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10 Vital Elements of Art That Make a Good Design

Graphic Design Junction

Creating a good print design can be quite a challenge. Even if you’re an experienced web designer who creates all kinds of responsive design and is familiar with all CSS tricks, working on a print project might be quite difficult because print production and web design require you to use different skills and pay attention to different aspects of work.

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What Are the Advantages of Branding? (Updated May 2021)

Canny

What are the advantages of branding? It’s a fair question. We’re always talking about branding, but what are the real advantages of branding a business? Away from having a good looking, attractive brand, that sells well to your customers, there are a whole of other advantages to branding your business properly. free ebook. The Branding Brief Template. get for free.

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The 20 Best Photoshop Actions for Creating Retro & Vintage Effects

SpeckyBoy

Lace up your boots and let’s travel back in time! We don’t even have to travel far. Vintage and retro are coming back, big time. More and more photographers, designers, and clients are charmed by the appeal of vintage aesthetics. From soft palettes, to gently faded filters, vintage effects are more popular than ever before! So if you’re thinking of editing your photos and graphics to look more vintage, you don’t have to spend hours in Photoshop or Lightroom.

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One of The Best Customizable Vector Logo Sets on Adobe Stock

We And The Color

Discover one of the best fully customizable vector logo sets on Adobe Stock. Created by graphic designer and Adobe Stock contributor @More Profesh , this amazing set includes nine fully customizable vector logos. These graphics can be edited in any possible way. You can transform them to any size you want or change lines, shapes, and colors—it’s totally up to you.

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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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23 Fresh Free Fonts For Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

New fresh free fonts collection for typography lovers. The fresh fonts are perfect for graphic design, print design, logos and t-shirt designs. The following fonts are ideal to create branding and best for logo fonts, business cards, mockups, packaging design and any other web and graphic projects. Take a look at free commercial fonts for professional design, based upon suggestions from designers and web developers all over the world.

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Inside the mind-bending world of Alice in Wonderland

Creative Review

The story of one of the most celebrated children’s books of all time began on a boat trip one golden afternoon in Oxford in 1862, when writer Charles Dodgson was out for the day with a group of friends, including the Dean of Christ Church College, Henry Liddell, and his family. Along the way, Dodgson entertained Liddell’s three children with a dreamlike tale about a curious girl called Alice and her adventures underground.

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Download Amazing Vector Letters as EPS & AI Files

We And The Color

Consisting of the fully Latin-based alphabet, these vector letter sets are fully editable. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @plasteed , The following collection of vector letters includes a great variety of individual sets based on different styles ranging from retro to modern and minimalist typefaces. All letters are still available as fully editable vector files (EPS/AI).

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31 Incredible Photo Manipulations For Inspiration

Graphic Design Junction

Photo manipulation or Photo editing is just not an art, its passion and only creative photo loves can understand. There are millions of photo manipulation examples, but some photos are really breathtaking and mind blowing. Photo manipulation art getting people’s attention as long as you don’t make them too text heavy and you include an extremely creative photos in look-at-me colors and sharpness.

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Weekly News for Designers ? 593

SpeckyBoy

Building a Personal [Origami] Website in 2021 – Useful tips for those who want to create their own personal website. Storybook addons for CSS – Tools that streamline the CSS debugging process. Iconoir – A free, open-source collection of 900+ SVG icons to use in your projects. UX Lex – Stay up-to-date with this evolving, interactive glossary of UX research terms.

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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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Lipman: How the Internet Ruined Design…

Graphic Design USA

Gregg Lipman of CBX on why design is a process and a craft, not a software-driven deliverable, and is best left to design professionals.

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The Ultimate Guide for Flyer Size and Design

Noupe

Although it may sound obsolete, a flyer is still one of the most effective and inexpensive ways to promote a business. They are also very easy to distribute. So, if you want your flyers to be impactful, you have to make sure you choose the right size, the right font, colors, and message. Depending on your needs, these parameters will change. Let’s see together how you can create the ultimate flyer by choosing the right size and design.

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Professional Business Card PSD Templates (26 Print Design)

Graphic Design Junction

An elegant business cards with classy, stylish, beautiful, modern design, perfect for any business. Ideal for personal / professional branding and more. Clean business card templates easy to edit and text layers can be changed with one click. All objects can be resized without any quality loss (shapes). Fully layered Photoshop PSD and Illustrator files with smart objects.

