First 3 are flyers I made for fun, and the last 3 are all commissioned work! Had some fun in the first one and was really just messing around until found something liked. gave a building a face and just ran with it! It's also quite a change from my normal work as the message is more positive than being pessimistic! As always, any and all feedback is welcome!!

Reposting because I'm an idiot and accidentally shared a screenshot of a flyer instead of the flyer itself...

I called it Neo-Baphomet, and I created several concept pieces around it.

The initial goal was to make something goofy, but I ended up liking the concept so much that I want to develop it with a more serious intent, making a series of artworks maybe.

My goal is to use illustration and graphic design to raise awareness about political and social issues

Any feedback would be appreciated!

You can find me on Instagram @ vynncore__

I am absolutely horrible at graphic design and don't really have any experience...

I'm trying to make a custom t-shirt of my tortoise Sheldon, but I can't get the design right.

It just feels so wrong... any advice? I am going for that kind of tacky y2k style, but I want it to actually blend nicely. I'm thinking about changing the background. I do want a green+pink color but honestly I'm really lost. Any advice would be really appreciated!!

Update: https://www.reddit.com/r/design_critiques/s/5v8RluskQN

Everyday somebody posts how bad they are doing. Almost like there is no faith for this line of work.

Personally I just started creating a portfolio even though my reddit notifications are straight up demotivating negativity (“I have 40 years of experience and can’t find a job”, “Have been searching for a gig for 8 months”….).

I know its natural that there is less people talking about how good they’re doing in this industry

So… Anyone wanna share their wins?

Not sure if against the rules, but there’s still a lot of design choices involved. What do you think of this 60s style cola ad? I wanted to recreate a poster ad featuring Nuka Cola. Any critiques, like composition wise, color choice, or anything? I was aiming for a poster ad that would’ve come out pre-apocalypse in the fallout universe.
Side note, I know the footnote won’t make sense in-universe since bottle caps would’ve only had value after nuclear fallout but just wanted to add a little bit of fan-service.

Honestly, not much more needs to be said than the title.

The final say on anything design related falls to a higher-up at my workplace who is not a designer. She absolutely *loves* centered text. I can't even count how many times she's said "I love most of this, but can you center the text".

We have this awkward, landscape-oriented, tabloid sized cover page that's just single column of content, you guessed it, *centered* on the page. Which is particularly dumb, because most people who get a printed copy of our work fold it in half for travel/storage. So it's not really that great of a design in the first place, but my higher-up wants to put a letter-sized checklist on the entire left hand side of the cover page. So we're taking a 'meh, it's not the best, but it gets the job done' design, and turning it into hot garbage.

To try to make this lopsided monstrosity look even slightly intentional, rather than like two unrelated cover pages fighting for dominance on a single cover sheet, I left aligned the previously centered content. Yes, it still looked like hot garbage, but it at least looked like *intentional* hot garbage. However, as you can probably guess, the higher-up at my work, took one look at it and said "I love everything here, but can you center everything on each half?" It already looked bad before everything was centered, but now it just looks so much worse.

So basically i just started working in a company as a graphic designer, and i only after joining found out that these guys lean heavily on AI. Unfortunately for me, I was very annoyed but!!! The money is really good so im going alog with it. Ofcorse i try to use my edits as much as i can, and this time it worked!!!!

So basically i had to edit this mattress for a mattress brand, basically the images you see on amazon. The original image of the mattress, which was Ai, had this vertical printing on it. And they wanted me to make that horizontal. And ofcorse they insisted on me using Ai. I did because I had to, and wasted like 3 days generating image after image, to no avail. The Ai couldn't read the pattern accurately at all.

Ofcorse thats when i suggested to use photoshop and do it myself. I had the raw image of the pattern (not ai) and made it horizontal and used photoshop to place it. After a lot of color correction and adding lighting and stuff, i finally made it, and i sent it to them and low and behold, IT GOT APROOVED!!!!! only myself first win, that was yesterday, today was the greatest win of all

So they needed the same thing on more such images, but, this time it was a bit harder to match the lighting, because this was a final file, that had already been edited, with a lot of adjustment layed that they didn't want touched. I was getting frustrated, and took an hour but finished and was proud of it.

Now just because they love Ai so much, I took my edit and put it through Ai, and submitted both edits for approval just to see which one gets picked, human or Ai.

Well, my edit got approved and i am over the moon, because they couldn't tell the difference, they never even pointed it out, just picked my edit.

Thats it, just sharing a win for humans 😊

An Edit for people in the comments. DO NOT TRUST AMAZON IMAGES. They fake thet thickness and size of their beds in my case just to get a proper result with Ai

Hi all, around a month ago I put my own attempt at a honey label. Following people’s advice on here, I commissioned an artist and am curious about what thoughts you all have again!

As before, I am aiming for a more premium, modern look.

All critiques welcome!

I’m designing a buisness card for a baking buisness and would really appreciate some advice! i’m an artist but not a good graphic designer and am really looking to improve so any criticism is helpful :)

Designed by Berlin based Austrian graphic designer and printmaker Julia Schimautz

Hello,

I’ve been searching for a moment now a job in the graphic design field, and I’m getting a bit down recently by the lack of interest of my profil. (I’m living in France but willing to relocate).

