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How To Create A Website Design That Converts – Guide for Small Businesses

Just Creative

This article has been contributed by Aslam Multani. First impressions matter. The first interaction a potential customer has with your brand is usually on your website. The way you design and develop your website can make or break your conversion rates. If you see an increase in your website traffic but not in sales, then it is time for you to evaluate your website design.

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How Can Solopreneur Designers Make Their Business More Efficient?

Noupe

Becoming more efficient is something every business can benefit from. It helps you to work faster and more accurately, ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget. Solopreneur designers can benefit even more from increasing their efficiency because their margins for error and wastage are so much smaller — an inefficient project could be the difference between your company taking the next step or going under.

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How to Create Smoky Brushes and Type in Illustrator

Envato Tuts+

What You'll Be Creating I've always been fascinated by smoke and have experimented a lot with it. So in this tutorial, I'll explain how to create a realistic smoky texture, make it into a smoke vector brush, and use it for type. Using the techniques in this tutorial, we will create the smoke illustration seen below. This is perfect if you want your words written in smoke, so let's light up our vector cigarettes and get started smokin'!

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David Pearson’s Creative Covers For Penguin’s Great Ideas Series

Designer Daily

For its Great Ideas series, Penguin worked with book cover expert David Pearson , a graphic designer based in the UK. The designer took a type-based approach to nail the covers of these non-fiction books that feature no less than authors like George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, or Karl Marx. Pearson’s collaboration started early in the branding of the series, and he even coined the series name.

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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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15 Best Ink Brushes for Procreate in 2020

Just Creative

First appearing as part of the Tang Dynasty, ink painting, or ink wash painting as it is also known, has a long storied history. Since those days though, with advancements in technology, the days of having jars of ink on your desk are long gone. Now, we the advent of technology, you can create incredible works of art right on your iPad with the Procreate app.

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Olimpia Zagnoli puts an abstract spin on Dior’s new collection

Creative Review

Dior’s new Fall 2020 collection has been playfully reimagined as vibrant illustrations by Italian artist and illustrator Olimpia Zagnoli. The visuals were created digitally, but have the loose, handmade feel of traditional painting, with thick brushstrokes and figures presented in exaggerated proportions. “After talking to [Dior creative director] Maria Grazia Chiuri about the inspiration behind the collection, I thought a fluid, almost wet approach to the canvas was going to give th

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Artist Spotlight: Steph Lau

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A selection of personal and commissioned work by artist Steph Lau. While Lau’s personal work involves drawing in physical mediums like sketchbooks and textile pieces, the things she creates for herself usually end up fuelling the 2D and 3D digital pieces she gets commissioned to do. “I’m endlessly inspired by the timeless artistry of nature, and our relationship with it across different cultures.

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50 Free High-Resolution Seamless Pattern Sets

SpeckyBoy

Seamless and tileable patterns are a great way to enhance your projects. They add extra depth and richness to your designs so having them in your library is a sensible choice. You can use them in both your web and print projects. For example, a seamless pattern is a great way to create an attractive business card or product packaging. With seamless patterns you are only limited by your imagination, so why not make use of all the great seamless patterns we have for you today and let your creativi

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Faster than Light – Neon effect in Photoshop & The Most Eye-Catching Examples

Noupe

Using the neon effect in Photoshop may sound a little too simplistic for experienced Photoshop users but the effect it can have on your design is certainly not so simple. This fun design effect turns the design process into an experimental and vibey journey. The neon effect has a variety of different application methods and can be found in almost any type of visual.

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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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Illustrator Reuben Dangoor’s quick-witted take on Britishness

Creative Review

With an observational outlook and sharp wit to match even the most established political cartoonists, Reuben Dangoor is a name to take note of. The London-based illustrator is known as much for his music-themed collaborations as his striking visual commentaries on social injustices such as the Grenfell Tower fire and the migrant crisis. Born and raised in Hackney, east London, Dangoor was exposed to creativity from a young age, and the house he grew up in was constantly full of photos that his d

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Looking at an Online School Through a Web Designer’s Eyes

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Like so many families around the globe, ours has had to make some difficult decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the most agonizing was what to do about school. Should we send our daughter back to traditional school, or should we opt for an online school? Out of both concerns for safety and consistency, we chose the online program offered by our local school district.

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20+ Realistic Macbook Mockup Templates for Photoshop

SpeckyBoy

Apple’s Macbook has become a synonym for quality and thanks to these Macbook mockup templates for Photoshop, so can your work! Illustrating the quality of your design to your clients during a presentation can be hard, especially when you’re in software or web development. Yes, you’ve listed all the features and their benefits, taken the appropriate screenshots, but a picture is still worth a thousand words.

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7 Graphic Design Trends of 2021 Every Designer Should Know – [Infographic]

Noupe

There was a time when bright colors and bold typography dominated the design world. But graphic design as we know it is ever-evolving. What worked a year ago may no longer be as effective today, making it important for designers to keep up with the latest trends. What does 2021 have in store for graphic design, you ask? To make it easier for you, the team at Venngage has compiled an infographic on some of the biggest graphic design trends that will dominate the coming year.

