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Tailor Brands – A Comprehensive Review

Designer Daily

The marketing space in the modern era is rather competitive. While brands are striving to make excellent products and have product quality at their core, branding is something that not everyone pays heed to. Sure, your customer base is bound to increase if they have good products at their disposal, but who ensures that it reaches them in the first place?

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6 Creative Instagram Accounts To Follow Now

Trendland

Words Emily Sandiford. As museums, galleries and creative studios close their doors amidst a new wave of lockdowns, we’re looking closer to home for inspiration. Here are six Instagram accounts to fill your feed with fun design, dream interiors and contemporary art.

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Elizabeth Yaffe on Designing The Orchard

Spine Magazine

Elizabeth Yaffe is a designer and motion graphics animator in New York City. She’s currently a senior designer for Ecco Books at HarperCollins. The Orchard happened to be the first book I was ever asked to design for Ecco. My Art Director, Allison Saltzman, emailed me the manuscript shortly after I accepted the position on staff with a note that she wasn’t expecting me to arrive on my first day with designs, but that it would be great if I could start reading.

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A Place of Our Own explores life as an Arab woman in Israel

Creative Review

Iris Hassid has spent half a decade documenting the recent surge of young Arab women who choose to go university in Tel Aviv and make the city their home. The Israeli photographer, who lives around the corner from Tel Aviv University, first began to notice the presence of these young women in 2012, and found herself wondering about the stories they had to tell.

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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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D&AD unveils its first-ever digital annual for 2020

Design Week

D&AD has revealed the 58th edition of its annual, which has been published in a digital-only format for the first time. Designed by Rotterdam-based Studio Dumbar, this year’s annual is available internationally and can be accessed for free. This move will allow the organisation to better fulfil its priorities, according to D&AD. These include reaching more diverse audiences and cutting down on its carbon footprint.

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8 Italian Ceramics That Combine Hygienic Design With Exuberant Style

Azure Magazine

Durable. Odourless. Natural. Sustainable. Sanitary. In an era where personal health and safety dominate global consciousness, the inherent qualities of ceramics – did we mention they’re also easy to clean? – are more vital than ever. What’s more, the innovation championed by manufacturers under the Ceramics of Italy banner continually makes for safer and more versatile spaces throughout the home.

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13 Artists & Activists using Photography to Explore Body Image

Feature Shoot

Astra Marie. Body Paint/ Styling: Nneka Gigi / @nnekagigi. Photography: Zachary Bxllion / @zacharybxllion. In 2018, Astra Marie teamed up with the artist Nneka GiGi and creative director and editor Zachary Bxllion to create the portrait above. A few days after the shoot, she was waiting on the metro with a friend when she noticed an email pop up on her phone: the images were ready. “When I saw this one, I was speechless for a moment,” she remembers. “Tears just started falling&

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GEOMETRY 3D Product Visualization

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GEOMETRY 3D Product Visualization. abduzeedo 11.16.20 Peter Janov shared a personal exploration of a set design and 3D product visualization. The main subjects of these renders are furniture pieces manufactured by an Italian brand Cimento. Colorful palette and nice simple shapes of their products inspired me to such an extent that Peter decided to model them and create this set of visualizations. .

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How I Got Here: Bake Off illustrator Tom Hovey

Creative Review

Tom Hovey talks to us about his journey from fussy eater to street artist to Great British Bake Off illustrator, and why food illustration is a good palate cleanser in the Instagram age. The post How I Got Here: Bake Off illustrator Tom Hovey appeared first on Creative Review.

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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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Simon Halfon unpacks the visual references in his album artwork for Oasis, The Who and George Michael

Its Nice That

As his retrospective book Cover to Cover is published, the graphic designer picks out five of his favourite covers from an illustrious 40-year career.

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Under UV Light, Platypuses Radiate a Fluorescent Green-Blue Hue—But Scientists Aren’t Sure Why

Colossal

From left: visible light, ultraviolet light, and yellow-filtered UV light. Photo by Jonathan Martin. The platypus has puzzled researchers for centuries. From its venom-filled spurs, milk-secreting skin, and ability to eat a quarter of its body weight every day, the egg-laying mammal even had European zoologists believing it was a hoax well throughout the 19th Century.

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Feast your eyes on Sierra Datri’s stylish editorial illustrations

Its Nice That

The Toronto-based designer talks about designing editorial illustrations for Ssense and why designers can afford to take some time off for themselves.

