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Positive stories from freelance creatives to boost your mood in a recession

Creative Boom

Today, in that same bookshop, and many others, I can find some of the book covers I've designed over the last years for some of the biggest Italian publishers. "So to buy a book, I had to make a one-and-a-half hour trip by train and bus to a big bookshop in the city. And every time, the inner 15-year-old in me is so proud."

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How the first version of Mailchimp was designed

UX Collective

Ben comes from a design background having studied industrial design. Coming out of school, he wanted to become a web designer although ended up getting a job doing banner ad design. During our conversation, he outlined his principles for designing the first version of Mailchimp in 2001.

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15+ Best Graphic Design Books in 2023

Just Creative

Learn More Latest Price on Amazon: Grid Systems in Graphic Design : A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers. Niggli Verlag (Publisher) $54.14 Design is a job by Mike Monteiro Design is a job by Mike Monteiro. Publisher) $25.00 Buy on Amazon 2. Buy on Amazon 3. Thinkertoys.

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Web Development Process: Steps to Creating an Effective Strategy

Inkbot Design

As web designers and developers , we work in an increasingly digital world where many of the details of a project are more visible online. Although some designers say wireframes are for “fear mongers” and bad for business, they're invaluable in reality. The final component of web design is content.

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Patterns are good

UX Collective

(Head First Design Patterns, FREEMAN et al., The pattern-based design paradigm emerged in the 1970s when architect and mathematician Christopher Alexander (1977; 1979) published a set of descriptions about common problems in architecture and their solutions within specific contexts. Welie, 2001).

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How to Launch Your Blog or Portfolio in 2020 (3,500+ Word Start to Finish Guide)

Inspiration Feed

The graphic design industry is tough. No matter where you go, you’ll see amazing talent through the work of other designers in the field. Some may apply styles that are similar to yours, while others use a very unique approach,…

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Onboarding: A College Student Discovers A List Apart

A List Apart

Now, I don’t mean to date any of you lovely readers, but I would have been three years old when the first business article on A List Apart was published, so everything I read until about 2010 was news to me. How Your Peers Are Coping with the Dotcom Crisis) ” that was published in 2001, I had no idea what he was talking about!