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4 Tips For Finding The Graphic Designer To Enhance Your Website

Designer Daily

Regardless of the kind of business you run, there’ll be a time that you’re going to need a graphic designer to improve your website. Typically, having a website is essential because it gives your consumers a place to get to know your brand better and learn more about your products or services. It also helps you drive more traffic, generate leads, and gain more sales.

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The Ultimate Guide to Brand Strategy

Just Creative

When big brands decide to reinvent not only themselves but also their brand strategy, it can make for some big news. Think of it this way, in the late ‘90s, Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy. Thanks to their biggest competitor, Microsoft, they were saved from going under. With the help of Microsoft, it allowed Apple to shift from just being a manufacturer of Macs and reinvent itself as a creator of innovative tech products that we all know and love.

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Video: Retro Badge Logo Design Illustrator Tutorial

Spoon Graphics

In today’s Adobe Illustrator video tutorial I’m going to show you how to create an outdoors themed badge design, featuring a simple mountains graphic and colourful sunset effect using a retro colour scheme. This style of logo is based on embroidered National Park patches, and has become a popular design trend for all kinds of outdoors, adventure, or camping themed brand identities.

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Accessibility Upgrades For Small Business Websites

Six Leaf Design

I’ve been having conversations with clients and doing research into accessibility + ADA compliance for small business websites. Sounds super exciting, right? Well whether it’s exciting or not, it's important. So I wanted to share some of the things I’m learning and 5 easy accessibility upgrades you can make to your web design so that together we can all pitch in to help the online world become a more accessible place.

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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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Weekly News for Designers ? 580

Speckyboy Design Magazine

25 Free Magazine & Editorial Layout Templates for Adobe InDesign – Get your publication off the ground with these outstanding free InDesign templates. The Never-Ending Job of Selling Design Systems – How to convince executives not just to fund the initial push of design system work, but to keep funding it. Flameshot – Use this free tool to create screenshots and the included drawing tools to illustrate them.

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10 Assets from the Inspirational Textures & Elements Collection

Spoon Graphics

This new download for Access All Areas members is an exclusive sample pack that isn’t available anywhere else! Design Cuts and French Kiss Collections have collaborated to create The Complete Inspirational Textures & Elements Collection , a unique selection of authentic resources to create beautiful designs, enhance your photography, or use for scrapbooking!

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Cindy Sherman embraces the art of tapestry in new show

Creative Review

Cindy Sherman has become one of the world’s best-known contemporary artists. Since the late 70s she has been photographing herself in a range of guises and personas often inspired by TV, film, magazines and the internet, as well as pulling references from art history. Her characters are multidimensional and often manage to be both compelling and grotesque.

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What COVID-19 Vaccine Scheduling Can Teach Designers

Speckyboy Design Magazine

The multiple COVID-19 vaccines that have come out are nothing short of scientific miracles. The speed and efficacy of these life-saving, pandemic-squashing shots are a testament to human achievement. That being said, getting these vaccines into the arms of everyday people has been a challenge. That’s especially true here in the United States, where each state has its own rollout strategy.

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Best Procreate Brushes For Beginners

Just Creative

When you download the Procreate app for your Apple iPad, it can take some time to get used to using it. With so many different brushes created by other designers out there, it can be hard to pick the ones that will help you get up to speed in no time. To help, we wanted to highlight some of the brushes that we thought would be a great choice for any designer, whether they are a professional or a hobbyist, looking to become a pro at using Procreate.

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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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The Surrealist Illustrations by George Greaves

Trendland

Words TL Team. By gradients and contrasted monochromes, Bristol based George Greaves displays a work as minimal as intrigued, where perspective is cropped, casting doubt on different dimensions, oscillating between motion and stylized angular shapes.

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Leandro Assis uses his design work to express what’s important to him

Creative Review

“I’m always trying to see the good in things and I think that is reflected in my work,” says Brazilian art director and letterer Leandro Assis. “My lettering style is simple and bold combined with vibrant colours and the things I choose to write are always funny or positive.” Assis has been working freelance for the last few years and it’s allowed him to work with an exciting range of clients including collaborating with Studio Moross for season 13 of RuPaul&#

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Weekly News for Designers ? 579

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Bootstrap 5 CheatSheet – This interactive reference will help you navigate the latest version of Twitter’s CSS framework. Make Animated Content Placeholders with HTML and CSS – Add user-friendly placeholders with this tutorial. Why Is Focusing on Long-Term Goals So Difficult? – Ways to help you home in on the future of your design business. Exploring the Complexities of Width and Height in CSS – A look at how CSS computes the width and height dimensions of elements.

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Top 10 Best Samsung Laptops for Graphic Designers in 2021

Just Creative

Samsung remains a leader in technology, producing some of the most impressive devices available and much like their smartphone lineup, their line of laptops is abundant. If you’re in the market for a top-of-the-line computer, you should consider getting a laptop from Samsung. . They offer great options for any graphic designer or creative who are looking to embrace the options provided by the Microsoft as well as Android ecosystems.

