On Graphic Tide we like to share the latest inspiration, advice, tips and knowledge on all areas of art and design. We believe that it’s important that we show you inspiration to fuel your next project, or maybe even a t-shirt submission project to us! Today’s post is all about Royal Academicians’ and their studios, as all of these artists which I am showing you are highly known with their field for showcasing art of the highest quality. Showcasing Ken Howard, Michael Craig Martin and Grayson Perry, whose work...
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Are you currently designing an app or are thinking about designing one in the future? Maybe you’re in the process of mocking up a design for a client? Good news for us is that there are some great people out there, especially those who actively share, engage and provide great resources to their community, hats off to them. The art community is no different. I might go as far to say the art community probably are the most sharing group of people. Just to prove it we’ve done some...
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Here at Graphic Tide were always on the hunt for the best imagery to show you for inspiration on your next project. Whether that’s graphic design, photography or fine art, we want you to come away from these blog posts feeling inspired and most importantly, a thrive to work. Within this illustration feature, I’m going to talk more about the illustrators which we have featured, so you can get a run down about the artists and their backgrounds. In today’s illustration inspiration were showing work of Chris Gash, Rod...
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Your online marketing present is something we all know is important for a freelancer’s success but isn’t it time to invest more in becoming more social? Isn’t it time we become more interactive outside of social media? Well in this post we’ll outline a few tips to help boost your network of contacts, from friends to potential clients. So, let’s jump right in. Building contacts and meeting new people is something that freelancers can easily forget to do correctly. It’s a common mistake to think that a website is...
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We’ve had a great response since launching our new t-shirt voting platform only last month with more t-shirt submissions then ever. We’ve hit an all time record with 82 submissions in only one month, crazy! Thank you to everyone who’s taken the time to submit t-shirt designs to us, you’re awesome! If you haven’t seen your work on the voting pages just yet, don’t worry. We’re working hard to process everything, but we’ll send you an email once it’s live. Then you and your friends and followers will be...
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Our ethos within Graphic Tide, is to show your t-shirt designs and artworks throughout the globe. To get as many people to see your work, your brand and your services which you can offer to others. As we really want you guys to get recognised for your creative talents, which many of you have, we wanted to list a few other ways for you to get your work out there, including that of social media, offline and and online marketing and word of mouth. In this blog post I...
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Here on Graphic Tide we are always looking for ways to help fellow creatives out, by sharing essential information on freelancing and marketing, to showcasing your designs on our tees to be sold throughout the world. Today’s post I’m to going to highlight some of things which you might need to consider buying or investing in, if your looking to become an Illustrator, or something equivalent. What things do you need to succeed within the world of being an illustrator, or can help towards this goal? This post suggests...
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You may have noticed recently we added a new t-shirt design to our store. We always get excited here at Graphic Tide when we find eye catching designs and this is no exception. Our main aim is to help and provide free exposure to all successful artists from our voting platform. Just before we improved our t-shirt submission process, Ekswhiedse successfully made as one of our approved artists. Since then Ekswhiedse has submitted even more great designs to our new voting page. Be sure to vote for his designs...
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Today’s inspiration blog post is going to be focused around the world of typography, anything from hand rendered type to the world of logos, this is an area of design which is very important, that sometimes goes overlooked. Type can influence customers, inform its audience and makes the audience think. It is used mostly within graphic design, but it also appears within illustration, photography and the fine arts. We have looked high and low across the internet to bring to you some inspirational images, that hopefully can stimulate your...
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We recently posted Increase Traffic to your Portfolio blog post, and as we think that it is a very important subject to talk about, we’ve decided to give you a few more tips and tricks to help get traffic and new visitors into your portfolio website. We’ve got three extra techniques to share with you, all of which are easy to put into action. If you would like us to cover a particular technique or theme within our blog posts, please don’t hesitate to email Graphic Tide, or go...
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