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UX and UI Logo Trends

Graphic Design Junction

With the advent of online and mobile working culture, UX/UI trends have experienced a significant transformation over the years. Yet 2021 is just no exception. As a UX/UI professional , it is vital to keep updated about these continuously shifting trends and follow and recreate good UX design examples. The COVID-19 issue has transformed how consumers engage with products and services and intensified towards a digital-first strategy.

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Applying Marie Kondo’s (KonMari) decluttering method to design processes

Noupe

Doing a quick Google search on ‘UX design methods’ will yield hundreds of hits. If you’ve just mastered your design resume , and are new to UX design, or in a rush, wading through all that info is guaranteed to give you a headache. How about this instead—before adding something, ask yourself “ will it spark joy? ”. Invented by Netflix star Marie Kondo, the KonMari method of decluttering is a full-on embrace of minimalism.

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The Best Fonts For Creating Vintage Logos and Designs

Spoon Graphics

The key to creating authentic looking vintage artwork–whether it’s logos, packaging, or T-shirt designs–is selecting the perfect font combinations that represent the lettering style from previous centuries. The typeface featured in this collection aren’t just individual fonts, they are collections of several font styles that perfectly complement each other.

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5A Format Brand Design by Jaros?aw Dziubek

We And The Color

Polish designer Jaros?aw Dziubek created a unique brand identity for agency 5A Format. Jaros?aw Dziubek is a Polish graphic designer specializing in a wide array of projects ranging from branding to packaging. For agency 5A Format, he produced a stunning brand identity based on simple graphic shapes and unique typography. Below you can see a few images of the successful result.

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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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Meet Anuja Shukla, Shillington Graduate and Creative Strategist at Twitter

Shillington

After a degree in Business Administration and Marketing, Shillington New York graduate Anuja Shukla harnessed the power of empathy spurned through travel and employment abroad to shape a meaningful career in graphic design. Anuja forages for vintage goods, advocates for diversifying the outdoor adventure scene—all while building her photography portfolio!

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How Designing and Writing Are More Alike Than You Think

Eye on Design

A couple weeks ago, we hosted a workshop at the AIGA Design Conference called Design Writing 101: How Writing Is a Lot More Like Designing Than You Think. When we started planning for the event, we had lots of ideas around what that statement meant. At their core, both writing and design are about storytelling — they are about forming ideas and giving ideas form, though those forms often take very different shapes.

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Graphic Design Portfolio Template for Adobe InDesign

We And The Color

Available for free download with an Adobe Stock trial subscription, this graphic design portfolio template is fully customizable in Adobe InDesign. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @GrkiCreative , this A4 graphic design portfolio template comes with 24 fully customizable pages. The cover design is characterized by simple geometric shapes in various colors.

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Striking poster campaign introduces Coca-Cola Real Magic tagline

Creative Review

Described as the ‘hug’ logo, the new wraparound appearance of the identity was inspired by its positioning on packaging including cans and bottles. The new campaign was created by Wieden + Kennedy London with KnownUnknown, a global network of independent talent, brought in by Coke to craft the visual look, including all photography, animations and illustrations.

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The Challenge of Designing Websites for Large Screens

SpeckyBoy

Mobile devices have taken over the web. Thus, so much designer attention has (rightly) gone towards ensuring that the websites we build are compatible. We are constantly refining how we implement responsive features so that they work flawlessly on small screens. While this is a worthwhile endeavor, there are other screens to think about. Large viewports are also a pretty important consideration.

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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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27 Best Free Script Fonts OF 2021

Graphic Design Junction

Best of 2021, Free Script Fonts for Graphic Designers are here. A lovely script fonts will work perfectly for fashion, e-commerce brands, trend blogs, wedding boutiques or any business that wants to appear upscale and chic. This is the best fee script fonts collection of 2021 and perfect for 2022. Great list of casual script fonts and regular script fonts for graphic designers.

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Manager by day, Designer by night

UX Collective

Let’s find out together how the product design discipline has evolved and how managing design is more of a coaching and mentoring exercise. Figure 01: Image of Day /Night It’s late at night. Staring at the latest piece of the design system in Figma, I start seeing the pattern that I have not recognised before. I got it; this is it! It will save my team and me a significant amount of time.

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Five Lesser-Known Works from Push Pin’s Archives

Eye on Design

There’s little doubt you’ve heard of Push Pin Studio — the legendary collective of designers whose collective work revolutionized the field of commercial illustration. But there’s more to Push Pin than its most famous contributors like Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast. In a new exhibition at Poster House called The Push Pin Legacy , Poster House’s chief curator, Angelina Lippert, explores how the studio’s eclectic style helped to define the counterculture aesthetic

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Want UX Inspiration? Look To Classic Video Games

SpeckyBoy

Web designers are always looking for inspiration. Something that will jumpstart our creativity and lead us to reach new heights. Quite often, we find what we’re looking for by studying other websites. And there’s certainly nothing wrong with that. Design communities such as Awwwards and Behance offer plenty of worthy examples. The very best of these websites is something we can learn from and aspire to.

