Shillington

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Maybe you have some extra free time to yourself or perhaps you’ve hit that one major hurdle that every graphic designer dreads: a creative rut. Designers look to the former as an exciting opportunity to experiment with new graphic design projects, while the latter can be a disappointing, albeit inevitable season of life for any creative. Yet, what feels like a lull in creativity is actually the best time to lean into your projects.

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Design You Trust

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Happy Every After According to an artist Lim Heng Swee: “What is Love? Love is made up of little things all around you. Because love is everywhere, all you have to do is open yourself up to it. Try to see, listen and feel things differently, you will find that everything is in love. My name is Lim Heng Swee, I’m an illustrator based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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SpeckyBoy

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It makes perfect sense: If you want to design a compelling website, find other sites out there that inspire you. And, while this works, it’s not necessarily the best way to create something original. Increasingly, the web is becoming homogeneous. This encompasses the tools we use and yes, the designs we implement. The result is that it can be hard to distinguish one site from another.

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Just Creative

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This article has been contributed by Abhishek Talreja. Hardworking and smart business owners seldom have to worry about making money. Several platforms offer online entrepreneurs a way to explore their skills to the fullest. The internet paves the way for individuals to build the right connections, provide products and services and keep earning money.

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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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Spoon Graphics

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In today’s Photoshop video tutorial I’m going to show you a combination of filters that produce distressed halftone effects, which gives an image a high-contrast, newsprint-style appearance. The main effect is made of halftone dots, but I’ll also show you some additional tweaks you can apply to produce other pattern effects too, like the kind of engraved illustration style you find on bank notes.

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Canva

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Picture quotes are one of the most pinned images on Pinterest. And when it comes to finding an easy way to seek inspiration, we can see why. The more visually striking your picture quote combination is, the more inspirational (and shareable) it will be. So whether you want to take your graphics to the next level or create your own for the first time, let’s go through some ways you can do the same for your quotes using some of the most eye-catching examples on the web. 01.

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A Beautiful Mess

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Did you know that A Color Story has a huge section of photography tips and tutorials on its website? It’s pretty rad, so I wanted to highlight a few for you here in case you hadn’t seen them yet. I don’t know about you, but this time of year I’ll take any extra creative inspiration I can get! Love this post about great filters to use for food photography.

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I Love Typography

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

For the first in this new series of Fonts in Focus, we visited the New York offices of Hoefler & Co. For this second installment, we remain in New York, just fifteen minutes’ walk from Broadway to Lafayette street and the stateside offices of Commercial Type, established in 2007 and headed by Christian Schwartz in […]. The post Fonts in Focus: two appeared first on I Love Typography.

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Creative Market

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If you're a font connoisseur, you're familiar with the subtle differences between today's best sans serif fonts. Each creator adds their own artistic flair to glyph design, in one of the subtlest possible expressions of design. Spend time with any of these 15 clean sans serif fonts, and you'll find that each one conveys a slightly different aesthetic —but they all deliver a message that's fresh and contemporary. 1.

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Advertiser: Issuu

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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Canva

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Thinking of designing a pink logo ? Or want to know why they are so popular? Step this way. Long associated with femininity, frivolity and fun, the color pink has reemerged as a fashion-forward, desirable color that’s almost always applied with little restraint. In the preceding years before Millennial pink exploded into films, restaurants and social media, Rose Quartz was earmarked by color experts Pantone as a color to watch back in 2016 and has continued to rise in popularity.

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Noupe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

When it comes to creating and maintaining a website, the first thing that comes to any person’s mind is a site’s design. Well, design matters indeed, moreover, it can even influence your website’s traffic, which in turn has an impact on the amount of money you make. In fact, a decent layout makes any website look more professional and trustworthy, which attracts more visitors and affects your website’s conversion.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Several years ago, I worked as an in-house copywriter and designer for a prominent marketing firm. When I first applied for the job I didn’t have any of the credentials my employers were looking for, and yet I got the job anyway, out of a pool of more qualified competitors. Why did I get chosen? The boss liked my story. I had no experience with working at a firm, nor was I technical enough to get deeply involved in the backend work.

