Just Creative

MAY 1, 2020

This article was contributed by Marcela Cegielska. There are several factors that contribute to the success of your business: a great product or service, decent marketing and a bit of luck. However, there is one more, crucial thing, which in this day and age should not be ignored. A website that visitors will love. Of course, most businesses these days know that if they don’t have a website it’s almost as if they don’t exist at all.

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Spoon Graphics

MAY 1, 2020

Access All Areas members have a useful set of Photoshop Actions to download this week, courtesy of FilterGrade. This ColorWash product adds colorful washes and fades to your images, using the same tints and light leaks you see in professional advertising campaigns. Add retro effects to your images in seconds by playing multiple actions at once, mixing them up, and tweaking them to perfection.

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Tuts Plus

MAY 1, 2020

What You'll Be Creating Photoshop is a great tool for graphic design, especially digital graphics that only are displayed on screen, in addition to its namesake tasks of tweaking photographs. But that's not all it's good for. With proper knowledge and thinking, you can use Photoshop to create stunning print designs as well. This tutorial will take you through the basic steps of creating the eye-catching flyer seen above, which can be printed right away in print-shop-ready CMYK colors, directly f

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Under Consideration / Brand

MAY 1, 2020

“From Pharus, TUX Creative Co., and Zoo Studio”. No minimalism this week, with work from São Paulo, Montréal, and Barcelona. Schweppes Premium Drinks by Pharus. Schweppes Premium Drinks is a line of ready-to-drink alcoholic beverages launched by Coca-Cola Brasil that come in three varieties: gin and tonic, spritz, and vodka and citrus. The packaging, designed by São Paulo, Brazil-based Pharus , manages to break with most of the design conventions for mainstream consumer packaging, from the shape

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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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Colossal

MAY 1, 2020

A new film by New York-based director Paul Trillo lingers for just a moment on a serene body of water before plunging into a dizzying series of landscape transformations. “ Until There Was Nothing ” considers how Earth’s natural landscapes and city life would look just moments before being consumed by a black hole. The surreal work shows massive waves suddenly crawling up the left side of the frame, the tops of taxi cabs shooting into the air, and an entire forest of trees asce

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Graphic Design Junction

MAY 1, 2020

How to learn Adobe Photoshop? This is the question every beginners asked. If you are really interested to learn Photoshop or wants to improve your Photo Manipulation and Photo Editing skills, get started with Photoshop tutorials that teach you the basic tools and techniques of Adobe Photoshop. Experts-taught Photoshop tutorials have everything you need to learn photo effect, image editing, retouching, watercolor portraits , lighting effects, digital painting and photo manipulation from begin

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Under Consideration / Brand

MAY 1, 2020

“Welcome to Sabre Country”. (Est. 1888) "The Virginia Cavaliers , also known as Wahoos or Hoos, are the athletic teams representing the University of Virginia, located in Charlottesville. The Cavaliers compete at the NCAA Division I level (FBS for football), in the Atlantic Coast Conference since 1953. Known simply as Virginia in sports media, UVA has twice won the Capital One Cup for men's sports (in 2015 and 2019) after leading the nation in overall athletic excellence.

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Its Nice That

MAY 1, 2020

The initiative, organised by non-profit platform Fine Acts, has kicked off with commissions by top artists and illustrators including Kyle Platts, Cachette Jack and Amber Vittoria.

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Brown Paper Bag

MAY 1, 2020

This post contains some affiliate links. If you make a purchase, Brown Paper Bag may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more here. 1. Rainbow Bookend by Bombus. 2. Jungle 1,000 Piece Puzzle by Marc Martin x Jacky Winter. 3. Rainbow Cat Jewelry Dish by I Like Cats. 4. Vitamin C Hand Embroidery Pattern by Sarah K. Benning. 5. Fancy Poodle Bottle Stopper by Bird Can Fox. 6.

