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Non-Fungible What?

Guild News Blog

Buyers of NFTs need to be certain of what they are purchasing. Similar to buying a physical work of art – a painting or a sculpture – the buyer does not automatically receive the copyrights to the work. The post Non-Fungible What? appeared first on The Graphic Artist Guild.

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The 25 Best Outline Fonts for Your Designs (Free & Paid)

Just Creative

Perfect for creating web designs, branding projects and headlines, and more, outline fonts can make your designs stand out. An outline font can help make your design stand out. . While there is no shortage of outline font options out there, going through them all can be a time-consuming process, and to be honest, you’d probably like to have a life too.

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Sydney Ligouri: Educator To Watch

Graphic Design USA

Sydney Ligouri is a designer who has been teaching at Shillington for over three years and was recently promoted to Head of the New York campus, overseeing all teaching and teaching teams. She is the first of our 2021 Educators to Watch.

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Adobe Launches CoCreate: Small Business

Dexigner

Adobe has today launched CoCreate: Small Business, an initiative providing small businesses with creative services and digital tools while generating paid opportunities for the global creative community.

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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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Storytelling Pictures

Joe McNally

My dear friend and fellow photog of many years, PF Bentley , recently shot me a super solid and sent me a beautiful 16×20 rendition of the moment of the transition of power, from January, 2001. Framed it, and it’s about to go up on the wall. Shot from an unusual angle, it wonderfully, monochromatically shows the inauguration of George W. Bush.

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Identifying and Improving Your Weaknesses as a Web Designer

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Web design and development are incredibly vast fields. There are so many potential skills to learn and areas in which to specialize. That means even the top people in the industry will have holes in their knowledge. There is also a fine line between what can be considered a knowledge gap and a true weakness. For example, just because you don’t know React or create layouts in Figma – is that a detriment?

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Pearlfisher’s Brand Creation For Consider Pastures Sets The Golden Standard For Eggs

The Die Line

Pearlfisher partnered with Consider Pastures, and together they're dynamically disrupting the egg industry. The attention to detail in this project is striking, which makes sense considering the brand's monogram is inspired by the Phi symbol and the golden ratio.

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Why You Should Further Educate Yourself as a Designer

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Everyone knows that education is the best investment a designer can make to further his or her career. But what does that mean, exactly? Should you go back to school (or attend for the first time)? Should you find a mentor or study the greats repeatedly until you perfect your craft? Perhaps you should do these things… and perhaps not. Today, we explore specific ways to further educate yourself as a designer, and apply what you learn immediately to becoming better at what you do, as well as

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Rational Simplicity: Celebrating Rudolph de Harak, an unsung hero of mid-century graphic design

Its Nice That

Richard Poulin pays homage to the trailblazing American graphic designer, hoping to share his rich, varied and vibrant portfolio with a wider audience.

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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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The Heroic People Who Care for Thailand’s Street Dogs

Feature Shoot

An abandoned puppy found on the streets of Phuket is brought into the foundation for sterilization by a vacationing German couple. A street dog is brought into the vet hospital after suffering from a horrible wound to his body thought to be inflicted by a human with a machete. The cut went all the way down to the spine but after emergency surgery he is thought to make a full physical recovery.

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Envato Elements Freebies For Your Projects

Design with Red

Envato Elements is a subscription base platform where you can download unlimited digital assets and resources. You can enjoy millions of creative products from graphics, web and video templates, audio, photos and more. We highly recommend Envato Elements if you are a business, graphic designer, design agency, YouTuber, blogger or creative professional who use digital […].

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Giveaway Emails: Essentials, Best Practices, and Inspiring Examples

Designmodo

This post is originally published on Designmodo: Giveaway Emails: Essentials, Best Practices, and Inspiring Examples. As one of the most engaging and promising communication channels, email marketing offers numerous instruments to help entrepreneurs run their companies successfully. Along with promotional, transactional, and informational newsletters, the giveaway email can be a real boost for business.

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This Dubai Spa Revels in Moroccan Minimalism

Azure Magazine

Though Morocco may be more known for its vibrant metropolises of Marakesh and Casablanca as well as the geological feat of the Sahara desert, the North African country’s cultural history is equally renowned. A refined new spa in Dubai builds on this rich past, embracing the nation’s lineage both atmospherically and architecturally. For the new two-storey ZAAZ Wellness & Beauty Spa on the city’s Palm Jumeirah archipelago, VSHD Design fitted the serene 240-square-metre outpos

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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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Photographer Spotlight: Jan Khür

Booooooom

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Go behind the scenes of Wes Anderson and an Oscar-nominated short: Tickets are now available for April’s Nicer Tuesdays Online!

