Envato Tuts+

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

What You'll Be Creating I've always been fascinated by smoke and have experimented a lot with it. So in this tutorial, I'll explain how to create a realistic smoky texture, make it into a smoke vector brush, and use it for type. Using the techniques in this tutorial, we will create the smoke illustration seen below. This is perfect if you want your words written in smoke, so let's light up our vector cigarettes and get started smokin'!

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I Love Typography

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

News has been around as long as humans have. From word of mouth to handwritten newsletters to printed newspapers in the early 1600s, the news has always captivated us. It has evolved from an expensive and bespoke service for an elite few into a major part of today's mass media. The post Who invented the news­paper? appeared first on I Love Typography.

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Creative Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

We’ve seen a whole raft of virtual exhibitions, events and other digital experiments in response to the pandemic. The V&A is the latest arts institution to embrace the virtual world, with the news that it is collaborating with HTC Vive Arts to coincide with the release of tickets for its hotly anticipated Alice in Wonderland exhibition, which opens to the public in 2021.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Like so many families around the globe, ours has had to make some difficult decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the most agonizing was what to do about school. Should we send our daughter back to traditional school, or should we opt for an online school? Out of both concerns for safety and consistency, we chose the online program offered by our local school district.

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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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Design Week

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Vauxhall unveiled its new logo last week, a “confidently British” look, which reworks the griffin icon and introduces a blue-and-red colour scheme. Most prominent is its new flat styling — a simplified version of the logo’s previous 3D look. Vauxhall calls the redesign the “progressive face of the brand” It’s a familiar story within car branding of late.

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Brand Branding Manufacturing Digital 101

Booooooom

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Tommy Keith. Tommy Keith’s Website. Tommy Keith on Instagram.

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Photography 146

Envato Tuts+

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Without a doubt, colour affects our emotions and behaviours and plays a critical role in designing a successful logo. Yet it’s one of the elements of logo design that small business owners who want to create their own logo feel the most uncertain about. So today, we’re going to help you understand a bit more about colour, how it affects our choices, and how to use it more effectively when creating your own logo.

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Shillington

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Inspiration can come from anywhere. So, on the first Friday of each month, we’re sharing some of our Shillington team’s favourite things from the past four weeks. This month, Shillington Sydney and Online Teacher Maddy Ritchie shares what was on her radar in September. 1. To Follow: 2. To Read: 3. To Go Stay Home: 4. To Listen: 5. Wildcard: Take a look back at what’s been inspiring our team over the last two years !

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Colossal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

All images © Jo Brown, shared with permission. Behind Jo Brown ‘s home in Devon is a rich countryside complete with a wooded area and thick vegetation. For years, the United Kingdom-based illustrator documented the wildlife and plant species she encountered in her Nature Journal , a black Moleskine that now has been reproduced exactly in a forthcoming book, Secrets of a Devon Wood.

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Advertiser: Issuu

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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Abduzeedo

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

What if today’s tech was brought back to the 90s. AoiroStudio 09.28.20 Musketon is an 'illustration machine' based in Gent, Belgium, he is basically a master of his craft. You can tell that he is a big fan of pop culture from the 80s and 90s. We are featuring his 'In the nineties' illustrative series from Behance. It's a collection where he humorously illustrated 'what if our today tech has been brought back to the 90s'.

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The Die Line

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The content of the packaging reflects the verbal language of advertising in old Saigon, with familiar, rustic, and exciting messages.

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Booooooom

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

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Photography 177

Shillington

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Shillington students and staff from around the world share the work of creatives who inspire them in the #ILoveTheseGuys series. In this post, Brisbane student Jak Beevor highlights projects from Berlin-based designer, Luca Lozano aka Planet Luke. I’ve always enjoyed the work of Luca Lozano but these projects stood out for me with the tension created using black imagery and text on heavy yellow backdrops.

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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.

Graphic Design

Design You Trust

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Glass Tears, 1932 Born 1890 as Emmanuel Radnitzky in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American visual artist Man Ray spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. h/t: vintag.es Portrait of Andre? Breton, 1922 Ray produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above.

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Just Creative

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Get to know the super sleek brand educator that is Tobias Dahlberg all the way from Helsinki, Finland. In this episode, we discuss the value of brand strategy for businesses and how it can be applied to multiple business units and not just marketing, plus exactly how to approach this and embed it in businesses. Tobias discusses brand theories such as “becoming the only choice”, “radical differentiation” and how he gets people on board when making “brand choices”.

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Design Week

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

DesignStudio has refreshed the identity for AO in a bid to create a better “emotional connection” with customers and distinguish the brand’s warmth and personality from its competitors. Launched in 2000, AO is the UK’s largest online-only retailer for home electricals and appliances. In its 20-year history, the brand had developed several “core assets”: a bright green brand colour, a smiley face logo and a jingle.

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Abduzeedo

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Motion Design Monday - Rising ASEAN Opening Title. abduzeedo 09.28.20 A Malay Docu series that explores the multi-faceted communities living in the Southeast Asia countries that form ASEAN. Kelly KTKL shared this motion design and 3D project a couple of years ago, but it’s the first time I see it, otherwise I would have featured it here on abdz. - another quite extraordinary fact is that Kelly had 8 days to conceptualize and complete this whole project.

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The Die Line

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

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Its Nice That

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The American illustrator has done her fair share of travelling and with it has come a great deal of creative inspiration.

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Just Creative

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Get to know the super sleek brand educator that is Tobias Dahlberg all the way from Helsinki, Finland. In this episode, we discuss the value of brand strategy for businesses and how it can be applied to multiple business units and not just marketing, plus exactly how to approach this and embed it in businesses. Tobias discusses brand theories such as “becoming the only choice”, “radical differentiation” and how he gets people on board when making “brand choices”.

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Purple Rose Graphics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Graphic Design is art with a purpose. It’s meant to be a tool to communicate information between a business and its customers or potential customers. There is a lot of chatter around about whether graphic design helps a business – Does it matter for a business’s bottom line or not? Good Design actually helps a business enhance sales. Wait? How does the placement of text, colors, and typestyle do that?

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Just Creative

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Get to know the super sleek brand educator that is Tobias Dahlberg all the way from Helsinki, Finland. In this episode, we discuss the value of brand strategy for businesses and how it can be applied to multiple business units and not just marketing, plus exactly how to approach this and embed it in businesses. Tobias discusses brand theories such as “becoming the only choice”, “radical differentiation” and how he gets people on board when making “brand choices”.

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Graphis

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Three new Photography 2021 entries from Graphis Master Joseph Saraceno and photographers Colin Douglas Gray, Ashley Camper, and Aman Shakya highlight aspects of fashion and design in the most abstract ways. Canadian Graphis Master Saraceno aims to create an “olfactive” photo that provokes a sense of smell with its imagery. Nocturnal Creatures 1 (above, left) […].

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Fashion Photography 36

Communication Arts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

José Antonio Roda Martinez captures the softness and positivity of childhood in his illustrations and paper artworks.

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Noupe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

It is never easy to discover the best SEO analytics tool that can grow your site. With so many metrics and insights to consider when managing your site, it is crucial to select an efficient and reliable tool. Why is Web Analytics Important? Web analytics offers insights that help to understand the needs of your site visitors and their behaviors. You can adjust your content, CTA, and product offerings based on the gathered data.

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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.

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