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Cbloxx peacock mural celebrates LGBTQ+ inclusivity at Leeds United Football Club

Creative Boom

World-renowned street artist Cbloxx has revealed a new mural in Leeds city centre. Titled The Peacock, it has been specially made to celebrate Marching Out Together, the community paving the way for an inclusive LGBTQ+ space at Leeds United Football Club. Located at East Street Arts Studio, St Mary's Lane, Leeds LS9 7EH, The Peacock is a dazzling burst of colour created by global artist Jay Gilleard, AKA Cbloxx.

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Double Colour Exposure Photoshop Tutorial

Spoon Graphics

In today’s Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you a simple technique to create what has become known as double colour exposure, where two images are overlaid to produce an interesting effect with contrasting colours. It’s a similar visual style to 3D anaglyph images, or the overprint effect used in old school print designs. The steps to create the basic double colour exposure are very simple, so stick around until the end to also see a few additional tips and tricks to add colour grading effec

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The best stock music sites for creatives in 2022

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock. We all increasingly need music to soundtrack our projects, whatever our creative discipline. But it's easy to underestimate how much thought and consideration you need to put into your music choice. Whether you need to add a soundtrack to an Instagram Story or Reel, podcast, YouTube video or animation, your selection can make or break its effectiveness and should not be rushed into lightly.

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7 Deadly Website Mistakes

Six Leaf Design

Okay, maybe they're not exactly deadly. But these 7 common website mistakes can potentially make the difference between a visitor checking you out + taking action or peace-ing out because they don't connect with you. Keep reading below to find out what they are and correct them before you lose more customers. 1. You have NO PHOTOS OR BAD PHOTOS As a designer I can tell you that one of the more challenging parts of building a website is choosing photography.

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Let's Talk Trends: Designing for Maximum Impact

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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'I only want to make clear visual messages, which may prevent or inform': Aliona Solomadina on the role of design in wartime

Creative Boom

Znak. Ukrainian Trademarks 1960 — 1980s. It's with a heavy heart to see Vladamir Putin's brutal assault on her beloved home country, as though the Russian leader would gladly erase all history and culture of Ukraine. But Aliona Solomadina , a graphic designer and researcher based in Kyiv, is one of many creatives determined to never let that happen.

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17 Clean Resume Templates with Cover Letter

Graphic Design Junction

Best modern resume templates with minimal cover letter design and portfolio pages. Simple and clean resume templates perfect for any job opportunity and help you to get your dream job. Super minimal design resumes with cover letters are available in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, In-design and MS Word format files. The templates are professionally organized and labeled with smart objects, so every beginner can edit it like a professional.

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Online Course: Portraiture with Pencil, Color Techniques, and Adobe Photoshop

We And The Color

With this online course by Beatriz Ramo, aka Naranjalidad, you will learn to create stunning portraits with pencil, different color techniques, and Adobe Photoshop. Beatriz Ramo (Naranjalidad) is a freelance illustrator and artist based in Madrid, Spain. In this highly recommended online course, she will teach you how to create a pencil portrait with beautiful touches of color.

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Kittl – the Design Solution

Graphic Design Junction

Kittl – the Design Solution. Are you searching a design solution? Do you want to be an efficient designer? If yes, then the Kittl design website is for you. You can easily design any kind of stuff you need. This website is quite resourceful. You can complete your design with just a few clicks. Hence, it allows you to save time, so it helps you to be more productive in less time.

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10 Small Logo Design Details that People Often Miss Out

Inkbot Design

10 Small Logo Design Details that People Often Miss Out. Ever looked at a logo and wondered why there's something off about it? Even the most famous logos can conjure up this sort of emotion and curiosity. There's nothing inherently wrong with it; there's merely an element—may be a colour, shape, form, etc.—that's making you feel uneasy about it.

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The Democratization of Design: Giving Creators & Marketers the Tools to Succeed

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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What Is Hope? Taps Into Kinetics + Inspires Optimism for DIFFA

Design Milk

A new experimental sculpture has been created by Giles Miller Studio in honor of the Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids (DIFFA) in New York. What Is Hope? was unveiled in March 2022 during an event celebrating DIFFA’s nearly four decades of raising funds to fight AIDS, homelessness, food scarcity, and mental health issues. “Inspired by their cause, and at a time when global issues feel relentless in their oppression of humanity and happiness, we saw an opportunity to call for optim

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Alex Merto combines wit and considered typography in his book cover designs

Its Nice That

“I want my design to become an object that someone wants to hold onto for a very long time,” says the New York-based art director at Picador.

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Branding for Kamy Health Platform

Abduzeedo

Branding for Kamy Health Platform. abduzeedo 0413—22 Kamy is a health platform that offers digital and face-to-face services to a Latin American market--addressing typical health problems in an accessible, simple, and efficient way. For this branding, tbpmx created a friendly graphic system representing simplicity and kindness with a touch of modernity.

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Anthropomorphic Oil Paintings by Richard Ahnert Envision Satirical and Nostalgic Narratives for Bears

Colossal

“Guider” (2022), oil on canvas. All images © Richard Ahnert, courtesy of Modern Eden Gallery, shared with permission. Infused with wit and metaphor, the oil paintings of Toronto-based artist Richard Ahnert imagine the glum, peaceful, and rambunctious lives of animals. His new collection, on view through May 6 as part of Bear With Me at San Francisco’s Modern Eden Gallery , centers on the eponymous mammals, which are shown in the midst of relatable, deeply human activities.

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From Visualization to Execution: Exploring Our Strengths as Designers

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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Positive Vandalism: The Artist Creates Street Art in The Most Unusual Places

Design You Trust

According to Heiko Silva: “The positive vandalism is the fight against the tedium, monotony, boredom, sobriety, apathy, and industrialization that today drowns every bit of town or city that surrounds us. It is a grain of sand to bring out small smiles, it is to stimulate the mind of the pedestrian who runs in a hurry to his destination and, for a moment, steal a second of his time and thought about something out of the planned.

