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Ndumiso Nyoni uses his illustrations to share authentic African experiences with the rest of the world

Creative Boom

We are resilient, we share a love for patterns, music and art, we are resourceful, and we have a strong sense of community and are always looking out for one another." At the time, I didn't understand or have the vocabulary to explain why these characters felt wrong or weren't a true representation of me, but it definitely felt wrong. "In

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Patterns are good

UX Collective

Source: Tidbits A design pattern is a document that describes a common solution to a recurring design problem. According to Tibor Kunert (2009), using design patterns allows designers to quickly find solutions to problems using proven designs, rather than starting from scratch each time. Welcome to Design Patterns.

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F5: Glen Baldridge Loves Gummi Bears, Printmaking + More

Design Milk

That was the first art I collected, and [it] definitely made me want to draw and make art as well as live with it.” ” Glen’s recent works have embedded sardonic phrases from youth sub-culture into ultra-complex painted patterns. I ran Forth Estate Editions (a print publishing company) with Luther Davis for 10 years.

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Positive stories from freelance creatives to boost your mood in a recession

Creative Boom

Today, in that same bookshop, and many others, I can find some of the book covers I've designed over the last years for some of the biggest Italian publishers. Freelancing can definitely reward the hard-working," he points out. "So to buy a book, I had to make a one-and-a-half hour trip by train and bus to a big bookshop in the city.

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Stop wireframing (but still start low-fidelity)

UX Collective

Wireframing definitely doesnt double the amount of work for little perceived benefit and this caption certainly isnt being sarcastic. Information architecture, verbiage, and copy definition. Selecting a brand color for interactive patterns is no faster or slower as it is the default blue. Process and interaction flow/sequences.

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Raw Materials on winning D&AD's Design Studio of the Year by being unusual

Creative Boom

Each year, D&AD, the global association of creative advertising and design communities, publishes its official table of the most successful design agencies. If you can find that and you can pull that off, it's always going to be more successful just by definition. It's that it is hard work to get there.

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British Twitter Channel Published Spectacular Pictures of Frozen Soap Bubbles

Design You Trust

It took about 5-10 minutes to completely turn them into ice forms, but it was definitely worth it. He created some amazing and strange patterns, which look like small worlds or planets. Photographer (Twitter channel @StormchaserUKEU) has posted some interesting photos of frozen soap bubbles.