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30 Creative Logo Templates (PSD, AI)

Graphic Design Junction

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrated Logo templates, creative unique vector logo design that stands out and instantly recognizable. The logo looks great on white and black backgrounds. It will look great on a business card, letterhead or envelope, as well as a web site or any other digital media. Logo templates are fully editable and scalable without losing resolution. 100% Vector logo templates available in AI, EPS and PSD format.

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The Endless Life Cycle of Book Cover Trends

Eye on Design

Torrey Peters’s Detransition, Baby (designed by Random House’s Rachel Ake Keuch ) has been one of the most consequential pieces of mainstream fiction to publish this year: a modern relationship story that offers a view into urban trans culture. It’s a singular book wrapped in a familiar package: neon color palette , sans serif title, ambiguous silhouetted faces.

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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month

I Love Typography

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. In this debut issue of our new monthly column, design legend Steven Heller takes a look at René Bieder’s Magnat font family. Heller is not only an award-winning designer, design educator, and author and editor of hundreds of books, but is also one of the world's foremost commentators and historians of graphic design.

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Capitu Brand Identity by Gabriel Dominicali

We And The Color

Created for Estadão, Gabriel Dominicali designed a colorful, feminine visual identity. Gabriel Dominicali is a graphic designer from Brazil. The skilled designer was commissioned by Estadão to create a fresh, new visual identity for Capitu. Capitu is Estadão’s newest editorial. It offers an attentive and feminine look at politics, career, and current events.

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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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33 Beautiful Handwriting Fonts For Designers

Graphic Design Junction

Hand-picked collection of Best Handwriting Fonts, contemporary approach to design, handmade natural script and stylish handwritten font , perfect for signatures. Suitable for use in title design. Such as apparel, invitations, books tittle, stationery design, quotes, branding, logos, greeting card, t-shirt, packaging design, poster and more. The beautiful compilation of signature fonts that can give more artistic look to you design.

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30 of the Best Non-Profit Organization Websites

Vandelay Design

Budget limitations are common with non-profit and charitable organizations. As a result, organizations often compromise on the need for an effective and attractive website. However, the websites shown here represent some of the most well-designed websites of non-profits. These organizations prove that non-profits can have great websites, and we hope it serves as inspiration for your own work.

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Gradwatch 2021: Illustrator Sam Wagstaff, Manchester School of Art

Creative Review

“I quite like cramming as much detail as I can into it,” says Sam Wagstaff, a Manchester School of Art graduate who works in a distinctive graphic novel style of illustration. It’s an approach that particularly suits city scenes, or imagery of boats, trains or clusters of buildings – all of which allow Wagstaff to incorporate minute hints of narrative.

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25 Super Minimal Business Cards Design

Graphic Design Junction

Minimal corporate Business Card Templates suitable for your own brand identity or any kind of business like Corporate Agency, Creative, Blog, Magazine, Retail, Photographer, Artist, Designer, Freelancers and much more. Simple and clean minimal business cards are best for minimalist presentation. The clean business card designs have been crafted for the true professionals.

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Sjy Seaweed

ID Identity Design

Sjy Seaweed is a start-up with a purpose — to help build a sustainable future through vegan seafood. Located on the island of Kvarøy in Northern Norway, Sjy aims to offer ready-to-eat products made from seaweed. Their first effort, seaweed chips made entirely from local sourced produce, has just launched. Together with Sjy we developed a brand strategy, visual identity, and packaging.

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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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10 Signs You Have Gone Too Far Into Freelance Design

HONGKIAT

Freelance design is great, but nobody I know so far has remained as he or she was before after years of running a ( often traumatic ) freelance experience. After a while, we’d like to think that bit by bit, we have evolved into something beyond human, with either supernatural abilities or mentally disturbing traits, and these are what I want to share today in this post: the 10 habits you develop when you fall too deep into freelance design.

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Gradwatch 2021: Illustrator Rosie Hunter, UWE Bristol

Creative Review

“I like to become a temporary expert in what I’m working on,” says artist Rosie Hunter, whose work often uses clever visual metaphors to express complex subjects such as mental health. Research plays a major role in her practice, she says, with any new work beginning with a lot of reading, investigating and brainstorming. Hunter started to develop an interest in editorial illustration in her first year at UWE Bristol, and was particularly drawn to more socially conscious subjec

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50% OFF Sale On Best WordPress Themes

Graphic Design Junction

Amazing offer on WordPress Themes, 50% OFF on the best WordPress themes (Limited time only!). You can save instant 50% OFF on Envato’s best-selling WordPress themes! So what are your waiting go and grab your favorite WordPress theme on discounted price. Premium WordPress Themes are perfect for Creative Portfolio, Corporate Businesses, Blogs and Personal websites.

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Le Condé

ID Identity Design

The Hyatt Regency Chantilly is home to Le Condé, the hotel’s punch and cocktail bar. Le Condé is an extravagant felted lounge where you can chat, enjoy yourself, and share signature punches and cocktails. The drink menu is filled with unique and surprising recipes that vary with the seasons. The eccentric atmosphere is a tribute to the historical figure of Louis, Prince de Condé (1621–1686).

