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All the Secrets of Image SEO for Graphic Designers and Artists

Designer Daily

Image source: Pixabay. As a graphic designer or artist, you probably have heard a lot about SEO and are working towards optimizing your website and content to ensure that it ranks better in search engines. However, there is very little talk on image SEO. But worry no more if you are struggling with ranking in image search results. This article will offer you all the secrets of image SEO you need to achieve the coveted top positions in Google, Bing, Yahoo image search results.

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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: TheStencil

I Love Typography

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Who doesn't love stencil fonts. In this third episode of Font of the Month, Steven Heller dives into Lucas Fonts’ TheStencil typeface family. So what’s so special about these new stencil fonts designed by Luc(as) de Groot? Read on to find the answer. The post Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: TheStencil appeared first on I Love Typography.

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Otis Branding by SMAKK

We And The Color

Branding and marketing agency SMAKK created a new brand identity for oral health brand, Otis. Otis is a new company that is changing the conversation around oral health, with a brand identity created by branding and marketing agency SMAKK. “Designed to feel both approachable and credible, SMAKK created a playful logo and friendly lifestyle photography that provided a bridge to the brand’s trusted, clinically-backed pedigree.

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8 CSS & JavaScript Snippets for Creating Incredible Lighting & Shading Effects

SpeckyBoy

When it comes to creating a great piece of web-based art, the details are what stand out. Lighting and shading effects are prime examples. They can turn a flat, 2D work into an immersive 3D experience. For quite a while, the ability to add realistic light and shade to an illustration or animation seemed like the holy grail. The technology wasn’t always there.

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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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Amazing Digital Portrait Illustrations by Top Artists & Designers

Graphic Design Junction

An amazing Digital Portrait illustrations artwork examples for inspiration. This remarkable and stunning portrait illustrations collection created by professional designers and artists from around the world that will surely mesmerize you and stir your imagination. Have a look, and feel the power of Illustrator! Digital art, digital photography and other realistic manipulation artwork it’s not too hard. just need a passion to learn these techniques.

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Baya Visual Identity by Will Nunes

We And The Color

Graphic designer Will Nunes created this colorful visual identity for educational platform Baya. Will Nunes, aka “My Name is Will”, is an independent graphic designer based in São Paulo. He’s passionate about creating visual narratives for different kinds of media. It can be a visual identity, packaging, editorials, interfaces, an illustration, or any other unusual format.

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Quick tips to create a modern app UI

UX Collective

Recently I was given the task to “Modernize” my current companies app UI on Android. The terms modern, young, cool, etc., are all quite vague. What makes a design modern or old? The meaning changes from person to person. But I couldn’t just say that and leave it ??. So I spent an entire day looking at various examples of apps that we commonly perceive as modern, young, and cool.

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Choosing the Perfect Logo Design for Your Business

Graphic Design Junction

Are you someone who is looking for a perfect logo design? Do you want to find out ways of choosing the right logo design? If you said yes to both these questions then keep scrolling down because we have just the solution you have been looking for. You may be interested in the following related articles as well. 45 Best Handwritten Script Fonts. Creative Animal Mascot Logo Templates Design (27 Logos).

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Despite Its Critics, jQuery Forges Ahead

SpeckyBoy

A web technology rarely maintains a continually growing user base over a long period. WordPress has done it, as has Bootstrap. But even they don’t have quite the market penetration of jQuery. The venerable JavaScript library first debuted in 2006 and (as of this writing) is used by over three-quarters of all websites. Both its success and longevity are something to behold.

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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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Halftone Rasters Set for Adobe Photoshop

We And The Color

Available for download on Adobe Stock, this halftone raster set will help you to create stylish retro effects in Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Stock contributor @Marcel created this easy-to-use halftone raster set for Adobe Photoshop. Optimized for an extremely high resolution of 10211 x 4497 px, the set contains six design options. Please note, photos or design elements shown in the preview are for display only and are not included in the downloaded file.

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How to Create Delightful Script Font Pairings

Creative Market

Script fonts have always made an appearance in brand font palettes, wedding invitations, product packaging, and more. It’s certain that these fonts are here to stay no matter the trend or season. That is because they are versatile enough to fit into a classic, playful, grungy, or romantic aesthetic, making choosing and pairing your script fonts seem like an intricate task.

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Fresh Creative Business Card Templates (21 Design)

Graphic Design Junction

Modern and creative professionally designed business cards , perfect for any corporate business, brand identity or individual. Simple and clean business card templates , fully editable and customizable, easy to edit. These twenty one print ready business card design are fit for Photography, Boutique, Clothing, Jewelry, Fashion Designer, Wedding and event Planner, Personal Branding and many more.

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John Lewis’ festive ad tells the story of a space traveller’s first Christmas

Creative Review

While the John Lewis Christmas ad has become an institution in the UK over the years thanks to its ability to tug at the nation’s heartstrings, no one has quite known what to expect from its festive campaign in the wake of the pandemic. Last year’s spot took a different approach from the retailer’s tried and tested cute mascot formula, featuring a mishmash of animation, claymation, CGI and cinematography that celebrated the kindness of the public during a turbulent time.

