Fri.Aug 05, 2022

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Rethinking how to hire designers

UX Collective

How to design an effective recruitment process to help attract and retain top-tier talent. Open Peeps by Pablo Stanley In my 20+ year career in design, I have participated in thousands of job interviews either as a candidate or hiring manager. And from this, I can safely say that the design recruitment process is broken almost everywhere. Now, this claim is generalising in nature but hear me out about why and what you can do to avoid the known traps that fail most organisations.

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Business Cards Templates: 35+ Stylish Design

Graphic Design Junction

Creative and modern corporate business cards templates, print ready design. Stylish business cards will makes your business purposes look professional and fully customizable for your ultimate personalization. You can use any item for personal branding, identity, corporate name card, business card or any marketing purposes. The business cards templates are perfect for any kind of company , agency or even personal use.

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F5: What Tools Yuwen Peng Uses for a Work/Life Balance + More

Design Milk

Yuwen Peng’s 25 years of architectural experience in hospitality, restaurant, retail, and entertainment design have contributed to the development of projects around the globe. Working out of CallisonRTKL’s Los Angeles office, her human-centric approach to a vast array of social spaces has resulted in several cross-sector innovations and a long list of noteable clients – Wolfgang Puck Restaurants, W Hotels, Lucky Strike Lanes, 7-Eleven Lab, McDonald’s, and Starbuck’s Prototypes to name a f

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Photographer Spotlight: KIN

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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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Kalamaki Branding by Brandon Archibald

We And The Color

Ukrainian graphic design studio Brandon Archibald created a meaningful visual identity and interior design for the fast-food chain Street Greek. In these challenging times in Ukraine, it is a special pleasure for us to feature the work of Ukrainian designers and artists and show that creativity is still alive despite the war. Brandon Archibald is an Odessa, Ukraine-based graphic design studio specializing in a wide range of branding projects.

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Artist Recreates Old Ceremonial Portraits By Replacing Their Subjects With Cats

Design You Trust

Probably, we all agree that one should treat a cat like a queen or king or dire consequences might follow. These graceful creatures have been highly appreciated since ancient Egyptian times (if not earlier), not without a reason, and Galina Bugaevskaya, a talented digital creator, is well aware of that. Galina (previously featured ) recreates classical paintings depicting a person of high ranking by replacing him or her with a cat.

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Weekly News for Designers ? 655

SpeckyBoy

UX/ UI tips: A guide to search inputs – Key principles for creating best-in-class search input boxes. Font Subsetting Strategies: Content-Based vs Alphabetical – Learn how subsetting fonts can help increase performance and reduce waste. Recreating MDN’s Truncated Text Effect – Discover the CSS behind this unique text presentation. <article> vs. <section> : How To Choose The Right One – This guide will help to ensure that you’re using these two semantic HTML tags correctly.

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Immy Humes’ new book examines the significance of lone women in photography

Creative Review

As the name suggests, the book – published by Phaidon and compiled by American documentary filmmaker Immy Humes – explores the phenomenon of the ‘only woman’ in photography. Humes has made a habit of trawling through photography archives around the world, and her work demonstrates that this kind of imagery has existed since the inception of the camera. “The one that first really struck me showed.

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Lego® Art Website Design

Abduzeedo

Lego® Art Website Design. abduzeedo 0805—22 Havas CX ?stanbul shared a web design project for Lego A/S, a Danish toy production company based in Billund. It manufactures Lego-brand toys, consisting mostly of interlocking plastic bricks; who allows anyone to build their dreams out of Lego blocks.?. Lego Art is a DIY Lego product targeting adults which is different from Lego Dots by its concept of building mosaic art pieces.

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UV Light Unveils the Extraterrestrial Luminescence of the American West in Cody Cobb’s Photos

Colossal

All images © Cody Cobb, shared with permission. In his ongoing Spectral series, Las Vegas-based photographer Cody Cobb projects an ultraviolet light source across desert shrubs and secluded, rocky coves, unveiling an invisible spectrum of blues and oranges. Lichens, fallen leaves, and the bacteria growing from lava tubes become radiant lifeforms and transform locations in Washington, Utah, California, and New Mexico into otherworldly landscapes.

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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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In Munich, a Hotel That Invites Guests to Move Right In

Azure Magazine

Remote work grants travellers new opportunities to turn short-term stays into extended sojourns. Now it’s time for the hotel industry to catch up. Thanks to London design firm Hol l oway Li, Munich’s WunderLocke is well ahead of the pack when it comes to catering to this new clientele. Launched in 2016, hospitality brand Locke operates a series of hybrid “aparthotel” rentals that bear closer resemblance to a friend’s downtown flat than to your average corporate crash pad.

