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9 Years Building the World’s Marketplace for Design

Creative Market

2013 marked the beginning of a distinctively retro, rugged aesthetic. Grainy textures and handcrafted typefaces came together in worn out badges. You start seeing many more handwritten fonts on Creative Market, including some that leverage textured brushes simulating dry and wet media strokes.

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F5: Samar Maakaroun Shares Arabic Typography, a Heritage Site + More

Design Milk

And she’s worked with Pentagram to rebrand the Abu Dhabi Media portfolio, and later brought the Diriyah City brand to life. Samir Sayegh, Strokes in Dialogue, Kalimat wa Hurouf, Ink on Paper, 70 x 100 cm, 2013 Photo courtesy of Athr Art 1. Today, Samar Maakaroun is joining us for Friday Five ! Photo: Samar Maakaroun 4.

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The Era of Rebellious Web Design Is Here

Eye on Design

Relaunched in 2021 by BDG , the digital conglomerate that started in 2013 with the women’s interest website Bustle and now comprises 13 online properties, Gawker has adopted a new look that befits its tabloid-y aspirations. . If you were to visit Gawker today, you might not recognize it at all. design and early-internet nostalgia. .

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36 Design Assets to Start The Year With a Creative Bang

Creative Market

Film Overlay Textures. This studio offers a variety of templates, textures, and other elements to supercharge new projects. One of its standout kits is the Film Overlay Textures collection, which features 12 original photo filters that give your photos a cinematic retro effect. Financial Instagram Creator Canva. Retro Stickers.

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The 24 Most Professional Fonts to Use

Inkbot Design

The Roman letterforms offer exceptional clarity and even texture suitable for continuous business reading—an excellent choice to communicate expertise. Key Takeaway: Modern serif font interpretations like Sabon, ITC Legacy Serif and Merriweather smartly evolve heritage styling for today's professional, multi-media business needs.

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The Many Faces of A House Called Askival – A Fascinating Look at a Book's Cover Journey from the Perspective of its Author, Merryn Glover

Spine Magazine

Find her at www.merrynglover.com and on social media. Merryn at Freight Books 2013. I’m Scottish-Indian, so with the setting of A House called Askival , you can imagine the endless possibilities in colours, imagery and textures. Abi used hand-made paper and Indian block print textures, but these were subtle.

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An In-Depth Look at Material Design

Inkbot Design

Moving Towards “Unified Cross-Platform Experience” The executive chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, spearheaded the need for consistent design across Google's interfaces during a strategy meeting in 2013. Surfaces recreate textures like paper. A sense of tactility establishes familiarity with otherwise digital interfaces.

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