#engaging visual

[zainazainab001]

Designing for Impact: How to Create Memorable Visuals in Graphic Design

Introduction`

In today's digital landscape, capturing the attention of your audience is paramount. With the ever-increasing noise and competition, it's crucial to ensure that your visual content stands out and leaves a lasting impact. From social media posts to website banners, every piece of visual content plays a crucial role in shaping your brand identity and communicating your message effectively. Here's how you can design for impact and creating engaging visuals in graphic design:

Understand Your Audience:

Before diving into the design process, take the time to understand your target audience. What are their preferences, interests, and pain points? This insight will guide your design decisions and help you create visuals that resonate with your audience.

Utilize analytics tools and gather data to gain insights into your audience's demographics, behavior, and preferences. This information will inform your design strategy and ensure that your visuals are tailored to the needs of your audience.

Tell a Story:

One of the most effective ways to create engaging visuals is by telling a compelling story. Whether it's through imagery, typography, or color, storytelling adds depth and meaning to your designs, capturing the attention of your audience and evoking emotion.

Incorporate storytelling elements into your designs by using visual narratives, symbolism, and metaphors. Consider the message you want to convey and brainstorm creative ways to bring it to life through your visuals.

Embrace Design Trends:

Stay updated with the latest design trends and incorporate them into your work to keep your visuals fresh and relevant. From minimalist design to bold typography, design trends evolve constantly, offering new opportunities for innovation and creativity.

Experiment with different design styles and techniques to find what resonates with your audience. Whether it's flat design, isometric illustrations, or vintage aesthetics, adapt the latest trends to suit your brand identity and communication objectives.

Foster Innovation:

Don't be afraid to think outside the box and push the boundaries of traditional graphic design. Innovation is key to creating memorable visuals that capture attention and leave a lasting impression.

Experiment with new tools, technologies, and mediums to explore innovative ways of expressing your ideas visually. Whether it's augmented reality, interactive graphics, or experiential design, embrace innovation to set your visuals apart from the competition.

Optimize for SEO:

While aesthetics are important, don't overlook the importance of optimizing your visuals for search engines. Incorporate relevant keywords, alt text, and descriptive filenames to improve the discoverability of your visual content online.

Pay attention to image size and file formats to ensure fast loading times and optimal user experience. Optimizing your visuals for SEO not only enhances your visibility in search engine results but also drives organic traffic to your website.

In conclusion,

Designing for impact requires a combination of creativity, strategy, and innovation. By understanding your audience, telling compelling stories, embracing design trends and  innovation, and optimizing for SEO, you can create memorable visuals that engage and resonate with your audience effectively. Keep experimenting, stay updated with the latest trends, and always prioritize the user experience to ensure the success of your visual content

[cozymochi]

⚠️ TWST BOOK 7 SPOILERS ⚠️

You tellin’ me Sebek’s special boy magic is literally becoming lightning?? OKAY GO ‘HEAD…

POV: you are Silver about to be swallowed by the darkness.

Ko-fi

[refinedstorage]

Black Myth: Wukong

Game Science, 2024

[vigilskeep]

the thing that interests me about kidquisitor is that if you have like a 12 year old fantasy protagonist that’s kind of normal but if you have two installments of dark fantasy about adults and then you open up the third installment with a 12 year old then you know shit is fucked even if the characters themselves, both the 12 year old and those around them, do not necessarily know or want to recognise that they are in the wrong genre for this

[shitpostingkats]

Enough Zack Fair is stupid jokes. We need to talk about the fact that Zack Fair joined a shakespearean book club. While stupid.

[zoetica]

The Institute for Psychogametous Life: A Novel Approach to Investigating Symbolic Alien Replication and Human Cognitive Response

Just published: The Institute for Psychogametous Life: A Novel Approach to Investigating Symbolic Alien Replication and Human Cognitive Response. Read the paper. Abstract

The discovery of the "Alien Botany" archive from the ill-fated Novy Mir mission has unveiled a unique and perplexing phenomenon: the apparent replication of alien botanical imagery within the human mind, manifesting as vivid palinopsia and an ideomotor compulsion to recreate these forms. This paper describes the establishment of the "Institute for Psychogametous Life (IPGL)," a novel research and public engagement facility designed to investigate this phenomenon. The IPGL employs a multi-faceted approach, combining controlled sensory environments, physiological and psychological monitoring, and public interaction to elucidate the mechanisms underlying image germination and its potential implications for understanding symbolic alien life and human cognitive susceptibility. We argue that treating the human public as active participants in this process is crucial for advancing our knowledge of this extraordinary phenomenon.

[mechncheese]

I just want to say all of your art, literary and illustrative, is really lively and dynamic and so so lovely! Your artworks big and small have so much character injected into them and the frantic grit of your painting style bursts with energy.

And of course every bit of writing and headcanon you share about your AU is so vivid. I really love reading every piece and I wish I had good questions to ask the characters myself!

