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11 Digital Tools that can make a Freelancer’s Life Easier

Noupe

Making $100,000 as a freelancer is not difficult. Making $100,000 and staying sane is the real challenge. If you have been freelancing for a while, there’s a good chance that you find the above statement relatable. If, on the other hand, you are new, here’s news: You have to wear many hats as a freelance business owner. I use “freelance business owner” instead of “freelancer” because in order to put food on the table, a freelancer has to do almost everything a small business owner does.

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Type Design in the Museum: Acquiring the Immaterial

Typographica

Craig Eliason explores how the peculiarities inherent to type design shed light on the purpose and practices of the design museum in the contemporary world.

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Top 10 Best Asus Laptops for Graphic Design in 2021

Just Creative

In an industry so saturated, picking the best bet and purchasing a laptop can be one of the most challenging decisions that you might make today. We wouldn’t be doing our jobs if we didn’t mention Asus’ extensive catalog of Windows-based laptops. Based in Taiwan, Asus has become one of the most trusted names in technology, continuously outperforming their competition across their vast and wide array of different laptop configurations, many of which are design to help creatives and gr

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Video Tutorial: How to Create a Neon Light Effect in Photoshop

Spoon Graphics

In today’s Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a vibrant visual effect by adding neon lights to a photo. This popular art style often incorporates simple shapes or text for the neon lights, which are illuminated in bright colours. I’ll explain how to use Photoshop to draw a custom shape and give it a vibrant glow with the help of Photoshop’s Layer Style options, then we’ll use a clever technique to apply a colourful ambience to the original photo

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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 3 Most Important Pieces of Information That Your Website Needs

Six Leaf Design

Everyone needs a website at this point. If you don't have one for your business, chances are that you're missing out on a good number of opportunities. But if you don't have the time or resources to devote to building a big, strategic website with lots of bells and whistles, at the very least you'll want to make sure you have these 3 important pieces of information on your site and they are front and center where people can find them. 1.

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Top 20 After Effects Intro & Title Templates

Just Creative

The introduction sequence of your creative is perhaps the most essential part of your project. This is the point where you will attract the audience and keep them interested in your project. If not done correctly, the audience may not continue watching the remaining part of your project. So how will you design an engaging introduction with minimal time from scratch?

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35 Cute Cats, Birds, and Botanicals Illustrations for Premium Members

Spoon Graphics

Access All Areas members have a wonderful collection of illustrations to download this week, courtesy of Pretty Little Lines. This handcrafted pack of illustrated graphics features the most adorable drawings of cat characters, along with complementary birds, flowers, and wreaths to compose sweet designs for greetings cards, invitations, wedding stationery, and much more!

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The 15 Best Lightroom Presets for Landscapes & Travel in 2021

Speckyboy Design Magazine

We travel to feel alive. But as soon as we come back home, we want to share our experiences with the people we care about. Unfortunately, not even our cameras can really capture the atmosphere of a special moment; the vibrant sights, colors, smells, and the wind blowing in from the east that makes us feel like this is it – this is the moment we have been waiting for.

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One Hundred Years tells the story of Hackney through the ages

Creative Review

Since 2013, indie publisher Hoxton Mini Press has been celebrating the stories of its local community via its East London Photo Stories book series. The latest publication in the series comes courtesy of portrait photographer and Hackney resident Jenny Lewis, who has lived in the area for 25 years, the last three of which have been spent documenting the individuals who make up her local community.

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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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Top 10 Best Marketing Courses in 2021

Just Creative

Marketing is the practice that many businesses put in place to promote their products or services to consumers. Companies can put a ton of money into their marketing campaigns. For example, for Super Bowl 55, the cost of a 30-second commercial was reported to be $5.5 million. That’s a ton of money for a small ad during the biggest sporting event of the year.

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Negative Emotional Language Hurts E-Commerce Conversions

Graphic Design USA

Unbounce report shows that, during the pandemic, online traffic was way up but messages associated with negative emotions like fear and sadness depressed conversions.

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Make Graphic Designs

Graphic Design 24

Make Artistic Graphic Designs It is safe to say that you are an understudy of visual communication? In the event that you have required significant investment in additional surveys and put "visual communication" and "drawing" into any web crawlers, you'll get practically a similar outcome = depictions of visual communication programs at many plan schools.

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What is Branding? (Updated April 2021)

Canny

What is branding? Because branding is such a misused and misunderstood term, “what is branding?” has become a common question that we answer at Canny. Alongside “how much is logo design?” and “how much is a website?” – I’d actually say it’s one of our most frequently asked questions, in some form or other at least. For example, people ask us: What is branding?

