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Why 3d Rendering is Perfect for Creating Captivating Social Media Content

Noupe

If you’re a creative entrepreneur or content creator for a business, service, or advocacy, you’ve probably experimented with several mediums to get eyes on your social media platforms. It’s a tough job, and competition is fierce. Everyone and their grandmother is taking advantage of the latest content creation tool, whether Instagram filters or AI images, as soon as it drops.

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30 Best Photoshop Brushes Of 2022

Graphic Design Junction

High quality best Photoshop brushes sets contains more than 1500 hand-made and real painted Adobe Photoshop brushes , up to 5000 pixels in size. You can see the complete collection of brushes below. Photoshop brushes can be useful in the way it could make your work easier and have a good design result at the same time. There are different kinds of brushes like watercolor brushes , splatters, flourishes, explosion, halftone, grunge, abstract bokeh , lighting and retro brushes.

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30 Free Elegant Business Card Templates in PSD

Designer Daily

The importance of a business card can’t be overestimated as it’s the first thing that introduces potential customers to your brand or services. A unique and well-designed card can make a powerful first impression, increasing your chances of gaining a new client. While developing a card design from scratch might require extra time, effort, and costs, you may consider using a pre-made customizable template in PSD format.

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A Modern Kyiv Apartment With New Arches and Shades of Persimmon

Design Milk

Prior to the pandemic, interior designer Oksana Dolgopiatova was asked to design an apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine. Former clients planned to give their growing daughter the apartment as a gift but the pandemic put the project on hold. Skip to 2021 and the project renovation was back on track. The goal was to make the apartment feel warm yet modern, designed with the highest quality environmentally-friendly materials.

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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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Web Development Process: Steps to Creating an Effective Strategy

Inkbot Design

Web Development Process: Steps to Creating an Effective Strategy. Web development is the process of designing and creating the coding of web pages. It is a combination of both front-end design and back-end programming. When creating a web development process, the best approach is to identify your customer and their needs and then begin to brainstorm a solution.

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The Victorias Coffee Table Might Remind You of a Certain Plant

Design Milk

Cristina Celestino has teamed up with German-Colombian brand ames for the first time to present the Victorias coffee table , part of the Amazonia collection. Celestino found her inspiration for the circular frame and V-shaped gap in the table tops in the large leaves – up to three meters wide – of the tropical water lily, Victoria amazonica. After studying traditional palm weave ornaments found in Atlántico, a region in northern Colombia, she translated them into furniture and objects.

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Brand Identity for Mama Mexa by SeachangeMama Mexa is a brand.

The Design Blog

Brand Identity for Mama Mexa by Seachange Brand Identity for Mama Mexa by Seachange Brand Identity for Mama Mexa by Seachange Brand Identity for Mama Mexa by Seachange Brand Identity for Mama Mexa by Seachange Brand Identity for Mama Mexa by Seachange Mama Mexa is a brand new pop-up taqueria, serving up delicious healthy fast food that celebrates family, friends and fun.

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Taylor Swift’s new album design: an (over)analysis

UX Collective

Because if it’s from a cryptic singer-songwriter, why not? Continue reading on UX Collective ».

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An Ontario Theatre Harnesses the Magic of the Stage

Azure Magazine

Drinks before curtain call. Ice cream at intermission. Chance encounters with old friends by the bar. Small talk. A breath of fresh air between acts. The sense of quiet anticipation while queuing for the doors. We come for the show, but the little things leave just as vivid a mark. Away from the stage, such moments shape and colour the experience of going to the theatre, transforming an evening into a night out.

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Ubiquitous Items Are Organized Into Intricate and Colorful Compositions by Adam Hillman

Colossal

“Skeleton Keys.” All images © Adam Hillman, shared with permission. Everyday objects are puzzled into meticulously organized compositions in the work of Adam Hillman , who has a knack for arranging items like coins, fruits and vegetables, toothpicks, and keys into vibrant flat-lays. Inspired by textures, color, and gradients, the artist responds to the tactile qualities of each material to form intricately woven straws, stacked pennies, and breakfast cereal into geometric forms.

