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F5: Katherine Duclos Talks Cement, Bubble Wrap, LEGO + More

Design Milk

Katherine Duclos had dabbled in drawing and photography, but it wasnt until she moved to New York from Shanghai, China, that she wanted to seriously consider a creative path as a career. When she found an apartment in Brooklyn, she realized that Pratt Institute was just down the road and decided to enroll. She first had hopes of becoming an art teacher, and even though her original vision changed, the formal education marked a turning point in her life.

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Draw your own 'floating cube' optical illusion: an arty party trick and fun creative exercise

Creative Bloq

This video shows you how to draw it.

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RS Barcelona Expands the Plec Collection, Fold by Fold

Design Milk

With its architectural lines and sculptural folds, the Plec Collection by RS Barcelona has always brought a quiet strength and sense of balance to interiors. Now, the collection expands fold by fold with two new additions: the Plec Shelving System and the Plec Dining Table. Each piece stays true to the originals symmetrical design expression while offering even more ways to infuse everyday life with design-driven beauty.

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What is anti-design, the rising trend that tears up the rule book?

Creative Bloq

The design trend can give you a more authentic edge – if you do it right.

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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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Spout Turns Moisture From the Air Into Drinking Water

Design Milk

Water is one of our planets most vital and increasingly scarce resources. Rising utility bills and growing environmental concerns have many of us rethinking how we consume and source our water. But what if you could literally make drinking water out of thin air? Thats the futuristic promise behind Spout , an innovative water-generating appliance developed by the industrial design company Bould.

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How an inspired gamble on Nintendo Switch 2's mouse controls led to party game Mouse Work

Creative Bloq

Nitrome's Mat Annal reveals how one of the best-looking Switch 2 launch games came about.

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"Each time you watch the ad, you smile": Aardman on the Thatcher's Juicy Apple ad

Creative Bloq

Director Dan Binns and producer Joseph Bell reveal the process for their Thatchers Juicy Apple commercial.

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Discarded Packaging and Labels Find New Life in Kelly Kozma’s Vibrant Patchworks

Colossal

From dozens of Chiquita banana labels to toothpaste packaging to color-coded quality control stickers, Kelly Kozma finds beauty in everyday ephemera. “Piece by piece, she saves any colorful or textured box that she encounters, even though most are expected to be discarded after their original use,” says Paradigm Gallery + Studio , which opens the artist’s solo exhibition Watch Me Backflip this weekend.

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Snapchat's redesign fail shows users don't always want minimalist UI

Creative Bloq

Less sometimes really is less.

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The problems with running human evals

UX Collective

And how you can debugthem Disclaimer: The opinions stated here are my own, not necessarily those of my employer. In my previous essay , I ranted about why benchmarks are pretty much useless for judging model use in actual products ( BEFORE Satya Nadella , if I might add) and why you need custom evals. This essay is a rant about what could go wrong when you implement custom evals, especially when you use humanraters.

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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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How a fun rebrand and a new mascot boosted this brand's reputation tenfold

Creative Bloq

Say hello to Andi the hand.

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“Lakeside” by Photographer Shane Rocheleau

Booooooom

American photographer Shane Rocheleau contemplates his home of Lakeside, Virginia in the wake of November 9, 2016.

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Is AI giving clients impossible expectations of designers?

Creative Bloq

Some people now think logos and artwork should take minutes to produce.

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Heartful Nature-Inspired Peaceful Artworks By Mulgil Kim

Design You Trust

Mulgil Kims work is a refined and evocative homage to nature, transporting viewers into tranquil, dreamlike landscapes that inspire contemplation. She has expressed a profound affinity for the emotional language of nature, using her art to examine the intricate relationship between humans and the natural world. Her paintings feature recurring motifs that create a cohesive and recognizable aesthetic.

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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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Brand Guidelines Presentation Template: Unlock Pro Results Easily with This InDesign Gem

We And The Color

As graphic designers, we all know that brand guidelines are crucial for consistency, but the process can feel daunting, right? Building a comprehensive guide from scratch takes time, design skill, and a clear structure. What if you could get a massive head start? Let’s talk about a brand guidelines presentation template for Adobe InDesign that might just be your new best friend.

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100+ Free Photoshop Pencil Brushes For Digital Drawing

Design Beep

Photoshop’s pencil brushes are essential tools for digital artists seeking precise, hard-edged lines with a traditional feel. Unlike the standard brush tool which creates soft-edged strokes, pencil brushes create pixel-perfect lines with no anti-aliasing or feathering. Key Features Hard Edges : Creates crisp, defined lines without softness Pixel Precision : Perfect for detailed work requiring exactness Pressure Sensitivity : When used with a drawing tablet, can mimic real pencil behavior C

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Adobe Creative Cloud Deal: Snag 40% Off Industry-Standard Tools Right Now!

