Fri.Jan 22, 2021

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Universal Design: Transforming How We Think About Accessibility

Azure Magazine

What is accessibility? As a 3’5” scooter user with no arms, for me accessibility means barrier-free access to all the world has to offer. It’s a simple principle, but one not often seen in our public spaces. Even the legal regulations and design standards meant to ensure universal accessibility often fall well short of their goal, if they’re met at all.

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“Dormant Seasons” by Photographer Erinn Springer

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Photographer Erinn Springer explores her midwestern roots in her recent series, “Dormant Seasons.” Originally from Wisconsin, Springer went to school in New York City and is currently based between both places. Initially started as a way to interact with her family and greater Wisconsin community, the series has blossomed into a reflective exploration of self, home, and the cyclical nature of the land we inhabit. .

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Weekly News for Designers ? 576

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Web Design in 2021 – A look at the trends that will shape the year to come. An Early Look at Full Site Editing in WordPress – Take a tour of one of the biggest new features for WordPress themes. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021 – Everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today. Two Issues Styling the Details Element and How to Solve Them – Learn how to use this HTML element to create accordion-like functionality.

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The 12 Best Photoshop Actions for Black & White Photo Effects in 2021

SpeckyBoy

If you’re looking to work on black and white photos, it’s a good idea to have a solid set of Photoshop actions on hand. These help to streamline your efforts and effectively act as timesavers. This is especially important if you have a lot of images you need to edit. If you’re stumped as to how to locate quality photoshop actions for black and white photos, we’ve put together a good list here of options.

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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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Shutterstock Trends: Individuality, Imperfection, Authenticity, Escapism

Graphic Design USA

Shutterstock has released the 10th anniversary edition of its annual Creative Trends Report, highlighting both global and local trends that will impact creative expression and ingenuity in 2021.

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Life inside California’s RV parks: Midsummer Neighbours captures the multiplicity of Californians

Its Nice That

Does inherent prejudice match up in reality? Photography Yunfei Ren explores RV communities, an interesting intersection of city goers and rural inhabitants.

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The Lost Art of Cassette Design: 1980s

Design You Trust

Steve Vistaunet’s photgraphs of cassette spine designs take us back to pressing ‘play’ and ‘record’ on to make compilation mixes. More: Pinterest h/t: flashbak.

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Stefanie Vogl creates elongated and experimental typefaces based on emotion

Its Nice That

The Bavaria-born graphic designer views emotion as an important factor behind her work. She tells us more about this emphatic process below.

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Tom Selleck Photoshopped Into Waterfall Scenes With a Sandwich

Design You Trust

When it comes to absolutely pointless photoshopping projects, this one definitely takes the cake (or sandwich). Thank God that Al Gore invented the internet back in the 1980s and we are able to share this gallery today! h/t: sadanduseless.

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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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3D Shapes Inspired from Old Microsoft Logos

Abduzeedo

3D Shapes Inspired from Old Microsoft Logos. abduzeedo 01.22.21 Deep Yellow , Nertil Muhaxhiri , and Microsoft Design shared an awesome 3D project celebrating a tribute to the history of microsoft design. They developed 3D shapes inspired from old Microsoft logos. Together with the Microsoft team Deep Yellow created a set of three dimensional shape series unfolding the design and brand evolution of Microsoft Design.

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How I Got Here: Jiminie Ha

Creative Review

The Guggenheim Museum’s newly appointed director of graphic design Jiminie Ha reflects on the joys of a career spent mixing art and design. The post How I Got Here: Jiminie Ha appeared first on Creative Review.

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Fractul: 36 Modern & Bold Fonts - only $14A geometric sans.

The Design Blog

Fractul: 36 Modern & Bold Fonts - only $14 Fractul: 36 Modern & Bold Fonts - only $14 Fractul: 36 Modern & Bold Fonts - only $14 Fractul: 36 Modern & Bold Fonts - only $14 Fractul: 36 Modern & Bold Fonts - only $14 Fractul: 36 Modern & Bold Fonts - only $14 Fractul: 36 Modern & Bold Fonts - only $14 A geometric sans serif with architectural qualities, Fractal is a truly unique modern font from Ladd Design.

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Steve Krug’s Passionate Food Photography Featured in Journal #365

Graphis

Photographer Steve Krug, featured in Journal #365, has been a part of Toronto’s photography community for over twenty years. He’s shot both commercially and for editorial magazines, and while he skillfully photographs everything from products to architectural interiors, Krug is most known for his food and beverage images. In the words of Doug Cohen, “He’s […].

