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Top 15 Budget Laptops for Designers & Creatives in 2021

Just Creative

While almost everyone would love to take out an Apple MacBook or a Dell Precision laptop when they start working every day, unfortunately not everyone can afford a high-priced laptop. That shouldn’t mean you can’t get a great-performing laptop at a great price. We feel like you should always be able to get a great product without having to take out a second mortgage to afford it.

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Enjoy Up to 50% off Procreate Resources and Free Lessons on How to Use Them!

Spoon Graphics

A free online Procreate event kicked off today at Design Cuts featuring live sessions with top designers and discounts of up 50% off various Procreate tools and resources. This is your chance to own some of the best Procreate brushes, drawing kits, background textures and much more at a huge discount. Throughout this week there will also be several FREE Live Sessions with some of the biggest names in the Procreate industry, so you can learn how to use your new tools for lettering, illustrating,

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Are Google’s Core Web Vitals Metrics Unreasonable?

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Google’s influence over web designers, website owners, and everyday users is undeniable. The company is hyper-aggressive in detailing what it wants to see from the first two groups in order to serve up relevant results to the third. One of their more recent efforts in this area revolves around something called “ Core Web Vitals ”. These metrics are in place to measure user experience.

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ZEO Blends In Gracefully In Any Glass Or Bar

The Die Line

An intricately illustrated chameleon greets you when you go to pick up a bottle of ZEO, an alcohol-free spirit designed and curated to provide the same sensations and euphoria as a traditional alcoholic beverage.

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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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Something™ Spaces and Nobrow bring superb illustration to every new tab through this browser plugin

Its Nice That

Creative studio Something™ has collaborated with Nobrow Press to showcase work by 25 illustrators including Noa Snir, Lisk Feng, Micah Lidberg and Yukai Du, through a downloadable Chrome extension.

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New Bristol Brewery Celebrates The Adventures of Alfred the Gorilla

The Die Line

Tom Moore's lovely illustrations for New Bristol Brewery make the natural world glow with with sci-fi allusions.

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Endless Possibilities in Teasing Typography Book

Abduzeedo

Endless Possibilities in Teasing Typography Book. abduzeedo 03.23.21 Slanted publishers, a German based publishing house for various magazines, books and other printed products presenting interesting ideas about design, art, photography, and other pleasures in life, shared a new book project: “Teasing Typography” by Juliane Nöst. . How does typography behave under extreme conditions?

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N45 Negroni Sets The Bar For Pre-Made Cocktails

The Die Line

The mismatched and eclectically positioned typography on the bottle’s label continues to evoke curiosity and a sense of playfulness.

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Morag Myerscough turns installations into jewellery in latest collaboration

Design Week

Morag Myerscough has partnered with jewellery brand Tatty Devine to produce a collection of brooches, earrings and necklaces inspired by her recent work. Established in London in 1999 by Chelsea School of Art graduates Harriet Vine and Rosie Wolfenden, Tatty Devine is a label best known for statement pieces and bold colours and shapes. For this reason, the brand says it has a “natural affiliation” with Myerscough’s work, which similarly uses bright colours and graphics in large

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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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Illustrator Spotlight: Hel Covell

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Zero Posters Vol.2 - Arabic Typographic Posters

Abduzeedo

Zero Posters Vol.2 - Arabic Typographic Posters. abduzeedo 03.23.21 Zero Posters is an experimental project from Jordan-based Designers and Tariq Yosef and Alaa Tameem. Seeking to tackle stagnation in design, the pair created Zero Posters as an outlet for exploring new techniques and styles, with a focus on explorative typography and grid systems through Arabic typographic posters.

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Zara Shoppers Are Complaining It’s Impossible To Shop Online Due To Weird Modeling Poses

Design You Trust

Both hilarious and oddly wonderful, the Zara awkwardness has become somewhat of a social media hit with an entire Awkward Zara Instagram account dedicated to collecting and making fun at the weirdest Zara modeling pics out there. So let’s see what the fashion detectives have dug up…. More: Instagram h/t: sadanduseless.

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Flying Hotels, a new series of surreal art by Matthias Jung

Abduzeedo

Flying Hotels, a new series of surreal art by Matthias Jung. ibby 03.23.21 We're delighted to introduce Flying Hotels, a new series of surreal art by Matthias Jung. Jung has held a fascination for collages since childhood beginning in the photo lab of his father. With a simple pair of scissors and glue, he was inspired to create his first fantastic buildings and has been doing so ever since.