All in all thanks for sharing your creations :)

Awh thank you so much, this was really sweet to read ! It really means a lot <3

Honestly, I've been getting nervous sharing as of late since this is the most eyes I've had on me in a while especially for a silly little AU I just put together for fun ! It's grown into a bit of a bigger project and while it's not the first pitch deck/bible I've put together, it's definitely been the most challenging ! I say this a lot but I'm really glad that people like my artwork and my stuff for this AU, I'm so serious bahaha !

Thank you for taking the time to look at my Science Continuity <3

[wormpool]

The Substance (2024) vs Stuff It Reminded Me Of

featuring:

Videodrome (1983)

Re-Animator (1985)

The Shining (1980)

Carrie (1976)

Coraline (2009)

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts

[ghostinacardboardbox]

CC is one of my new favourite things ever but ill respect your dislike of it far more than i ever will going "I'm not saying you cant criticise the musical but" then express discomfort with people calling out the antisemitism

CC is my least favorite Starkid show ever but I'll respect your appreciation of it far more than I ever will people who go "there's nuance here" in a post that is fully just using polite language to shut down criticism. I genuinely don't know what's so hard about this.

Anyway it's been a Rough Time to be in the Starkid fandom and actually want to complain about things I disliked in a show I was incredibly excited for. Somehow having literally any issues with the show at all means I must be someone who is only here for Hatchetfield and is just trying to bully Starkid back into doing Hatchetfield stuff. Piss on the poor website.

[chicago-geniza]

I don't think I've seen 100 movies, like, in my life. Sorry cinephiles my experience of your artistic medium is really impoverished that's why my new year's resolution for 2025 was "watch more movies." I will however be perusing your lists for inspiration in my quest to Watch More Movies

[vigilskeep]

Have u considered posting any of your OCs on characterhub?

a few people have requested over the years that i have some kind of reference site/document for my ocs but personally i don’t know how any of these sites work... also i don’t actually need my stuff to be more convenient/accessible than it already is 😭 the attention and following i get are lovely but it can rlly be uh significantly more than enough sometimes. i’m always happy to get questions even repetitive ones like ‘who’s so-and-so’ though!! and i quite like writing up summaries or digging through my tags for ref posts i’ve already made, so if people want to know smth abt my creatures i’d rlly rather they ask me directly :) even if i can’t get to every ask

thanks for asking though!! im still happy people are interested

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

To elaborate more on the Pesterquest stuff -

Alternia is a hell world. It's shitty to live in, even if you're a highblood, unless you fit a very specific mold of person AND are lucky enough to be born of a high caste. Every troll character we care about is, in some way, fucked over by their relationship to their society; Eridan and Vriska get it the worst, having been forced to participate in the murdering side of things since they were young, but every lowblood is screwed and every highblood is made worse even just by their passive participation. Kanaya becomes less sympathetic because she seems completely at peace with the society she grew up in, and Feferi wants to enforce casteism, even if it's of a different flavor. Gamzee and Equius both hold genuinely casteist beliefs and attitudes, which slip out and alienate them from the people they care about.

Putting a friendship simulator into the middle of all this is... a choice, I guess. I'm not going to begrudge anyone for wanting that or liking that, but it's going to be inherently at odds with what Alternia is and is meant to represent, and thus, fundamentally at odds with many of the characters' arcs and even basic personality traits, so heavily are they influenced by the shit society they grew up in.

For a non-Eridan example, Karkat loathes himself in massive part because his society loathes him. He's kill-on-sight and lives in daily terror of death. He wears a symbol at all because not having one marks him as even more of a freak, even though he knows that that symbol is connected to the empire's biggest rebel, whose footsteps he is expected to follow. The reason he's so obsessed with being leader-y and earning his teammates' reapect, or the respect of anybody, is because he's so deeply insecure about whether or not he even deserves to exist.

If you soften Alternia to the point you can write a lighthearted friendship simulator in it, then that characterization... goes away. Karkat is no longer motivated by deep, overwhelming insecurities, which drive him to idolize the society that deems him unworthy, mistakenly believing that if he can find validation in that society, he'll feel less bad about himself. Instead, Karkat is just kind of an asshole!

It's the same way with Eridan. He and Karkat are equal and opposite in this way - while Karkat is marked for death by his society, Eridan belongs to the extremely privileged caste of sea dweller royalty - even moreso than Feferi, as Feferi is slated to be murdered by the Condesce as soon as she comes of age (and her ridiculous optimism is likely something she cultivated in outright defiance of this fate). But it turns out that being a sea dweller sucks shit, too, if you aren't the extremely niche type of person that society deems "correct."

