Wed.Oct 20, 2021

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A Delightful Collection of Rounded Serifs With a Retro Feel

Creative Market

Is there any better way to create a throwback feel on a design project than with a vintage, old-school font? This collection of rounded serif fonts have a distinctly retro feel—so you can start infusing nostalgia into your work with a typeface choice. Check out some of our favorite rounded serif fonts on Creative Market below. Featured below: Mayonez Black Italic Hornbill Ranille Recoleta Moranga Black Cream Gentle Dillan Heirloom: A Good-Natured Font Pockota Andromeda Glamour Absolute Modern/Vi

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20 Photos That Will Make You Fall In Love Again

HONGKIAT

Photographs capture various moments and instances in time, locking in the sometimes heartwarming, other times heartbreaking emotions within that snapshot. There is a reason why wedding photography is so popular. It captures the love shared between two souls, the perfect romance in the air. In celebration of this, I’ve collected 20 photographs that convey the tender feelings of love shared between lovebirds, young and old.

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Minimal Business Flyer InDesign Template

We And The Color

Available for free download with an Adobe trial subscription, this minimalist flyer template is well suited for all kinds of businesses. Created by the skilled team of @PixWork , this A4 flyer template is based on a modern and minimalist layout. It is fully editable in Adobe InDesign. You can change the header image or add your own text in seconds. The flyer is completely print-ready but you can also use it for screen presentations.

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How to Handle These 9 Client Types like a Pro

HONGKIAT

The freelancer-to-client relationship is a tricky thing to deal with. Your ability to work with the various types of clients can make or break your freelancing career. To help you deal with this problematic area, here is a breakdown of the most common client characteristics that may curse your creative career. Every client is different. Although we can find faults with each client we work with, we as freelancers need to overlook their strange tendencies and learn how to interact effectively with

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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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Temporarily Available Puts San Francisco’s Makers in the Spotlight

Design Milk

What would you do if you were frustrated by a lack of exposure in an area brimming over with local talent? If you’re interior designers Alma Lopez and Liz Wert, you quit your jobs during a pandemic and open a creative studio. They see it – Aditions – as a chance to reimagine connection through spatial experiences. While they’ve been busy since launching in February, Temporarily Available is the San Francisco-based studio’s first self-produced exhibition.

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14 Powerful Display Advertising Tips to Increase Conversions

Design Wizard

Display advertising is a great visual way to attract your target audience and increase conversions. To create successful ad campaigns, you need to know who you’re targeting, create eye-catching visuals, and excellent copy. We’ve gathered fourteen actionable tips that you can use from the planning stage to monitoring your results. Explore how to craft designs that attract your audience’s attention and where best to place your ads.

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Photographer Karis Beaumont on learning on the job

Creative Review

For Jamaican British photographer Karis Beaumont finding photography was accidental, though looking back she feels it was destiny. Though she used to pore over family photo albums as a child, it wasn’t until 2014 that Beaumont began saving up for a camera as she was keen to explore her passion for styling and fashion with her friends. The next year her dad bought her digital camera for her birthday. “Around that time, I’d found out I had dyslexia in the middle of my first year

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The future of gaming personalization: Street Fighter lab

UX Collective

Design Provocation Gaming behavior influenced by avatars and content “Hadoken!” “Tatsiumaki senpuktaku!” I grew up playing the Street Fighter series, the legendary games produced by Capcom. I fantasized that one day I, too, would be able to do the Hadoken like Ryu, my favorite character in the game. Gaming has come a long way since the days of Nintendo Super Famicom, and now I see interesting trends in both the entertainment and tech industries that make the gaming experience more personalized a

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Kepdarroch Farmhouse by Baillie Baillie Architects

This is Paper

Minimalist 'Kepdarroch' farmhouse by Glasgow-based Baillie Baillie Architects takes its inspiration from the typical settlements of the area.

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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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26 Orange Packaging Designs

The Die Line

We've rounded up twenty-six of our favorite orange packaging designs that will undoubtedly inspire you to embrace the color with open arms, no matter the season.

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Panama Papers.Office merges tech, 3D and typographic systems into its detailed graphic design

Its Nice That

Set up in 2018 by new grads Pierre Dufresne and Florent Martini, the studio has since worked on a plethora of projects ranging from art direction to editorial and typeface design.

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Snøhetta’s “Super Furniture” Anchors Tokyo’s Digital Nomads

Azure Magazine

They call it Pangea. The new co-working arm of Japanese tech company Digital Garage takes its name from the Paleozoic and Mesozoic “supercontinent” that once held the earth’s land mass. For an upstart firm looking to capitalize on the growing popularity of remote work, it’s a decidedly primordial source of inspiration. And for designers Snøhetta , it’s the genesis of the marquee design element for the firm’s new Tokyo outpost.

