We're living in an age where access to information and resources is possible to most people around the world. This has empowered people and communities to devise solutions and create companies to implement them. There has never been that many startups and it's only getting started. In this age of innovations there is intense competition over attention. Companies strive for attention to provide their services to people. The current tools at our disposable range from design to
It is time for our very first tutorial. This week we've been providing spotlights of our own projects along with some of the work of our favorite illustrators. And as promised this week ends with a tutorial on how to create your very own illustration.
1) Pick a topic
The process of creating an editorial illustration is unexpectedly very research oriented. For the purpose of this tutorial you'd be asked to pick a topic first. Normally you'd be approached by a client with
The revolution that came about from the printing press was a a beginning of the democratization of information and the effectiveness by which knowledge is spread and shared by people. However, Even though the printing press existed, there weren't a lot of books around. There was actually a time in which an individual could have read all the books there are! It is funny to think about it given the state we're in now with millions of books around; nonetheless, for a time that w
YAK is finally up and running! and we can't wait until we share with everyone our plans for our online channels. We just wanted to tell everyone all our plans right away but we are were able to contain our excitement and we are going to be doing it one plan at a time for the upcoming weeks. We know it sounds boring but it will give us the chance to do an illustration per day; which is ALWAYS a good thing in our book. Anyway so for our first update! As you all know, YAK produc