Eridan is not actually casteist and genuinely likes his land dweller friends - and this is unacceptible. Not only that, but smaller "unacceptible" offenses are wrapped up in big ones - despite not liking murder and feeling guilty about it, murder is objectively the correct thing for Eridan to be doing, constantly, to the point of it being "all [he's] ever done practically," because if he doesn't fulfil the duty of his bloodline to be murdering lusii (and by extension, their charges, who are culled when their lusii die), EVERYBODY dies. The constant push-pull of trauma, societal expectations and obligations, the fate of the species, and the fact that he is inherently not the "right" kind of person for his society, are pretty much his entire character. He's basically a walking ball of anxiety and emotional turmoil.

So, again, if you soften Alternia to the point where you can write a story about Eridan wanting to see Shrek in a public theater (something he would not actually be able to peacefully do in canon Alternia - at least not without taking off his cape, hiding his fins, and going anonblood - as sea dwellers are considered ridiculously hostile to the point even Gamzee's nervous about being on the beach for too long), Eridan ends up being just kind of an asshole!

Pesterquest!Eridan is, and I cannot stress this enough, fundamentally not the same guy as canon Eridan. They have practically nothing in common, from the fact that PQ!Eridan is willing to do something for leisure, to the fact that he isn't widely feared and the movie theater doesn't empty out in a panic when he turns up, even down to the fact that he likes femme fashion (canon Eridan goes to Lengths to lean into masc fashion) and Shrek (canon Eridan is a hipster). Hell, even the fact that PQ!Eridan SMILES is a massive deviation from canon!Eridan, who has never once been depicted smiling, and probably hasn't for many sweeps.

Also that he has that much beef with Sollux when, canonically, the two had a lukewarm mutual dislike and didn't even bother interacting until Feferi was added to the mix and Eridan became mad that Sollux was dating her. He wasn't even casteist about him until then, and after, even Sollux and Feferi don't think he's casteist, they just think he's ashenflirting so he can get into a quad with Feferi. Like come on, if you're going to feature another troll in Eridan's route, 1) make it be Karkat, and 2) have Eridan cheat on you the whole time with Karkat like he does to Feferi.

Eridan is just overall a wild choice in a friendship sim - I can't even blame them for just writing an OC and putting an Eridan skin on top - because societally, Eridan isn't even supposed to have non-sea dweller friends. The sea dweller/land dweller race war is something the Condesce deliberately put into place in order to keep land dwelling nobility in line, and Equius cites it as one of the reasons he never got along with Eridan. Like, the very fact that Eridan talks to two land dwellers on friendly terms (Kanaya and Karkat) is a MASSIVE deviation from what he's "supposed" to be like, and a huge hint that he's not as casteist as he'd like to appear. You are genuinely hundreds, if not thousands, of times likelier to end an encounter with Eridan either orphaned or dead than as his friend. He's an unstable maniac, and there's a reason so many members of his team don't like him even though he's legitimately not casteist and they mostly seem aware of it (nobody really complains about or even notices Eridan's casteism by the time they're on the meteor - his contradictions are really obvious, and it's likely that they've more or less realized that he's full of shit).

Again, I don't begrudge anybody for wanting or liking PQ. Who cares, really. I'm just saying that as a canon discussion blog, there's not really any place for PQ because it's so far removed from canon that, like, there's not really anything meaningful to discuss about it. The setting and characters in PQ are fundamentally divested from canon, and not even in an AU way. And it's totally fine if that's what you like, but, yeah, like.

Was Eridan written well (where "well" = accurate to canon): no. Maybe he's fine as an OC with an Eridan Minecraft skin slapped on, but that's not my beautiful son, that's not my baby boy.

What did they get wrong about Eridan (where "wrong" = inaccurate to canon): all.

What route would I have written for Eridan: he shoots you with a gun and you die. And then maybe cheats on you with Karkat

[pigfartsviatardis]

Just went and saw the new nosferatu after watching the 1922 film a few nights back. Idk if this makes any sense but the 1922 character IS NOSFERATU but idk the 2024 one is just orlok

Like…

1922 nosferatu is my pookie, my cute silly little guy who is trying to make friends with his food but is Bad At It

2024 orlok is a creep with a creep moustache and as my friend put it, he looks like one of the emerald city guards

[nat-20s]

Louise Page (main costume designer for all of David Tennant's original Doctor Who run) really fucking popped OFF with Donna's designs. Putting her in a pinstripe suit to visually mirror The Doctor in Partners in Crime. Putting her in a long brown jacket to visually mirror The Doctor in Journey's End. Making her primary outfit color purple both because it's cute and because it ties in with both her name being Noble and becoming a time Lord. The fucking ADORABLE Planet of the Ood jacket. Her lil flapper dress. Giving her sneakers with almost every fit regardless of how formal it is. Her hoop earrings that she's wearing TO THIS DAY. God everyone say thank you Louise Page!!

[thestalwartheart]

Champagne tastes a lot like blood I can not know how I'm gonna heal

RADI00Q: 31 SONGS FOR BOND AND Q SONG 10: Catherine Wheel - The Whitlams (covered by Megan Washington and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra)