Wed.Dec 11, 2019

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The 10 Interior Designs that Defined the Decade

Azure Magazine

The second decade of the 21st Century saw significant cultural shifts that informed interior design across the world. In tandem with the rise of Instagram, a generation of influencers embraced “millennial pink” and brands big and small strove to create increasingly experiential and photogenic retail environments. Terrazzo took over on walls and floors – but dramatically veined marble gave the finish a run for its money.

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A tasty new look for edible insect brand Crunchy Critters

Creative Review

While entomophagy (also known as the practice of eating insects) is already commonplace in many countries across the world, up until recently westerners have been squeamish about the prospect of swapping their usual packet of crisps for dried crickets. Over the last couple of years we’ve seen a range of food companies experimenting with branding and packaging to encourage people to get on board with the idea that insects are often better for both our planet and our conscience.

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The Surreal Illustrations of Micha Huigen

Hi-Fructose

Micha Huigen’s illustrations dissect and reassemble everyday objects into surreal machines. The artist’s work, both in personal and commissioned forms, are marked by elegant and bold linework. Huigen has crafted album art, music videos, magazines, and other editorial work. More.

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How to Make a Booklet in InDesign

Envato Tuts+

What You'll Be Creating Ready to take the next step in layout design? In this tutorial, we show you how to create a booklet in InDesign. For this stylish design, we’ll use essential tools for setting up pages that will help you in your future projects. Booklets are a form of brochure containing more than four pages and not more than 48 pages (the page count should be divisible by four).

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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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Overlooked Black Rescue Dogs Shine in Emotional Portraits

Feature Shoot

Ollie. Ex stock broker. Made his millions in the Dotcom boom and now spends 6 months of the year on his yacht in Monaco. Henry. Enormous introvert. Loves football, has no idea about the rules he simply cheers for the winning team. DOGG. Pronounced ‘D’ ‘O’ “double G’ as in Snoop. Impossibly cool. Fan of hip hop. “‘Dog’ was found on the side of the road,” the photographer and rescue advocate Emma O’Brien tells us.

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“Part-animal, part-household object”: Frédérique Rusch on her wonderfully cryptic illustrations

Its Nice That

Encompassing both 2D illustrations and 3-dimensional sculptures, the illustrator’s work challenges and toys with the idea that objects need to have a use or a purpose, and that they should communicate a clear message. Read more.

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How to Create eCommerce Photos on a Tight Budget?

Noupe

Creating eCommerce photos professionally requires some skill and expertise that can help you keep your budget frugally organized and within your reach. If you’re going to seek some valuable tips for capturing images for eCommerce business that will captivate customers’ attention, then we’ve gathered some tips that will be helpful for you to shoot products without spending so much.

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Illustrator Michael McGregor turns the mundane into something extraordinary

Its Nice That

The LA-based illustrator looks towards his immediate surroundings for inspiration. Whether it’s the market, the cafe, something stumbled upon in his home studio or found on a glorious morning walk, it’s the simple things that he finds most interesting. Read more.

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Wildlife Intertwine in Finely Rendered Mythological Worlds by Lauren Marx

Colossal

“Offerings” (2019), Pen, watercolor, ink, gel pen and colored pencil on paper. 26.75 x 42.5 inches. Sinuous, intertwined wildlife bridge worlds of the living and the dead in Lauren Marx ’s intricate multi-media work. Twisting fox heads, disemboweled deer, and lambs bursting with flowers and birds are rendered with watercolor, ink, pen, and colored pencil.

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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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Grand Bassin captures the colourful characters seen around the pool

Creative Review

Héloïse Courtois, Victori Jalabert, Chloé Plat and Adèle Raigneau all met while they were studying at MoPA, an animation school based in Arles, France. Sharing a common aesthetic, the foursome decided to work together for their graduation film and the result is Grand Bassin, which they released into the world last month. Taking us back to long summer days, the six and a half minute animation is set in the public swimming baths and depicts the different characters you might encounter. .

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Fhuiae Kim explores “the third language” in her calming graphic design works

Its Nice That

The Seoul-based designer is interested in pursuing the third language through her delicate graphic design works. This is not a written form of language, nor a pictorial one, but somewhere in between. Read more.

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Lavazza 2020 Calendar by David LaChapelle

Trendland

‘Earth CelebrAction’ is the new 2020 Lavazza Calendar, honoring the relationship between man and nature. Introduced in 1993, the Limited Edition Lavazza Calendar was first photographed by Helmut Newton and this year, through the lense of photographer David LaChapelle, they captured expressive actions designed to cohere humanity and Earth. Best known for his surreal celebrity portraits, Lachapelle shot the 2020 edition in Hawaii – And with this new title, the Lavazza team wanted to spectacu

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Print is back! The renowned culture brand to be relaunched in 2020

Type room

Tags. printing , magazine , print , Daily Heller , Debbie Millman , Steven Heller , Andrew Gibbs , Jessica Deseo , Laura Des Enfants , Graphic Design , Print Regional Design Awards , awards , Print Holdings LLC , William Edwin Rudge. This December, Print magazine , an online authority on graphic, interactive and brand design and their influences on visual culture, announces new ownership and its continued presence in the graphic arts industry.

