April, 2020

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Video Tutorial: How to Turn Anything into Gold in Photoshop

Spoon Graphics

In today’s Adobe Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to turn anything into gold using this simple combination of Photoshop filters and tools. The effect smooths out the details of a regular image and adds an array of shiny reflections to mimic the appearance of a polished metal statue. A gradient overlay gives the effect the yellowy tones of gold, then a few finishing touches add some bright highlights.

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30 Bulletproof Marketing Strategies for a Thriving Business

Just Creative

This article has been contributed by Abhishek Talreja. Whether you’re a seasoned business owner or just starting out, an essential way to grow your business is to be consistent with your marketing efforts. Let’s take a look at some intelligent strategies to understand how to squeeze the most out of each dollar and hour you invest in promoting your business. 1.

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Design Trend Report: Mexican Muralism

Creative Market

Murals have been a part of human history for tens of thousands of years, but Mexican muralism promoted this artform during the 20 th century like few cultures have. The appeal of muralism is that you can admire and study these designs on a grand scale since they’re displayed on huge surfaces. This makes murals ideal for epic scenes, themes, and even social and political messages, as is the case with Mexican muralism.

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The 25 most beautiful places in the world to shoot winter landscape photography

Canva

Winter’s frigid temperatures may chill the bones, but snow and ice lend a magical air to almost any landscape. From the frozen wonders of Northern Hokkaido to the famous Christmas markets in Strasbourg, here are the top 25 most beautiful and sought-after places to shoot winter landscape photography. 01. Antarctica. Photo by Torsten Dederichs.

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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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Raissa Pardini’s designs give a bold, typographic face to music

Creative Review

Raissa Pardini always knew what she wanted to be when she was little – but perhaps more importantly, she always knew what she didn’t want to be. “I wanted to produce art but I didn’t want to be an artist, and that’s when I realised that design could give me all the art I needed in my life without [becoming] an artist.” The Italian-born, Glasgow-based visual designer has a clear penchant for vibrant colours, bold type and challenging forms, which she channels i

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Why Are Videos Essential To SEO in 2020 and Beyond

Noupe

Video content is all over the internet! According to Cisco, by the year 2021, the online video content will make up around 80% of the global online traffic. However, even that doesn’t seem to be enough to meet the worldwide demand for video content. In a study, HubSpot states that 43% of people want to see more video content in the future. However, as always, creating online content is never enough.

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Reviewed: New Logo, Identity, and Packaging for Hotel Tango by Young & Laramore

Under Consideration / Brand

“It Takes Two to Tango this Good”. Established in 2014, Hotel Tango is an artisan distillery -- which isn't a fancy description for the sake of it but an actual legal classification in the state of Indiana that allows it to produce up to 10,000 gallons of spirits to serve in-house -- in Indianapolis, making bourbon, whiskey, vodka, gin, rum, cherry liqueur, orangecello, and limoncello.

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Trend Report: Artificial Intelligence and Design

Creative Market

Artificial intelligence or AI is sometimes called machine intelligence. In the context of design, AI comes into play via two distinct phenomena: artificial intelligence optimizing the work of designers and artificial intelligence as a creative movement all on its own. When we talk about AI design boosting what designers create, such as the brushes within Adobe Fresco , we speak of how technology empowers designers to take their artworks to a whole new level.

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6 Free Animated Typefaces for Adobe After Effects

SpeckyBoy

An animated typeface is a great way to spice up your video titles without going through the trouble of creating a title animation from scratch. Luckily, there are a number of animated typefaces available online that you can use in your video projects. From hi-tech animated typefaces to playful and retro-style typefaces, there is an animated typeface for every type of video.

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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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Tamarind

ID Identity Design

Tamarind of Mayfair was the first Indian restaurant in London to receive a Michelin star. They wanted to continue to explore new ground with a new menu, interiors, and brand that was light and feminine. We worked closely with interior designers Sagrada , who we have collaborated with on many projects. A “floral” visual language was created, loosely inspired by the holi festival and smoke from the tandoor.

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Free Adobe Character Animator Performer Mode – Exclusively for GraphicMama Fans

Graphic Mama

We’ve got some great news for you. Did you know that you can use Adobe Character Animator’s key recording features without even purchasing the software? That’s right! In the following article, we will introduce you to the Performer Mode feature in Character Animator’s software, which is the free version of Adobe Character Animator.

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Women in Web Design: How To Achieve Success

Noupe

Traditionally, web design is a male-dominated industry. But in recent years there’s been a spike in the number of women emerging in the sector. With more support and training opportunities available for women wanting to break into the industry than ever before, the field is beginning to level. However, the numbers still show that web design is more man’s world than woman’s.

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Weekly News for Designers ? 535

Speckyboy Design Magazine

CS Visualized: Useful Git Commands – Use this helpful guide – complete with animated diagrams – to better understand Git. Dealing with Uncertain Times as a Web Designer – How to keep your web design business going in a topsy-turvy world. Why Design-isms are a problem – Tips for better communication with non-designers. — Dash Dash – Intimidated by Unix manuals?

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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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How Do Professional Designers Work From Home?

