Creative Boom

APRIL 14, 2024

The illustrator and designer helped take two friends' restaurant idea from humble beginnings to awards success. She explains the challenges involved and how she met them. From Bidenomonics to Romantasy, everyone loves a good portmanteau – the technical term for two words joined together. The best examples don't even need to be explained: it's immediately obvious that, for example, 'boxercise' is a mixture of boxing and exercise.

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Its Nice That

MARCH 11, 2024

Art of the Title’s Lola Landekic speaks to the graphic designers behind titles and posters for some of this year’s biggest films, exploring the process and changing landscape for these creatives setting the tone of films through typography.

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SpeckyBoy

MARCH 17, 2024

Each of these free web-based tools and apps have been built by web designers for web designers. They all offer a time-saving solution to some of those monotonous or even complex CSS tasks you may need to perform from time to time. Without needing to install anything, all you have to do is bookmark, and save them for that day when required. From assessing your website’s accessibility to generating sophisticated flexbox or grid layouts, refining typography, choosing the perfect color scheme,

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Design Milk

MARCH 22, 2024

Hadiya Williams spent 20 years in the world of graphic design before discovering a full-force passion for clay. What began as an innocent hobby in 2017 turned into a full-time job when design studio Black Pepper Paperie Co. was established, with Williams as the founder and creative director. Based in Washington, DC, she now spends her days creating decorative art referred to as terrestrial and generative, ceramic objects, and surface designs.

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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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Creative Bloq

JANUARY 14, 2024

It was the decade when fantasy art became part of pop culture. Illustrator and author Tony DiTerlizzi shares his favourite 1980s artists and their influence on him.

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The Dieline

APRIL 12, 2024

Dieline is a global package design community and showcase of package design inspiration. We cover industry news, sustainable packaging news, design trends, and host our own packaging conferences, package design events, and Dieline packaging design awards.

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Packaging Design Inspiration 122

Abduzeedo

MARCH 13, 2024

Oddval Text Typeface: Enhancing Typography & Font Design abduzeedo 0313—24 Explore Oddval Text, a font family improving legibility for web and print, supporting over 220 languages with advanced typography related features. In today's digital landscape, typography remains a cornerstone of design, blending aesthetics with practicality. Among the latest innovations, Oddval Text emerges as a noteworthy addition to the Oddval Font Family.

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Fonts Typography Print Graphic Design 93

FlowingData

JANUARY 10, 2024

In the 2000s, if you wanted to make interactive or animated visualization for the web, Flash was the main option. When Flash lost support and fell off the internet, a solid decade of great visualization no longer worked. The New York Times has resurrected their archives with a Flash emulator. So pieces that were relegated to static thumbnail images are back.

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Animation 137

Colossal

APRIL 12, 2024

A Chaunacops (a genus of bony fish in the sea toad family Chaunacidae) is seen at a depth of 1388.65 meters on Seamount SF2 inside the Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park. All images courtesy of Schmidt Ocean Institute, shared with permission Stretching thousands of miles off Chile’s coast to Rapa Nui , also known as Easter Island, the Salas y Gómez Ridge is a vast underwater mountain range in the Pacific Ocean.

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Advertiser: Issuu

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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Design You Trust

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

You’ve mastered the poses known as “downward-facing dog” and “bridge pose” without losing your balance, then? Best wishes! However, hang on to your yoga mats because the true magic (and sometimes chaos) happens in the more advanced yoga poses.

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Photography 95

Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Feeling grim about your prospects? We help lift your mood by sharing positive stories from creatives about the moments that make life worth living. On a bit of a downer? Well, that's not surprising. The global economy is currently on a downturn, and people are feeling the strain across the world. And even if you're still managing to keep on top of the rent, there's no shame in feeling a little down about your prospects for continuing success as a freelancer.

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Its Nice That

MARCH 19, 2024

The London-based freelance illustrator explains why educational visual material often calls for close collaboration with the intended audience.

