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How Long Does It Take To Become a Graphic Designer?

Shillington

Graphic designer—what a title, right? For some of us, it’s a dream career , one that we were destined for. Though, like with a lot of destinies, it’s not something that is going to happen over night. It’s something you’re going to have to work for, but for how long? Well the time it takes to become a graphic designer depends on a number of factors.

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How to Handle Scope Creep in Web Design

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Have you ever committed your time and energy to a project only to discover your responsibilities growing far beyond the initial requirements? “This isn’t what I signed up for,” you think to yourself. “If only I’d known what I was getting into.” You have experienced scope creep, and whether you run into it in your personal or professional life, we all fall victim to it at one time or another.

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Get Professional SVG Designs At A Discount Price On Design Bundles

Designer Daily

As a designer, you should always be on the lookout for trends, resources, and… good deals on these resources. At Designer Daily, we try to keep you updated on the best discounted design resources on the market. In this post, we’ll briefly explore the amazing site that is Design Bundles and their SVG section in particular. At any given time, you will be able to find tons of design resources there sold with a heavy discount.

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Get Your FREE.design Domain Name Today!

Just Creative

As a designer, you know how beneficial a branding refresh can be. Did you know you can upgrade your own online presence right now with a free.design domain name ? Your website is like your digital storefront. Whether you’re launching your first online portfolio or leveling-up your existing site, a.design domain helps keep your online branding short and sweet.

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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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Free Photoshop Action to Turn Anything into Gold in Photoshop

Spoon Graphics

Turn anything into gold with the help of my free Action for Adobe Photoshop! With the click of a button, this Action will play a series of adjustments that give an image a shiny appearance with yellowy hues that mimic solid gold. Upon playing the Action it will ask you to make a selection of your subject before continuing to processing the effect with various Photoshop tools and filters.

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Top 20 Fonts That Will Be Popular With Designers in 2021

Shillington

Considering how much the world has changed since this time last year, making general predictions for what the next 12 months have in store is a tall order. But when it comes to design, we at Shillington feel we’re on steadier ground. With the profession having survived, even prospered through 2020, we’re fairly sure it can cope with anything that 2021 can throw at us.

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15 Best Pencil Brushes for Procreate

Just Creative

For so many artists, their blossoming passion for art may have begun with a simple piece of paper and a sharpened pencil. To recapture that initial magic many of you may have had in your youth, we looked into our toolbox and decided to share the best Pencil Brushes for Procreate that we’ve come across including free & premium brushes. Not only are we hoping to rekindle some of the creativity that you may have had as a child but we thought that if you got a new tool out of the process, then i

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Print Is Not Dead: 5 Graphic Design Magazines You Should Subscribe Today

Noupe

Living in a digital world makes everything easier including finding graphic design inspiration. Holding a magazine and leafing through the pages may seem a little obsolete in 2020 but gaining inspiration from digital sources can not top the feeling of the traditional, physical experiences. The amount of online resources you can find is exciting. Also, we can’t argue that online resources have become our main source of inspiration and information in every aspect imaginable.

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Logo Design Trends in 2021 to Drive you Loco

Graphic Mama

Logo design trends in 2021 simply refuse to be left behind by other areas of design. Your logo is a vital cog in your branding machine and the design states not only who you are but also how you do it. Whether you are looking at launching a new business, rebranding an old business, or simply bringing your old logo up-to-date these latest trends for 2021 will get you talking and inspire you to head confidently into the future.

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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 and Waitrose’s Christmas ad shows a little kindness goes a long way

Creative Review

While we’ve become all too familiar with the hallowed John Lewis Christmas ad’s mission to tug at our heartstrings, for all the obvious reasons no one has quite known what to expect from the retailer’s festive campaign this year. Following on from its first joint campaign with Waitrose last year, which told the story of an excitable dragon called Edgar , the retailers have teamed up again on Give a Little Love, a festive fundraising campaign inspired by the kindness of the Brit

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“Flip Flop” by Artist Allister Lee

Booooooom

Allister Lee. FLIP FLOP is a series of illustrated work depicting a selection of vintage dollar store sandals found throughout Chinatown San Francisco. I like finding graphic inspiration in unlikely places and I found these ubiquitous Chinatown staples to be a great mix of quirk and wonk as subject matter. Allister Lee’s Website. Allister Lee on Instagram.

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25 Mobile Device Mockup PSD Templates for Photoshop

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Technology has disrupted so many things, but its positive influences are undeniable. We use our phones for everything; from communicating with our family and friends, to solving our problems through a variety of apps. So if you are creating something new, it’s time to make the world stand in awe of your work. How? With these phenomenal mobile device mockup templates for Photoshop.

