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How to Design a Stellar UX for Long-form Articles

Noupe

After putting in multiple hours on researching, outlining, writing, and editing the first draft of your article, you’re eager to press the publish button. You want to share it with your audience, and earn some appreciation. But guess what? Your audience won’t bother reading your article unless they find its packaging appealing. You need to ensure a robust user experience (UX) on your website for your prospective visitors.

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Grounded in Fantasy

Communication Arts

Inspired by fictional worlds, Tofunmi Yosola mixes the everyday and the fantastical in her illustrations.

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Top 25 Fonts for Comic Books and Cartoons (Free & Paid)

Just Creative

If you’re creating comic books or cartoons, a natural choice with their bold designs are comic and cartoon fonts, which are also a great choice for just about any design project. For some time, Comic Sans was one of the few fonts you could choose for a project that needed a comic book look. Thanks to the internet, those limitations are a thing of the past.

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17 Rebranding Failures and How Much They Cost (Updated: March 2021)

Canny

If a company ends up on our list of rebranding failures, chances are the financial repercussions for that said company have been huge. Branding any company is a huge challenge. Rebranding one of the world’s biggest companies is a project that many a design or branding agency would love to take on. Of course, when done right, rebranding can be incredibly beneficial to companies.

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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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‘Pulpo’ – A New Font Download for Access All Areas Members

Spoon Graphics

Access All Areas members have a brilliant new font to download this week, courtesy of Floodfonts. Pulpo is a friendly and comfortable looking typeface inspired by Century Schoolbook and Clarendon. Longer extenders give the text more room to breathe and improves legibility at small sizes. The family is provided in four styles: Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bolt Italic, which can all be combined and paired together to emphasise certain words and phrases in your text.

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Inter Milan introduces stripped back ‘I am’ logo

Creative Review

The new logo delves back into Inter Milan’s roots, described by the club as “a modern reinterpretation of the club’s historic symbol, in a more streamlined and minimalist guise” This also makes it much more appropriate for use online and on-screen. The I and M letters have been translated over from the original mark, created by graphic designer and illustrator Giorgio Muggiani – who was also a painter, caricaturist and, fittingly, a football referee.

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How to Market a Product: 12 Product Marketing Ideas

Design Wizard

12 Product Marketing Ideas. Creating a new product takes a lot of time and work. Then, after all of that work is over, you need to figure out how to market a product. There are now more marketing tools than ever before. So, where do you start? As more businesses shift their marketing strategy to make it more visible online, there are a few things you can’t miss.

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Video Tutorial: How to Replace the Sky in Photoshop

Spoon Graphics

In today’s video tutorial we’re going to take a look at a few different methods of replacing the sky within a photograph. You know how it is, you capture a great shot, but the weather at that particular moment results in a lacklustre grey, overcast sky in the background. With just a few simple steps you can replace the sky with much more interesting clouds and colours to enhance the sunset vibe or create a moody atmosphere.

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The Top 7 Blogging Tools of 2021: Reviewed and Rated

Noupe

Whether you’re using blogging for business growth or affiliate marketing, you need to have the right tools at your disposal. Using the right blogging tool can make writing, editing, and outreach faster and more efficient. Online tools and platforms can also speed up your blog post creation process, giving you more time for research, analysis, outreach, ideation, and even taking on more 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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Pentagram gives Fedrigoni a minimal new look

Creative Review

Established in 1888, Fedrigoni has a longstanding relationship with the creative industries. The Italian paper company’s products are used widely for everything from printing and publishing to bookbinding and packaging. The company commissioned Pentagram partner Harry Pearce to create its new global brand, bringing together its sub-brands (including recently acquired businesses such as Ritrama) and creating a new visual identity for its self-adhesives division.

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Onomatopee is a visual exploration of sound through interwoven typography and illustration

Its Nice That

This delightful book by graphic designer Broos Stoffels and illustrator Lukas Verstraete brings noises to the printed page in unexpected ways.

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How to Create a Wood Engraved Logo Mockup in Adobe Photoshop

Envato Tuts+

What You'll Be Creating. Learn how to take advantage of Photoshop's Smart Objects to mock up your logo with photorealistic results. Thanks to the use of multiple layer styles, we can create wood branding Photoshop Effects for our businesses and projects. But first, do you need to design a logo? Check out this simple, easy-to-use online logo maker. Over 745 smart logo templates to design your custom logo all in one place, Placeit.

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How to Gain the Trust of Your Web Design Clients

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Trust is the foundation of a good client/designer relationship. It provides confidence and security to everyone involved. Without it, there is no means to achieve any sort of comfort level or positive productivity. Just about every freelancer has a story about an untrustworthy client. Someone who promised the moon and delivered significantly less. Perhaps they weren’t truthful about their ability to pay or put you through one bad situation after another.

