Graphic Arts Today Submitted Articles

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In my thoroughly unscientific observation, web designers appear to be frustrated with the state of things. We take a look at why that is.

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We And The Color

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In 2023, these will be some of the best and most popular fonts that graphic designers keep coming back to. Some trends remain popular for years, while others come and go very quickly. The world of typography is no different—there are always new fonts and typefaces being designed, based on current trends. Here at WE AND THE COLOR, we have put together a handpicked selection of the top ten best fonts for use in 2023.

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Inkbot Design

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Graphic Design Skills You Need to Start a Career in Design. A graphic designer needs the skills to understand various design processes and tools. They are responsible for working with content to create visual images and layouts. This includes creating print and web designs and user interface designs for websites and mobile apps. In addition, graphic designers must be familiar with typography, illustration, and page layout.

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We And The Color

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In need of a creative boost? Make sure to check out our top 20 picks for the best graphic design blogs in 2023! We want to make sure that the year 2023 will be full of creativity and inspiration for you! To help keep that motivation high and those ideas flowing, we’ve compiled a list of the twenty best graphic design blogs. From trends to editing skills, these bloggers and graphic designers are sure to give you the great content you deserve. 20.

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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 Boom

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Image licensed via Adobe Stock. No, you're not imagining it. In 2022, social media increasingly sucks for sharing content and finding work. Creatives share their views on the way forward. Have you noticed how different social media feels at the moment? More ads. More videos. More Stories and Reels. But fewer posts you want to click on. And less engagement on any content you post yourself.

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BP&O

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Property development continues to boom in London. It’s difficult to see how any of this is really benefitting those most in need, or whether housing is even being designed to be resided in at this point, acting as a ‘store of value’ for those much wealthier individuals. Recently developed areas appear like ghost towns at night. Having just moved, and.

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SpeckyBoy

JULY 25, 2022

To a prospective client, you as a freelance web designer are often perceived only to be good as your portfolio. They’re checking you out for the first time, and if you don’t make that positive first ion, you may not get their work. And if you don’t get work, you don’t get paid. And if you don’t get paid, then you… aw, you get it.

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Designmodo

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This post is originally published on Designmodo: Slides – Free Static Website Generator. Static website builder with a drag and drop generator that will help you create a website and landing page in a few minutes. The online app contains ready-made website templates and UI elements. Also, you can create beautiful animation elements on … For more information please contact Designmodo.

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Creative Review

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This year’s selection of the best movie posters of the year once again demonstrates a wonderful array of traditional techniques and styles – photography, painting, collage – and a refusal to homogenise into any singular form. One pleasing commonality: as yet, the world of film poster design has resisted any incursion from AI-generated art.

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Interaction Design Foundation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

UI Animation is a valuable skill in a designer’s toolkit. You can use UI animation effects to reduce cognitive load, as well as adding personality and charm to an interface. More importantly, animation will help you overcome language and culture barriers in interaction design. However, if done poorly, animation can seem distracting and even nauseating!

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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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Richard Bernabe

JULY 9, 2022

Neutral density filters may not exactly be an essential accessory, but they will allow you longer exposures and help you to get shots you could never have captured otherwise. The post Long Exposure Photography: Neutral Density Filters appeared first on Richard Bernabe.

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Its Nice That

JULY 5, 2022

The Sao Pãulo-based illustrator and designer on loving to laugh while she works and how recent Arabic classes have expanded her type design repertoire.

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Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Top 10 Best Tablets for Graphic Designers. You have to love tablets if you're reading this. Tablets offer many advantages over laptops when it comes to graphic designers. For one, a graphics tablet is portable. If you're working on your laptop, you might have to haul that thing around to different offices, but with a tablet, you can do the whole thing on the go.

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We And The Color

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For amazing typographic designs in the year 2023, take advantage of our top 10 free fonts selection that graphic designers can download. We have searched through many free fonts on different platforms and gathered a collection of the 10 best fonts for graphic designers to download in 2023. This set contains a variety of styles, as mentioned before all selected fonts are available for free with designated options for private or commercial use. 10.

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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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Creative Boom

AUGUST 9, 2022

Mockups give clients a very optimistic look at what their work will look like once it's out in the world, but sometimes they can be far from realistic. To give them a better idea of what to expect, Dutch designer and art director Wytze Hoogslag has created less idealistic templates which creatives are free to use. Chances are you've come across ambitiously optimistic design mockups.

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BP&O

AUGUST 2, 2022

Agricultural practices are constantly changing to provide greater crop yields. In an effort to achieve this goal, modern farming has created a host of ecological side effects. Most notably, overconsumption of water and a reliance on chemical fertilisers, GMOs and pesticides. Plenty is an indoor vertical farm providing green produce to the masses through sustainable practices, using less space and.

