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The Top 10 Design Pinterest Accounts to Follow for Creatives

We And The Color

Feeling Uninspired? These 10 Design Pinterest Accounts Will Ignite Your Creativity Ever feel like your creative well has run dry? It happens to the best of us. You stare at the screen in front of you, the cursor blinking mockingly. You need a spark, a jolt of inspiration. Where do you turn? Many creatives, like yourself, often find themselves scrolling through Pinterest , a treasure trove of visual ideas.

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The best typography of the 1930s

Creative Bloq

From playful to serious, functional to decorative, designers pick their top type of the decade.

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Brand Strategy Marketing Presentation Template for Adobe InDesign

We And The Color

Is Your Brand Strategy Presentation Falling Flat? This InDesign Template by GraphicArtist Will Fix It. You’ve poured your heart into crafting the perfect plan. Yet, it’s not resonating with your audience. Is that a familiar feeling? It’s like having a brilliant idea. But the delivery doesn’t do it justice. Many marketers and entrepreneurs face this.

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Best animation Oscar 2025: Disney gets snubbed for the third year in a row

Creative Bloq

But it's a strong year for the underdog nominations like Flow.

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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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Artist Scales-Up Everyday Objects And Reimagines Them As Unique Building Designs

Design You Trust

Everything in this world is a remix, and architect Felipe de Castro (previously featured ) from Rio de Janeiro exemplifies this by drawing inspiration for his building designs from everyday objects like earrings, potato chips, and napkins. Known for reimagining objects on a larger scale, Felipe turns ordinary items into extraordinary architectural concepts, beautifully captured in his creative drawings.

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Pentagram’s latest visual identity uses an ingenious natural photography technique

Creative Bloq

Grow to Know celebrates the simple power of plants.

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150 Free Photoshop Blood Brushes To Use In Your Artworks

Design Beep

Blood brushes for Photoshop are a fantastic way to add intensity, drama, and raw emotion to your digital art. Whether youre designing horror-themed artwork , creating a gritty visual for a video game, or simply want to experiment with splatters and stains, these brushes can help you achieve realistic, eerie effects with ease. Blood brushes are custom Photoshop brushes designed to mimic the look of blood splatters, drips, stains, and smears.

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I wish the Nintendo Switch 2 didn't look quite so serious

Creative Bloq

Shouldn't Nintendo consoles look like they'd be fun at parties?

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Surrey Docks Farm by PUP Architects — Thisispaper

This is Paper

PUP Architects has refurbished Surrey Docks Farm in London, reinstating a three-storey tower clad in black timber and topped by a golden pig weathervane.

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Sonic is a perfect example of character design evolution

Creative Bloq

Comic book artists have each put their own stamp on our favourite blue hedgehog.

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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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K Is For Knifeball: An Alphabet of Terrible Advice

Design You Trust

From the authors of the breakout bestseller ‘All my friends are dead’ and in the humorous vein of ‘Go the F**k to Sleep’ comes a laugh-out-loud collection of bad advice that turns the children’s alphabet book on its head. Adorable illustrated characters lead readers down a path of poor decision-making, and alphabetical, rhyming couplets offer terrible life lessons in which O is for opening things with your teeth, F is for setting Daddy’s wallet on fire, and R

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Save $250 on a 15-inch MacBook Air with enough memory for video editing and other creative work

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At $844, this 16GB RAM model is at a record low price.

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Der Struwwelpeter: Heinrich Hoffmann’s Deadly Book For Naughty Children

Design You Trust

Heinrich Hoffmann, a German physician, created “Der Struwwelpeter” in 1845 after failing to find a suitable Christmas gift for his three-year-old son. This collection of illustrated rhyming stories depicts children facing dire consequences for misbehavior, such as a girl who plays with matches and burns to death, and a boy who refuses to eat his soup and starves.

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AI-generated art is postmodern art

UX Collective

The art world embraced absurdityuntil AI joined thegame. Italian artist Maurizio Cattelans Comedian, a conceptual artwork comprising a banana stuck to a wall with duct tape which recently sold for $6.24million. In 2019, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan duct-taped a banana to a wall, titled it Comedian , and sold it for $120,000. In 2024, another version of the piece fetched $6.24 million.

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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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Glanceable UX: turning information into instant understanding

UX Collective

Split-second impressions. Interfaces live or die by how quickly users can grasp their message. How to shape clarity in complexity? Glanceable design offers a way to respect attention, reduce friction, and deliver meaning in aninstant. What is glanceable design? Glanceable design refers to creating interfaces that allow users to quickly and easily grasp the information they need with minimal cognitive effort.

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