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Digital Art and Renaissance Statues: An Unlikely Combination That Actually Works!

Spoon Graphics

When it comes to abstract art, anything goes! However, there is one particular combination of styles that has become surprisingly popular. The elegance of classic Renaissance sculptures and the psychedelic digital explosion of the Vaporwave aesthetic are two contrasting styles you wouldn’t expect to see together, but as you will discover from today’s inspiration showcase, it actually works!

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The 10 Best Business Brochure Templates

SpeckyBoy

A business brochure is an important marketing asset that can help get your business noticed. You can hand them out during networking events as well as leave them in local cafes’ to raise awareness about your products and services. In this post, we’ve rounded up the best business brochure templates that are easy to edit and customize. You can use them as a starting point, add your information, and customize the colors and fonts or you can use them as an inspiration to create a unique business bro

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A Rare Yellow Penguin Has Been Photographed for the First Time on a South Georgia Island

Colossal

All images © Yves Adams/Kennedy News, shared with permission. On a trip to a small island in South Georgia in December 2019, Yves Adams spotted an unusually bright creature bobbing through a sea of 120,000 king penguins. Whereas most of the flightless birds sported the typical tuxedo-like suit, one paraded around with yellow feathers and cream-colored feet.

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Yolt’s campaign blames bad spending habits on our unruly lizard brains

Creative Review

The Yolt app helps people manage their money, bringing bank accounts and credit cards into one place, and offers prompts and challenges for users to start saving. To emphasise the way the app can “help the human brain take back control”, Uncommon has created a neon pink and green lizard mascot – who represents the pesky lizard brain responsible for snap purchases.

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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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How 8 Artists Are Thinking Beyond the Embroidery Hoop To Create Awe-Inspiring Designs

Brown Paper Bag

This article is brought to you by Brown Paper Stitch , my business that makes your wardrobe pawesome by embroidering your pets on clothing. Over the many years that I’ve written on Brown Paper Bag, I’ve seen a ton of stitching. It’s inspiring but it can also make me feel a bit lackluster—there are so many talented people out there! If you’re someone who scrolls through Instagram and feels totally envious of all of the beautiful stitching you see, you might be wishing you could harness even a lit

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Design Case Study: JKR Global on Marble by UNICEF

Shillington

JKR Global is a creative agency based in New York, London and Shanghai with design teams working on international brands, including philanthropic work that JKR Foundation produces. We had the pleasure of inviting the designers Esther Li and Courtney Perets for a guest lecture to talk to our students about their work and take us through a case study on the social good project for UNICEF called Marble.

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High streets need to find their “appetite for design”

Design Week

The late and much vaunted designer Wajiro Kon argues that we humans experience urban space as theatre, and that we describe that space with our bodies. Such spaces, he said, are vital – socially, meaningfully, sensually. You’ll no doubt have your own example of Kon’s living theatre, but one of my go-to favourites is the ever-morphing market that’s sprung up on the entrance floor to Old Street tube station, somewhere so successful as to draw commuters out of the bowels of

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Sid Lee, Jack Of All Trades, Designs A Label For Their Own Beer

The Die Line

The retro typeface, as well as the graphic design of the cans and their rotating labels are distinct in a way that does justice to the history of the Sid Lee brand.

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App Design Workout, Stay In

Abduzeedo

App Design Workout, Stay In. abduzeedo 02.22.21 Elvis Benício shared a visual proposal for a WFH ("workout" from home) fitness app that helps people to build healthy habits. Both visuals and typography were inspired by the concept of the body movement creating a narrative across branding and product. The result at once communicates, contains, and embodies the inclusion of fitness for everybody.

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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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Funny Advertisement Fails

Design You Trust

This is what happens when marketing people are not paying attention and ads fail in a hilarious or offensive way… So let’s buckle up for a fun ride which is basically a masterclass on how not to create and produce an ad!

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Fresh Illustration Style for Adobe LAT

Abduzeedo

Fresh Illustration Style for Adobe LAT. abduzeedo 02.22.21 Jorsh Peña had the opportunity to collaborate with ADOBE LAT in a series of illustrations where he was able to use new tools and techniques for his work. There were 6 different illustrations that showed the result of this learning from depth to gradients, what we see is a super stylish set of illustrations with a very clean look but with a lot of character.

