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Mimi Shodeinde’s Miminat Designs Opens a Jewel Box Space in London

Design Milk

For more than two years Mimi Shodeinde searched for the perfect building for her studio, Miminat Designs. The British-Nigerian artist and designer envisioned a showroom and exhibition space where she could highlight her existing work and focus on her next collections. “I didn’t want it to be like a typical gallery or too heavily curated,” says Shodeinde.

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40+ Best Comic Book Style Photoshop Actions (+ Pop Art Actions)

Design Shack

Drawing comic book-style pop art can be quite a difficult process, even for experienced graphic designers. But that’s okay because as a designer you don’t have to be good at everything. You just need to work smarter and find ways to get things done faster. Like learning to use Photoshop actions. With Photoshop comic book effects and pop art actions, you can instantly give your graphics, photos, and artworks a comic book look and feel.

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Paola Lenti Brings Playful Design to Pint-Sized Proportions

Design Milk

Oh, to be a kid living in today’s golden age of design. While child-sized furniture is nothing new, today’s little ones are lucky to have modern design at their fingertips, with brands and designers devoting entire collections specifically for their world. Italian furniture brand Paola Lenti’s Kids Collection is a prime example – a vibrant and playful line that brings the brand’s signature craftsmanship to pint-sized proportions.

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Zany video games that look like 1930s Mickey Mouse are a trend I didn't see coming

Creative Bloq

Rubber hose animation games are becoming a trend in 2025.

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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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Cornice Stacking Stools Echo the Beauty of Japanese Shrines

Design Milk

Stools are multifunctional objects, ideal for small spaces and adaptable as extra seating, a side table, or even a plant stand. But when they come in multiples and can’t be stacked? That’s when they become more of a burden than a solution. Tokyo-based designer Nao Iwamatsu noticed this gap in the modern furniture market: a stackable stool that could quietly fit into refined spaces.

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Did Apple abandon its own design heuristics & accessibility principles?

UX Collective

At WWDC 2025, Apple introduced Liquid Glass and broke key design rules and principles. Will it hurt usability and accessibility? For years, Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) was a bible for software designers. It was built on solid design principles and usability heuristics — like Jakob Nielsen’s heuristics and rules for clarity, consistency, and feedback.

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“A dusting of love”: Matt Stetson creates mini portals to an almost utopian vision of the past

Its Nice That

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Explore Summer Moodboards, Mockups, and More in Our New Drop

Creative Market

This month’s Drop brings an irresistible mix of fonts, illustrations, templates, and mockups to spark your next creative breakthrough. Whether crafting a campaign, refreshing your brand, or experimenting with something new, these handpicked tools help you bring your vision to life. From dreamy Procreate brushes and retro patterns to pitch decks, wireframes, and sticker sets, Drop 41 covers every corner of your creative workflow.

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The Dreamers: IED students open up a visual conversation about the hopes and realities of youth

Its Nice That

Presented at Exposed Torino Foto Festival, IED’s latest photography initiative is a generational portrait built through collaboration, vulnerability and poetic reflection.

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The InDesign Brand Guidelines Brochure: Your Blueprint for a Powerful Brand Identity

We And The Color

When you look at a successful brand, you can see how they maintain such perfect consistency. From their website and social media to their packaging and business cards, everything feels connected, unified, and intentional. What’s their secret? The answer is often a meticulously crafted brand guidelines document. Creating one from scratch can be a monumental task.

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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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Monetising Unused Assets: Turn Them Into (Repeatable) Profit

Inkbot Design

📖 Reading Time: 5 minutes 🏷️ Categories: Design, Branding, Marketing 📅 Published: [DATE] Monetising Unused Assets: Turn Them Into (Repeatable) Profit Did you know you might be sitting on a potential income source without realising it? Graphic designers likely have a folder of abandoned, rejected, and incomplete assets. That could include anything from illustrations to logos, templates, or wireframes.

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Skate culture and street art steers graphic designer and illustrator Antoine Laurent

Its Nice That

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Mega Menus Revisited: UX Best Practices in 2025

Design Shack

Navigation is one of the first things users interact with on a website, and when it’s done well, they barely even notice it. In 2025, mega menus continue to play a big role in navigation design for organizing content-heavy websites, but they’ve evolved. Today’s mega menus are cleaner, smarter, and more mobile-friendly than ever before. If your site has lots of pages or product categories, a mega menu might just be your best option.

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TAN Flower Market Font by TanType

We And The Color

Why Designers Are Suddenly Obsessed With TanType’s Flower Market Typeface. The TAN Flower Market font is having that special effect on designers everywhere. This typeface, designed by the talented folks at TanType, seems to have captured a unique energy that feels both nostalgic and incredibly modern. But what is it about this particular font that makes it so compelling?

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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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A19: Building a Bold Startup Branding and Visual Identity

Abduzeedo

A19: Building a Bold Startup Branding and Visual Identity abduzeedo 06/11 — 2025 Explore the striking branding and visual identity of A19 Startup House. Discover how Tradition, Science, and Energy shaped this unique project. Hey, creative folks! We've all seen projects that just click. You know, those designs that blend concept, execution, and purpose seamlessly.

