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JULY 20, 2025

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We And The Color

JULY 20, 2025

The central paradox of a design career is the immense amount of non-creative work required to produce creative outcomes. The hours spent on repetitive, mechanical tasks—exporting assets, resizing layouts, renaming files, or applying consistent edits—are hours stolen directly from strategic thinking, experimentation, and genuine innovation. This is the friction that slows down projects and dulls inspiration.

Adobe

SpeckyBoy

JULY 20, 2025

Designers, photographers, and digital artists spend many hours working in Photoshop, whether designing, editing photos, or creating digital art. As a professional in these fields, you may receive photos from clients that need touch-ups or have to edit your own photographs. In both cases, Photoshop actions can be extremely useful for streamlining repetitive tasks and achieving a specific, and often stunning, photo effect.

Photoshop

Design Beep

JULY 20, 2025

Procreate monoline brushes are essential tools for digital artists looking to create clean, consistent lines in their artwork. Whether you’re designing hand lettering, creating illustrations, or crafting detailed typography, these specialized brushes deliver smooth, uniform strokes that maintain the same thickness throughout your work. The beauty of procreate monoline brushes lies in their versatility – they’re perfect for everything from minimalist line art to complex calligraphy pr

Arts and Crafts

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

Graphic Design

Creative Boom

JULY 20, 2025

The Dutch creative returns with a new book exploring Istanbul's symbiotic relationship with its cherished cats through evocative images, lyrical haiku, and centuries of history. It was the natural next step. After photographing feline companions in Hong Kong and China, Dutch photographer Marcel Heijnen turned his lens to the cat capital of the world: Istanbul.

Animation

Design Beep

JULY 20, 2025

Best Samurai Fonts Collection Samurai font designs capture the essence of ancient Japanese warrior culture and bring an authentic touch to modern typography. Whether you’re creating a martial arts poster, designing a video game interface, or developing a brand identity with Japanese influence, the right samurai font can transform your project.

Fonts

Design Beep

JULY 20, 2025

Devanagari fonts are essential for creating visually striking and culturally resonant designs. Whether you’re working on branding, invitations, digital media, or print materials, the right Devanagari font can enhance readability while adding a touch of tradition or modernity. As the script used for Bollywoord fonts , Hindi fonts , Marathi fonts , Sanskrit, and other Indian languages, Devanagari fonts play a crucial role in preserving linguistic heritage while adapting to contemporary desig

Fonts

Design Week

JULY 20, 2025

Firecactus has redesigned Portuguese rice brand Oriente to elevate its positioning and market share. Novarroz, a family-owned rice company founded in Portugal in the 1930s, has five brands and sells to 64 countries. Chief marketing and sales officer Carlos Botelho joined the company to expand Novarroz’s markets. As part of these growth plans, he is redesigning each brand, and Oriente is the latest to relaunch.

Brand

Design Beep

JULY 20, 2025

Roman fonts represent the pinnacle of classical typography, drawing inspiration from the majestic inscriptions carved into ancient Roman monuments and architectural marvels. These timeless typefaces embody the grandeur and sophistication of the Roman Empire, making them perfect for projects that demand elegance, authority, and historical gravitas. Whether you’re designing a luxury brand identity , creating editorial layouts, or crafting wedding invitations, Roman fonts offer unparalleled v

Fonts

Design Week

JULY 20, 2025

A new exhibition aims to tell the story of Japanese graphic design in a broader and more inclusive way than ever before. Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875–1975 has just opened in Tokyo, and is curated by American designer and writer Ian Lynam. He moved to Japan in 2005 to set up his own studio and became fascinated by the visual design history of his adopted home.

Graphic Design

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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.

Publishing

Design Beep

JULY 20, 2025

Beautiful Flower Fonts Flower fonts bring natural beauty and organic elegance to any design project. These specially crafted typefaces incorporate floral elements, botanical motifs, and nature-inspired decorations that transform ordinary text into blooming works of art. Whether you’re designing wedding invitations, creating botanical logos, or crafting spring marketing materials, flower fonts offer the perfect blend of typography and natural aesthetics.

Fonts

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JULY 20, 2025

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Communication Arts

JULY 20, 2025

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Design Beep

JULY 20, 2025

Horror movie fonts are the secret weapon behind every spine-tingling poster, haunting book cover, and blood-curdling game title. These carefully crafted typefaces don’t just display text—they invoke fear, create atmosphere, and transport viewers into worlds of supernatural horror. Whether you’re designing for Halloween projects, horror films, or gothic branding, the right horror movie fonts can make the difference between forgettable text and unforgettable nightmares.

