Mon.Jun 27, 2022

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Gretel's Dylan Mulvaney on city life, serendipity, and why graphic designers never get famous

Creative Boom

Dylan Mulvaney. As head of design at Gretel NY , Dylan Mulvaney is the creative force behind brand identities for Apple, Netflix and Vice. In our exclusive interview, Dylan chats about the process that leads to world-class results and how he got here in the first place. Described by Gretel as "a low profile dude who has been behind some of our highest-profile work", Dylan's expertise lies in translating a brand's core values, strategy, and voice into striking visual executions.

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Graphic Design Junction

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Patrick Nelson's breathtaking collages bring a graphic design sensibility to the world of art

Creative Boom

© Patrick Nelson. Patrick Nelson uses paper like a paintbrush to create incredible collage art. He explains how he transitioned from graphic designer to full-time artist and what inspires his work today. Coming from a graphic design background, Patrick Nelson has been a full-time collage artist now for a number of years. He sells his work online, in galleries and through curated shops.

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Download 50+ Best Resume Templates 2022

Graphic Design Junction

Download the best clean, modern and professional CV / Resume Templates and Letterhead design. The best resume templates are high-quality design to help you make a great impression when applying for a job. All designs are clean, modern, attention to detail and fully customizable. You can use these templates for many years over and over. When you download, you will get 1, 2 page resume template (that could be easily extended to more pages) + matching cover letter & references.

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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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Spin shares its design experiments in Etcetera, a groundbreaking new exhibition

Creative Boom

Hi © 2022 SPIN Studio. A new exhibition from London studio Spin isn't quite what you might expect. Rather than finished work, it focuses on experiments, offshoots and other unreleased material from past design projects. At Creative Boom, we aim to bring you the best visual inspiration from creative agencies across the world. But in most cases, you're only seeing the final work.

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The ECONYL® Brand Urges Us to Design Smart With the End in Mind

Design Milk

It’s no secret that designing and manufacturing with sustainable materials is on the rise – and it couldn’t be happening at a better time. One product that continues to impress and lend itself to a myriad of applications is ECONYL ® nylon. We’ve talked about the benefits of its use before: it’s made from 100% waste, is 100% recyclable, and offers up to a 90% reduction in global warming potential when compared to nylon from fossil sources.

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Fritz Hansen Celebrates Its 150th Birthday With an Award-Winning Pavilion

Design Milk

At this year’s 3daysofdesign festival in Copenhagen, Design Milk had a lot of ground to cover. The city was buzzing with excitement, offering design lovers a smorgasbord of exhibitions, installations, and impeccably styled showrooms to celebrate – and discover – Danish design both old and new. However, there was one location that we kept going back to throughout the three-day festival: the Fritz Hansen Pavilion.

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Business Collateral Merchandise Photoshop Mockup Set

We And The Color

Available for download on Adobe Stock, this business collateral merchandise mockup set for Adobe Photoshop includes a range of digitized branding materials and office supplies. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @PerigTemplate , this business collateral merchandise mockup set is based on a high resolution of 8500 x 5100 px. All individual items are fully isolated from the background and fully customizable.

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MDW22: The Breathtaking Divine Inspiration by Lee Broom

Design Milk

Can a lighting exhibition move people to tears? When it comes from London-based designer Lee Broom , it seems it can. It might have been the emotion of finally being back in Milan after so many years away, or the tiredness of overstimulation combined with too many late nights, but several people reported welling up as they walked around this impressive space.

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Stylish Editorial Design inspired UX for Solitaire Digital

Abduzeedo

Stylish Editorial Design inspired UX for Solitaire Digital. abduzeedo 0627—22 Hrvoje Grubisic shared a UX and web design for Solitaire Digital. The project was created for the Solitaire Digital company website. Mr. Grubisic focused on a simple layout with a very editorial look. Some of the pages do look like coming straight from a design book about grid design.

