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Pentagram's heartwarming identity for a charity that helps pets and their people

Creative Boom

Marina Willer and her team at Pentagram are behind a super cute new identity for leading pet charity Woodgreen that has been designed to reflect the charity's special mission: "to help pets and their people". Established in North London in 1924, Woodgreen provides a safe haven for vulnerable pets in need of urgent care or a loving new home and offers expert advice and hands-on support to owners of pets, not only dogs and cats but also a range of domestic animals including rodents and chickens.

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The Art Gallery of New South Wales by Mucho

BP&O

The Art Gallery of New South Wales, founded in 1872 as the New South Wales Academy of Art, suffered from a fragmented brand architecture. Addressing this through a rationalised and simplified system, and reinforcing the master brand across all Gallery collateral became a central part of developing of a new brand identity which would support a repositioning strategy that moved.

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'I like to focus on the quiet things': Anna Roberts on her dreamy, pastel-tinted depictions of everyday objects

Creative Boom

© Anna Roberts. After a brief hiatus, the Yorkshire-based artist is back to the drawing board, creating ethereal and realistic representations of fruit, bags and household objects. When asked what she hopes to achieve from her illustrations, Anna Roberts states that it's a visceral reaction she's after. "Hopefully, the viewer will experience the beauty I feel when creating the work," she explains.

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Selected Poster Illustrations by Justyna Fr?ckiewicz

We And The Color

Check out some amazing posters illustrated by Justyna Fr?ckiewicz. Justyna Fr?ckiewicz is a freelance illustrator who lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. Her body of work contains a wide range of various poster illustrations. A handpicked selection of these artworks can be seen below. For more, please visit Justyna Fr?ckiewicz’s website or follow her on Behance.

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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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Illustrator Federica Del Proposto drew these characterful portraits in just ten minutes

Creative Boom

Following an injury in 2021, award-winning Italian illustrator Federica Del Proposto was advised to change her art style. While she recovered, her ability to draw was severely reduced, but she made the most of her limited time by creating these clean, characterful portraits in just ten minutes. It's a nightmare that every artist dreads. One day you wake up and realise that your body cannot function like it used to, and your ability to draw is impacted.

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Getting Started with Fullstack Web Development

HONGKIAT

These days, modern full stack development is very popular in both small agencies and larger companies with a dedicated technical team. Full stack web engineers work on an entire web stack of technologies including frontend, backend , and server management. Many people argue that full stack only leads to being a "jack of all trades, master of none". From a certain point of view this may be true, however skillset is only as important as what can be accomplished with it.

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15 Best Mockup Bundles For Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

The best mockup bundles from Creative market. Includes everything you’ll ever need for your design mockup needs! Each bundle constantly updated with new products! The mockup bundles are available in discounted prices, you can save upto 70% to 50% off the regular price. Every designers must have it! Every bundle have high-quality, professional mockups and perspective scenes to make your design work so much easier!

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Austin Technology Events That Need Adding to Your Calendar Now

Canny

ATX is known as a hotbed for innovation and creativity, with Austin technology events being one of the best ways to stay ahead of the curve. Sure, hundreds of these events take place all over the States, but there’s just something about Austin that attracts some of the best minds and startups in the ever-expanding tech market. You need only attend one or two local networking events geared towards technology startups to see that.

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Meet Tim Jacobus, the Illustrator Whose Campy Goosebumps Covers Defined ’90s Horror

Eye on Design

“So, what are you working on, Tim?”. It was the early ’90s, and the question was polite, run-of-the-mill banter at a friend’s dinner party. . “Some kid’s series,” Tim Jacobus replied. “You’ve probably never heard of it.”. And why should they have? Jacobus was a career book cover illustrator. Commissions came and went. No one was really expecting all that much from this particular launch; the publisher said they’d assign a couple covers to Jacobus, but promised they’d give him something else if i

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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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The 20 Best Logo Templates for Travel & Vacations

SpeckyBoy

Show your audience that the mountains are calling, and they must go. It doesn’t take much convincing to get us all packed up and ready to go on an adventure. The same goes for most people googling “where to travel next” every day before they pick the right place. And, of course – before they pick the right agency or company to take them along on an adventure.

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Gjorgji Despodov's book is a must-read for taking mass consumerism out of graphic design

Its Nice That

“My creative approach to design is to create a strong impression of the external form with an implied narrative,” says the North Macedonia-based multidisciplinary designer.

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Reallusion releases its ActorCore Library for NVIDIA Omniverse

Creative Bloq

Integrating 3D character and mocap animation collection with NVIDIA’s collaboration platform and asset store to simplify crowd generation for business visualisation.

