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Linn Fritz illustrates moments of everyday beauty with a playful, design-led style

Creative Boom

London-based illustrator Linn Fritz uses her background as a motion designer to create bold and stylised illustrations of everyday scenes and enigmatic characters. And as the co-founder of multi-platform community Panimation , she's creating a safe space for underrepresented people looking to progress into senior creative positions. Originally from the north of Sweden, Linn studied Motion Graphics at creative business school Hyper Island.

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Spring Illustrations by Delphine Meier

We And The Color

Flowers everywhere, a personal illustration project by Delphine Meier. Born and raised in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, Delphine Meier is an illustrator currently living in Montréal, CA. She really loves spring. It’s her favorite time of the year! That’s why Delphine Meier came up with this lovely illustration project. You can see more of Delphine Meier’s illustrative work on her website or follow her on Behance and Instagram.

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Paintings by Anne Carney Raines inspired by Las Vegas and the architecture of casinos

Creative Boom

Anne Carney Raines. To the average tourist, Las Vegas pretty much boils down to three things: gambling, high-priced shows, and partying. It's not somewhere most people go to for architectural inspiration. But Anne Carney Raines , a painter from Nashville, Tennessee currently living in London, is anything but ordinary. In her eyes, Las Vegas is a place of replications and caricature-like copies, from the first-floor canals of 'Venice' to the cutesy cobbled streets of 'Paris'; all temperature-cont

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Evri-thing Has Changed: The Hermes Rebrand Explored

Canny

We all know Hermes, and we’ve all probably received a parcel from them at some point (even if it did arrive late or was squashed in the bottom of your bin). It’s safe to say that the delivery firm doesn’t exactly have the best reputation, and perhaps this was one of the contributing factors in their latest rebrand. Hermes have changed their name, and full brand identity, to become Evri.

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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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Exciting Design Specialties to Broaden Your Skillset

SpeckyBoy

Designing, whether for print or the web, has never been a more diverse career. Generally speaking, the more you can do for a client, the better and the more work you’ll be able to accept. But what exactly should you focus your attention on when it comes to learning new skills? You probably want to pick skills to learn that have universal appeal and can be applied to many different types of client projects.

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Blue and Pink Design Project Proposal Template for Adobe InDesign

We And The Color

Available for download on Adobe Stock, this well-designed project proposal template is fully customizable. Adobe Stock contributor @Broluthfi has created this easy-to-use Adobe InDesign template. The A5 file is fully print-ready and very easy to edit. With just a few simple clicks, you can adjust graphics or add your own text and images in seconds. The simple layout offers a fresh look.

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How to Integrate Social Proof in Your Website Design

Inkbot Design

How to Integrate Social Proof in Your Website Design. When new visitors come to your website, can they instantly see that your company is reputable and trustworthy? You might hope that your thoughtful UX design – or tasteful colour palette is enough to give the perfect first impression. But if you’re not getting as high a conversion rate as you want, you might be missing something: clear social proof.

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A Cloud-Like Refuge in California

Azure Magazine

While we have seen an ongoing appreciation for the modernist aesthetic in interior design and architecture, we tend to forget some of its characteristic design features were first introduced to regulate the behaviour of inhabitants. Le Corbusier famously employed a rational aesthetic of clean lines, rectilinear forms, and smooth surfaces in the spaces he designed to ensure that their inhabitants would self-moderate their behaviour as though in public.

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10 Sites to Beautify Your Codes Online

HONGKIAT

When creating a website, a well-formatted code ensures that it will be easier to work on in the future. Especially, if you’re working with a team, code formatting becomes crucial as it ensures that your code is easier to understand when future changes or edits are needed. Code formatting is achieved through code beautifier tools. These tools are used to make your code more readable for other programmers and can beautify code in only a couple of seconds.

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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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Plantó Branding

Mindsparkle Mag

In the latest years, people have become more conscious about what they are taking into their bodies. Small businesses and farm producers shifted to the center of the scene, where the B2C grew stronger. Plantó is a familiar business that aims to save agriculture from the stiff environmental impact, offering 100% organic and healthy products. Organic-from-root, Plantó founders asked Pánico Estudio to design their fresh and natural visual identity.

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The KNTR Furniture Collection Blends Into the Outdoors

Design Milk

studio HHID’s KNTR outdoor collection pulls double duty, looking just as good indoors as it does out. The three piece family of furniture – a stool, a low chair, and a coffee table – are linear yet soft in design. Each meant to naturally blend in with a residential outdoor space, which is also where studio HHID found inspiration. Both the stool and low chair use steel rods for their construction that have been bent into shape and welded.

