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5 mistakes to avoid when designing corporate t-shirts

Designer Daily

At some point, every company thinks of creating corporate t-shirts for some reason. The reason may vary, such as spreading the brand with employees, being visible at events, giving it out as freebies or selling the t-shirts, it can be for all types of purposes. However, there are mistakes to avoid when designing t-shirts, especially if your brand will be on it and the t-shirt will be worn frequently by many people.

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How to Create a Retro Logo Design with Texturing Effects

Spoon Graphics

I recently came across the website Junk Type , which is a compilation of nostalgic labels and packaging designs from various antique household products. Seeing all those old brand logos gave me the inspiration to make my own, so in this tutorial I’ll take you through the process of creating a retro logo design for the fictional brand ‘Hard Graft Elbow Grease’.

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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Erotique

I Love Typography

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. In the latest edition of Font of the Month, Steven Heller waxes lyrical about a new font family from Zetafonts. Erotique stimulates the senses, craves for attention, and — well, read on to find out! The post Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Erotique appeared first on I Love Typography.

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7 Tips To Improve Your Office Branding (with Ideas and Examples!)

Canny

Looking at office branding has become a part of my regular routine at Canny. With Canny moving from office to office, and recently moving into our newest space, and clients requiring help with their office branding and signage, I’m becoming a bit of an office branding, and signage planning expert. I used to work as a signmaker too – so it’s no surprise that I find myself gravitating towards shop fit outs, signage, and office branding projects.

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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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Top 10 Best Fonts for 2022

We And The Color

Take a look at our selection of the top ten best fonts that will be very popular among graphic designers in 2022. Trends come and go and some seem to stay forever. The world of typography and type design is no exception. Based on current and ongoing trends, we have put together a handpicked selection of the top ten best fonts for use in 2022. Our daily readers may know some of the fonts from our reviews.

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20 Pattern Tutorials For Seamless Repeating Background

HONGKIAT

Different graphic and web design projects require different design elements and patterns are just one of them. They can be used as a background or foreground in various situations, depending on your needs. You can even use a pattern that you’ve created yourself to add a personal touch to your work. Today, I’d like to share 20 pattern tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator that you can use in your future designs.

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Robata

ID Identity Design

Robata is an izakaya-style restaurant located in the iconic Herald & Weekly Times Newspaper building in central Melbourne. The name is a common abbreviation of robatayaki , a Japanese charcoal-grilling technique that translates literally to “fireside cooking.” Much like sake, robata is embedded in Japanese culture where it has been a cooking tradition for centuries.

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The Rebrand Trend of 2021? Acting Your Age

Eye on Design

In a year packed with change, a certain shade of nostalgia has taken hold of branding design. A number of legacy brands, from Burger King to Campbell’s Soup to Colt 45 , ABC , Zagat , and Peugeot, drew on their archives to create new looks. The unfussy lettering, crisp lines, and pared-down color palettes of these rebrands look like stylish cartoon versions of the original logos.

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Introducing Very Peri: Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2022

Creative Market

Shaken, tested, and redefined. These words capture our collective journey over the last two years, as many of the habits and lifestyles we relied on were suddenly questioned by a global pandemic. This period of intense personal and social reconstruction is the backdrop for Pantone’s most recent color forecast for 2022. Very Peri, or PANTONE 17-3938, is a bold periwinkle with a red/violet undertone.

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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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GDUSA’s Holiday Gift Guide For Creatives

Graphic Design USA

We've pulled together some inspirational suggestions for Holiday gifts for your favorite creative.

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30 Best Script Fonts For 2022

Graphic Design Junction

Year 2022 is almost here! We gathered best hand-picked Script Fonts, Signature Fonts and Handwritten fonts that looks natural and pleasant. There fonts are perfect for Logo design, greeting cards, quotes, posters, branding, postcards, stationary design, art quote, typography, or fashion look book design and DIY project to make your art/design project look pretty and trendy.

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A Retro Font Inspired by an Atari 2600 Cattle Ranching Game

Eye on Design

Name: Cartridge. Designer: Dan Cederholm. Foundry: SimpleBits. Release Date: November 2021. Back Story: Type designer Dan Cederholm was obsessed with the Atari 2600 console when he was a kid growing up in the ’80s. It seems his interest hasn’t waned, but it has taken a different slant. “Over the summer, I was in a local shop with my son, Jack, and they were selling old video games,” Cederholm explains.

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Out of This World Illustrations by Adam Q for the READ Project

We And The Color

Check out these amazing illustrations created by Adam Q for the READ project. Polish illustrator Adam Q has created these brand illustrations for the “READ” project which focuses on implementing a reading habit among Polish citizens. Each year, the project is represented by a unique literary theme. Version 2021 “OUT OF THIS WORLD” is completely dedicated to SCI-FI books and Stanislaw Lem’s creations.