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In ‘Pu$h Thru,’ Yvette Mayorga Examines Latinx Experience Through Rococo Maximalism

Colossal

Known for her delectable, frilly, occasionally ominous acrylic paintings made with bakery tools, Yvette Mayorga ( previously ) nods to memories of her mother working as a baker and references Baroque and Rococo art while critically examining family, community, and notions of prosperity. Mayorga’s pieces are “dominated by shades of pink to critically examine the American Dream and the Latinx experience, often borrowing compositions from personal and family photos and art history,

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Must-Have Branding Tools for Freelancers Who Do It All

Inkbot Design

📖 Reading Time: 5 minutes 🏷️ Categories: Design, Branding, Marketing 📅 Published: [DATE] Must-Have Branding Tools for Freelancers Who Do It All Freelancers wear many hats and juggle client work, outreach, finance, and branding alone. Branding becomes more than design in a space where first impressions are everything. It reflects your credibility.

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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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SOHO Creative Group

Mindsparkle Mag

We are an agency of creatives and developers, in the fields of Branding, UX / UI, Web Design & Development. Founded and based in Berlin, we work with clients around Europe and globally. The post SOHO Creative Group appeared first on Mindsparkle Mag.

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Free Font Of The Day – Babynotes

Design Beep

This is our daily ” Free Font Of The Day ” post. Everyday we find and share a free font for designers. Babynotes stands as an excellent example of how modern typography can successfully balance playfulness with functionality. Its handdrawn aesthetic, technical versatility, and broad applicability make it a valuable addition to any designer’s toolkit.

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How The Nike Swoosh Logo Became a Global Icon

We And The Color

The Nike Swoosh: Explore How a $35 Design Became one of the World’s Most Powerful Symbols It’s everywhere. You see it on the shoes of marathon runners, the jerseys of basketball legends, and the caps of people walking down your street. The Nike Swoosh logo is a symbol so simple, yet it carries an immense weight of meaning. This single, fluid mark is arguably the most recognized corporate logo on the planet.

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"It’s a distinctly human craving”: What is experiential design, the need-to-know trend of the moment?

Creative Bloq

Alphabetical’s creative partner Tommy Taylor discusses the key to immersing your audience.

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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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Richter – Leander Herzog & Richard Nadler

Creative Applications

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ChatGPT's outage showed me how much the world's changed for creatives

Creative Bloq

What to do when your digital muse goes dark?

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Mind the Board: Bringing skate culture underground with a balancing act on the tube

Creative Boom

With sharp insight and a DIY attitude, creatives Diksha (Dee) Yadav and Liz Eisen turned a Tube carriage into a moving skate lesson, launching a campaign for Skate Hub that playfully challenges who gets to be called a skater. Skateboarding might conjure images of sun-drenched halfpipes or graffiti-splashed underpasses, but not the wobbly carriages of the Victoria Line – until now.

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25 HTML5 Games to Kill Time in 2025

Design Beep

HTML5 games have revolutionized the way we think about browser-based entertainment, offering developers and players alike a seamless gaming experience that works across virtually any device with a web browser. These interactive experiences represent a significant leap forward from the Flash-based games of yesteryear, providing both creators and users with unprecedented flexibility and accessibility.

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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.

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Just a designer now: Shopify dropped UX as a title

UX Collective

Sitemap Sign up Sign in Medium Logo Write Sign up Sign in UX Collective · Follow publication We believe designers are thinkers as much as they are makers. [link] Follow publication Member-only story Just a designer now: Shopify dropped UX as a title Shopify has removed UX from their titles, but at what cost to user-centred design? Ian Batterbee Follow 4 min read · 11 hours ago -- 2 Share Shopify drops “UX“ from design titles: Simplification or a sidelining of craft?

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"I find Superman very hard to draw" – legendary artists reveal why the Man of Steel is so difficult to get right

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Toronto’s St. Lawrence Market is a Palace for People — and Cars

Azure Magazine

Walking east from Union Station, the new St. Lawrence Market makes a heroic entrance. As Front Street turns north, a pair of curved green roofs and crisp glass walls accented by vivid orange fins frame an uncharacteristically romantic downtown Toronto vista. Across the street, the handsome 1902 market building bookends the vista, with an eclectic urban backdrop that mingles some of the city’s oldest buildings with construction cranes and blue-glass towers.

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Girl Pictures by Justine Kurland — Thisispaper

This is Paper

Justine Kurland’s Girl Pictures captures teenage girls staging their own myths—blurring the line between freedom, rebellion, and collective imagination in the American margins.

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Web Design for All: Accessibility, Inclusivity and Beyond

Speaker: Eden Spivak, Design Expert and Editor at Wix & Nir Horesh, Accessibility Lead and Senior Product Manager at Wix

When we design products or websites for people like ourselves, there are many others who are, as a result, left out. From visually impaired users who rely on assistive technology, to people with a temporary injury such as a broken arm, tech users are forever diverse and beautifully unique. The products we design can, and should, reflect the extremely wide range of human experiences and needs.