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AIGA Research Explores Evolving Design Profession

Graphic Design USA

AIGA has released the executive summary of its 2021 Design Point of View (POV) research, an in-depth analysis of the design profession, with the goal of creating a better community.

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When Chaos Invades: Keeping Your Freelance Business Going During a Crisis

SpeckyBoy

Life is full of surprises. And just when you think you’ve settled into a routine, the unexpected can turn your world upside down. It can happen in the blink of an eye. As I write this, I’m in the middle of such a disruption. Two members of my family are hospitalized with (non-life-threatening, thankfully) medical issues. With that comes not only worry but a slew of added responsibility.

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Video Tutorial: How to Create Seamless Panorama Slide Images for Instagram

Spoon Graphics

In today’s Photoshop video tutorial I’m going to share some useful tips for creating visually interesting panoramic posts on Instagram that seamlessly pan back and forth to show a larger image within the regular viewport area. These kinds of posts are perfect for wide images that you just can’t seem to crop into a square ratio, or to add a little creativity to your social media profile.

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Immortality Illustration by Boris Pelcer

We And The Color

Digitally illustrated work of art based on the subject of immortality. Featured several times before on WE AND THE COLOR, Boris Pelcer is a visual artist and illustrator based in Portland, OR, USA. His illustrated artworks are intended to be explorations of intangible complexities of human emotions, thoughts, ideas, and behaviors. Below you can see three new artworks from Boris Pelcer’s Immortality series.

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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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The Best Online Branding Courses & MOOCs in 2021

The Branding Journal

Disclosure We participate in affiliate programs and receive a small commission on purchases made through the links in this article. This doesn’t affect the sales price that the course providers charge you when purchasing on their platform. Thanks for your support! In this article, we’re looking at the top branding courses for entrepreneurs, marketers, designers, and anyone who pursues a career in the field of branding.

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Best Selling Fonts for Half-Price + FREE Typography Lessons with Top Creators

Spoon Graphics

A free online Typography event kicked off yesterday at Design Cuts featuring live lessons with top designers and discounts of up 50% off various popular font-families. This is your chance to stock up on a variety of type styles at a huge discount, including serif, script, sans-serif, and display fonts. There are also several FREE Live Sessions with some of the biggest names in the community sharing their useful typography tips and techniques.

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The Next Course: Future of Hospitality

Azure Magazine

Early last year, Montreal restaurateur Erin Mahoney was putting the final touches on Joon , her Persian and South Caucasus cuisine destination — and her first permanent location following a number of spirited pop-ups — when COVID-19 hit. Suddenly, everything was tossed in the air, and she had to make some serious decisions. With lockdown looming, Mahoney says, “We developed a list of needs — what do we absolutely have to keep and what are the secondary elements.

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Inside illustrator Gaurab Thakali’s vivid scenes

Creative Review

Growing up in Nepal, Gaurab Thakali was more interested in outdoor activities than pursuing artistic hobbies. He would more likely be found running or swimming before taking up skateboarding, and later played a central role in bringing the first fully fledged concrete skate park to Nepal. Yet his everyday surroundings left a mark on him. “I was always drawn to the traditional carvings, paintings and architecture that scattered the streets of Kathmandu and I think that was enough to subcons

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Typography for Screen: Type in Motion — Book by Wang Shaoqiang

We And The Color

Typography for Screen: Type in Motion is our today’s recommended book published by Hoaki. Written by Wang Shaoqiang for publishing house Hoaki, Typography for Screen features a great range of uses of typography in motion for the digital environment. On 240 pages, the book explores several typographic case studies in visual and information hierarchies including motion graphics, webpage design, and conceptual experiments.

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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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30 Artistic Instagrammers You Should Follow

HONGKIAT

Instagram is riddled with accounts by celebrities, travel blogs, humor vlogs, and many more. It is also home to some of the most creative artists you can find on the Web. In this post are 30 such talented artists who give you a peek into their work and life via Instagram. Consider them your daily dose of creativity in the morning (or evening) when you wake up to start your day (or night).

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Bata-Ville: A Shoe Company’s Quest for Global Utopia

Azure Magazine

The remnants of another city flank Toronto’s spine of skyscrapers. Converted into offices, condos, galleries and lofts, former warehouses and factories are home to a new urban economy — one fuelled by laptops, real estate and the flow of global financial capital. On the bucolic banks of the Trent River some 180 kilometres away, however, a similar transformation has unfolded in a radically different context, where it is rekindling the industrial heart of a former company town into a communi

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Kacey Jeffers wants people to feel seen in his photography

Creative Review

Initially, self-taught photographer Kacey Jeffers never saw becoming a creative as a viable option when growing up in Nevis, a small island in the Caribbean sea. “Nevisian culture pushes very traditional career paths,” he tells CR. “When I was around 16 I became interested in modelling and that opened up a whole new world for me. Years later in my early 20s while modelling in London, I realised that I much preferred being behind the camera.