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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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Kimberly Glyder on Designing Gerta

Spine Magazine

Kimberly Glyder is a designer specializing in book covers, illustration and lettering. Here she details her process for designing the cover of Kate?ina Tu?ková ’s Gerta. Gerta is a fictional account of a young woman’s experience during the expulsion of Sudeten Germans amid the Brno death march in 1945. The main character, Gerta, is half Czech and half German, but is forced to leave with her child born out of terrible circumstances.

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How to Create a Fortnite Twitch Banner

Tuts Plus

What You'll Be Creating. Looking to update your Twitch streaming channel with a brand new look? Or are you new to streaming and you're looking for the best way to visually attract viewers? Follow this tutorial and learn how to make an awesome Fortnite Twitch banner! . Your Twitch banner essentially acts as a cover image or header which is situated in a prominent position on your channel or page.

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Aardman addresses young people’s mental health with animated films

Creative Review

What’s Up With Everyone features a series of animations aimed at young people, aged 17 to 24, and has been created in partnership with the same audience. They revolve around a cast of five animal characters, all in typical charming Aardman style, although tackling more serious topics than Wallace’s undying love of cheese. The studio created the campaign together with leading academics and research teams, as well as mental health and wellbeing organisations.

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Explore the black and white streets of Hey Mady, where you never know which way the story will turn

Its Nice That

Storytelling is at the heart of the Philippines-based illustrator's work. Find out more about her complex architectural series of drawings below.

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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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The First USPS Stamp Designed by an Alaska Native Artist Features a Trickster Raven as It Steals the Sun

Colossal

“Raven Story.” Image courtesy of USPS. When it’s released later this summer, a new stamp from the U.S. Postal Service will illuminate a piece of Indigenous culture that’s long been associated with an escape from darkness. Titled “ Raven Story ,” the history-making postage features an iconic animal rendered by Rico Lanáat’ Worl , who is the first Tlingit and Athabascan artist to be featured by U.S.P.S.

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Member Spotlight: Denise Coke, Designer, Illustrator, and AR Innovator

Guild News Blog

Tiffany Lynne, a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, and offers visual strategy and brand design tailored for established brands. The post Member Spotlight: Denise Coke, Designer, Illustrator, and AR Innovator appeared first on The Graphic Artist Guild.

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Among Equals’ playful rebrand for family-focused cybersecurity service

Creative Review

Just Ask Max is a cybersecurity company aimed at helping parents navigate the world of digital safety and wellbeing in areas such as sexting, screen time and online scams. With the service looking to appeal to parents, children and investors alike, Among Equals led a rebrand that involved renaming the company – previously known as Simple Cyber Life – and overhauling its visual identity with a friendlier character, eschewing the typically harsh aesthetics associated with cybersecurity

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Maxwell Alexandre’s large-scale paintings are infused with Brazilian pop culture and hip-hop

Its Nice That

The Brazilian artist has long been inspired by the music industry, which imbues a sense of lyricism and pace in his detailed works.

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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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Otherworldly Ecosystems Populate Dense, Cross-Hatched Illustrations by Song Kang

Colossal

“Evolution of Plants,” pen and ink, 30 x 20. All images © Song Kang, shared with permission. Packed with texture and depth, Song Kang ’s ink-based drawings begin with “I wonder…I wonder how this will look compared to that, or I wonder if I can mix this and that,” she says. The Atlanta-based illustrator renders rich labyrinths populated by elements from land and sea that are depicted in an otherworldly manner: candy-colored liquid drips from a bonsai, fish and butter

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Kate Moross: “Create spaces to share work, gain experience and get paid”

Design Week

“The mentorship element of the project was really why I was so keen to be involved,” says Kate Moross, founder and creative director of their eponymous Studio Moross, of their recent work with beer brand Desperados. In 2020, during the first national coronavirus lockdown in the UK, Moross was approached by the brand to lead a creative project which also involved mentoring a group of young designers and artists from around the world.

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San Francisco Symphony’s new identity brings classical music up to date

Creative Review

For many years, classical music has suffered from an ongoing PR problem, which portrays it as unchanging, old-world and elitist, and therefore unable to appeal to new audiences. San Francisco Symphony decided to tackle these preconceptions head on with its recent diversity- and inclusion-focused organisational overhaul, following the appointment of conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen as its new music director.

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Andrew Davis on Designing Plain Bad Heroines

Spine Magazine

Andrew Davis is a designer and illustrator at HarperCollins. He lives in London. Here he tells us about designing the cover for Plain Bad Heroines. When I began reading Plain Bad Heroines , I couldn’t wait to get started on designing the cover. It’s a funny and clever American Gothic novel with a queer twist, and I’d never read anything like it before.

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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.