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Minimal Social Media / Instagram Post Templates with Photo Placeholders

We And The Color

Available on Adobe Stock, these minimalist social media/Instagram post templates with photo placeholders are available as fully customizable vector graphics. @Phillip is a graphic designer and Adobe Stock contributor who focuses on modern and clean lines. This set of minimal social media templates is no exception. Using only simple graphic shapes with subtle typography, he created a fully customizable tool for social media posts on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and other cha

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LogoArchiveā€™s Logo Histories: Eye, Bee & M

BP&O

LogoArchive launched in 2015, however, it dates further back as an attempt to discover and file some of the best modernist logos of the past. Since then, it has grown into an international programme with 30+ researchers, located all over the globe, been developed into a series of seventeen zines and a soon-to-launch purpose-built research […].

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100 Greatest Free Fonts For 2022

Graphic Design Junction

100 free fonts are the greatest gift of 2022, for graphic designers. Fonts are used to add an appeal to your design and to your brand in order to attract potential customers. For our ease, there are numerous fonts available to download for free on the internet. The ideal fonts will make reading easy when used for a paragraph, even when it is read from a certain distance.

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An action-packed visual identity for SRF Sport

Creative Review

As one of the key brands within Swiss public service broadcaster Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen’s (SRF) output, SRF Sport connects millions of sports fans in Switzerland with national and international sporting events through TV, radio and digital. Working alongside the broadcaster, brand agency Superunion was tasked with creating a new visual identity that reflected SRF Sport’s role in bringing the best of sporting action to viewers in the digital era, while being in sync with the wi

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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 theyā€™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, weā€™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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14 Color Combination Tools for Designers

SpyreStudios

Being able to select the right colors is key in designing an effective and intriguing design, whether for the web or for print. If you’re able to achieve a good balance within your design, then it’ll communicate a stronger message much more easily to the users or readers because certain colors “ activate ” certain types of emotions.

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Kaws brings his art to the Serpentine Gallery in London and Fortnite

Creative Review

Kaws: New Fiction in Fortnite © Epic Games Brian Donnelly, the New York-based artist better known by his alias Kaws, is showing works in a new show at London’s Serpentine Gallery, his first major solo exhibition in the city. The exhibition, called New Fiction, blends Donnelly’s physical artworks – a combination of street art, graphic design and his cartoonish, eyeless sculptures – with AR versions of each piece.

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Carolina Moscoso hopes youā€™ll find the ā€œweirdnessā€ in her architecturally inspired drawings

Its Nice That

Inspired by her past life as an architect, the New York-based illustrator draws everyday objects and interiors ā€“ only everythingā€™s a little off.

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18 Best Fonts For T-Shirt Printing

Creative Market

Custom-made t-shirts are fairly trendy these days. More and more people have been turning to t-shirt printing as a way of creating custom apparel and many designers are now able to support themselves by selling their own unique statement t-shirts online. In order to create a top-selling t-shirt, one of the important things that you need is a unique font with a creative saying or quotation.

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Neara Branding by Mubien Studio

We And The Color

San Diego, CA-based studio Mubien created a new brand identity for Neara. Australian utility SaaS business, Neara (formerly known as Power Lines Pro), commissioned branding studio Mubin to work on a new visual identity to serve as the umbrella company under which the different products and services would live. The new brand name reflects how the company brings partners ā€˜nearerā€™ to their assets, environments, and businesses.

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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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50+ Typography Posters Series

Abduzeedo

50+ Typography Posters Series. abduzeedo 0120ā€”22 MANSOOR ā€¢ shared a set of typographic posters with a wide range of styles titled 50+ Typography Posters Series. There are a lot of myths about creativity, one of the most deadliest one is "A Lone Genius": Basically a designer who is pulling stuff out of thin air to create at genius level. Creativity itself is a process.

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12 Company Logo Design Ideas to Experiment With

Creative Market

Designing the perfect business logo can be overwhelming if you donā€™t know where to start. But with the right tips and guides ā€” and the right amount of inspiration ā€” creating your own logo design should be a breeze! But first, letā€™s break down what makes a good company logo. Rules for the Best Logo Ideas. Logos are at the forefront of setting client and customer expectations, being one of the first images people see that come from your business.

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Sculptural Kinetic Lifeforms by Choe U-Ram Sway and Flutter in Hypnotic Motion

Colossal

With assistance from embedded CPU motors, Seoul-based artist Choe U-Ram ( previously ) mimics the lithe movements of animals and plants with his mesmerizing kinetic sculptures. The large-scale pieces are often suspended from the ceiling and illuminated by LED lights that cast glimmering reflections on the metallic components. Included in his most recent works is the frayed, Tyvek-coated sculpture titled “ One ,” which imitates the lifecycle of a flower as it opens to a bright, full b

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How to focus in a world of distractions

Creative Review

How can creatives manage their 'whizzy' brains, and is our pursuit of concentration doomed to fail? Illustrator and writer Ben Tallon discusses how to avoid the demons of procrastination, and still find time to let the brain percolate. The post How to focus in a world of distractions appeared first on Creative Review.

