Designer Daily

JUNE 9, 2020

Every week, we’ll give you an overview of the best deals for designers, make sure you don’t miss any by subscribing to our deals feed. You can also follow the recently launched website Type Deals if you are looking for free fonts or font deals. Artifex Forge’s Finest Vintage Set of Affinity Brushes. With the Artifex Forge’s Finest Vintage Cross-Hatch Pen and Ink Brushes Set you can now easily create your own authentic looking vintage works of art!

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Spine Magazine

JUNE 9, 2020

We welcome you to another in our ongoing feature in which notable book cover designer Jordan Wannemacher periodically highlights a selection of recent university press cover designs. Please enjoy this celebration of amazing work. This list is in no particular order. Credits are listed below. If you are a book cover creative and want your work or the work of your department reviewed by Jordan be sure to get in touch with us!

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

JUNE 9, 2020

Dispersion effects create a really cool look in your finished photos. This effect basically works by taking an image and then breaking up on one edge so that it appears as though it’s been broken up into tiny pieces. As you might imagine, trying to create this image manually would be quite tedious. However, this can be easily remedied by the use of a Photoshop action.

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Trendland

JUNE 9, 2020

Words TL Team. Belgium-based duo artists Katarzyna & Marcin Owczarek submitted us these wonderful surreal Animal Collages. Telling stories is a part of their photography project based on surrealistic imagery. The ongoing mixed-media series of collages, titled " My Hearth is An Animal ".

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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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Colossal

JUNE 9, 2020

All images © Tawny Chatmon, shared with permission. In The Redemption , photography-based artist Tawny Chatmon ( previously ) celebrates the beauty of Black hair through a series of arresting portraits superimposed with 24 karat gold flourishes. Each photograph features a solemn child who’s dressed in hand-painted ornate, gilt garments that are inspired by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt’s Golden Phase. “These portraits are meant to act as a counter-narrative and redemptive measu

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Trendland

JUNE 9, 2020

Words TL Team. Today Sony revealed the overall winners for this year's 2020 Sony World Photography Awards. Created by the World Photography Organization and sponsored by Sony, it is considered as one of the world’s largest and prestigious photography competitions.

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Graphic Mama

JUNE 9, 2020

Suddenly, your ideas that it could be good to have an online store have turned into a necessity. You may be thinking of turning your physical store into an online store, setting up from scratch, or working a physical store with an online version too. It would seem like a good idea to cover as many basis as possible in what are and will possibly remain uncertain times.

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Under Consideration / Brand

JUNE 9, 2020

“Straight from the Sauce”. (Est. 1975) " Encona , the brand, was first registered by parent company Enco Products Ltd. Soon after the company was incorporated in December 1946 and during the 1950's and 1960's, when West Indians first began to arrive in the UK, the company sold Caribbean grocery products such as peas, beans and pounded yam, ground rice and cornmeal products.

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Its Nice That

JUNE 9, 2020

Founded by Jay Vaz and Lawrie Miller, Dreaming Vinyl is all about discovering music and experimenting with the vinyl sticker design process.

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Design Week

JUNE 9, 2020

“We deserve more than black squares today,” Vanessa Newman wrote in the caption for an Instagram post announcing the launch of Design to Divest. The initiative is a “task force of designers” who create material for black organisers who are “building towards the divestment of capitalism and white supremacist structures” It was started as a lockdown initiative by the designer for other designers to come together, create, and share work.

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Brown Paper Bag

JUNE 9, 2020

Want to make your home a happier one? Fill it with things that bring you joy! This is a no-brainer by now, and the idea is one that ceramicist and illustrator Naomi Anderson-Subryan thinks about as she creates charming objects—including her take on Staffordshire dogs, elephant vessels, and duos like spaghetti and meatballs. “I spend a lot of time looking at and collecting kitsch ornaments, mainly small ceramic animal figures collected from the bric-a-brac sections of charity shops,” she tells me