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Hilarity Ensues as Everything Goes Catastrophically Wrong in an Ad for Etisalat

Colossal

?. Strap on a helmet and fasten your kneepads before watching this ad for international telecommunications giant, Etisalat. Nalle Sjoblad ’s “ Moonwalk ” uses brutal Home Alone-esque sequences of poor planning, office rage, and failure to appreciate even basic spatial relationships in order to remind us that the most uncomfortable, humiliating scenarios only last for a moment.

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Farting In Bed Etiquette – Illustrated Guide

Design You Trust

Relationships have lots of milestones: the first time you say “I love you”, the day you move in together, the first time you go grocery shopping together, and so on. But one of the most important and least discussed milestones is the first time you fart in a bed… Luckily, Weng Chen is here to help. She is a cartoonist behind the Messycow blog as well as a recovering bed farter.

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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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Ghetts on creating an album campaign during Covid

Creative Review

As Ghetts releases new album Conflict of Interest, we speak to the rapper, along with creative director Nathan Tettey and animator Ruffmercy, about adapting and innovating amid the uncertainty of the pandemic. The post Ghetts on creating an album campaign during Covid appeared first on Creative Review.

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Cooling Down and Masking Up: Four New Poster Annual 2022 Entries

Graphis

The newest entries from our Poster Annual 2022 competition celebrate yoga, architecture, flowers, and much more! CURIOUS is a strategic design agency located in London that focuses on brand identity and graphic and web design, as well as other forms of communication. They pride themselves on their curiosity: “It’s the discovery of something different, unexpected, […].

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Mariano Pascual

Communication Arts

Playfully imbuing his subjects with irony, this Barcelona-based illustrator and designer invites viewers and brands into his world.

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“The Shape of Self” by Alessio Maximillian Schroeder

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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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Visual Journaling

Communication Arts

By making film photography more accessible to others, Travis Young hopes to open up the conversation about mental health.

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Oikawa Mayuki builds a “lyrical and strange world” purposefully designed to confuse the audience

Its Nice That

The Japanese illustrator adds eery details and repetitive lines to every illustration, in turn evoking a sense of disorientation.

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How to Write a Good Tagline to Help Your Business get Remembered!

Purple Rose Graphics

A tagline is a great tool to help people remember your business. These are short phrases that help share your business’s reputation and personality. Most of us can recite the catchiest ones and they stick with us long after the business is gone. If you’ve been reading my blogs for any length of time or you know me even a little bit you know I have a thing for creating catchy acronyms.

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[Podcast] How to Use Curiosity, Improvisation & Intuition to Create More Value with Natalie Nixon

Just Creative

Natalie Nixon is the author of The Creativity Leap and in this episode, she shares her techniques for helping brands through the power of creativity. We tuck into some big ideas like how creativity leads to innovation, why a business needs more creative ideas, anthropology, design thinking and how being curious and how asking more of the “why”, “what if” and “how” questions create more value for organisations.

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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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ALEXANDRIA, an exhibition by artist Alejandro Cardenas

Trendland

Words Mariana Bettinelli. Almine Rech presents ALEXANDRIA , an exhibition of new works by artist Alejandro Cardenas , currently on display at the gallery's New York location.

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Ottogi Nuroongi Challenges Corn Flakes With Internet Fame

The Die Line

Seeking to appeal to the younger generations, as well as the more hip adults, Mobills Group focused on sketching a quirky and cute cartoon brand mascot.

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A Massive Seven-Volume Collection Chronicles the Pioneering Legacy of Abstract Artist Hilma af Klint

Colossal

All images © Bokförlaget Stolpe, shared with permission. Following a wildly successful retrospective at the Guggenheim in 2018, Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) has firmly secured her place as a groundbreaking figure in abstract art. In recent years, her colorful, spiritually-minded body of work has reshaped art historical timelines, supplanting male artists like Vasily Kandinsky , Piet Mondrian , Paul Klee , and Josef Albers , who have long been regarded as the pioneers of the 20th-century movemen

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The Joy of Circles - They Make the World Go Round

Spine Magazine

Covers with circular motifs keep catching my eye recently, which got me thinking about circles in general, and their meanings. And once I started, I realised that they are literally everywhere. They're found in nature (the sun, pebbles on a beach, ripples in water), they're used in religion (in Chinese symbology they represent the heavens, and are found as haloes in Christianity), and they also pervade our language: “circle of friends,” “coming full circle,” “circle of life.

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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.