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5 Common WordPress Myths Debunked

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Don’t be alarmed – but it’s been said that the internet contains some misinformation. It’s also really effective at spreading various falsehoods. And because anyone can publish whatever they like, it can be difficult to tell fiction from the truth. Shocking, right? WordPress is no stranger to various myths and conspiracy theories. Some people are suspicious of big changes to the content management system’s (CMS) core.

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What are NFTs and Should Designers be Thinking About Crypto Art?

Design Week

“I’m going to Disney World,” said Mike Winkelmann earlier this month, after bidding closed on his digital collage work auctioned at Christie’s New York. Sold for $69 million (£49.5

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How Web Design and SEO Work Together to Drive eCommerce

Noupe

Web design and SEO are truly the backbones of any good e-commerce business model. Without a physical store, you have to rely on your website and content to create a visual and emotional experience for your customers. Many online stores struggle to balance aesthetics with content, and their copy is either too off-putting or lacks any search optimization whatsoever.

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15 Best Free Retro Font Families for Graphic Design, Branding & Logos

Just Creative

Retro fonts remind us of the good old day and come with a kind of nostalgia that not many other typefaces can portray. The marker-inspired typefaces and vintage text visuals can naturally convey intimacy, creativity, and talent. The best retro font families can help you get the results you’re looking for whether that’s a classic look, giving your projects a distinct feel, or making everything you create appear authentic and top-notch.

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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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Video Tutorial: How to Create a Vintage Pin-Up Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Spoon Graphics

In today’s Adobe Photoshop tutorial I’m going to take you through the process of creating a WW2 aircraft ‘nose art’ inspired image, featuring the classic ‘girl-riding-a-bomb’ style pin-up. Traditionally this style of artwork was hand-painted on bombers to boost morale and to bring good luck to the planes, perhaps the most well-known being the B-17 Memphis Belle.

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20 Free Mobile UI & Wireframe Kits for Sketch App

SpeckyBoy

Sketch is a popular program that can be used to create beautiful mobile UIs and wireframes that’s rising in popularity. Thanks to its rise in popularity, you can now find tons of resources that cater to Sketch and speed up your design process. In this collection, we’ve rounded up the best free mobile UIs and wireframe kits for Sketch.app that you can use as a starting point for your designs or as an inspiration.

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Top 50 Free Fonts for Graphic Design, Branding & Logos

Just Creative

Fonts are a crucial part of any brand and marketing campaign. They determine the aesthetic of a project, and the target audience an organization has its eyes set on. The trouble is that there are so many free fonts for graphic design and branding that it would take you years to go through them all, let alone find the professional quality ones. Thankfully, that’s why we’re here.

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Weekly News for Designers ? 584

Speckyboy Design Magazine

The 20 Best Photoshop Actions & Layer Styles for Creative Text Effects – Give your regular graphics an extra oomph with incredible typography! This collection includes a massive variety of styles to choose from. Emoji Cloud – Tell the world how you feel by using this CDN for SVG emoji. Glassmorphism UI – Hop on board the glassmorphism trend with this CSS UI library.

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Integrating A ‘PHD’ Strategy Across Brand Channels

Graphic Design USA

Ryan Schmidt of Landor & Fitch contends that now is the time for brand leaders to reconsider how brand experiences truly integrate the physical, human, and digital to deliver authenticity and truth.

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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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15 Tips For Creating Effective Business Flyers & Win it All!

Noupe

It could be a task as easy as pie or difficult as breaking a mountain, depending on how you implement the tips for creating effective business flyers. . We’re bringing some easy-to-digest tips for EFFECTIVE flyer design that sums-up our experience with successful & failing flyers. Big shots may have costly flyer maker at their disposal; small businesses are often vulnerable in this case.

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StoreBuilder: A Great Way to Start Your eCommerce Dream

Just Creative

For small business owners looking to set up a website or online store quickly, website builders can answer a lot of owners’ prayers. Not every small business owner can afford to hire an agency to create their website or even have an in-house web developer. Many new business owners barely have enough time to create an online presence and start selling their products.

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Why Thinking Ahead Is Crucial in Web Design

Speckyboy Design Magazine

The difference between building a great website and a mediocre one is usually determined very early on. It’s often a matter of a web designer painting their project into a virtual “corner”. That’s where a design becomes inflexible and unable to accommodate various use cases. This tends to happen in the prototyping phase. We spend lots of time and creative energy on an idea that looks awesome.

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“Say it with a flower” shooting for Lia Di Gregorio

Trendland

Words Mariana Bettinelli. Art director and stylist Elisabetta Bongiorni drew inspiration from botanical illustrations for the shoots of Lia Di Gregorio's jewelry.