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Cinematography legend John Simmons talks us through his stunning photography work from the Civil Rights era

Its Nice That

From 1965 to today, John Simmons has been capturing some of the most important people and moments in US history – all whilst carving out a cinematography career.

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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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Ace Adds Comfort, Functionality + Character to Any Athletic Environment

Design Milk

A modern reinterpretation of outdoor furniture that’s often found on the sides of pools or sports fields, Ace – named after the winning tennis serve – wants to accommodate athletes, guests and aficionados alike. Designed by Patrick Norguet for Ethimo , the collection can be reconfigured according to your needs thanks to a modular base with lots of versatility that comes in four lengths.

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Dead Meat: A Pair of Hungry Seagulls Fight Over a Hotdog in a Quirky Animated Short

Colossal

?. Selfish, hungry, and more cunning than he appears, the zany seagull in Adnan Peer Mohamed ’s “ Dead Meat ” sends feathers flying. The animated short opens with the creature scouring a boardwalk for food, and after mistaking a bolt for a snack, he snatches an entire hotdog only to find a fellow bird is after the same sausage. Mohamed is currently a student at Vancouver Film School, and you can find more of his animations on Vimeo and Instagram.

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BBC reveals new logos in modernisation push

Design Week

The BBC has revealed a series of new logos after audiences claimed that the previous look was “old fashioned and out of date” As well as a new BBC logo, the broadcaster has updated the identities of services such as iPlayer and BBC Sounds and its channels. The rebrand rolls out from today, though there will be further changes over the coming months.

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BuzziSpace Creates “Hubs for Togetherness” for the Hybrid Office

Design Milk

BuzziSpace has unveiled new solutions for the ever-changing workspace landscape under the theme of “Hubs for Togetherness” at this year’s NeoCon 2021. With a modern and forward-thinking vision of the new hybrid office, BuzziSpace understands that thoughtful, human-centric design is essential to a productive workplace environment. Its latest launch includes BuzziCee , a playful acoustic seating design; BuzziHug , a new privacy booth; BuzziNest , a collection of acoustic booths and pods; BuzziNord

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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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Marivan Martins on his collaborative, creative and cliché-breaking photography

Its Nice That

The Brazilian artist runs us through his portfolio to date, which includes an ironic and humorous series looking at cis male masturbation.

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DMTV Milkshake: Wade and Leta on Designing Bigger and Brighter

Design Milk

On this week’s DMTV Milkshake , we talk to the Brooklyn-based artists, sculptors, designers, and all-around polymaths, Wade Jeffree and Leta Sobierajski , who work together as Wade and Leta. Their work, as they put it is “to create satisfying and emotional visuals ranging from conventional identities to colorfully charged compositions and installations” – for clients ranging from Google and Instagram to Herman Miller, Gucci and Comme des Garçons. ?

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Mysterious Photography of Mikko Lagerstedt | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials #snow #exposure #night #mikko #lagerstedt #long #light #trails

Designspiration

Mysterious Photography of Mikko Lagerstedt | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials #snow #exposure #night #mikko #lagerstedt #long #light #trails

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Poignant New Works by Pejac Confront the Urgency of Global Crises in Disquieting Detail

Colossal

“Counterweight” (2021), oil, acrylic, and spray paint on paper mounted on a wooden stretcher, 190 x 135 x 4.3 centimeters. All images © Pejac, shared with permission. Spanish street artist Pejac ( previously ) addresses the concept of “returning to normal” in a discerning new series that focuses on the urgency of the issues affecting the world today.

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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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Printing an Olympic Book – Thank you Printique!

Joe McNally

The Olympics were a blur. This book is not. That’s the thing about a book, and I realize I’m once again displaying my well developed ability to state the completely obvious. A book hangs around. Front and back covers, below. The internet observances we routinely make are click, click, click. Hop, skip, and jump. Not a lot of time, often, for dwelling or rumination.

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Italian Artist Giulia Bernardelli Turns Spilled Coffee Into Art

Design You Trust

Some people are so incredibly talented that they can be artistically inspired by the most unexpected of things, such as spilled drinks. Case in point – Italian artist Giulia Bernardelli, whose amazing coffee art began as a mishap. One day, Giulia was drawing and having her coffee at the same time. At one point, she moved her hand too quickly and spilled her coffee all over the canvas, but the way the coffee stain spread inspired her to pick up the spoon and use it as a brush, to guide the brown

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Music Time - Vintage Sony in 3D

Abduzeedo

Music Time - Vintage Sony in 3D. abduzeedo 1020—21 TianChen Deng is an 3D artist from Shanghai, China with a portfolio of quite beautiful 3D visualizations. For this project TianChen focused on further exploring the texture and lighting in compositions using old Sony devices as inspiration. Full disclosure by the artist, this publication has no commercial connection to Sony Corporation.

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How to choose the right design subscription service for your business

UX Collective

Everything you need to know to choose the right design subscription for you. Continue reading on UX Collective ».

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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.