Wed.Jul 13, 2022

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5 ways to design for people who are colorblind

UX Collective

Photo by Taras Chernus on Unsplash Color vision deficiency (CVD) : Color vision deficiency (CVD) affects around 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women worldwide; for every 100 users visiting your website or app, up to 8 people could suffer from CVD. Red-green color blindness is the most common deficiency, affecting approximately 1 in 12 men (8%) and 1 in 200 women (0.5%).

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Pentagram finds a joyful new spin on yoga branding for Love Supreme Projects

Creative Boom

The world's largest design consultancy has collaborated with yoga studio Love Supreme Projects to create an identity that finds a new spin on the familiar practice. Made up of bold colours and inky splotches, the brand turns the concepts of yoga into a visual language in a way that contrasts stereotypical aesthetics. What do you think of when you think of yoga?

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30 New Fresh Free Fonts Download

Graphic Design Junction

2022 mid year fresh free fonts are here. List of new fonts perfect for logo design, tshirt mockup, web templates and all type of graphic design projects. In this collection we are included script fonts, handwritten fonts, brush fonts, and modern sans serif fonts which can give more professional look to your design. The following fonts are ideal to make an creative design and perfect for any artwork.

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Guess the hip-hop album with Dorothy's stamp on the most iconic releases of all time

Creative Boom

Could you guess the legendary hip-hop album from just a simple graphic? That's the challenge thrown down by Dorothy , the Liverpool-based studio and shop that has released a new print celebrating classic releases from the last four decades. Continuing its usual theme of imagined collectable postage stamps, displayed together in a fictional tapestry that makes up an entire sheet, this latest offering by Dorothy tips its hat to everyone from Grandmaster Flash and Run DMC to Kendrick Lamar and Run

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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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The Glyph Collection Is a Typographic Textile Masterpiece

Design Milk

A personal favorite of mine at NeoCon 2022 was the Glyph Collection. A collaboration between Arc-Com design studio and design studio and font foundry House Industries , it’s a celebration of typographic forms. Six unique textile patterns were created based off of the pound sign, tilde, parentheses, a lowercase i, and an x. Each has a strong personality on its own, and can either work individually or be paired with other textiles in the same color palette.

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'Equal parts control and equal parts serendipity', Sanchit Sawaria's new project creates images from a machine

Creative Boom

Gan Experiments © Sanchit Sawaria. "My art is scenic, and I always try to capture a mood," explains Sanchit Sawaria , a graphic designer from New Delhi, India. With a portfolio that screams with energy and vibrance, it's no wonder he refers to his work this way. From uniquely angular (and functional) typography to textural identities and lucid, shiny 3D letters, Sanchit's work is experimental as it broadens our understanding of what can be achieved in the medium of design.

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Supa Mega Fantastic Font Duo by Nicky Laatz

We And The Color

Let’s take a closer look at Supa Mega Fantastic, a lovely hand-lettered font duo that works pretty well with quirky illustrations and graphics. Created in 2021 by Nicky Laatz, the Supa Mega Fantastic font duo! consists of a playful monoline script and a chunky all caps sans serif font. Both styles are characterized by an authentic hand-lettered sign-painter style.

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Playful Portraits by Elke Vogelsang Catch Cats’ Cranky and Silly Emotions

Colossal

All images © Elke Vogelsang, shared with permission. Unlike the affectionate canine companions that grace many of Elke Vogelsang ’s portraits, the cats she finds in front of her camera exhibit more irritable, even stereotypical emotions. She captures her feline subjects with a range of reactions, whether snarling and baring their teeth or showing off their more playful sides with leaps into the air or a quick flick of their tongues.

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Instagram Post and Story Templates with Pastel Gradients and Elegant Typography

We And The Color

Made by graphic designer @orangeberry for use in Adobe Illustrator, this elegant set of Instagram post and story templates comes with 24 fully customizable design options. Thanks to the use of vector graphics, the templates can be edited in any possible way. The post templates are based on a size of 1080 x 1080 px while the story templates come in 1080 x 1920 px.

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Designing teachable products

UX Collective

The importance of teachable interactions Inadequate consideration of how products are taught to users can result in sub-optimal product designs. Illustration by Jonathan Kendler When working with clients on a new product design effort, I typically start by conducting a visioning exercise or workshop with the client’s product development team. The goal of such workshops is to understand the client’s perception of the users’ needs, their goals for the project, their vision for the product’s design

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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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Introducing Hearing Birdsong, beautifully transforming hearing health

Abduzeedo

Introducing Hearing Birdsong, beautifully transforming hearing health. ibby 0713—22 We were all ears when we heard about Hearing Birdsong, a beautiful and immersive new design initiative digitalizing the approach to hearing screening with an end goal of de-stigmatizing hearing loss. This one hits close to home since my husband is convinced I’m losing my hearing at too young an age (he doesn’t know it’s a selective situation).