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From Visualization to Execution: Exploring Our Strengths as Designers

Speaker: Sean Adams, ArtCenter College of Design

Thomas Edison once said ā€œVision without execution is hallucination.ā€ 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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Butts on Things: Illustrator Brian Cook Draws Butts on Everything

Design You Trust

Because Everything Looks Better with a Butt In Brian Cook’s debut collection of fun, offbeat illustrations, beers have rears, TetrisĀ® becomes Butris and balloons bear backsides. Hot dog buns have buns of their own, and condiments are down-right cheeky. Shatter your assumptions about who and what can rock a rump because with a little imagination, anything is possible.

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Get the Look: Turn Your Bedroom Into a Japandi Oasis

Design Milk

Combine the smooth and comfortable design aesthetic of Scandinavian hygge with the sleek, functionality behind Japanese wabi-sabi, and youā€™ve got Japandi style. Minimalismā€™s more down to earth cousin, Japandi design is characterized by its warmth and coziness, mix of natural materials, and soft muted colors that bring zen to indoor spaces, marrying style and function.

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The Superb Graphic Novels and Character Art Works of Jordi Lafebre

Design You Trust

Jordi Lafebre is an illustrator and comic book artist from Barcelona who draws very kind and warm stories. His works include such graphic novels as MalgrĆ© tout, Les Beaux ƉtĆ©s, La Mondaine. “I love to tell stories – even one image has a little story inside. The emotions in the drawings are the most important thing, the characters are always secondary.

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The board hoard: prints we kept hold on to (and why)

Moo

Itā€™s no secret: here at MOO, we love print. We love it so much, actually, that we canā€™t let it go. And you do too, based on our recent survey. In fact, 63% of you said youā€™d already kept a promotional print product. So we asked ourselves how prints make it to the cork board ā€“ or wherever we end up keeping them. We spoke to MOOsters about print materials they held on to and why.

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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 todayā€™sā€”and tomorrowā€™sā€”unique design challenges. In this e-book, youā€™ll learn how to establish your creative workflow and leverage the power of CorelDRAWĀ® Graphics Suite to streamline the entire design process, from start to finish.

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NEW NORM MAGAZINE ISSUE 04

Mindsparkle Mag

New Norm Magazine is a biannual lifestyle publication, and online platform covering unique stories on art, design, and architecture. AN-KER Creative assisted with the art direction, publication design, product photography, videography, and launching a campaign of the issue. In this issue, the creatives unfold a thread of personal thoughts and memories, streams of consciousness that influence their identities and narratives.

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Summer Color Palette Inspiration: Trending Palettes and Templates

Envato Tuts+

In this article, discover the best summer season palette to use as inspiration for your next project. Color is one of the most important elements of design. A good working summer season palette needs to be better than the individual colors. As humans, we see several colors at the same time, and when we have a positive response to a palette, we call it harmony.

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Raki Nikahetiyaā€™s hand-embroidered portraits weave together his childhood memories

Its Nice That

The multidisciplinary artist talks us through the inspiration and creative processes behind his new series ā€œA Simpler Lifeā€.

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Meet the Jury of the 2022 AZ Awards!

Azure Magazine

Azure is honoured to announce our jury for the AZ Awards 2022. We are excited to welcome 10 leaders in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, interiors and product and furniture design to adjudicate the submissions to our international program, now in its 12th year. If you haven’t already, you can enter the AZ Awards at awards.azuremagazine.com!

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

In todayā€™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? Shutterstockā€™s Creative Insights Report (Q3) is your window into the hottest trends that are transforming the creative world.

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Colin coffee

Mindsparkle Mag

One particular feature about the design community is our unconditional kind-of-addictive bond with coffee. After long nights, sleepless, we’ve put all our faith in this warm beverage that seems to have fallen from heaven. After this prologue, meet Colin coffee by Reesaw studio, based in Shangai. We’ve featured many coffee packaging designs.

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Logo Wave Awards

Logo Design Love

Iā€™ve been judging the Logo Wave awards for a number of years now. Itā€™s an independent award scheme by designer Kyle Courtright. Kyle and I have yet to meet in person, but weā€™ve come to know each other online over the years and I have a lot of respect for him as a family man and as a designer. Kyle kindly answered some questions to give us an insight into the awards.

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NFT Drop ā€”Ā Introducing the Non-Fungible G-Class

Abduzeedo

NFT Drop ā€” Introducing the Non-Fungible G-Class. AoiroStudio 0120ā€”22 NFG, the Non-Fungible G-Class is the cool name for this upcoming drop coming on niftygateway.com in a collaboration with renowned artists that some we have featured on abdz. Some of us will surely recognize the iconic boxy shape G-Class from Mercedes-Benz. An icon status beyond its function as a durable off-road vehicle and elegant appearance.

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Lumber Shaped-Box House by Atelier Riri #inspiration #stairs #architecture

Designspiration

Lumber Shaped-Box House by Atelier Riri #inspiration #stairs #architecture

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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.