Its Nice That

Annie Atkins, graphic prop maker for film, and Oscar-nominated animator and director Siqi Song take to the online stage for our monthly edition creative talks.

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“Rise and Shine”: The Superb Gloomy Pop-Art Illustrations of Bogdan Timchenko

Design You Trust

There are no criteria for creativity, everything can be called art, declares Krasnoyarsk illustrator Bogdan Timchenko. Today he is a popular artist of both bright and gloomy pop-art sketches and posters. “Usually it’s characters first of all some from childhood, which is fun to draw. Well, some character from my childhood, which is more fun for me to draw, and it’s very easy to start doing it, if you don’t want to, you don’t have any ideas, you just take it and star

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Storytelling Pictures

Joe McNally

My dear friend and fellow photog of many years, PF Bentley , recently shot me a super solid and sent me a beautiful 16×20 rendition of the moment of the transition of power, from January, 2001. Framed it, and it’s about to go up on the wall. Shot from an unusual angle, it wonderfully, monochromatically shows the inauguration of George W. Bush.

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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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An Uncanny Animated Short by Fernando Livschitz Twists Mundane Scenes into Bizarre Alternatives

Colossal

Argentinian director Fernando Livschitz ( previously ), who helms Black Sheep Films , is back with a surreal short film that envisions everyday activities and scenes with a slightly unsettling spin. Infused with Livschitz’s distinct penchant for humor and absurdity, “ Anywhere Can Happen ” is set to a rendition of “What a Wonderful World” by Reuben and the Dark and AG and descends into an uncanny universe of galactic rollercoasters, dimension-traveling trains, and o

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Redesigning Self-Care: This Week’s Newest Packaging 10 Entries

Graphis

Have you been keeping up on your own self-care recently? Need a reminder to take a break, take a breath, and take a minute for yourself? Look no further than this week’s featured entries in our Packaging 10 competition! Sip some sake for some self-care! Specifically, “SAKE MIYOSHI HANA,” (above) designed by OUWN design firm […].

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Forget perfect lines, Kimberly Elliott’s jagged creations are here to make you laugh

Its Nice That

The Philippines-raised and France-based illustrator talks us through her humorous (and wildly simple) illustrations.

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Handsome New Foundation for Global Architecture Firm, Page — Case Study

Abduzeedo

Handsome New Foundation for Global Architecture Firm, Page — Case Study. abduzeedo 04.06.21 The amazing team over at handsome shared a case study of the new web design for Page , a global multidisciplinary architecture and engineering firm, has partnered with branding and experience design agency handsome to evolve their brand for the digital age and redesign their website into an experience that was worthy of their talent, expertise, and passion for their work.

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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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Pearlfisher gives Consider Pastures egg brand “emotive” new look

Design Week

Pearlfisher has unveiled a new brand for Consider Pastures, a company that specialises in “humanely-raised, organic and free-range” eggs. Founded on the basis of sustainable farming, the company says it offers the “gold standard” in the world of eggs. Its focus on sourcing from small family-run farms and pasture-raised environments allows hens to “roam and behave naturally”, it adds.

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Photographer Reveals the Beauty of Female Body in Minimalistic Monochrome Photographs

Design You Trust

We know nothing of the Instagrammer @eme.amala, except that she paints and photographs. Between symbolism and minimalism, the mysterious artist publishes, on her digital gallery, monochrome images where objects, bodies and heavenly landscapes merge. An account that will please the dreamers. More: Instagram.

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Essence of that Retro Chic Summer — Illustration

Abduzeedo

Essence of that Retro Chic Summer — Illustration. abduzeedo 04.06.21 We have featured VELKRO in the past and we will definitely continue that tradition because we love their work. For this post I’d love to share a beautiful Illustration and motion design project created by them in 2019. The idea was simply to celebrate summer and translate that to a greeting card to send to friends and clients.

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10 Ways How You Can Use AI in E-commerce

Noupe

Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP) are three of the hottest technologies on the marketplace at the moment, and they power many of the tools and applications that we use on a daily basis, from Netflix and YouTube to the eCommerce stores where we spend our money. Of course, if you’re reading this article then the chances are that you own or run an eCommerce store, and so we’re not going to dwell too much on how AI works.

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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.