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How Can Small Businesses Utilize the Power Of AI?

Noupe

AI, the next digital revolution is providing unimaginable possibilities to every sector of the industry. Be it transportation, information technology, hospitality, healthcare, and much more, AI is making entrepreneurs prepare for what’s next to come and boost their business performances. As technology opens the door towards data and automation, opportunities are emerging from every sphere to build new insights on businesses of all sizes and shapes.

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Among Equals’ playful rebrand for family-focused cybersecurity service

Creative Review

Just Ask Max is a cybersecurity company aimed at helping parents navigate the world of digital safety and wellbeing in areas such as sexting, screen time and online scams. With the service looking to appeal to parents, children and investors alike, Among Equals led a rebrand that involved renaming the company – previously known as Simple Cyber Life – and overhauling its visual identity with a friendlier character, eschewing the typically harsh aesthetics associated with cybersecurity

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Andrew Davis on Designing Plain Bad Heroines

Spine Magazine

Andrew Davis is a designer and illustrator at HarperCollins. He lives in London. Here he tells us about designing the cover for Plain Bad Heroines. When I began reading Plain Bad Heroines , I couldn’t wait to get started on designing the cover. It’s a funny and clever American Gothic novel with a queer twist, and I’d never read anything like it before.

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Poster project MakingIt21 shares positivity and wisdom from the industry

Creative Review

The last year has been difficult for everyone. In the creative industries, young and emerging designers especially have had a tough time breaking through with cancelled degree shows and events, and fewer junior roles available. Though the future of 2021 still feels TBC, design director David Moloney has created MakingIt21 as a source of positivity during this time, for both graduating designers, and anyone else who needs it.

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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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Build a Trendy Line Icon Office Vector Scene in 15 Minutes!

Vectips

Create a quick and trendy office vector scene with simple line icons. We’ll go through each piece, step by step in no time flat! Tutorial Details: Illustrate an Office Vector in 15 Minutes! Program : Adobe Illustrator CS6 – CC. Difficulty : Intermediate. Topics Covered : Design Theory, Shape Building, Compositional Skills. Estimated Completion Time : 15 Minutes.

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Contorted Limbs and Bodies Disrupt the Mundane in Surreal Photographs by Cristina Coral

Colossal

All images © Cristina Coral, shared with permission. Photographer Cristina Coral has an eye for subtle alterations that transform seemingly ordinary scenes into surreal images brimming with illusion. Often centered on a solitary woman, the conceptual photographs rely on texture, pattern, and the figures’ contorted poses. A limp hand protrudes from a bush, strawberry locks drape over a brocade couch, and a teacup precariously balances on a pair of feet.

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Sin Eater: Illustrations from The Heart of The Herefordshire Countryside by Matthew Glover

Design You Trust

Matthew Glover is the creator of Sin Eater Illustrations, he lives deep in the heart of Herefordshire’s countryside. Here his fascination of nature and British folklore grew, working in a traditional pen and ink style his artwork is highly detailed and is all created by hand. Detached from the contemporary, Matthew’s work is a call into the echoing chasms of the past.

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Change the Ref’s unsettling postcards highlight the need for gun reform

Creative Review

Change the Ref is well known for adopting creativity in its fight to accelerate the change in gun laws in the US. The organisation was featured in CR’s 2018 Annual awards for its Posts Into Letters campaign , which allowed people to turn their social media posts about stricter gun controls into handwritten letters to send to Congress. The non-profit’s latest campaign, Shamecards, pays tribute to the towns and cities that are now best remembered as the locations of some of the deadlie

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Miller Genuine Draft hopes to regain relevance with “hand-crafted” rebrand

Design Week

BrandOpus has rebranded Miller Genuine Draft (MGD) in an attempt to win back the relevance among consumers, according to the design studio. The overhaul includes a redesigned logo, colour palette and typography and rolls out across all packaging and communications. It’s been developed jointly by BrandOpus studios in New York and London. Before (left), after (right) Miller Brewing Company first created the cold-filtered MGD in 1985, and it surged in popularity in the following decade.

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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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Fantastical Cartoons, Robotic Pets, and Vibrant Architecture Populate Digital Illustrations by Ori Toor

Colossal

“David and the Sphinx” In Ori Toor ’s Gibberish universe, it’s not uncommon to see bulbous cartoon creatures, leaves sprouting from pockets of machinery, or tunnels wrapped in rainbows. Set against solid backdrops, the digitally rendered dreamlands are teeming with fantastical elements and whimsy as Toor plays with scale and shape, planting a yellow pyramid or robotic cat on varying planes.

