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Presenting Design Ideas is All About Presentation

SpeckyBoy

When I was a student in design school, I once did an assignment for a teacher who made us stand up and present our projects to the entire class. Now I’m not the best public presenter, and as a teenager in college, I was even worse. After I fumbled through my presentation, my teacher pulled me aside and said that I’d had the best ideas out of everyone in the class, but gave the worst presentation.

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17 Typography Inspiration Resources To Boost Creativity

Shillington

Dipped your toes into the world of graphic design? You’ll know that typography is something that underpins almost every aspect of this practice. If at this point your eyes have started to blur, and the word ‘typography’ is beginning to lose all meaning, and then you feel like it actually has no meaning—never fear! Check out this article we’ve written for this exact moment, which takes a deep dive into all the typography terms and rules you’ll need to know.

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Now Is A Big Idea’s Best Time

Graphic Design USA

Andy Askren of Grady Britton: As companies get so few chances to encourage consumers to make brand changes, now is the time for a Big Idea designed to get their attention.

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Creative Business Card PSD Templates (25 Print Ready Design)

Graphic Design Junction

Beautiful business card templates excellent & good for any type of business and personal use. A modern and stylish business cards with creative design and easy to customize in photoshop. Creative business card templates are fully editable and all elements, including the logo, you can resize without losing quality. All design elements separated and grouped.

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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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How to Make a Horror Movie Poster

Envato Tuts+

What You'll Be Creating. Today, we will be looking at how to make a horror movie poster using just two images in Photoshop! We'll look at effective movie poster composition as well as your new go-to for horror movie poster typography. Did you know that horror movie posters are most effective when they are simple and use minimal-style horror movie poster images and color?

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8 Stunning Examples of CSS & JavaScript 3D Text Effects

SpeckyBoy

If you’re looking to make a visual impact in your web projects, 3D text effects are a surefire way to do so. They can turn an ordinary website headline into a can’t-miss work of art. The great thing is that a wide variety of 3D effects can be created using CSS and JavaScript. When thoughtfully implemented, this enables text to stay accessible and responsive.

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15 Best Seamless Vector Textures Sets

Graphic Design Junction

High resolution textures and backgrounds are perfect for graphic designers to create endless possibilities and make your designs look more elegant, attractive and memorable. There are 15 seamless vector texture sets with approx. 500+ textures suitable for various purposes such as illustrations, photos, designs tutorials or the website layouts. A beautiful vector textures sets included Halftone Textures , Gold Foil Textures, Macro Paper Textures, Vintage Grit Textures, Leather Textures, Folded Pa

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How to Create a Star Wars Tatooine Poster in Photoshop

Envato Tuts+

What You'll Be Creating. Today, we will be learning how to create a Star Wars Tatooine travel poster in Photoshop using simple photo compositing techniques! The many Tatooine appearances in Star Wars and The Mandalorian make it the perfect desert vacation spot, as well as the perfect subject for some Mandalorian Photoshop fan art. Part of the Mandalorian series does take place on Tatooine after all, so its vast sandy hills deserve to be featured!

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Cuba Street Photography by Vincent Versluis

We And The Color

Some authentic shots of everyday life in Cuba. Vincent Versluis is a Dutch photographer specializing in architectural, landscape, and street photography. During a trip to Cuba, he managed to capture a wide range of beautiful shots of the country’s everyday life. Many buildings in the cities have fallen into disrepair, on the streets you can see American classic cars that have long since passed their prime.

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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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4 Ways Clients Can Hurt Project Outcomes (and How You Can Save the Day)

SpeckyBoy

Whether you’re building a website, mobile app or even a marketing campaign, everyone involved is working towards a successful outcome. And, although the stakeholders share this common goal, they may have very different thoughts about how to get there. This can be problematic. Everyone involved has to be on the same page. If not, that puts a project’s success in jeopardy.

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40 Best Free Handwritten Fonts for Designers

Graphic Design Junction

List of best handwritten free fonts with modern calligraphy and script look that makes handwriting fonts perfect for branding and graphic designs. All fonts are free available for commercial use. Use these fonts for logos, social media, websites, blogs, Instagram, business cards, branding, and more! Best collection of handpicked hand-drawn, handwritten fonts.

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15 Fonts Similar to Garamond and What to Pair It With

Envato Tuts+

Are you searching for fonts similar to the Garamond font style? In this article, we will present you with 15 fonts that are similar to the classic Garamond serif font. We'll also look at some fonts you can pair with Garamond in your web- or print-based projects. The classic Garamond typeface is considered a timeless font, and it's one of the most commonly copied and used typefaces in the history of printed books.

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Newake Free Font Download

We And The Color

Newake, a free font from Indieground Design for titles, logos, editorial design, packaging, and web design. Created by Roberto Perrino and Francesco Terragin of studio Indieground Design, Newake is a sans-serif font made for titles, logos, editorial design, packaging, and web design. Its bold style matches perfectly with modern graphic design projects.

