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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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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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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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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RD Scudellari: Iconic Book Jacket Designer In Golden Age Of Books

Graphic Design USA

Graphic designer Bob Scudellari died on June 3, 2022. He was best known for bold, typographic book jackets during a 26-year tenure as Vice President and Corporate Art Director at Random House.

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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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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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Brand Voice: What It Is & Why It Matters

Inkbot Design

Brand Voice: What It Is & Why It Matters. Every brand has its own voice and unique way of communicating with the world. But if you can't figure out how to express that voice to your audience, you risk being ignored or, worse, confused. As a marketer, you must be able to craft a message that is so powerful that it speaks directly to your potential customers.

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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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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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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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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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The Futo Collection: A Sustainable Workplace Solution

Design Milk

With human-centric design at the forefront, Dymitr Malcew created the Futo Collection for DYD. This flexible approach to the workplace took home a Silver Award at NeoCon 2022 in the Lounge Furniture category. Futo continues to blur the line between workplace and hospitality spaces, providing users with the flexibility today’s offices look for.

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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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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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Branding and digital experience for I D — C Independent Designers Collective

Abduzeedo

Branding and digital experience for I D — C Independent Designers Collective. abduzeedo 0713—22 I D — C, or Independent Designers Collective is an initiative founded by Niklas Rosén and Gustav Nordebrink. The collective is a response to a dynamic and ever-evolving world, where independent flexibility and network scalability meet modern demands. The brand identity and digital design experience is created together with their scalable team with the ambition to express their independence.

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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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Elizabeth Inkim: “go the extra mile, it’s never crowded”

Moo

There are many ways to tell a story – and Elizabeth A. Inkim knows exactly that. The Trinidadian creative defines herself as a “designer, storyteller, artist and human;” a winning recipe for creativity and innovation. With her daring designs and inquisitive mind, she explores the many ways to connect with an audience and convey messages in a powerful way.

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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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Tender paintings by Larry Madrigal share a father's honest view of parenthood

Creative Boom

Close up of Supplications, 2022 © Larry Madrigal. Courtesy of the Artist and Nicodim Gallery. As the global birth rate continues to decline , one Mexican American artist is offering an explanation as to why fewer women are choosing to have babies. In Larry Madrigal 's latest series, we see how changing communities and modern life might have impacted parenting forever.

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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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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 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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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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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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Permission

Design Everywhere

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Pulsetic Review – Free Website Uptime Monitoring Service & Status Pages

Designmodo

This post is originally published on Designmodo: Pulsetic Review – Free Website Uptime Monitoring Service & Status Pages. Uptime website monitoring plays a vital role in every online business operation. Having a website that is always up and running is more important than ever because it’s how you serve your customers or end-users to market your product or … For more information please contact Designmodo.

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“Brotherhood, community and togetherness”: Nick van Tiem documents a community of skaters in Cape Town

Its Nice That

The photographer’s latest series highlights the importance of storytelling and collaboration: “There are kids just like them doing exactly the same thing on the other side of the world.”.

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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.