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Design of Healthcare App

Noupe

Health is one of the major concerns of today’s world. We are living in a fast-paced world where going to the gym every day seems a challenge. But tracking one’s health status is not that much difficult. There are lots of mobile health applications that you can use to track your everyday health status. With countless health apps already in the market, healthcare providers’ major challenge is to develop a mobile health app that functions well, looks organized, can be sustained, and is

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Modern Take of a Classic Book Cover

Abduzeedo

Modern Take of a Classic Book Cover. abduzeedo 02.18.21 Mario De Meyer shared an incredible illustration work as for a book cover. He was approached by Penguin Books to design the cover for the Deluxe Edition of the American classic “The Great Gatsby”. The goal was to take the original design to the 21st century and make something very different, unique and beautiful with a modern twist.

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Photographer Spotlight: Luis Corzo

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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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National Gallery seeks design team to work on £30 million bicentenary project

Design Week

London’s National Gallery is searching for a design team to work with it on a suite of capital projects that will mark the institution’s 200 th birthday in 2024. The design projects will form part of an “inspirational programme” of events, exhibitions and outreach work undertaken by the gallery, with all celebrations under the banner of NG200.

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“Truth is the first casualty in a war”: Poulomi Basu on her acclaimed docu-fiction film, Centralia

Its Nice That

In the first Nicer Tuesdays talk of 2021, the transmedia artist took us through the subtleties between fact and fiction, ideas she explored through photography.

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COLLINS Reimagines The Classical Concert Experience For San Francisco Symphony 

Abduzeedo

COLLINS Reimagines The Classical Concert Experience For San Francisco Symphony . abduzeedo 02.18.21 COLLINS is launching a new vision for the 108-year-old San Francisco Symphony -- set to redefine classical music for modern audiences as the org transitions from the old Music Director, Michael Tilson Thomas to Esa–Pekka Salonen , a very progressive and modern successor. .

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Troup Injects Bruno Mars' Personality Into SelvaRey Rum Refresh

The Die Line

Recognizing a need to imbue the brand with investor Bruno Mars’ personality while elevating it to the super-premium space, SelvaRey brought in agency Troup to realign and revitalize the spirit's identity.

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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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Ten visual artists explore the relationship between sound and vision

Its Nice That

Sometimes ambient, often abstract, and always creatively representative of the genre – we speak to five artists who’ve used their medium to represent different genres of music for Spotify’s Fresh Finds playlist collection.

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The Restaurant Of Yao

The Die Line

The containers pay homage to custom, bamboo steaming containers which make consumers feel like they are having professionally-made food with little to no necessary knowledge of how to cook. .

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Huruf explores Malaysia’s visual culture and multilingual vernacular through type

Its Nice That

Surrounded by multiple languages, dialects and scripts, the Kuala Lumpur-based type collective explores its rich typographic landscape and designs new fonts representing its translocal culture.

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L'AVANT Puts The Avant In Avant-Garde

The Die Line

The textured bottom of each bottle provides a tactile experience for the consumer as well as ensuring the aesthetic of each vessel will provide depth and maintain cohesiveness in any kitchen or bathroom.

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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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Alva Skog’s cartoonish characters now populate WeTransfer’s entire interface

Its Nice That

Download a file, get asked for a password, or find a broken link, and you’ll be met with one of the illustrator’s distinctive characters bringing that interaction to life in a charming way.

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Closed Loop Partners Announce Winners Of The Beyond The Bag Challenge

The Die Line

We all want to find an alternative to plastic bags. The Beyond The Bag Challenge just might have identified a few notable solutions.

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Fiery Crayon Sculptures and Busts by Herb Williams Confront the Climate Crisis

Colossal

“First Fire.” All images © Herb Williams, by Hannah Deits, shared with permission. Herb Williams addresses some of the most pressing issues of our time—uncontrollable fires, hurricanes, and an impending lack of natural resources, to name a few—through an unusually playful medium. The Nashville-based artist creates colorful sculptures and busts from innumerable crayons, assembling textured works that simultaneously display the ubiquitous childhood tool while confronting the ongoing ef

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John-Paul Flintoff offers advice to creatives on how to tackle public speaking

Its Nice That

In his new book, A Modest Book About How to Make an Adequate Speech, the artist and writer shares his top tips for talking about your work.

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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.