Just Creative

MARCH 9, 2020

This article has been contributed by guest author, Tom Welbourne. Ranking for lucrative keywords is a crucial part of any successful SEO strategy. If a website contains excellent content that is well written, well researched and provides the answer to a searcher’s query, then it stands a good chance of ranking well in search engine results. If the content is optimised with a particular keyword or phrase in mind, then it stands an even better chance of ranking well in a search.

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Graphic Design USA

MARCH 9, 2020

Academy of Art University students from a variety of design and advertising departments were challenged to reimagine the Subaru car for 2030.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

MARCH 9, 2020

The natural world has always served as a great source of inspiration. And we can see some of its most amazing wonders by looking up towards the heavens. A crystal-blue sky on a sunny day, the stars twinkling at night. Then too, the thoughts of space exploration and our galaxy also ignite our imagination. What’s above us brings both an everyday reality and curiosity of the unknown.

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Noupe

MARCH 9, 2020

World of Warcraft is one of those games that has left its mark on the last 15 years. When it was announced that the already popular RTS game Warcraft 3 was getting a Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) adaptation, little did we know that it was going to change video games forever. The game was a huge success when it was launched in 2004, and since then it has drawn millions of players to its fantastical world.

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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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Colossal

MARCH 9, 2020

“Brit” (Norway 2018). All images © Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen, shared with permission. Norwegian-Finnish artist duo Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen bring a folklore-inspired vision to the relationship between humans and nature. The majority of their subjects are elders who often have a deeper connection to the lands they inhabit, work on, or cultivate.

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Its Nice That

MARCH 9, 2020

This year we’ve celebrated International Womxn’s Day by finding out who some of our favourite women and non-binary creatives' very own favourites are, collated together in a list of 100 brilliant creatives to be inspired by.

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Joe McNally

MARCH 9, 2020

Many thanks for all those who participated in our contest! Doing this yearly with the folks at Maha Energy is fun. I love looking at all manner of pictures and different approaches. It’s enjoyable, and instructional. That’s the beautiful thing about photography. Everyone expresses their heart, their head and their eye on the world in different ways.

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MARCH 9, 2020

“Bubble Duty”. Established in 2019, YEMA is a start-up grocery brand in Mexico that offers functional and convenient alternatives to basic everyday products made with quality (and simple) ingredients, sustainable practices, and sold at competitive prices. Available primarily online but with three brick and mortar stores in Mexico City, YEMA offers a wide yet curated selection of food products (e.g., snacks, pasta, tea, oils, beans, rice, spices, juices, and even craft beers), personal hygiene pr

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Trendland

MARCH 9, 2020

Clé Tile has always viewed the world of tile through the lens of history and fashion, beginning with founder Deborah Osburn’s pairings of tile with the latest looks from the runway on her blog Tile Envy. In their most recent collaboration, clé creative director Sarah Lonsdale worked with photographer Laurie Frankel and stylist Alessandra Mortola, placing Marni’s upcoming spring collection within the interiors of the clé studio.

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Advertiser: Issuu

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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Colossal

MARCH 9, 2020

All images © Eric Gross, shared with permission. Shot at an elevation nearing 10,000 feet in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, a series of images by Eric Gross capture a high-alpine lake covered in icy ridges and dips that mimic sleek waves. The Colorado-based photographer tells Colossal that local experts believe the phenomenon is caused by snowdrifts blowing onto the already frozen lake, melting there, and then refreezing. “Through multiple melt/freeze cycles and after periods of high wi

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Trendland

MARCH 9, 2020

Sebastian Weiss is a Hamburg-based architecture photographer with a flair for exquisite, impeccable angles. Having documented sites such as Spanish La Muralla Roja for Wallpaper* and Parisian suburbia, he is also the author of “Dramatic personae” series that aims to “represent public faces that deliberately restrains the identity of the object in order to concentrate on its public performance” Featuring architectural gems from Porto, Helsinki, Lyon, Metz or Leipzig to nam

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Creative Review

MARCH 9, 2020

Founded in 1942 by Walter and Eva Neurath, Thames & Hudson’s misson was to create a ‘museum without walls’ and open up the world of art to a wider audience. Today, the publisher is still a family-owned business, with over 2,000 books in print and various offices and subsidiaries across the globe. To mark the relaunch of its famous pocket-sized World of Art book series, which first launched in 1958 and spans over 300 titles, the publisher commissioned Pentagram partner Harry

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Creative Market

MARCH 9, 2020

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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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Its Nice That

MARCH 9, 2020

London-based animator Caitlin Young treats us to a laugh out loud adventure of mean inner monologues, and that fundamental question: Am I a bad feminist?

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Design Week

MARCH 9, 2020

Have you ever booked a holiday and felt the pressure of seeing how many other people are looking at it? Spent an hour working out how to unsubscribe from a newsletter? Or been made to feel guilty about not signing up to a website’s feature (also known as ‘confirm shaming’)? That means you’ve experienced dark patterns, which are defined as “tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn’t mean to” In short, they favour the commerci

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Booooooom

MARCH 9, 2020

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Its Nice That

MARCH 9, 2020

Mainly an editorial illustrator, Rose dedicates part of her practice to personal work always printed with Risograph, adding an entirely different feel to her regular output.

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Design You Trust

MARCH 9, 2020

UK TV channel Dave launched an online campaign titled “What the bloody hell is a … ?” During it, the channel shared pictures of various animals along with some of their defining characteristics. And yes, the descriptions aren’t completely legit. Well, actually, they’re almost pure fiction. But they’re so ridiculous, they’re kinda genius. Continue scrolling and you’ll see what we mean.

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Its Nice That

MARCH 9, 2020

The Intersection exhibition features 50 artworks curated by the agency and The TittyMag, by a veritable who’s who of female-identifying creatives in The Netherlands.

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Design You Trust

MARCH 9, 2020

Video editor Denis Shiryaev recently shared a video on his Youtube channel that shows colorized footage of New York City in 1911. The video is a restored version of the footage previously shared by a Swedish film crew from Svenska Biografteatern, which showed an old film slowed down to a natural rate with added sound for ambiance. More: Youtube Shiryaev worked on that source video and turned it.

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Just Creative

MARCH 9, 2020

This article has been contributed by Lidia Staron. Creating a successful marketing strategy for your design business does not have to be complicated. There are simple ways to make an effective marketing strategy to help you grow your brand. If you want a steady stream of clients and prospects, here are our top tips for building your business’ marketing strategy.

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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.

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Design You Trust

MARCH 9, 2020

American Photographer Bryan Sansivero has become renowned for his colorful and deeply evocative photographs of ruined and abandoned homes. In Bryan’s pictures, the idea of the abandoned place or ruin is imbued with a sense of loss, nostalgia, of strangeness, an artful fluctuation between presence and absence, creating a poetry of lost words, experience and story.

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Booooooom

MARCH 9, 2020

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Design You Trust

MARCH 9, 2020

Michael C. Hsiung is known for his quirky illustrations, drawn using Micron pens and Higgins black ink. His characters, mostly fantastical – mermen, centaurs, wizards and the likes – tend to sport impressive mustaches, a feature which Hsiung himself has come to be recognized with. More: Instagram h/t: playjunkie Sometimes prized for his mustache, othertimes prized for his art.

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Just Creative

MARCH 9, 2020

Many of the applications and websites that we use daily have an experienced coder behind the scenes making sure things look and work the way they are supposed to. Having the best tools helps make any job easier. While we featured our best laptops for coding back in 2019, we thought we’d circle back around and offer up and update so you can have the absolute best tech at your fingertips.

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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.

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