Spoon Graphics

JANUARY 12, 2022

Gritty, grainy, grungy textures are my favourite type of design asset for roughing up your clean digital artwork to give it an old, worn, and distressed appearance. Because grungy textures are sourced from real dirty surfaces, there’s an infinite supply of resources, each one with its own unique style. In today’s roundup post I collate 60 of the best grit, grain, and grunge texture packs out there, including both free downloads and high quality texture pack products. 10 FREE Dirty Surface Textur

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I Love Typography

JANUARY 12, 2022

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Evoking past, present and future, the geometrically glorious Valvolina with 'its bizarre yet engaging assemblage of contrapuntal shapes' is the topic of this fifth episode of everyone's favorite type column. The post Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Valvolina appeared first on I Love Typography.

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Canny

JANUARY 12, 2022

Nagarro, an engineering leader driving businesses forward through effective technologies — a brand with over 12,000+ experts working for them across 27 countries — has taken the change in year as an opportunity to shake things up a little. They rebranded , altering the logo and visual identity of the brand in a rather significant way. It’s a bold change for a brand that has been in business since 1996.

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Creative Review

JANUARY 12, 2022

Dubbed ‘Britain’s answer to Roswell’, the Pennines-based market town of Todmorden has become both the spiritual home and physical meeting place for Britain’s ‘ufoists’ Drawn in by Todmorden’s well-above-average incidences of reported UFO sightings and unexplained events that many chalk up to meddlings from extraterrestrial life, these enthusiasts find much to pore over in the West Yorkshire spot.

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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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Graphic Design Junction

JANUARY 12, 2022

Best vintage fonts with unique vintage taste and rough vintage style. Free vintage fonts can make your logotype become more interesting. Best Vintage font with special alternative glyphs, and multilingual support. inspired by the decorative arts and architecture movement. Rough vintage fonts are useful to create vintage logotypes , badges, labels, apparel design and quotes.

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Design Milk

JANUARY 12, 2022

Long Beach, California-based Zwift is known for its app that promotes fitness through video gaming. Users run and cycle through virtual 3D fantasy environments and real-world destinations recreated with hidden twists. In its recent headquarters expansion, the company overtook two additional floors and redesigned all three with help from IA Interior Architects’ Orange County and Los Angeles studios.

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Creative Review

JANUARY 12, 2022

The promo for this year’s edition of Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival stands out for a couple of reasons: one being the festival’s historic predilection for stunts. This year, it’s planning to hypnotise its entire audience, while previous editions have seen a viewer spend a week alone in a lighthouse watching back-to-back films and people watching horror films in a tomb.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 12, 2022

Illustration by Tamara Siewert, edited with [link] Personality and gender in voice assistants is not something that emerges due to the nature of “AI systems”. Rather, it is intentionally created based on the logic of market demand, gender biases, and prevalent unrealistic narratives about AI. Raw AI-ness could mean: Actively deconstructing narratives that parallel artificial intelligence with human intelligence.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2022

Amsterdam’s Dentista is out to rethink trips to the dentist for the self-care crowd. With the help of design studio i29 , the dental clinic has opened a practice that forgoes the drab feel of most clinical environments in favour of bright natural light, warm woods and abundant greenery. The end result successfully encourages patients to think of an oral checkup less as a dreaded routine obligation, and more as a relaxing spa treatment.

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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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Its Nice That

JANUARY 12, 2022

We catch up with the illustration artist to find out how taking her creative practice full-time has been going.

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We And The Color

JANUARY 12, 2022

Available for free download with an Adobe Stock trial subscription, using this Photoshop mockup by Pixelbuddha you can create fractal mirror poster photo effects in no time. Based on the size of 3000 x 4500 px, the skilled team of @Pixelbuddha created this Photoshop mockup with eight different design options. This way, you can add various fractal mirror styles to your images.

