30 Amazing Typographical Posters and Print Ads

Author: Tara Hornor \ June 1, 2012 \ Illustration, Inspiration, Typography \ 3 Comments

Typography is a critical part of most designs, whether the text is meant to help connect the point of the design with the reader or even integrate fully with the design itself, such as with illustrations made of text. This collection of typographic posters and print ads are some of

7 Elements of a Great Movie Poster Design

Author: Editorial Staff \ February 24, 2011 \ Articles, Graphic Design \ 1 Comment

Big movies are a huge business, as the recent success of films such as Avatar and The Dark Knight suggests.Billion-dollar revenue figures aren’t all that uncommon today in cinema, placing many major movies alongside companies such as Facebook when it comes to revenue. With so much riding on a film’s

20 Professional Premium Email Newsletter Templates

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ August 26, 2010 \ Collections \ 7 Comments

Email marketing has been around for a long time, but something that a lot of businesses don’t understand is that you have to have a good looking email template if you want to market successfully. These templates won’t only be useful to email marketers, but to overall designers and as

The Philosophy of Typography by Steven Acres

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ March 11, 2010 \ Inspiration, Typography \ 12 Comments

Typography is apart of every designers life. We use type in artwork, websites, write ups, articles, basically simple speech. Steven Acres took it a step further and brought out a little book called, “The Philosophy of Typography.” In this article I will showcase the books design and layout that Steven

950+ Photoshop Tutorials To Keep Your Skillset Up to Date

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ February 23, 2010 \ Tutorials \ 48 Comments

I know how much everyone loves tutorials, I know I love writing them too. Well in this post I have taken my time to roundup some Photoshop Tutorials and some Photoshop Roundups that I think is valid to be featured in this post. I know quite a few people are

Type Treatments, Typography and Illustration

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ February 14, 2010 \ Inspiration, Typography \ 1 Comment

We love seeing great typography work done by other artists, it inspires us to a whole new level. That said this next collection of Type Treatments, and Illustrations will definitely inspire you to create something new for yourself. The artist that has created this is Stefan Chinof a artist from

Pre Print Basics: Generating Originals

Author: Franco Averta \ February 8, 2010 \ Articles \ 4 Comments

Welcome to my first guest post here at Creativeoverflow. Today we are going to talk about some pre print stuff, generating originals. As you can imagine there are a lot of things involving the creation of originals, pixel images, text, vector and/or bezier curves based images, more or less. In this

Inspiration: Experimental Typography

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ January 24, 2010 \ Inspiration, Typography \ 6 Comments

As designers we love to experiment in different dimensions and typography is definitely one of the favorite areas.Alex Varanese Portfolio a Artist from San Francisco in the US has done a exceptional job in experimenting with different shapes and lighting positions to come up with a awesome collection of type