelo Tas, star Brazilian television presenter, gives us tips for how to speak well on camera and make interesting videos using your mobile phone Marcelo Tas is a communication expert. A television presenter with experience working on various Brazilian networks, a scriptwriter, a journalist, and an influencer with more than 12 million followers on social networks, he is a master when it comes to onscreen communication, whether it be TV or a mobile phone. Thus, there's no one more qualified than him to teach us how to take a good "selfie video" for social media.

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  • What Is Your Worst Creative Nightmare?
    Teacher Illustration

    What Is Your Worst Creative Nightmare?

    5 illustrations of the scariest situations creatives face In this Halloween season, some enjoy horror movies, books or stories that may have to do with supernatural beings or monsters from other worlds. But in the world of creativity, there are everyday situations that are much more terrifying than a classic pop culture horror piece: facing the blank page, not having a backup of your precious information... Spooky! Now five illustrators share their take on some of these fears from the Domestika creative community that will make you tremble:

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  • What Is InDesign, and How Can It Help You?
    Design

    What Is InDesign, and How Can It Help You?

    This application underpins most of the magazines, books, newspapers, and printed ads you see every day. InDesign is one of Adobe's most versatile and advanced design programs, although it is not as well known as some of the other Adobe applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, or Premiere. It's a desktop publishing and typesetting app, aimed at designers and creatives who work with products that generally end up in printed form. It is often used to create magazines, books, or newspapers, but also promotional materials such as posters, flyers, and all kinds of signage and advertising.

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  • Creativity Tutorial: How to Make a Brief Step by Step
    Teacher Marketing

    Creativity Tutorial: How to Make a Brief Step by Step

    Learn to structure an advertising brief step by step with Mumu El Branding Love The briefing is a key tool in building a relationship between a creative company and its clients, whatever their sector: it details what one side is looking for and what the other can offer, the objectives set by the person who hires your services and the creative solutions you can use to achieve them. If you want to fully understand everything that this essential document should include, Daniel Yepes Giraldo, founder of the Colombian branding agency MUMU, El Branding Love (@mumuelbrandinglove) guides you step by step through the items that he incorporates in the their briefs. Discover his advice in the following video:

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  • Essential Keyboard Shortcuts for Final Cut Pro
    Film & Video

    Essential Keyboard Shortcuts for Final Cut Pro

    Accelerate your workflow when it comes to editing video with these essential Final Cut Pro X shortcuts You might already be familiar with Final Cut Pro X, however, you’d like to work more efficiently when using this program, or you’re still learning the ropes and are looking to speed up the process. No matter which situation you find yourself in, learning the most essential Final Cut Pro X shortcuts is very useful. They will help you carry out tasks quicker and get the most from one of the most popular video editing software today. These are the Final Cut Pro X shortcuts that every video editor should know: Basic editing tools Select tool: A The Select tool is the most basic tool. It allows you to select items on the magnetic timeline. Trim tool: T This allows you to modify the cuts between different clips in the timeline and make detailed adjustments. Position tool: P One downside to working with the magnetic timeline is that it won’t let you leave gaps between clips. Instead, it automatically joins them up. The Position tool enables you to move the clips without this magnetism and position them exactly where you want them, leaving whatever spaces you want. Range Selection tool: R This allows you to make a selection that includes part of a clip, an entire clip, or various clips to apply an effect or modify the section. Blade tool: B Make a cut in a clip wherever you want, dividing it in two.

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  • Meet Game Designer Zach Soares
    3D & Animation

    Meet Game Designer Zach Soares

    Step into the Voxel art universe with Zach Soares and create a fantasy character made entirely of 3D cubes Zach Soares (@voxels) is a French Canadian self-taught Voxel artist now living in the UK. He has worked on freelance projects for clients such as Hipster Whale for almost a decade and is the creative director of his studio, Bunnyhug. Before concentrating on 3D animation and the game industry, Zach, who studied urban design, created 3D designs for cities. Zach started exploring game design on the side, which inspired him to look into game development through Voxel art. In his Domestika course, he teaches how to model, rig, and animate a character from scratch, using Voxel Art design.

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