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HONGKIAT

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Getting a little bored with how your photos are presented online? How about injecting some fun and humor into it? You don’t really need to be Photoshop literate to edit and add effects to your photos. There’re some really great sites out there that allow you to add effects to your photo by using their existing effect templates. The best part is – they are free, output is shown immediately on the fly,, and no installation of apps is required.

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Colossal

DECEMBER 9, 2022

All images © Masayuki Oki, shared with permission. The archipelago of Japan consists of more than 6,800 islands, of which around 280 are inhabited, and in a few places, known as neko-shima or “cat islands,” felines vastly outnumber the human residents. Fishing villages like the one on Aoshima , the most well-known of around a dozen cat islands, introduced the creatures in the early 20th century to combat rodent infestations.

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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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Design You Trust

MAY 18, 2022

Inspired by the comfort of the classic dog bed, a couple of obviously extremely bored university students designed Plufl, the world’s first dog bed for humans. If you’re thinking that the Plufl is just an oversized dog bed, you’re technically correct, but according to its creators, Noah Silverman and Yuki Kinoshita, it’s much more than that. In their own words, the Plufl was engineered “to provide the optimal napping experience” and “maximize comfort and foster a sense of security, delivering re

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Creative Review

JULY 20, 2022

The original Aston Martin wing logo was introduced in 1927 – when it was more of a wing-shaped wordmark – and has undergone various adjustments since then. In 1930 it was adapted to appear more speedy, and tightened into more of a v shape, and in 1932 it was updated again to the scarab beetle-inspired wing shape it’s retained ever since.

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Booooooom

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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Design Week

DECEMBER 16, 2022

You might look at the title of graphic designer Michael Arndt’s most recent book and wonder how snails and monkey tails have anything to do with punctuation. The main title is “curious enough so that most people won’t get it”, says Arndt, which is why he included the subtitle, A Visual Guide to Punctuation and Symbols. If you are curious enough to read on, you would learn that snail – or.

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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 Bloq

JULY 16, 2022

But will anyone pay this price for MS Paint-inspired threads?

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Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Top 10 Best Books On Branding Design & Identity. The brand is the promise your product or service makes to your audience. It is the central core of your identity. Every aspect of your business, from packaging and product design to product naming and logos, should reinforce and strengthen your brand. A strong brand defines your company, its products, culture, and values, which affect your customer experience.

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We And The Color

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Anastasia Dunaeva and Evgeniya Tsareva created some aesthetically pleasing Instagram templates inspired by crafts and paper. The two skilled graphic designers Anastasia Dunaeva and Evgeniya Tsareva at studio Taste released a digital product made specifically for graphic and brand designers. It is an Instagram template collection named “Crafts & Paper” The collection of post and story templates was made to help designers present their work in the most aesthetically pleasing way.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 7, 2022

From the series ARID © Helin Bereket. In the sparsely populated, ungoverned community of Wonder Valley, California, lies a range of shacks known locally as Jackrabbit Homesteads. Sat abandoned against a dusty landscape, the worn cabins inspired a series by Berlin-based photographer Helin Bereket. "I knew little about this place but was drawn to it by the sheer aesthetic of abandonment and isolation, alienation and wreckage, uncanniness and history unknown," says Helin.

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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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BP&O

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

I’m going to break with a decade of convention and jump right in. I love this. I was sold as soon as I saw the logo, it’s in the BP&O Gallery. It’s rare you see this kind of logo today. It’s mostly, and understandably, logotypes that prevail today. Those that are striped down to function well on multiple devices. Blanding?

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Graphic Arts Today Submitted Articles

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Because of COVID, hiring creative talent is more difficult than ever. Don't miss RoundPeg's 7 pro tips for finding the perfect designer to grow your business.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

All images © Matt Roussel, shared with permission. Characterized by the use of specialized tools called burins, gravers, or gouges to carve thin, elegant lines, wood engraving developed in the late 18th century to produce more precise detail than earlier techniques. For French artist Matt Roussel , the linear forms created on the surface of linoleum or wood are just as compelling as the prints that can be made from them.

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Design You Trust

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Alexandre-François Desportes, 1705. Are you looking for a new hobby? Maybe you should join us in looking for cats who are stealing food in still life paintings (one of our favorite sub-genres of art). It’s so wonderfully disrespectful! So here’s a gallery celebrating the need for snacks triumphing over art. The name of the painting, name of the artist, and year are all listed under the paintings. h/t: sadnaduseless.

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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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