Creative Boom

MARCH 2, 2022

© Maddy Vian. Kent-based illustrator Maddy Vian creates vibrant and joyful illustrations across books and animations, although she had aspirations of being an author as a child. As she grew up, though, she realised she was better at telling stories through pictures. A graduate of Kingston University with a degree in illustration animation, Maddy originally completed a Foundation Diploma at UCA Canterbury straight after sixth form.

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Spoon Graphics

MARCH 2, 2022

In today’s tutorial I show how to create vintage designs the EASY way with the help of a brilliant new tool from my friends at Heritage Type. Heritage Designer combines everything you need to create vintage designs into one revolutionary free-to-use tool. I’ll show you how I created the design layout for ‘Brain Tonic’ directly in Heritage Designer using just a selection of the vintage style fonts and ornaments available.

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Canny

MARCH 2, 2022

This week’s rebrand is all about chocolate, because who doesn’t like to indulge every now and then?! In this series we’ve covered various rebrands in the FMCG sector, including an orange drink and an avocado packaging company. If you’ve missed them you can check them out below: Advancing Into Fruit: The Avocado Collective Rebrand Explored.

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Graphic Design Junction

MARCH 2, 2022

New free fonts, fresh collection of fonts for designers. Beautiful and modern script and sans serif fonts 100% free download for commercial use. Great list of high quality free fonts perfect for logotype, branding and any kind of typography artwork. This collection included sans serif fonts , script fonts , handwritten fonts and brush fonts which can make your design more professional.

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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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Its Nice That

MARCH 2, 2022

Positioned between design and illustration, the studio also straddles the distinct approaches of its founders, Hwayoung Lee and Sangjoon Hwang.

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Creative Review

MARCH 2, 2022

Sitting just the right side of twee, US artist Charley Harper’s images of flora, fauna and wildlife scenes straddle the tricky line between whimsical and the rigid geometries of mid-century modernism. While ‘vintage’ illustrations of ladybirds, owls, otters, underwater scenes, flowers and the like often take on more traditional approaches, including watercolour, Harper’s work across both.

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The Dieline

MARCH 2, 2022

The typography experts at Monotype Studio just released their latest Type Trends Report for 2022, a thoughtfully curated collection of design work from across the globe that displays today's underlying currents propelling all things type.

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UX Collective

MARCH 2, 2022

About 3 weeks ago, I signed up to Duolingo intending to learn Swahili every day for about a month. Why? To learn something new, to make some progress with a language I’ve been casually interested in for some time, and to document to process from a UX perspective. What went wrong? Not to be dramatic, but work, sickness, war and calamity. I have simply not been in the mood to learn Swahili, and that is fine.

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Creative Review

MARCH 2, 2022

Tabit Rida’s introduction to photography came in 2017, when by chance he was given the opportunity to assist a number of established photographers. His eyes were quickly opened to the art form’s ability to tell stories and convey emotions without using words, and he began documenting anything and everything on the streets of Marrakech. It wasn’t until the summer of 2020, when he finished his.

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Colossal

MARCH 2, 2022

? ?. The miniature woolen oven mitt that Andrea Love ( previously ) uses to pull her handmade pizza from the oven is the only item in her stop-motion tutorial that’s true to form. An addition to the Washington-based animator’s quirky fare, the short film shows a flattened crust whirling in the air before landing on the tabletop and being topped with fiber-rich ingredients like spools of sauce, mushrooms, black olives, and cheese produced from diced yarn.

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UX Collective

MARCH 2, 2022

Photo by Magnet.me on Unsplash TL; DR: After hearing multiple testimonies from friends on their less-than-optimal recruitments experiences, I decided to write a quick guide. If you need to recruit a designer but you have no design background yourself?—?look for help from an experienced designer. And never forget to be nice to the human beings who you decided were not a good fit.

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Its Nice That

MARCH 2, 2022

The New York-based illustrator draws references from our modern world.

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Booooooom

MARCH 2, 2022

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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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Design Milk

MARCH 2, 2022

Chilewich has released their newest contract collection since 2020. The Cane collection , available as flooring (tiles/planks and rolls), rugs, wall textiles, and window coverings, is characterized by its tonal hatched lines that are arranged in diagonal arrays. The pattern is reminiscent of bamboo shoots because Stefan Sehringer, a member of the Chilewich design team, was inspired by this sturdy plant while gardening.