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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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Its Nice That

MAY 1, 2020

In a practice bordering graphic design and illustration, Kamil’s work gives a deliberately uncomplicated insight into daily life.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 1, 2020

North of the city of Tai’an, Shandong Province unfolds in a landscape of rocky mountains, gorges, gullies and lush deciduous forest. It is also a geography rich in culture, with Mount Tai – the easternmost of the five Sacred Mountains of China – as its spiritual centre. Dotted with centuries-old temples and historic sites of pilgrimage, the mountain is also home to the striking new Jiunvfeng Study by Hangzhou’s gad·line+ studio.

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Design You Trust

MAY 1, 2020

The German Society for Nature Photography (GDT) has selected its Nature Photographer of the Year 2020. Due to corona pandemic, voting was not carried out during the annual general meeting, but was completed online for the first time ever in the GDT’s history with great participation by members. Winner, Birds. Flurin Leugger – Takeoff. A coyote panics geese.

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Design Week

MAY 1, 2020

“Reality Works was a real first within the automotive industry at the time and really challenged the norms of modern-day car design,” Craig Bunyan tells Design Week. “It supercharged our ability to create and review ideas at speed in a novel, dynamic way.” Bunyan is lead creative technologist at Seymourpowell, a studio that specialises in transport design.

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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

The Die Line

MAY 1, 2020

Spoiler alert—it doesn't have weed in it.

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Booooooom

MAY 1, 2020

Fred Lahache (previously featured here ). Fred Lahache’s Website. Fred Lahache on Instagram.

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Design Week

MAY 1, 2020

Lockdown Brain, by Ananya Khaitan. Since lockdown was established in New Delhi, Indian graphic designer Ananya Khaitan has been using his free time to fuse his practice with another lifelong love: poetry. Sharing the outcomes mainly on his Instagram, Lockdown Brain is an ode to the “inexplicable things” that the coronavirus pandemic has us doing while confined to our homes.

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Juxapoz Magazine

MAY 1, 2020

The day Disneyland opened, forged tickets created an over-capacity crowd, temperatures soared over 100 degrees and a plumber’s strike resulted in non-functioning drinking fountains. It was dubbed Black Sunday, but now it’s the Happiest Place on Earth. It’s not well known that Walt Disney suffered a number of set-backs in establishing the Magic Kingdom, but it is known that he believed in determination and a brighter future, and the spirit lives on.

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Design You Trust

MAY 1, 2020

Sci-Fi For those of you who feel mandatory lockdown isn’t enough restraint, Kink has put together custom Zoom backgrounds to help you dominate your virtual boardrooms. Join a conference call from the Upper Floor! Call your grandma from the padded cell. Beam up to a Zoom orgy from our urinals. Swap out that suburban closet for our fetish-filled bondage wall — the world will never know!

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Abduzeedo

MAY 1, 2020

Branding & Visual Identity for Automotive MediaVentions. abduzeedo May 01, 2020 Total Design , Adam Lane and Edwin van Prae t shared an incredible branding and visual identity project for Automotive MediaVentions (AMV), a new unique collaboration between DPG Media and Mediahuis, the two biggest Dutch media companies. Automotive MediaVentions enables car companies to reach Dutch car buyers faster and more efficiently.

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Its Nice That

MAY 1, 2020

From NYC to St. Louis, Natalia is always inspired by the world around her, obsessed with the details she finds.

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Inspiration 63

Booooooom

MAY 1, 2020

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Its Nice That

MAY 1, 2020

Currently finishing up her residency at London's House of Illustration, our Grad from 2016 updates us on what she’s been working on.

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Abduzeedo

MAY 1, 2020

Righteous - Free Hand Drawn Script Font. abduzeedo May 01, 2020 Friday used to be the day we posted one of our most popular series about typography, the Friday Free Fonts. That was years ago, before Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts became widely available. Our passion for fonts have not ended just because we stopped sharing. We just need to find the right one to share.

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Trendland

MAY 1, 2020

Child Studio Humble Pizza restaurant. The plant-based restaurant, located in the iconic King’s Road, is clad in pink Formica resulting in an immersive and cinematic environment.

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Booooooom

MAY 1, 2020

Dawid Czycz. Dawid Czycz’s Website. Dawid Czycz on Instagram.

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