Noupe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We are living in uncertain times. With working hours down 14% during the second quarter of 2020 because of COVID-19, employees, business owners, and freelancers alike are stressed out about the future. Sadly, 62% of small businesses have reported a general decrease in revenue: Source: SHRM. As a designer or developer, you may have already noticed a dip in your income, or simply want to plan for the future.

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Just Creative

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This video has been contributed by Dave Schneider. 85% of internet users in the U.S. consume video content at least once a month. And the demand for video is increasing every year. Brands can no longer get by without adding video to their arsenal of marketing tools. In fact, without video, staying ahead of the competition can be almost impossible. Some brands have even found great success in making video the central part of their marketing efforts.

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BP&O

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Text by Richard Baird 160 Faces is a new publication from Swedish artist Daniel Götesson working under the name Ekta, designed by Lundgren+Lindqvist and distributed under the studio’s publishing arm ll’Editions. The book collates 160 drawings made by the artist in 2019, and sequenced, rather than in logical pairs and with a curated rhythm, but by […].

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Noupe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Graphic design is an incredibly important field in our world. According to the US Labor of Statistics data , there are 281.500 graphic design jobs just in the USA. It’s a field in which just having talents is not enough. You have to constantly improve your skills, whether they are directly about graphic design or the business side of it. You need to keep up with the competition.

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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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The Die Line

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The Lab Saigon worked with Bakes, a Vietnamese pastry brand, and took inspiration from the moon's reflection on a lake to create their branding and packaging. They were also inspired by the architecture of Turtle Lake, home to their flagship shop. .

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Creative Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Of all the projects I've been involved with since my career in design and branding kicked off some 20 years ago, there are few I feel as fondly towards as the Studiocanal cinema ident.

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Noupe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The success of a non-profit website depends to a large extent on its theme. A theme can make or break a website. It gives a website its look and a website acts as a bridge between an organization and its communities. A non-profit organization needs to build communities, showcase their activities, organize events, and collect the donation. They need a theme that can help them serve all these purposes.

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Brown Paper Bag

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This article is brought to you by Brown Paper Stitch , my business that makes your wardrobe pawesome by embroidering your pets on clothing. Did you have letter jackets at your high school? Mine did, and you could earn giant “letter” patches for things like sports, academics, music, and more. (I had a couple for running varsity cross country and academics.

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Azure Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats have run the Barcelona practice Flores & Prats for 22 years now. Working out of a 19 th -century former residential building, which they refurbished into their studio – their “first exercise of adaptive reuse” – the pair have become adept at transforming old spaces into new ones, while keeping the historical value intact.

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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.

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The Logo Smith

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The post Vintage Czechoslovakian Matchbox Labels on Uncut Sheets Collected by Kindra Murphy appeared first on The Logo Smith All Content © 2020 The Logo Smith.™ |. A staggering Flickr collection of Czechoslovakian Matchbox Labels on Uncut Sheets, collected by Kindra Murphy, primarily from the 1950’s and 1960’s. Such a varied selection of Czechoslovakian Matchbox styles here, covering so many areas of industry, social, transport, life, animals etc.

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Design You Trust

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

“Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.” ? Stephen King, Pet Sematary. h/t: vintag.es Horror, fantasy, and science-fiction author Stephen King has written 49 novels, nine collections of short stories, and five non-fiction books.

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Abduzeedo

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Padaung Women - Photography by Hugo Santarem. abduzeedo 09.23.20 Hugo Santarem is a super talented brazilian photographer with an incredible portfolio. We’ve featured him here on the blog in the past and we will keep featuring his work because it’s simply beautiful. For this post I’d love to share some photos from his collection called Myanmar - Padaung Women.

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Design You Trust

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Tatsuya Tanaka is a Japanese artist that’s an expert at looking at small things and creating a whole world out of them. More: Tatsuya Tanaka, Instagram h/t: grapee The miniature artist is the creator of the on-going “Miniature Calendar” series, where he finds creative uses for everyday objects by having very tiny figures interact with them.

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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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Creative Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Though French poet and singer-songwriter George Brassens died over 40 years ago, Clémentine Schneidermann ’s latest body of work stands as proof that his legacy is well and truly alive in his home city of Sète. The series, titled Sète #20, is being showcased in book and exhibition form, and is the culmination of Schneidermann’s month-long residency orchestrated by local photography association CéTàVOIR.

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Booooooom

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

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Communication Arts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In addition to explaining the dark history behind Confederate-named schools, “The Truth About Confederate-Named Schools” sheds a light on the consequences of racial inequality.

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Animation 72

Design You Trust

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Oleg Shepelenko, a talented tattoo artist from Rostov-on-Don, Russia, has been getting international recognition thanks to his insanely detailed portrait tattoos. The self-taught artist who works out of the Lucky Style Tattoo Shop knew he had a talent for art when he began painting in school, but never got any formal training. He got into tattoos naturally, and used YouTube tutorials as.

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Communication Arts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This illustrator in Mexico City packs myriad inspirations across art and culture into his modern, kaleidoscopic work.

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Creative Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Oxfam has inspired people across the UK to swear off fast fashion and embrace a more sustainable approach. Here’s how the charity got its Second Hand September pledge off the ground. The post How Oxfam kickstarted Second Hand September appeared first on Creative Review.

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Juxapoz Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

My family and I have taken this global-viral-pandemic situation quite seriously. It’s been six months since we’ve done any of the following: entered a grocery store, eaten in a restaurant, been around more than three other people at one time (socially-distanced with masks on, of course), gotten a haircut, left town—we’ve basically been holed up in our house since early March trying to convince our kids that comedies from the ’80s are better than anything on Disney+ (it’s not working).

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Design You Trust

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

No matter how many articles and books on parenting you read or how many stories you hear, none of them can prepare you for the true reality of parenting. There are so many things that are rarely talked about even though they’re an inseparable part of parenthood, such as sleepless nights, temper tantrums, and loads and loads of diapers – and Norwegian mother of two Jade Nordahl decided to.

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Its Nice That

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

With just a few lines and simple colours, the Paris-based illustrator manages to conjure up surreal and atmospheric scenes.

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Communication Arts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The First The Last Agency drew inspiration from the Berlin techno club scene for this Berlin-based international booking agency’s site.

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Interaction Design Foundation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

It can be easy to get bogged down in developing features when we get into user experience design. It’s not that features aren’t important but that they are often secondary to the reason a customer or user buys our product. That reason is simple; the user buys the product to solve a real world problem for themselves.In practice that means we have to see the product first.

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Production 137

Booooooom

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Huntz Liu. Huntz Liu’s Website. Huntz Liu on Instagram. Huntz Liu at Giant Robot.

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