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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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Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics logo revealed

Creative Review

The winner of the vote, which was opened to the public on March 6 on the milanocortina2026.org website, is named Logo Futura. It captured 871,000 votes from 169 countries, and 74% of the overall vote, so was a resounding win. This marks the first time that an Olympics logo has been decided by the public. Given the amount of feverish interest that Olympics logos tend to generate, it sort of makes sense to open the final decision to a public judgement, though it’s hard not to feel somewhat u

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Brilliant Beer Logos: 15 Designs for Inspiration

Design Wizard

Beer Logos Designs for Inspiration. The history of beer is almost as long as the history of civilisation. Knowing that beer is one of the oldest drinks produced by humans, there’s little surprise that beer art is old as well. But in the modern half-trillion dollar global beer market, standing out is important. This is where beer logos are incredibly important.

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In-house design teams: how an internal studio keeps Wikipedia weird

Design Week

Wikipedia turns 20 this year. The online, collectively-edited encyclopedia – which has always remained free – is one of the most visited websites in the world, familiar to students reading up on subjects, writers of trivia quizzes and fans of obscure culture alike. What is likely less well-known is its design output. Its in-house team – known as ‘the brand studio’ – is responsible for telling Wikipedia’s story, often in places it hasn’t reached yet

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25 High-Quality Free Swirl & Ribbon Photoshop Brushes

Speckyboy Design Magazine

One can never have too many Photoshop brushes. After all, a Photoshop brush is a versatile tool that can help you create a work of art or add those few missing finishing touches to your design. Not to mention, Photoshop brushes help you save time as you don’t have to recreate a certain effect or design from scratch. While you can create Photoshop brushes yourself easily, there is little point in reinventing the wheel.

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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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Natasha MacKenzie on Designing Everyday Monsters

Spine Magazine

Natasha MacKenzie (aka miss nat mack) is a coffee-addicted book designer primarily based out of Manchester. With a professional background in marketing, branding and book design, she helps authors and publishers across the globe bring their stories to life! Here she takes us through her process for designing the wonderfully weird cover for Everyday Monsters.

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Interview with Simoul Alva, Designer at &Walsh

Shillington

Simoul Alva is a Visual Designer and Art Director based in New York. She works across identity design, storytelling and visual strategy. Her clients include The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review, The Atlantic, Adobe, WIRED, Slack, New York Magazine and Wieden+Kennedy. She represented India at the 44th Worldskills and won a ‘Medallion Of Excellence’ for the country.

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Comics artist Leomi Sadler on their new book and the journey to get there

Creative Review

Leomi Sadler has been working in the comics scene for over a decade now, alongside running UK-based publisher Famicon Express. As well as comics, Sadler has also worked with commercial clients including Givenchy, Nike and Vice. Their personal work has stayed relatively under the radar though, so when Breakdown Press approached them to create a collection of their comics, they decided to tackle it in a way that felt right to them. “I couldn’t help but feel like if I made a big compend

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Weekly News for Designers ? 586

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Distributed Letters Animation Layout – Learn how to craft a stunning animation on a triple panel layout. Want to Write a Hover Effect With Inline CSS? Use CSS Variables. – An example of how CSS variables can make inline hover styles a reality. Waking Up the Taste Buds of Your Design Clients – How to surprise your clients with bold new design combinations.

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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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Domestic Cats and the Wildlife Crisis You Might Not Know About

Feature Shoot

© Jak Wonderly for WildCare. “It’s one thing to read about cat predation,” the photographer Jak Wonderly tells us. “It’s quite another to hold 232 victims in your hands.” In 2020, he teamed up with Melanie Piazza from WildCare , a non-profit hospital for wildlife in California, to help memorialize and tell the story of hundreds of wild animals who died after being caught by cats in 2019.

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A Sip Of The High Life With High Water

The Die Line

Taking a cue from many people’s love of water and nautical activities, the creators of the High Water brand identity used funky colors and curved, linear, minimalist illustrations to set each scene. .

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Qianhui Yu’s sugar-coated animations come with a serious message

Creative Review

It’s hard to tear your eyes away from Qianhui Yu’s alluring animations. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art last year, the animation director, illustrator and visual designer has developed a knack for creating candy-coloured worlds and populating them with intriguing characters. Born and raised in China, Yu loved to draw as a child.

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The Ayla Golf club & Wellness Center in the Jordanian Desert

Trendland

Words Guest Writer. Recognized for its socially and environmentally conscious architecture, the Ayla Golf Club ’s impressive & inspiring architecture was designed by the renown Oppenheim Architecture & Design firm.

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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.