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Old School Spirit: Superb Anime Illustrations by David Liu

Design You Trust

David Liu is an illustrator and art director at The Odd Gentlemen (King’s Quest). Liu does not adhere to any one strict style in his work, but he tries to keep the spirit of the old school – his illustrations resemble the classics of anime of the 70s, 80s and 90s both in coloristics and in the general vivacity of the characters. More: Instagram , Artstation.

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Cheetospheres + Swarovski-Adorned Crushed Cans by Sam Keller

Design Milk

At Pinch , we often get asked: “What comes first, the food or the design?” The honest answers is Chef Bob and I do not have a formula to our creative process. It’s never the same, it ebbs and flows, and we never take ourselves too seriously. Our collaboration routinely uses humor as the brainstorming catapult to bring delight and surprise to our team, clients, and partiers.

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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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Exploring “the tension between the mechanical and the handmade” with illustrator Carolyn Hawkins

Its Nice That

Carolyn's talent spirals through a variety of mediums, most noticeably in her fusion of handmade lettering and illustration.

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Samsung M8 Monitors Color WFH With Entertainment Options

Design Milk

There’s been a considerable amount of talk in both fashion and interior design about the reemergence of color not merely as complementary component, but as the conspicuous focal point in what we wear and how we live. And with tech devices playing such a prominent role in modern homes, it seems time is due for more tech manufacturers (beyond Apple) to embrace this growing trend.

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Manifiesto Branding

Mindsparkle Mag

Combining tradition and vanguard. Design and craftsmanship. Enhancing art. That’s what La Libertad thought when designing Manifiesto’s visual identity. Making visible the manual work of great artisans around Spain, this project consisted of developing the branding for Manifiesto, a brand that worships decorative objects and the nobility of crafts.

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Saving the world is not a KPI: Advocating for people while meeting business goals

UX Collective

State of UX 2022 Saving the world is not a KPI: Advocating for people while meeting business goals Illustrations by Manoel do Amaral In recent years, designers have realized how the digital products we create can be misused to spread far-right ideas , help extremist groups organize , propagate pandemic-related misinformation, and harm teens’ self-esteem.

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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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Ogilvy's brand overhaul for the New York Philharmonic pays homage to its new chapter

Creative Boom

New York is a city that's spent its history continually reinventing itself, a process that continues to this very day. And so, while the New York Philharmonic, founded in 1842, might be one of the oldest musical institutions in the United States, it can't rest on its laurels. It, too, needs to keep changing with the times and redrawing its relationship with its audience.

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Watercolor and Ink Illustrations Imagine Cluttered Rooms and Well-Stocked Shops

Colossal

All images © Rain Szeto, shared with permission. Packed within Rain Szeto ’s introspective works are untidy kitchens, cluttered market shelves, and mechanical disarray. The San Francisco-based illustrator finds magic in the mess and chaos of everyday life and imagines solitary activities like hanging laundry on the line or browsing record bins. Dreamy in color, the pieces exude a sense of calm and nostalgia for quiet moments.

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5 Tips to Train Your Remote Web Development Team

Noupe

The global health crises brought along many paradigm shifts. The way we live, the way we travel, and most importantly, the way we work. The phenomenon of working remotely may have happened out of compulsion. But it looks like it’s here to stay, even as we progress towards normalcy. According to Forbes , 74% of professionals expect remote work to become standard and 97% of the employees don’t want to return to work full-time.

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Arcana Academy NFT Collection Balloons

Graphic Design USA

LA's Arcana Academy creates NFT's to support non-profit Balloon Brigade.

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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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The Annual ‘Women Street Photographers’ Exhibition Highlights the Images Changing the Genre

Colossal

Anna Biret. All images courtesy of Women Street Photographers, shared with permission. Since 2017, a multi-faceted initiative has celebrated hundreds of street photographers whose work develops and expands the boundaries of what’s historically been a male-dominated field. The project of Gulnara Samoilova , Women Street Photographers connects the widespread and deeply personal by highlighting the subtle, nuanced ways the world appears when viewed by different people.

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Sensual Fine-Art Portrait Photography By Berta Vicente

Design You Trust

It is an absolute trendsetter for the genre of fine-art photography. Lately there has been many wonderful photographers who take up fineart genre and amaze the world with their talent. Here we have Berta who is from Barcelona. Her pictures are spell bounding in relation to the depth and the feelings it conveys. More: Flickr , Facebook h/t: 121clicks. “I only catch what I see, what there is in front of me and what it seems, to me, photograph-able.

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Luxe: a royal inspiration

Moo

We told you how Luxe was made, but not how it was born. It’s about time we let you in on the origins of our fanciest paper yet. It all started with an invitation – we asked our CEO Richard Moross to tell you the rest. A high-end inspiration. Richard Moross is the original printhead at MOO. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, then, that our story begins in a printing company.

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Stas Bondar Portfolio Website

Mindsparkle Mag

The post Stas Bondar Portfolio Website appeared first on Mindsparkle Mag.

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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.