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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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Ocado goes purple in new visual identity

Creative Review

One time the butt of jokes that its sole purpose was to supply middle-class Londoners with the latest pretentious food items, Ocado’s business has undergone a huge transformation in recent years. The online grocery delivery pioneer has emerged as one of the clear winners of the pandemic. It is now the world’s largest dedicated online supermarket with over 625,000 active customers, and last year overtook Tesco as the UK’s most valuable retailer , after its stock market value soa

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Fantastical Plants and Hybrid Characters Form a Strange Menagerie Crafted by Cat Johnston

Colossal

All images © Cat Johnston, shared with permission. A moth-human hybrid, striped coral, and a smoking frog sporting a tracksuit inhabit Cat Johnston ’s fantastical ecosystem crafted from paper and textiles. The playfully bizarre creatures are inspired by monsters, mythology, and folklore, evoking deities and magnifying the strange qualities of plants and animals.

Animation 101
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Raster to vector

Graphic Design 24

Vector change Vector change is the cycle whereby a raster picture is changed over into a vector picture. To comprehend this all the more effectively, we will initially need to comprehend what a raster picture and what a vector picture is. A raster picture is comprised of pixels which are little hued boxes. So in this picture, lines and bent edges are developed by the legitimate arrangement of the pixels for example putting the crates in such a manner close to one another that they make the ideal

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Renault unveils new geometric logo in “timeless” rebrand

Design Week

Renault has revealed a new logo, a geometric version of its diamond-shaped design which has been in use since the 1920s. While the brand’s diamond logo has existed since 1925, the previous iteration had not changed significantly since 1992. The new flat logo comprises two intertwining diamond shapes which can be animated for digital media. It appears without a wordmark and can also be lit-up on vehicle grilles.

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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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Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy’s evocative illustrations of people and places

Creative Review

“I think I’ve always been interested in subcultures and visuals that other people don’t find conventionally pretty,” says Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy. Born and raised in Brighton, the illustrator’s stylised aesthetic is hugely influenced by her time growing up in the city. “Some of my earliest drawings are of characters with mohawks, based on the punks who lived down the road from me,” she says. “I went to a lot of gigs and all-ages punk shows as a tee

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What is Gamification in Emails and How it Can Benefit Your Marketing

Noupe

Although email marketing may seem a rather still industry, it constantly undergoes changes. They may not be obvious to regular users, but email marketers today have way more tools than they would have even 2 years ago. Gamification is one of such tools. Primarily, before live stories and streaming, game-like content was heavily used on social media to engage followers and prompt shares and likes.

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The Immersive Black and White Photography of David Yarrow

Design You Trust

David Yarrow is a British fine-art photographer, conservationist and author. He has travelled to isolated locations to capture images of wildlife, indigenous communities and landscapes. Known for his oversized, monochromatic images, David’s approach is as immersive as it can be. When possible, David takes his photographs of dangerous wildlife using a remote-controlled camera, acknowledging that a photographer can achieve perspective by capturing shots that look up at the animal from the ground.

Fine Art 101
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Delicately Illustrated Tattoos Take a Whimsical Approach to Flora and Fauna

Colossal

All images © Joanna , shared with permission. Polish tattoo artist Joanna ?wirska ( previously ) stipples fur and inks subtle gradients to create fanciful scenarios of backpack-wearing kangaroos, cycling cats, and whimsical masses of tangled flora and fauna. Working as Dzo Lama, ?wirska is known for her delicate illustrations that mix playful elements with the style of vintage botanical renderings, particularly the bold, black fern that recurs in her tattoos.

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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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San Diego Zoo’s new look is a love letter to the animal kingdom

Creative Review

The origins of San Diego Zoo date back to 1915 when, as legend has it, founder Dr Harry Wegeforth drove past an animal menagerie abandoned after the Panama-California Exposition and heard the roar of a lion named Rex. Today, the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park are two of the largest zoos in the world, and Rex the lion lives on in the form of the Rex’s Roar statue that greets visitors at its entrance.

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A Licence to bill. Understanding copyright, licensing and illustration fees.

Lisa Maltby

Some projects involve working for a flat day rate and others are priced according to commercial use of the work. This can present some ambiguity around why jobs are priced differently and who owns the rights to the work created. It’s always important to be clear on terms and fees at the start of the project, but more detailed clarity is sometimes needed to ensure both clients and illustrators feel they are getting a fair deal.

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What is Low Poly Art?

Noupe

Low poly has been a hot topic on and off in the last couple of years. Even if you haven’t heard the term before you probably have seen it at least a dozen times. The term low poly is the shortened version of “low polygon” which mainly consists of simple 2d shapes coming together to form a pattern/shape. Low poly art is made of numerous low polygon shapes put together to create images, games, etc.

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New Perspective-Bending Collages by Lola Dupré Distort and Reconfigure Pets and Portraits

Colossal

“Cleo” (2020), 8.2 x 11.6 inches. All images © Lola Dupré, shared with permission. Glasgow-based artist Lola Dupré ( previously ) continues her practice of slicing and rearranging photographs and art historical works into cleverly surreal collages. Her newest manipulations include a blockheaded Léon Bonnat, an entire row of irresistible puppy eyes, and a twisted rendition of George Stubbs’s “ The Kongouro from New Holland.” Dupré’s cat, Charlie, still finds hi

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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.