Thinking Design

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The Pressure of AI and Market Competition The creative industry has been feeling pressure from various sources for years. At the Graphic Artists Guild, we emphasize charging based on the value we provide our clients which is derived from our experience and skill, not hourly rates. In these ways I see it as “my AI friend”.

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Design Beep

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Brochures, tickets, Catalogs, flyers are essential marketing materials used by businesses to present products, services, or promotional campaigns. Adobe InDesign offers a variety of mockup templates that streamline the design process. Ninth Lookbook Ninth Lookbook is 40 page Indesign fashion, product/design lookbook template.

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Templates Adobe Fashion Layout 59

Eye on Design

JUNE 7, 2021

We can think of mockups in graphic design in a similar way. The mockup is a fundamental part of the graphic designer’s toolkit. Producing samples and prototypes for clients is an essential part of the working process, and has been for as long as graphic design has been a thing. about the final product.

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Design Week

JULY 16, 2021

And because he can find inspiration “from anywhere”, he says his creative process is often “instinctual” “When I’m with a client, I like to try and draw something for the brief in that first meeting,” he says, explaining that this is how a real dialogue between client and designer starts.

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Shillington

MAY 28, 2020

Vince Frost Design Your Life. In his 2015 book, Design Your Life, Vince Frost laid out his central idea that design thinking can apply to everything from business to life. The focus here is on freeform conversations with marketing professionals and business owners making an impact in the world. Listen here.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

By adopting this approach and applying it to a design practice, we not only create more multifaceted solutions, we begin deconstructing the gender binary through our work. I have worked with brands in the past where clients were hesitant to change, in fear of alienating their dominant user group.

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Eye on Design

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Pater’s chapters on “The Designer as Worker” and “The Designer as Entrepreneur” try to make sense of this situation while dismantling any notion that passion always pays out. What would hold the unsteady idea of design together, absent material pressures to promote the profession and assure one’s status within it?

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Creative Boom

JUNE 15, 2025

I've been doing this 15 years, and I've never seen a wave go across like this," says illustrator Matt Saunders , who works with clients including Nissan, Airbnb and Disney. Lee-May Lim , a freelance book designer, describes experiencing "four straight months of nothing", the worst period in her eight-year freelance career.

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Noupe

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Graphic designers are among the top most in-demand professions in the internet industry. Designers work with many objects, such as advertisements, websites, apps, book designs, storefronts, press, etc. In addition, graphic designers engage when clients need to design a brand style, logo, and visual concept.

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Shillington

MAY 10, 2021

Liquid Lab is a boutique cold press juice bar, that’s trying to stand out in a saturated market through the quality of its product and importantly a vibrant and authentic image to go with it. BelCham—Centennial history book , Silver in Book Design 2021. Invisible Cage , Silver in Book Design 2021.

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Inkbot Design

APRIL 11, 2023

The author, David, takes you on a journey using case studies from top designers in the industry. He reveals how they develop effective briefs, generate ideas, collaborate with clients, and charge for their work. The book is a beautiful tribute to the art and craft of logo design.

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UX Collective

MARCH 23, 2023

.” — Steve Krug “Don’t Make Me Think” by Steve Krug was one of the first reading materials recommended to me when I started as a Product Designer. Products where you can do everything from claim expenses, organise meetings or track client projects and other job-critical work fall into this category.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 10, 2024

Newsletters & Reports For business collateral like employee newsletters, client reports, or company communications, InDesign lets you import data, dynamically create variations and streamline your editorial systems. InDesign extends value crafting marketing and advertising layout assets or publications.

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 22, 2023

By the 15th century, Johannes Gutenberg's revolutionary movable type printing press enabled the mass production of books and pamphlets, launching a new era of visual communication conveying knowledge, ideas, and beliefs with unprecedented speed and scale. Gutenberg's press gave rise to typography and the earliest forms of graphic design.

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Design Beep

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Also, a graphic designer needs to be prepared for the fact that he will have to negotiate with clients, present their projects and make changes. An illustrator can create covers and drawings for books, design magazines, advertisements, posters, stock, and games. Game Designer. Illustrator.

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Lisa Maltby

JUNE 12, 2023

In contrast, book designers usually present several varied design concepts before narrowing down the final choice, but may not be able to offer specialist illustration skills. Selecting a creative whose style and process align with your vision will help ensure the best results for your book cover.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 20, 2023

Book writing services and professionals help you throughout the process. Here are all the tips and tricks you need to know on how you can make a great book cover design and how you can use it for marketing ideas for a successful campaign effectively: Writing A Book Writing a book takes time, effort, and planning.

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Inkbot Design

MARCH 2, 2023

From marketing campaigns and ads to logos and textbooks, text fonts have played a crucial role in all these. It impacts user experience and overall design aesthetic. Book design : When designing a book, the font decision process involves selecting a font that is legible and appropriate for the genre and content of the book.

