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The best new typefaces for January 2025 from leading foundries and designers

Creative Boom

Haltung by Order Type Foundry From the timeless sophistication of SLTF Bergamot Grotesk to the cultural preservation of Munegascu, 2025 is already shaping up to be a stellar year for type. Wow, where does the time go? We're well into a new year and an astonishing quarter of the way through the 21st century. Meanwhile, the creative scene continues to develop at breakneck speed, and typographic innovation shows no sign of slowing down, either.

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The best fonts for Cricut

Creative Bloq

These Cricut fonts will elevate your designs to the next level.

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Design Inspiration: Organic Posters, Flyers, and Social Media Graphics

Graphic Design Junction

Creating compelling designs for organic products can be the key to engaging eco-conscious consumers. With growing awareness of sustainability and health, brands that focus on organic products need visuals that communicate these values effectively. From organic posters to flyers and social media graphics , the right design inspiration can help you stand out while reinforcing your commitment to nature.

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5 art and design anniversaries to get inspired by in 2025 – from Art Deco to Sega

Creative Bloq

There's plenty to celebrate this year (we promise).

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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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Iconic Guitars Of Famous Guitarists Brought To Life In Beautiful Illustrations

Design You Trust

Artist Anthony “Ant” Giaccone has launched his debut art series, featuring hand-drawn illustrations of some of the most iconic guitars ever played by legendary guitarists. Using Procreate and an Apple Pencil on his iPad, he meticulously created each piece, with each illustration taking approximately two hours to complete. By day, Giaccone serves as an executive creative director in the marketing industry, while by night, he channels his creativity into drawing as a personal passion.

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30 Sets Of Free Photoshop Makeup Brushes

Design Beep

Photoshop makeup brushes are powerful tools designed to mimic the effects of traditional makeup in digital art. These brushes enable artists and designers to create realistic makeup looks on portraits or character designs. The brushes range from foundation and concealer to blush, eyeshadow, eyeliner, lipstick, and even textured skin effects, offering a wide variety of options for customization.

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Miles: A Modern Twist on Didone Typography

Abduzeedo

Miles: A Modern Twist on Didone Typography abduzeedo 01/12 2025 Discover Miles, a free font blending classic Didone elegance with contemporary design. Perfect for creative typography. Typography enthusiasts and designers seeking a refined yet versatile typeface will appreciate Miles, a stunning creation by Thunder Type. This free font reimagines the timeless Didone typefaces with a sleek, modern edge, combining traditional elegance with contemporary design sensibilities.

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UNDERNEATH THE DESIGN

Illustration Art

I love Mark Borgions' picture of a gorilla: At first it looks like it's all about the design: the simple, flat geometric shapes, the bold colors, that striking composition-from-above-- yup, this has the kind of power you can achieve with pure, uncompromised design. Yet, underneath these abstract shapes there's a great deal of observation about the forms being captured.

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The future of remote working in 2025

Moo

The way we work is changing faster than ever. And as we step into 2025, its an exciting time to rethink whats possible for remote work, offices, and everywhere in betweenfrom the tools we use to the ways we stay connected. Whether youre a business navigating these shifts or a professional adapting to new ways of working, its worth exploring the trends shaping the future of remote working.

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To create more accessible outcomes, we need better design tools

UX Collective

Visual design tools can bias designers into less accessible results. So how can these tools help improve these outcomes? Early in my career as a composer, a teacher once gave me an invaluable piece ofadvice: its essential to learn how a digital tool wants you to think, so that you can free yourself of itsbias. This came up in conversation after I had willingly given up my digital notation tool for pen and paperand how that choice had transformed my creativeoutput.

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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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Visual guide to the wildfire damage

FlowingData

The Guardian provides a visual guide to the damage in Los Angeles with a combination of maps, photos, and video, categorized by location (Altadena, Pacific Palisades, and Malibu). The underlying image in the above is a composite of infrared satellite imagery by Maxar. It is a lot.

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Our most read interviews of 2024

Creative Bloq

Last year we spoke to Adobe, Pentagram, artists Shan Jiang and Guillermo Flores Pacheco and more.

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Typewolf

Typewolf Site of the Day for January 13, 2025.

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Content Object

Communication Arts

The bicoastal design practice of Kimberly Varella elevates the medium of art books through her transformative works in the cultural sector.

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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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Speed, adrenaline, precision: MotoGP's new identity by Pentagram

Creative Boom

For a sport as dynamic as this one, expect an identity full of dynamic curves and exhilarating motion design. When you watch MotoGP, you'll soon realise it's more than just a sport. Those who compete show exceptional levels of skill, physical fitness, and mental toughness, and it needed a brand identity that could convey all of this, clearly positioning it as the highest level of motorcycle road racing in the world.

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How Design is Building Our Digital Worlds: Stepping Into Tomorrow

We And The Color

It’s fascinating to consider how much design truly dictates our digital experiences, isn’t it? We’ve moved so far beyond the simple websites and apps of the past. Now, we’re talking about constructing entire virtual realities, augmenting our perceptions of the world around us, and creating digital interactions that feel incredibly real.

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Meet the studio bringing a breath of fresh air to LA

Creative Boom

Magazine-turned-podcast-turned-design studio MOUTHWASH is celebrating five years this year, so we caught up with the founders to see how it's gone so far and what they have in the pipeline for the next five. The four partners of MOUTHWASH Studio in Los Angeles always knew they would do something significant in the creative industry. What they didn't expect was that it would come so soon in their careers.

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Retro Studio Portrait Photos Show What Men’s Hairstyles Looked Like in the 1970s

Design You Trust

Mens hairstyles in the 1970s showcased a wide variety of trends, ranging from long, flowing hair to shorter, more refined cuts. Iconic styles of the era included the shag, featuring layered, tousled hair for a relaxed look; the bowl cut, distinguished by its blunt fringe encircling the head; and the afro, proudly embraced by Black men as a celebration of natural texture and voluminous beauty.

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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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Tax tips for freelance creatives: meet the 31 January deadline stress-free

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Not filed your return to HMRC yet? Don't panic. Follow these eight simple steps to avoid a fine and sleep easy. Have you seen the date? For months now, you've thought tax deadline day was ages away. Now it's just a matter of days! Argh!!!! Missing this deadline can result in hefty penalties, not just the immediate fine but also accumulating interest on unpaid tax.

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A Digital Collection of The Cyber Avant-garde Masks by Seryozha Parshakov

Design You Trust

Russian artist Seryozha Parshakov is redefining creativity with his captivating masks, which seamlessly blend traditional influences with contemporary innovation. Inspired by the Russian avant-garde and modern culture, Parshakovs masks are more than just arttheyre powerful symbols of identity and transformation. “I see the mask as a canvas displaying a reflection of humanitys thinking: the context of time, beliefs, and everyday life.

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Stunning Photos of the Caproni Ca.60, Italy’s Failed Floating Triplane

Design You Trust

The Caproni Ca.60 Transaereo, also called the Noviplano or Capronissimo, was an ambitious nine-wing flying boat prototype designed to carry 100 passengers across the Atlantic. Built by Italian aviation pioneer Gianni Caproni, it featured eight engines and triple wings arranged in three sets. The aircrafts maiden flight in 1921 was short-lived, and during its second flight, it crashed on Lake Maggiore, breaking apart on impact.

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