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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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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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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Vector Graphics — Brochure & Catalog Templates

We And The Color

Available for download on Adobe Stock, all of these brochure and catalog templates are fully customizable. Created by Veesl Studio , all of these brochure and catalog templates are based on fully customizable vector graphics. They are available for download as individual files. So you can download only what you really need for your design project. The modern layouts are well suited for a wide range of business topics.

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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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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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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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Photographer Spotlight: KIN

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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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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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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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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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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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Wedding invite

Design Everywhere

Wedding invite.

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Healthcare UX—Design that Saves Lives

Interaction Design Foundation

UX design has the potential to improve people’s everyday lives. The stakes are even higher if you work as a UX designer in the healthcare industry. The health-tech sector is among the fastest-growing in the world, with expected revenue of USD 1,305.1 billion in 2030, according to Grand View Research. As a UX designer, you have the opportunity to help define the future of healthcare.

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Design Everywhere

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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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Anagram creates a “light and springy” new brand for Aevi

Creative Review

Set up in 2012 as part of financial and retail technology company Diebold Nixdorf, Aevi was spun out as its own business in 2015 and now offers a cloud-based payment platform that works across different channels and devices. To cement its positioning as a payment partner, Anagram was tasked with updating Aevi’s branding – which had previously featured a bendy, only semi-legible wordmark.

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How do you Ensure your Business Runs Smoothly in Turbulent Times?

Noupe

Recession. It’s the word businesses dread because it means layoffs, a decline in sales and profit – and for many, bankruptcy. However, the world has already weathered a great number of recessions, and businesses have been finding ways to thrive even in the direst conditions. That means you can do it too, and this article provides you with actionable ways in which you can ensure your business runs smoothly in turbulent times. . 1.

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The difference between Gamification and Incentivization, and how to use them in edTech

UX Collective

Gamification does not mean ‘adding badges’ Let’s explore the real crossovers between games and edTech. Continue reading on UX Collective ».

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The If You Could Jobs weekly: What the four-day week looks like for a creative company

Its Nice That

We talk to Sounds Like These, a studio currently trialling the four-day week, about the difference it’s made to their company, and whether they think the concept has legs.

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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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Artist Spotlight: Anna Fusco

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12 unique decorative vector elements Edition 37

Creative Nerds

This is the 37th edition of our very popular vector series we have been running on Creative Nerds for a few years. This vector set includes 12 unique decorative vectors perfect to be used in both print and vector design projects. The vector set is 100% free. Just download the vector set from the button […]. The post 12 unique decorative vector elements Edition 37 first appeared on Creative Nerds.

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How to Calculate Due Dates with Google Sheets

HONGKIAT

Say the date today is the 12th of August 2022. If I were to ask you what the date is tomorrow and the date the day after, you’d be able to figure it out quickly without much calculation. Likewise, when someone asks you about a date six months after the 12th of August 2022? That may require a bit of work, and you can answer it with a quick Google search.

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Vase Sculptures by Lætitia Jacquetton

This is Paper

Lætitia Jacquetton is a French artist who creates ethereal mouth-blown glass vessels adorned with rocks gathered from nature.

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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.