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Artist Barbara Franc Creates Gorgeous Animal Sculptures

Design You Trust

Animals are a magnificent force of nature, guided by instinct and intelligence. With all the beauty and variety they offer, it’s no surprise that the animal kingdom has been a long-standing source of inspiration for all kinds of artists, from story-tellers to sculptors. Barbara Franc is one such sculptor. Based out of London, Franc uses the power of recycling to bring out the magnificence of many.

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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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RISD Continuing Education Launches Winter Term With 100% Online Courses and Certificates

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Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education announces more than 60 online courses for adults and teens this winter, as well as eight certificate programs, that are offered 100% online. Any RISD CE online course can be taken for personal or professional enrichment, and many qualify for the Online Certificate Program. Designed for students who are looking to accelerate their creative lives and work, subjects range from interior design, product development, and graphic design to painting, ph

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Thought-Provoking Illustrations By Elia Colombo Might Take A Minute To Understand

Design You Trust

The world, especially in the crazy year of 2020, never fails to leave room for social criticism—it’s like you don’t even have to try hard to find things you can ironically poke at. Italian artist Elia Colombo, known to social media as “gebelia,” transfers the flaws of our modern society to conceptual illustrations. They are uncomfortable, thought-provoking, and with a good dose of irony and humor.

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Robert Beatty’s campaign for Away depicts the “sci-fi-like experience of travel amid a pandemic”

Its Nice That

The illustrator has brought his distinctively surreal style to 15 illustrations and animations for the brand’s Christmas campaign, which hopes to convey the strangeness of 2020.

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Editorial Design : New Brutalism Controversial Concrete

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Editorial Design : New Brutalism Controversial Concrete. abduzeedo 11.16.20 Tim Tijink shared a personal editorial design and graphic design project titled New Brutalism: Controversial Concrete. This self initiated project explores, researches and designs with and around the concrete structures of the architectural movement called New Brutalism, which emerged during the 1950s and currently finds itself in a critical time.

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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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The Annual 2021: Meet the Judges

Creative Review

A selection of the Creative Review Annual 2021 judges Our aim at Creative Review is to have the work that is entered into our Annual awards judged by the widest possible of industry experts we can. Last year, for the first time, we introduced an initial remote judging stage, where a wide selection of judges from across the world helped contribute to creating a shortlist of work.

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2021 Lavazza Calendar: The New Humanity

Design You Trust

January. (Photo by Denis Rouvre/2021 Lavazza Calendar) With the world feeling more distant than ever, photographers were this year called on to translate their vision of the new humanity into images seen through their own eyes. From names like Steve McCurry, David LaChapelle, Martin Schoeller, Patti Smith and Save the Children International CEO Inger Ashing comes an appeal to reawaken individual.

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#ILoveTheseGuys Creative Inspiration: Appartement 103

Shillington

Shillington students and staff from around the world share the work of creatives who inspire them in the #ILoveTheseGuys series. In this post, New York student Orion Currier highlights projects from Paris-based independent design agency, Appartement 103. I love their work because they constantly reinvent their approach to packaging. They do great designs that highlight the product and always think about consumer facing—how the product looks on a shelf, what would make it stand out, etc.

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Inredningskurser Brand Identity & Web Design

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Inredningskurser Brand Identity & Web Design. abduzeedo 11.16.20 Inredningskurser.se is an e-learning platform for Nordic/Scandinavian interior design. Lucas Olsson was responsible for the branding, more precisely, creating a new brand identity and a fully working web design. For Lucas, from his own words, it's been a great journey to work on this brand and develop that Scandinavian style.

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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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The D&AD Annual goes digital

Creative Review

It is testament to the strength of feeling that D&AD tends to provoke in the UK advertising and design industries that the news that its Annual was moving from print to digital generated such a degree of dismay when it was announced last month. This is a move that is arguably long overdue in 2020, yet creatives took to social media and think pieces to express their love for ‘the book’ and their sadness at its demise.

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“The Sapper” by Photographer Bharat Sikka

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Anna Zimmermann finds inspiration in ordinary things to create her sleek images

Its Nice That

For Anna, the designer functions as a connecting role, bridging concepts with the people that can turn it into reality.

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INSPIRATION EDUCATION PTY LTD: Graphic Designer

Shillington

The post INSPIRATION EDUCATION PTY LTD: Graphic Designer appeared first on Shillington Design Blog.

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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.