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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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Get Blissfully Stoned While Typing With a Brazen MASON60 Zen Keyboard

Design Milk

In similar spirit to the seminal 1974 bestseller, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – a guide exploring a life embracing the rational and the romantic – Brazen’s MASON60 Zen Series presents the opportunity to inject a little bit of soul into the mundane task of typing with an earthen-inspired mechanical keyboard that would look right at home in Arcosanti or Taliesin West.

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These Meditation Pods Offer Respite From the Stressors of Office Life

Azure Magazine

1. Iris by Openseed. A three-part collaboration between meditation-pod-maker OpenSeed , designer Yves Be?har (founder of multidisciplinary studio Fuseproject) and Deepak Chopra, Iris is a successful blend of industrial design, wellness technology and sustainability. The womb-shaped, assembled-on-site capsule features a structure partially made from 3D-printed upcycled saw-dust with 100 per cent natural sound-absorbing felt panels.

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Are we living in a simulation? Photography duo Orejarena & Stein might have some evidence

Its Nice That

Sourcing locations from Google Earth, the pair have found evidence of real-life glitches – from fake villages to the “perfect” American town that never existed.

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4 Stylish Screens That Enable Privacy in the Workplace

Azure Magazine

1. Steelcase Flex Personal Spaces. Working together, these curved privacy wraps and specially shaped desks carve out a cocoon-like area for focused work, video calls or quiet conversations. Tufting details on the canopy give it a tailored look, while a portfolio of accessories (hooks, nameplates, integrated lighting, modesty panels, free- standing screens and pin-tackable surfaces) allows for diverse set-ups. 2.

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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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The MOO Goldmine: what we loved in June

Moo

Here at MOO, we love sharing recommendations with each other. Books, podcasts, movies… we want it all. And because there are a lot of us, we’ve even dedicated a Slack channel to it. It’s called Goldmine – and we want to share every one of these gems with you. Each month, we’ll share what made us smile, inspired, or changed our perspective. Discover some of our favorite finds for June here, celebrating Pride month.

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A London Exhibition Considers the Role of Portals in Virtual Reality — and IRL

Azure Magazine

While we’ve grown used to hyperlinks that hurtle us to different corners of the Internet, teleporting too abruptly between virtual realities can cause digital whiplash. “When your body is inside the medium, you need an anchor that makes sense of how you suddenly shift to a completely different environment,” explains Fredrik Hellberg, who co-founded London-based practice Space Popular with Lara Lesmes.

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Suzy Chan's new comic-inspired font has all the drama and character of a manga strip

Its Nice That

The magnificently maximalist Oops typeface builds upon the comic book medium's “richness of expression”.

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Immersive Light Installations Bring These Tech Offices’ Missions to Life

Azure Magazine

In the late 1990s, while taking a summer program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design intended to help students refine their ideas and build a strong portfolio before applying to architecture school, David Schwarz had a revelation of sorts: Maybe he didn’t actually want to become an architect after all. Though he still loved buildings, his interests had begun to drift away from the analog aspects of the industry.

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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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What Product Differentiation Can Do for Your Business

Inkbot Design

What Product Differentiation Can Do for Your Business. If you have a product or service that can make a massive difference for your customers, you need to know how to position it effectively. Most of us would agree that you wouldn't buy a car without knowing a little about what differentiates it from other cars. A car manufacturer will usually boast about the features and functions of the car, and a customer will decide based on what they want/need and what the competition has to offer.

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4 Functional — and Beautiful — Tables for Office Gatherings

Azure Magazine

1. Hook Up by Three H. With beautifully simple lines and practical accessories, the Hook Up collection by Toronto design firm MSDS Studio can accommodate all manner of meeting and work types. A universal rail connects tables together and can be fitted with privacy panels, letter trays, storage boxes, planters in different sizes, cupholders and power receptacles — all without the need for tools.

