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All Creativity is Problem Solving

Creative Market

This post is part of the Decoding Creativity series from Creative Market. Follow me on Medium or subscribe to the Creative Market blog , and join the discussion by commenting with your questions and thoughts. Imagine, if you will, two hypothetical people. Let’s call them Charlie and Pat. Both are in their mid-20s, fresh out of college, and both work for an organization that values clear communication, personal responsibility, and hard work.

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100 Greatest Free Fonts for 2020

Graphic Design Junction

A great collection for New Year 2020, 100 greatest free fonts gift for you. Fonts are used to add an appeal to your design and to your brand in order to attract potential customers. For our ease, there are numerous fonts available to download for free on the internet. The ideal font will make reading easy when used for a paragraph, even when it is read from a certain distance.

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A Seasonal Event Calendar for Creative Market Shops

Creative Market

Use this calendar to inspire your production and promotion tactics. We have created it based on a combination of the seasonal interest Creative Market users have displayed over the years as well as general market trends that affect our industry. Note that certain months might be ideal to market certain products, but those products must actually be created in advance in order to be ready for sale when their seasonal rise comes.

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Amazing Banner Design Ideas to Impress Your Potential Clients More

Graphic Mama

An amazing collection of banner design ideas that will fuel you with inspiration and beauty for your next banner design project. Nowadays, banners are an absolute must for every brand that wants to thrive. These genius marketing tools provoke engagement, drive traffic to your site, and ultimately help you achieve your business goals. In this collection of banner design ideas, we’ve included social media banners and web banners.

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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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Noted: New Logo and Packaging for Klask by Robot Food

Under Consideration / Brand

“Klask Me Anything”. (Est. 2014) "Created by Danish carpenter, Mikkel Bertelsen, Klask has grown from garage project to cult classic in just 4 years. With over 500,000 units sold to date, the team behind the magnetic two-player table top game saw an opportunity to extend their offering further and expand their brand beyond the box." ( Robot Food project page ).

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Artist Spotlight: Alice Oehr

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Alice Oehr. Alice Oehr’s Website. Alice Oehr on Instagram.

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Weekly News for Designers ? 519

Speckyboy Design Magazine

A Look at the Proper Usage of the alt Attribute – Techniques for ensuring that your images make the most out of alternative text. UX Christmas – A UX advent calendar covering a variety of related topics. A History of CSS Through Fifteen Years of 24 ways – Rachel Andrew looks at how both CSS and her own thinking have evolved over time. Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Smaller Web Design Projects – Small projects may not make you rich, but there are other benefits.

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Reviewed: Friday Likes 311: From Abraham Lule, Onion Design Associates, and Guud Studio

Under Consideration / Brand

“From Abraham Lule, Onion Design Associates, and Guud Studio”. A healthy range of restaurant identities this week, with work from Brooklyn, Taipei, and Barcelona. Carbón by Abraham Lule. Carbón is a Mexican restaurant in Bondi, New South Wales, Australia, that focuses on wood-fired dishes on a grill, using charcoal (which is the English word for "carbón").

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Artist Draws Honest Illustrations That Show The Damage Caused By Plastic Pollution

Design You Trust

According to an artist Ravi Koranga: “My name is Ravi Koranga and I’m a 24-year-old artist from India. I decided to create a theme I felt is so important to understand, posting what’s happening in ocean depictions every day of Inktober. My conceptual art series shows a tiny scuba diver wandering through different ocean-facing scenarios which depict how much destruction is caused by plastic.

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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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Blank Poster Volume 1 Book is Pure Poster Design Inspiration

Abduzeedo

Blank Poster Volume 1 Book is Pure Poster Design Inspiration. abduzeedo Dec 20, 2019 Blank Poster Volume 1 is a poster design and inspiration book featuring 700+ posters made by 393 designers from 53 nationalities. The posters featured are a selection of experimental, minimal, weird and interesting posters submitted to blankposter.com and were all based on random one-word design briefs. .

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“Shaped by the West” by Photographer Dino Kužnik

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Stylish Typeface Design for AppD Sans

Abduzeedo

Stylish Typeface Design for AppD Sans. abduzeedo Dec 20, 2019 Kallan & Co , Paul Russell , Brett King and Hannu Koho share a beautiful typeface design project on their Behance profile. The font created is called AppD Sans and it was designed in conjunction with the rebrand of AppDynamics by Cisco. They also worked with Göran Söderström from Letters From Sweden on the type design and the result is truly beautiful.

