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Download Seamless Vector Patterns from Adobe Stock

We And The Color

Available for download on Adobe Stock, this amazing collection of seamless vector patterns includes everything you need to create eye-catching backgrounds in no time. Graphic designer and Adobe Stock contributor @Archiwiz created this amazing collection of seamless vector patterns. Organized in various sets, the collection includes a wide range of different styles.

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Welcome to the Dribbble Family, Fontspring!

Creative Market

Earlier today, Dribbble Holdings, Creative Market’s parent company , announced the acquisition of Fontspring —a leading font marketplace that is synonymous with exceptional foundries and worry-free licensing. Like Fontspring, we’ve been on a mission to empower creators and make great design accessible to all. For years, Creative Market has shared Fontspring’s commitment to independent foundries and respect for craftsmanship.

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Sleepwa[l]king Concept for 2022 by YummyColors

Trendland

Words TL Team. Copenhagen & New York creative studio YummyColours launches vol 2.0 of Concept of the Year—a collection of work by 72 international creators, from architects and chefs, to scientists and technologists, activists and photographers —a multidisciplinary inspiration and a collective experience.

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Top 10: Product Packaging

Mindsparkle Mag

The serotonin produced when receiving a text or email that says ‘your order has arrived’ is countless. So, today we wanted to celebrate that feeling in its maximum expression. Here to you Top 10: Product Packaging. The delivery formats have drastically diversified according to each business's needs. Our design-centered community, which is into detail, praises the hard work on high-end product design and experience.

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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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Colour and vibrancy define Victor Eddeh’s attention-grabbing photography

Its Nice That

Looking to the world of fashion for inspiration, the Lagos-based photographer wants to shed light on “rejected” fashion and those who have been overlooked.

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10 Modern Website Design Trends That Drive Engagement

Creative Market

In this day and age, there’s almost no question why entrepreneurs must take their businesses to the internet. An online presence, particularly a website, can ensure a brand’s visibility and relevance to its target audience, especially in today’s landscape. It’s true, creating and running your own website requires more than setting up shop and advertising on social media, which is an equally great way to promote your business online.

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How Passion Can Help (Or Hurt) a Design Project

SpeckyBoy

Designers love to speak about passion. And, in such a creative line of work, it seems natural that this would be a driving force behind what we do. Not to mention that virtually every aspect of design can elicit strong feelings among both creators and consumers. However, passion can be a double-edged sword. On one side, it spurs creativity and can lead to outstanding results.

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Platia, a Typeface with Victorian Roots, Soft Details, and Modern Refinement

Eye on Design

Name: Platia. Designer: Toshi Omagari. Foundry: Omega Type Foundry. Release date: December 2021. Back Story: Omagari has a long-standing fondness for the Hellenic Wide genre of typefaces (especially those seen in antique ephemera such as booklets, maps, and tickets). Hellenic Wide is a subcategory of wide, low-contrast 19th-century slab serif typefaces, originally available from several foundries under a variety of names: Antique Extended, Ionic Expanded, and Breite Jonisch (Wide Ionic in German

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Ejatu Shaw’s emotive and relatable photography tells stories of Black love, family and joy

Its Nice That

The London-based visual artist talks us through her work, her process and her commission from the Adobe Stock Artist Development Fund, where representation, authenticity and relatability take centre stage.

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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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February 2022 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Colossal

Image © SAKO Architects. Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you’d like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at hello@colossal.art. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Open Calls. Project Room 2022-2023 Exhibition at Locust Projects.

Artist 101
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Black & Abroad’s new campaign documents Black cultural data across the US

Creative Review

Creative data-focused ad agency Performance Art has created a digital map that visualises Black cultural data in the US for travel and lifestyle company Black & Abroad. Dubbed the Black Elevation Map, the dynamic, searchable elevation map of the United States brings to life cultural data such as historical markers, Black-owned businesses, Black population data and social media activity as points of interest.

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Spectacular Winning Images of The Global SinoPhoto Awards

Design You Trust

Overall winner. Li Huaifeng: Dancing Dreams of a Mountain Girl, Shanxi 2020. An image titled The Dancing Dreams of a Mountain Girl, depicting a young mountain girl dancing for her grandmother in a village in China, is the overall winner of an international photo competition celebrating Chinese culture. The Global SinoPhoto awards invited photographers to tell Chinese stories, imagining, interpreting and inspiring connections between Chinese culture and the rest of the world.

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Karolina Wojtas celebrates the messy magic of sibling rivalries

Creative Review

All images: We Can’t Live – Without Each Other, 2019. Courtesy Fotogalleri Vasli Souza. If you’ve got a sibling, there’s a good chance you’ll have experienced that relationship as a rivalry. You might even have your own tales from childhood, later evolving into urban legends that still have conflicting testimonies all these years later.

