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50 Best Procreate Brushes for Half Price. Buy 5+ and Save a Further 50% Off!

Spoon Graphics

Procreate Live has kicked off today with 50 of the best Procreate products on offer with a huge 50% discount. This is your chance to own the best Procreate brushes, drawing kits, background textures and much more. Throughout this week there will also be several FREE Live Sessions with some of the biggest names in the Procreate industry, so you can learn how to use your new tools for lettering, illustrating, and animating in Procreate. 50 Procreate Products. 50% off!

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Bad Logos: 31 Worst Logos Ever

Noupe

We can all use a good laugh these days, that’s why we prepared you a list of what not to do while designing a logo while working from home. Hopefully, these logos will put a smile on your faces. Bad logos might be quite bad for your brand. Your logo is what the people remember you with after all. There are many different ways you can go with your logo. you have probably identified a business by looking at its logo before, even if their name isn’t on the logo.

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25 Creative Business Branding / Stationery Templates Design

Graphic Design Junction

Professionally designed printable corporate branding stationery templates for any business or personal. These Stationery Packs included Business Card Layout, Letterhead Design (A4 & US Letter) , Invoice Design, Envelope Design (Front & Back Sides), Presentation Folder Layouts, Instruction & Help File. All items are print ready , CMYK color mode, 300 DPI, Bleed size 3 mm, and fully editable and customizable you can easily change the color to match your brand.

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Raku Inoue Sculpted Animals with Flower Petals

Trendland

“The pleasure is to keep on watering my Creativitree” reads the Instagram Bio of floral artist Raku Inoue. The Tokyo-born, Montreal-based artist loves to express his double culture influence in his work. Between origami and graffiti, his compositions are largely inspired by the nature surrounding him. And to create these impressive petals and leaves collages, Raku only uses plants that he cultivates!

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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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8 Fantastic Examples of CSS & JS Weather Widgets

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Weather is a huge part of our daily lives. As such, there is always a need for websites and mobile apps to report on it. Users will want to check out anything from the current conditions outside their house to the forecast for their favorite vacation spot. A compelling UI can make weather both easier to understand and even a bit more entertaining. Designers achieve this through a combination of color, animation and playful icons.

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What Print and Promotional Materials do Web Designers Need?

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Back in the web’s infancy, some thought it held the potential to usher in a “paperless” world. Well, that hasn’t happened just yet. Printed materials are still all around us. Of course, nobody said the same thing about other promotional items like clothing and assorted swag. If anything, they’re more prevalent than ever, with online services dedicated to letting us design and order our own gear.

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3D Animal Portraits by Maxim Shkret

Abduzeedo

3D Animal Portraits by Maxim Shkret. AoiroStudio Mar 23, 2020 This is the best opportunity to share some colours into your feed. Nothing to bring joy and inspiration than the work of Maxim Shkret with our constant admiration of his 3D animal series. Maxim is a digital artist that is super-talented and it's always refreshing. We pleasurably featured his work before and it's what we all needed right now, at this time in the World.

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How to Advertise on Facebook Marketplace: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guides

Fotor

In today’s post, I’m going to show you how to advertise on Facebook Marketplace. Facebook, one of the top social networking sites, is definitely the biggest platform you can get if you seek to boost engagement using the advertisement. At its most simple level, Facebook — like other social media tools — allows individuals to […].

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Noted: New Logo and Retail for Rite Aid

Under Consideration / Brand

“Wrong a Rite”. (Est. 1968) " Rite Aid Corporation is one of the nation's leading drugstore chains with fiscal 2018 revenues from continuing operations of $21.5 billion. The Company also owns EnvisionRxOptions, a multi-faceted healthcare and pharmacy benefit management (PBM) company supporting a membership base of more than 22 million members; RediClinic, a convenient care clinic operator with locations in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington; and Health Dialog, a leading pro

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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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Disco Visual Identity Proves Beauty is Simple and Fun

Trendland

Disco is masculine beauty brand – another pioneer of an up-and-coming trend for men-centred indie beauty products (just last week we wrote about another brand Soft). Disco is cruelty-free, vegan and organic with a range of deodorants, eye sticks as well as face & body wash wrapped into minimalist, recyclable packaging. The visual identity was created by a New York studio High Tide.

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Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for Judy by Red Antler

Under Consideration / Brand

“Break in Case of Emergency”. Established in 2019 and launched this year, Judy is a collection of "ready-kits" with everything you might need for natural disasters and home emergencies. (The irony of the timing of this product coming to market and publishing it on Brand New is not lost on me.) Built around the figure that over 60% of Americans have no emergency plan, the company's goal is making preparation a household essential.