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Colossal

JUNE 9, 2020

All images © Adam Hillman, shared with permission. Adam Hillman ( previously ) has taken recommendations to choose a balanced diet seriously. For each slice of Granny Smith apple, the New Jersey-based artist pairs a quartered cucumber, halved kiwi, and peeled plantain in a meticulous, color-coded arrangement. Using produce, candy, and breakfast fare, Hillman organizes an array of perishables into patterns and geometric sequences, which he often shares on Instagram. “There’s something

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Design You Trust

JUNE 9, 2020

1909 “The Japanese parasol.” John Cimon Warburg/SSPL/Getty Images Born into a wealthy family, John Cimon Warburg (1867 – 1931) was able to devote his time wholeheartedly to photography because bad asthma stopped him from working in a full time job and a private income gave him economic freedom. He excelled at the autochrome process, giving lectures and writing extensively on the subject.

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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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Abduzeedo

JUNE 9, 2020

Money Life, Wild Life - The Species of our Money World. abduzeedo 06.09.20 We are all living in a financial jungle. This series illustrates the species of our money world. Charis Tsevis have started this series when a good client of him asked him to suggest some artworks to decorate a new headquarter for a financial institution. I thought it would be a good idea to create a series of animal portraits.

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Shillington

JUNE 9, 2020

Now going into their 6th year, the Typographics Annual Design festival is for all creatives who love type. The eleven-day event will include presentations about graphic design, web design, publication design, book design, type design, packaging, branding, corporate identity, advertising and motion graphics with a focus on the developments in digital typography.

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Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

JUNE 9, 2020

During lockdown I have been producing the occasional free to download and print colouring sheet. 'Catching Butterflies' is latest to be uploaded to my website www.chris-dunn.co.uk/colouring-sheets There are seven in total, so if you find yourself at a loose end, print some off and have a go and please send me your results!

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Feature Shoot

JUNE 9, 2020

Raju, Mumbai, December 2012. Maureen, London. Cazu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Although HIV is no longer the death sentence it once was, the stigma of the disease still impacts some 38 million people around the world living with it today. The specter of fear informed ignorance casts a long shadow that is hard to shake, its ruthless brutality wreaking havoc on vulnerable populations in its wake. “My father called me on the phone and said, ‘Don’t call me again.

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Its Nice That

JUNE 9, 2020

Spanning documentary photography and film, we chat to the Cape Town-based photographer to find out more about his influences.

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Design You Trust

JUNE 9, 2020

Mockingjay, Berlin According to Robin and Judith: “6 years ago, we had an idea that we never thought would work! We both love to travel around the world and we were looking for special destinations. Our idea was searching for filming locations and trying to take a picture that looks as close as possible to the original scene. When we took the first picture, we realized this is the perfect way for.

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Creative Review

JUNE 9, 2020

To round off the release of his new EP Street Talk on Timetable Records, LA-based producer Holodec has worked with design studio Bureau Cool on a digital experience exploring the tension between destruction and rebirth. The visuals are designed to evoke Holodec’s own personal upheaval as well as where wider society is at today, building a connection between human and natural conflicts.

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Its Nice That

JUNE 9, 2020

The Seoul-based illustrator has been commissioned by the likes of The New Yorker and The New York Times, but still maintains the importance of personal projects.

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Booooooom

JUNE 9, 2020

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Shillington

JUNE 9, 2020

Credit: Fiona Finchett. The 31st edition of the Manchester’s PechaKucha Night is coming—and it’s online! And, better still, it’s free! For their 31st PechaKucha, PK Manchester are focussing on the theme of migration. At a time when movements are becoming ever more restricted, be it by pandemic or policy, they want to explore the stories of those whose lives have been shaped by migration.

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Design You Trust

JUNE 9, 2020

Why Can’t You Just Pull Yourself Up Whether you’ve seen them in movies or pictures, or seen them personally, you probably know what a wind dancer is. It’s a solemn, happy stick figure that flails about in the wind near a gas station or some dollar store. But Mamie Young saw something more in them: they stand as a comical background in contrast to all of the US’s current problems.

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Booooooom

JUNE 9, 2020

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