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Making your font wishes come true

I Love Typography

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Only 10 days until Christmas! And what a year! To celebrate this year, we have something special for you, including some 100% discounts for a lucky few. In the ILT store you can add your favorite fonts to a wishlist. It’s a great way to keep track or to bookmark fonts that you might want to […]. The post Making your font wishes come true appeared first on I Love Typography.

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16 Retro Logo Design Ideas and Vintage Examples

Creative Market

Whether you’re a fan of retro pop culture or simply want to add a classic, nostalgic effect to your brand, we are here to give you some ideas on how you can use different design elements and create your own retro or vintage logo design. How to Incorporate Retro Style Into Your Logo. By definition, retro means anything that imitates a style, fashion, or design from the recent past.

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27 New Free Fonts For Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

This collection has new fonts that are 100% free for commercial use. All fonts are beautiful and professional to use in web and graphic projects. Fonts are great for graphic designers. There are twenty seven new free fonts , perfectly fits for Logo, Branding, Packaging, T-shirt, or any design with a stand out or big typography. The following fonts are ideal to make an attractive design and fit for any artwork.

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16 Retro Logo Design Ideas and Vintage Examples

Creative Market

Whether you’re a fan of retro pop culture or simply want to add a classic, nostalgic effect to your brand, we are here to give you some ideas on how you can use different design elements and create your own retro or vintage logo design. How to Incorporate Retro Style Into Your Logo. By definition, retro means anything that imitates a style, fashion, or design from the recent past.

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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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A Broken Hand Helps a Lettering Artist Break New Ground

Eye on Design

With the year drawing to a close, the EoD editors were curious about what personal revelations different creatives experienced in 2021. This series of essays, Reflections, explores the human side of design. This is a story where everything goes left and eventually right in the end. My pandemic experience was intense. My immune system failed me when I caught COVID in February 2020.

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Ultimate Christmas Graphic Design Collection

Graphic Design Junction

All about Christmas, Winter and New Year 2022 graphic design vectors and illustrations are here! The most magical time of the year is coming. Huge collection of seamless festive decorations, deer and owls, botanical sketches, elements of nature, sweet traditional food, and drinks absolutely packed with all the things you need for your festive crafting, branding, creating amazing things for new year 2022 – there’s no limit to what you can do with all these top quality christmas graphics ass

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Guide to Stock Photo Trends for 2022

Vecteezy

The world of stock photography is constantly changing, with new trends emerging every year. So whether you’re a photographer making money with stock photos or a designer who relies on stock images, you must be aware of current trends. We’re thrilled to share details on the trends we’ve seen and some others that we expect to emerge in 2022.

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60 Christmas Gift Wrapping Ideas for Your Inspiration

HONGKIAT

If you are one of those people to whom presentation matters more than the gift itself, then you would go for personalized gift wrapping. With all the gift-giving around Christmas , all you need is the right material and some inspiration to create beautifully wrapped gifts. So here is a collection of some wonderful Christmas gift wrapping ideas for your inspiration.

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Clean Product Catalog Template for Adobe InDesign

We And The Color

Available for free download with an Adobe Stock trial subscription, this clean product catalog template is well suited for a wide range of topics and products. Adobe Stock contributor @Sirisako has created this clean but versatile product catalog template. It is fully customizable in Adobe InDesign. Designed in two standard sizes, A4 and US Letter, the template is equipped with 20 pages but you can duplicate or add as many pages as you want.

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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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Yeye Weller’s new prints implore us to keep smiling

Creative Review

German artist Yeye Weller’s first solo show in London is taking place at print store and gallery They Made This. Coordinated entirely through Instagram, the project took ten months to bring to fruition and has resulted in 11 joyful limited edition prints. The new set of illustrations comes together under the mantra Keep Smiling, which gives its name to the exhibition.

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“My art is like a sandcastle”: Sunjin Won on carving out her own distinctive style

Its Nice That

The illustrator discusses the processes behind her series, which captures the “secondhand nostalgia” she feels for her early life in Singapore in the 1990s.

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What is Galt’s Heritage Conservation District Really Protecting?

Azure Magazine

Founded in 1816, on land granted to the Haudenosaunee of the Six Nations of the Grand River in the Haldimand Treaty of 1784, the historic Ontario town of Galt straddled the Grand River for a century and a half — until its amalgamation with several nearby towns in the 1970s created the City of Cambridge. A preserved hub of 19th and early 20th century buildings, the Galt Core retains much of its urban heritage, including 13 designated heritage properties.

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2021 Year in Review: Deconstruction

Design Milk

A Closeup Look at How Orior Continues Local Irish Craft With New Rugs. Orior is a family business in Northern Ireland dating back 40 years making handcrafted furniture by skilled artisans focusing on superior Irish craftsmanship combined with a contemporary aesthetic. The brand’s son, creative director Ciaran McGuigan, tapped his sister, fashion designer Katie Ann McGuigan, to collaborate on a collection of rugs.