Creative Market

Working from home is a concept that’s still foreign to many people. However, as a consequence of COVID-19, work from home has suddenly become a reality for more and more professionals of all industries all over the world. However, the design community has a leg up in this new reality, as many professional designers have already transitioned to working out of their homes years ago.

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“Esmerelda” by Photographer Parker Stewart

Booooooom

Photographer Parker Stewart’s series “Esmerelda” is a portrait of a fictional town.

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Noted: New Logo and Identity for Malecare by Graphéine

Under Consideration / Brand

“You’ve Got Male”. (Est. 1998) " Malecare is America's leading men's cancer survivor support and advocacy national nonprofit organization. Malecare, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, run by oncologists, psychologists, and social workers. Malecare sets the standard for best practice of patient peer to peer support. We push the limits of technology to create personalized cancer information delivery.

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22 Seamless Vector Textures Sets (Vintage and Halftone)

Graphic Design Junction

A beautiful sets of 500+ vector vintage textures, halftone textures , high-quality and natural style grunge, noise, grain and retro textures to add a more realistic, handmade look to your work. Vector textures can be simply repetition of simple stripes, dotted, stars or polka-dots, others can be more complicated with complex combination of art and colors.

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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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Procreate Brushes

Noupe

Procreate is one of the most popular digital illustration apps that creative designers find quite unique owing to its excellent features and free & premium brushes that are sufficient for every need. Improving your drawing experience and staying on top of professional design is made possible with sophisticated features of Procreate. Even though working on complex illustrations with Procreate might not be ideal, it is excellent for digital sketching, drawing and painting with its powerful lay

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&Walsh releases emojis for graphic designers and the wider world all about “life in 2020”

Its Nice That

The emojis play on every design in-joke in the book, from faux Adobe logos to file naming and 3D wizardry, there are even portraits of famous designers to help us “express ourselves in isolation”.

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Mischievous Monsters Smirk and Grin in Fuzzy Alphabet Collection by Jose Arias

Colossal

All images © Jose Arias. Lima-based graphic designer and illustrator Jose Arias has created a wacky cast of typographic monsters ready to cuddle you in their serifs and ascenders—Monsters Inc. meets the alphabet. Often smirking or baring a couple of teeth, Arias’s letter-based characters sometimes come adorned with coiffed hair, a gold crown, and a pair of headphones.

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These Viral Visual Explanations Are Spreading Information About COVID-19 Extremely Effectively

Design You Trust

This animation shows how the exponential spread of the virus can be slowed by simple measures such as working at home and not attending barbecues. These amazing illustrations by cartoonist Toby Morris and microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles explaining the importance of social distancing during the coronavirus outbreak have gone viral after they were published by New Zealand webiste The Spinoff. h/t: Source.

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Web Design for All: Accessibility, Inclusivity and Beyond

Speaker: Eden Spivak, Design Expert and Editor at Wix & Nir Horesh, Accessibility Lead and Senior Product Manager at Wix

When we design products or websites for people like ourselves, there are many others who are, as a result, left out. From visually impaired users who rely on assistive technology, to people with a temporary injury such as a broken arm, tech users are forever diverse and beautifully unique. The products we design can, and should, reflect the extremely wide range of human experiences and needs.

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Noted: New Logo for British American Tobacco

Under Consideration / Brand

“Blind as a BAT”. (Est. 1902) " British American Tobacco plc (BAT) is a cigarette and tobacco manufacturing company headquartered in London, England. It is the second-largest cigarette maker in the world as of 2012. BAT has a market-leading position in over 50 countries and operations in around 180 countries. Its four largest-selling brands are its native brand Dunhill and US brands Lucky Strike, Kent and Pall Mall.

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Trying to Maintain ‘Business as Usual’ During a Quarantine

Speckyboy Design Magazine

I’ve been a home-based freelance web designer since 1999. So, when the COVID-19 pandemic started forcing a lot of people to work remotely, I figured not much would change in my routine. I even quipped on social media that isolation was just “old hat” for me. True, working in a mostly-empty house for 20+ years does prepare you for a home-based lifestyle.

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Procreate for Windows

Noupe

Whether you are a professional or someone who just draws as a hobby, you should always use the best drawing software that fits your needs. Procreate is one of the best drawing apps for iOS, but unfortunately, it’s not available neither on Android nor Windows. Even though there are too many alternatives to Procreate for Windows, we’ve tried to narrow it down to only the best ones for you.

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Cadbury has been given a tasty new look

Creative Review

Cadbury is one of those brands that has managed to remain instantly recognisable over the years – from its regal purple brand colour , which dates back to the company’s origins in the 1800s, to the longstanding Glass and a Half logo seen on the Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate bar. In its newly unveiled brand identity, the company attempts to tread the fine line between heritage and modernity, retaining its signature purple hue but introducing a redrawn wordmark, new iconography and a fr

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What in the World is a Force Majeure?

Speaker: Michele Berdinis

This session will answer business law questions that people are asking most during the pandemic. If my business can’t pay its bills, can my creditors come after my personal assets? Do I have to pay the rent on my co-working space or office? Can my clients cancel signed contracts? Can I cancel contracts for things I no longer need because my business has slowed down?