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Are Mockup Designers the Most Influential Designers of Our Era?

Eye on Design

When trying to understand how cities work – how they develop over time and how their social lives have come into existence – urbanists often look at infrastructure. Looking closely at the roads, railways, sewers, electricity lines and rivers that run through a place can often uncover some essential truths. For example, how can we think about Los Angeles without thinking about the design, construction and ongoing use of its highways?

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Matte Photo Effect Photoshop Actions for Premium Members

Spoon Graphics

Access All Areas members have a great collection of Photoshop Actions to download this week, courtesy of Shapeshift. Instantly give your photographs the popular ‘matte’ look with this collection of ready-made Actions for Adobe Photoshop. Each of the 15 Actions applies a different effect, including light, moderate and heavy matte looks, along with a selection of creative options with various colour toning.

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Business Card Mockups (20+ Design)

Graphic Design Junction

Present your business card design in this PSD mockup for realistic and stylish presentation preview. These mockups can display your design in a more efficient way. There are different business card mockups easy to use through a smart object and change the background to any color and Photoshop layered, smart object features to help you change sample image, logo with your design easily.

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Stefan Sagmeister has designed a pair of sunglasses inspired by Frida Kahlo’s eyebrows

Its Nice That

The acclaimed graphic designer created the new lens collection with Swiss eyewear brand Götti Switzerland, inspired by one of the few artists in history whose iconic feature became so famous it “morphed into a logo”.

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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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Matter Antimicrobial Coating Branding by Designsake Studio

We And The Color

Packaging and branding by Designsake Studio for Matter Antimicrobial Coating. Powered by Designsake Studio, Matter is an antimicrobial technology platform. By leveraging their expertise in branding and packaging, they were able to innovate a new safe and sustainable solution that protects products and the consumers that interact with them amidst a global pandemic.

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Flora and Fauna Converge as Fantastic Hybrid Creatures in Jon Ching’s Oil Paintings

Colossal

“Mother Mycelium.” All images © Jon Ching, shared with permission. Artist Jon Ching strikes a balance between texture and color in his meticulously detailed oil paintings that make fantastic creatures—owls with plumes of mushrooms and fuzzy molds, seahorses sprouting leafy twigs, and fish with striped tulip fins—appear natural in their environments.

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How Organizations Can Win With Website Security

Noupe

It’s a widely known fact that when it comes to business, every company is looking for a competitive edge. Odds are, you might not be thinking of website security as your means of gaining a leg up on the competition. However, with cybersecurity and data privacy being top of mind for more consumers these days , it’s more important now than ever to lock down your digital assets.

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June 2021 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Colossal

“Enjoying the View” by Romain Laurent. Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you’d like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at hello@colossal.art. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Open Calls.

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Anthropology as Urban Practice: Notes from Mumbai’s Sangam Gully

Azure Magazine

Creating empathy for worlds that are not one’s own has been anthropology’s biggest challenge and constant aspiration. With roots in colonial and imperial structures, the discipline’s self-reflexive journey towards becoming a tool for cultural translation inspires our urban practice. Exploring new cultures and neighbourhoods, becoming immersed in local ways of doing — and comparing lifestyles across diverse contexts in a value-neutral way — is our essential methodology.

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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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More details of the Studio Ghibli theme park revealed, including an area inspired by My Neighbor Totoro

Its Nice That

The studio has shared more teasers for the much-anticipated park, which is set to include huge replicas of Howl's Castle, the airship from Castle in the Sky and the settlement from Princess Mononoke.

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Review for IP Geolocation API

Graphic Design Junction

Are you someone who wants to explore the horizons of geolocation technology? Do you want to locate things with the help of the internet? If you said yes to both these questions then you should keep scrolling to read more because we have the IP Geolocation API solution you have been looking for. It is with the progression of geolocation technology that we are easily available to locate things on the internet.

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This online platform is designed to let you imagine the future of London

Design Week

Studio Cronica has designed online platform Your Future London as a way to present urban data in a more engaging way and allow users to envisage the city’s future. The project has been commissioned for thinktank and policymakers Centre for London as part of its London Futures review project, in collaboration with the Mayor of London. Cronica design director Sérgio Cameira explains that the platform had two main objectives.

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UX anxiety, modern minimal UI, anti-goals, accessibility overlays

UX Collective

Weekly curated resources for designers?—?thinkers and makers. Considering the skyrocketing rates of mental illness throughout the course of the COVID-19 pandemic?—?plus many more of us struggling with daily stressors and mood swings that may lead us to irrational negative thinking?—?how often are we asking ourselves, “How will someone with anxiety experience our product/service/feature?