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Marie Larrivé’s atmospheric illustrations are sure to induce a serious case of wanderlust

Its Nice That

Alongside her peaceful and pleasing scenes, the Paris-based illustrator and animator’s recent short film Noir Soleil proves there to be much more beneath her glistening seas and pleasing sun sets….

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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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Narwal T10 Is a Smart, Friendly + Quiet Robot That Also Mops Floors

Design Milk

With their bulbous heads and long unicorn tusks, the narwhal is wrapped in a mythos of mystery and wonder. Dubbed the unicorns of the sea, these marine creatures must navigate an ever-changing obstacle course of ice floating across frigid waters to survive the extreme environments the animals call home. Fortunately for us, its analogous counterpart in name, shape, and function – a robotic vacuum known as Narwal (minus the “h”) – shares the marine mammal’s skill of navigation and water-faring abi

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Tracy Chahwan on making the visuals for all the best “strictly-vinyl” parties in Beirut

Its Nice That

The Lebanese cartoonist, storyteller and illustrator discusses her creative journey from being deeply involved in the Beirut music scene to being uprooted to America during the pandemic.

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Figueroa Mountain Brewing Reveals Updated Packaging Inspired By Santa Barbara's Natural Beauty

The Dieline

Figueroa has unveiled a new brand identity from Blindtiger Design that builds on the brewery's love for the beautiful California central coast.

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Best Prototyping Tools For UI And UX Designers

Template Monster

Great websites and apps that garner adoration from their users are always a result of intensive mind-mapping, hours of brainstorming, and a lot of UI elements imparted by respective professionals. The process is complicated and involves a team of project managers and designers who keep the co-ordination going. An integral process of a website/app designing is PROTOTYPING.

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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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Ann Dudrow (1943–2022) A Fond Remembrance

SEGD Blog

Read Time: 2 minutes Environmental graphics pioneer and SEGD Fellow Ann Dudrow passed away April 2, 2022, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease and cancer. Ann was an early practitioner of graphic design for architecture and had a forty-plus year career bringing colorful, placemaking graphics to retail environments around the world. Ann was a passionate ambassador for integrating artistic graphics, color and style into shopping environments and gathering places.

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If you think a petri dish-inspired drink identity sounds gross, Bedow will prove you wrong

Its Nice That

The Stockholm-based studio has crafted branding full of bacteria, litmus test-looking textures and, naturally, delicious fruit for Swee Kombucha.

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In ‘Eyes on the Street,’ Photographer Jamel Shabazz Identifies the Boundless Culture of New York City’s Outer Boroughs

Colossal

“Man and dog,” Lower East Side, Manhattan (1980), C-print, 16 x 20 inches. All images courtesy of the artist, shared with permission. One of New York City’s most discerning and essential documentarians, photographer Jamel Shabazz has built a career around capturing the unique visual lexicon of the outer boroughs. His images are deeply empathetic and resolute in the value of all life regardless of race, class, and social status.

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Choosing Genre Of Photography

Creative Photo Editing Ideas

Photography professionals use definite and recognizable genres to present the images of the different subjects of photography. One impressive quality of the professional photographer. That he knows his best genre of photography and therefore only practices his profession in that particular genre. Still, on the contrary, a beginner or novice in photography does not know about his genre.

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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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Libby Brand Identity

Mindsparkle Mag

Libby is easy to drink, fun to enjoy, and fits perfectly into our everyday lives. As such, their design challenges the norms of sparkling wine by creating something approachable, lighthearted, and playful with quality and premium cues. To communicate its playful, energetic branding, Libby hired a brand and packaging design agency, Stranger and Stranger and Progress Labs for the website execution.

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Twigz Bold Packaging Reflects The Even Bolder Pretzel Flavors

The Dieline

Crew Food & Beverage Marketing Partners designed Twigz's premium packaging, and with vibrant colors and confetti-inspired pretzel imagery, the bags come to life.

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Illustration for Iyashi x Ramen Hero Mascot

Abduzeedo

Illustration for Iyashi x Ramen Hero Mascot. abduzeedo 0407—22 Juan Molinet shared an illustration project for Iyashi San Francisco. Juan was commissioned to create a mascot for Ramen Hero, a high quality and authentic Japanese ramen that’s convenient, easy-to-make and guaranteed to bring friends and family together. His name is Yama, and is the valiant hero that gets honkaku style ramen straight to your door.

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Eyes Here

Mindsparkle Mag

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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.