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Tools for Staying Creative, Even When You’re Stressed

Feature Shoot

According to research, creativity doesn’t just improve our wellbeing; it can also reduce our stress levels. Recent studies tell us that creative tasks can unlock our imaginations, distract us from our feelings of stress and anxiety, and even prompt our brains to secrete feel-good chemicals. That’s something we could all use right now. Still, it can be challenging to find that creative spark when we’re experiencing anxiety and stress.

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‘Alone in the Night’ by Axel Corjon

Trendland

A very actual series by French photographer Axel Corjon with ongoing series, “Alone in the Night”. We love how Axel captures beautiful long-exposure photos of everyday scenes in Paris and large cities in the middle of the night. “I love shooting late at night. It’s always a special moment, it’s off time. People are mostly sleeping, making the night hours somehow unreal.

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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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Nicolas Nadé on growing plants, spontaneity and his wonderfully sequential illustrations

Its Nice That

The French illustrator has been keeping busy. Not only has he published a multitude of zines, but he’s also started to add a splash of colour to his usually monochromatic pieces.

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Bompas & Parr wants your most inventive take on hand sanitiser design

Creative Review

Amid the global coronavirus pandemic, good hand hygiene has become a key defence strategy in the fight against the virus – particularly as many people continue to flout social distancing recommendations. Experience design studio Bompas & Parr has teamed up with London’s Design Museum on Fountain of Hygiene, a new global competition and showcase for creatives of any age.

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Kris Andrew Small on pushing his style forward without distancing it from his existing work

Its Nice That

The Australian illustrator and designer has been working with a plethora of exciting clients while also developing his personal style – and it’s seen his confidence grow immensely.

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How to Advertise on Facebook Marketplace: Beginner’s Guides

Fotor

In today’s post, I’m going to show you how to advertise on Facebook Marketplace. Facebook, one of the top social networking sites, is definitely the biggest platform you can get if you seek to boost engagement using the advertisement. At its most simple level, Facebook — like other social media tools — allows individuals to […].

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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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Franz Impler’s animations offer up a chaotic, video game aesthetic

Creative Review

Illustrator, animator and designer Franz Impler grew up in a family of craftspeople in a small village in Bavaria. “There wasn’t that much art around me,” Impler tells CR. “But growing up so close to nature gave me a lot of freedom and the possibility to unfold my imagination.” Early on, Impler discovered his love for images and film and how they could help him realise all the things he was seeing in his head.

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Where’s Waldo Coronavirus Edition Is Here And It’s A Tad Easier To Spot Waldo Than Usual

Design You Trust

The famous “Where’s Waldo?” puzzle has left so many people with sore brains after scanning for Waldo for hours, if not days, since 1987. With the coronavirus pandemic changing the ways we used to live, Waldo is no exception. Inspired by Martin-Handford‘s iconic hero, the artists Pedro Mezzini and Clay Bennett gave Waldo quite a lone makeover. Thanks to global efforts in social distancing.

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Bloomers: An Animated Documentary Recounts the History Behind an Undergarment Business

Colossal

Consumers are paying closer attention to the ethics and business practices behind the products they buy, and animated documentarian Samantha Moore is shining a light on one company creating everyday essentials. Last year, the Shropshire-based creator released “ Bloomers ,” a short film that chronicles the history of the Manchester-based lingerie company Ella and Me , which began production in the United Kingdom before moving abroad and back again.

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Photos of the Week - Lake Tahoe and Oakland

Abduzeedo

Photos of the Week - Lake Tahoe and Oakland. abduzeedo Mar 23, 2020 Continuing with our series of free high-resolution photos I have been taking and sharing on Unsplash. This week I’d like to share some photos I took in the Bay Area and Lake Tahoe. The photos were taken with the Sony A7 III with the cheap (not so great) Sony FE 50mm F1.8 as well as with the amazing Sony FE 85mm F1.8.

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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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Photographer Spotlight: Holly Chang

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Ahlem’s New York Eyewear Shop Is a Visual Delight

Azure Magazine

In New York’s trendy Nolita neighbourhood , eyewear designer Ahlem Manai-Platt has opened her second shop and it’s a sight for sore eyes. The east coast flagship of Ahlem (the original location is in Los Angeles) is tucked into a 500-square-foot storefront. Designed by Brooklyn’s Shapeless Studio , the space emphasizes a feeling of timeless craft – one that reflects the award-winning brand’s detail-driven aesthetic.

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Explore Muge’s unique approach to large format photography based on ancient Chinese philosophy

Its Nice That

The acclaimed Chinese photographer talks us through his ongoing series informed by the philosopher and writer Lao Tze’s “theory of nature"

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“Military Logic” by Photographer Sophie Barbasch

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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.