Tue.Mar 22, 2022

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Luke Brookes on the death of Instagram and what has helped him to become a successful illustrator

Creative Boom

Luke Brookes. It's the art of telling stories that drives Luke Brookes , an award-winning illustrator based in Staffordshire whose vivid, graphic brushstrokes bring atmosphere and energy to everything he creates. Using dramatic lighting against a restricted colour palette, Luke's been grabbing the attention of many an international client since he went freelance in 2012.

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Piedmont Art Walk by Mucho

BP&O

Piedmont is a small city in California named after the European region in the shadow of the Alps (from the Italian piemonte, meaning ‘foothill’). Surrounded on all sides by Oakland, the neighbourhood has a population of roughly 10,000 people and an active charity scene. This includes the Piedmont Arts Fund, a nonprofit group that promotes and supports visual and performing.

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Designing the Beautiful Game: Design Museum to explore the world's most popular sport

Creative Boom

Banners (2019) Corbin Shaw. It's not long until the 2022 World Cup kicks off in Qatar. So to celebrate the funny old game and get you excited for the main event, the Design Museum is opening a special exhibition that looks back at the world's most popular sport: football. Titled Football: Designing the Beautiful Game, the exhibition is the first of its kind to exclusively examine the game of two halves from a design perspective, which feels like a bit of an open goal if you ask us.

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Metamorphoses by A Practice For Everyday Life

BP&O

Metamorphoses is a contemporary art gallery that curates unique pieces by makers who turn one thing into another. It takes a special interest in works that are inspired by the past while displaying keen attention to present issues. These pieces, selected by the gallery, are often drawn from a body of work by artists who reflect on aspects of cultural.

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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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33 Letters for Ukraine: A fresh type challenge is launched on Instagram to show solidarity with Ukraine

Creative Boom

Alina Rybacka-Gruszczy?ska for 33 Letters for Ukraine. Inspired by the ever-popular 36 Days of Type, 33 Letters for Ukraine is a new challenge on Instagram that follows a similar theme but instead focuses on the 33 letters of the Ukrainian alphabet. Dreamt up by creatives Joasia Fidler-Wieruszewska , Alina Rybacka-Gruszczy?ska and Aga Kotowska , the idea is to use the power of creativity to express solidarity with Ukraine and show that it is an independent country with its own culture, history a

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Free Illustrations: Trendy and Artistic Graphics that Tell Stories

Designmodo

This post is originally published on Designmodo: Free Illustrations: Trendy and Artistic Graphics that Tell Stories. The new trend in graphic design and illustration for web, finally, is art meets illustrations. People love illustrations. Whether it is a designer, developer or regular user, hand-drawn pictures always please the eye. They bring authenticity and personality to digital … For more information please contact Designmodo.

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40+ Modern Business Card Templates (Print Ready Design)

Graphic Design Junction

Modern and clean business card templates design by creative artists and graphic designers. Each business card is fully editable, very easy to use and customize in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign & MS Word. You can easily change the color of the element itself in just one click. All elements, including the logo, you can resize without losing quality.

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Download a Fresh & Modern Portfolio Template for Adobe InDesign

We And The Color

Characterized by a modern layout and a stylish gradient, this Adobe InDesign portfolio template will help you to present your creative work in the best possible way. This fresh and modern portfolio template was designed by Adobe Stock contributor @McLittle Stock. The A4 InDesign file consists of 26 fully customizable pages. All sample texts and images are for display only and may not be included in the end-use.

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Why You Need a Website to Create a Digital Impression

Inkbot Design

Why You Need a Website to Create a Digital Impression. Whenever a company starts from scratch, they have to consider many different things. Capturing and captivating customers' attention is not as easy as you think. A digital presence is significant as the world moves towards digitisation, and everyone wants to create a sustainable position online. Suppose you own a versatile business with tons of beautiful outfits and sell them cheaply.

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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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Local Marketing Guide For Global Brands

HONGKIAT

Brands are increasingly focused around generating more leads locally, and an intelligently planned local marketing strategy is all you need to sustain this enormously competitive local space. In simpler terms, local marketing generally refers to any marketing techniques that a business in any industry uses to market itself to the area it operates in.

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Inspired by family dynamics and small town living, Erinn Springer creates truly atmospheric photography

Its Nice That

Through her two personal series, the photographer expertly captures sacred intergenerational relationships and nature in transition.

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10 Best Practices for Creating Exceptional Website Pop up Design to Increase Conversions

Noupe

How do you catch visitor attention when even the most creative ads are, by definition, an interruption and the majority are viewed almost universally as a nuisance? It’s a formidable challenge that marketers face in a world of shrinking attention spans. What if we told you that you could do it with good old-fashioned pop ups provided you follow a few guiding principles that underlie some best practices?