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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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Student Week: Lysol + Le Petit Prince

The Die Line

While the branding and packaging stick closely to that of the Lysol products we already know and love, fusing in illustrations from the beloved children's classic, Le Petit Prince, inspires us all to keep our childhood imaginations alive and in tact. .

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Gradwatch 2021: Illustrator Sâde Popoola, University of Lincoln

Creative Review

British-Nigerian illustrator S â de Popoola (aka Shadz) says from an early age she enjoyed drawing so much that she wanted to pursue a career that would allow her to do it every day. Initially, her intention was to study architecture or interior design at university. It was only after her sixth form art teacher recommended she try illustration that she felt it would be a better fit for her.

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22 Fresh Free Fonts

Graphic Design Junction

Free download fonts, fresh collection of free fonts for designers. Useful free commercial fonts are great for logo design, t-shirt design, business cards, wedding invitation, Web UI and Mockup templates. The list included condensed fonts, handmade brush fonts , free script fonts and sans serif fonts. The following typefaces and fonts are ideal to make an attractive design and fit for any artwork.

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All the World’s a Stage for the Dramatic Daggers of this Shakespeare-Inspired Typeface Family

Eye on Design

Name: Arras. Designer: Barrett Reid-Maroney. Release Date: August 2021 . Back Story: “Suit the action to the word, the word to the action,” Shakespeare wrote in Act three of Hamlet. In the case of Arras, a new typeface from designer Barrett Reid-Maroney, the typography wears a suit of its own inspiration. While completing his Master’s in English literature concentrating on book history and typography at the Huron University College in Ontario, London, Reid-Maroney became transfixed by tedious, i

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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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Carl Brown Font by Muntab_Art

We And The Color

Carl Brown, a modern, vintage-inspired serif font for fun and elegant typography. Take a look at Carl Brown, a super-stylish serif font that comes with uppercase letters, numerals, and a large range of punctuation. This new font is inspired by elegant vintage typography. Carl Brown was designed for use in poster design, web design, branding, illustrations, badges, just to name a few.

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Goo Choki Par reflects on designing this year’s Paralympic Games posters

Creative Review

Tokyo-based studio Goo Choki Par is made up of three graphic designers: Q Asaba, Kent Iitaka, and Rei Ishii, and the trio regularly work on a range of projects from art direction to brand identities, digital artworks to poster design. The work is split equally and the aim of most of their projects is to visually express something in a new way. “The goal is not to create planned harmony, but to create colour-matching shapes that the three of us did not anticipate,” says Iitaka.

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35 Examples of TV Network Websites for Design Inspiration

SpyreStudios

Digital entertainment is a vast industry that has flourished over the past century. Movie and television studies have proliferated and grown into numerous media conglomerates. Nowadays, it’s common that most great movies will get their own custom website. However, there are also websites created for major network television stations. Whether you’re designing a new website for a TV station or just looking for inspiration, this gallery has it all.

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Welcome to the Fanatical and Lucrative World of Baseball Card Design

Eye on Design

Toward the end of my call with New York artist Blake Jamieson , I could hear the unmistakable rattling of a spray can ball bearing, followed by a serpentarium’s worth of hisses. Jamieson was cranking out a last-minute portrait of some friends who were coming over for a dinner party later that night, and our conversation about his work with a life-changing client had extended long enough that he was calculating how much time the paint had to dry. .

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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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Apocope Branding by Brand Brothers

We And The Color

The creative folks at studio Brand Brothers created an amazing visual identity for Apocope. “Apocope, from the Greek apokoptian, is a figure of speech that is characterized by the abbreviation of a complete word, keeping only the first syllables. Repu, Mat, Capu, Montpel, Stras… The French love to speak in apocopes, it is a strong marker of French culture and urban style.

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How to build a design system if you’re the only designer in a startup

UX Collective

It’s always hard to be the only person in a company who is responsible for product design. Your day can be insanely busy because you deal with multiple things at the same time. You have to define a high-level strategy for a product design, delivering features, collaborating with product people, supporting devs and QA’s, user interviews, and much more.

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35 Scholastic College & University Website Layouts

SpyreStudios

Modern education has become much more advanced with a larger Internet presence than ever before. Colleges and universities basically need a website to promote tuition fees, academics, campus life, and plenty of similar resources. But unfortunately, not every college website has been designed with elegance or grace. I’ve organized 35 gorgeous website layouts created for colleges and universities located all over America.

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(Almost) Never Demolish: Reviving Social Housing Through Preservation

Azure Magazine

The camera pans over a neighbourhood framed by Toronto’s skyline. In the foreground, the last of the area’s remaining mid-century social housing fans out in a repeating grid. Just beyond, new mixed-income buildings blend into the glass-and-steel horizon. The community is Regent Park, and the film is the video for Mustafa’s “ Stay Alive ,” the opening track of the artist’s acclaimed 2021 album, When Smoke Rises.

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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.