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Typographic hierarchy: what is it and how can you use it?

Creative Bloq

Learn how to prioritise information using typography.

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The Top 10 Best Free Fonts Designers Will Love in 2022

We And The Color

Enjoy our hand-picked selection of the top 10 free fonts graphic designers can download to create amazing typographic designs in 2022. As we did in the past, we once again have examined countless free fonts from different platforms to show you our hand-picked selection of the 10 very best fonts graphic designers can download for free in 2022. This particular collection includes a variety of styles.

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25 Free Bootstrap Dashboard & Admin Templates

SpeckyBoy

In the past, the admin section of a web application tended to be built solely for functionality, with not much, if any at all, consideration for design. Thankfully things have changed. Powerful functionality and beautiful design, especially over the last few years, have been merging nicely. And with the massive rise in popularity of the Bootstrap framework, creating a beautiful and functional admin panel has never been easier.

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A Guide To Modern CSS Colors

Smashing Magazine Graphics

A Guide To Modern CSS Colors. A Guide To Modern CSS Colors. Michelle Barker. 2021-11-17T16:00:00+00:00. 2021-11-17T16:37:20+00:00. There’s more to color on the web than meets the eye, and it’s about to get a lot more interesting! Today, we’ll take a look at the best ways to use colors in a design system, and what we can expect from our colors in the not-too-distant future.

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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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Why white looks bigger than black?—?The irradiation illusion

UX Collective

Why white looks bigger than black?—?The irradiation illusion The unknown optical illusion every designer should know A logo symbol I designed recently for a local products market If you ever designed a logo, you probably had to test it both on a white and dark background. It’s good practice, since you want the logo to look consistent on different backgrounds.

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How WordPress Full Site Editing Could Impact the Design Process

SpeckyBoy

The way we design and build WordPress themes is evolving. With the introduction of Full Site Editing (FSE), it is now possible to change every aspect of a site’s look and layout directly within the Gutenberg block editor. Similar functionality has previously been available through the use of page builder plugins. It’s also something that the Customizer has long tried to address.

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New Modern Business Cards Templates (25+ Design)

Graphic Design Junction

Simple clean business card templates , modern design with elegant corporate look. Perfect for professional & individuals. Creatively designed business cards with logo can make your brand more attractive and eye-catching. Simple print ready templates are suitable for any business or personal use. The super clean business card designs have been crafted for the true professionals.

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Step into Radiohead’s eerie interactive universe

Creative Review

The artwork for Radiohead’s fifth studio album Amnesiac, released 20 years ago this summer, was derived from the idea of a maze, and the band’s new interactive experience harking back to the album is appropriately labyrinthine too. The expansive digital exhibition is tied to Radiohead’s recent release Kid A Mnesia, a joint reissue of Amnesiac and 2000’s Kid A.

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Photography Portfolio InDesign Template by GraphicArtist

We And The Color

Download the perfect portfolio template to showcase your photographic work. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @GraphicArtist , this photography portfolio template comes with 24 customizable pages. As already mentioned, this Adobe InDesign is fully editable. You can replace all images and text sections with your own content in seconds. Please note, the photos shown in the preview are for display only and are not included in the downloaded file.

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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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Epicene, a Baroque Typeface Celebrating Ornamental Idiosyncracy

Eye on Design

Name: Epicene Text and Epicene Display. Designer: Kris Sowersby. Foundry: Klim Type Foundry. Release Date: September 2021. Back Story: Building out from 18th-century European typographic traditions, Epicene is a new Baroque-style typeface and a reconciliation of the work of rival 18th-century Dutch typographers Jacques-François Rosart and Johann Michael Fleischmann.

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17 Deliciously Pretty Candy Websites for National Candy Day

SpyreStudios

Candy is a normal design theme, but designing a candy website for National Candy Day is not too common. As designers, we have designed for education, fashion, and all that. But, candy? It is quite a rare design project. Knowing this, it could be a pretty overwhelming job. Choosing to make it appealing and colorful without making the overall design too distracting is a true challenge.

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Cadillac refreshes identity in time for move into EV

Creative Review

As Cadillac seeks to expand – both in terms of its vehicle range and global market presence – the American car manufacturer has launched a brand refresh by Mother Design. The update comes ahead of introducing two electric vehicles to its line-up for the first time in the next few years. The new logo has been stripped back in terms of colour and embellishment, substituting its recognisable Mondrian-like design for a black and white flat logo (though a 3D chrome version still exists).

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The Good Boy: Natural Dog Food Branding by Andrea Ayensa

We And The Color

Andrea Ayensa just created this lovely visual identity for The Good Boy. Andrea Ayensa is a creative art director who lives and works in Barcelona. She was kind enough to share with us her latest brand and packaging concept named “The Good Boy – Natural Dog Food” Using a range of cute illustrations, this conceptual line proves that packaging can shine even without color.

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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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What is Sustainable Graphic Design?