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SpeckyBoy

MARCH 5, 2024

We may think we know WordPress security. But we can’t underestimate the task at hand. It seems that surprises lurk around every corner. Consider a recent report from the security firm We Watch Your Website, for example. The report claims that 60% of hacked WordPress sites stem from stolen session cookies. I sure didn’t see that one coming.

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Design Milk

MARCH 18, 2024

Tucked away in the Hoge Veluwe National Park in the Netherlands lies a unique haven – Buitenplaats Koningsweg – for artists and visitors alike. The former barracks site has been transformed into a vibrant community where dozens of creatives live and work. Now, as part of an innovative project by the municipality of Arnhem, a series of 11 “follies” have emerged within the woods, offering an opportunity for guests to immerse themselves in the forest.

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Creative Bloq

APRIL 13, 2024

Catching up with Emlyn Davies and Mark Procter of Wales-based animation studio Bomper on its 10th anniversary.

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The Die Line

MARCH 15, 2024

Dieline is a global package design community and showcase of package design inspiration. We cover industry news, sustainable packaging news, design trends, and host our own packaging conferences, package design events, and Dieline packaging design awards.

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Packaging Design Art Inspiration 131

The Dieline

APRIL 5, 2024

Dieline is a global package design community and showcase of package design inspiration. We cover industry news, sustainable packaging news, design trends, and host our own packaging conferences, package design events, and Dieline packaging design awards.

Packaging Design 124

Packaging Design Inspiration 124

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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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Booooooom

APRIL 8, 2024

After careful consideration, we are thrilled to reveal all the winners of the 2023 Booooooom Photo Awards, supported by Format. This year's call for submissions brought in an unprecedented number of entries, making the selection process both rewarding and challenging for our team. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to all participants for sharing their photos with us—it's evident from the entries how much talent and creativity abounds in our community.

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FlowingData

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Based on data from the USDA Census of Agriculture , this map by John Johnson shows the predominant domesticated animal in each county in the United States. It nonchalantly includes humans.

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Animation 131

Colossal

APRIL 16, 2024

Known to locals as the “Lady of the Rings,” Sicily’s Mount Etna is both the highest island mountain in the Mediterranean and the most active stratovolcano in the world. The magnificent landform has even more impressive qualities considering it emits elegant smoke rings, known as volcanic vortex rings, high into the sky. A video from The Straits Times documents the fascinating formations as they drift through the atmosphere.

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Noupe

MARCH 26, 2024

In today’s tech world, keeping design consistency intact can be quite the challenge—especially with multiple teams collaborating on the same digital product. That’s where UX design audits come in. They’re like your product’s health check-up, helping designers spot issues in continuity, accessibility, and usability. So, why do these audits matter?

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Production Digital Brand Branding 132

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.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock As the news continues to look grim and the economy struggles, what can creatives do to stay happy and productive? The Creative Boom community share their top tips. Are you finding your life and work particularly challenging right now? You're by no means alone. After all, we might be past the worst of Covid now, but the world hasn't exactly pivoted into the big, happy, post-pandemic party we'd all hoped for.

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Its Nice That

APRIL 10, 2024

“If I can giggle at my own work, I know I’m doing something right,” says the illustrator.

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The Branding Journal

MARCH 31, 2024

Developing a brand name for your organization or product is a crucial step that should be carefully planned and executed.

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Consulting Agency Brand Branding 126

Design Milk

APRIL 10, 2024

If the eccentric proprietor of the Wonka Chocolate Factory had a headquarters like this, he’d probably think twice about handing over the keys to little Charlie. Designed by Ippolito Fleitz Group (IFG) , the new Ritter Sport Schokozentrale (which translates to Chocolate Central) in Waldenbuch, Germany, is an exemplary model of what an inspiring, joyful, and innovative office in the sweets industry – or any industry, for that matter – should look like.

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Speaker: Michele Berdinis

This session will answer business law questions that people are asking most during the pandemic. If my business can’t pay its bills, can my creditors come after my personal assets? Do I have to pay the rent on my co-working space or office? Can my clients cancel signed contracts? Can I cancel contracts for things I no longer need because my business has slowed down?

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