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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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3 Tips for Mastering Google Photos

We And The Color

When it comes to backing up data like photos and enabling their access on various devices, many options are available, from Dropbox to OneDrive. However, one of the fastest-growing and widely used tools since its initial inception back in 2015 is Google Photos. At a monthly fee of just $1.99 for sizable storage of 100GB, it gives its users incredible value for money, after all.

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Processing: the Software that Shaped Creative Coding, Part II

Eye on Design

This is part II of the Processing oral history. Read part I here. As Processing became one of the primary environments for creative coding in the early aughts, a community started developing around it. People were eager to use the tool, and a smaller subset of them wanted to help develop the infrastructure required to maintain the growing piece of software.

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25+ Creative Vintage Fonts For Graphic Desigenrs

Graphic Design Junction

Vintage typefaces and fonts are created by skilled people with a genuine sense of retro / vintage style. The font collection based on handmade modern vintage display typefaces, available with different OpenType style character. Vintage fonts are perfect for branding projects, logo, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, t-shirt design , product designs, label, photography, watermark, invitation, stationery and any projects that need handwriting taste.

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Getting out of the Freelance Pricing Trap

SpeckyBoy

Freelancing is riddled with challenges. You end up being part designer, developer, copywriter, marketer, social media guru, customer service representative, and tax expert all at the same time. If anyone thinks that doing freelance work is easy, they need to think again! And that’s why it’s so important to make sure you don’t stumble into the freelance pricing trap many freelancers fall into.

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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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Hanzi & Alphabet Project by Rui Ma

We And The Color

Type design inspired by Chinese and English language culture. Rui Ma is a designer & art director living and working in LA. With a passion for illustration and fashion, she mostly focuses on graphic design and art direction. This is a set of type designs inspired by Chinese and English language culture. The design combines Hanzi character strokes mixed with English letters.

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4 Years Since Shillington: Claudia Costa, Freelance Graphic Designer

Shillington

Stuck in a marketing job, Shillington London graduate Claudia Costa knew that she wasn’t living out her creative dreams. But after seeing a Shillington poster on the Tube, and then seeing it again and again, she knew she where her future lay. Nine months later, she graduated from Shillington as a graphic designer and hasn’t looked back since.

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Creative Animal Mascot Logo Templates Design (27 Logos)

Graphic Design Junction

Beautiful Mascot Logo Templates or Animal Logos available in 100% vector format for animal lovers and animal related business. Creative highest quality animal mascot logo templates all are fully editable and scalable logos without losing resolution and quality. Animals are very attractive and popular choice for logos because of the deep connection we feel to them and easy to remember.

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Wild Animals Occupy Suburban Nights in Nicholas Moegly’s Mysterious Illustrations

Colossal

“An Escape Plan.” All images © Nicholas Moegly, shared with permission. In Nicholas Moegly ’s shadow-laden illustrations, wild animals descend on backyards and unoccupied streets illuminated by artificial lights. The Cincinnati-based artist largely focuses on the quiet, mundane landscapes of Midwestern suburbia, although each of his works features surreal details that shroud the scenes in mystery: a lamp with no apparent electricity source lies haphazardly on the sidewalk, an empty c

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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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Yoke Outdoors Branding by Studio MPLS

We And The Color

Studio MPLS created a vintage-inspired brand identity for Yoke Outdoors. Studio MPLS is a Minneapolis-based design firm specializing in brand identity, packaging, and illustration projects with an artful, elevated approach. For Yoke Outdoors, the studio came up with a new brand identity inspired by good old vintage typography. Below you can see a few images.

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Interview with Dan Pilgrim, Founder and Designer at Saul Studio

Shillington

From his first day of a graphic and communication design degree, Dan Pilgrim knew that one day he wanted to start his own design studio. Fast forward a few years, in comes Dan’s partner Joey Barritt, and the pair founded Saul Studio. Saul Studio is a graphic design practice based in Leeds specialising in typographic design, but also working in visual identity, publication, website, exhibition and other design material.

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Author Clock: A New Quote With Every Minute

Design Milk

If you or someone in your life is a bibliophile, then the Author Clock is sure to pique your interest. Without question a statement piece, it uses thousands of quotes from books written across six centuries to spell out the current time every minute of the day. Checking the time becomes a whimsical moment that transports you through literature with every glance.

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Learn from Google’s coolest UX design animation ever

UX Collective

Learn from Google’s coolest product animation ever Have you ever wondered what would Google’s most staple material guide look like in 3D? The answer is probably the coolest UX animation showcase you will find out there, even in 2021. Design team oddfellowstv has built a new 3D visual identity to evolve and “live alongside Google’s privacy policy” products.

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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.