UX Collective

I’m attempting to curate a space where visual designing and sustainability overlap meaningfully. I’ll walk us through some theories and a few case-studies dealing with “what Sustainable Aesthetics might look like.” Quick Background… In my twenty-year role as a graphic designer, I’ve designed books, album covers, magazines, logos, websites, and built digital tools.

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Hair Salon WordPress Themes – 15 Best Hairdresser Designs

Template Monster

If you want to promote and grow your beauty parlor or barbershop, you should consider choosing hair salon WordPress themes. In this article, we will bring in some useful tips for website creation, show you the best designs, and website features you should have. Running a professional hairdresser studio is impossible without a catchy and well-constructed website.

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Lucien Boucher’s Parisian shopfront lithographs are getting a new lease of life

Creative Review

Boucher’s lithographs were originally published in what is now a rare and sought-after limited edition, with his illustrations accompanied by surreal prose poems by Pierre Mac Orlan. This new version, published by The Mainstone Press, brings together 37 of the artist’s lithographs, which are no less vibrant or amusing now than they were almost 100 years ago.

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Rose Avenue Font by Sam Parrett

We And The Color

Rose Avenue, a chunky retro font designed and published by Sam Parrett. Rose Avenue is an extra bold serif font for eye-catching headlines and all titles that ask for a nice vintage look. It is equipped with soft, charming rounded edges and curves. This typeface masterfully combines chunky retro typography with the modern era. Rose Avenue also includes 70 special characters with additional flair and flourishes.

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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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Communicating accessibility as needs to be met and not rules to be followed

UX Collective

A true story. Photo by davisuko on Unsplash My company wants to redesign a web page. The page is a mess and we’re trying to start from scratch the right way. One of the Business Analysts (BA) who writes the requirements contacted me because she had an accessibility question. She showed me a step indicator like this one: This is taken from the US Web Design System website , which is a UI framework designed by a collaboration of alphabet soup US government agencies.

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The Connected Landscapes of Nina-Marie Lister

Azure Magazine

At the end of 2021 , the largest wildlife passage in the world will break ground in California, bridging 10 formidable lanes of traffic on US-101. To understand why the state needs a US$87-million land crossing, it’s important to meet P-22, who’s been known to roam the Hollywood Hills at night. “He’s a young male cougar, maybe about 10 years old. And he’s been isolated on one side of the highway for a number of years,” Nina-Marie Lister, the Toronto ecological designer, explains.

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The World of Modern Graphic Design & Typography by Kyle Kemink

Design You Trust

Kyle is a 23-year-old graphic designer, photographer and digital artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Having studied at The Open Window, followed by a two-year stint at Grid Worldwide, Kyle lost his job during the 2020 pandemic. Since then he’s been freelancing full time and creating from home. More: Instagram , Foundation , Rarible , OpenSea h/t: satorinotebookco.

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Christmas & New Year’s Eve Invitation Cards with Golden Tree and Clock

We And The Color

Download these Adobe Illustrator templates to create beautifully designed Christmas and New Year’s Eve invitation cards. Created by graphic designer and Adobe Stock contributor @Denys Koltovskyi , using these two Adobe Illustrator templates, you can create eye-catching invitation cards for Christmas and New Year’s eve. All sample texts can be replaced with just a few simple clicks.

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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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Design, Climate, Action: Sustainable products’ branding must not show “nature is weak”

Design Week

There’s an odd tension at the heart of the sustainable market. According to one survey , while 65% of consumers say they want to buy sustainably-driven brands, only 26% actually do. This can partly be explained by the origins of sustainable product branding, according to Among Equals founder and strategy director Oliver Burch. The sector has been consistently communicated as “less than or not as good as” more traditional products, while people are used to the idea that it is &#

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10 icon packs from the Figma community to have in your toolkit

UX Collective

Icons to use in any design of your choosing. Starting my design journey, I always used to look at other people’s designs and wonder “how did they do that?” on several notes. One aspect I used to wonder about was icons. When I needed an icon, I would look for an image that was the right color and put it in its place. Sometimes I took screenshots of my phone screen and cropped out the icons.??

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#NFTs of the Week

Abduzeedo

#NFTs of the Week. AoiroStudio 1120—21 NFTs are currently exploding! Most of our social feeds have been since submerged with so many digital works that it's getting hard to keep track of it all. Most of them are honestly brilliant, stunning, meaningful, and some others.well, that's why we are here! From the Abduzeedo Twitter account, here are some of the NFTs that caught our eyes this week.

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Mayfair Gin Branding by Ben Galbraith

We And The Color

Ben Galbraith created a sophisticated brand identity and packaging for Mayfair Gin. Ben Galbraith is a graphic designer with over 15 years of experience. He has been worked for some of the top design studios in the UK, Australia, and Singapore. For Mayfair Gin, he came up with this sophisticated brand identity and packaging. “Distilled in traditional copper stills with natural spring water and botanicals.

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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.