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UX Collective

AUGUST 21, 2021

But I deliberately did not want to spend much time on it, as it showed me obvious problems which I can see as a UX Designer. Then, a set of requirements were provided to us from the client, which was a mix of obvious, some thought-provoking, and some that needed more validation going ahead. Build the design community you believe in.

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UX Collective

MAY 24, 2023

Sir”, I said, “the stock market is not the economy.” It was because, in many cases, they couldn’t articulate their client’s story and the client simply found someone else who could. A Flash developer in Dayton, Ohio, asked for a review of a site he had just completed for one of his clients. Well, he called me a “Bastard.”

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Art Internet and Software Development Media Digital 98

UX Collective

AUGUST 21, 2021

But I deliberately did not want to spend much time on it, as it showed me obvious problems which I can see as a UX Designer. Then, a set of requirements were provided to us from the client, which was a mix of obvious, some thought-provoking, and some that needed more validation going ahead. Build the design community you believe in.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 9, 2024

Buy on Amazon White Space is Not Your Enemy White space is easily one of the most under-utilised elements in design compositions. Based on his wealth of experience working with clients, Airey outlines the entire logo design process from briefing to presentation, along with principles of versatile, effective logo design.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 9, 2024

This allows designers to freely use, modify and redistribute fonts, aligning with their belief that typography should be accessible and not confined to commercial markets. Their designs blend historical knowledge with contemporary craftsmanship, viewing the alphabet as a flexible concept expressed through all typefaces.

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Fonts Graphic Design Graphic Brand 523

UX Collective

JANUARY 25, 2022

In countless places, bollards and barricades shift streets from right of way to market or plaza in a matter of minutes. For more on these, see the recently published book, Design for Social Innovation , which I co-edited). Design was seen as a discipline of creating solutions to problems.

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Internet and Software Development Arts and Crafts Programming Education 98

Inkbot Design

MAY 16, 2024

These classes will teach you about colour theory, typography, sketching, and computer-aided design (CAD) software – all critical elements of designing anything from scratch. You will get exposure to real clients’ work through hands-on studio classes, which also provide experienced instructors for guidance purposes only.

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Shillington

MARCH 8, 2021

Hélène Baum-Owoyele is a French/German illustrator and graphic designer based in Berlin. Working for clients such as The New York Times and Tate, her artworks vary from editorial pieces and children’s books to advertising campaigns. Louise Brady. Faride Mereb. Majo Crespo. Nneka Njoku. Harkiran Kalsi. Maria Midttun.

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 8, 2023

For the aspiring designer hoping to break into logo design, certain books provide an ideal foundation for the core principles and best practices. Leading designers share hard-won lessons on creativity, execution, and working with clients.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 27, 2024

Typography for Web Design Crafting Flexible, Functional Type for Screens Web typography centres around clarity, flexibility, and performance: Typefaces – Web fonts allow great variety, but load times are a factor. Designers distil critical information into arresting visuals and snappy copy that stops audiences in their tracks.

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Eye on Design

JULY 1, 2022

Emboldened, Baccei started spending his hours outside of Pentica designing more of what he called “ gaze toys,” or autostereograms with simple hidden images in the background. As Smith remembers it, Baccei had seen her artwork in the office’s hallways while he was there on business, and asked who had made it. They were only partially right.

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Shillington

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Buy the book. Dear Client by Bonnie Siegler. Maybe this book is in the wrong place, it’s not necessarily for designers. Instead it’s for those who hire designers—but this still means that it’s an important book to have in your shelf. Buy the book. Buy the book. Buy the book.

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Shillington

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The late 1800s and early 1900s saw type foundries burst into life around Europe and America, bringing forth bold compositions and arresting typefaces that still influence modern design today. Buy the book. It also includes blank pages that allow you to add specific notes that are relevant to your own studio, suppliers or clients.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 2, 2025

And worse, in the current climate, it feels like you're going backwards as clients and employers get more demanding, inflation reduces your living standards, AI decimates jobs and opportunities, and younger, fresher faces make you feel old and out of touch. I decided to specialise in one field: book design."

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Screen capture from my personalGmail Or we can think of the numerous applications across various industries, such as stock price forecasting, inventory and supply chain optimisation, healthcare predictions (such as disease outbreak forecasting), targeted marketing campaigns, and other personalised user experiences.

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Graphic Design Junction

JANUARY 29, 2025

VIZAM Gaming Glasses Official site for gaming glasses with 3D-modeling, scroll animation and amazing motion design. Visit Website AlphaWave Website Design AlphaWave a company specializing in innovative AI solutions. Visit Website Background Noise Website Design A BIPOC and female-led marketing and business consulting agency.

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UX Collective

MARCH 3, 2025

As designers, we can no longer afford to ignore the unintended consequences of design decisions that prioritise humans and their needs without accounting for planetary perspectives. For centuries, organisations have turned to design to help them succeed in the market. How did we gethere?

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