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Is social media for self-promotion over? Creatives reveal their honest thoughts

Creative Boom

Mixing posts with forced advertising has made my feed less tailored to my interests and more about me being a customer for others.". I'd been wrongly fixated on Instagram because it's visual, but I realised I had more meaningful connections from my agency years on Linkedin. So, how widespread are these experiences?

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50 Best Design Blogs You Have To Read (2023 Update)

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Creative Review Founded in 1980, Creative Review is the world’s leading monthly magazine for advertising, design and visual culture. I Love Typography I Love Typography covers everything from typography and type history to making fonts, and everything in between, including printmaking to book history and occasionally calligraphy.

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Top 8 Graphic Design Schools to Launch Your Career

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Some graduates pursue related jobs as art directors, creative directors, or founders of their agencies or design-focused companies. Its MA in Visual Communication admits just 35 students annually, emphasising conceptual visual narratives and clarity of creative thinking grounded in research. How much do graphic designers earn on average?

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Louise Sandhaus Uplifts the Stories of Graphic Design’s Unsung Makers

Eye on Design

Born in 1955 near Boston, MA to parents who were both creative professionals, Sandhaus grew up in the kind of design-filled home that had a printmaking workshop—which doubled as a ping pong table—in its basement. Even before she studied design formally, Sandhaus had always been surrounded by it.

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Chris Madden on becoming a graphic illustrator, the joys of editorial work, and how to enter the industry

Creative Boom

Combined with an aesthetic from traditional printmaking techniques, he's settled into a new role as a graphic illustrator. I'll finish my design course at Shillington, and then I hope to put the freelance life on the back burner for a while and work as a designer and illustrator at an agency or studio.

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9 Best Design Colleges in Los Angeles (2022 list)

Shillington

Otis Graphic Design students are offered study in UX/UI, typography and type design and other typical graphic design skills, whilst also learning printmaking and traditional letterpress skills. Students are also encouraged to take supporting courses in advertising, marketing and communications which are also on offer at the college.

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20 best illustration agents in the UK, and the awesome illustrators they represent

Creative Boom

An illustration agency can help you with all of that, and beyond that, just having representation will make people look at you in a different light. If you're not sure how to go about finding representation, it's worth first reading our article on how to get represented by an illustration agency. Some have offices abroad too).