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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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25 Awesome Blender Tutorials for Beginners

Vandelay Design

Blender is free, open-source 3D modeling and animation software that is used to create everything from TV commercials to video game cut scenes. It’s powerful enough for professional use but also offers an intuitive interface that makes it accessible for beginners. Although it’s relatively user-friendly, there is a learning curve because Blender can do so […].

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When Ben Medansky’s Studio Burned Down CERF+ Was There to Help

Design Milk

It was late July in 2015 when news emerged ceramicist Ben Medansky’s world had literally gone up in flames. Medansky, already a celebrated Los Angeles artist was busy riding the wave as one of the nation’s emerging new wave of creatives – a prolific and talented designer whose PoMo-Memphis Group inspired ceramic mugs, pipes and other earthenware designs portended the resurgence of ceramics both as art form and functional collectibles.

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A Comprehensive Guide To Increase Conversions On Your Website

SpyreStudios

Do you use your website to gain more customers for your business? If yes, you need to find ways to increase your conversion to attain this goal. In marketing, conversion refers to the process of transforming prospects into paying customers. This article will provide some digital marketing strategies and tips to help increase conversions to your website. 1.

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The rise and fall of Polaroid

UX Collective

The disruptor becomes the disrupted. Photo by Patrick on Unsplash The Positional View and Resource-Based View are two schools of business strategy that seek to describe a company’s competitive advantage. There is a great deal of overlap between the two, as will be discussed using specific examples from the Polaroid company. The simplest way of describing each is that the Positional View is concerned with product-market fit and asserts that value is derived from where a firm chooses to compete a

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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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Top 10: Tea Packaging Design

Mindsparkle Mag

Nowadays it's trendy to have a coffee every morning, but today's issue is about the other iconic hot beverage. Mainly linked to the British, but originated in China more than 4,000 years ago. Yes, we are talking about that infusion our mother drinks every day before sleep time. Tea. Like many aspects of life, everything evolves and this feature aims to leave behind traditional tea identity and showcase its flexibility, often times with a modern twist.

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Reading between the lines: a way of composing UX illustrations

UX Collective

How deconstructing fine art can help you create better UX illustrations. I’ll be the first to say that it’s generous to draw a comparison between fine art and digital illustration. But crafting unique storylines around complex subjects is difficult, and deconstructing the elements of fine art and applying them in my illustrations has been profoundly helpful.

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Crochet Taxidermy: Perfect For People Who Hate Harming Animals

Design You Trust

Love the look of taxidermy, but hate the whole dead animal part? Maybe it’s time you stepped up to the wonderful world of crochet taxidermy that can be found on Etsy from various crafty people who make and sell them! More: Etsy h/t: sadanduseless.

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Reuse Revolution: How a Circular Economy Can Fight Climate Change

Azure Magazine

From the enormous quantities of marine debris that pollute the world’s oceans to the devastation of plant and animal life around the world, resource extraction — and the waste created by it — is a prime culprit in environmental degradation and climate change. According to recent research, extractive industries account for approximately half of all greenhouse emissions, as well as a staggering 80 per cent of global biodiversity loss.

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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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Jess Ebsworth Wants Her Trippy Illustrations to “Transport You to Somewhere New and Exciting”

Design You Trust

From posters for a cult ramen supper club to creating “The Garden of Weeden”, the illustrator tells us about her dreamy briefs. “A lot of the time it is pretty spontaneous- I usually start with creating a few initial concepts which will be loose and probably subject to change a little! Once I’m happy with the idea, I’ll begin the making of the image by roughly mapping out into illustrator to get an idea of layout and how the composition looks on the page.

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How to bring 3D skills to 2D animation

Creative Bloq

Explore innovative ways to create animations with iClone for Cartoon Animator.

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“The Last Man on Earth”: Melancholy Aesthetics in Chilling Photoworks by Jermaine Saunders

Design You Trust

Jermaine Saunders is an LA based designer and motion artist. “I love to create artwork by parodying mass media exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary society. Investigating the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of it’s effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us.

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Cleaning Up the Competition: Advertising Annual 2021 Winners

Graphis

Another week, another opportunity to show off more of last year’s advertising competition Platinum, Gold, and Silver winners. These entries’ unique and effective designs are not only what distinguishes them from other ads but also makes them effective for their clients. First up is Platinum winner “Never Lose Your Suction” (above), created by Colin Corcoran […].

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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.