Been using textures.com for a very long time, they are awesome, so all the best to them! Source: 7 months ago

Everybody needs to take a deep breath because something reeks about the Jonas debunk. He may have been manipulated to find altered photos integrated into his legitimate data set. Check out this post today by Textures.com from a post today on X. Also... Another post by Ken S (@KStaubin) today calls into question the legitimacy of the data set. Source: 7 months ago

Above, you say it's shady that Jonas is business partners with the texture.com owner, when he literally took photos of those clouds for textures.com, which makes him a business partner. That's why the photos came to exist in the first place. Source: 7 months ago

Video being real, clouds planted by the CIA later except for the 2 or 3 found on archive.org (or maybe they hacked into archive.org), person working for textures.com on twitter is a plant, stock footage altered after the fact to look vaguely like the video. Jonas is a plant. Ashton Forbes is a plant to make the believers look like idiots. Source: 7 months ago

We can also confirm the photo was on the website as soon as it was re-launched as textures.com in 2016. All of the other images on the website appeared at that time, it was not that single image being uploaded. Source: 7 months ago

So, assuming you’re going to apply to design programs, be proactive and start designing stuff on your own. You can find design briefs at goodbrief.io, fakeclients.com, and sharpen.design. Source: about 1 year ago

Are design contests worth entering? If your hope is that a company will see your contest entry and decide to hire you, probably not. Contests may be helpful, though more for developing a designer's skills and giving them a winning or placing entry that they can use to promote as opposed to gaining organic notoriety from the contest itself. It is true, though, that being able to promote oneself as an... Source: about 2 years ago

• use sites like https://dailylogochallenge.com, https://goodbrief.io, https://www.briefbox.me, and https://fakeclients.com to develop projects for fictional clients (more on which types of fictional clients and pieces to include is in the next section). Source: about 2 years ago

Work/Portfolio – Basics• do not overload your portfolio with too much of one type of client, application/use (brochure, signage, packaging, etc.), or style – showing a hiring manager your ability to adapt to the needs of different types of clients and projects is a key in getting hired• avoid rebranding existing companies, especially large, household name entities• thumbnails tend to work best when they are filled... Source: over 2 years ago

But yeah, logos should fill a need, send a message. Try generating a brief on https://fakeclients.com and test your design skills from the description it gives you. Source: over 2 years ago