We And The Color

Now you can get access to the software the creative pros use, but for less. Maybe you’ve eyed Adobe Creative Cloud , wondering if it fits the budget. Well, there’s excellent news for anyone ready to elevate their creative projects. A significant Adobe Creative Cloud deal is currently available, offering a substantial 40% discount on popular subscription plans.

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This Artist-Run Archive Preserves Endangered Photographic Negatives in a Celebration of Lagos

Colossal

During a trip to Lagos in 2015, Karl Ohiri noticed something alarming. The British-Nigerian artist observed how long-running photography studios in the city were destroying their archivessometimes incidentally, sometimes purposelyas they shuttered or moved out of the city into quieter village settings. And as a generation of photographers shifted to digital methods, film began to literally disappear.

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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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Korean Artist Started To Draw Cats 3 Years Ago, Now She Has The Most Adorable Collection

Design You Trust

Cats are the ultimate muses, and for Mori, a Korean artist from Seoul, that couldn’t be more true. We are delighted to tell you about the wonderful journey that this collection has been on. It started with just a few illustrations of her own cat, and has grown and grown over the past three years to become an irresistibly charming collection that we are so excited to share with you.

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Since 1981, One Man Has Relocated Nearly 1,000 Snowy Owls from Logan Airport

Colossal

Upwards of 17 million commercial flights ferry passengers across U.S. airspace each year. (It’s more than twice that, in total, worldwide.) Those hundreds of thousands of vessels share the sky with winged things that have been around way, way longer than airliners, but it’s not always an easy relationship. Through the work of people like Norman Smith at Boston’s primary international terminal, we’re learning more every day about a remarkable species and their evolving way

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ICE detainees shuttled to further away facilities

FlowingData

As more people are detained, they are sent to detention centers in the South and Southwest, despite the distance and cost. Some areas are more likely to deport detainees. From Bloomberg: A Bloomberg analysis of more than a decade of government data shows that 70% of immigrants detained in Louisiana and New Mexico end up deported, which is almost twice the rate of those detained in the Northeast, and is well above the national average of 53%.

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New Nvidia AI Blueprint is a bridge between Blender and AI image generation

Creative Bloq

The pipeline uses 3D scenes to structure AI images. AI image generation can still be very hit and miss.

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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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Deportation Data Project

FlowingData

The Deportation Data Project , launched by a group of researchers and lawyers, is an effort to keep track of what seems to be growing more secret. The U.S. government logs every individual immigration arrest, immigration detention book-in, immigration court outcome, and deportation. But this information is nonetheless difficult to use for three main reasons: 1) infrequent and inconsistent data releases, 2) insufficient linking across datasets, and 3) insufficient documentation.

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"Tonight is about you telling me how f ing amazing my art is": Robbie Williams launches new art show – and I was there

Creative Bloq

Robbie's show is called Radical Honesty, and it is exactly what is says on the label.

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In Valencia, a Historic Hospice Becomes a University Campus

Azure Magazine

Heritage architecture is part of the romance of university campuses. But as educational institutions grow and expand, their design language often evolves with the trends of the time. Step onto the newly opened campus of Universidad Europea in Valencia, and you might be fooled into thinking its been around for centuries. Granted, youd only be half wrong.

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Universities that received federal funding for research

FlowingData

Big universities more often make the news, but the freeze in federal funding could affect research across the country. For the New York Times, Andrea Fuller, Zach Levitt, and Isabelle Taft use a Dorling cartogram and a beeswarm chart to show how funding is distributed , based on data from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics.

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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.

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Wythe Hotel New York by Morris Adjmi Architects — Thisispaper

This is Paper

Rising like a cultural beacon from the industrial relics of North 11th Street, the Wythe Hotel marks a pivotal moment in Williamsburgs transformation from gritty outpost to curated enclave.

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It’s (far past) time to control the algorithm

UX Collective

Should algorithmic feeds fall under user experience?

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Essential CSS Minifier Tools for Modern Web Development

Design Beep

CSS minification is a critical step in optimizing website performance, reducing file sizes by removing unnecessary whitespace, comments, and optimizing code structure without changing functionality. I’ve compiled this extensive list of CSS minifier tools to help you choose the right one for your projects. Online CSS Minifiers CSS Compressor This versatile tool provides multiple compression levels, allowing you to choose between basic minification and aggressive optimization.

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Generative AI and the triad color harmony

UX Collective

DeepSeek goes back to basics for a color scheme success in data visualization.

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Web Design for All: Accessibility, Inclusivity and Beyond

Speaker: Eden Spivak, Design Expert and Editor at Wix & Nir Horesh, Accessibility Lead and Senior Product Manager at Wix

When we design products or websites for people like ourselves, there are many others who are, as a result, left out. From visually impaired users who rely on assistive technology, to people with a temporary injury such as a broken arm, tech users are forever diverse and beautifully unique. The products we design can, and should, reflect the extremely wide range of human experiences and needs.