Spoon Graphics

JULY 22, 2020

Affinity Live has kicked off today with 50 of the best Affinity products on offer with a huge 50% discount. This is your chance to own the best brushes, patterns, ornaments, creators, and much more. Throughout this week there will also be several FREE Live Sessions with some of the biggest names in the Affinity community, so you can learn how to use your new tools for lettering, illustrating, and creating effects in Affinity Designer. 75 Affinity Products. 50% Off!

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Brown Paper Bag

JULY 22, 2020

Inspired by “all things decorative and surreal,” illustrator Stephanie Singleton creates images that incorporate floral beauty with subject matter bordering on the bizarre. I especially enjoy her portraits of people that explore the element of emptiness. A face of a person is replaced with the sky, while the outline of a dress reflects the environment around it.

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Its Nice That

JULY 22, 2020

With clients increasingly expecting illustrations to be animated for digital campaigns, illustrator and animator Abbey Lossing spells out the skills you need to have a leg-up in a competitive sphere.

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Animation Illustration Illustrator Client 101

Creative Review

JULY 22, 2020

The Unsigned Prize for Illustration was launched this year to support emerging illustrators, designers and typographers. An extension of BBH’s Unsigned initiative – which was set up to showcase creatives without commercial representation – it offers five creatives a chance to have their work featured in an exhibition at the agency’s London HQ.

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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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JULY 22, 2020

How do you overcome creative block? It’s a simple question, but one that we wrestle with as creatives over and over again. Just when we think we’ve found the answer to move past a current rut, a new challenge arises. Feeling stuck happens to all of us—newly minted graduates, creatives early in their practice, mid-career practitioners, and seasoned pros. .

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Creative Review

JULY 22, 2020

Born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, Gordon Parks took photographs that focused on race relations, poverty, civil rights and urban life. He was the first African American staff photographer and writer for photography magazine, Life, and through this position, Parks documented American culture and early life from the 1940s to the 2000s.

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Trendland

JULY 22, 2020

Words Mariana Bettinelli. Miami Art Deco and Archizoom , the Italian design group of the 70’, are the inspirations behind the project of the Paradiso Ibiza Art Hotel by Ilmiodesign studio.

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Art Architecture Inspiration Interior Design 114

Creative Review

JULY 22, 2020

We’ve seen a whole host of imaginative and experimental projects come out of the practical restrictions imposed by lockdown, from animated music videos to Covid-themed emoji designs. As a brand that is no stranger to experimentation in its campaigns, Gucci has been well placed to embrace the new normal. The fashion house’s latest creative experiment is Myristica, a comic book produced in partnership with biannual art magazine Kaleidosope to coincide with its new issue.

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Noupe

JULY 22, 2020

Internet users access numerous websites and resources to better search for and use various online information. In regards to Google Chrome, online users, marketers, and enterprises benefit from using the best chrome extensions for marketing in 2020. With extensions, Google Chrome assists digital professionals and businesses with many marketing services to improve articles and social media content, search engine optimization (SEO), and E-commerce sites.

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Advertiser: Issuu

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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Under Consideration / Brand

JULY 22, 2020

“A More Compact Constant Contact”. (Est. 1995) " Constant Contact , an Endurance International Group company and a leader in email marketing since 1995, is a trusted partner in helping small businesses, nonprofits, and individuals dream smarter. With all the tools you need to market your ideas, we make it easy to quickly and affordably build a professional brand online, attract customers, and sell more products--helping you achieve real results.".

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SpeckyBoy

JULY 22, 2020

Is there anything more iconic than a T-shirt? Worn by anyone from James Dean posing as a rebel and a heartbreaker, to streetwear fashion influencers like Olivia Palermo, T-shirts are one of the most impactful pieces of clothing today. So the next time you’re preparing a design for a clothing line, apparel, merchandising, branding, or anything that requires your customers to get a sense of your style, make sure you use T-shirt mockups.

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Colossal

JULY 22, 2020

?. Based on an audio recording from a 2016 trip to the Amazon, Australian artist Andy Thomas interprets birds’ trills, squawks, and coos through an animated series of digital sculptures. An extension of a previous project , “ Visual Sounds of the Amazon 2 ” is an abstract rendering composed of bursting dots, billowing fog, and flashes of amorphous forms that correspond to the avian sounds.

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Digital Sculpture Animation Artist 101

Booooooom

JULY 22, 2020

Mai Ta. Mai Ta’s Website. Mai Ta on Instagram.

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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.

Graphic Design

Its Nice That

JULY 22, 2020

The Ghanaian photographer tells us of his path into image-making – one that involved a search for freedom and a world filled with endless possibilities.

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Photography 98

Azure Magazine

JULY 22, 2020

Bigger isn’t always better. While there are no shortage of striking projects that attest to this, Fala Atelier ‘s recent 190-square-metre residential complex in their native Porto makes a surprising virtue of its smallness, maximizing a compact urban footprint to create an expressive multi-unit development. Comprising six two-storey suites — “four identical and two exceptional,” according to the studio — the project’s two unique structures frame a communal garden fo

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Architecture Graphic Portfolio Animation 82

The Die Line

JULY 22, 2020

The concept of dried fruit packaging finds inspiration in the compositions and colors of iconic paintings.

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Art Color Inspiration 98

Booooooom

JULY 22, 2020

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Photography 147

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JULY 22, 2020

Ekaterina Torokhova's Next Track found inspiration in the mood and atmosphere of a techno club.

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Abduzeedo

JULY 22, 2020

Fun & Games by Bullpen. abduzeedo 07.22.20 Bullpen , an independent creative studio based in NYC creating engaging content through design & animation, shared an awesome motion design project with us. Fun & Games , is a tongue in cheek look at the games we design and give our children. It's all fun & games. Until it isn't. Developed over the course of a year, this piece is inspired after time spent playing with our own children.

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Press'd

JULY 22, 2020

Our 2020 wedding collection features brand new die-cut shapes that can transform your wedding invitation suite into something truly unique. Whether you choose a whimsical palm leaf for a tropical celebration or a classic shape to highlight traditional typography, we have invitation and save the date shapes for any style. Now through August 31, 2020, save 25% on any die-cut shape.

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Typography Brand Branding 52

Design Week

JULY 22, 2020

NB Studio has rebranded media agency Wavemaker in a move that aims to create greater consistency across the company and embody its brand position of “positive provocation” The design work includes a new logo, animations and brand strategy, as well as a range of collateral with the updated branding. Wavemaker is headquartered in London and is the second biggest media agency in the world with over 7,000 employees.

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Its Nice That

JULY 22, 2020

The esteemed creative director has worked for some of the biggest names in the business. Here, she discusses how books have been a never-ending source of inspiration.

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Digital Arts

JULY 22, 2020

Pixelmash 2020 comes with free trial and less 'blocks' getting in your way.

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Communication Arts

JULY 22, 2020

Green accents and crisp photography reflect the innovation and creativity that sets test and measurement technology brand NI apart.

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Photography Brand Branding 63

Digital Arts

JULY 22, 2020

You can now plug-in the best optical camera filter simulators to Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.

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