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Design Trend Report: American Realism

Creative Market

At the turn of the 20 th century, the United States was still a new country just coming into its own with its identity. American Realism , sometimes called New Realism, is a design trend that captured this growing awareness of America’s role in the world. Taking some of its cues from French Realism, the American version of the trend first started in literary circles before expanding into visual art by the 20 th century.

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The Must-Have Fonts for Graphic Designers and Font Lovers

Envato Tuts+

Whether you love to use fun and interesting fonts in your work or simply in everyday use, this must-have list of everything from serifs to scripts and more should be right up your alley. Thanks to the ever-growing foundry of Envato Market and Envato Elements , you'll find fantastic fonts below to suit all of your design needs! Want to know what a good font is?

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Dreaming of your next pint? This THINK! Campaign might change your mind

Creative Review

There’s 60 illustrations in total – to represent the 60 young drivers killed or seriously injured while driving over the limit each month in the UK. They’ll be pasted up in pubs, bars and clubs, and appear across social media, to try and encourage drinkers to intervene and stop drink driving. According to government research, intervening on others’ drinking is something we struggle with.

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Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for Mixcloud by Output

Under Consideration / Brand

“Without Missing a Beat”. Established in 2009, Mixcloud is an audio streaming platform whose mission is to "get more fans directly supporting creators and build a more sustainable future for audio culture". In its ten years, Mixcloud has built a catalog of more than 15 million radio shows, DJ mixes, and podcasts across every genre, taste, and scene created by over 1 million creators and enjoyed by more than 20 million listeners.

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Let's Talk Trends: Designing for Maximum Impact

Speaker: Amber Asay, Creative Director and Founder of award-winning design studio Nice People

Understanding what trends are happening and how they’re impacting the competitive landscape is crucial to providing top dollar design strategy to your clients. With so many trends coming and going, it can be overwhelming to determine which ones you should capitalize on and which ones might not be worth the trouble. In this exclusive webinar with Amber Asay, we’ll explore graphic design trends that need to die, trends that are starting to pick up and why, trends that have come and gone, and how t

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Stunning Photos From The Bosch Parade, The Sailing Parade In The Spirit Of Jheronimus Bosch

Design You Trust

Bosch Parade honours Jheronimus Bosch as a storyteller and inspiration. His paintings are mysterious picture stories in which he illustrated his time in an unconventional way. Jheronimus Bosch also was the very first genre painter: the first painter to acknowledge commoners, by giving them a full role in his works. This floating, poetic parade of art works portrays a universal tale of power and.

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Keilhauer and Division Twelve “Get Bent” in New Partnership

Azure Magazine

This ain’t your daddy’s office furniture. Defined by bold colours, sleek lines and unpretentious bent-steel construction, Keilhauer and Division Twelve’s new series boldly embraces the soft contract movement – while announcing the partnership between the two Canadian companies. Keilhauer recently acquired Division Twelve , and the collection signals the opening of a promising new chapter in Canadian design.

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Historic Lithograph Reveals Anamorphic Views of Razed Bank of Philadelphia

Colossal

“Horizontorium” (1832), hand-colored lithograph, 22.5 x 16.5 inches. In 1832, artist John Jesse Barker added depth to a drawing by Philadelphia-based William G. Mason to create an optical illusion titled “ Horizontorium.” Part of a tradition of anamorphic works, this depiction of the Bank of Philadelphia is one of the two surviving works looking at the historic financial building designed by architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe.

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“Mid—” by Photographer Elise Kirk

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The Kuala Lumpur-based Ejin Sha explains why graphic design “can be anything”

Its Nice That

With a love for visual metaphors since childhood, the designer now works across identities, art direction, as well as book and exhibition design.

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The Democratization of Design: Giving Creators & Marketers the Tools to Succeed

Brands must create and share impactful content to thrive, but they have less people, tighter budgets, and fewer resources to do so. Learn how to publish and market digital content with the same professionalism as organizations with million-dollar budgets.

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“An entity unto itself”: A New York design guide

Design Week

“New York is an entity unto itself,” Jesse Reed tells Design Week. He’s specifically talking about the graphic design scene in the densely populated US city, which around 8m people call home. “On the West Coast, which is more entertainment based, there’s effect and depth and texture. Here’s more sleek, black and white.

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Gaming meets high-fashion in new Karl Lagerfeld collaboration

Creative Review

High-end fashion, retro computer games and cats aren’t perhaps an obvious trio. But a new project from digital agency Smack proves that the three divergent interests can work together rather beautifully in the name of gamified brand awareness in Maison Karl Lagerfeld. The online and in-store digital activation for the fashion brand is a little like a pixel-based, 21st century take on 90s TV classic Pets Win Prizes , created to promote Karl Lagerfeld’s new Pixel Collection.

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Branding for Food Trucks: The Definitive Guide

crowdspring

Image courtesy of Mobile Cuisine. Deciding how to brand your food truck may be the most important decision you’ll face as a food-on-the-go entrepreneur. A well-branded truck can draw attention to your business all day, every day, everywhere it goes. Follow our food truck branding guide and your truck will race ahead of your competition. Here is….

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Photography: The Beauty of Shattered Discs

Abduzeedo

Photography: The Beauty of Shattered Discs. abduzeedo Feb 20, 2020 Rus Khasanov is a photographer exploring different techniques to create stunning images. In this series of abstract photography, he continues to explore the beauty of shattered discs. To achieve a variety of textures Run uses different types of disks, combine broken pieces, lay different textures on top of each other and experiment with lighting.