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True North

ID Identity Design

Specialising in adventure cruise travel around Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, True North delivers experiences designed to push its small coterie of guests out of their comfort zones. This is a company that takes you on a journey of discovery — and in taking you away to remote lands, brings you back to yourself. The brief was to create a brand that feels premium without losing the appetite for adventure.

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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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Breast Cancer Now’s new ad wants to get us talking about our boobs

Creative Review

Anna Ginsburg is no stranger to tackling body taboos in her striking animations. Her first self-initiated film, Private Parts , took the form of an animated documentary in which talking genitals discussed masturbation, sexuality and vaginas. Breast Cancer Now enlisted the help of the filmmaker on new animation Love Hate Relationship, which explores the journey women go on with their breasts over the course of their lives and also encourages all women to regularly check their breasts for unusual

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“Flip Flop” by Artist Allister Lee

Booooooom

Allister Lee. FLIP FLOP is a series of illustrated work depicting a selection of vintage dollar store sandals found throughout Chinatown San Francisco. I like finding graphic inspiration in unlikely places and I found these ubiquitous Chinatown staples to be a great mix of quirk and wonk as subject matter. Allister Lee’s Website. Allister Lee on Instagram.

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Dragons & Unicorns

I Love Typography

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. For more than a thousand years the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs was completely lost. For centuries, many assumed that they were magical symbols that might never be understood by mere mortals. The breakthrough only came with the discovery of a 2,200-year-old black basalt slab. But what does that have to do with typography, dragons and unicorns?

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‘The Wait’ Editorial by Michelle Watt

Trendland

Words TL Team. Inspired by Atelier Aveus ’s furniture collection emoting visual codes for waiting, photographed by the talented Michelle Watt , this fashion series follows a young woman displaced in a surreal waiting room in the midst of travel.

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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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Alison Forner on Designing The Appointment

Spine Magazine

Alison Forner is an Art Director at Avid Read Press and Simon & Schuster, whose work has been recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Arts in their 50 Books/50 Covers Show. Here she tells us about her process for designing The Appointment. In book publishing, there are certain genres or themes that repeat year after year. There’s the sweeping historical novel set in WWII, the contemporary coming-of-age story, the confessional memoir… all the usual suspects that make an appearance in

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Five creative ideas that reimagined Christmas for top brands

Creative Review

Reimagining Christmas is a new initiative from Pinterest and The Dots, giving hard-hit freelancers and furloughed creatives a paid opportunity to put a fresh twist on one of the annual advertising milestones – the Christmas ad – and give us all some much-needed festive positivity in the age of COVID. Reinventing what festive campaigns can be like through the lens of top brands including MADE.com, Birds Eye, British Airways and Sony Music, the final five concepts have been revealed.

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Drummond: Meeting The Needs Of An Evolving Design Student Population

Graphic Design USA

Gordon Drummond spoke recently with GDUSA?about the objectives of the online Sessions College BFA in Graphic Design program, about his background as an educator, and about trends he sees in design today.

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11 Actionable Tips to Increase Customer Loyalty for Ecommerce

Noupe

Regardless of whether the business is small or big, customer loyalty is extremely important. Do you know, it costs you ten times more to grab and attract new customers than to retain the existing ones. As stated by smallbizgenius, 65% of the company’s revenue comes from existing customers. If you are searching for appealable tips to create and retain customers, consider implementing a few of the strategies mentioned below.

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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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Once upon a time, in the homogenous world of children’s book illustration…

Its Nice That

As new reports find a despairing lack of diverse representation in children’s book characters and the people who create them, we talk to illustrators and publishers about why, and how things can change.

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The fascinating street photography of David Godlis

Creative Review

Photographer David Godlis is perhaps best known for his grainy black and white images of New York nightclub CBGB, when it was home to punk scene legends including the Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie and Talking Heads. Born in Manhattan in 1951, Godlis began taking photos in his sophomore year at Boston University. He has since become one of the most important imagemakers of his generation, working as the photographer for Film at Lincoln Center since the late 80s and the unofficial photographer of

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In Russia, AND Y Cafe Mixes Digital and Physical Space

Azure Magazine

Built in 1974 at the heart of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, the austere Don State Public Library has become a de facto hub for the area’s cultural activity. Though encircled by a number of universities and institutions, the stone-clad, Jan Kanis–designed complex is an imposing — even uninviting — presence. For a new “conceptual fast food cafe” adjacent to the building, Moscow-based designer Eduard Eremchuk opted for an airy treatment with the addition of mobile, graphic elements that

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OMA NY Monograph by Studio Lin

BP&O

Text by Richard Baird The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is an international architectural practice operating within the traditional boundaries of architecture and urbanism. It was founded in 1975 in Rotterdam by architects Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis and alongside Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis. OMA now has seven offices. This year saw the launch of OMA New York’s self-published monograph, […].

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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.