Design #309

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Maya Barkai, 2012

I’ve always wondered why stop signs are specifically octagonal instead of circular, triangular, or square.
From a design perspective, was this shape chosen for visibility, recognition from different angles, or some historical reason?

I wanted to make this Carrie poster concept which explored vintage style visuals and bold contrast of red and white to show the themes kid violence, rage, blood and the fact that in the new show Carrie White is bullied by an Instagram account called Carrie Red haha.

I …

EDIT: thank you for all the great replies. I have read every single comment and almost all of them are very helpful! from what I read, design is job that is unfortunately shrinking. I need to work hard on standing out and being different than other candidates in this position.

PNW / USA

I'm in my 3rd week at a community college, taking a 100 level course for web development. Our first assignment was creating a webpage html document that contained a certain geographical keyword phrase as much as possible, which was "(The city our college is in) Web …

First thing in the morning, I need to quickly expand an image that isn't quite wide enough. Nope, you can't do that in our horrendously expensive software, slow down, you're using our service too much.

I started GD back in the 90s when Getty was one of the only options... either hire a photographer or pay for an expensive, limited license from Getty. This was before royalty-free.

Ever since royalty-free took off Getty has still been THE source for their deep archive of historical …