Creative Bloq

AUGUST 25, 2022

Your guide to creating and selling your own products.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 25, 2022

Le Mot Juste, 2022 © Lucile Gauvain. Behind any landmark art exhibition, play or elaborate costume, one might never fully appreciate the work involved in making it happen. In her latest series, French figurative artist Lucile Gauvain seeks to explore the often laborious creative process itself, celebrating the very magic that happens behind the scenes.

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Design Milk

AUGUST 25, 2022

Sadly, attending the 2022 Monterey Car Week & Concours wasn’t in our cards this year, but we did continue to keep tabs from afar about the bevy of announcements made ahead and at the annual automotive event. One of the most notable and surprising of automotive reveals was the debut of the Lincoln Model L100 Concept , a future-gazing electric autonomous vehicle intending to plant the seeds of design and technology as the brand celebrates its hundredth year.

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HONGKIAT

AUGUST 25, 2022

The front-end development is fast changing, with new things to explore every month. There’s always a new methodology, approach, and framework introduced in the web development world that you need to update yourself with. In this edition of the series, we’ll feature some frameworks and resources for web designers, testing tools , and a lot more.

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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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Design Milk

AUGUST 25, 2022

If you’re a lighting designer with an innovative idea you think the world needs to know about, enter the 2022 L A M P International Lighting Design competition ! Design Milk is again the media partner of this competition because every year, we are blown away by the emerging designers who get to showcase their innovative creativity in lighting design.

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 25, 2022

Good Logo vs Bad Logo Design & How it can Affect your Business. Marketers and businesses are fighting for the attention of their target market. In a more distracted world than ever, capturing a moment with your consumer is becoming extremely challenging. Having a logo that is eye-catching, unique and easy to digest is the only way to survive. Logos are an integral element of any branding process.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

While the kitchen stakes its claim as the social heart of the home, we also spend a full third of our lives in bed. And as places of rest and respite, our beds and bedrooms are quiet havens, with the best-designed spaces defined by a sense of calm, tranquility and balance. But that shouldn’t preclude the occasional dose of aesthetic opulence — an appetite satisfied in high style by Moooi’s Extinct Animals collection of bedding.

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Booooooom

AUGUST 25, 2022

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 25, 2022

How To Use Digital Marketing to Promote Your Business. Digital marketing promotes your business online through various mediums such as blogs, videos, and social media platforms. It has evolved into a powerful and affordable marketing tool that allows businesses to reach their target audience at a minimal cost. It is a highly effective way of getting your brand name out there.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

Relatively small in stature, the Solar Greenhouse aims to tackle a massive problem: the deepening and devastating global food crisis, a catastrophe that is only worsening under the effects of climate change, ongoing wars and supply chain disruptions. “We should be producing food and energy at both a communal and individual level,” says Spanish architect, educator and urbanist Vicente Guallart.

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 25, 2022

International SEO: 7 Ways to Market Your Products Globally. International Search Engine Optimisation (ISEO) is a combination of strategies employed to increase the number of visitors to your website. It involves many things such as SEO, SEM, link building , social media marketing etc. Global eCommerce sites are on the rise, and to compete effectively in today's digital marketplace; you need to know how to get your product in front of as many consumers as possible.

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SpeckyBoy

AUGUST 25, 2022

Having a successful career as a freelance web designer requires hard work and dedication to your craft. But above all else, you must be good at what you do. In such a competitive worldwide marketplace, your talent is one of the areas that will help you stand out from all the rest. It’s part of what keeps you in demand and thus keeping you in business.

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Its Nice That

AUGUST 25, 2022

Experiences of loneliness and isolation over lockdown have inspired the illustrator's new comic, R.A.M.

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Vandelay Design

AUGUST 25, 2022

These medical website designs for providers, clinics, and hospitals are excellent examples of what's possible. Use the inspiration for your own work. The post Medical & Healthcare Website Design: Examples and Tips appeared first on Vandelay 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.

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Abduzeedo

AUGUST 25, 2022

Wine & Jazz inspired corporate event identity. abduzeedo 0825—22 At Sigma Software , they like their events to be held in style. This is why they chose the Jazz theme for the 2021 edition of their annual corporate party. The crazy thing is that their in-house design team produced the visual identity, animated invitations, and for sure the visual treatment for the event's venue.

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Vandelay Design

AUGUST 25, 2022

Learn how to create amazing text effects with these Adobe Illustrator text tutorials. They'll walk you step-by-step through the process of creating an awesome design. The post 30 Text Effect Tutorials for Adobe Illustrator appeared first on Vandelay Design.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

For Slava Balbek, the founder and CEO of Kyiv-based Balbek Bure a u , there are two distinct chapters in his architecture firm’s history. “We are divided into before and after February 24th,” he says, a reference to the date earlier this year when Russia invaded his nation. “Before, we were like an ordinary architectural bureau — we had done 13 years of work on restaurants, commercial projects and residences, and we had about 75 employees.”.

