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Homebird: Ewa Smyk's beautiful hand-painted film depicts the power of self-belief

Creative Boom

For those of you who left behind a quiet hometown for the bright lights of a big city, a new hand-painted film by Ewa Smyk might resonate. Titled Homebird, the Animation is a moving story of the importance of self-belief and the power of embracing your past. In Homebird , we're introduced to a young artist called Nina, who moves to a new city. But struggling to succeed in its creative industry, she soon retreats into the rose-tinted memories of the humble village she left behind.

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How Graphic Designers Can Help You Build A Brand Identity For Your Business?

Designer Daily

Graphic designing is the art of communicating your message to your audience through visuals. Therefore, all elements like images, typography, fonts, colors together make up a brand design. Needless to say, graphic designing has the power to alter the perception of a brand. Therefore, any brand- big or small feel the need to hire a graphic designer at some stage for their business.

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Amjad Ali Talpur invites you to try and solve his puzzling portrait paintings

Creative Boom

Contemporary Pakistani artist Amjad Ali Talpur plays with composition in his puzzling portraits that aim to create a sense of movement, as well as exploring the different facets of a personality. What do Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock and Marcel Duchamp have in common? Besides being brilliant artists, they're all huge inspirations for Amjad Ali Talpur, who is attracted to how they create movement in their paintings by experimenting with form and composition.

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Educator To Watch: Genaro Solis Rivero

Graphic Design USA

Genaro Solis Rivero is an award-winning graphic designer and educator specializing in branding. He joined the Baylor University Art faculty in 2023, following five years of teaching Communication Design at Texas State.

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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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Zilan Zhao sums up the chaotic and surprising nature of life in her VR-sculpted animation

Creative Boom

London-based artist and urban wanderer Zilan Zhao has transformed her experiences living in a Western city into a disgustingly beautiful VR-sculpted animation that transforms everyday objects into curious creatures. Having lived in Asia for over 20 years, Zilan Zhao felt it was time she moved abroad in 2021. She settled in the UK's capital, and upon arrival, she was greatly shocked by southeast London, but in a good way.

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What could possibly drive positive change in the tech industry?

UX Collective

7 reasons why companies are willing to rethink their unsustainable, unethical, and wasteful products. Spoiler alert: you have a say in all of them. Let’s face it: tech needs to change. We have a myriad of problems in the digital space that affect society and the planet negatively: invasive personal data collection and trading, deceptive and weaponized AI that also uses a gargantuan amount of energy, spreading of propaganda and misinformation, addictive social media design, e-commerce design that

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Best beginners' drawing tablets: expert recommended

Creative Bloq

From size and screen, to stylus and software, our expert team take a deep dive in to the best drawing tablets for beginners, including picks from Wacom, Huion, Apple and more.

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Trapezium House: An Angular Home That Blends Modern With Brazilian Charm

Design Milk

Designed by Studio KUNZ , the Trapezium House is nestled in the small town of David Canabarro, Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil. The home seamlessly blends modern design with the charm of the Brazilian countryside across 1,830 square feet on one floor. Built on a high plateau, the structure is surrounded by araucaria trees seen above the reimagined gabled roof.

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What happened to Quark? How XPress lost the battle to InDesign

Creative Bloq

By the mid 2000s, XPress – Quark, Inc's pioneering page layout application – had gone from commanding 95 percent of the market to just 25 percent. We look into why.

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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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“Embodiment” by Artist Sue Palmer Stone

Booooooom

A series based on found objects that would otherwise be lost or abandoned by artist Sue Palmer Stone.

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2023 Shaw Contract Design Awards Best of Region Winners + Looking Ahead to 2024!

Design Milk

We’ve had the pleasure of sharing the Best of Globe Winners of Shaw Contract’s 2023 Design Awards , and now we’re turning the spotlight to shine on the 39 Best of Region Winners. Selected from more than 650 submissions and spanning 40 countries, a diverse panel of judges from around the world meticulously analyzed each project. These are the multiple winners chosen as the best of the best in each region represented: Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Canada, Greater China, India, Latin America, Mi

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What to Look For in Maintenance-Only Clients

SpeckyBoy

Web designers can spend a lot of time performing maintenance tasks. It may even be the primary service provided by some. It makes perfect sense, as booking maintenance-only clients can provide a steady source of revenue. But maintenance is a unique niche. It typically doesn’t provide the large payouts that new builds offer. Plus, a client’s needs can vary quite a bit.

