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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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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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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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Discounted WordPress Themes – Save Up To 50% Off

Graphic Design Junction

Best sale on professional WordPress themes, an eCommerce themes, HTML5 templates , best landing page and WordPress plugins – Save Up to 50% OFF on selected items. Stop wasting your time go and grab your favorite WordPress theme on discounted price. Best WordPress Themes are perfect for Creative Portfolio, Corporate Businesses, Blogs and Personal websites.

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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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dn&co becomes DNCO as it celebrates success and gets ready for more growth

Creative Boom

Creative studio dn&co has today unveiled a new name and brand identity in the shape of DNCO. Designed to celebrate the studio's transition to a 100% employee-owned business, the revamped look also allows DNCO to grow further and achieve even more. Founded in 2006, DNCO has become a leading studio when it comes to culture and place branding. Recent clients include The Design Museum, the V&A and Edinburgh Park, to name but a few.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Truth in Tears….

Joe McNally

One of the proudest associations I have enjoyed in my career is my long time affiliation with the Monroe Gallery in Santa Fe. The gallery represents historically important photojournalism, and Sid and Michelle Monroe are fierce advocates of the importance of photojournalism, and equally fierce defenders of the artists who create the work they show on their walls.

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Artist Friend Spent Over 500 Hours On These Paintings Capturing The Suffering Of The Ukrainian People

Design You Trust

Millions of people have been displaced by the war in Ukraine, causing unprecedented suffering and death. Over three million Ukrainians have fled to neighboring countries in search of safety. The majority of those fleeing are women and children. Countless innocent people – including women and children – have been killed. Not to mention the immeasurable amounts of animals that have perished.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Are you listening or are you hearing your clients?

Purple Rose Graphics

I read a lot of blogs and articles that always tell you to talk to your clients. Really talk to them and find out what they want. I’ve encouraged you to do that too, but I forgot to mention a crucial piece of that – listening. Today I want to talk about what it means to really listen to your clients. The way I define listening is the act of actively paying attention to what someone else says with the intention of understanding and relating to them.

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“Like a River” by Photographer Daniel Jack Lyons

Booooooom

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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.