Posts Tagged ‘color inspiration’
My 3 Favorite Photoshop Tools
Here are three of my most important and favorite photoshop tools I use for when designing digital assets: Fill / Content-Aware I remember the day I learned this technique. It felt like being a kid on Christmas morning opening a brand new toy. Only this toy makes my life much easier. Designers are constantly challenged…
Read MoreBrand New Inspiration
Recently, I attended the Brand New Conference in Chicago, a “two-day event on corporate and brand identity with some of today’s most active and influential practitioners from around the world.” I’ve been to countless design conferences, but it had been quite some time since my last. To me they had become tedious portfolio reviews offering little…
Read MoreFree 2017 Calendar Download
How about a free 2017 calendar featuring original photography? It seems nobody does calendars anymore, which is why I created a free download for anyone who wants it! This is the first year I can remember that I didn’t get a calendar to hang in my office. I guess I’m a little old school, but…
Read MoreSimple Ways to Fall
I know a lot of simple ways to fall. Here’s a selection of my current favorites. I didn’t include the song I wrote, titled appropriately enough, A Simple Way to Fall. Perhaps I will in a future blog. Feel free to share your own simple ways. Fall Classic Indians and Cubs in the World Series. An…
Read MoreMy Digital Detox
designRoom My Digital Detox Shaun CulbertsonAugust 5, 2016 I did my detox, and I feel better. What about you — Can you let go? We all do it. Daily. Some of us all day long. We can\’t live without it. We wake up to it. Go to bed with it. And if you are like me,…
Read MoreWine and Gold Winners
Something wine and gold happened to me while trying to figure out what to write in my color blog. Something wine-believable. Something unfor-goldable. Something impossible that I need to share. Sunday, June 19, 2016 It’s getting late and I’m stuck at my baseball game because the umps showed up forty minutes late. I’m happy to be playing ball…
Read MoreIf you were a color…
If you were a color, what would your name be? No, this isn’t that game in which you combine the names of your first pet and the street you grew up on to make your porn name. This is real world color naming. And there are literally tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of silly, cool, bizarre,…
Read MoreThe World in Infrared
I absolutely love what I do. Being a creative director and designer at dRC has fulfilled my desire to create and solve problems and it never gets old. But as some of you may know, I have another creative outlet that I am just as passionate about: Infrared Landscape Photography. When I am out shooting, I…
Read MoreMarsala – Pantone Color of the Year: PMS 18-1438
When we establish a new identity or refresh an existing one, we provide our clients with brand guidelines. These guidelines are a set of rules that help to maintain the consistency and integrity of a brand over time. Within the guidelines, we provide specs for the brand’s exact PMS colors. Pantone Matching System (PMS) is…
Read MoreColorful Perceptions
Our moods can be affected by so many things. A melancholy song, the weather, or even a smell. While many of these mood influencers can be clear as day, one of the biggest subconscious influencers is color. Remember the mood rings that were all the rage in the early 90’s? Well as it turns out there is some…
Read MoreMy Top 7 Resources for Color Inspiration
I spend less than two minutes picking paint colors from that massive swatch kiosk at Home Depot. I go with my gut. But I really only have myself to please. It’s different in my design work. There are so many factors that go into developing a color palette for a brand, a campaign or even…
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