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7 Ways to Leverage Social Media to Build Lasting Customer Relationships

Noupe

Today, any brand’s reputation and perception vastly depend on the relationships they have with their customers. It’s easy to create competent products and spend money on advertising. But the brands that put in special efforts in creating meaningful customer relationships are the ones that stand out. Social media is one of the best platforms for starting conversations and nurturing them into long-lasting customer relationships.

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Best Procreate Brushes For Beginners

Just Creative

When you download the Procreate app for your Apple iPad, it can take some time to get used to using it. With so many different brushes created by other designers out there, it can be hard to pick the ones that will help you get up to speed in no time. To help, we wanted to highlight some of the brushes that we thought would be a great choice for any designer, whether they are a professional or a hobbyist, looking to become a pro at using Procreate.

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Weekly News for Designers ? 580

Speckyboy Design Magazine

25 Free Magazine & Editorial Layout Templates for Adobe InDesign – Get your publication off the ground with these outstanding free InDesign templates. The Never-Ending Job of Selling Design Systems – How to convince executives not just to fund the initial push of design system work, but to keep funding it. Flameshot – Use this free tool to create screenshots and the included drawing tools to illustrate them.

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Explore the black and white streets of Hey Mady, where you never know which way the story will turn

Its Nice That

Storytelling is at the heart of the Philippines-based illustrator's work. Find out more about her complex architectural series of drawings below.

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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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Stylish new McDonald’s ads promote home delivery service

Creative Review

The posters are the latest in a long running series of ads from McDonald’s that have taken a simple, minimalist approach, making clever visual use of its iconic branding or its products to send a message to its audience. In this set of images, one half of the golden arches logo is shown beaming into homes, with the simple statement ‘We Deliver’ below.

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Sotoleros Is Not Tequila, But It's Just As Traditional

The Die Line

Emphasizing the hand-made aspect of the spirit, each bottle includes a stamp of a hand-drawn illustration of the respective artisan that crafted that batch.

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Zohar Dvir animates a bubble-filled fantasy world for Teddi Gold

Creative Review

Gold discovered Dvir’s work via Vimeo, and says she was “instantly obsessed” with the director’s mix of surrealism and humour. Thought Bubbles explores the feeling of being unable to reach a loved one, and this sensation underpin’s Dvir’s animation. “My concept behind the music video revolved around a character that is present in her absence, and characters based on Teddi and her cat Babou that can’t reach her,” explains the director, whoR

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Bristols Cider: Inspired by Thirst. Rooted in Tradition.

The Die Line

By incorporating elements of death, marked by skeletons on the glass bottle labels, the design team seemed to lean towards Neil’s goal of killing the stereotype that apple cider should be sweet as opposed to dry—the way it is made in the UK.

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Claudia Rubín on designing at pace for The New York Times Magazine

Its Nice That

Having landed her dream role, the graphic designer tells us what it’s like to work for such a dynamic and high-speed publication.

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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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Artist’s Stunning and Spooky Abandoned Movie Theater Diorama Is Too Real Not to Believe In

Design You Trust

Japanese model artist Takatsu breathtaking diorama is one that is taking us down memory lane with a bit of nostalgia–and also one that is so breathtakingly realistic we can’t believe they’re not photographs! More: Instagram , Twitter h/t: grapee. The attention to detail on this miniature replication of a 90’s movie theater long closed down is impeccable, making it look like actual location photography in Japan.

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Susan Meiselas’s new book Eyes Open features 23 photography projects for curious kids

Its Nice That

The Magnum president’s latest book reinterprets her cult classic Learn to See for young people.

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Online safety platform Just Ask Max rebrands to show the internet is a jungle

Design Week

London-based studio Among Equals has rebranded cybersecurity platform Just Ask Max (JAM) – previously Simple Cyber Life – with an animal-themed identity, inspired by stories like The Jungle Book. The new work includes a redesigned logo, bespoke illustrations and copy which rolls out across JAM’s app and web platforms. JAM is a subscription service for families which aims to help parents tackle internet issues, from scammers to sexting.