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Creative Market

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The importance of versatile and realistic scenes to represent your artwork is impossible to quantify. These 15 amazing poster mockups sets are both inspiring and aesthetically pleasing. 1. Glued Poster Mockups Collection. The poster collection was created by Pixelbuddha , a design shop that offers a wide range of fonts, graphics, templates, and add-ons.

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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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Canva

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Green is a classic choice when it comes to branding, and one that’s unlikely to go out of style anytime soon. From Starbucks to Spotify, some of the world’s biggest and most recognizable brands have used green in their logos. Not only does green pair beautifully with many other colors, it’s extremely versatile—taking on different personalities depending on the shade and depth.

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Graphic Design USA

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Editor and Publisher Gordon Kaye with thoughts on our 2020 People To Watch feature. This column – The Best Way To Predict The Future Is To Create It – was originally published in our Jan/Feb 2020 print edition. GK.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Flip though the opening pages, and the architecture of Jerome Markson is hardly perceptible. Instead, Laura J. Miller’s newly published Toronto’s Inclusive Modernity: The Architecture of Jerome Markson begins with 14 consecutive pages featuring hundreds of photographs stitched together to create a jagged tapestry of the city. Only halfway through do we get our first glimpse of a Markson complex, as the Alexandra Park Public Housing Estate joins an eclectic downtown milieu.

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Under Consideration / Brand

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

“Mix to the Max”. First celebrated in 2012 (under the name of Moritz Pop Up Design Market), Design Market Barcelona is an annual event at the end of year that brings together over 100 independent designers who showcase everything from decoration and objects for the home, fashion and accessories, contemporary jewelry, crafts, and graphic art, all in time for the holidays.

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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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Its Nice That

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Created by illustrator Javi Aznarez, the poster gives clues to the fictional magazine front covers he has made for the film, which is loosely inspired by The New Yorker.

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Tuts Plus

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

What You'll Be Creating Envato Tuts+ has been around for many years. During that time, we’ve posted a lot of content. We know that the amount of content on our site may be a bit overwhelming to those of you who have recently discovered our site. That is why we have decided to periodically resurrect some of our older posts for you all to enjoy. Today, we have decided to bring back a post by Envato founder, Collis Ta’eed, from May 2008, that demonstrates how to create a spectacular grass text effe

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Noupe

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Did you know that roads are deadlier than wars? Throughout the entire 20 th century , a period when the First and Second World Wars took place, the generally accepted death toll stemming from political conflicts was 108 million. However, around 1.35 million individuals lose their lives as a result of a road traffic accident every year , according to the World Health Organization.

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Graphic Design Junction

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Free PSD Mockups with Smart Objects and easy to customize. Fresh useful Mockup templates for photo-realistic presentations. High quality Mockup templates that can be used for commercial or personal work and save your time and make your design look awesome with amazing effects. These mockups are easy to use with smart objects , simply double-click the Smart Layer, copy & paste your artwork, save your project and it’s done. .

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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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Speckyboy Design Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

UX Debt 101 – Learn what UX Debt is, how to identify it and how to resolve it. 10 Fantastic Podcasts for UX Designers for 2020 – Stay in the know with these podcasts aimed at UX designers. Crafting a Cutout Collage Layout with CSS Grid and Clip-path – Learn the secrets to creating this incredible effect with CSS. Octomments – A tool that enables the use of GitHub issues as a comment system.

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SpeckyBoy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Have you ever been looking through design annuals or other publications, keeping up to date on what’s happening in the industry, when you happen upon a bunch of work that’s leaps and bounds more creative and technically proficient than anything you’ve done so far? I don’t mean a little bit better – I’m talking about work in a completely different stratosphere of good.

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Canny

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This blog post includes a topic that you could say is slightly off-topic. The outdoors, but don’t worry, I’ll be covering some really good outdoor brands. Here at Canny, we aren’t just office “Monkeys”. We have hobbies outside of work, believe it or not. Before I dive into one of my hobbies, I’d like to provide a brief introduction to what it is I do here at Canny.

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Graphic Design Junction

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Download Mockup PSD Templates for free. Big collection of free photorealistic Mockups. All free mockups created with Smart Object for easy to edit. Mockup templates that can be used for commercial or personal work and save your time and make your brand look awesome with amazing effects. These mockups are easy to use with smart objects , simply double-click the Smart Layer, copy & paste your artwork, save your project and it’s done. .

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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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