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Feature Shoot

MARCH 2, 2022

Twin Flames #1. Ali & Gilli Glatt. The photographer Justin Aversano remembers the exact moment Twin Flames came into being. It was Valentine’s Day, 2017, and he was at a group show he’d curated. Ali and Gili, twin sisters, had just walked into the gallery hall. He’d never met them before. “The idea hit me like a cosmic lightning bolt,” he says. “From that moment on, I knew I had to photograph twins.

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Design Milk

MARCH 2, 2022

Gone are the days of saving your best dining ware for “special occasions.” If the past few years have taught us anything, it’s that time is precious. So go ahead, use the linen table napkins, eat off of your finest bone china dinner plates, and romanticize setting your table for casual weeknight dinners at home. Finding modern and stylish tableware that sparks joy at mealtime is easy thanks to these five women-owned design brands.

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Mindsparkle Mag

MARCH 2, 2022

Pallas, multifarious goddess of war, wisdom, craftwork & intellect – was renowned for being strong-willed, notably loyal & exceptionally powerful. In Greek mythology, Pallas was represented as the goddess of strategy, advanced weaponry, & unstoppable skills on the battlefield. Revered for having never lost a battle, the notion of having Pallas by your side was to guarantee a successful outcome.

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Shillington

MARCH 2, 2022

Shillington students and staff from around the world share the work of creatives who inspire them in the #ILoveTheseGeniuses series. In this post, New York student AJ DiBetta highlights a project from Dubai-raised, New York-based Illustrator and Designer, Simone Noronha. Though all her designs are so different, there is a sense of repetition—in the soft forms, lack of outlines, high grain, gradients and lots of layered textures.

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Design You Trust

MARCH 2, 2022

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, an eighteenth-century German sculptor active in Austria, is best known for his series of dramatic “character heads.” The metal and stone busts are often disturbing in their extreme expressions. They have long prompted critics and scholars to speculate that the artist made them in reaction to an undiagnosed mental illness. h/t: vintag.es.

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Design Week

MARCH 2, 2022

“One of my favourites from the bookshelf this year has to be Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles, illustrated and designed by Gill Heeley. A series of enchanting essays that explore identity and what it means to belong. Nina weaves personal memories together with stories of wild swimming, childhood dreams and adventures in nature – all of which span across the world (from the wild.

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Design You Trust

MARCH 2, 2022

Born in Eastern Ukraine in 1954, Juri Nesterov’s photographs show us life in Kyiv, the country’s capital city. “Though I graduated as a Mechanical Engineer in 1976, I have always had a passion for photography and arts and after a short stint in engineering became a full-time photographic artist,” says Juri. “Most of the time I hear the question: ‘Where was this picture take?

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Feature Shoot

MARCH 2, 2022

As a young artist, George McLeod loved to explore a small and ancient forest near where his father lives in Norfolk, South East England. It was here, among the trees and deer, that he first discovered his passion for photography at sixteen years old, and it’s a place he’d return to again and again as an adult. ??He knows the terrain well, and he’s found all the best trees for climbing. “It’s a place that I care for deeply, since I’ve seen it slowly grow and tr

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Design You Trust

MARCH 2, 2022

Portrait of Tcha-Wan-Na-Ga-He (Buffalo Chief) in Native Dress wearing fur and feather headdress and peace medal, holding pipe-tomahawk. Alexander Gardner (1821–1882) was a photographer best known for his portraits of President Abraham Lincoln, his American Civil War photographs, and his photographs of American Indian delegations. h/t: vintag.es. Portrait of Ng-A-Rash or British, Head Chief of Iowas, with Peace Medal.

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Designspiration

MARCH 2, 2022

Russian Carpet: Daily inspiration, trends, mood board. Architecture, art, design, fashion, photography.

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Colossal

MARCH 2, 2022

“Tiger’s Embrace” (2021), painted wood. All images © Xiaojing Yan, shared with permission. The wide, reddish-brown fungi known as lingzhi, or reishi, has long been revered as the mushroom of immortality, said to grant eternal life to anyone who consumes one of its spores. This ancient belief founds some Chinese legends and is also a mainstay of Xiaojing Yan ’s practice.

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