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From Visualization to Execution: Exploring Our Strengths as Designers

Speaker: Sean Adams, ArtCenter College of Design

Thomas Edison once said “Vision without execution is hallucination.” This statement applies not just to invention, but to graphic design. One of the greatest strengths of graphic designers is the ability to first develop a concept and then execute it to make it real. From visualization and ideation all the way through to actuation and execution, each step of this process takes skill and expertise.

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“Waiting On The Dream” by Photographer Juan Madrid

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Graphis Design Annual 2021 Entries! Michael Pantuso (US) and Cesar Rivera (US)

Graphis

US Graphis Master Michael Pantuso creates the above image, “FLAMINGO Mechanical Integration.” Made for a collector’s home, this design shows a flamingo becoming mechanical; this is one of the many works of his that combine machinery with animals. Pantuso’s interest in the hybrid of nature and human ingenuity continue in his project series ‘Gulf of […].

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Typeface Selection Resources

Typographica

A page of links, recommended reading, and strategies (to come) for students of the Crash Course in Type Selection workshops from Type West at Letterform Archive. Learning. Analyzing Type. How Typography Works , Fernand Baudin, 1989. Size-Specific Adjustments to Type Designs , Tim Ahrens and Shoko Mugikura, 2014. Reading Letters: Designing for Legibility , Sofie Beier, 2012.

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Whatsapp launches first brand campaign, an epic film inspired by Carnival

Its Nice That

The messaging app’s inaugural foray into advertising is based on a real story of disaster ahead of Brazil’s national celebration.

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Rethinking Creative Workflows: Increasing Efficiency in the Design Process

As the design industry evolves, teams are facing new challenges and a need to produce more outstanding creative work than ever. Leaders must learn how to adapt their processes to solve today’s—and tomorrow’s—unique design challenges. In this e-book, you’ll learn how to establish your creative workflow and leverage the power of CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite to streamline the entire design process, from start to finish.

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Typeface Selection Resources

Typographica

A page of links, recommended reading, and strategies (to come) for students of the Crash Course in Type Selection workshops from Type West at Letterform Archive. Learning. Analyzing Type. How Typography Works , Fernand Baudin, 1989. Size-Specific Adjustments to Type Designs , Tim Ahrens and Shoko Mugikura, 2014. Reading Letters: Designing for Legibility , Sofie Beier, 2012.

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“I made my own world for people like me”: Wednesday Holmes on their work representing the LGBTQI+ community

Its Nice That

The artist and activist uses illustration to deal with their own problems, as well as to empower others.

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Lead Generation

Noupe

Lead generation is a critical step in the marketing process, but more important, it’s fundamental to business growth. In fact, a study by Marketo showed that companies with sound lead generation practices achieved at least 133 percent more revenue than enterprises that don’t have good techniques in place. And while business owners from organizations big and small, as well as marketers at all stages in their careers, say they understand the key role lead generation plays in boosting the bottom li

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Burger King is serving up spores in a mouldy new ad

Creative Review

Between the growing market for vegan , unprocessed or organic foods and the increased backlash in the face of the obesity crisis , it’s safe to say fast food chains are facing an uphill battle. While brands in this space have shown inventive responses to such quandaries, Burger King US has taken an unexpected punt at demonstrating its credentials as a producer of ‘real’ food.

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Creative Insights: Data-Backed Trends to Help You Design Successful Content

In today’s competitive markets, how do you make sure that your content not only stands out but performs well? How can you predict whether certain design choices will result in clicks, engagement, downloads, and other drivers of ROI? Shutterstock’s Creative Insights Report (Q3) is your window into the hottest trends that are transforming the creative world.

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Artist Spotlight: Omar Rodriguez-Graham

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Omar Rodriguez-Graham. Omar Rodriguez-Graham’s Website. Omar Rodriguez-Graham on Instagram.

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Kendall Jenner Getting Arsty in Garage Magazine Latest Editorial

Trendland

You must know by now we are not too fan of social medias between agencies and marketers not knowing where to invest and all their (useless) influencers thinking they are all super stars because they have followers watching and liking their entire life… Wait and see ?? Well, here it’s another story, even though it has been blasted all over Instagram (yesterday), the cool and edgy Garage Magazine worked with artist Maurizio Cattela and photographer/director Campbell Addy to shoot this

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A Battery Charged Contest!

Joe McNally

Last year we did a picture contest in collaboration with Maha. It was fun and yielded some good images. Doing it again! Our studio has been “powered by Maha ” for years, and the folks there have become good friends. Powerex batteries and Maha chargers have been our go-to for a long, long while. They go on the road, literally, every job. In honor of the recent # NationalBatteryDay , Maha Energy is having a contest to raise awareness of the very important topic of RECYC LING, and the prize is pr

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A Parade of Earthly Delights: Floating Bosch Parade Celebrates Painter Hieronymus Bosch in Spectacular Aquatic Event

Colossal

All images © Bosch Parade, Ben Niehuis. A floating parade dedicated to painter Hieronymus Bosch ( previously ) honors the artist’s fascination with the fantastical and absurd in an annual event that embodies his philosophy and aesthetic. The 2019 occurrence of the Bosch Parade included a musical performance played on a partially submerged piano and a scene with two people straddling enormous horns, just two of fourteen vignettes devoted to an evolving story about “power and counterfo

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How to Create Stunning Typography With the Corel Type Tool Kit

Download this free eBook to learn how you can create stunning typography, using the basics, such as placing text, to advanced controls like ligatures, variable fonts, effects, tracking, range kerning, and everything in between. Learn how to: Use Character Control to add variety to your font styles. Use Paragraph Control to manage spacing, alignment, justification and more.