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Gordon Kaye: What GDUSA’s 2020 Inhouse Awards Showcase Tells Us

Graphic Design USA

GDUSA Publisher Gordon Kaye on our 57th anniversary American Inhouse Design Awards edition, which features a showcase of winners of the original and premier competition for inhouse design departments.

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All Green Kitchen

Old Brand New

Sponsored by BEHR? Paint I don’t think it’s a secret to anyone that I crave color when designing a space, and paint has always been a dramatic but relatively simple way to introduce a new shade — and create a totally different mood while doing so. So when BEHR Paint reached out about collaborating on a home project using the BEHR? Color Trends 2021 Palette (all of which are currently available at The Home Depot ) it was pretty much a match made in heaven.

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This Woman Recreates One Famous Classic Painting a Day for a Year, Brings Progress to Another Level

Design You Trust

Ilya Repin “Princess Sofia Alekseyevna” (1879) Liza Yukhnyova from Saint Petersburg, Russia, perfectly gets into characters of famous masterpieces. Her mastery does not look like entertainment but claims to be called art. According to an artist: “I really love art, admiring beauty and talent. I want to actualize great painting from different cultural traditions to show people that it is much.

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Dani Pendergast

Communication Arts

Color theory and metaphors play a huge role in the visual language of this San Jose, California–based illustrator.

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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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Four Girls Have Been Taking Their Group Photos For 7 Years

Design You Trust

Four Russian girls, beginning with 2012, have been making their group photos and got them framed. One of them published the photos recently and received a lot of comments from other users. They have been friends since childhood. The second one is dated 2013. 2014 2015 2016 – the previous photo is in their hands. This photo, 2017, was taken on the wedding day of one of the girls.

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Why Some Outdated WordPress Plugins & Themes Are Facing Extinction

Speckyboy Design Magazine

If you manage a website that relies on any WordPress plugins or themes that haven’t seen an update for a while, your time with them may be running out. Recent changes to the CMS have left backwards compatibility in the dust – at least when it comes to use of the jQuery library. With the release of version 5.5, WordPress has started the process of updating the version of jQuery that is shipped with the software.

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Build a common language by referring to design movements

Interaction Design Foundation

Let’s check out a couple of words that are vital to us. Without them or their functions, life would be a nightmare. It would take ages to get anything done! Thankfully, we have categorization and labeling to help us understand our world and communicate with others.Labels and categories are great, time-saving building blocks. As user experience designers we can leverage them to communicate more efficiently and purposely.

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6 Tips for Choosing a Major If You Want to Be a UI/UX Designer

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The demand for UX and UI designers has skyrocketed in the last decade. With the digital devices taking a front seat, the job opportunities for UX and UI designers are at an all-time high. In fact, studies show that for every dollar invested in the UX, companies get an ROI of 100. Meaning that companies.

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Rapid Prototyping, Faking It Until You Make it in a UX Driven World

Interaction Design Foundation

The idea of “faking it, until you make it” is not new but it has a unique UX twist. The ability to develop and test prototypes at rapid rates of iteration lets you “fake” new products, get user feedback and make improvements without ever “making the product” until you have things just right. This can be a very valuable way of making a small budget go a long way.

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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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Old Soviet Ships Transformed Into Yachts for Millionaires

Design You Trust

Some modern super-yachts used to look differently and perform basically military missions. They served interests of their native country and its people. Many Soviet yachts became the property of foreign buyers in the 1990s who bought them quite cheaply. “Valirean Albanov” and Olivia The first in the list is a 70-meters yacht Olivia that was produced as a surveillance ship “Valerian Albanov” in.

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Law & Order

Fonts in Use

Contributed by Nick Sherman License: All Rights Reserved. Law & Order is a US television series set in New York City that first aired 30 years ago today, on September 13, 1990, and ran for 20 seasons until its final episode in 2010. Each episode is split into two segments: an investigation by the police ( Law ) and subsequent prosecution by the district attorney’s office ( Order ).

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Kiro Beauty identity

Communication Arts

Visually striking and contemporary, the identity for Kiro Beauty proves that makeup can be both natural and glamorous.

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Palo Túnel by Simil

Mr. Cup

Posted in Packaging.

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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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Yolélé

Communication Arts

Adoratorio’s website introduces the world to this colorful, flavorful brand of fonio grains.

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