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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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Weekly News for Designers ? 591

SpeckyBoy

The Humble <img> Element And Core Web Vitals – Tips for presenting images in a way that works well with Google’s Core Web Vitals. 15 Free Vintage & Antique Brush Packs for Adobe Photoshop – Add a timeless look to your images with these amazing Photoshop brushes. 400+ JavaScript Interview Questions 🎓 With Answers – Level up your JavaScript knowledge with this massive list of useful interview questions.

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25 Best Affinity Designer Brushes For Affinity App

Graphic Design Junction

Affinity Designer is one of the best app for designers and creative artists. Professional designers and amateurs alike creating a range of resources like Affinity Designer brushes and more to complement the software. Today we’re featuring over 25 of the best Affinity Designer brushes around, as well as a selection of premium Affinity Designer brushes from Envato Elements.

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University Press Cover Round-Up

Spine Magazine

We welcome you to another in our ongoing feature in which notable book cover designer Jordan Wannemacher periodically highlights a selection of recent university press cover designs. Please enjoy this celebration of amazing work. This list is in no particular order. Credits are listed below. If you are a book cover creative and want your work or the work of your department reviewed by Jordan be sure to get in touch with us!

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Understanding Web Design – What is Gestalt Law of Continuity?

Template Monster

Recently we initiated a series of posts covering the theme of theoretical application of Gestalt psychology in web design. We’ve already described four principles: Symmetry , Similarity , Proximity and Common Fate. This article is dedicated to the Law of Continuity , the fifth principle of Gestalt classification. The Gestalt Continuity Law explains how our brain experiences visual line of elements that are grouped together.

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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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Werksatz Font Family from Identity Letters

We And The Color

Werksatz, a contemporary interpretation of early grotesque typefaces. Designed by Moritz Kleinsorge of German foundry Identity Letters, Werksatz is a new sans-serif font family that draws inspiration from early grotesque typefaces such as Akzidenz Grotesk or Venus. It consists of 20 cuts including 10 weights plus matching italics. The Werksatz font family masterfully combines the best from the invincible classics with the current zeitgeist and the requirements for today’s typography.

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Sojung Kim-McCarthy’s Minari postcards are the illustrator’s way of “showing my solidarity to diaspora communities”

Its Nice That

Commissioned by A24 to create six postcards inspired by Lee Isaac Chung’s acclaimed film, the illustrator talks us through her delicate but powerful illustrative process.

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80 Free Watercolor Textures

Graphic Design Junction

Free watercolor textures and watercolor backgrounds. A set of 80 seamless, high resolution watercolor textures. All textures are unique with color versions, carefully tweaked to preserve image quality. Watercolor textures are free to download and use as you like. These textures and colorful watercolor backgrounds are perfect for web graphics, business cards , scrapbooking, invites, flyer designs , card design or any graphic projects!

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15 Famous Calligraphers to Follow on Instagram

Template Monster

In one of our previous articles published on MonsterPost this week, we were talking about vintage fonts for logo design. Today, we have decided to continue the series of publications for the avid typography fans with 15 of the most famous calligraphers on Instagram. All of them caught my attention with their unique and creative approaches to design.

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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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Quick Tip: How to Convert Handwriting to Vector Art in Illustrator

Vecteezy

If you’re an Inkscape user, please see How to Convert Handwriting to Vector Art in Inkscape. Today we’re going to be learning how to take handwriting and convert it into vector art quickly and easily. We’ve sketched out the word “hello” with a black marker on a sheet of white paper. This is important for contrast as we want to make sure the background and our writing stand out from each other.

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Speeding Up Development Process with Bootstrap 5

Designmodo

This post is originally published on Designmodo: Speeding Up Development Process with Bootstrap 5. Bootstrap is one of the most used frameworks for building web apps. It consists of HTML and CSS components for typography, forms, buttons, navigation, slider and other user interfaces that you can think of which makes the development process easier … For more information please contact Designmodo.

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16 Best Free Fonts for Logo Design

Graphic Design Junction

Logo fonts can make your logo more attractive to customers. There are lots of fonts to choose from, and your choices of the best fonts for logo are limited. So choose wisely! How to make a great logo? The colors, the typography or the concept? If you think that all of these play an essential role in creating a solid logo design , then we’d suggest you add one more important factor that is often undermined.

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Pastel Color Scheme for a Refined Website Design

Template Monster

Pastel color scheme can win Oscar for the most "elegant role" among other palettes used in web design. Sites taking minimal approach by using washed out color scheme, call a feeling of sophistication and purity. These days, when uncluttered designs like Scandinavian (extremely clean with cold colors), flat and minimal rock the web, websites in muted colors are in a great favor.

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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.