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Redefining Prestige Through Contemporary Sustainable Packaging

The Dieline

Dieline is a global package design community and showcase of package design inspiration. We cover industry news, sustainable packaging news, design trends, and host our own packaging conferences, package design events, and Dieline packaging design awards.

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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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Vertex, the ultimate event for 2D and 3D artists, returns in 2024

Creative Bloq

The Vertex festival of digital art, VFX and animation is back in 2024.

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Dieline's Best Advent Calendars of 2023

The Dieline

Dieline is a global package design community and showcase of package design inspiration. We cover industry news, sustainable packaging news, design trends, and host our own packaging conferences, package design events, and Dieline packaging design awards.

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Big Brands but Make Them Gummies

The Die Line

Dieline is a global package design community and showcase of package design inspiration. We cover industry news, sustainable packaging news, design trends, and host our own packaging conferences, package design events, and Dieline packaging design awards.

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Unlock the Magic of Photo Editing: Mastering Sky Replacement for Heavenly Horizons

Graphic Design Junction

In the realm of photography, the atmosphere serves as the backdrop for our visual narratives. A scenic sunset, a turbulent weather event, or a cloudless azure expanse can significantly influence the atmosphere and ambiance of a photograph. Nonetheless, as photographers, we don’t consistently possess the privilege of capturing the ideal backdrop in each frame.

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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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A Modern & Minimalist Annual Report InDesign Brochure

We And The Color

Redefining Simplicity: Valentin Plesa’s clean annual report brochure template for Adobe InDesign. Where creativity dances hand in hand with functionality, Valentin Plesa emerges as a luminary, casting his brilliance with a modern minimalist annual report brochure template tailored for Adobe InDesign. This template, a testament to his prowess, redefines simplicity in its purest form.

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13 Essential Elements of Art that Bring Design to Life

Inkbot Design

13 Essential Elements of Art that Bring Design to Life Design surrounds us. It's in the clothes we wear, the phones we use, the packaging of our food , and the websites we visit. But what makes design compelling? Underneath the layers of colour, shape, and texture lie the essential elements of art that give design its power. Master these building blocks; you can craft designs that captivate audiences and bring ideas to life.

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Build your creative freelancer career with Freelance Fam community

Creative Bloq

The free platform could be invaluable for web designers.

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How to Get Clients for a Local Graphic Design Business

Inkbot Design

How to Get Clients for a Local Graphic Design Business As a skilled graphic designer , your ability to create eye-catching, memorable, and practical designs can be the driving force behind the success of local enterprises. Before you can transform the visual landscape of your community, you need to master the art of attracting and gaining local clients.

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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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This is the best Black Friday Adobe deal we've ever seen – get 50% off

Creative Bloq

Creative Cloud All-apps means access to Photoshop, Illustrator, Firefly and more.

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Remarkably Realistic Marine Invertebrates Made of Glass Surface at the Mystic Seaport Museum

Colossal

All photos by Joe Michael, courtesy of the Mystic Seaport Museum, shared with permission From the mid-1800s to the 1930s, father-and-son artist duo Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka crafted thousands of glass models of flora and fauna ( previously ) in exquisite, scientific detail. Sea creatures were an area of particular fascination, as delicate spines, tentacles, and frills rendered in lifelike color extend from the bodies of squid and sea anemones.

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Best monitor for graphic artists in 2023: Glorious displays to show off your work

Creative Bloq

These are the best monitors for graphic artists and designers, chosen by our experts, that you can buy from across the price spectrum.

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Through fuzzy and textural stop motion, Effie Pappa narrates the trials and tribulations of owning a small business

Its Nice That

In her signature style, the animation director journeys through the highs and lows of entrepreneurship in her heartwarming stop motion series, created for Intuit Mailchimp’s All in a Day’s Work.

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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.