Maya Barkai, 2012

I turned 12 of my favourite analogue photographs of Berlin into little calendar for 2027.

I find myself having a lot of ideas, screenshots, etc but not being able to organize it properly, I don't like notion and manually organizing things. Idk none of the saving tools have worked well for me, does anyone have a solution for this? Like an actually useful Pinterest? An organization tool for creatives that actually works..

I just got into illustrating and I made this using Corel draw 2025, I've been using it for flyers and stuff but hadn't tried before to draw stuff . I'm really proud of this 🙂

EDIT: Thanks for all the quick responses!!! I try to be very intentional as the media rep for our band, which leads me to overthink very easily. I really appreciate all the answers to my question/concern. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something that designers secretly hate (like dumping a "for here" latte with beautiful art into a to go cup without even taking a sip lol).

Tried to search this but I kept getting black and white answers and I'm hoping for more nuanced answers from designers.

I own the logo to my band and paid a local artist in my city to make it for us. It's primarily black and white with the words in one color. I'm not looking to permanently change the color, I just find it's nice to match the color to certain situations (like a Halloween flyer, making the letters orange). 9/10 I use the main color, but sometimes it'd be nice to play off different themes.

I have changed it to grey scale from time to time, but never messed with the actual "color" color. I also have the vectors so the color changing I'm not relying on AI to change anything either.

I know I legally *can* change the color, but what's the etiquette with this situation? I just want to make sure I'm respectful of the artist's work.

Hi everyone 🙋‍♀️ I am starting a fully remote full time graphic design job at an agency. I wanted to know if you have any insights/ tips and tricks in surviving a design agency + working at home. Thank you!

Hi everyone, I’m a product designer who grew up with the old Adobe methods and a design education. I’ve learned Adobe, Figma and many other tools. Adobe is great for me, it’s really strong and I’m not leaving it.

But since Claude Design came out, I feel like Figma isn’t needed anymore.

So I’m asking you: do you think Claude Design will kill Figma? Does it still make sense to learn Figma? Does it make sense to keep working in it and, above all, to keep paying for the subscription?

Hi everyone, I’m new here. I’m an Italian product and media designer, recently moved to Switzerland, and I’m trying to build my own agency.

I studied product design at IED, and afterwards I also went deeper into media design: branding, graphics, social media, photography, web design.

If you work in this field, you know there’s always new software. I started with Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. Then Figma came along, and for simpler tasks it was often easier. In web design I tried Webflow, but it felt too technical, and now I use Framer for my clients’ websites.

Lately, though, I’ve noticed something. People say Adobe is in trouble: they’re adding AI everywhere, and more and more free open source software keeps coming out. I pay about 70 francs a month for Creative Cloud and use Illustrator and Lightroom every day. The price is fair, but it scares me to think I’m using software that people might not know how to use in the future.

So my question is: do you think Adobe is done by 2030? Will schools and designers move to other software, maybe built with AI? That wouldn’t be wrong, I’m just thinking out loud. Is it only my impression, or do you see it too?

Processing img el04nk7nexxh1...

hello, I've never used reddit but I need design advise. I have no idea what font would suit my comic inspired by well known xix century polish novel. In what subreddit should I post? I think that I would need help making the comic in the future too.

I've been struggling with communicating with clients who don't have a design background.

Like, they'll say they want something "minimal" or "premium," but when I show them the design, they're like "hmm not really what I had in mind."

But when I ask what they want changed, they can't really explain it either 😭

So I end up going back and forth, making a bunch of versions, and still have no idea what they're actually looking for.

How do you guys handle this? Do you ask a ton of questions upfront, use moodboards, or just keep trying until something clicks?

So after some years I've come to the conclusion that I am a hobbyist and not a professional designer. It is not my day job, I have never had a full time job in it over many years, I basically do it for the love of it and only specifically within my niche subculture. I spent many years pretending I was still in school when I wasn't to get a discount, threatening to cancel my membership to get discounts, now the last available option is to guinea pig some new software and I still only get it dropped to $50/mo. This just isn't sustainable in this economy. I know that affinity is free now, and I have also used open source freeware alternatives as well. I know the switchover won't be totally smooth, and that I'll have to relearn some things, but what I'm looking for is advice from people who have done this process about something I might be overlooking. Something I can be pretty bad about.

How does Behance work without an adobe subscription? Any issues? Is it free? Can I even use it without Adobe? What if I migrate my Adobe portfolio website to Behance before cancelling, will I lose it after I cancel? I'm sorry this seems like it should be a Google question itself but I'm literally getting conflicting answers from looking this up .

Theoretics aside, how can people with personal experience attest to the functionality of using Photoshop or illustrator proprietary files in free programs? What's the best thing for me to do about replacing acrobat?

Is it a huge pain to cancel and restart it again say I suddenly got called up to work full time or even on a contract but they required Adobe product usage for the work?

Most importantly what am I not thinking of? What's gonna hit me like a ton of bricks that you didn't consider til you thought you had this process figured out?

Thanks for any and all advice.

もう1年くらい仕事探してる、、、

Hello everyone! I'm just starting out in DTP and I work at Aius Publishing House in Craiova, Romania. I have a small technical problem and would need some help from an experienced specialist to configure a book cover in CorelDRAW.

The technical data I have for this project are:

Finished (net) format per cover (1 and 4): 14.5 cm x 20.5 cm

Spine: 1.0 cm

Bleed required by the publishing house: 5 mm all around.

Please clarify a few practical aspects for me:

What is the exact total size with which I need to open the document in CorelDRAW: 31 cm x 21.5 cm or 31 cm x 22 cm (taking into account the 5 mm bleed requirement)?

How do I correctly place the Guidelines for the 5mm cut lines and the two spine crease lines?

What are the exact limits of the Safe Area for Covers 1, 4 and the spine, so that the texts and logos are not affected by the guillotine?

Thank you very much for any advice or guidance!

1. What is the exact total document size I should open in CorelDRAW: $31 \text{ cm} \times 21.5 \text{ cm}$ or $31 \text{ cm} \times 22 \text{ cm}$ (factoring in the $5 \text{ mm}$ bleed)?
2. How do I correctly set up the guidelines for the $5 \text{ mm}$ trim lines and the two spine crease lines?
3. What are the exact safety margins (Safe Area) for the covers and the spine to make sure no texts or logos get cut off during trimming?

Thank you very much for any guidance!

Hey guys I'm in 8th grade and really like graphic design. I've been doing thing son adobe and PowerPoint and canva for a few years now and it's something I've thought about as a career. Are there any tips or things like that I can do to somehow break into this space. I would love to do design I'm just not sure how. Thanks for any feeback! 😁

Currently in the process of applying to my masters project - i learn design at university.

Would love to hear what sort of projects people got up to!

We are oppening a burger place.
We want to also host meetings for various hobbies and be an all around nice place, where people socialise and eat good food.

I've noticed a trend lately where companies advertise full-time positions, take candidates through multiple rounds of interviews, and then suddenly change the role to a contract position toward the end of the process.

It's frustrating to invest time and energy into interviews only to have the terms of employment change when you're already deep into the hiring process.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Is this becoming more common in the current job market, or have I just been unlucky? Any advice for someone looking for stability?