Wed.Jul 28, 2021

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Photoshop, Affinity, or Procreate? Take Your Pick of These Three Discounted Brush Bundles!

Spoon Graphics

Brushes are a staple of any design resources library, they are important tools required for drawing, illustrating, and creating interesting effects. These fantastic bundles provide you with endless brush options for shading, lettering and texturing at a discounted price of 97-98%. No matter whether you’re a Photoshop, Affinity, or Procreate user, there’s a collection for you!

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Fonts in the Twilight Zone

I Love Typography

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Among my favorite kinds of typefaces are those that don’t fit neatly into predefined or existing categories; those that dip their toes into more than one genre, or take their cues from disparate historical periods. These twilight zone hybrids aren’t always easy to pull off. Today, I’m featuring an in-between typeface that pulls it off […].

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Free Mockups: 40+ Fresh Presentation Mockup Templates

Graphic Design Junction

Great product presentation solution for designers, content-makers, bloggers and photographers, both pro and amateur, to showcase their works (logos, branding, signs) in a professional, interesting and visual way. The adjustments are very smart, clean and easy to work with. Highest quality presentation mockups with smart object. You can make a presentation with your design very quickly and easily even with little or no experiences with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

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15 Font Pairings and How to Use Them in Your Designs

Design Wizard

Explore our font pairings and find out about best practices that you can apply to your designs. Get inspired to experiment with various combinations and discover pairings that work well for your projects. Finding two complementary fonts that can be your go-to fonts for heading and body copy for branded designs can be tricky. When it comes to branding a strategically chosen pairing helps you with consistency and ensures visual hierarchy and readability.

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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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Optimizing your own performance as a designer

UX Collective

Strategies to help find creative inner discipline, seek perfection, push beyond and demystify. When it comes to the idea of “performance” as it relates to graphic design and creativity there are many dimensions. Performance is not just about doing good work. It’s about the totality of what performance really means across creation, behavior, and dialogue; your skills, your aesthetic, your role, and your interactions with others.

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Cafe d’Avignon Branding by Mucca & Jeffrey Fisher

We And The Color

Branding agency Mucca teamed up with illustrator Jeffrey Fisher to create a unique brand experience for Cafe d’Avignon, the new retail spinoff from NYC culinary legend Pain d’Avignon. The old world becomes new in these designs for a culinary legend. Known for their work reshaping brands across fine dining, beauty, wellness, hospitality, and CPG, Mucca is an award-winning New York branding agency.

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What Is a Model Release, Minor Release, and Property Release (and When Do I Need Them)?

Vecteezy

If you contribute stock photos , stock videos , or vectors to Vecteezy, you may have come across the requirement for a model release, minor release, or property release. These are important legal documents that must be submitted along with your content in certain situations. While the laws can vary in each country, generally it’s legal to photograph or film people and places in public without restrictions.

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8 CSS & JavaScript Code Examples for Creating Interactive Timelines

SpeckyBoy

When trying to get your point across to users, serving them up mountains of text just isn’t effective. People are looking for instant gratification, and most won’t stick around to read long passages. We can better spark their interest through compelling visuals. Timelines are among the more popular visual elements we have at our disposal. A good one can present a story in an easy-to-follow and interactive manner.

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The Photography Annual 2021: Meet the Judges

Creative Review

Creative Review’s Photography Annual celebrates great image making, from those taking the images as well as those commissioning them. Every year we welcome a panel of esteemed judges, all contributing their own unique skills, knowledge and talent within the creative industries, to help curate the best work for the Photography Annual. In 2020 we introduced remote judging, where a wide selection of judges with a global perspective helped us shape a shortlist of work.

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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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Landscape’s “optimistic” rebrand of COVID testing and vaccine start-up Curative

Design Week

San Francisco-based design studio Landscape has rebranded Curative with an ambition to position the U.S heathcare start-up as an on-the-go and “essential” service. The studio has designed a new logo for the company, as well as a wider identity which rolls out over physical and digital touchpoints. Curative was established in 2020 by Fred Turner with the aim of improving sepsis testing.

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MVRDV’s Zig Zag Building Meets the Mainz Harbour

Azure Magazine

Off the German port city of Mainz’s Neustadt neighbourhood, the Zollhafen — German for “customs port” — has long sat undisturbed along the Rhine river — until now. The transport hub, long underused, is now the subject of a significant urban rejuvenation project and redesign, which aims to transform the port with mixed-use urban density. The recently topped out ZigZag office building, from Rotterdam firm MVRDV in collaboration with Berlin-based morePlatz , is one of the development’s first

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Take Note: Our New Design Milk Stationery Collection Has Arrived!

Design Milk

We’ve been having an absolute blast celebrating Design Milk’s 15th anniversary with you this summer! Traveling down memory lane and revisiting some of our best adventures and highlights has been really rewarding, but the fun is nowhere near over. Ready for the news? We’ve created an exciting limited edition collection of products in collaboration with some of our favorite manufacturers!!!