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Stunning Vintage Photos Of Swimming In New York’s Open Air Pools In 1930s

Design You Trust

July 1935. Wading pool, Carmansville Playground. “As you swim,” wrote Anaïs Nin,“you are washed of all the excrescences of so-called civilization, which includes the incapacity to be happy under any circumstances.” Nin wrote that whilst taking the waters off in Acapulco, Mexico, in the winter of 1947. New York City was another place. “In New York people seem intent on not seeing each other.

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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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Elegant Editorial Design for the Chung Ying Theatre Company 2019

Abduzeedo

Elegant Editorial Design for the Chung Ying Theatre Company 2019. abduzeedo Dec 20, 2019 Orange Chan Design shared a super elegant editorial design project they created for the Chung Ying Theatre Company 2019 Seasonal Launch. The printed material explores a dark theme with most pages being printed with black background. That alone makes it look awesome, at least for me, but in addition to that they typography and the excellent use of imagery takes the whole design to the next level.

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Create Unique Business Cards With These Simple Tips

Inspiration Feed

Why would a business card have to respect precise and pre-established rules?

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A Checklist for Launching Your Creative Market Shop

Creative Market

Just launched your Creative Market shop and don’t know where to start? We’ve created a handy checklist to help you remember some of the first steps involved in the process. Click on the image below for a larger, printable version of the checklist. Save. You want to make sure that your shop is properly named, branded, and populated with at least one product.

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How To Build a Decent Brand Logo

Graphic Design Junction

As a top logo designer, we understand how difficult is to create best logo for any business. Designing your organization’s visual personality takes a great deal of time and can be exorbitant. If you need to establish a decent first connection to clients, create a business logo that is immortal, straightforward, and a representation of your image.

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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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The Remixed Porcelain Sculptures of Penny Byrne

Hi-Fructose

The remixed and altered porcelain sculptures of ceramicist Penny Byrne often have a political edge. Byrne's methods recall the methods of Barnaby Barford and the late Click Mort. She uses enamel paints, epoxy resin, putty, and other materials to evolve these found statues. More.

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Using More Than 4,000 Pieces of Paper, Artist Lisa Lloyd Painstakingly Constructs Birds and Butterflies

Colossal

Robin. All images © Lisa Lloyd, shared with permission. Employing tweezers to place each bit of paper, London-based artist Lisa Lloyd ( previously ) meticulously assembles birds and butterflies. Her realistic sculptures feature geometric pieces that are arranged in a pattern by color and then glued in place. Lloyd’s birds are constructed internally with a card, paper, and tissue paper skeleton before they are outfitted with more than 4,000 individual paper pieces that the artist hand-score

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Twelve Parsecs: The Ultimate Star Wars House Is On Airbnb

Design You Trust

If you were to plan the ultimate vacation to Disney World’s new Star Wars theme park Galaxy’s Edge, you may as well stay in the ultimate accommodations. The house called Twelve Parsecs by Loma Homes in Orlando is available to rent through Airbnb. It has nine bedrooms with 17 beds, each with a different Star Wars theme. You can sleep in Cloud City, Alderaan, Hoth, Tatooine, Mustafar.

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2 Important Tips For Workplace Lighting

Inspiration Feed

Lighting affects us in all capacities – the lights from our phones hurt our eyes when we first open them in the morning, the lack of daylight in the winter brings on some seasonal depression, and good lighting decides if…

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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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A Walking Bicycle That Uses The Mechanical Design Of Theo Jansen’s Kinetic Wind-Powered Strandbeest

Design You Trust

A craftsman for The Q science channel quite skillfully built a walking bicycle that employs the same mechanical design pioneered by Theo Jansen for his incredible Strandbeests, a series of wind-powered kinetic sculptures. The craftsman carefully designed, cut and welded the piece that would replace the back wheel of a black bicycle. “I want to show you symbiosis of bicycle and walking.

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The Colored Pencil Drawings of Uli Knörzer

Hi-Fructose

Uli Knörzer’s gorgeous colored pencil portraits are rich with detail and humanity. The artist moves between familiar and lesser known subjects in his work. Each is given his or her own space, Knörzer using negative space and abstracting garments to extract the figure’s personality. More.

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Spotted: New Logo for Agora done In-house

Under Consideration / Brand

Visit Link. About Spotted posts. No further images are included. No opinion is given. Not even a punny title. These are just… spotted. Best available link to learn more about the change (or the company) provided in the link above. Poll and comments are open.

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OTRO Design's Work On Women-Owned Bliss Wine Is Bright, Fun, And Self-Confident

The Die Line

Bliss Wine is easy to buy, store, consume individually and it's especially fun to share. And oh. you don't need to pretend to be anything you are not. It is delicious, pairs well with almost everything and is always, always emotionally available. Sounds like a really good catch, right :).

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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.