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New Scientist Illustrations by Stuart McReath

We And The Color

Check out these beautiful editorial illustrations created by Stuart McReath for New Scientist. Stuart McReath is an illustrator and artist based in the UK. He has been commissioned to work on many publications including magazines, books, annual reports, or even advertising projects. Back in 2016, we featured a selection of illustrations created by Stuart McReath for various 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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How to Create a Magma Hot Text Effect in Photoshop

Envato Tuts+

What You'll Be Creating. In this tutorial, we will explain how to create a magma hot text effect in Photoshop using layer styles and textures. Let's get started! Interested in getting your hands on a Photoshop layer style to let you apply this magma texture effect (and several others) straight away? Take a look at the 100 Photoshop Layer Styles Bundle.

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3 Creatively Designed Forums and Bulletin Boards

SpyreStudios

The process of designing a website can be long and arduous. Typical static content websites are more of the bread-and-butter layouts we see every day. However, there are plenty of more detailed examples involving message boards, forums, and other social communities. In this gallery, I’ve put together 35 screenshots of well-crafted bulletin boards for designers.

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30 Fresh Free Fonts For Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

High quality fresh free fonts collection specially roundup for professional graphic designers. The free fonts are applicable for any type of graphics, print design, logos and t-shirt designs. The following typefaces and fonts are ideal to make an attractive design and perfect for logo design, business cards, branding, mockups, packaging design and any other web and graphic projects.

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Holly Dunn on Designing Liam Quane's Road to Juneau

Spine Magazine

Holly Dunn is a book cover designer based in New Zealand, specialising in illustrated book covers. Here she takes us through her process for designing the evocative cover for Road to Juneau. I was delighted to have Road to Juneau come through my inbox. Liam's book is a science fiction novel set in a future version of New York. He described it as being the "anti Ayn Rand" and wanted to take some inspiration from both Brutalist aesthetics and Art Deco.

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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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Tips for UI Design Colors and Color Matching Techniques

Vandelay Design

User interfaces are made first-and-foremost to fulfill a user experience. This can be achieved with very basic elements, but is often dressed up with colors and textures. The use of design colors for digital UI work is tough to understand without practice. But in this post I'd like to look into how color can be used in UI design to dramatically affect the layout.

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Does the “I Got Vaccinated” Sticker Have Swaying Power?

Eye on Design

I walk out of the Javits Center wearing my vaccine sticker like a medal. People are looking at me, I think, passers-by in Hudson Yards, the barista at O Café, the cashier at the Container Store. “Mind if I ask where you got your vaccine?” asks the latter, with a nod to the sticker on my lapel. “Javits Center,” I say, “have you had any luck?” He tells me he’s been struggling to get an appointment, and when I tell him to just call the helpline, his face lights up.

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Best Entries So Far From Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2021

Design You Trust

Here are the 11 best entries of Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2021. Now in its seventh year, the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards has already received thousands of entries from around the world – catching some of wildlife’s funniest moments on camera. This year, the competition organizers are releasing some of the shots that have already had them howling like hyenas, to inspire both professional and amateur photographers to enter their own images before 30 June 2021.

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Giving a damn about accessibility

UX Collective

A candid and practical handbook for designers. Digital accessibility is the inclusive practice of ensuring that everyone has equal access to information, functionality, and experience on digital platforms. That means no barriers prevent interaction with, or access to, digital products by people with any type of disabilities or traits commonly linked to disabilities.

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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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3D Typography Poster Experiments

Abduzeedo

3D Typography Poster Experiments. abduzeedo 05.18.21 Hadi Tulimat shared the first volume of a series of 3D and Typography poster experiments. This selection focus on 3D shapes mixed with 3D typography using Maxon Cinema 4D, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. The result is quite stunning. . For more information make sure to check out: Behance. Instagram.

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5 Ways You Can Contribute to the Web Design Community

SpeckyBoy

Among the many benefits of becoming a web designer is the chance to be part of a fantastic community. Designers and developers of all stripes take pride in sharing what they know. It’s also a great place to exchange ideas, code, and a meme or two. And, seeing as how so many of us reap rewards from the web design community, it’s only natural to want to give something back.

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Mind rebrands to reflect its “fighting spirit”

Creative Review

It’s been ten years since Mind last updated its branding, and in that time the mental health crisis has become more pressing – only exacerbated by the events of the last year. “There have been some hugely positive shifts in attitudes towards those of us with mental health problems, as well as increasing challenges, as more people come forward for support with their mental health, placing greater strain on services,” says the charity’s CEO, Paul Farmer. “We nee

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The Correspondent—Editorial Illustrations by Ibrahim Rayintakath

We And The Color

Check out these editorial illustrations created by Ibrahim Rayintakath for The Correspondent. Ibrahim Rayintakath is a Bangalore, India-based illustrator. From 2019 – 2020, he was commissioned to work on a series of editorial illustrations and preliminary sketches on topics related to mental health done for The Correspondent. Below you can see a few images of the project.

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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.