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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 Swiss Design and Why You Should Know Its History

Envato Tuts+

For some designers, the Swiss Style design is synonymous with Helvetica—which means "Swiss" in its original language. It's one of the main characteristics of the style, but to really understand Swiss Design, we must look to the precedent of the movement. What is Swiss Style? In this article, we'll take a look at how the Swiss Style graphic design developed.

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How A Logo, Designed 17 Years Ago, Is Having A Second Life

Graphic Design USA

A logo designed by Alessandro/Weber Design 17 years ago for a minor league hockey team is having a second life as a pop icon logo due to a Netflix released documentary and a hockey jersey worn by Drake.

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10 Reasons Why You Should Switch to Opera Browser Right Now

HONGKIAT

Opera is one of the most underrated browsers out there. Even though it usually pops up in the most-popular browser lists, only a fraction of total users use it ( W3schools puts the figure at around 1% for 2016). Still the numbers add up to about 60 mil users on desktop and twice that on Opera Mini for Android. Despite its lower usage numbers, many of the awesome features you use in your favorite non-Opera browser are either introduced by Opera or turned mainstream by it.

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Illustrations & Packaging Design by Abraham Lule

We And The Color

Take a look at the creative work of Mexican illustrator Abraham Lule. Represented by agency Closer&Closer , Abraham Lule is a Mexican illustrator with amazing skills in the fields of typography and packaging design. His creative work always offers a truly hand-crafted flair. Over the past years, he has worked with clients such as Facebook, Capitol Records, Jose Cuervo, and Diageo.

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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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Oliver Jeffers’ latest book is a twist on the classic ghost story

Creative Review

All images: There’s a Ghost in this House, Oliver Jeffers. Published by HarperCollins Having sold over 14 million copies of his books worldwide, illustrator and author Oliver Jeffers has become celebrated for his imaginative takes on the humble children’s picture book. For his latest adventure, Jeffers has released his most creative title yet with the spookily well-timed, There’s a Ghost in this House.

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How to Write a Press Release For Mergers and Acquisitions (With Free Template!)

Canny

Mergers and Acquisitions aren’t an everyday occurrence. Unless you work for a mega corporation , absorbing competitors right left and centre, mergers and acquisitions typically won’t be your day to day! If you’re preparing for a merger, or your company is about to acquire another company, odds are you want to make a splash- it’s pretty big news after all!

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Interview with Michelle Crocker, Shillington Graduate and Freelance Designer for Film and TV

Shillington

Before taking on Shillington’s graphic design course , Manchester graduate Michelle Crocker was already a graphic designer. Though, despite a degree in graphic design, she found herself lacking the real life design skills she needed to land herself a design job. So, she headed back to school and enrolled on Shillington’s full-time course.

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Stranger Things Fan Art by Maciek Bla?niak

We And The Color

Check out this amazing poster illustration inspired by the popular TV show, Stranger Things. Maciek Bla?niak is a ?ód?, Poland-based graphic designer and illustrator who works at studio ?adne Halo. As a fan of the famous TV show, Stranger Things, he came up with this amazing poster illustration featuring some of the main characters. Check out the following images.

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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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45 Best Blogs to Follow for WordPress Lovers!

Template Monster

WordPress is the CMS platform of choice for small-time bloggers and major corporate websites alike. As such there are tons of high quality and authoritative blogs (like HellBound Bloggers ) for every niche imaginable on the WP platform. This is great news for anyone looking for a bit of help, inspiration, or technical advice. Any and everything you could possibly wonder about is already covered in depth by a variety of famous WP bloggers.

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Macro Photography: 25 Inspiring Examples

Vandelay Design

Macro photography, the art of taking close-up photos, can produce incredible results that show us the world in a different way than we normally see it through our own eyes. The details in macro photos can be stunning, as you will see below. In this post, we'll showcase 20 different examples of macro photography from a variety of photographers. If you see something that you would like to view in full size, please click the image or the credit link to be taken to the source.

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The Type Directors Club's TDC68 & 25TDC Open for Entries

Dexigner

The Type Directors Club has opened the call for entries for its global TDC68 Communications Design and 25TDC Typeface Design competitions.

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Bi-Fold Brochure Template for Adobe InDesign

We And The Color

Available for download on Adobe Stock, this bi-fold brochure template is fully customizable in Adobe InDesign. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @GraphicArtist , you can download this -bi-fold brochure template for free with an Adobe Stock trial subscription. It consists of 16 fully customizable pages. Using Adobe InDesign, you can change the main layout as well as every color, image, or text section.

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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.