Tue.Feb 11, 2020

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The Best Sans Serif Fonts for Modern, Clean Designs

Creative Market

If you're a font connoisseur, you're familiar with the subtle differences between today's best sans serif fonts. Each creator adds their own artistic flair to glyph design, in one of the subtlest possible expressions of design. Spend time with any of these 15 clean sans serif fonts, and you'll find that each one conveys a slightly different aesthetic —but they all deliver a message that's fresh and contemporary. 1.

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Web Design Mistakes You Want to Avoid in 2020

Noupe

When it comes to creating and maintaining a website, the first thing that comes to any person’s mind is a site’s design. Well, design matters indeed, moreover, it can even influence your website’s traffic, which in turn has an impact on the amount of money you make. In fact, a decent layout makes any website look more professional and trustworthy, which attracts more visitors and affects your website’s conversion.

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Reviewed: New Identity for Design Market Barcelona by Naranjo-Etxeberria

Under Consideration / Brand

“Mix to the Max”. First celebrated in 2012 (under the name of Moritz Pop Up Design Market), Design Market Barcelona is an annual event at the end of year that brings together over 100 independent designers who showcase everything from decoration and objects for the home, fashion and accessories, contemporary jewelry, crafts, and graphic art, all in time for the holidays.

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Papier-Mâché Masks Crafted by Liz Sexton Bring Animals to Human Scale

Colossal

All images © Liz Sexton, shared with permission. Rejecting anthropocentrism, Liz Sexton wants to break down the boundary between human and animal life. The Minneapolis-based artist creates large papier-mâché pieces of foxes, owls, and other wild animals designed to be worn by humans, creating a hybrid being that she often situates in non-natural environments, like a rat near the subway lines or a porcupine fish out of water.

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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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Big Boy Studio’s “Everything is Sculpture” Video

Trendland

“Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.” Says the Japanese-American artist and designer Isamu Noguchi. That quote was the main inspiration behind visual narrative ‘Once Upon Another’, the 3D video of London-based Big Boy Studio challenged the notion of traditional sculpture and its relationship with surrounding spaces.

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300+ Free Illustrations For Your Next Design Project

Graphic Mama

Looking for free illustrations for your next design project? In this post, we’ve gathered over 300 attractive and free illustrations of different thematics. These illustrations will have your back on many occasions – no matter if you need free assets for school projects, business projects, eco projects, St. Valentine’s day designs, and more.

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Andrew Davis on Designing Finding Henry Applebee

Spine Magazine

Andrew Davis is a designer and illustrator at HarperCollins. He lives in London. Here he tells us about designing the cover for Finding Henry Applebee. Finding Henry Applebee is a charming and uplifting story about unlikely friendships, the power of love, and how it’s never too late to change your life. It follows eighty-five-year-old Henry Arthur Applebee as he boards a train from London to Edinburgh, on a mission to find the woman who escaped his life decades earlier.

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“The Star Geezers” by Photographer Jesse Rieser

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Jesse Rieser. Jesse Rieser’s Website. Jesse Rieser on Instagram.

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Moonpig and KFC collaborate on scratch and sniff Valentine’s Day cards

Creative Review

The limited-edition range of eight designs playfully push the idea that ‘Roses are red, Violets are blue, Fried chicken’s the best way, To say I Love You’; and that “if you’ve found someone who’s basically the chicken to your gravy, or the herbs to your spices, then let them know with a romantic whiff of KFC’s iconic fried chicken,” as Moonpig puts it.

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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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This Vietnamese Coffee Chain Branding Found Inspiration In Plastic Stools

The Die Line

Could the humble plastic stool, a staple of Vietnamese street food culture, become the basis for a coffee brand?

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Our 2020 Photography Competition Now Open!

Communication Arts

Announcing our 2020 Photography competition! We’re looking for the best recent commercial and experimental photography to celebrate and publish in our upcoming Photography Annual. Deadline to submit is Friday, March 6th.

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Linked: Populating the Blue Dot

Under Consideration / Brand

Visit Link. DKNG has created a set of illustrative icons for the many ( many ) local newspapers owned by Gannett, that all share USA Today 's blue dot logo.

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The 9 Biggest Packaging Design Trends of 2020

crowdspring

Are you giving your packaging design the attention it deserves? You may have an awesome product. But, it’s your packaging that does the selling. That’s why packaging design and package graphics are too vital to be overlooked, thrown together, or left to grow outdated. Your product packaging is on the front line of every product sale. Potential….

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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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Reimagining the Swan Vestas logo

Logo Design Love

This logo by Kent-based graphic designer John Vingoe picked up a Chip in the 2019 Chip Shop Awards (the 2020 submission deadline is 12th March). It was part of a personal project to reimagine existing brands through their logos and packaging — in this case a redesign of the classic Swan Vestas logo. Original Swan Vestas matchbox design. Swan Vestas is a brand of matches that has been the UK’s most popular since the 1930s.

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Fatconomy: could we build a new design system from waste fat?

Design Week

Designers are probably not confused for health and safety workers very often, but it’s not often that designers turn to fat for inspiration. Although this is exactly what happened to Robert Johnson during the research phase for his project, entitled Fatconomy. Johnson began studying the uses of fat waste around two years ago. While it’s often been used as a biofuel – an industry worth millions – Johnson was interested in whether a new system could co-exist with the existi

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Meet Lob, a multi-faceted design studio that thrives off collaboration

Its Nice That

Founded by Jannis Zell and Phil Zumbruch, the Germany-based studio works across moving image, illustration, sculpture, website design and posters.

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This Vietnamese Coffee Chain Branding Was Inspired by Plastic Stools

The Die Line

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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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Steph Lau creates five animations and a red envelope design for Maison Margiela’s Lunar New Year’s celebrations

Its Nice That

As Lunar New Year celebrations dissipate for another year, we bask in the New York-based designer’s mesmerising creations for renowned fashion house, Maison Margiela.

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Colony Creates Hard Kombucha Branding Inspired by Los Angeles

The Die Line

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“Be Here to Love Me” by Photographer Liz Sanders

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Marcus Oakley’s latest work focuses on a black and white view of the outside

Its Nice That

From urban scenes to the more rural, the illustrator portrays environments that he has experienced throughout his life.

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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: Alina-Ondine Slimovschi

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Alina-Ondine Slimovschi. Alina-Ondine Slimovschi’s Website. Alina-Ondine Slimovschi on Instagram.

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Alcohol-Free Amplify Seeks To Deliver A No-Compromise Spirit

The Die Line

Elmwood developed the branding, strategy, and visual identity for Amplify, highlighting the unique experience of it rather than positioning the non-alcoholic spirit as a beverage that keeps one in the moment, rather than removing one from the moment.

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What Makes a Good User Interface?

Noupe

Two-thirds of users will rather read beautifully designed content in case they only have 15 minutes to stay online according to HubSpot. What does it teach us? In the modern economy, people are not buying products or services anymore. They are buying experiences ( Forbes ) or, in other words, visual satisfaction and usability. So, to keep ahead of a pack in these realia, one should think about staying up to date with the latest trends.

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The Billie Eilish Phenomenon

Trendland

Billie Eilish is more than the ‘Hot thing’ right now, she just wrote music history! Last week and at only 18 years-old, the pop star walked away with four of the Grammy’s biggest awards, including best new artist, record of the year, album of the year, and song of the year. In winning those four major awards, she also replaced Taylor Swift as the youngest-ever solo winner for album of the year and became the first woman and second person […].

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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.