Creative Bloq
MAY 23, 2025
When brands unveil a logo that looks like it was designed by an intern with a hangover, they shouldn't be surprised when the public rejects it.
Creative Market
MAY 23, 2025
In this week’s Design It Yourself tutorial, we’re layering hand-drawn textures over clean vector line work to create digital art that feels analog. It’s tactile, imperfect, full of movement, and totally editable. Using vector brushes in Adobe Illustrator, we’ll color inside the lines (literally), but in a way that still feels raw and expressive. In the video, you’ll see rich pencil textures layered into flat shapes, building depth and dimension without losing that hand-rendered feel.
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Mindsparkle Mag
MAY 23, 2025
As part of Nubanks global rebrand, creative studio illo was invited together with Brazilian agency Polar.Ltdato transform one of the brands core values into a visual language: transparency. The result is a distinctive, ownable illustration system designed to feel clear, intuitive, and engaging across all touchpointsfrom in-app animations to large-scale campaigns.
FlowingData
MAY 23, 2025
With a circular voronoi diagram, NYT’s the Upshot shows a much slower rate of funding from the National Science Foundation, through May 21. The full cells show the average funding over the past decade up to the same date, and the darker cells show the current funding. It looks like there are four categories with more funding than usual. Everything else is a big cut.
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
Design Milk
MAY 23, 2025
Mark Jupiter always knew he was a creator, and in his youth he embraced different forms of expression. He eventually felt a deep pull to design and built his first house, with care in every element. I felt that it was something I needed to do at least once in my life, Jupiter says. From raising a massive Gambrel timber frame to constructing the first LEED Platinum homes in the country, it became clear that the crossroads of craft and invention was where I was meant to be.
Creative Bloq
MAY 23, 2025
M — N Associates blends contrasting aesthetics under one roof.
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Creative Bloq
MAY 23, 2025
If you're a pro, this is perfect for ideation or concept designs, or for design hobbyists.
Graphic Design Junction
MAY 23, 2025
Creating music used to require years of practice, expensive gear, or a team of collaborators. Today, you can generate full tracks with just a few clicks. Enter MusicGen , a powerful new AI tool The post Introducing MusicGen: Create Music with Simple Text Prompts first appeared on Graphic Design Junction.
Creative Bloq
MAY 23, 2025
This year's awards celebrated creativity with purpose.
Graphic Design Junction
MAY 23, 2025
Design identity shapes how patients and healthcare professionals perceive medical devices. Colors, shapes, technical aspects, and testing influence trust in high-stakes environments where reliability is paramount. A well-designed device signals safety and competence, while a poor design can raise doubts about quality. In healthcare, where decisions impact lives, the functional … The post How Design Identity in Medical Devices Builds Trust first appeared on Graphic Design Junction.
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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.
Azure Magazine
MAY 23, 2025
Well before Vancouver’s popular Savio Volpe first opened its doors in 2016, the character of a savvy and worldly albeit distinctly Italian fox shaped the design and narrative of the space. And while the Volpe (meaning “fox”) was inspired by a nearby park’s population of bushy-tailed carnivores, Savio (“wisdom”) lends the graceful red mammal a sophisticated flair.
Booooooom
MAY 23, 2025
An interview with photographer Adri Tan, one of the winners of our Art & Photo Book Awards!
Design You Trust
MAY 23, 2025
Paul Thurlbys illustrations effortlessly blend nostalgia with a fresh, modern twist, turning vintage inspiration into something entirely his own. From his award-winning children’s book *Alphabet* to high-profile collaborations with The New Yorker and Vespa, his bold, retro style has made him a standout in both commercial and editorial spaces. Even with digital finishing touches, his work retains a warmth and human touch that makes it instantly recognizable and deeply engaging.
We And The Color
MAY 23, 2025
Are your job applications seemingly disappearing into a black hole? It’s a frustratingly common experience in today’s crowded job market. Youve dedicated time to honing your skills and gathering valuable experience, but how can you be certain your resume truly stands out and grabs a recruiter’s limited attention? Often, the initial impact comes down to visual presentation.