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A traditional “hatching” technique helps Georgette Smith achieve her distinctive sketchy style

Its Nice That

Somerset’s idyllic countryside inspires the illustrator’s serene, textured drawings.

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Moves & changes – design industry news

Design Week

London-based brand agency Boldspace has appointed illustrator and graphic designer Yuko Kondo as its new art director. Kondo has previously run his own studio and also worked at Wieden+Kennedy and AMV BBDO. Manchester-based agency Anything has announced Alex Atkinson as its head of design. Atkinson, who has worked at McCann previously, will oversee the agency’s digital output.

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Human Ears and Animals Emerge from Dense Fields of Porcelain Foliage Sculpted by Melis Buyruk

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“Habitat” (2021), porcelain, 18k gold, 101 x 101 x 10 centimeters. All images courtesy of Leila Heller, shared with permission. Cradled within wooden boxes, leaves, blossoms, animals, and the occasional bit of human anatomy form the dense topographies of Melis Buyruk ( previously ). The Turkish artist blends various organic elements into sprawling, monochromatic works made of porcelain that are mesmerizing in intricacy with slightly unearthly undertones.

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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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Arab pop music meets 80s video game aesthetics in Moath Bin Hafez’s pixel art creations

Its Nice That

Discovering that he needed visuals to accompany his remixes, the artist began creating looping pixel videos to match his nostalgic, video game-inspired music.

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6 Easy Ways to Design Your Bedroom for Better Sleep

Design Milk

After a night of restless tossing and turning, we often point to stress, screen time, or caffeine intake as the culprits. And while those things definitely deserve some of the blame, you might be overlooking a major suspect in the theft of your precious Zs – the design of your bedroom itself. Design elements like lighting, color palette, bed linens, and more can all impede on a good night’s sleep, turning your bedroom into a space wrought with distress and distraction instead of a sleepy time sa

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Division of Birds: A Group Show at Paradigm Gallery Celebrates Feathered Life

Colossal

Felicia Chiao. All images © the artists, shared with permission. The Division of Birds , housed inside Chicago’s Field Museum, boasts one of the largest scientific avian collections in the country, representing about 90% of the world’s genera and species and containing more than 480,000 specimens, 21,000 egg sets, and approximately 200 nests.

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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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Instagram's new Mark Zuckerberg NFT is. odd

Creative Bloq

We'll pass.

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How to Generate Quality Leads Using YouTube Videos

Inkbot Design

How to Generate Quality Leads Using YouTube Videos. 84% of video marketers say video has effectively generated leads in 2021. Yet, when businesses talk about lead generation , they naturally lean towards PPC ad platforms like Google AdWords or Facebook Ads. However, they overlook the biggest video-sharing platform and the second largest search engine: YouTube – with over two billion viewers.

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The best Surface Go deals including low Surface Go 3 prices in 08 2022

Creative Bloq

Snag all the best Surface Go deals including the lowest Surface Go 3 prices around.

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How to Create a Product Marketing Strategy to Grow your Brand

Inkbot Design

How to Create a Product Marketing Strategy to Grow your Brand. Marketing is everything. It is something the sooner we understand, the better it is for us. It is pivotal in driving more leads to maximise your revenues while becoming a profitable product company. The Harvard Business School has presented that most companies face one common problem when launching any product: complete inappropriate preparation for marketing their product.

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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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This brilliant BBC Philharmonic branding is music to my…eyes?

Creative Bloq

It’s a symphony of colour.

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Cut Once, Make Twice: One Chair Is Made From Cuts of the Other

Design Milk

Yuji Tanabe Architects have discovered a way to create two chairs from a single piece of wood in a way that leaves very little offcuts. The concept, named TWINS-MDF , consists of a Frame chair and a Surface chair that have been cut very precisely and deliberately with a CNC router. Like a puzzle, the architects had to find the greatest common divisors of each chair and think critically about how one cut could create two pieces.

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We can't get enough of this joyful '90s Instagram account

Creative Bloq

Knee Deep in the '90s is wonderfully immersive.

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Samsung Bespoke Washer and Dryer Has the Blues

Design Milk

Walk into any big box shop’s home appliance section and you’d think we lived in a completely monochromatic world where our only viable options are stainless, black, or white. It’s puzzling, noting homes from generations past were filled with color well into the 1980s before brushed and stainless steel transcended its luxe-utilitarian origins to become a stifling standard.

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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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iPhone 14 colours just leaked (and I'm not sure what Apple is thinking)

Creative Bloq

A popular shade is facing the chop.

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Design Everywhere

Wedding invite.

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PaperTouch Pro screen protector for iPad review.

Creative Bloq

A very pronounced textured surface for artists coveting that paper-like feel.

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Design Everywhere

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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.