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Toronto’s Grain Lofts Embody a Sustainable — and Stylish — Approach to Condo Living

Azure Magazine

Slowly but surely, timber construction is poised to take over Toronto’s downtown core. From high-profile projects like Limberlost Place on George Brown College’s waterfront campus, designed by Moriyama & Teshima and Acton Ostry Architects, to Adjaye Associates’ Timber House proposal for the much-anticipated Quayside development, big-name architects are embracing the potential of this sustainable construction material.

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Join Rajshree Saraf as she plasters angsty AR typography posters all over the streets of New York

Its Nice That

Wanting to explore the world of AR in a more creative, less restrictive way, the Brooklyn-based creative devised her animated typography project, Hallucinating Type.

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“Books Aren’t Going Anywhere”: A Roundtable Discussion on Publishing and Branding in the Age of Bookstagram

Eye on Design

This conversation took place as part of our Summer Salon, which explores the intersection of branding and culture. Our next Zoom event on Thursday, July 28 asks “What’s The Role Of TV Branding In The Streaming Age?” — register here ! Of all media, the book is perhaps the most enduring. Continually outliving the narratives about the demise of publishing, how people don’t read, and the end of print, books are more popular than ever.

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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 Best Way To Answer “So What Do You Do?”

Swiss Miss

This is an inspiring talk. Definitely made me think about how I talk about what I do. Thank you Clay Hebert.

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Permission

Design Everywhere

Permission.

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5 Best Websites for Learning Math

Design Beep

Math doesn’t excite many children, and most of the fear and anxiety attached are caused by the teaching methods. To remedy the situation, experts created online sites where kids could learn math. Thankfully, the increasing popularity of homeschooling has opened many parents’ eyes to online learning opportunities that are available to their kids.

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Our favourite iPad keyboard has hit a record-low price

Creative Bloq

Snap up the Logitech Combo Touch now.

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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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DMTV Milkshake: Mana Sazegara on Making Furniture That Feels Like “Living Creatures”

Design Milk

“Unfortunately, the current furniture market is oversaturated with minimalistic beige objects,” says interdisciplinary designer Mana Sazegara , who joins us from her studio in New York City. “And the reason for that is to attract more customers and more users. And [the powers that be] see bringing novelty and color to the object, and to the furniture, as a risk factor.”. ?

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This simple yet brilliant logo is lighting up our lives

Creative Bloq

Electrifying design.

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SinCa Design Uses the Whole Tree for Their Sustainable Furniture

Design Milk

Sustainability is at the heart of husband and wife team SinCa Design’s Connecticut furniture studio. Maria Camarena and Dave Sinaguglia plant ten trees for every piece they make to give back to the planet – so far over 250 through a partnership with non-profit One Tree Planted. “What excites me the most is to think that the more we grow as a business, the more trees are planted.

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How well do you know your fonts?

Creative Bloq

This quiz is harder than it looks.

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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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Forms & Textures Exhibition Explores the Boundary Between Art + Design

Design Milk

We’re all intrigued by the boundary between art and design. Where does it lie? Does it even exist? Masquespacio , helmed by Ana Hernández and Christophe Penasse, recently set out to find it for themselves. Masquespacio is part of Mas Creations , who have been creating designs since 2010. Their Forms & Textures exhibition, that took place at Milan Design Week 2022 , reflects their journey to figuring out if their work is 100% design or a mix of art and design together.

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Jony Ive is apparently no longer working with Apple

Creative Bloq

LoveFrom designer to go it alone.

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Matt Broughton on Designing The Bloater

Spine Magazine

Matt Broughton is a London-based book cover designer currently working for Vintage Publishing, part of the Penguin Random House Group. He here takes us through his process for designing the wonderfully vivid cover for The Bloater. Lost classics can be a real treat to work on. On receiving the brief for Rosemary Tonks’s spiky comedy, The Bloater , I was hooked (excuse the pun) for two reasons.

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The Prime Day laptop deal you won't want to miss

Creative Bloq

Retail event slashes price of powerful HP laptop.

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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.

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Stylish web design for ORRIS Paris

Abduzeedo

Stylish web design for ORRIS Paris. abduzeedo 0713—22 Martin Briceno shared a web design project of ORRIs Paris. ORRIS artisanal botanical soaps are handcrafted in small batches in France. Each cold process soap is hand-poured and hand-cut, using the finest oils, butters, and botanicals. Drawing from traditions such as Ayurveda, aromatherapy and Western herbal medicine, each of our four soaps embodies a distinct persona and addresses particular skin concerns through the unique therapeutic and se

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Hurry! There's 38% off these drawing tablets, but for a limited time

Creative Bloq

Don't miss these great Prime Day tablet deals.

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Carbone Works With Geletka+ To Develop A Pasta Sauce On Tap, Making Saucy Refill Dreams Come True

The Die Line

Geletka+ Launches World’s First Carbone Pasta Sauce on Tap Delicious Carbone Sauce available at the touch of a handle.

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Surprise, surprise, Damien Hirst has upset someone else

Creative Bloq

Well, I didn't see this one coming.not.

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Web Design for All: Accessibility, Inclusivity and Beyond

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.