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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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Best Fonts for Your Next Logo Design

Graphic Design Junction

What makes a great logo? The colors, the novelty or the concept? If you think that all of these play an essential role in creating a solid logo design , then we’d suggest you add one more important factor that is often undermined. That important factor is generally known in the graphic designing realm as ‘font.’. When it comes to creating visually compelling logos, you must do a thorough research on fonts.

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New Book Collects ROA’s Black-and-White Creatures in Photographs from Around the World

Colossal

All photographs © ROA, shared with permission. Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Those unable to experience the black-and-white murals of Belgian artist ROA ( previously ) in person can admire photographs of his works in the recently published Codex. Released by Lannoo Publishers , the 352-page book contains four chapters centered on Eurasia, Africa, America, and Oceania, regions where ROA’s depictions of local animals blanket building walls.

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Inaro Architects Mint Visual Identity

Trendland

The visual identity for a Finnish architecture practice specializing in urban planning – Inaro – was designed by a local studio Werklig. A minimalist logo consists of a circular shape and sans serif typography. Complemented with a pastel mint shade, the branding aims to reflect architects’ thoughtful approach of adapting into various environments.

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Photographer Spotlight: Izzy de Wattripont

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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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The Captain and the Glory: A Conversation Between Dave Eggers and Nathaniel Russell

Juxapoz Magazine

Dave Eggers has always had an edge to his writing, whether taking on technology in The Circle or his snarky yet sweet approach to his own fine artwork. That he would combine the two in his newest book, The Captain and the Glory, a satire of American politics on the brink of disaster, seems apt. For the book, Eggers enlisted Juxtapoz's friend Nathaniel Russell for a series of illustrations to accompany the book, again creating an environment of both comedy and almost-childlike-cynicism.

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Queens Court by Feilden Fowles

This is Paper

11.12.2019Queens Court by Feilden FowlesResearch, Interiors. Neutral tones and natural textures employed in a beautiful renovation of Queens Court in West London by Feilden Fowles. Photography: David Grandorge The two-bedroom apartment, in an opulent 1930s mansion block, best described as possessing an air of faded grandeur, had been left unoccupied for over 10 years and was in desperate need of refurbishment and rationalisation.

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True North designs Royal Mail Yearbook 2019

Design Week

True North studio has led the design of the 2019 Royal Mail Yearbook, the annual publication that collates the year’s special stamp releases. Entitled Along These Lines, the 64-page compendium displays the 14 collections from this year, which cover topics as diverse as Star Wars, the Gruffalo, the Queen Victoria Bicentenary and Elton John, as well as one of Britain’s rarest stamps: the “2d Tyrian Plum” A “versatile line motif” “We were inspired by the id

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The Plague Of Overweight: Photographer Martha Holmes Documented The Struggle Of Obesity People In 1950s America

Design You Trust

Bulging at beach in 1949, 197-pound Dorothy Bradley self-consciously leaves locker room for swim. She covered up embarrassment by being jolly and gregarious”. Martha Holmes/Time & Life Pictures “The most serious health problem in the U.S. today is obesity.” Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? But that pronouncement about obesity’s primacy in the hierarchy of national health problems is not new.

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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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UK's Sore Thumb Studio Brings Bold Colors And Confident Typography To Mighty Fine's Packaging

The Die Line

Sore Thumb Studio Makes Snack Brand Mighty Fine Stand Out With Bold Colors And Typography. .

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Photographer Tatsuo Suzuki Captures Fascinating Black And White Images Of Daily Life In Tokyo

Design You Trust

Tatsuo Suzuki is a Japanese street photographer, living and working in Ota, Tokyo. Using long exposures and intense contrasts to capture the frenetic atmosphere of the Tokyo streets, Suzuki’s work is a prescient homage to our ever-changing urban behaviours. More: Tatsuo Suzuki, Facebook Born in 1965, Suzuki came to photography later than most. Having had a successful career in business.

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“Doug’s Cabin” by Photographer Karianne Bueno

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93-Year-Old Grandma & Her Grandson Dress-Up In Ridiculous Outfits, And It’s Brilliant

Design You Trust

This comical BFF relationship between 93-year-old Pauline Kana and her 27-year-old grandson Ross Smith is very special. It all started when more than 6 years ago, during his tenure in college, Ross began filming short videos on Vine. View this post on Instagram Forget the #10yearchallenge Granny is doing the “75 Year Challenge”, The pic on the left is her High School graduation photo 1945.

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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.