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Canny

AUGUST 25, 2022

From the Ohio Flag, to the best places to eat, to Ohio sports teams, see this as your complete guide to branding in this vibrant city. You might have noticed we’ve been talking about branding across various US states a lot lately on the Canny blog, delving deep into different museums, universities, and what the cities have to offer. If you’ve not checked out our other ‘state of branding’ posts yet, here are the links below: The State of Branding Texas (from Texas Flags to Texas Brands).

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

Muskoka is an Ontario vacation destination synonymous with sparkling freshwater lakes and rocky outcroppings — and the often sprawling, over-the-top cottages nestled alongside them. Paolo Ferrari’s client was after something more understated for his lakeside getaway. The goal was to complement the natural environment, rather than overwhelm it. His Toronto studio delivered with a masterfully pared-back interior that lets the resplendent vistas do the talking.

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Colossal

AUGUST 25, 2022

“The weather project” (2003), monofrequency lamps, projection screen, haze machines, foil mirror, aluminum, scaffolding, 26.7 x 22.3 x 155.44 meters, installation view at Tate Modern, London. Photo by Tate photography, Andrew Dunkley & Marcus Leith. A forthcoming monograph published by Phaidon packs the inimitable career of artist Olafur Eliasson ( previously ) into nearly 500 pages.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

By introducing some greenery into the concrete jungle, city parks inspire a closer connection to the earth — which is not to say that they should be approached as purely earthbound spaces. Photo by Tõnu Tunnel. That’s the takeaway from a new generation of recreational environments that have risen up off the ground and into the clouds. Here are three key principles behind this top-down approach to rooftop park design, lifted from a few of our favourite city summits.

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The Dieline

AUGUST 25, 2022

Redkorft partnered with Turkus+Lainer to do an entire branding overhaul, including brand design, web design, identity, copywriting, and packaging design.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

Two seemingly contradictory ideas are at the heart of the communal kitchen and dining room at DuEast condos in Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood: togetherness and privacy. “The project is trying to integrate quite a few different communities together, and we wanted to create spaces that people from multiple groups would feel comfortable in,” says Stanley Sun , partner at Toronto’s Mason Studio , which designed the building’s interior spaces.

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Abduzeedo

AUGUST 25, 2022

Editorial inspired web design for graphic designer. abduzeedo 0825—22 Simon Langlois shared a web design and branding project for this website. The design is simple and elegant featuring a beautiful editorial look. Demos. For more information make sure to check out Simon on: Behance. Instagram.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

“Toronto high-rises are thin,” says architect Brigitte Shim , surveying the skyline from the rooftop terrace of the new Ace Hotel Toronto. She means that they are schematically thin — tall and narrow, like pencils — and also materially thin, made of reedlike steel and cheap glass. But she’s also referring to a kind of conceptual thinness. In Toronto, most condo buildings — the city’s dominant architectural form — aspire to little beyond their utilitarian purpose.

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Feature Shoot

AUGUST 25, 2022

© Giacomo d’Orlando, Nemo’s Garden, 2021. © Giacomo d’Orlando, Nemo’s Garden, 2021. © Giacomo d’Orlando, Nemo’s Garden, 2021. “The first time I saw Nemo’s Garden in real life, the biospheres looked like small space ships,” Giacomo d’Orlando tells me. “It felt like I had gone to another planet.” In reality, d’Orlando was very close to home, right off the coast of Noli in Italy.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

After years holding temporary pop-ups in spaces all over London and the South East, Migrateful was looking for a permanent home. When the U.K. charity (which has been offering culinary training to and classes led by refugees, asylum seekers and migrants since 2017) found a former classroom in a community centre in leafy Clerkenwell, it turned to London architecture practice Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) for a hand in developing its new Migrateful Kitchen.

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Pixlr

AUGUST 25, 2022

A mood board (inspiration board) is essentially an amalgamation of ideas, a digital (or physical) collage of concepts, whereas a photo collage is an assemblage of several images to create a whole new form for artistic expression. Both of these things are different, but they do have certain similarities. For instance, they both consist of [.].

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2022

Two and a half years into the pandemic , Italy’s — and the world’s — design capital was ablaze with creativity once again. The fairgrounds themselves were fully activated: Rather than the abbreviated experience of last September’s Supersalone, every padiglione at Salone del Mobile 2022 was full as leading furniture companies, from Living Divani and Poliform to the kitchen brands showing in EuroCucina, returned to erect massive stands.

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Moo

AUGUST 25, 2022

Alexis Sanders is nothing if not a creative soul. A graphic designer by trade, she discovered her passion for baking almost by accident. Now, she’s the mind (and hands) behind D’Luxe Sweets , a joy-filled Detroit-based home bakery that gives back to the community. We asked her about her move to baking, the social mission of her business and how she approached her promotion strategy on social media as a small brand.

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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.

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