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'A tall logo for a tall captain': Mucho takes an elongated approach to its 'hooked' identity for Big C Charters

Creative Boom

When you're given a chance to rebrand a company founded by and named after a former professional basketball player, you'd definitely take your design skills to new heights. Creative studio Mucho literally ran with the name Big C Charters to craft an identity that features an iconic logo with a tall hooked 'C'. Big C Charters is the premier charter service in the San Francisco Bay Area that offers hands-on fishing trips and excursions.

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50 Best Photography Business Cards For Photographers

Graphic Design Junction

Best photography business cards for photo studio, photographers and photo designers. The highly-creative business cards are fully customizable and come in a well organized Photoshop.PSD and Ai vector format. All texts are editable and colors can be easily change to whatever you may want. You can use the sample logo included or replace it with yours.

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'A space of deep reflection and deep participation': Theaster Gates on Black Chapel, this year's Serpentine Pavilion

Creative Boom

Serpentine Pavilion 2022 designed by Theaster Gates © Theaster Gates Studio. Photo: Iwan Baan. Courtesy: Serpentine. The tolling of a bell might be an unusual sound for Kensington Gardens, but it marks the arrival of a sacred cylindrical structure for this year's Serpentine Pavilion. Black Chapel by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates promises to be a place for gathering, meditation and even Japanese tea ceremonies.

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Neptune Fish: Fictional Branding by Bart De Keyzer

We And The Color

Check out this beautifully illustrated branding concept by Bart De Keyzer. Bart De Keyzer is a Dutch graphic designer and illustrator. For this fictional brand of frozen fish products, he has created a series of stylized illustrations that have been used on a range of packaging designs and marketing materials. Using illustrations instead of photographs helps to set the brand apart from the competition and supports the concept of a healthy, sustainable product.

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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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British artist Eileen Cooper's latest paintings explore the darker side of humanity

Creative Boom

Beyond the Wandering Moon, 2022. Image courtesy the artist and Huxley-Parlour. Sexuality, creativity, fertility, and relationships are all enduring themes in Eileen Cooper 's works. The British artist's latest series of paintings, however, take a darker turn by considering desire and isolation, mortality and conflict. On show at Huxley-Parlour Gallery from 22 June, the 11 new works on canvas in Somewhere or Other were painted over the last two years between London and Suffolk and continue her ap

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Sailing Club Font by Jen Wagner Co

We And The Color

Sailing Club is a brand new nostalgic serif font inspired by the typography of the 1990s and early 2000s. Jen Wagner always loves the style of the 1990s and early 2000s. Influenced by this nostalgic feeling, she has created Sailing Club, a beautifully nostalgic upper and lowercase serif typeface that works best for logos, headers, quotes, etc. The font is characterized by its tight kerning and a strong contrast between thin and thick lines.

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Creating Lottie animations with After Effects

UX Collective

Animations have become an integral part of the user interface of many modern applications. It would be difficult to imagine apps without… Continue reading on UX Collective ».

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Depicting products “you would only find in a Latinx household”, Javier Fuentes illustrates mundane and ritualistic aspects of life as an immigrant

Its Nice That

Using photography, 3D rendering and sound design, Boston-based Javier Fuentes’ project Xantro explores cultural memory through seemingly ‘everyday’ objects.

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Bold and Colorful Illustrations by Kiersten Eagan

Design You Trust

Kiersten is an illustrator and visual development artist with a passion for storytelling! She is from the forests of Canada but is currently living in Oxford, England where she loves exploring alleyways and looking for secret passageways to Narnia and Wonderland. Kiersten specializes in gouache, pencils and digital work but loves to experiment with materials and see what happens.

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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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Top 20 3D Animation Instagram Profiles to Follow

Inspiration Feed

The post Top 20 3D Animation Instagram Profiles to Follow appeared first on Inspirationfeed.

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Patterns + Textures Play in Kirkby Design x Eley Kishimoto Edition II

Design Milk

After a successful first collaboration in 2017, Kirkby Design and ‘the patron saints of print’, Eley Kishimoto , present Kirkby Design x Eley Kishimoto Edition II. While Kirkby has become known as an experimental textile brand with a love of extreme textures and contemporary colors, Eley Kishimoto brings a daring use of color and pattern to the project.

