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The nostalgic pop aesthetic of motion designer Ardhira Putra

Creative Review

When motion designer and illustrator Ardhira Putra was a kid he often drew Son Goku from Dragon Ball as well as copying characters from other comics such as Astro Boy, Doraemon and the Adventures of Tintin. When he was 16, it was all about MTV and its respective channels, where Putra fell in love with the idents and graphics that framed the music videos. “I also loved going to the bookstore to look at graphic design books and magazines,” he says. “At that time I was only using

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Weekly News for Designers ? 584

Speckyboy Design Magazine

The 20 Best Photoshop Actions & Layer Styles for Creative Text Effects – Give your regular graphics an extra oomph with incredible typography! This collection includes a massive variety of styles to choose from. Emoji Cloud – Tell the world how you feel by using this CDN for SVG emoji. Glassmorphism UI – Hop on board the glassmorphism trend with this CSS UI library.

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Integrating A ‘PHD’ Strategy Across Brand Channels

Graphic Design USA

Ryan Schmidt of Landor & Fitch contends that now is the time for brand leaders to reconsider how brand experiences truly integrate the physical, human, and digital to deliver authenticity and truth.

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Fantastical Plants and Hybrid Characters Form a Strange Menagerie Crafted by Cat Johnston

Colossal

All images © Cat Johnston, shared with permission. A moth-human hybrid, striped coral, and a smoking frog sporting a tracksuit inhabit Cat Johnston ’s fantastical ecosystem crafted from paper and textiles. The playfully bizarre creatures are inspired by monsters, mythology, and folklore, evoking deities and magnifying the strange qualities of plants and animals.

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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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What is Gamification in Emails and How it Can Benefit Your Marketing

Noupe

Although email marketing may seem a rather still industry, it constantly undergoes changes. They may not be obvious to regular users, but email marketers today have way more tools than they would have even 2 years ago. Gamification is one of such tools. Primarily, before live stories and streaming, game-like content was heavily used on social media to engage followers and prompt shares and likes.

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A Licence to bill. Understanding copyright, licensing and illustration fees.

Lisa Maltby

Some projects involve working for a flat day rate and others are priced according to commercial use of the work. This can present some ambiguity around why jobs are priced differently and who owns the rights to the work created. It’s always important to be clear on terms and fees at the start of the project, but more detailed clarity is sometimes needed to ensure both clients and illustrators feel they are getting a fair deal.

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What is Adobe Illustrator

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Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator is a vector design altering program created and promoted by Adobe Systems Incorporated. The absolute first form of Adobe Illustrator was created in 1986, delivered to people in general in January 1987, and was just accessible for the Apple Macintosh. Today, current variants of the program are accessible for PCs utilizing the Microsoft Windows working framework, and for Apple Macintosh PCs, however before, more seasoned adaptations of the product were once deli

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A Brutalist-Inspired Washroom Rises in Tokyo

Azure Magazine

Nestled between an off-ramp for the metropolitan expressway and the Sendagaya subway station entrance, a new monolith has gone up near Tokyo’s National Stadium. Behind the soaring 7.5-metre reinforced concrete facade, however, is a suite of all-gender public toilets. The high-design loo, conceived by local practice Suppose Design Office , is yet another addition to the city’s ongoing project of outfitting the Shibuya ward with improved washrooms ahead of the now postponed Olympics.

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Afrocentric stock photography company, Picha Stock, releases a new collection for Women’s History Month

Its Nice That

Founded by Josiane Faubert, Picha Stock’s new collection aims to amplify “the beauty, diversity and intelligence of the modern Black woman.”.

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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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Sotoko, the Japanese Artist Who Draws Minimalistic Illustrations of Short-Haired Girls

Design You Trust

A few months ago, I came upon a Japanese artist’s Instagram page: @e.sotoko. The minimalistic illustrations immediately captured my heart, so I decided to follow the account. Sotoko tries to express the beauty of women in few strokes and simple lines. The artist is very fond of short hairstyles on girls, and most of the drawings feature short-hair ladies with a cool yet elegant style.

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Inside Megacomputeur’s world

Creative Review

French collective MegaComputeur make funny films for grownups. Here, we chat with its three founders about their playful process focused on fun, and their delightfully twisted CGI animations. The post Inside Megacomputeur’s world appeared first on Creative Review.

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“The Morning Is Not Good”: Artist Klim Novoseltsev Welcomes You Into His Surreal World of Strange Places and Horror Creatures

Design You Trust

Klim Novoseltsev is an artist and musician originally from Kirovsk in the Murmansk region of Russia. He lives and works in St. Petersburg. His works are filled with the power of nature, sometimes animate or personified. There are references to biblical motifs, including eschatological ones, and, according to him, he does not like excessive esoterism in his work.

