October, 2020

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How to Easily Create Retro Landscapes with an 80s Aesthetic

Spoon Graphics

Sci-fi landscape scenes featuring Tron-style grids, mountain scenes, and a vibrant sunrise is a popular aesthetic that is associated with art and design from the 80s. This retro-futuristic style has remained in trend thanks to the retrowave/synthwave music movement, which has helped to bring back the visual elements from 80s arcades, action movies, fashion and pop culture.

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2020 Black Friday + Cyber Monday Deals for Designers

Just Creative

Welcome to our massive compilation of the best 2020 Black Friday Deals and Cyber Monday Sales for graphic designers, web professionals, creatives, photographers freelancers and more. We will be updating this page frequently until all sales are over. If you have your own deal, email us and we’ll update the post with your deal. Keep in mind, many of these deals will only go live around Black Friday.

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Penny Dreadfuls & Murder Broadsides

I Love Typography

The Industrial Revolution mechanized printing and reduced costs, leading to explosive growth in publishing. At the same time, an unprecedented increase in literacy produced millions of new readers and sparked a reading revolution. But what were these new readers to read? One of the century's most popular genres, sold on the streets of Victorian England, was the penny dreadful.

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Gorgeous and Delicate by Kazumasa Nagai, 1974

BP&O

Text by Kazumasa Nagai, 1974 Quarterly Design was a Japanese publication. Fifty years on, it really captures and conveys the spirit of its time. It shares a lot in common with the renowned and still in print publication IDEA although only in Japanese and broader in terms of design, covering other disciplines such as architecture and […]. The post Gorgeous and Delicate by Kazumasa Nagai, 1974 appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.

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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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Weekly News for Designers ? 562

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Developing For The Semantic Web – Why semantic markup has become increasingly important for websites. Animating Number Counters – Whether you’re counting up or down, add some animation to your numbers. 5 Things to Tell Your Clients About WordPress Security – Educating your clients is a great step towards a more secure web. Dizzle – A tool that turns CSS selectors into functions that tests if elements match them.

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Resize vs Resample: How To Properly Change Image Size and Resolution in Photoshop

Spoon Graphics

Resizing an image sounds like one of the simplest things you could do in Photoshop, but there are actually some common mistakes you should avoid. If you’re a professional designer or photographer, it becomes complicated when you need to factor in print size and resolution. In today’s video, I’ll cover the basics of resizing an image in Adobe Photoshop, and explain when you should (or should not) choose the Resample option instead.

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Why Link Building Must be Partnered with Internal Link Building

Just Creative

This article has been contributed by Jason Khoo. When building exposure for your business, you need to get the word out to drive traffic to your website. And you need to use some sort of marketing strategy to do it. One of the most commonly used strategies to drive traffic to a website is SEO. Nowadays, most website owners have some basic knowledge of it, not least of all because it doesn’t cost you anything (except time) if you do it yourself.

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Highly Influential Art Gallery Websites in 2020

Noupe

Art galleries are great places to visit to get inspiration and get your creative juices flowing. They are incredibly well designed and aesthetically pleasing. What you might not be aware of is that most art galleries have their own websites, and they are as aesthetic as the real thing. Art galleries and art gallery websites are designed that way to bring the attention more to the art piece, making it stand out and making it all about the artwork itself.

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Sculpt

ID Identity Design

Sculpt is an interior architectural studio and workshop based in Birmingham. They needed a comprehensive rebrand to give them a stronger presence across all touchpoints, echoing Sculpt’s fundamental principles – reshape, redesign, refine. The rebrand needed to better communicate their offer and distinct approach, whilst giving greater visibility across the full client journey, from promotional materials, proposals and plans, to on-site visibility and custom material samples.

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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 Spotlight: Steph Lau

Booooooom

A selection of personal and commissioned work by artist Steph Lau. While Lau’s personal work involves drawing in physical mediums like sketchbooks and textile pieces, the things she creates for herself usually end up fuelling the 2D and 3D digital pieces she gets commissioned to do. “I’m endlessly inspired by the timeless artistry of nature, and our relationship with it across different cultures.

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30 Poster Frame Mockup Photoshop PSD Templates

SpeckyBoy

If you’ve got gorgeous art your audience loves, don’t just settle for presenting it through prints. Instead, use mockups and show them what your work would look like in their apartments. Therein lies the magic of poster frame mockups. Used by both artists and graphic designers, mockups open new possibilities. Poster frame mockup templates are an incredible asset for increasing your sales and turning your art into a reality.

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Showcase of Creepy Illustrations Featuring Skulls and Skeletons

Spoon Graphics

With Halloween coming up this week, I figured it would be an ideal time to produce another morbid inspiration showcase featuring skulls! Portraits of people lacking their skin and flesh seems to be a weirdly popular subject for many artists and illustrators, with skulls and skeletons being depicted in all kinds of art styles ranging from nightmarish horror scenes to humerus cartoon characters.

