Typography & Graphic Design Blog
Today it is a challenge for designers to avoid being seduced by technology. As sophisticated as computer applications may be, they are only tools for the creative mind. Truly successful designs begin with ideas and concepts. As you execute your designs on the computer, your knowledge of typography, combined with your trained eye and aesthetic judgment, will provide the path to the most creative solution.
-James Craig, Designing With Type
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Do you wonder why people doodle 3d boxes? Don’t think too hard about it but do check out the video below to start doodling your own masterpieces!
Watch how the Black Widow and Carrot Alien are drawn in 3D Doodle Boxes available in the Mac App Store:
So there is 3D Doodle Blocks in action for today! Download it today!
Update: 3D Doodle Boxes is now available in the Mac App Store. Free for a limited time! Try it today!
3D Doodle Boxes will be available on the Mac App Store very soon. We’ve been working on this on and off for the last couple years as a labor of love. Now that it’s as fun and easy to use as we hoped, it’s ready for the world of doodlers to try it and have as much fun as we have had with it.
“Allowing influences into your work is one of the ways that you expand your expressive range. Designers enrich their work — not diminish it — by looking for ways to ‘incorporate’ new and radical modes of expression into their work, especially from places outside contemporary design. Shutting out influences because of an obsession with ‘originality’ is a trap. But you have to be able to acknowledge the debt to your sources. Copyists never own up to it; the talented always do. That’s the difference.”
—Adrian Shaughnessy, How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul
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