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30+ Best Adobe Illustrator Brushes: Enhance Your Vector Art

Graphic Design Junction

Adobe Illustrator brushes offer a versatile range of options to enhance your artwork and streamline your workflow. 164 Cartoon Vector Brushes For Adobe Illustrator Bring your wildest cartoon and doodle ideas to life with this massive collection of 164 expertly crafted brushes. Lets explore how these brushes can elevate your designs.

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The 20 illustrators inspiring us the most in 2025

Creative Boom

Known for her bright colour palettes, playful letterforms, and quirky copywriting, Lauren has created work for clients such as Vans, Google, and Adobe. Her work is characterised by bold use of colour and pattern, creating illustrations that feel both sophisticated and energetic. She's from California but is currently based in Detroit.

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How to paint fabric and metal textures that bring clothing to life in digital art

Creative Bloq

We’ll explore how texture, colour, and shading help distinguish materials, and how patterns interact with form and light. 05: Plaid This woven cloth has a tartan pattern, consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical thick lines in a myriad of colours. Connect the design pattern with tiny lines resembling treads.

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Why the cool kids are leaving the big cities, and bringing creative life to smaller towns

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Rising rents and remote work are driving a creative exodus from London and other major cities, transforming once-overlooked towns across Britain. Repeated pattern Stockport isn't the only town enjoying a revival. Photography by Ash Radbone The pattern, then, is clear. Should I stay or should I go?

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A Visual Playground – Download Geometric Shapes and Patterns by Studio Kloroform

We And The Color

Packed with a vibrant range of patterns and shapes, this collection is more than a toolkit—it is a creative gateway for projects spanning various industries and media. You can get the latest version from the Adobe Creative Cloud website, just have a look here.

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How to set boundaries and stick to them, to protect your time and energy

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock As creatives, we all know boundaries matter. It can also help to document boundary breaches, to identify patterns with specific clients. As illustrator and surface pattern designer Carrie Cantwell notes, "Sometimes they try to push [boundaries], but I use iron-clad contracts I can point to if they try.

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10 Top Graphic Design Trends for 2025

Graphic Design Junction

With AI-assisted creativity, designers can explore countless variations of color schemes, patterns, and compositions in minutes, pushing creative boundaries without sacrificing their unique vision. This allows designers to focus on more complex and creative aspects of their projects without getting bogged down in manual adjustments.