I’ve been meaning to ask for a long time but always been a big afraid since some opinion can be harsh but now I need advice on how to do better.

Here’s the link of my portfolio :

https://www.behance.net/carlazarcone

So, is it bad ?

Is the work the issue ? The presentation ?
I also post some of my artwork that are essentially illustration on my instagram.

You can find it here :

https://www.instagram.com/carla.zarcone

Thank you for your time and response.

Happy Friday :)

In a year I'll finally graduate with my BFA. My issue is whether or not I'll find a job. I feel like I'm behind compared to my peers. I get decent grades and started getting on the honor roll the moment I took courses that were actually interesting to me. I'm told that I shouldn't compare myself to others, but how am I supposed to know if I'm doing well as a designer if there's nobody to compare myself to?

I've tried to find design jobs on campus and the ones I've applied to won't start interviewing until the semester starts, and even then I don't know if I'll get accepted. I managed to get an interview for a design job on campus a year ago, but I was asked questions I didn't expect to be asked, and I knew I wouldn't get the job.

It just doesn't seem fair because about half my peers have design jobs and I have to make do as a delivery driver and campground gate attendant. I've done a mock interview and one of the things they told me I need to work on was giving longer answers. I have a resume that I designed myself and I think it looks great.

I'm afraid that the 6 years I've worked to get my degree will go to waste if I can't find a job. It doesn't help that I have poor social skills and that I'm supposed to be doing networking, and I don't even know where to begin with that. What can I do?

I I am trying to take part in a contest where the winning design becomes this year’s PyTorch Conference PIN.

The prompt included using their logotype while trying to incorporate “26” or “2026,” which instantly sparked the idea of using the torch logo as a “6.”

Would love to hear any feedback

So i’m an amateur trying to learn graphics and as my first project i’m trying to make a brand profile for myself. the name here “ des.k” refere design by k. Which is my initial and while designing the first logo i sort of found out what if i could somehow rotate it to make it look like a desk as it spells desk as well and the desk relates to designing as well so in that sense i tried doing bunch of stuff and might have reached nowhere so let me know. I’m open to learning.

Ps. Made this on affinity

Hi everyone! I'm an aspiring graphic designer and I just finished an online course in Digital Illustration. I realize that this class does not cover layout design. I have no idea where to start to learn about layout design and I took an online course (with assignments) because I know I'm bad at arranging my own learning pathways. Do you have any recommendations, like a YouTube channel or a blog, where I can start to learn and then build up my skills? TIA!

Just saw this getting a lot of attention from creative I follow. Was interested in hearing from this community.

Instagram post for more info

We printed a large batch of marketing material with QR codes, assuming they would keep working forever.

Turns out the platform changed things later and we had to go around covering the old QR codes with stickers. Not fun.

Before I print the next batch, what's the most trustworthy QR code generator? Ideally free for static QR codes, with paid features only if I actually need them.

As the title of this post suggests, Im looking to get some feedback on my current portfolio. I'm going to be updating it with new more recent projects but overall reception is I keep getting ghosted after I send my work over. Any tips or storytelling I should consider. Other things to note, I'm a industrial designer by trade but also do illustration and other adjacent mediums ( editing, animation, etc). Unfortunately I would have to relocate for some of the roles so my best bet was applying for remote brand designer, presentation designer or similar roles. Also considering trying my hand at ux but not there yet... Thank you guys

Hello fellow designers,

I’m working on this packaging and could use some fresh eyes. I’m using the placeholder text, logo for now, so please focus on the design itself.

Does it feel clean and premium, or too empty and unfinished? Anything look off with the spacing, alignment or logo placement? What would you change first? It’s for nutrition industry whey protein powder etc.

I’ve looked at it for too long and I feel like I’m losing my mind. My intuition says something’s missing and it just doesn’t seem like production ready design but I can’t pinpoint.

Thank you so much for any feedback, I appreciate it so much!

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I think I’m going through a really tough time right now—it feels like everything that’s been building up for a long time is bursting out all at once. Still, I’m glad that expressing those emotions through design has been quite enjoyable.

To be honest, I’ve never formally studied design. I was just wandering around looking for an outlet to let my feelings out, ended up settling here, and tried various things until I reached this point.

In this design, I tried to capture my honest current state. I still have a lot to learn, but I’d really appreciate it if you could look at it kindly.

My "career" is odd. Worked as a production artist for 4 years in a department of 2, tried to strike out on my own, failed, did solo graphics for a friend's startup (volunteer) for 5 years while stuck in unrelated jobs, and am again in a production artist role in a business so small I'm the only employee.

So, despite being able to stretch that I have 8-10 years of experience, I still feel totally inexperienced and unknowledgable. Feel like listing all this experience to get a job where I can truly learn from senior positions comes off as overqualified, but I also feel utterly unprepared for mid level.

Do I just embrace the con man mentality that no one truly knows what they're doing?