Fonts

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.

Graphic Design

Graphic Design Junction

JULY 20, 2025

Looking for slim, skinny, narrow fonts? Explore this extensive list of the best condensed fonts , perfect for logos and lettering posters. The condensed fonts make strong visual statements without wasting space. The post 40+ Best Condensed Fonts For Logos and Posters first appeared on Graphic Design Junction.

Fonts

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JULY 20, 2025

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Arts and Crafts

Design Week

JULY 20, 2025

Hijinks has created the name, brand identity and hero film for Vue cinemas’ new premium offering. Epic by Vue is a new large-screen experience which uses cutting-edge technology – Dolby Atmos sound and Barco laser projection’s high dynamic range, or HDR, which ups the range of colours and brightness that appear on screen. The first Epic opens in Nottingham this week, with cinemas in Rozzano, Italy and Amsterdam next on the list.

Brand

Design You Trust

JULY 20, 2025

Ilan Derech, a Mexico-born artist now based in Tokyo, transforms fleeting human moments into quietly cinematic reflections. Starting in digital design, his path evolved into photography and film, where he crafts emotionally charged scenes that feel both spontaneous and deeply personal. Through his lens, ordinary life becomes a gentle meditation on presence, emotion, and time.

Photography

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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.

Graphic

UX Collective

JULY 20, 2025

Language-first workflows may be giving visual thinkers a powerful way to justify their choices — to both machines and people. Image source: [link] For as long as design has existed, its value has often been measured by what can be seen, not necessarily explained. The right layout, the perfect contrast ratio, the balance of form and whitespace — these are things designers often feel before they can articulate.

Layout

Creative Bloq

JULY 20, 2025

This decade-old gem proves that good art advice never goes out of style.

Photoshop

Design You Trust

JULY 20, 2025

Gregory Crewdson is a New York–based artist known for crafting meticulously staged photographs that evoke haunting cinematic atmosphere. A graduate of SUNY Purchase and Yale, where he now leads the photography program, Crewdson has built a celebrated career exploring surreal scenes of suburban life. His landmark series, such as *Beneath the Roses* and *Cathedral of the Pines*, blend elaborate production design with emotional depth, often requiring a full crew and film-like precision.

Arts and Crafts

Creative Boom

JULY 20, 2025

Image licensed via Adobe Stock From quiet exclusion to blatant humiliation, bullying is still a huge, often hidden problem across the creative industries. In this special report, we're shining a light on it. The creative industries have long been romanticised as spaces where passion meets purpose, where collaboration flourishes, and where diverse voices are celebrated.

Freelance

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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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Creative Bloq

JULY 20, 2025

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Design You Trust

JULY 20, 2025

Bold portraits of 1980s men’s fashion showcase oversized blazers, graphic sweaters, mullets, mustaches, and mirrored sunglasses. Each look reflects personal identity, shaped by pop icons, streetwear, and corporate cool. Style was loud, expressive, and confidently eclectic. Fashion blurred gender norms and embraced individuality. The decade’s attitude is stitched into every silhouette. h/t: vintag.

Fashion

Creative Bloq

JULY 20, 2025

The new flagship offers more value than ever – with materials included as standard.

Digital

Creative Boom

JULY 20, 2025

Image licensed via Adobe Stock As network agencies consolidate, restructure, or shut up shop altogether, a new creative migration is underway. With the help of some industry experts, we unpack why designers and strategists are increasingly striking out on their own and what independence offers that networks can't. The last few years have seen a quiet exodus from network agencies.

Networking

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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.

Typography

Creative Bloq

JULY 20, 2025

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Brand

Inkbot Design

JULY 20, 2025

📖 Reading Time: 5 minutes 🏷️ Categories: Design, Branding, Marketing 📅 Published: [DATE] The World’s Most Recommended Brands: Why People Champion Them Forget “brand love.” Forget “engagement.” Forget all the fluffy, feel-good metrics agencies invent to justify their fees. They are vanity. A recommendation is different. A recommendation is an action.

Brand

UX Collective

JULY 20, 2025

Sitemap Open in app 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 Designing products is easy. Designing peace of mind is hard. A conversation around tomato plants taught me more than a TED talk on design ever could.

Production

This is Paper

JULY 20, 2025

At the vibrant intersection of urban renewal and marine biodiversity in Mazatlán, Mexico, the Sea of Cortez Research Center by Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO is an innovative exploration of architecture as ecological mediator rather than dominator.

Architecture

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.

Web Design