Mon.Dec 09, 2019

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7 Tips for Getting (and Acing) an Interview at a Creative Agency by Kate Gallé

Shillington

A big welcome to Kate Gallé , our latest guest author! Kate is a Creative Director at Design Bridge , a studio that has been in the game for 33 years and now has five studios across the world—in London (where Kate works), Amsterdam, Singapore, New York and Shanghai. Kate also came to Shillington earlier in the year to talk to our graduates all about job searching and applications in the design industry.

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How To Create an Illustrated Cartoon Effect from a Photo in Adobe Photoshop

Spoon Graphics

It takes some real skill to draw realistic characters and portraits, but there’s a shortcut you can take by processing a photograph with various filters in Photoshop to give it a cartoon-like illustrated effect. In today’s tutorial I’ll show you a cocktail of adjustments that mimic the outlines, colours, and shading of a digitally painted image automatically, without the need to trace, paint or draw by hand.

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Christmas Color Palettes: 8 Designers Share their Go-to Hues

Creative Market

Looking for color inspiration to spruce up your holiday-themed designs? Whether you're working on new designs for a client's holiday campaign, designing your family's Christmas cards, or planning a beautiful tablescape – these 8 Christmas color palettes are sure to inspire your next festive project. Save Color palette by Yulia, Yuliya Derbisheva. Palette HEX codes: #efdfd7, #c84d4e, #869987, #c0ced7, #717d8a.

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How to Launch Your Blog or Portfolio in 2020 (3,500+ Word Start to Finish Guide)

Inspiration Feed

The graphic design industry is tough. No matter where you go, you’ll see amazing talent through the work of other designers in the field.

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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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10 Fresh Font Pairings for Editorial Design in 2020

Shillington

Whether you’re creating a poster, a brochure, a website or any other kind of design that includes text, the importance of typography cannot be underestimated. Getting your type right is crucial to readability, hierarchy, engagement, navigation and overall user experience, to name but a few things. And one of the most important factors in all that is choosing fonts that complement each other well, both aesthetically and functionally.

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Add Scroll Effects & Utilities to Your Website with These CSS & JS Snippets

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Scrolling is among the most basic tasks we ask of users. And, judging from the amount of scrolling on websites and apps these days – we’re asking a lot. Adding scroll-based effects can be a great way to enhance user experience. That is, so long as they don’t interfere with the ability to navigate through long stretches of content. If anything, effects should make things easier and add a bit of flair to the mix.

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Winter 2020 Registration NOW OPEN at School of Motion

Abduzeedo

Winter 2020 Registration NOW OPEN at School of Motion. abduzeedo Dec 09, 2019 I am a motion design fan and it’s one of my goals to learn more about it. Because of that, I would love to share that the registration is open for the Winter 2020 Session at School of Motion, the world’s leading online school for motion designers. Be sure to pick your preferred course — before it sells out!

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Beazley Designs of the Year

Shillington

One of the most exciting exhibitions of the year, Beazley Designs of the Year returns to the Design Museum for 2019. Discover the most innovative designs across fashion, architecture, digital, transport, product and graphic design from the past 12 months, as nominated by the public and design experts from around the world. Now in its twelfth year, Beazley Designs of the Year is an annual celebration of the most original and exciting products, concepts and designers across the globe today.

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Benefits of Artificial Intelligence for Business

Noupe

Artificial intelligence isn’t a new concept. As a matter of fact, it has been around ever since the 1950s and a workshop at the Dartmouth College at which the field of AI research was established. Although many people still think of AI from the perspective of humanoid sentient robots with a mind of their own, the truth is that much of this technology still revolves around its capability to make use of huge volumes of data.

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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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2020 Graphic Design Trends

Just Creative

When looking back at 2019, there were a few trends to get exciting about. From 3D design and typography, Art Deco, and Isometric design to minimalism and open compositions, trends in this industry are rather unpredictable. Some trends like minimalism, color gradients, and heavy fonts seem to be here to stay for at least another year. But what will 2020 bring in matters of graphic design trends?

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Checkland Kindleysides rebrands Byron encouraging people to eat together

Its Nice That

Under the mantra “All hail the table”, the new identity centres around communal eating and was inspired by the layering of visual “ingredients”. Read more.

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‘Joy of Reading’: A New Book of Illustrations by Christoph Niemann Promotes Free Press

Colossal

Illustrator Christoph Niemann ( previously ) has released The Paper , a book celebrating what he calls “the joy of reading magazines and newspapers.” The wordless book totals 194 pages and features pink, black, and white illustrations that depict people engrossed in magazines and newspapers. One couple lays with a large piece of newsprint covering them like a blanket, while another image depicts numerous hands and arms coming from all directions to grab and hold on to pages.

