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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. Hipster swag reigned supreme.

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2023 Year in Review: Unframed

Design Milk

Evan Nesbit Pushes Paint in New Directions For a little saccharine eye candy take a look at artist Evan Nesbit’s textured paintings that beckon viewers for a visual taste. Presented by Public Art Fund, four giant glyphs spelled out “LAND” in a format that referenced Robert Indiana’s famous “LOVE” design.

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In ‘African Studies,’ Edward Burtynsky Photographs the Human Imprint on Sub-Saharan Landscapes

Colossal

From the diamond mines of South Africa to the richly textured landscape of Namibia’s Tsaus Mountains, African Studies spotlights the sub-Saharan region and its reserves of metals, salt, precious gemstones, and other ores. African Studies is currently available for pre-order on Bookshop.

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The Grand Press

ID Identity Design

Inspired by the past, designed for the future, the Printworks building in Canada Water has been an integral part of London’s cultural landscape, from printing the Daily Mail and Evening Standard from 1989 until 2013, to cultural venue Printworks London opening its doors in 2017. Now it’s evolving again. Born of industrial signage.

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Noted: New Logo and Identity for Mobvista by Futurebrand

Under Consideration / Brand

2013) " Mobvista is a leading technology platform providing mobile advertising and mobile analytics services to the app developers globally. Signage and tote, presented together. Textures! — “Hasta la Vista, Mob”. Logo animation. Brand architecture. Sub-brands. Photography. Color and graphics. Out of home advertising.

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Has the collective experience of the pandemic reset our relationship with the future?

UX Collective

Around 2009, Stuart Candy from Carnegie Mellon University presented the Future Cone as a way of depicting different kinds of potential futures. The diagram consists of a number of cones that expand out from the present into the future. What are our inspirations and have these changed because of the pandemic?

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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. META Unique Slides Presentation.

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