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Graphic designer Judit Musachs talks us through designing credits for music videos

Its Nice That

“What I take away from doing credits is that it pushes me to design differently every time,” says Barcelona-based Judit on the practice which has allowed her creativity to flourish.

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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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Are we really that different?: An Exhibition You Can Eat

Design Milk

Chef Bob and I have always prided ourselves in rooting Pinch Food Design in Chelsea, the heart of New York’s art gallery scene. We find the neighborhood inspiring and ever changing. Walking by the gallery windows day after day inevitably influences our work…and we love that. Recently we stumbled upon an installation presented by Gagosian as part of Social Works , a group exhibition curated by the newly appointed director/curator Antwaun Sargent, whose focus is on the relationship between art, de

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Leomi Sadler’s illustrations are all about “performances of wisdom, a sense of joy, and perseverance”

Its Nice That

We catch up with the illustrator since our last chat with her in 2018 and discuss her latest Breakdown Press release, Tummy Bugs.

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Illustrator Creates Posters With Deep And Hidden Meanings

Design You Trust

32% Of British Women Don’t Feel Safe Walking Alone At Night Survey Says. According to Laurie Allen: “I am an editorial illustrator that works in publishing and advertisement. The goal with my illustrations is to help the viewer think deeply about the text. Articles can be cold—merely reporting facts or sharing a story without the personal details.

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Drive Your Business to Further Success With Schiavello’s Intelligent Workplace Solutions

Design Milk

The following post is brought to you by Schiavello. Our partners are hand-picked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design. It’s widely known throughout the design world that Australia’s talent is on point. Chic silhouettes team up with a strong color game and mixed materials for a sleek style that defines the Aussie aesthetic.

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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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Tokyo Field Notes: Wild Night at Women’s Gymnastics Team Final!

Joe McNally

Definitely a newsworthy night as The Goat, Simone Biles , withdrew. She looked completely uncomfortable (for her) coming off her first vault, and that one run closed a chapter here in Tokyo. From then, it was up to her teammates to pull through, and they did, magnificently, bringing home a silver medal. The ROC team was outstanding to watch through their impeccable routines, and they took the gold.

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Artist Who Turned To Painting After Finishing Her Studies In Radiation Chemistry

Design You Trust

Today, Zoya Kriminskaya lives in a small town near Moscow and devotes most of her time to creativity. Zoya edits books and creates dreamy illustrations that she sells on microstock. The first time she picked up a colored pencil was 70 years ago. However, pursuing an artistic career is not something she considered at first. As a result, she received a degree in engineering physics and devoted her time to radiation chemistry research.

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Art Exist Everywhere: Photography 2021 Platinum & Gold Winners

Graphis

Even more Platinum and Gold award-winning submissions from our Photography Annual 2021 are honored this week, with the winners from the US and Canada. The first submission is a self-initiated project titled “Whisks” by US-based photographer and Graphis Master Craig Cutler (above, left). Cutler was inspired by Walker Evans, who created a series called “Beauties […].

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Quarantine Life With A Cat In Cute Illustration By Annada Menon

Design You Trust

Food Baby With Floof Baby. According to Annada: “These were made in the month of February of 2021. Several people during the lockdown were unable to travel back home to their families in 2020. There are people who were/are stuck in the city of their jobs currently working from home. With the current situation of another major lockdown in India, many will relate to these illustrations.

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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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Meet Editor X – Build Fluid Websites

Mindsparkle Mag

This article is brought to you by our friends at WIX. We had a chance to test out their new amazing website creation platform called Editor X that is made exclusively for designers and agencies who build sites for others. The result? We were simply amazed by it's capabilities and how far you can stretch it as a designer. Editor X provides a wide variety of built-in tools, design capabilities, and templates that will help you materialize your digital projects.

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7 Years Since Shillington Manchester: Lorelle Skelton, Founder of The Creative Occupation (+ Exclusive Discount!)

Shillington

Credit: Ellie Grace Photography. Back in 2014, Lorelle Skelton was working at a digital marketing agency but wanted to take that next, creative step. After stumbling across an advert for Shillington , she knew it was for. So she jumped on a train from Sheffield to Manchester and never looked back. Now, seven years later, she’s not only running her own studio, Good Great Creative , but has just launched an amazing initiative, The Creative Occupation.

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When you cannot run away from using tables on mobile

UX Collective

Inspirational ideas to design tables you will want to bookmark Continue reading on UX Collective ».

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A Kind Pine Cone Helps an Elderly Man Survive a Cold Winter in a Heartwarming Stop-Motion Animation

Colossal

? ?. Sometimes help comes from unexpected sources, especially when you need it most. That’s the central message behind a heartfelt stop-motion short written, directed, and animated by Dunedin, New Zealand-based Claire Campbell. “ Winter’s Blight ” follows an elderly man named Bill, who struggles to heat his home during a harsh cold spell.

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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.