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Design Week’s Christmas gift guide for designers

Design Week

Kids. Hey Duggee Design Workshop – The Design Museum, W8 6AG – tickets from £7.00 (pictured above). Inspired by the Designing Duggee display currently on show at the Design Museum, this workshop has been created to introduce children to design. Children from the age of two can learn how to design new characters in 2D and 3D and explore shapes, textures and colours.

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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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Here are our most inspiring, moving, honest, funny, memorable moments from Nicer Tuesdays 2019

Its Nice That

Before we kick off the new year and another run of Nicer Tuesdays, we wanted to take a moment to say thank you to every who took to the stage or sat in the audience during 2019’s events, and to reflect on some of our highlights. Read more.

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Matt Willey: “A lot of rules about how a magazine looks and behaves are up for grabs”

Design Week

“I sometimes wonder if ‘magazine’ is an unhelpful word,” Matt Willey says. “People have a slightly inflexible idea of what that is.” Willey knows magazines. A graphic designer by training — he studied at Central Saint Martins — his influence across magazine design is considerable and varied. In 2013, he redesigned The Independent newspaper to great acclaim.

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Japanese Illustrator Gives Thought-Provoking Chills With Haunting Artwork

Design You Trust

Japanese illustrator Avogado6 doesn’t offer much of a description of himself in his Twitter profile, simply stating that “I’m an ordinary person who likes chemistry. I create video works,” but one look at his thought-provoking artwork reveals that his interests run far deeper than that. The talented artist’s illustrations often seem simple at first glance.

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29Rooms in New York

Shillington

29Rooms is Refinery29’s immersive experience that is compared to a funhouse of culture and creativity, now going into its 10th year. The different multi-sensory installations and performances are meant to inspire your imagination through the artistic experiences to tap into our innate creativity. The Expand Your Reality Tour is the latest 29Rooms experience from Refinery29—a space where you’re encouraged to step into the art, wear the art, touch the art and connect with others (and yourse

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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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Corner House by 31/44 Architects

This is Paper

27.11.2019Corner House by 31/44 ArchitectsResearch, Architecture, Interiors. 31/44 Architects shows how London's 19th-century townhouses can be brought into the 21st century, with this three-home development in Peckham. Photography: Rory Gardiner Sited prominently on a street corner beyond the established building-line and attached to an existing Victorian terrace within a cohesive street pattern, the new house does not declare its presence too boldly, but reveals itself slowly.

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Silver Lining Sketchbooks - the positives of painting with pneumonia

Ohn Mar Win

It’s difficult to articulate the extreme fear (justified and unjustified) I felt during the painfully slow divorce process and subsequent health issues. Even so, there was little evidence of this in my sketchbooks, which continued to be my refuge and safe haven during this ongoing crisis. Once my ex moved out, I was given one month’s grace from the mortgage repayments looming over me.

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Vintage Corporate Identity Program for Galerías Designed – Vignelli Associates 1994

The Logo Smith

The post Vintage Corporate Identity Program for Galerías Designed – Vignelli Associates 1994 appeared first on The Logo Smith. Vintage Corporate Identity Program for Galerías Designed by Vignelli Associates 1994 This vintage Corporate Identity Program for Galerías; a department store chain in Madrid, Spain; designed by Vignelli Associates, in 1994.

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“The Auburn System” by Photographer Joe Librandi-Cowan

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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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Last Pictures Of Sharon Tate Taken By Terry O’Neill In London, 1969

Design You Trust

These pictures of heavily pregnant Sharon Tate were taken by photographer Terry O’Neill in London on August 6, 1969, three days before she was murdered. h/t: vintag.es On August 9, Sharon along with her friends Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski and Abigail Folger were murdered by members of The Manson Family at her home in Los Angeles. Steven Parent an 18-year-old who was visiting the home’s.

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Design Conferences 2020: The Ultimate List

Just Creative

Looking to attend a design conference in 2020? Welcome to the ultimate 2020 Design Conference Guide which lists 140+ conferences & events for Graphic Design, Web Design, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Tech, Usability, User Research, Product Development and Branding, from around the world, including Europe, USA, UK, Australia and more.

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Geometric Volumes and Humanoid Figures Shape-Shift in a New Animation by Guldies

Colossal

Malleable sculptures formed from plasticine topple, bounce, and shape-shift between geometric volumes and humanoid figures in UTOPIA, a new stop motion animation. The minimalist short film is set on a plain aqua-toned background with a restricted clay color palette of white, pink, orange, and burgundy. UTOPIA’s tightly controlled aesthetic centers the viewer’s attention on the fast-moving shapes as they transform and interact with each other.

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“House of Surprises/Twinsburg” by Photographer Kathryn Allen Hurni

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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.