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Illustrator Reuben Dangoor’s quick-witted take on Britishness

Creative Review

With an observational outlook and sharp wit to match even the most established political cartoonists, Reuben Dangoor is a name to take note of. The London-based illustrator is known as much for his music-themed collaborations as his striking visual commentaries on social injustices such as the Grenfell Tower fire and the migrant crisis. Born and raised in Hackney, east London, Dangoor was exposed to creativity from a young age, and the house he grew up in was constantly full of photos that his d

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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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9 Essential Graphic Design Pointers for Non-Designers

Noupe

Graphic design is probably one of the essential skills most people need nowadays, whether for your business, Facebook page, or beautifying your Instagram account. However, for those who are not skilled, paying for a graphic designer can be costly. So, if you’re one of those who want to take advantage of this skill but not an expert, here are some pointers you can use to improve your designs: Research before designing.

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Word as Image, by Ji Lee

Logo Design Love

Ji Lee’s short description: “This project started nearly twenty years ago as an assignment in my typography class at art school. Students were encouraged to see letters beyond their dull, practical functionality. “The challenge is to visualize the meaning of a word, using only the graphic elements of the letters forming the word, without adding any outside parts.

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Photographer Spotlight: Halfdan Venlov

Booooooom

A selection of portraits by Copenhagan, Denmark-based photographer Halfdan Venlov. Centered around themes of youth identity, coming of age, and a feeling of “being out of step with the world”, Venlov’s images are not tied to specific narratives. Depicting young characters, he explains his intention to allow the viewer to “inhabit a space of multiple interpretations.

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50 Free High-Resolution Seamless Pattern Sets

SpeckyBoy

Seamless and tileable patterns are a great way to enhance your projects. They add extra depth and richness to your designs so having them in your library is a sensible choice. You can use them in both your web and print projects. For example, a seamless pattern is a great way to create an attractive business card or product packaging. With seamless patterns you are only limited by your imagination, so why not make use of all the great seamless patterns we have for you today and let your creativi

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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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Huge Discounts on Exclusive New Products at the Design Cuts Birthday Event

Spoon Graphics

My friends at Design Cuts are celebrating their 7th birthday over the next 2 weeks with an exciting lineup of live design sessions and fantastic discounts on their marketplace of design resources. 7 all-new exclusive products have been launched with 50% off, providing a great opportunity for you to be the first to pick up these exceptional quality tools that have been 5 months in the making before they go on sale at their regular price.

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A new exhibition remembers Ray Harryhausen as a titan of cinema

Creative Review

Ray Harryhausen is known for having almost singlehandedly elevated stop-motion animation to an art form in the second half of the 20th century. Born in California, the filmmaker began experimenting with models as a teenager after discovering the work of special effects supervisor Willis O’Brien in the 1933 version of King Kong, which he ended up going to watch 33 times.

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How to Improve your Website’s Speed

Noupe

If you’re wondering why your website conversion rate is painfully low after investing a lot of time (and money) into it, then you probably haven’t considered its page speed. Did you know that a whopping 1% of a business’s revenue is lost for every second a page takes to load? With statistics like that, there’s no denying that page speed has a lot to do with the success of your business.

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8 Horizontal Rules and Dividers Enhanced with CSS

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Some design elements are so common that they almost become afterthoughts. The horizontal rule is one of them. It’s easy to simply place them within our content without any attention to detail. But this venerable HTML tag is capable of doing so much more – thanks to some clever CSS. Horizontal rules can be quite decorative, whether you prefer a bold or subtle design.

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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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Photographer Spotlight: Sara Meinz

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Sara Meinz. Photographer and art director. currently based in Galicia, Spain. Sara Meinz’s Website. Sara Meinz on Instagram.

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50 Free High-Resolution Texture Packs for Designers

SpeckyBoy

The number of options, directions, and aesthetic approaches you can take from simply adding a texture to your design is mind-boggling. Of course, not every design benefits from even the most subtle of textures, but you might be surprised at how a high-resolution texture can bring a design to life. Knowing when to use a texture and which texture to use all boils down to the flow of the design and the priority of information on the page.

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Lumios Marker Font Family for Access All Areas Members

Spoon Graphics

Access All Areas members have a versatile font to download this week, courtesy of Elena Genova from MyCreativeLand. The Lumios Marker Family has been carefully hand crafted using a Pilot Sign Pen for ultimate realism. It has both extended Latin and basic Cyrillic support that is enhanced with oodles of ligatures and alternates. With over 1300 glyphs, this is the go-to font adding handwriting effects to your artwork.

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Illustrator Radhiah Anis captures fictional spaces with a surreal twist

Creative Review

For Singapore-based Radhiah Anis, a career in illustration was never something she saw for herself. “I had always just been doing it for fun, until I started posting my work on Instagram and receiving some commissions,” says Anis. “At that time I was waiting to get into a communication design degree at the Glasgow School of Art (Singapore).

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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?