November, 2021

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The Month in Type: Nov. 2021

I Love Typography

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Jony Ive’s name will forever be associated with Apple and the iPhone. But what’s he been up to since leaving Apple? Would you believe this is the work of Ives? A beautiful departure: Type designer Craig Ward applies his typographic talents to LEGO: Grab some paper, scissors, and glue, and you’re ready to go! Thanks to Spacetype.

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Top 20 Best Graphic Design Blogs for Creative Inspiration in 2022

We And The Color

Check out our hand-picked selection of the very best graphic design blogs for your daily dose of creative inspiration in 2022! We wish you all a particularly creative year 2022. To stay motivated and inspired, we are happy to show you our selection of the twenty best graphic design blogs. The handpicked selection of well-curated graphic design blogs will help you to stay up to date with today’s design trends.

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8 CSS & JavaScript Snippets for Creating Incredible Lighting & Shading Effects

SpeckyBoy

When it comes to creating a great piece of web-based art, the details are what stand out. Lighting and shading effects are prime examples. They can turn a flat, 2D work into an immersive 3D experience. For quite a while, the ability to add realistic light and shade to an illustration or animation seemed like the holy grail. The technology wasn’t always there.

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Amazing Digital Portrait Illustrations by Top Artists & Designers

Graphic Design Junction

An amazing Digital Portrait illustrations artwork examples for inspiration. This remarkable and stunning portrait illustrations collection created by professional designers and artists from around the world that will surely mesmerize you and stir your imagination. Have a look, and feel the power of Illustrator! Digital art, digital photography and other realistic manipulation artwork it’s not too hard. just need a passion to learn these techniques.

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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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Designing Excellent Website Navigation (5 Ideas)

HONGKIAT

One thing a well-designed navigation feature will do is give visitors a high-level overview of what they can expect to find. At the same time, it will help visitors orient themselves so they can maneuver about the site quickly and easily, not get lost, and take quick action when obliged to do so. Smoothly functioning navigation is also good for SEO.

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Why white looks bigger than black?—?The irradiation illusion

UX Collective

Why white looks bigger than black?—?The irradiation illusion The unknown optical illusion every designer should know A logo symbol I designed recently for a local products market If you ever designed a logo, you probably had to test it both on a white and dark background. It’s good practice, since you want the logo to look consistent on different backgrounds.

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Otis Branding by SMAKK

We And The Color

Branding and marketing agency SMAKK created a new brand identity for oral health brand, Otis. Otis is a new company that is changing the conversation around oral health, with a brand identity created by branding and marketing agency SMAKK. “Designed to feel both approachable and credible, SMAKK created a playful logo and friendly lifestyle photography that provided a bridge to the brand’s trusted, clinically-backed pedigree.

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25 Free Bootstrap Dashboard & Admin Templates

SpeckyBoy

In the past, the admin section of a web application tended to be built solely for functionality, with not much, if any at all, consideration for design. Thankfully things have changed. Powerful functionality and beautiful design, especially over the last few years, have been merging nicely. And with the massive rise in popularity of the Bootstrap framework, creating a beautiful and functional admin panel has never been easier.

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Choosing the Perfect Logo Design for Your Business

Graphic Design Junction

Are you someone who is looking for a perfect logo design? Do you want to find out ways of choosing the right logo design? If you said yes to both these questions then keep scrolling down because we have just the solution you have been looking for. You may be interested in the following related articles as well. 45 Best Handwritten Script Fonts. Creative Animal Mascot Logo Templates Design (27 Logos).

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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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John Lewis’ festive ad tells the story of a space traveller’s first Christmas

Creative Review

While the John Lewis Christmas ad has become an institution in the UK over the years thanks to its ability to tug at the nation’s heartstrings, no one has quite known what to expect from its festive campaign in the wake of the pandemic. Last year’s spot took a different approach from the retailer’s tried and tested cute mascot formula, featuring a mishmash of animation, claymation, CGI and cinematography that celebrated the kindness of the public during a turbulent time.

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Processing: the Software that Shaped Creative Coding, Part II

Eye on Design

This is part II of the Processing oral history. Read part I here. As Processing became one of the primary environments for creative coding in the early aughts, a community started developing around it. People were eager to use the tool, and a smaller subset of them wanted to help develop the infrastructure required to maintain the growing piece of software.

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Herr Menig Junior

ID Identity Design

Herr Menig Junior is an optician for kids. The retail shop is a playful offshoot of Herr Menig Optik , an optometrist in Nürnberg, Germany. The retail interior was designed by Raum Klaue , and we collaborated to create wall graphics and a colour concept. The Herr Menig Junior logo relates to Herr Menig Optik’s original owl that’s used to identify the shop for grown-ups.