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.
UX Collective
MAY 23, 2025
Why big tech B2B research doesnt work for yourstartup. Startups are nothing like big companies. Their approach to UX research is, and should be, very different from what at big companies do. Startups live in the zero-to-one phase. Peter Thiel coined the term in his airport blockbuster book called you guessed it Zero-to-One. It defines the first phase in the life of a startup: from idea tolive.
We And The Color
MAY 23, 2025
Boom Sans is the Typeface that’s Redefining Character in Design Let us introduce you to the Boom Sans font family from Positype. It’s a carefully crafted typeface designed by the acclaimed Neil Summerour. Boom Sans aims to make a significant impact on your design projects, offering both exceptional readability and a distinct aesthetic. Could Boom Sans be the versatile workhorse your creative toolkit is missing?
Design You Trust
MAY 23, 2025
Helen Musselwhite transforms simple sheets of paper into intricate, storytelling landscapes, bringing nature to life through delicate layers and thoughtful composition. Though her artistic path began in graphic design and illustration, she found her true passion in paper art, drawing inspiration from the countryside near Manchester. Her work captures the beauty of plants and wildlife with a charming, handcrafted elegance that feels both timeless and deeply personal.
Creative Bloq
MAY 23, 2025
Choosing the right reference material can transform your art practice – here's how to do it.
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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.
Graphis
MAY 23, 2025
Few designers have pushed the boundaries of visual communication with as much boldness and originality as Stefan. The post Typography, Truth, & Taking Sabbaticals: Stefan Sagmeister Speaks appeared first on Graphis Blog.
Creative Bloq
MAY 23, 2025
Freepik CEO Joaquin Cuenca explains why AI can't, and shouldn't, do everything.
Colossal
MAY 23, 2025
In a room bigger than most at South Central Correctional Center in Licking, Missouri, a group of men has volunteered for a creative project that stretches beyond prison walls. For about 40 hours each week, they cut and stitch quilts for children in foster care or with disabilities, sewing vibrant, patterned patchworks and finding joy and camaraderie while doing so.
Creative Bloq
MAY 23, 2025
The Soundcore Liberty 5 headphones are now £90 for Memorial Day.
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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.
Creative Applications
MAY 23, 2025
Get full content RSS Feed Models of Crisis is series of three generative kinetic objects-poems that externalize and embody the thoughts and feelings of the artist undergoing an existential crisis. Read More CreativeApplications.Net is a community supported website. If you enjoy content on CAN, please become a member.
Creative Bloq
MAY 23, 2025
AutoCAD 2026 lets you create, collaborate, and share like never before with new and innovative tools.
Design Beep
MAY 23, 2025
What happens after someone picks up your product? That brief moment between a curious glance and a purchase decision is powerfulbut its only the beginning. Interactive packaging is shifting the role of packaging from passive protection to active brand engagement. Its not just about whats insideits about how the package itself becomes part of the experience.
Creative Bloq
MAY 23, 2025
It includes rare discounts on franchises like Monster Hunter, Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Pac-Man.
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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.
Moo
MAY 23, 2025
For 70 years, the Red Dot Awards have been spotlighting some of the best design work in the world. And following our Water Bottles big win in 2022 , were proud to announce that our brand-new Twist Pen is also a Red Dot Design Award winner. We launched the Twist Pen in 2024, and its one of our most revolutionary products, without a huge diversion from what makes a pen great.
This is Paper
MAY 23, 2025
Bringing a refined sense of calm to the heart of Westbourne Grove in London, The Method is a new wellness destination that redefines how we engage with movement, nourishment, and community.
Colossal
MAY 23, 2025
Built on the traditional homeland of the Sauk,Fox, and Potawatomi peoples, Chicago is a city of immigrants. Just 13 years after the city was incorporated in 1837, more than half of its residents were born overseas, having flocked to the region from across Europe and Asia alongside tens of thousands of others. Today, Chicago is home to 1.7 million immigrants , totaling 18 percent of the population.
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