Graphic Design Junction

APRIL 9, 2020

This is the 65th round up of Creative Business Logo Designs. As a designer, I know how important is Logo for any business or brand. A great logo is an essential part of an effective branding system. I learn lot of things in process of logo design, including initial client meetings and requirements, research and design exploration, building and pitching your best ideas, and delivering a logo that reflects your client’s unique brand and style.

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Inspiration Templates Fonts Brand 100

Spine Magazine

APRIL 9, 2020

David Drummond is founder and principal of Salamander Hill Design, based in Elgin, Québec, Canada. Founded in 2002, the studio produces projects that include posters, book covers, promotional materials, magazine illustration, packaging and identity development. Here he gives us a behind-the-scenes look at his process for designing poetry book Rushes from the River Disappointment.

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Photoshop Illustration Illustrator Magazine 97

Trendland

APRIL 9, 2020

Agnes is the Guatemalan studio founded in 2016 by designers Gustavo Quintana and Estefania de Ros. Agnes is a project that aims to explore forms of symbolism and emotions through the reinterpretation and new contextualization of traditional crafts, materials and techniques. The designers work closely with different artisans to create pieces that can inspire and bring new meaning to our lives.

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Inspiration Industrial Design 111

Feature Shoot

APRIL 9, 2020

We’re thrilled to announce that our latest guide for photographers , produced in collaboration with PhotoShelter is now available for download! With so many of us (316 million in the United States alone) being urged to stay at home for the safety and wellbeing of our communities, we know that possibilities for photoshoots can be limited right now.

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Inspiration Fine Art Photography Art 85

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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Trendland

APRIL 9, 2020

Since 2008 Fendi has teamed up with Design Miami to support limited edition design and creativity. For Design Miami 2019, Fendi asked Swiss studio Kueng Caputo (Sarah Kueng and Lovis Caputo) to create a collection of objects to decorate the outer colonnade of its iconic Roman headquarters, Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana.

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Architecture Industrial Design Color Production 105

Courier Media

APRIL 9, 2020

Setting off in an old, battered milk truck with just 100 customers in 2018, Simon Mellin thought he had a solid business plan. He would help people rediscover the joy of a fresh pint on their doorstep. Plus, in an age of fast consumerism, an industry that had faded into the distant past was ripe for reinvention. ‘We wanted to get across to the new generation that delivering milk to your doorstep wouldn’t be done in the old-fashioned way,’ says the 33-year-old son of a butcher, Lancashire born an

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Client Advertising Advertising Fashion 98

Graphic Mama

APRIL 9, 2020

Your landing page is absolutely essential, you know it and so do we. It’s where the visitors literally lands after clicking on a link in an email, social media, ads from Google, Facebook, Instagram. It is the focus of your digital presence, it’s the welcome at the door, and never have these first impressions been more important. You want to increase conversion rate in your marketing campaign, you want a sale, you need a lead, you want to get yourselves noted and noticed, then what yo

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Animation Agency Color Web Design 60

Noupe

APRIL 9, 2020

When it comes to B2B lead generation , what impacts the most? Many B2B business houses tend to spend a lot of time, pouring water into leaky buckets. Rather than fixing the bucket i.e. the marketing funnel, they pour more water i.e. traffic into the bucket to keep it to the brim. This tendency leads to inflated acquisition costs and below-average results in terms of generating leads.

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Marketing Marketing Advertising Advertising 95

Creative Review

APRIL 9, 2020

The graphic artist talks to CR about creating enigmatic album art, trawling charity shops for inspiration and putting a contemporary spin on collage. The post How I Work: Jimmy Turrell appeared first on Creative Review.

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Artist Graphic Art Inspiration 95

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Design You Trust

APRIL 9, 2020

DAY 1 According to Varvara Fomina: “On the 15th of March, Spain announced a very strict quarantine: it is only allowed to go grocery shopping or to the pharmacy. All businesses are closed and people work from their homes (those who can). As a freelance illustrator, I found my way of dealing with difficulties of confinement: I started a visual diary of our lockdown.