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Gather Made

Mindsparkle Mag

In a world where time is increasingly at a premium, Gather Made seeks to provide its community with the opportunity to reconnect with those most important to them, while enjoying a wholesome and healthy meal prepared fresh to order. Through a network of chefs, meals are delivered to the door with instructions on how to reheat and serve – relieving the burden and stress of cooking meals from top of the constantly mounting to-do lists of parents.

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In York, An Architectural Ruin Is Given the Makeover of the Century

Azure Magazine

When asked what the significance of a ruin is, Hugh Broughton of Hugh Broughton Architects responds, “I guess the significance grows over time. Clifford’s Tower has had many lives. It was once the seat of government and the significance of that, not only for the history of York but for the whole of England, is obvious. At one point it was a mint where money was produced, then an ammunition depot.

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DMTV Milkshake: Marvel’s Founding Partner Lissa So on Designing Architecture for Everyone

Design Milk

“We often say that we design everywhere for everyone,” says Lissa So , founding partner of the multidisciplinary design practice Marvel. Far from architects interested primarily in building vacation compounds for the global jetset, Marvel takes its motto seriously. “We have architects, landscape architects, planners, urban designers, and graphic designers, and we do all types of projects, from parks to theaters to schools to large-scale mixed use to affordable housing.

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Rethinking Creative Workflows: Increasing Efficiency in the Design Process

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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Artist Illustrates Modern Life Struggles In A Sarcastic Way

Design You Trust

Have you ever caught yourself saying something about how life is a soup and you’re a fork? Well then, artist Chiara Cosentino has some illustrations you might relate to. Chiara discusses modern issues and puts a lot of sincerity into her art, making it easy for people to identify with her work. What’s interesting is that the talented illustrator is also a fashion designer.

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Lucky Generals' debut campaign for Virgin Atlantic celebrates 'seeing the world differently'

Creative Boom

As customers return to the skies, Virgin Atlantic has taken the opportunity to launch a new brand platform with Lucky Generals. It's the first work for the airline since the London agency won the account last summer with a new TV ad taking the lead, directed by Ben Strebel. The campaign, which introduces the line 'See the world differently', draws on Virgin Atlantic's heritage of challenging the status quo and recognising that the travel industry is entering an exciting new era after the disrupt

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Portraits of P

Mindsparkle Mag

Design without expiration date. @portraitsiofp BRAND DNA & Identity is built to last. The everyday menswear brand with the soul of tailor craftmanship. Un-titled Lab helps Mr.P design Portraits of P’s Brand DNA, Brand Identity, and Packaging design to make every experience with Portraits of P a little bit more special. Because he believes all men deserve some fun in their everyday wear.

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Cyber Geralt of Rivia and The Incredibles: Superb Comic Art by Warrick Wong

Design You Trust

Warrick Wong is an illustrator based in Sydney. He draws concept art and re-imagines classic heroes of mass culture, adding unusual details to them. For example, Wong’s version of Geralt gets the coolest cyber-wolf armor. A special author’s trick is the dynamic, complex images, in which the character is gradually covered with armor. With the sound effects it looks great.

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Creative Insights: Data-Backed Trends to Help You Design Successful Content

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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A Set of Notecards Celebrates Pysanka, the Ukrainian Tradition of Egg Decorating

Colossal

All images © Present & Correct. The team at Present & Correct recently released a set of six Riso-printed notecards in homage to the Ukrainian art of pysanka. A springtime staple, the annual activity involves decorating eggs with folk motifs utilizing a wax-resist method—read more about the technique previously on Colossal. Each blank card showcases four different designs in pastel tones above a phrase reading “Peace and Hope” in Ukrainian, a message steeped in the tradition

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Tom Hingston's identity for the V&A's latest show is a dynamic dance of masculinity

Creative Boom

Tom Hingston is behind a performance-led visual identity, on-site graphics and campaign for the V&A's Fashioning Masculinities, a compelling new show that explores how designers, tailors and artists have constructed and performed masculinity and "unpicked it at the seams" through the ages. The award-winning London-based designer and creative director worked with the world-renowned choreographer, Russell Maliphant, to help tell the story of the history of menswear.

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GARY KELLEY SHOWS CONCEPTUAL ARTISTS HOW IT'S DONE

Illustration Art

I love this picture by Gary Kelley Kelley contrasts the wild world outside with the civilization inside. He has chosen his symbols artfully: a wolf howling in the night; a barely illuminated horizon giving us a glimpse of a savage terrain; indoors, a typewriter, a perfect symbol of order and civilization. But wait. Something is amiss here. The barrier between the two worlds has been breached, and the machine-- which once stood for the alphabet and straight, uniform rows of words-- has been trash

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How Linked By Air Helped Cooper Hewitt Rethink Online Exhibitions

Eye on Design

You don’t need me to remind you that just over two years have passed since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. It was March 11, 2020, and two days later the Cooper Hewitt was due to open Willi Smith: Street Couture , a major exhibition exploring the twenty-year career of the groundbreaking and multidisciplinary designer. As with public buildings across the country, Cooper Hewitt’s doors closed and IRL experiences were suspended for… well, nobody knew then. .

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How to Create Stunning Typography With the Corel Type Tool Kit

Download this free eBook to learn how you can create stunning typography, using the basics, such as placing text, to advanced controls like ligatures, variable fonts, effects, tracking, range kerning, and everything in between. Learn how to: Use Character Control to add variety to your font styles. Use Paragraph Control to manage spacing, alignment, justification and more.