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Abduzeedo

JANUARY 12, 2022

Keine Werbung — Graphic Design + Typography. abduzeedo 0112—22 Keine Werbung, meaning No Advertisement, is usually found on post boxes throughout Germany. As it was one of the first things Nicolaas Kotzé noticed when he arrived in Berlin some years ago. “I did't know what it meant back then before I could speak German. It always fascinated me as it serves to prevent people from putting adverts or "junk mail" in your post box (without much success)” - said Nicolaas.

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Creative Nerds

JANUARY 12, 2022

This is a great water bubbles seamless vector pattern. The pattern is perfect for being used in print and digital design projects. The pattern is completely free your really enjoy using throughout your projects. The pattern comes in two scalable Vector files of the pattern set, which can be scaled down or made bigger without […]. The post Water bubbles seamless free vector and photoshop pattern first appeared on Creative Nerds.

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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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Its Nice That

JANUARY 12, 2022

Living between London and Bangalore, the photographer centres on marginalised narratives to create beautifully rich, expressive and multifaceted images.

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Colossal

JANUARY 12, 2022

All images © Joshua Nowicki, shared with permission. Last weekend in St. Joseph, Michigan, tall layered pedestals and sloping tables sprung up from the otherwise calm Tiscornia Park Beach, turning the lakeside vista into a strange, otherworldly environment. Photographer Joshua Nowicki ( previously ) captured the ice-laden phenomenon, which is caused by powerful winds eroding frozen sand and carving dozens of towering shapes haphazardly placed along the shore.

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Its Nice That

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Seoul-based graphic designer talks us through his latest branding project for the local store Isaid, featuring stark monochromes and text cut-outs.

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Design You Trust

JANUARY 12, 2022

Julia Soboleva is a Manchester-based artist who paints frightening paintings in the spirit of David Lynch’s surrealist aesthetic. Soboleva’s paintings are as abstract as possible, yet deeply poetic enigmas about peace, loneliness, and death. More: Instagram , Etsy.

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Design Milk

JANUARY 12, 2022

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. When is a pasta box not a pasta box? To paraphrase Magritte, ceci n’est pas une pasta box: In fact, it’s a luxury handbag, crafted in leather, with a chunky, metallic chain. Released in August as part of a series of monthly limited-edition releases, the bag, priced at $199, sold out in five minutes. For artist and designer Nik Bentel , the bag offered a way to “create something exciting from the mundane” – both in the sense of creating the bag itself from its p

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The Branding Journal

JANUARY 12, 2022

The dog food market is growing and becoming more and more saturated. According to a 2018 article by Pet Food Processing , the number of pet food brands in the US at the time was 630, with a 71% increase since 2011. In a market like this, differentiation is essential, and brands must address more niche needs. This article will analyze the branding strategies of five dog food brands from different countries, explain how they differentiate themselves from the competition, and provide some key takea

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Creative Bloq

JANUARY 12, 2022

Serif’s low-cost rival to Adobe Illustrator gets an under-the-hood performance boost.

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Creative Market

JANUARY 12, 2022

Photos as part of wall decor have always been an easy way to spruce up your space, whether in the form of old-timey paintings, vintage frames or Polaroids. Playing with photos on your wall can be a great way to practice curating creative ideas or to honor your loved ones through a gallery of your favorite photos together. But what makes a good photo wall?

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crowdspring

JANUARY 12, 2022

If you want your book to stand out online or on physical bookshelves it must have a great cover. Here are the ten biggest book cover design trends for 2022.

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Designspiration

JANUARY 12, 2022

Silence. - Russian Carpet: Daily inspiration, trends, mood board. Architecture, art, design, fashion, photography.

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Design You Trust

JANUARY 12, 2022

The 1970s began with a continuation of the hippie look from the 1960s, giving a distinct ethnic flavor. Popular early 1970s fashions for women included Tie dye shirts, Mexican ‘peasant’ blouses, folk-embroidered Hungarian blouses, ponchos, capes, and military surplus clothing. Bottom attire for women during this time included bell-bottoms, gauchos, frayed jeans, midi skirts, and ankle-length maxi dresses.

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Designspiration

JANUARY 12, 2022

New York + London: Double Exposure Photography by Daniella Zalcman #photography #double exposure #inspiration

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