Creative Bloq

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The right mood board can help communicate your design ideas to win pitches and get a prompt sign off

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Creative Market

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Iris: a flower with sword-shaped leaves, the Greek goddess of rainbows, the part of your eye that lets light in. As we discover what this new normal can look like, here’s a color that captures our quest for the unknown. The curiosity in experiencing familiar places with new eyes. Cosmic Iris is a blue-to-purple hue that takes us to a place of wonder.

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SpeckyBoy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

When it comes to marketing your freelance web design business, it’s easy to spend the bulk of your energy on attracting new clients. That’s certainly a worthwhile pursuit. But it’s also important to focus on your existing ones as well. There is great value in keeping existing clients in the loop. And not just from a marketing perspective. Sharing content of interest with them also helps to maintain your relationship.

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Creative Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Hailed by his contemporaries as “the poster king”, 20th century graphic designer E McKnight Kauffer brought an avant-garde aesthetic to industries including literature, theatre, transport and more throughout his hugely successful career. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum holds one of the most extensive collections of Kauffer’s designs in the world.

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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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We And The Color

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Available for download as fully editable vector graphics on Adobe Stock, these templates of minimalist, geometric modern artworks are ideal for decorative design ranging from posters to greeting cards. Created by graphic designer, illustrator, and Adobe Stock contributor @Hulinska Yevheniia , this collection of fully editable vector graphics contains beautifully designed artworks based on minimalist, geometric shapes.

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We And The Color

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Check out this unique visual identity concept created by Au Chon Hin for Macau Designers Association. Au Chon Hin, a graphic designer and founder of studio Untitled Macao, just published this beautiful branding concept for Macau Designers Association. The Macau Designers Association (MDA) was founded on 18 May 1986. It is a professional, non-profit art and cultural association comprising graphic, product, interior, and web designers as well as commercial photographers, illustrators, and other cr

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Mindsparkle Mag

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Now that traveling is being less restrictive, at least locally, the idea of a short escape from home to at least change the scenery is more likely. For this kind of brief escape, we’re not in the look of a fancy place to stay, but somewhere that reminds us of home, but it’s not our house. We’re usually looking for a cozy place with a friendly ambient.

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Its Nice That

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

We talk to Helen Rabbitte AKA Hello Rabbit on designing all things music, and how the “trippy and bizarre” moments of decades gone inspire her.

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Design Milk

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Designed by Jim Olson of Olson Kundig as an oasis on the water, the Water Cabin is a 1,580-square-foot retreat with 180-degree views. The floating home resides on Portage Bay in Washington State with western red cedar siding inspired by weathered cabins. The vertical slats, hung irregularly like trees in a forest, will weather over the years yet they’ll require minimal maintenance.

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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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Creative Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“Never has it been truer that people have an unexpressed animal side, desperate for release. We’ve been confined for too long,” says the gallery information for Morrison’s show, and looking at its installation, which features one dog hanging from a chandelier, another smoking a cigar while wearing a Fez, and a further pup sitting angrily alone in the corner, it’s easy to see what they mean.

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Its Nice That

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The London-based illustrator tells us about how the pandemic has affected her work, particularly, and how she manages to hold onto her sense of humour.

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash If you’re a content designer, you’re probably already making a mental list of all the things you’ve heard that made you feel this way. Hit me up; I’d love to hear them! If you’re not a content designer, you’re probably wondering “What’d I do?” Well, read on to find out what you may have done. Disclaimer: While this is all based on truth, no offense intended.

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Its Nice That

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

At August's Nicer Tuesdays, we chatted to the revered animator and illustrator about how she's found her creative tone of voice.

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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.

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Designspiration

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Inspiration Grid : Design Inspiration, Illustration, Typography, Photography, Art, Architecture & More #pink #print #design #book #type #typography

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Design Milk

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

At the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, Brooklyn-based artist and founder of The Lawns design collective Jess Murphy set out to turn her artwork into wallpaper while she passed the time. Taking inspiration from a celebratory scene of dancing people in the film The Two Popes , Jess began by working with pre-pandemic live figure drawings. As the sketches developed, she thought more about the meaning behind them where despite “the absence of people, a presence of community remains.” T

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?” ? Arthur Conan Doyle Does this feel like you? I’m starting this article on a typical Thursday morning, but a particular day when I’m feeling very less-than. As I write this, I have ten tabs open on my browser. Articles from email newsletters, links shared on social media or in Slack.

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Designspiration

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Remarkable Minimalistic Movie Posters | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials #minimalist #movie #poster

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Colossal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

? ?. To launch its 13th year, a bizarre animation for the 2021 Festival Stop Motion Montréal evokes eerie tropes and superstitions: a drooling pug morphs into an unfriendly black cat, a gardener reveals a sharp scissor hand, and a once-vibrant fire turns into clouds of soot. Set to a lively track by Nick Lavigne that quickly bends into a sinister tone, the claymation teaser by Rome-based animator Gianluca Maruotti opens the festival, which will show 93 short films from September 10 to 19.

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Abduzeedo

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Ouroboros Graphic Novel. abduzeedo 09.14.21 Royalex is a French illustrator based in La Rochelle and was kind enough to share a colorful illustration project with us. Ouroboros was a school project for my final year in design school. It’s a short story about a stranger discovering a mysterious solar system, with which he feels a certain bond…In this colorful - almost psychedelic - travel in this weird universe, the stranger, who lost his ship, will discover a timeless planet.

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Designspiration

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Loud Silence | Volt Café | by Volt Magazine #beauty #white #design #graphic #volt #black #photography #art #and #fashion #layout #magazine #typography

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Abduzeedo

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Editorial Illustration - Dangerous Camouflage. abduzeedo 09.14.21 Eiko Ojala shared an awesome editorial illustration post on his Behance profile. Titled as "Dangerous Camouflage", Eiko tries to provide a critical point of view of the addiction of society to electronic devices, in this particular case, the about soldiers using smartphones and how dangerous it is of reviling all sorts of information. .

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Feature Shoot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“I remember going to the beach as a child and feeling a sense of freedom,” Sandra Cattaneo Adorno , who grew up in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s-60s, tells me. “The grown-ups were having a good time together, so they left us children to our adventures and mischiefs. The best part of the week was Sunday, when my mother packed a picnic and we went to the beach for the whole day.

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Design You Trust

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

1st Place by Jason Kirk. Trichome (white appendages) and stomata (purple pores) on a southern live oak leaf. Nikon has announced the Winners, Honorable Mentions, and Images of Distinction for the 2021 Small World Photomicrography Competition. More than 1,900 entries were received from 88 countries in 2021, the 47th year of the competition. Nikon’s Small World Celebrating 47 years of images captured by the light microscope.

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Designspiration

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

pantone: food art pairings #diptych #color #chip #food #two #simple #photography #pantone #art #pair #pairing #typography

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Its Nice That

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Finally ready for its public release, The Things Around Us was, incredibly, made in her first year of studying animation.

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