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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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Top 30 Free PowerPoint Templates for 2021

Just Creative

Powerpoint presentations are a huge part of the corporate and creative boardroom. Whether you’re pitching new ideas or closing business deals, how well we present our thoughts, concerns, and proposals is a huge part of the decisions and partnerships that businesses make and create. Not everyone has a creative department that can come up with a template that can be used to wow people at their next conference.

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Time For A New Approach To Leadership

Graphic Design USA

Simon Berg of Ceros on how the pandemic set fire to the leadership playbook and how leaders can embrace a new approach that is honest and authentic.

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Introducing the colourful characters of Neko Jiang

Creative Review

In what she describes as her ‘Neko World’, illustrator Neko Jiang uses her imagination to create vibrant scenes and populate them with an array of colourful characters. Originally from Chengdu in China, the seeds of Jiang’s illustration career were planted at a young age. “When I was a child, my parents were busy with their work and I only had some comic books and cartoon discs to accompany me,” she tells CR. “When I was in primary school, I always drew cartoo

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The 15 Best Free WordPress Themes for Photographers in 2021

Speckyboy Design Magazine

A great photography website has to put your photos into main focus and allow visitors to get a glimpse into your photography style. That’s why you need to make sure that you choose the right theme for your website that will let your photos shine. When it comes to WordPress, there is no shortage of quality free themes for photographers and in this post, we’ve compiled the best of them.

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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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How to Choose the Perfect Logo Design for Your Business

Noupe

Logo designing is no walk in the park; there are a few, in fact, many peculiarities that the designer must be aware of before selecting the final logo for the brand. Your logo is the brand’s identity, do not let an amateur jeopardize your brand identity to save some bucks. You may end up paying a lot more later if your designer messes up your logo.

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Photoshop's Pen Tool Using Tracing Vectors

Graphic Design 24

Photoshop's Pen Tool Using for Tracing Vectors Photoshop offers heaps of drawing, delineating and imaging apparatuses for a website specialist to exploit. In this instructional exercise, we will be allowed a chance to figure out how to utilize the Pen Tool for following pictures in your PC and apply them to make a vector designs impact by following.

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Gucci’s show invitation is a retro puzzle book

Creative Review

All images courtesy of Gucci Ahead of this week’s virtual presentation of its new collection, Aria, Gucci has sent out an invitation to guests in the form of a puzzle book containing a range of word and picture games to keep invitees entertained at home while they wait. In keeping with creative director Alessandro Michele’s vision for Gucci , the puzzle book has a retro charm about it, from the name – Gucciquiz!

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Font Psychology: Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Fonts

Designmodo

This post is originally published on Designmodo: Font Psychology: Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Fonts. There are over half a million fonts in the world. While most of the web is built upon a handful of popular font types, there’s lots of room to pick a unique path. Since fonts are also visual elements, you … For more information please contact Designmodo.

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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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8 Thank You Page Examples to Inspire your Landing Pages

Noupe

There’s a tendency in people to treat thank you pages as an afterthought (in case you don’t know, thank you page is what appears after someone signs up for something through your landing page ). The truth is that thank you pages offer you yet another opportunity to nurture leads, build relationships and increase sales. . You can use the thank you page to: Set future expectations Share download links Share similar resources Upsell on offers Move them through your sales funnel Guide them to releva

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Creatures of Hope: Cheery Illustrated Monsters Strut through New York City Streets

Colossal

Soho (2019). All images © Loe Lee, shared with permission. Friendly monsters with enthusiastic grins and pastel fur and feathers have been sauntering through the streets of New York City thanks to Loe Lee. The jolly characters are part of the Chinese-American illustrator’s Creatures of Hope series, which overlays photographs of the city with the whimsical figures.

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Philip K Dick’s short stories get a neon redesign

Creative Review

Published by The Folio Society, the lavish new set – which is priced to appeal to the superfan at £495 a set – comes packaged in its own presentation box, and features 118 stories by the American author. Dick, who died in 1982, is perhaps best known for his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but his short stories We Can Remember It For You Wholesale and Minority Report have also both been adapted into films.

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Rachel Ake on Designing We Play Ourselves

Spine Magazine

Rachel Ake is a freelance graphic designer who also works at Penguin Random House. Here she takes us through her process for designing the beautifully creative cover for We Play Ourselves. I received the manuscript for Jen Silverman’s debut novel on March 19, 2020. A point in time when I had convinced myself my brain was broken. This was one of the first times in my career that I had the opportunity to design for an author a second time.

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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.