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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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Exceptionally Slow-Motion Footage Documents Tropical Butterflies Bursting from Their Chrysalises and Taking Flight

Colossal

?. In an extravagant display of evolutionary tricks and mating rituals, new footage by Adrian Smith of the wildly popular Ant Lab YouTube channel focuses on six tropical butterflies. The extremely slow-motion montage zeroes in on a trio of tropical creatures as they crack open and emerge from their chrysalises and others like the striking Blue Morpho as they take flight.

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London During the Blitz Through Powerful Color Photos

Design You Trust

A bus is laying inside a huge bomb crater in a London street after heavy German air raid bombing attacks during the Battle of Britain, October 15, 1940. Born 1912 in Evanston, Illinois, American photographer William Vandivert work for the Chicago Herald Examiner from 1935. He joined the Life magazine team in London in 1938 and was one of the few photographers who were working in color photography before the Second World War.

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Foliage Sprouts from Four Imaginative Clay Illustrations by Irma Gruenholz

Colossal

All images © Irma Gruenholz, shared with permission. It’s easy to mistake Irma Gruenholz ’s whimsical ceramic figures for two-dimensional illustrations. The Madrid-based artist ( previously ) is known for her sculptures and still lifes in clay that resemble flat graphics and drawings, although her works require precise positioning and photographing before they’re printed in the pages of a magazine or children’s book.

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The three-body problem trilogy

UX Collective

My Recent Inspiration: The Three-Body Problem Trilogy A unique perspective of the universe and human nature As a designer, after sitting all day long in front of my laptop playing with pixels, one of my ways to get relaxed and inspired is to read science fiction. It’s like jumping into another world full of the future, imagination, and technology. The image of the book series is from [link] Recently I finished reading the three-body problem trilogy and I was deeply impressed.

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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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Zeitgeist: Asafe Ghalib

Creative Review

Asafe Ghalib uses his photography practice as a means of looking outside of himself and lifting up the people around him, resulting in powerful yet intimate portraiture. The post Zeitgeist: Asafe Ghalib appeared first on Creative Review.

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Opening Title Sequence Concept for Arcane

Abduzeedo

Opening Title Sequence Concept for Arcane. AoiroStudio 1215—21 Have you watched 'Arcane' yet? It's a Netflix series with the essence of Sci-Fi and Fantasy broken down into 9 episodes. Heard amazing reviews, probably gonna need to find some time during the break. This opening title sequence concept by Toros Kose really caught my eye. He was inspired by the stones and unity of magic and science; a theme in the show.

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How to animate 3D characters as a music video audience

Creative Bloq

Discover how this virtual crowd was brought to life.

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O Bloco — Branding and Visual Identity

Abduzeedo

O Bloco — Branding and Visual Identity. abduzeedo 1215—21 Manoel Michael shared a branding and graphic design project titled O Bloco. How to maintain an avant-garde and creative identity, when the advertising market has less and less networking and networking events? BLOCK # 1. A non-party. A non-stage for artistic interventions. Music, technology, tattoo, unexpected experiences and unlikely combinations.

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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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Uncanny and Unique: Poster Annual 2022 Gold Winners & Poster Annual 2023 Entries

Graphis

With a keen eye for detail, the designers of these artful pieces show their spectacular talents and share their work with their clients and the rest of the world. Pep Carrió‘s “Biblioteca Palermo libro/escalera” (above, left) is a winner of our Gold award. The poster was created as a proposal for Artes Gráficas Palermo, which […].

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Denture-Inspired Items by Artist Mr. Basic

Design You Trust

Feeling as though our posts lately haven’t quite been odd enough to live up to our name, we present to you the denture-inspired items and jewelry by artist who calls himself Mr. Basic. For example, the dentures bracelet is a bracelet of teeth that you wear around your wrist as if you are collecting a tooth from each human you have murdered, and is sure to give grandma her second heart attack after you walked into her house.

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Should You Get a Commercial or Consumer Display For Your Business?

Design Beep

When you decide to adopt digital signage to boost your business environment, the next thing is to select the best kind of digital display. In most cases, you’ll have to choose between commercial and consumer digital displays. Unfortunately, the right choice is not always straightforward. Nonetheless, most digital signage experts recommend selecting a commercial display for various reasons.

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Art in Faces: Superb Portraits by Gennadiy Kim

Design You Trust

Gennadiy Kim is an artist from Moscow who paints wonderful portraits. With hacked, seemingly random strokes he manages to create very subtle works with high detail, precise, colorful and emotionally intense. More: Instagram , Artstation.

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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.