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Design Trend Report: Winter 2022

Creative Market

Trends give us a hint of the underlying patterns inspiring creative professionals around the globe. As we’ve mentioned here before, design trends are meant to serve as starting points to kickstart your own creative process. A set of insights to spark a design that is still uniquely yours. Inspire your perspective as we go over some of this season’s most popular design themes.

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Brazilian studio Monga wants to inspire positivity and respect throughout the graphic design industry

Its Nice That

Thriving off a love of anime, the recently formed, Florianópolis-based studio excels in projects influenced by subculture and music.

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Best Packaging Mockups For Product Packaging

Graphic Design Junction

Showcase your product branding designs on the latest and high quality realistic packaging mockups. The carefully designed and organized PSD file comes with a variety of objects, props, and shadow overlays which you can arrange, resize, and customize to style your own mockups. Very easy to edit or simply drag-and-drop your branding designs into one of the pre-build packaging mockup.

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Brutalista Font Family by Latinotype

We And The Color

Brutalista, a new typeface inspired by the architectural brutalist style. Designed by Jorge Cisterna and published by the Latinotype font foundry, Brutalista is a new sans-serif font family consisting of 28 styles. Its geometric typeface is inspired by the architectural brutalist style. The clean style of the Brutalista font family works great in a wide range of graphic design projects.

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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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Should You Charge for Website Project Estimates?

SpeckyBoy

Creating project estimates can be difficult. Because no two websites are the same, web designers need to understand a client’s specific needs. That often requires a lot of digging. It includes asking a lot of probing questions about what the client is hoping to accomplish. From there, it’s time to research competitors and the technologies that will power the website.

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Minimalist Website Templates: When Less Means Really More

Template Monster

If you want your website to look trendy for years to come, you should have it designed in the minimal style. Telling more with “fewer words” may be rather challenging, and that is why I have gathered 10 of the top minimalist website templates of 2022. Use them for your projects, and you will not even notice how you managed to launch your resource quite quickly without investing considerable effort.

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A Grammar of Typography: Classical Book Design in the Digital Age

Typographica

Argetsinger aims to teach a new generation of designers how to uphold the standards and principles of the printers of old, in this strange new era when the composing stick is a text frame and the ink stone is a menu of swatches.

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Gustavo Piqueira’s Book Covers Show the Creativity (and Cost) of Constraints

Eye on Design

Gustavo Piqueira will make you wholly rethink book design—and, well, books at large. . After all, the enigmatic proprietor of Casa Rex in São Paulo, Brazil, once created a book in the form of a dining set —the story told in text across napkins, placemats, and coasters, all silkscreened in-house—and once reimagined the Medieval bible for the modern consumerist era, complete with hand-glued bejeweled cover and detailed historiated initials comprised of guns, gas tanks, and cell phones.

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Portfolio InDesign Template with Gray Accents

We And The Color

Download a neutral and fully customizable portfolio template for use in Adobe InDesign. Adobe Stock contributor @bourjart created this eye-catching portfolio template consisting of 24 fully customizable pages in the size of A4. No matter if you are a visual artist, graphic designer, architect, or photographer, the modern, neutral layout is well suited for plenty of topics.

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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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Photography and film duo The Masons tells compelling stories of human existence and beauty

Its Nice That

Donna-Marie and Maruska, who are based in London, “challenge outdated notions of beauty with honest and empowering representations of people of colour.”.

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Have Your Cake and Eat It Too!

Graphic Design USA

Thoughts on how business leaders must redefine the ‘Work/Life Balance’ in the pandemic landscape. ‘Have your cake and eat it too!’ is about taking control of our schedules and respecting our most precious resource, time.

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Toronto’s Dear Grain Bakery Is a Cozy Wooden Bread Box

Azure Magazine

As winter’s chill sets in , good bread makes for a classic source of comfort — and a trip to the neighbourhood bakery only deepens one’s appreciation for the magic of wheat, yeast and flour. In Toronto, the latest destination for gourmet carbs is Dear Grain Sourdough Studio , which began selling its slow-fermented loaves in Hamilton before opening its new headquarters on Ossington Avenue in November.

