Tue.Sep 17, 2019

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Design Deals for the Week

Designer Daily

Every week, we’ll give you an overview of the best deals for designers, make sure you don’t miss any by subscribing to our deals feed. You can also follow the recently launched website Type Deals if you are looking for free fonts or font deals. 10 Vintage Effect Photoshop Actions. Create an authentic vintage photo effect in no time with this set of 10 fully editable Photoshop actions.

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Underground World & the man who (thought he) knew everything

I Love Typography

Often described as the man who knew everything, Athanasius Kircher (1602–80) was a German Jesuit polymath of international renown during his own lifetime. He was a prolific author with an astoundingly broad range of interests, writing about everything, from geology and geography to sinology and egyptology, biology, medicine, engineering, theology, anthropology, music theory and linguistics. […].

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20+ Online Ad Banner (Maker) Template Designs to Customise Now

Tuts Plus

If you’re just getting into online advertising or hoping to boost your online traffic with better advertisements, ad banners are the way to go. Ad banners are currently one of the most ubiquitous forms of marketing used on the internet. Companies use them for everything from raising their brand profile to increasing engagement, announcing discounts, and promoting products.

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Jason Anscomb on Reviving a Golden Age Crime Series

Spine Magazine

Jason Anscomb is a UK based freelance book cover designer who uses a variety of techniques within his work. Here he tells us how he created the wonderfully unique covers for Dorothy Bowers’ crime series. Debra Riley at Moonstone Press approached me about designing the covers for a set of five Golden Age crime novels. Moonstone Press reprints detective fiction originally published between WWI and the early 1960s, and introduces them to a wider audience.

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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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Career tips for your first job

Canva

So, you’ve landed your first job. Congratulations! Your first professional job is an incredible opportunity to learn, grow, and get your feet wet in your industry. But landing the job is just the first step. Once you’re actually in the job, it’s up to you to succeed—which can feel pretty overwhelming when you’re brand new to the professional world. Now that you’ve successfully landed the role, the next stage is to think about how you can take. this initial success and spin it into a fulfilling a

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Colorful Embroideries Transforms Humble Denim Jackets into Wearable Works of Art

Brown Paper Bag

Denim jackets were always in style, but they seem to be having a major moment thanks to the revival of 90s fashion. The material is easy to stitch on and is an ideal canvas for all sorts of designs. Colombian textile artist Ana Maria Restrepo, aka Amarpo , creates statement-making garments by adorning denim in colorful flowers and insects that use a combination of embroidery and crochet.

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BP&O Collections — Theatre

BP&O

Selected by Richard Baird. A continually updated collection of some of the best graphic identity design work created for theatres, reviewed and published on BP&O. This post features work by Pentagram, Studio fnt and Spy, and includes projects that cover programmes and posters, but also those that included supergraphics and wayfinding. These share a strong visual impact […].

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Always Going Home, with Glass Art, Heart and Architecture

SEGD Blog

Read Time: 4 minutes. By Christina Amri, Amri Studio. Imagine my surprise when my long-ago business partner (and high-school sweetheart) called me the other day to say, “Hey, our stained glass is in the new movie ‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’—and it looks good!”.