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The Top 10 Best Free Fonts Designers Will Love in 2022

We And The Color

Enjoy our hand-picked selection of the top 10 free fonts graphic designers can download to create amazing typographic designs in 2022. As we did in the past, we once again have examined countless free fonts from different platforms to show you our hand-picked selection of the 10 very best fonts graphic designers can download for free in 2022. This particular collection includes a variety of styles.

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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 WordPress Full Site Editing Could Impact the Design Process

SpeckyBoy

The way we design and build WordPress themes is evolving. With the introduction of Full Site Editing (FSE), it is now possible to change every aspect of a site’s look and layout directly within the Gutenberg block editor. Similar functionality has previously been available through the use of page builder plugins. It’s also something that the Customizer has long tried to address.

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21 New Fresh Free Fonts for Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

Newest and futuristic fonts free download for commercial and personal use. There are twenty one fresh free fonts designed with powerful OpenType features in mind. Fonts are perfect for big heading, bold typography, branding projects, Logo design, Clothing Branding, product packaging, magazine headers, or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image.

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LEGO Rolls Out a Collection of Wooden Home Accessories

Design Milk

Step back in time to your childhood with the help of LEGO Group’s first ever collection of wooden home accessories. Created in partnership with Room Copenhagen , they’ve been designed to elevate your home interior space with a range of picture frames, wall hangers, book racks, and desk drawers. Each piece is manufactured from FSC-certified Red Oak, and available in a soap oak and dark stained oak finish.

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Top Web Design and UI Trends for 2022

Designmodo

This post is originally published on Designmodo: Top Web Design and UI Trends for 2022. What web design trends will dominate 2022? What styles and techniques should you get familiar with so that your creations are fresh and modern throughout the year? Design trends can shape everything from how designers create to user interface design … For more information please contact Designmodo.

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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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If you think paper bags are mundane, Tim Sumner asks you to think again

Its Nice That

Fantastically specific and endlessly fascinating, To Have and to Hold is now becoming a gargantuan 500-page book collating all the paper bags that the graphic designer has collected.

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Another Behaviour Brand Identity

We And The Color

For your daily dose of creative inspiration, today we want to show you the extraordinary brand identity of studio Another Behaviour. Another Behaviour is an independent design studio based in Singapore. Their brand identity is a reflection of the studio’s creative freedom and expertise. Enjoy the following images. For those who want to see more of the studio’s creative work, feel free to visit their website or follow them on Behance.

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Despite Its Critics, jQuery Forges Ahead

SpeckyBoy

A web technology rarely maintains a continually growing user base over a long period. WordPress has done it, as has Bootstrap. But even they don’t have quite the market penetration of jQuery. The venerable JavaScript library first debuted in 2006 and (as of this writing) is used by over three-quarters of all websites. Both its success and longevity are something to behold.

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Stop thinking about flows, start thinking about objects

UX Collective

Why an object-oriented UX approach helps build scalable and consistent systems Task-based user flows are the golden standard of UX design. First, you examine the user’s goal. Next, you identify the tasks required to achieve them. Finally, you put those tasks into a logical sequence, et voila, a user-based flow. This approach is one of the main staples of UX 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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Wild Animals Occupy Suburban Nights in Nicholas Moegly’s Mysterious Illustrations

Colossal

“An Escape Plan.” All images © Nicholas Moegly, shared with permission. In Nicholas Moegly ’s shadow-laden illustrations, wild animals descend on backyards and unoccupied streets illuminated by artificial lights. The Cincinnati-based artist largely focuses on the quiet, mundane landscapes of Midwestern suburbia, although each of his works features surreal details that shroud the scenes in mystery: a lamp with no apparent electricity source lies haphazardly on the sidewalk, an empty c

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Dual Works Designs a Creative Space for People With Disabilities

Design Milk

Sense , a disability charity that supports people with complex disability and/or deaf blindness, recently invited Dual Works , a UK-based design studio, to create inclusive art studios at its flagship Sense TouchBase Pears center. While the flagship has been open since 2017 and already includes a gallery, community cafe, and social care services, Dual Works furthered Sense’s mission to create welcoming spaces that allow people with disabilities to have enriching social and artful experienc

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Don’t Be Distracted by Facebook Going Meta

Eye on Design

During the First and Second World Wars, German U-boats menaced Allied ships. Large silhouettes on open flat terrain are difficult to disguise, and with the tell-tale smokestacks working away, torpedo attacks were relentless. Various camouflage approaches were put forth and found lacking (yep—even ships disguised as floating islands) until a reserve lieutenant in the Royal Navy named Norman Wilkinson made a proposal: “dazzle camouflage.

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Isolated Office Objects Scene Creator for Adobe Photoshop

We And The Color

This fully customizable office objects scene creator is available for free download with an Adobe Stock trial subscription. Adobe Stock contributor @Marcel has produced this massive scene creator consisting of more than 50 high-resolution images on separate layers with editable backgrounds. Only smart objects have been used for quick customization. With this amazing collection of isolated objects, you can create hyper-realistic presentations in no time.

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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?