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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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Trying to Understand the Mysterious Russian Soul with Amazing Photographs of Sergey Kolyaskin

Design You Trust

Daily moments of life on photographs of Sergey Kolyaskin – master who has his own school of photography, who had fifteen personal exhibitions and published two photo albums, participated in numerous contests, being a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia and the Russian Geographical Society. More: Sergey Kolyaskin , Instagram , Facebook , VK.

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Play creates a visual language for Elon Musk’s company Neuralink inspired by science textbooks

Its Nice That

Play’s visual language development for Neuralink isn’t the futuristic approach you might expect.

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Artist Pays Homage to Possibly the Biggest Icon of The 21st Century with His ‘Tribute’ Project

Design You Trust

Max Siedentopf is a London based multi-disciplinary conceptual artist working across video, photography, sculpture, creative direction and everything in-between and is the founder of the of the art publication ORDINARY. According to an artist: ““TRIBUTE” pays homage to possible the biggest icon of the 21st century. Easily comparable to famous icons from the past such as Marilyn Monroe or the Mona Lisa, no one else has had more influence on contemporary visual culture such as Kim Kardashian

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Photographer Spotlight: Beth Garrabrant

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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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Grizzly Bears Among Stunning Finalists of National Parks Photo Contest

Design You Trust

Two grizzly bears fighting, a group of bison plowing through a field of snow and the stars lighting a hiking trail are among the pictures selected as the 20 finalists in a photography competition showcasing images from US national parks. All 20 images were the winners of the first ever annual Nature’s best Photography National Parks Photo competition and were the top 20 placed images chosen from more than 3,000 entries. ‘Grizzly Bears’: This stunning photo by Thomas Vijayan sho

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NuRelax for Nubank Branding

Abduzeedo

NuRelax for Nubank Branding. abduzeedo 01.22.21 Gabriel Berta shared an awesome branding and graphic design project for the NuRelax. The Brief: Nubank customers already know the peace of mind of being in control of their money. That's why, on World Stress Awareness Day, Nubank gave a totally free meditation class to anyone who presented a card from another bank. .

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See the Winners in Picture Wild Montana 2020 Photo Contest

Design You Trust

First Place: “Quiet Contemplation at Holland Lake” by Kevin League of Helena. The Montana Wilderness Association has announced the winners of the 12th annual Picture Wild Montana Photo Contest. The theme of this year’s contest was “The Joy of the Wild.”. More: Montana Wilderness Association h/t: kyssfm. Second Place: “Winter Play Under Lolo Pass” by Seth Orme of Missoula.

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THE JOURNALIST ILLUSTRATORS: HANK VIRGONA

Illustration Art

Most of the illustrators called upon to do reportorial pictures had the technical skills to capture many of the details that a photographer might have captured. That was the whole point-- to help readers visualize a situation. But Hank Virgona was different. Many of his pictures were impressionistic clouds of nondescript businessmen in dark suits. He illustrated articles about a jury's deliberations or about cocktail receptions where business executives discussed illegal price fixing schemes-- s

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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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Examples of Valentine’s Day Email Newsletters and Subject Lines

Designmodo

This post is originally published on Designmodo: Examples of Valentine’s Day Email Newsletters and Subject Lines. Valentine’s Day is one of the biggest holidays for couples and people who want to express gratitude to those who they love. Although it is the national day of chocolate, flowers, and restaurants, it does not mean that other businesses … For more information please contact Designmodo.

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Ed Tech Apps: A New Boom

Noupe

Education is the foundation of a nation’s workforce development and overall economic growth and prosperity. Furthermore, today, the education sector remains on the cusp of a computerized digital revolution, because of technology. Despite the fact that eLearning and mobile learning (mLearning) were available out of sight for quite a while now, the ongoing pandemic has driven the whole world’s schooling framework into an uncertain remote learning experiment.

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Throughout the entirety of 2020, Charlie Goodall committed to making a mask a day

Its Nice That

Never skipping a day, each mask took around six-to-eight hours to complete. We chat to the London-based artist to hear more about this lengthy but joyful project.

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Is The Future Of Print Luxury?

The Die Line

In the age of digitalization, the web page continues to dominate its printed counterpart. But does this mean the death of print? .

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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.