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Freelance Freelance Artist Illustration 75

Colossal

APRIL 9, 2020

All images © Rafael Gonzales Jr. In Pandemic Lotería, drawing “La Cabrona” actually might be key to winning the game. San Antonio-based artist Rafael Gonzales Jr. has been sharing his COVID-19-themed cards on Instagram that are based on the Mexican card game Lotería , which functions similarly to bingo. The deck features the realities of quarantined life, from a stockpile of toilet paper to continual Zoom calls to a lone bottle of hand sanitizer.

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Theme Artist Publishing Publishing 101

Illustration Art

APRIL 9, 2020

Last night the great Mort Drucker-- one of the few true geniuses of 20th century comic art-- passed away peacefully. He left behind a legacy of brilliant art that influenced, and will continue to influence, generations of young artists. Drucker was such a humble, gentle soul, I could never quite figure out where he found the drive and ambition to create his hundreds of beautiful stories, decade after decade.

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Arts and Crafts Artist Art Illustration 74

Creative Review

APRIL 9, 2020

Founded in 1934 in response to police attempts to stop peaceful protests during the Hunger Marches, over the last eight decades Liberty has grown into the UK’s largest civil liberties organisation, and has been at the centre of high profile cases including that of whistleblower Edward Snowden and the Equal Pay Act. While Liberty’s values have remained the same throughout its history, its branding had become dated over the years, and the organisation brought in design studio North to

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Fashion Brand Branding Fonts 98

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 You Trust

APRIL 9, 2020

Formerly lead concept artist at Sony Santa Monica, where he was a major contributor to God of War: Ascension and God of War III, Izzy Medrano creates concept designs for game development and IP creation. A freelance illustrator for clients including Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast, his work has frequently been featured in ImagineFX and Concept Art World.

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Digital Freelance Freelance Client 65

Its Nice That

APRIL 9, 2020

Jessica Walsh tells It’s Nice That about her agency’s latest project, which loudly defies the pastel-dominated world of female-targeted brands.

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Inspiration Brand Branding 91

Design You Trust

APRIL 9, 2020

Some people will do almost anything for attention. Even tattoo toilet paper rolls and Corona beer bottles on their skin…. Source.

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Inspiration 94

Its Nice That

APRIL 9, 2020

Artists from Strange Beast, Blinkink and the rest of the illustration and animation world do their bit to encourage people to keep donating.

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Animation Artist Illustration Illustrator 68

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Design You Trust

APRIL 9, 2020

Dan Giannopoulos explains what drew him to start photographing the discarded plastic gloves he found on the street as the coronavirus began to affect the way of life in the UK. More: Dan Giannopoulos, Instagram, Facebook h/t: bbc “Like everyone else, the coronavirus pandemic has had a massive impact on life as I knew it. As a photographer, during the beginning of the lockdown, I had thought about.

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Photography 76

Its Nice That

APRIL 9, 2020

Nina Simone’s Colour Is A Beautiful Thing was originally recorded in 1982 for a small French label, but has only been sporadically available, until now.

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Animation 85

Booooooom

APRIL 9, 2020

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Animation Artist Graphic Illustration 102

Design You Trust

APRIL 9, 2020

In the 1980s, Barcardi rum was the most popular distilled drink in the USA. Rum, the drink of old tars, pirates and last resort, was the tipple Americans most wanted. A drinks trade expert explained why rum was Number 1 in ’81: “Rum is vodka with a sweet taste, whereas vodka has no taste. It’s for people who want to know there’s something in their drink besides orange juice.

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Photography 56

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APRIL 9, 2020

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Photography 141

The Die Line

APRIL 9, 2020

We took our inspiration from modernism and pop art to create a brand with a stunning, unique and creative visual look.

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Art Brand Branding Inspiration 52

Booooooom

APRIL 9, 2020

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Photography 133

The Die Line

APRIL 9, 2020

We took our inspiration from modernism and pop art to create a brand with a stunning, unique and creative visual look.

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Art Brand Branding Inspiration 52

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