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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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Nanoleaf’s New Lighting Collection Embodies the Brand’s Innovative — and Playful — Spirit

Azure Magazine

Ten years ago, a trio of University of Toronto engineering grads dropped what was considered to be the most energy-efficient lightbulb of all time on Kickstarter. The crowd went wild: backers pledged over $250,000 toward the project, and Nanoleaf’s groundbreaking LED technology has been a mainstay ever since — you’ve likely seen the touch- and sound-activated systems backdropping a famous YouTuber, DJ or maybe even your spin instructor.

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How to Write an Advertising Brief (With Free Advertising Brief Template)

Canny

For any project involving advertisements of any shape or size, writing an advertisement brief is vital for success. Whether you’re looking to advertise on TV, on the radio, in newspapers or on billboards, every piece of advertising needs to be based around your goals and planned before they can be executed. Not only is this useful for you, but if you are working with an agency this brief helps to give both parties a solid understanding of what is required before the project has begun.

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Róisín Lafferty Wants to Create Dynamic, Exciting, Unexpected Spaces

Azure Magazine

When Róisín Lafferty started out in interior design , she sought employment at one of the big London firms. That didn’t work out: with no real-world experience during a highly competitive time, she couldn’t get a gig. It turns out to have been the best outcome. Twelve years after founding her own practice , Kingston Lafferty Design, she has built a reputation and garnered accolades both in Ireland and internationally for her richly layered interiors — especially residences animated by daring col

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Enter the uncanny Californian valley with Erik Mark Sandberg’s LA-inspired paintings

Its Nice That

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the artist uses both analogue and digital methods to find the right “language” for each of his paintings.

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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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Introducing A Micro-Living Solution Called Doméstico

Azure Magazine

“People think smaller spaces are easier to design , but they are actually super challenging,” says María José Váscones, one-half of the design duo behind Doméstico, a “habitable artifact” that condenses domestic activities into one organizing element. The pair chose the word “artifact” because they see the Doméstico micro-living solution as an object that inserts itself inside an existing space.

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The Y2K Aesthetic is Fully Back, but Can It Stick Around?

Eye on Design

When editor and consultant Casey Lewis started her newsletter digest on youth culture, After School , she instinctively gravitated towards pastel and iridescent-like backgrounds for her graphics. “To be honest, and I’m sort of embarrassed to admit this, I didn’t think about it too deeply!” she told me over email. “For me, holographics evoke a sort of tech-y nostalgia that takes me back to the early days of my interneting.

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Studio Modijefsky Brings Magic Realism to Museum Arnhem

Azure Magazine

The central premise of magic realism, whether it be works on canvas or the written word, is a subtle disruption of reality. Think of the hypnotic stories of Jorge Luis Borges, where the lines between the real and the fantastical become muddied and vague, or Giorgio de Chirico’s perspective-defying paintings. Amsterdam’s Studio Modijefsky custom-designed a multi-tiered chandelier to emphasize and celebrate the height of Museum Arnhem’s original neoclassical dome.

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Mockups that don't look like anything else: Bendito Mockup's explores contemporary urban aesthetics

Abduzeedo

Mockups that don't look like anything else: Bendito Mockup's explores contemporary urban aesthetics. abduzeedo 1027—22 K1NK1 , the new collection by Spanish creatives Bendito Mockup , is inspired by the imaginary of the city and popular culture, creating quirky and unusual mockups. "In the world of mockups, the aesthetic of neutrality predominates. It makes sense that this is the case: a mockup must adapt to very different designs" explains Andrea Kaiser, co-founder of Bendito Mockup.