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G8 Identity Design by Roma Erohnovich

We And The Color

G8 identity: the creative community manifesto. Roma Erohnovich, a well known Russian art director, graphic design, and illustrator just worked on a new visual identity for G8, a project in Russia for the creative community created by the creative community. In terms of its vibe and communication tactics, this event is more like a punk performance than a conference, meetup, or competition.

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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 to Make an Action Movie Poster in Photoshop

Envato Tuts+

What You'll Be Creating. Today we will be looking at how to make an action movie poster in Adobe Photoshop. We will build an action movie poster PSD step by step, creating a composition that can be easily replicated using different actors or models. The key to a good action poster is simplicity with high visibility. You want to grab the viewer's attention and then stay in that viewer's memory, making sure they can't resist wanting to watch this film—even if it doesn't really exist!

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WordPress Themes: 23 Best Responsive WP Themes

Graphic Design Junction

Elegant, creative and multi-purpose best WordPress themes. Responsive themes built upon some fresh, modern and unique design. The User Experience is among the best and the interface will blow your and your customers’ minds. All WordPress themes comes with lots of useful and modern elements, blocks; you can kickstart your new websites with ease and in no time.

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Marcus Rashford calls Full Time on child food poverty in new campaign

Creative Review

No child should have to go to bed hungry, but the UK’s latest statistics on child food poverty highlight a systemic problem that urgently needs tackling. Pre-Covid, 30% of all children across the country were living in poverty, while food insecurity in families with children has increased dramatically in lockdown. With politicians largely failing to rectify the situation amid the pandemic, grassroots campaigners have been speaking out and applying pressure to the UK government.

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During a Year Inside, Illustrations Offered a Window to the World

Eye on Design

Open up a newspaper, survey your movie options on Netflix, scroll through Instagram—pick any particularly Pandemic-suited pastime—and you’ll no doubt come across some works of illustration. It’s not a new medium in marketing and editorial design—in fact, it’s one of the oldest—and even before the pandemic, illustration seemed to be enjoying a resurgence of sorts.

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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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Microsoft is looking for a new default font after 14 years of Calibri

Design Week

Microsoft is replacing its default font for the first time in 14 years and asking the public for feedback on potential replacements. Calibri was chosen as the default font for Microsoft programmes like Office, Powerpoint and Outlook in 2007. At the time it replaced Times New Roman. Now Microsoft says that “it’s time to evolve” It has commissioned five original, custom fonts in its search for a new default.

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Flash Sale 2021: Best Flash Discounts (Save up to 40%)

Graphic Design Junction

Hey! good news for graphic resources lover, Envato Elements Flash Sale is live!!! They are offers unlimited downloads of millions creative assets, design elements, course & tutorials and stock photos. Best of all, you’ll lock in these savings for the lifetime of your subscription. Limited time only, so get in quick. Save Upto 40% Now. Or check hand-picked best Graphic Design Resources: Typography | After Effects.

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Collins Modern Classics gives some much-loved books a new look

Creative Review

These new editions bring a fresh set of covers to well-known titles, wrapping them in clashing two-colour palettes and featuring graphics inspired by the contents of each title. Jo Thompson, deputy art director at 4th Estate and William Collins, says the art department was briefed to create jackets that would look nothing like other classic book editions, but still be timeless enough to stand apart from current trends.

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Abstract Photography by Castro Frank

We And The Color

Ethereal, Castro Frank’s first collection of abstract photography provides a dramatic approach to street photography. Los Angeles-based visual artist Castro Frank just released his first collection of abstract photography titled ‘Ethereal’ Shot on 35mm film, his textured abstract photographs immerse the viewer into rich colors induced by light exposures.

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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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10 Cool Things HTML Tags Can Do

HONGKIAT

At the moment there are a total of 142 HTML elements standardized by W3C excluding the ones in the initial phases of standardization and those that went obsolete. That said, it is possible to miss or forget few of them that can be useful when needed. Earlier we did a recap of some of the best CSS tricks you might have overlooked. This post will remind you some of the HTML tags that you didn’t know you could use to implement features such as: 15 Beautiful Text Effects Created with CSS. 15 B

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Best of the web for Design and Web Development April 2021

Creative Nerds

This is our month tradition where we end the current month by compiling together a list of the absolute best design tutorials and web articles created throughout month. The post features a great collection of comprehensive design tutorials photoshop, Illustrator and Pixelmator Pro. The roundup includes some great tutorials from how to create a floral […].

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How to be smarter about type

Creative Review

When a designer unwittingly used a font on a piece of Harry Potter merchandise without the correct license in place, it led to NBC Universal being sued for $1.5 million. This kind of licensing infringement can put a brand on the front pages for all the wrong reasons: a nightmare scenario that no agency wants to put their clients in. “The font industry has grown a lot quicker than people’s knowledge of font licensing has,” reflects Jason Harcombe, who established FontPeople to s

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Download Vector illustrations of Landscape Wallpaper Artworks

We And The Color

These super-stylish vector illustrations of surreal landscape artworks can be used to create decorative fine art prints as well as wallpapers, website backgrounds, greeting cards, packaging, etc. Created by Adobe Stock contributors @Vectortwins , this amazing collection of beautifully drawn vector illustrations includes plenty of individual landscape artworks.

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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.