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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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Facebook Ads Strategy: Simplifying Campaigns

Noupe

Whether you’re new to Facebook ads or doing it for some time but still searching for the best way to structure campaigns, this post is for you. Trying to create an effective campaign can be a pressure at times. But in this post, we’ll help you simplify your campaigns so running ads won’t seem too daunting to think about. We’ll help you structure: Conversion Campaigns Retargeting Campaigns Video Views Campaigns Website Traffic Campaigns Scaling Campaigns.

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Free Mockups: 30+ Free Photoshop Mockup PSD Templates

Graphic Design Junction

Free Photoshop mockup templates, super realistic, unique, trendy and stylish mockups. Real photo based, really high resolution mockups, easy to use Photoshop PSD files with smart object. The greatest way to present your creative design! The mockup collection included branding, iPhone 13 Mockups, logo mockup , t-shirt mockups , packaging mock-ups, stationery mockup , magazine cover and hoodies mockups in different perspective angles and styles.

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35 Adobe Illustrator Tutorials to Master Vector Design

Vecteezy

Adobe Illustrator is the most popular software for vector-based graphic design. As the industry standard and the choice for most professional designers, Illustrator is extremely powerful and feature-rich. However, the downside is the learning curve that new users face. If you’re just getting started with Illustrator or looking to improve your skills, this collection of Adobe Illustrator tutorials is exactly what you need.

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Personal Illustrations by Calvin Sprague

We And The Color

Take a look at some personal illustrations created by Calvin Sprague. Calvin Sprague is an American illustrator who lives and works in Rotterdam, NL. His colorful playful styles are based on simple geometric lines and shapes. These artworks create a fine harmony between structure and chaos. Calvin Sprague says he is influenced by the early works of Saul Bass as well as Heinz Edelmann and Milton Glaser.

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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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100+ Best Christmas Fonts for a Stunning Holiday Design 2022

Template Monster

Christmas fonts. The most magical time of the year is almost there, and if you want to be ready for it, then you should consider our collection of the best Christmas fonts! It is time for new solutions and new fonts. Web designers try to recreate the holiday spirit in their graphical works, and that's why there comes a great demand for properly selected and thematical correct Xmas fonts.

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Amazing Digital Art and Illustrations By Alessandro Pautasso

Graphic Design Junction

Today we are featuring Creative Digital Illustrator Artist and Graphic Designer “ Alessandro Pautasso “, with his amazing illustration artwork showcase. Alessandro Pautasso aka Kaneda was born in 1982 at Turin, Italy. He is a Art director and Illustrator, his specialty lies in digital art and mixed media. In childhood, after falling in love with a Beatles’s illustration book by Alan Aldridge, he began drawing almost daily.

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8 Outstanding eCommerce Microinteraction CSS & JavaScript Snippets

SpeckyBoy

Microinteractions, those tiny details revealed when someone hovers or clicks on an item, is key to a successful user experience. They provide a hint as to what a specific design element does, thus making it more intuitive. These little gems are especially important on eCommerce websites. We can use them to reinforce user actions and remove any chance of confusion.

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Trifold Brochure Template with Blue and Green Accents

We And The Color

Available for download on Adobe Stock, this trifold brochure template is well suited for plenty of topics. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @CristalpDesign , this A4 trifold brochure template is fully customizable in Adobe Illustrator. Photos shown in the preview are for display only. They are not included in the downloaded file. You can add your own text and images with just a few clicks.

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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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Animated map of microplastics in the ocean

FlowingData

Using estimates based on satellite data, Joshua Stevens for NASA Earth Observatory mapped the concentration of microplastics in the ocean over time : Researchers at the University of Michigan (UM) recently developed a new method to map the concentration of ocean microplastics around the world. The researchers used data from eight microsatellites that are part of the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission.

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23 Latest New Free Fonts for Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

Wait if over! Fresh free fonts are here. Simple and elegant latest collection of free fonts for best for big, bold and stylish heading and headlines. The text fonts are avaialble for commercial and personal use. There are twenty three fresh free fonts designed with powerful True Type and OpenType face. All fonts are perfect for 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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20 Beautifully Imperfect Free Brush Fonts for Designers

SpeckyBoy

Distorted, irregular, and beautifully imperfect. Every individual character is unique and carefully created by hand. Rustic in style yet seamlessly blends in with modern design. Yes, we’re talking about paint brush-style typography, and it is currently enjoying a revival in popularity. And, we love it! If you’re looking to jump on the brush-style typography bandwagon, in this article, we have a curated collection of our favorite brush fonts that you can freely download and use in you

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Retro Photo Effect Mockup for Adobe Photoshop

We And The Color

Available for free download with an Adobe Stock trial subscription, this Photoshop mockup lets you create stylish retro photo effects in no time. Created by the skilled team of @Pixelbuddha , this retro photo effect mockup for Adobe Photoshop comes with seven different design options. These effects are optimized for a high resolution of 3000 x 4500 px.

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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.