Design Lessons – by Amanda Oliver from designSchool.canva.com
01. Minimalism is Key. Don’t Overdesign.
– simple is good
Eight new design trends for the new year was recently announced by iStock, with an obvious visual bias. Gone are the generic smiling faces. Here to stay are oddballs, image being king and toned-down colors.
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As designers, we can never have “too much” of a color inspiration. Here are a few tools/sites that can aid in the pursuit of the perfect color combination! As you will come to see, each of these sites has a particularly strong point; a powerful tool that works exceptionally well for a specific need. And using a combination of them should give you the right resource for any situation when you find yourself lacking in color inspiration.
Adobe Kuler
This is one of the leading free web-based apps for color palette creation. With this tool, you can browse color themes that have already been created, view and store your own creations and upload images to extract color schemes from. It has several interactive and intuitive tools to build color themes, as well as modify existing ones and search, share and rate other designers’ themes within the Kuler community. One of the most convenient features of this app is that it integrates with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (CS6 and CC).
New & Best Feature: You can now grab color on the go through Kuler’s free app for the iPhone. It pulls colors from your surroundings and extracts a series of colors, which enables you to use it on your design program like Photoshop CS6 & CC as an extension!