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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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V&A goes virtual ahead of Alice in Wonderland themed exhibition

Creative Review

We’ve seen a whole raft of virtual exhibitions, events and other digital experiments in response to the pandemic. The V&A is the latest arts institution to embrace the virtual world, with the news that it is collaborating with HTC Vive Arts to coincide with the release of tickets for its hotly anticipated Alice in Wonderland exhibition, which opens to the public in 2021.

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IDS Vancouver 2020 Gets Virtual – in a Vivid Way

Azure Magazine

Like many design weeks around the world boldly forging ahead, IDS Vancouver has transitioned its annual showcase into a URL-meets-IRL program. And it’s an ambitious one at that, complete with a wide range of virtual talks and micro events that include showroom visits, studio tours and installations. It’s also providing an evergreen platform for brands and talents through the online IDS 360?

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Free Wallpaper for October 2020

Six Leaf Design

I opened the front door of our house this weekend to feel the crisp air and smell the cool scent of fall on the breeze. It’s refreshing after a ridiculously long, hot summer here in Denver and I’m looking forward to what I’m sure will be a short autumn before winter hooks it’s claws into us. To be honest I’m dreading feeling even more trapped inside our homes than ever with the pandemic plus cold weather keeping us in.

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Illustrator Spotlight: Ana Miminoshvili

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Ana Miminoshvili. Ana Miminoshvili’s Website. Ana Miminoshvili on Instagram.

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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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Penguin’s Great Ideas series is back

Creative Review

Titles range from stirring feminist manifestos to musings on happiness, civil rights, anarchy and the power of language – all wrapped up in pocket-size editions. Sojourner Truth’s Ain’t I A Woman features the activist’s speeches, while Peter Singer’s Why Vegan explores the ethical questions around eating animals. How To Be A Stoic, which collects the words of three Stoic philosophers on how to face life’s difficulties, feels particularly relevant for right now

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Get to Know Jeff Starr, WordPress Author and Entrepreneur

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Jeff Starr is not the first person to serendipitously find his way into the WordPress community. After all, many of us have discovered and since fallen in love with the CMS. But he has become one of its most prolific and recognizable members. The author of four books, along with dozens of both free and premium WordPress plugins, Jeff’s work has likely touched more of our projects than we can count.

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Neural Networks Create a Disturbing Record of Natural History in AI-Generated Illustrations by Sofia Crespo

Colossal

All images © Sofia Crespo, shared with permission. Sofia Crespo describes her work as the “natural history book that never was.” The Berlin-based artist uses artificial neural networks to generate illustrations that at first glance, resemble Louis Renard’s 18th Century renderings or the exotic specimens of Albertus Seba’s compendium.

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What’s driving so many car brands to redesign their identity?

Design Week

Vauxhall unveiled its new logo last week, a “confidently British” look, which reworks the griffin icon and introduces a blue-and-red colour scheme. Most prominent is its new flat styling — a simplified version of the logo’s previous 3D look. Vauxhall calls the redesign the “progressive face of the brand” It’s a familiar story within car branding of late.

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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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Base Design creates identity for the forthcoming Bob Dylan Center

Creative Review

Next year, the Bob Dylan Center is set to open in the Tulsa Arts District in Oklahoma, US. The institution will be one of the only public venues for the musician’s archive and is set to exhibit a collection of more than 100,000 items spanning Dylan’s career. To help bring it to life, creative studio Base Design, which has hubs in New York, Brussels, Melbourne and Geneva, was brought on to create the logo and identity system set to be used across a range of applications and the websit

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30 Creative Examples of Symmetry in Logo Design

Speckyboy Design Magazine

A great example of a logo using symmetry is McDonalds with its golden arches. When symmetry is used in logo design, it’s a powerful way of shaping the image and perception that the target audience will have of the brand in question. Put simply, a symmetrical logo is a logo in which the left side is identical with the right. However, there are different levels of symmetry used in logo design in order to communicate certain ideas and meanings.

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Download Hundreds of Frames from Studio Ghibli Animations for Video-Chat Backgrounds for Free

Colossal

Ponyo on the cliff. Thanks to Studio Ghibli , you can hide piles of laundry and errant messes while videoconferencing from home with one of 400 stills from classic animations. The renowned Japanese animation studio recently released an online archive of images— which boasts iconic frames from films like Hayao Miyazaki ’s Ponyo and Spirited Away and Isao Takahata ’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya available—for free download.

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David Pearson: “We can be braver with book design in the UK”

Design Week

The third year of book cover designer David Pearson’s university degree at Central Saint Martins, he admits, should have been spent focusing on his degree show. But rather than following the example set by his classmates, Pearson was job hunting. He tells Design Week the search was all-consuming: “I was terrified of graduating without a job and having to move back to Grimsby, so I tried to get the jump on everyone else.” It was a good strategy, it turns out – the day afte

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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.