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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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Everyone is a subscription: How content creation is becoming a full-time job for designers

UX Collective

State of UX 2022 Everyone is a subscription: How content creation is becoming a full-time job for designers Illustrations by Manoel do Amaral In 2021 many social media platforms shifted to offer subscription tools for their creators. Confronted with low minimum wages, decreased job security, and 9 to 5 jobs that offer little in the way of flexibility, many people have turned to social media platforms for a new source of income.

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Pantone Color Institute + Discover Puerto Rico Collaborate on "Puerto Rico Sunshine"

Abduzeedo

Pantone Color Institute + Discover Puerto Rico Collaborate on "Puerto Rico Sunshine". ibby 0201—22 Here comes the sun dee dee dee dee. We're beaming over the latest collaboration between the Pantone Color Institute and Discover Puerto Rico that celebrates the radiant sunbeams throughout the day across the Island of Puerto Rico. Inspired by the hue of the Puerto Rican sunlight, this new color will be brought to life through a series of partnerships kicking-off with a limited-edition wall paint by

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The Importance for Web Designers of Keeping Target Audience in Mind

SpyreStudios

Freelance web designers often skip this crucial step in growing their clientele and miss the mark on client projects because of it: defining and keeping the target audience at the forefront of everything they do. Not only is it unproductive, but it’s also naive to think you or your clients can be everything to everybody. Additionally, it’s incredibly challenging to design a website that converts for all people who love all things.

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Packhelp x Marina Veziko

Mindsparkle Mag

The serotonin produced when we receive a text or email that says ‘your order has arriver’ is countless. Something similar happens to us with Marina Veziko ‘s work for Packhelp. “What’s in the Box” – A series of typographic mailer boxes designed by Marina Veziko for Packhelp, a sustainable online supplier for custom-made packaging solutions.

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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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Swiss Legacy | Swiss Legacy, by the initiative of Art Director Xavier Encinas, is a blog focused on typography, graphic design and inspirational matte #calendar #wallpaper

Designspiration

Swiss Legacy | Swiss Legacy, by the initiative of Art Director Xavier Encinas, is a blog focused on typography, graphic design and inspirational matte #calendar #wallpaper

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Construction Reimagines Ordinary Site Components as Furniture

Design Milk

The Construction furniture series, designed by Beomseok Chae , reminds us that architecture and construction are related, but far from the same. The components of construction are designs in and of themselves, but because they’re so familiar to us they’re easily passed by. Construction is a “microscopic observation of architecture” inspired by the technology and structures behind the construction process, not the completed building.

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Price testing: a guide to inject your design perspective into the conversation

UX Collective

Current approaches to testing price are often not grounded in how customers think, feel, and behave – leading to false precision, pushing away your customers, and leaving revenue on the table. Enter Design. @angelekamp The ability to determine the optimal price for a product or service is one of the most critical steps in any development or commercialisation process.

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Locked Down Looking Up

Swiss Miss

Doris Mitsch’s Locked Down Looking Up series is pure delight. It started as a series of images made over time from a fixed point—outside her front door—during the San Francisco Bay Area’s lockdown to slow the spread of Covid-19. Multiple shots were combined to show the flight trails of birds, insects, and bats. While most everything in her life came to a standstill, up in the air, there was still a lot going on.

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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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wedge lever upton branding belts packaging type typography beautiful deauty design inspiration designblog mindsparklemag black white minimal

Designspiration

wedge lever upton branding belts packaging type typography beautiful deauty design inspiration designblog mindsparklemag black white minimal

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40 years of building businesses — Illustration

Abduzeedo

40 years of building businesses — Illustration. abduzeedo 0201—22 Patswerk shared a set of illustrations for Haydock Finance, a specialist finance company based in the UK which provides creative funding solutions for all kinds of companies.” We created this typographic piece to celebrate their 40th anniversary” — describes Patswerk. Credits. Concept: Wash.

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Enchanting Photos Frame Meandering Industrial Relics Along Taipei’s Jianqing Historic Trail

Colossal

All images © Masuki Rina, shared with permission. The Taipingshan National Forest Recreation Area in northern Yilan is one of Taipei’s prized ecological destinations for its mist-covered scenery and lush vegetation that thrives in the dewy environment. It’s also home to Jianqing Historic Trail, a winding pathway that follows abandoned sections of railways and crumbling trestles that are relics of the region’s past as a major logging hub.

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NFT Drop — STARKADE NFTs and Tabletop Game

Abduzeedo

NFT Drop — STARKADE NFTs and Tabletop Game. AoiroStudio 0201—22 TODAY IS THE DAY! Our good friend Signalnoise and his rad team are releasing their anticipated NFT drop titled 'STARKADE' on February 1st around 10PM CET. With 7000 NFTs with a potential 60m combinations, STARKADE will be also releasing a tabletop game where you can take on your friends and family with our action-packed card game, set to be released in 2022.

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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.