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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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Here’s How People From The Past Imagined The Future

Design You Trust

An Artists Depiction Of The Future, Painted In 1930. Let’s face it – most of us would like to see what the future holds. And while that’s not really possible, it did not stop some people in the past from trying – often with some pretty optimistic results. When it comes to predictions of the future, it’s a hit-or-miss situation – while some people actually managed to predict it rather accurately, many of them look pretty hilarious today.

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What is love and where does it come from? Nate Palmer asks these questions in his thoughtful photography practice

Its Nice That

After picking up a camera at the age of 12, the photographer has since built a portfolio lensing topics of Black fatherhood, gentrification and displacement.

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Budapest in the 1980s Through Fascinating Photos

Design You Trust

From the 1960s to the late 1980s Hungary was often satirically referred to as “the happiest barrack” within the Eastern bloc, and much of the wartime damage to the city was finally repaired. More: Flickr h/t: vintag.es. In the early 1970s, Budapest Metro’s east–west M2 line was first opened, followed by the M3 line in 1976. In 1987, Buda Castle and the banks of the Danube were included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.

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Viable — Wellness Supplement Branding & Packaging Design

Abduzeedo

Viable — Wellness Supplement Branding & Packaging Design. abduzeedo 03.23.21 Julia Miller shared a branding and packaging design project for Viable, a brand that produces high tech innovative supplements. Viable supplements are made from natural ingredients with the help of innovative technologies. They are used to support healthy body composition. The logotype and mark are intentionally separated through the corporate brand identity.

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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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Meet the Winner of the 2021 SEGD Student Scholarship Competition

SEGD Blog

Read Time: 2 minutes. An important part of SEGD’s mission is to educate, connect and inspire our community of designers, including students who are just beginning their journeys within the fields of design. SEGD is committed to fostering the growth of this next generation as they prepare to enter into and propel the profession forward. To help support and encourage them, SEGD developed the SEGD Student Scholarship in Graduate Exhibition & Experience Design at FIT.

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7-Eleven in Sweden has created a limited edition pyjama range

Creative Review

Created by ad agency Åkestam Holst, the pyjamas come in two sizes – seven and eleven (see what they’ve done there?), which equate to medium and large. With many parts of Europe still in lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic and working from home, branded pyjamas make perfect sense for today’s world, as does the option for an all-day breakfast.

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Jax Coco Takes The Beverage Industry By Tropical Storm

The Die Line

Given the straightforward, natural ingredients and flavors available, there is little to be said that is not already denoted by the elegant label’s design.

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My breakthrough moment: Simon Buckley

Creative Review

“I wanted to be Ultravox, but sometimes I worry I've ended up like Joe Dolce." Simon Buckley's photograph of Manchester in the rain became a viral sensation in 2019. He explains what happened next. The post My breakthrough moment: Simon Buckley appeared first on Creative Review.

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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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The Wound: JR’s New Anamorphic Artwork Appears to Carve Out the Facade of Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi

Colossal

“La Ferita” (2021), 28 x 33 meters, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. Image courtesy of Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, shared with permission. French artist JR unveiled an imposing artwork at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence last week that mimics a massive gash in the institution’s Renaissance-era facade. Spanning 28 x 33 meters, “La Ferita,” or “The Wound,” is an anamorphic collage that appears to reveal the iconic artworks housed inside the building, in addition to a

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Nicolai Fuglsig directs dynamic new Ford ad

Creative Review

While the target market for the ad is quite specific – it is aimed at businesses who run fleets of vans – it’s an absorbing watch as a series of red vans take the role of circulating blood that is keeping the ‘beating heart’ of business alive. Behind the successful functioning of the system, according to the ad, is FordLiive, a new service to help identify issues with vans that might result in downtime – apparently the highest cost for running a fleet of vehic

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MaĂĽa Brings You The Best Of Both Chocolates

The Die Line

Designers created a textile pattern that would serve as the label’s main image and would also be pressed on the chocolate itself.

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Smooth Curves and Negative Space Complete Elegant Wooden Sculptures by Ariele Alasko

Colossal

All images © Ariele Alasko, shared with permission. From hunks of beechwood or maple, artist Ariele Alasko carves sculptural works that take the shape of smooth curves, ruffles, and squiggled lines. The elegant pieces play with contrast and negative space and are assembled into abstract compositions, whether as a smaller wall object or expansive mobile-style suspension.

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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.