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“Raised by Water” by Photographer Jiajun Wang

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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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Tactile, quick, scribbly and playful: Lotte Cassidy reflects on lockdown in a new series of illustrations

Its Nice That

The London-based illustrator explores the minutiae of every day life in lockdown.

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The Spirit of Post-Apocalyptic Russia Through the Incredible Atmospheric Photographs of Alexander Sukharev

Design You Trust

Russian photographer and urban explorer Alexander Sukharev likes to take pictures not only with his camera, but also mostly from the air with his drone: abandoned churches and military bases, monuments of socialist realism, crumbling houses in the lush blossom of the apple trees surrounding them, showing all the beauty and charm of the combination of death and life.

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The Space Creative rebrands plant-based cheese alternative as a “foodie choice”

Design Week

The Space Creative has rebranded plant-based cheese alternative Sheese, in a bid to mark its offering out as a “foodie choice”, rather than a “poorer substitute for real cheese” Made by Bute Island Foods, in a vegan creamery on the Isle of Bute off Scotland’s west coast, Sheese offers many plant-based alternatives to dairy cheeses, like Cheddar, Gouda and Edam.

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Early 1950s Tijuana Bible, a Humorous Pamphlet About Urination

Design You Trust

Tijuana bibles were palm-sized comic books produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s. Their popularity peaked during the Great Depression era. h/t: vintag.es. Most Tijuana bibles were obscene parodies of popular newspaper comic strips of the day, such as “Blondie”, “Barney Google”, “Moon Mullins”, “Popeye”, “Tillie the Toiler”, “The Katzenjammer Kids”, “Dick Tracy”, “Little Orphan Annie”, and “Bringing Up Father”.

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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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Grace Han on Designing Infinite Country

Spine Magazine

Grace Han is an associate art director at Riverhead Books, an imprint at Penguin Random House. How she takes us through her process for creating the vibrant cover for Infinite Country. Infinite Country follows the epic saga of a Colombian family grappling with the trauma of migration. Although they are torn apart by borders, both physical and emotional, they share the same goal: to be together.

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Faith - A series of Chinese Calligraphy Illustrations

Abduzeedo

Faith - A series of Chinese Calligraphy Illustrations. AoiroStudio 03.19.21 We are featuring the work of Edisonwong7 , a visual artist based in Shenzhen, China. There is somehow an explanation on what his project is about but I apologize that Google Translate was not bringing his 'forté' on this translation. But I wanted to feature this work related to the news that we currently hear around the world, especially from the US.

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“I hope to break down some of those barriers”: Devyn Galindo on their inclusive and powerful photography practice

Its Nice That

The LA-based photographer is striving for equal representation within the art world.

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Anti-Slavery Australia launches the world’s first shop to “sell human beings”

Creative Review

Human Mart promo image. All images: Cocogun and the Glue Society Creative agency Cocogun and art and director collective the Glue Society have collaborated with Anti-Slavery Australia (ASA) to create Human Mart – the world’s first supermarket to “sell human beings” According to the campaign, around 15,000 people are being kept in slave-like conditions in Australia today, often used as domestic workers, cheap labour in sexual exploitation or trapped in forced marriages.

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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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Jimmy Turrell and Braulio Amado co-direct a re-release of Elvis Presley’s Can’t Help Falling In Love With You

Its Nice That

Commissioned by Sony’s Legacy Recordings, the duo join forces with Brazilian animator Antonio Vicentini to produce a sketchbook-like ode to the legendary singer.

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How to Design Ethically: Expert Advice from Guthrie Weinschenk

Interaction Design Foundation

As UX designers, we wield immense power to influence our users’ lives. We have the dual responsibility of catering to the interests of our users, as well as that of our sponsors (employers, clients and other business stakeholders). This can sometimes put designers in uncomfortable situations and raise questions about the ethical implications of our work.

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API Integration Development with eCommerce Platforms

Noupe

If you’re looking for a descriptive post on how to perform a flawless API integration with the most popular eCommerce platforms out there, you’ve come to the right place. Below, we will explore the main benefits of developing multiple eCommerce integrations and revealing all the options you can use for successfully connecting your software to the shopping platforms used by your existing and prospective customers. .

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Meet Chirp: The Chipper Seltzer

The Die Line

Chirp is an energy drink focused on bringing you joy and relaxation without crashes and jitters. The packaging of each can reflects these goals with uplifting, bright colors.

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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.