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Artist Draws Extremely Realistic Drawings Using Only A Pencil

Design You Trust

No one’s born knowing how to draw. It takes some time before childish scribbles take shape and turn into simplistic drawings that resemble something that is recognizable. Same goes with hyper-realistic drawings, which take exponentially more time to learn than just simple stick figures. It takes thousands of hours of hard work and patience. More: Instagram h/t: boredpanda.

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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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Moynihan Train Hall: branding New York’s “biggest civic infrastructure project in decades”

Design Week

New York-based branding studio Watson & Company has designed the identity for the newly opened Moynihan Train Hall in Manhattan. The project has been called New York’s “most ambitious transportation and infrastructure upgrade in decades” and involves the extension of the city’s Penn Station. Penn is one of the city’s busiest stations, servicing some 600,000 travellers every day (pre-pandemic).

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The Bold Type Hotel

Communication Arts

A site by eight for a Patras, Greece–based hotel conveys its character through a balance of design and typography.

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Karabo Poppy Moletsane and Jasmina El Bouamraoui create a suite of customisable symbols for Wiki’s 20th birthday

Its Nice That

The illustrators build a set of 101 symbols, each representing different areas of knowledge, cultures and celebrations for the free encyclopaedia's anniversary.

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Beautiful Female Fashion Photography in the 1960s by Hans Dukkers

Design You Trust

Fashion of the 1960s featured a number of diverse trends. It was a decade that broke many fashion traditions, mirroring social movements during the time. h/t: vintag.es. Around the middle of the decade, fashions arising from small pockets of young people in a few urban centers received large amounts of media publicity, and began to heavily influence both the haute couture of elite designers and the mass-market manufacturers.

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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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HOOF branding by Uniforma Studio

Abduzeedo

HOOF branding by Uniforma Studio. abduzeedo 02.19.21 Uniforma Studio shared a branding and visual identity for HOOF, a brand creating thoughtful solutions for office spaces. Office interior design is all about interaction. Interaction between people and objects around. That’s why flat elements from architectural projections and elements in 3D illustrations interpenetrate creating new value.

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“Plucked” by Photographer Geir Moseid

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NEW BOOK ABOUT T.S. SULLIVANT

Illustration Art

After a delay of 100 years we can finally celebrate the arrival of a compilation of the work of the brilliant T.S. Sullivant. Sullivant was part of that blessed generation of ink worshippers that included A. B. Frost, Heinrich Kley and Charles Dana Gibson, and he was as good as any of them. At 400 pages, this book provides a large, juicy selection of Sullivant's work.

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The art of Arlo Parks

Creative Review

Fresh from releasing her debut album, we speak to Arlo Parks and regular collaborator Molly Burdett about creating considered music videos and the value of nurturing the artist-creative relationship. The post The art of Arlo Parks appeared first on Creative Review.

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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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Elegantly Subversive Paintings Position Somber Women in the Throes of Domestic Struggle

Colossal

“None of These Clocks Work (I)” (2020), oil on canvas, 48 x 40 inches. All images © Chidinma Nnoli, courtesy of Rele Gallery, shared with permission. In her poetic body of work, Chidinma Nnoli draws on her experiences growing up in a patriarchal, Catholic home. It “felt very stifling, and I existed in an environment of anxiety and fear where it felt uneasy to relax,” says the 22-year-old Nigerian artist.

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Culture POP Soda's Branding Highlights Flavor And Function

The Die Line

Culture POP Soda is a new functional beverage that combines probiotics with sophisticated and creative twists to classic flavors.

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Tokyo’s Kadokawa Culture Museum Houses an Arresting Kengo Kuma-Designed Bookshelf Theater

Colossal

All images © RK, shared with permission. Although it boasts more than 50,000 books, the massive library at the heart of the Kadokawa Culture Museum ( previously ) isn’t just for bibliophiles or curious readers hoping to stumble upon a new title. Designed by renowned architect Kengo Kuma ( previously ), the towering venue is more accurately billed as a cultural gathering space than a traditional book collection, which Ryosuke Kosuge , who works as RK, recently documented a new series of ph

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GreenSupplies Gives A Whole New Meaning To Clean

The Die Line

Combining practicality and edge, the bottles’ look and feel suggests nothing but pure intention. .

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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.