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Complex Networks of Metallic Branches Shape Animal Sculptures by Kang Dong Hyun

Colossal

“Forest of Coexistence” (2019), stainless steel and urethane paint, 300 x 160 x 120 centimeters. All images © Kang Dong Hyun, shared with permission. What eventually becomes a stately stag or majestically posed lion in Kang Dong Hyun ’s Forest of Coexistence starts with countless metallic branches that splay in every direction. The Korean artist ( previously ) welds spindly shoots and sprawling root-like shapes into facial features and bodies that are then finished with urethane pain

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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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Let Material Speak for Itself: the STUDIO DAM Approach to Branding

The Branding Journal

STUDIO DAM is a multi-disciplinary branding and design consultancy based in Singapore. Back in 2019, after expressing their interest in participating in Singapore Design Week , they were partnered up with Admira Pte Ltd, an established company specializing in high-pressured laminates. Singapore Design Week consists of a multitude of events and activities.

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Facebook App Celebrates Native American Heritage With Stunning Photographs

Feature Shoot

© Cara Romero. “Native women are incredibly strong and resilient,” the Chemehuevi photographer Cara Romero tells us. “We come from a long line of women that have fought to hold the very fabric of our Native communities together for hundreds of years through genocide and colonization.” Romero’s First American Girl series works to honor that long line of women, beginning with those closest to her.

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The Grace of Broken Space: Art by Sasha Tudvaseva

Design You Trust

Sasha Tudvaseva is a freelance artist from Russia who draws illustrations for Blizzard Entertainment and writes in-depth tutorials on digital art on ArtStation Marketplace. Her flamboyant style is hard to describe – Tudvaseva beautifully combines abstraction and realism in her work, while playing with completely crazy perspective and breaking shapes.

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Gaurab Thakali takes to new heights combining his musical-themed illustrations with nature

Its Nice That

The It’s Nice That favourite explains why nature has become a dominant influence in his bold, colour-soaked works.

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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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Style Your Entryway Around This New Heymat Collection

Design Milk

A longtime Design Milk favorite, Heymat is back with a new collection of modern rugs – Grain, made in collaboration with designer Stine Aas. The Norwegian brand is beloved for their creative partnerships with top Scandinavian designers – like Kristine Five Melvær for their best-selling Sand Rug and Tekla Evelina Severin for their 70s inspired Mix Teklan Rug (we even partnered with them to create the Diamonds Rug in celebration of our 15th anniversary !

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Playfully Absurd, Idiosyncratic Characters Grace the Salvaged Book Sculptures by Mike Stilkey

Colossal

All images © Mike Stilkey, shared with permission. Dapper penguins, nonchalant musicians, and self-destructive politicians are a few of the distinct figures adorning Mike Stilkey ’s sculptures. The Los Angeles-based artist ( previously ) rummages through heaps of discarded books, plucking out complementary titles that become the basis for his towering works.

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Vampires and Death in European Style: Comics by Gigi Cavenago

Design You Trust

Gigi Cavenago is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator who has worked on such European comics as Dylan Dog, Dr. Voodoo, Old Boy and many others. Cavenago has been critically acclaimed and won many awards as a comic book artist, but he doesn’t dwell on drawing stories – in his spare time he moonlights in advertising. More: Instagram.

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Vintage Label Designs | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials #vector #retro #vintage #typography

Designspiration

Vintage Label Designs | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials #vector #retro #vintage #typography

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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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Heaven — mythical figures and surreal atmospheres in 3D

Abduzeedo

Heaven — mythical figures and surreal atmospheres in 3D. abduzeedo 0106—22 Ozan Karakoc has always been obsessed with statues, spending hours in museums losing himself while looking at every curve with great admiration and respect. 'Heaven' is a personal poster design project that is inspired by those precious creations and mythological characters from ancient cultures.

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Websites We Love — Showcasing The Best in Web Design #cool #agency #interactive #modern #design #best #website #ui #minimal #webdesign #web #typography

Designspiration

Websites We Love — Showcasing The Best in Web Design #cool #agency #interactive #modern #design #best #website #ui #minimal #webdesign #web #typography

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dow! branding

Abduzeedo

dow! branding. abduzeedo 0105—22 Another Collective shared an awesome branding and visual identity for dow! A daring traveler, whose mission in life took him across the Atlantic to bring to Braga the best of North American pastry. Irreverent scientist, avid for experiments, he uses his laboratory to test new flavors weekly, in an environment where good energy prevails.

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou – Peter Strain Illustration #inspiration #illustration #portrait #typography

Designspiration

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou – Peter Strain Illustration #inspiration #illustration #portrait #typography

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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.