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Spectacular Shortlist Entries of the 2022 Earth Photo Competition

Design You Trust

A picture is worth a thousand words. Now more than ever, photography has the power to celebrate the natural world and create conversations about our environment. Developed in partnership by Forestry England and the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), Earth Photo is an international competition and exhibition which rewards photographs and videos that tell stories about our planet, its inhabitants, its beauty, and its fragility.

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Luminaire Authentik Creates Playful and Personalized Lighting Designs

Azure Magazine

Founded by Maude Rondeau to fill the gap in the market for high-quality, thoughtfully designed custom lighting, Luminaire Authentik has become an industry leader and a designer favourite thanks to its products’ distinct yet versatile aesthetic. Luminaire Authentik’s Norvegienne 1708-LA00 pendant lamp in matte off-white installed in a dining room designed by Naturehumaine.

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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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UX and Visual design for Digital Portfolio

Abduzeedo

UX and Visual design for Digital Portfolio. abduzeedo 0627—22 Steven Redwood shared a beautiful UX and web design project for his portfolio. He was super excited to finally get it out there. We all know how hard it’s for us, designers to design our own portfolio. It’s funny because we love to solve problems, but we usually are not very excited about solving our portfolio.

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Out Now: The AZ Awards 2022 Edition of Azure

Azure Magazine

Every year, we are beyond thrilled with the number of remarkable submissions to the AZ Awards competition. They come in from around the world; some are already familiar to us (we may have even published them in our pages), while others are completely new to our eyes. What impresses most is how each edition of our annual program, now in its 12th year, sees architects and designers reach novel heights in creatively solving problems, with equity, sustainability and community in mind.

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Amanda Louisi personal brand & visual identity

Abduzeedo

Amanda Louisi personal brand & visual identity. abduzeedo 0627—22 Amanda Louisi is an independent designer, focused on brand identity, with 15 years of experience. Much of that time, Amanda spent using a monogram that she developed and improved a few times. Through this small symbol, she had great opportunities for projects, gained recognition, made many friends and consolidated herself as a brand designer.

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Exploring the Metaverse’s Impact on the Future of Work

Azure Magazine

While many of us may be slowly accepting the mere existence of the metaverse, forward-thinking companies are rushing to harness its potential. They just need to figure out how. That’s Andrew Lane’s job. At Toronto-based firm Digby , Lane and his fellow co-founder Tessa Bain help clients uncover opportunities for authentic metaverse experiences to accelerate retail innovation — utilizing web 3.0 technology, NFTs and the blockchain, as well as delivering sales and business development and other me

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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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“Like a River” by Photographer Daniel Jack Lyons

Booooooom

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Radiant Installations and Projections Illuminate Sydney’s Architecture for an Annual Light Festival

Colossal

All images © Vivid Sydney, shared with permission. Following a two-year hiatus, Vivid Sydney ( previously ) returned this May with a spectacular display of light and color. The annual month-long festival brings an array of installations, sculptures, and projections to the Australian city, and this year’s iteration included Lighting the Sails , a vibrant series of works by Aboriginal Martu artists that illuminated the Sydney Opera House with kaleidoscopic patterns, and a color-blocked anima

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This Artist Creates Superb Surreal Photomanipulations

Design You Trust

According to Modifeye: “I like to tell a story through imagery. If I can get you to stop and think about one of my images while you’re flipping through Instagram, then I have done my job! My goal is to thought-provoke, to communicate and inspire through imagery. I do not use any stock photos and I shoot and retouch all of the photos needed myself.

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A 546-Piece Puzzle Slots into a Hulking Simian with Moveable Limbs

Colossal

All images © Mat Random. A follow-up to his wooden geometric figures , Mat Random designed a similarly stocky simian with a DIY twist. The architect and craftsman, who’s based in Buenos Aires, recently released a three-dimensional puzzle that once slotted together, forms a moveable ape-like creature. Made from 546 pieces that are laser cut from cardboard, the buildable figure has flexible joints and can be posed in various stances. “The Simian” is available as a limited edition

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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.