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Adorno Draws Inspiration from the Jordanian Desert for the Departures Collection

Azure Magazine

Curated by Rana Beiruti, curator and co-founder of Amman’s Design Week, Adorno ’s Departures collection brings together standout pieces from Jordanian design heavy-hitters. Understanding the sensibility of Jordanian designers to be influenced by the country’s natural landscape, of which the Wadi Rum desert is a defining feature. This shared bold and earthy backdrop and the recent focus on vernacular craft techniques to design sustainably in Jordanian design create cohesiveness through the collec

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Any Means Necessary: The Superb Dark and Macabre Illustrations of Shawn Coss

Design You Trust

According to an artist: ” Hi, if you’re looking for Shawn Cross, that’s another guy who definitely doesn’t do the art I do. At least I don’t think. But anyways, I’m a dark art artist from Ohio. I’ve been working at my craft professionally for 9 years as an independent artist as well as an artist for the widely popular webcomic series, Cyanide & Happiness.

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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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Abhishek Khedekar’s photographs toe the line between fiction and reality

Its Nice That

A keen archiver alongside his photography practice, the Delhi-based creative is captivated by the potential images have to craft new narratives and personal storylines.

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Spectacular Sisters: The Feminist-Inspired Illustrations by Aura Lewis

Design You Trust

Aura Lewis earned her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She is inspired by women’s history, fashion, social activism and culture from all over the world, as well as vintage ephemera and retro color palettes and patterns. Aura’s work is featured in books for children and adults, editorial publications, gift books, and stationery. More: Instagram.

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How to Create a Retro Logo Design (without any design software!)

Spoon Graphics

A couple of months ago I showed you how to create vintage designs the easy way using a brilliant new tool called Kittl. Today we’re going to use those powerful tools and features again to easily construct this retro logo design for Merchant Trading Company. It combines a variety of retro-style design aesthetics, such as lettering layouts, engraved line effects and angled text shapes, all of which are easily done in Kittl.

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Amazing Color Photographs Capture Sun Bathers on the Beach in Cannes, France in 1948

Design You Trust

Cannes, resort city of the French Riviera, in Alpes-Maritimes department, Provence-Alpes-Côtes d’Azur region, southeastern France. It lies southwest of Nice. h/t: vintag.es. Named for the canes of its once-reedy shore, it was probably settled by Ligurian tribesmen and occupied successively by Phocaeans, Celts (or Gauls), and Romans. In the 4th century it came under the protection of the monks of Lérins, whose abbots were lords of Cannes and who in the 10th century built fortifications under Poin

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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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Capsule

Design Everywhere

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Forest Lantern

Swiss Miss

I dig this retro inspired camp light.

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A Guide to Choosing the Right WordPress Block Plugins

SpeckyBoy

Among the top features of the WordPress Gutenberg block editor is the ability to add new blocks at any time. This allows us to implement additional types of content and functionality on an as-needed basis. This is contrary (in theory, at least) to the many page builder plugins on the market. They tend to bundle a large variety of options that are included regardless of whether you want them.

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Explore Akira’s Neo Tokyo through rare artworks by the legendary anime’s art directors

Its Nice That

A new exhibition brings together 59 original artworks including production backgrounds and concept designs used to lay the scene for the iconic 1988 film.

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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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Approaches To Problems

Swiss Miss

Pessimism: We have a problem, but we can’t solve it. Optimism: We have a problem, and we can solve it. Responsibility: We have a problem. Can I help solve it? Initiative: We have a problem. Here’s how I’m solving it. – Adam Grant.

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No card, no entry: documenting the world’s biggest collection of membership cards from the infamous acid house era

Its Nice That

Collating his personal collection and those he has gone above and beyond to source, archivist Rob Ford talks us through some of his favourite club card designs as featured in his new book Members Only.

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Maps of noise

FlowingData

Karim Douïeb, in collaboration with Possible, mapped noise in Paris, New York, and London. The color on each map represents noise level, and if you have your sound on, you can mouse over areas to hear what noise might be like. The project, Noisy Cities, is an adaptation of Douïeb’s previous map of Brussels. You get a good idea of what noise pollution is like geographically.

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UX & data analytics: 3 quick tips to help you do your data right

UX Collective

Are you doing quantitative or survey work? Check out these tips to calculate with confidence*! I happen to have a PhD. And I happen to do UX research. I don’t, however, believe you need a PhD to do data right. Here are my top 3 quick tips to help you get comfy with the kinds of quantitative (number-based) calculations you are most likely to need?—?and want!?

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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.