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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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In Kyiv, A Humble Apartment Celebrates Ukranian Heritage

Azure Magazine

When Olga Sladkova and Roman Drahan set out to redesign their flat in Kyiv, they wanted their home to reflect their values. The IT specialists moonlight at sustainable start-ups (think metal straws and recycled-wood toothbrushes), volunteer and attend environmental protests. Through an article in The Village Ukraine , the two discovered local studio Hi Atelier — which had recently revamped the media outlet’s offices with vintage furnishings and recycled materials — and knew they had landed in th

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Olafur Eliasson’s Circular Mirror Installation Embeds Viewers in the Sun-Baked Qatari Landscape

Colossal

“??? ?????? ?? ??? ?????? (Shadows travelling on the sea of the day)” (2022), steel, fiberglass, and glass mirrors, 4.53 x 10.51 x 10.51 meters, ø 8.2 meters, ø 8.2 meters, installation view at Northern Heritage sites, Doha, Qatar. Photo by Iwan Baan, courtesy of the artist, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles, shared with permission.

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A Vancouver Home Makes the Most of its Sloping Site

Azure Magazine

The site was essentially site-less, say architects David Battersby and Heather Howat (founders of BattersbyHowat Architects) of their recent West Vancouver residential project. Which is to say, it had a landscape without legacy or the sorts of constraints that have long served as points of inspiration for the iconic hillside houses that dot the West Coast from Vancouver to Los Angeles.

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (October 2022)

HONGKIAT

There are an abundance of front-end development tools , libraries, and resources out there that we can always discover something new. In this post, as usual, we’ve put together some new ones that we have found recently. We will highlight some JavaScript libraries for web or mobile app development , a TypeScript learning resource, and other helpful productivity tools.

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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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Out Now: Azure’s Nov/Dec 2022 Issue on Residential Interiors

Azure Magazine

Would you live in a 27.5-square-metre apartment? That question might elicit another in response: How? In Quito, designers Juan Alberto Andrade and María José Váscones figured out the logistics — through elegant design. As necessity is forever the mother of invention, they created something called Doméstico, an all-in-one micro-architecture — or macro-furniture — piece that contains a Swiss Army knife’s assortment of storage, along with a kitchen, a bed and more of the amenities that turn a space

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MAASS branding, visual identity & website

Abduzeedo

MAASS branding, visual identity & website. abduzeedo 1027—22 Jeffrey Ludlow Saenz and Point Of Reference Studio shared a total design type of project for MAASS. The scope of the work included branding, visual identity and web design. For context, MAASS helps cultural institutions navigate the process of programming, designing, building and preserving exceptional buildings and landscapes.

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3 New Furniture Designers Who Made Their Mark in 2022

Azure Magazine

The most exciting new furniture designers are never those who start their day thinking about creating a new product. Instead, they’re the ones who offer interpretations of the world around them — pulling connections from unexpected sources of inspiration to deliver a table or chair that stirs human emotions as much as it meets a basic human need. The return of this year’s global design shows brought many opportunities to admire fresh talents.

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Get lost in the gloriously grainy animations of creative duo Rapapawn

Its Nice That

Made up of Óscar Raña and Cynthia Alfonso, the Spanish animation venture leads with improvisation, intuition and a heavy dose of experimentation.

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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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850+ Boho Backgrounds and Patterns for Your Designs

Vandelay Design

These boho backgrounds and seamless patterns are perfect for easily and quickly creating bohemian-inspired designs. The post 850+ Boho Backgrounds and Patterns for Your Designs appeared first on Vandelay Design.

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Studio Terpeluk Revives a Classic San Francisco House with Gusto

Azure Magazine

The Pink Warrior stands sentry in the living room. The bubble gum–hued, cast bronze sculpture from Wanxin Zhang’s Made in China series irreverently alludes to the terracotta soldiers of the Qin dynasty. It’s the perfect emblem for Studio Terpeluk’s renovation of the Redwood House, a home belonging to an art-collecting couple in San Francisco’s verdant Noe Valley.

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10 Spooky Films To Binge This Fall 

Pixlr

With Halloween just a few days to go, you may want to kickstart binge-watching all your favorite horror movies, getting comfy in your bed all munching on popcorn. Perhaps, you have already started doing the spooky marathon since October starts! However, if you are looking for a complete list of all the best classic horror [.].

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Design Everywhere

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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.