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Almoneda: A Typeface Inspired by Madrid’s Flea Market

Eye on Design

Name: Almoneda. Designer: Alejandro Santos. Foundry: Sudtipos. Release date: January 2022. Back Story: Santos found inspiration for his typeface near El Rastro, an open-air market set up on Sundays in the center of Madrid, offering a feast of objects bearing lettering and typefaces from the late 19th and early 20th century. Almoneda the font is the designer’s homage to the city, drawing on old graphic elements seen on walks around town as well.

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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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The Working Future Illustration Series

Abduzeedo

The Working Future Illustration Series. AoiroStudio 0322—22 Mohamed Samir is a designer from London, he shared a series of illustrations titled 'The Working Future' where he features 6 types of workers to represent a different group of individuals part of a company. I personally love these, Mohamed have done beautifully to create such an abstract visual look that reminds me of the 80s-inspired Omni Magazines.

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Life and Death Converge in a Two-Sided Field of 17,000 Steel Flowers by Zadok Ben-David

Colossal

Detail of “Blackfield” (2021) at Kew. Photo by Roger Wooldridge. All images courtesy of Kew Gardens, shared with permission. At the heart of Zadok Ben-David ’s Natural Reserve on view at Kew Gardens is a low-lying plot sprouting nearly 1,000 plant species. The sprawling, ecologically diverse installation, which has traveled to multiple cities like Seoul, Tel Aviv, and Paris since 2006, is titled “Blackfield,” a name tied to the flowers’ dualistic nature: one side ca

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I am alone — Illustration by Denis Fischer

Abduzeedo

I am alone — Illustration by Denis Fischer. abduzeedo 0322—22 Denis Fischer shared an awesome illustration project titled “I am alone”. The project features music, video and illustrations to tell a story. You should definitely check out the original but for this post I’d love to focus on the illustrations, all done in Photoshop with a Wacom Cintiq. ,,I.". ,,AM.". ,,ALONE.!".

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Collection Of The Creepiest Bible Stories As Vintage Comic Books For Kids

Design You Trust

“(Revelations 13:15-18) “This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666. I was left alone, my mind was blank I needed time to think. To get the memories from my mind. What did I see? Can I believe it? That what I saw that night was real and not just fantasy?

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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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The OPPO Find X5 Pro Smartphone Sculpts Ceramic With Precise Polish

Design Milk

The name OPPO doesn’t bring with it either the history nor the brand visibility of other premium brand smartphone makers stateside. But around the world the phone maker has skyrocketed to prominence, only trailing Apple, Samsung, and Xiaomi in total global sales annually. The brand’s flagship device, the OPPO Find X5 Pro stands toe-to-toe in the specs race, outfitted with an impressively brilliant 120Hz 6.7-inch AMOLED display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, and 80W SuperVOOC

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H.D. Cleverdon Branding

Mindsparkle Mag

A family-run Canadian candlemaker, H.D. Cleverdon is a branding challenge Fook Communications loved taking on. Inspired by an amazing family story, their team came to the studio looking to establish a brand that achieved three key things H.D. Cleverdon’s story conveyed the quality of their candles as it spoke to the comfort these candles provide, and it authentically told their story.

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Student Questionnaires

Lisa Maltby

I often get emails from students asking for answers to questions about my work and processes for their assignments. To save time answering the same questions, I have compiled a list of those frequently asked in order to help with your projects. If there are any questions you feel are missing, feel free to drop them in the comments below and I will add my answer.

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These Moon-Inspired Tables by Mist-o Secretly Conceal Their Functionalities

Design Milk

In 2014, Italian/Japanese design studio Mist-o founded by Noa Ikeuchi and Tommaso Nani launched their Moon bedside table for Italian company Living Divani. The studio has recently resumed and expanded the line with three new variants that share the original table’s same formal language, resulting in a cohesive product family that’s as beautiful as it is (secretly) functional. ?

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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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Pràctica Design Creates An Activist-Inspired Packaging System For Good S**t Vegan Kebabs

The Die Line

While there are more vegan options, Good S**t is adding ample personality and life to what was previously a bland market. .

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Take 5: The Perfect Pink Paint, Happy Dance, Aura-Inspired Phone Case + More

Design Milk

1. Backdrop Paint’s BARRAGÁN-CITO Pink. Since Backdrop launched I’ve been obsessed with their way of selling paint. Minimalist clean packaging, a selection of high-quality tools, and a curated mix of hues that won’t leave your head spinning – all of which can be purchased from the comfort of your own home. Skip the trip to the paint store where you’re forced to pick from 307 different shades of white, and order any of Backdrop’s 12×12″ paint swatches you

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Wolff Olins flips the fintech script for DailyPay with a logo inspired by a tossing coin

Its Nice That

Wolff Olins gives their two cents on fintech branding for DailyPay, with a logo inspired by how a coin looks mid-flip.

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UX in the low-code era

UX Collective

As a UX specialist working in the industry for a few years, I see enormous possibilities emerging from the ‘low-code’ movement. First things first, what’s low code, and how does it connect with different kinds of designers? No?—?code and Low code (NC/LC)?—?my definition No code is how it sounds, you simply don’t need the knowledge of a developer to create websites or apps.

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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.