Fri.Jul 08, 2022

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What Is Graphic Design’s Place in an Art Museum?

Eye on Design

This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. We don’t always realize it, but graphic design saturates every part of our lives. It informs the decisions we make as consumers and serves as a structure for how we understand and engage with our environment—whether through navigating the labyrinth of subway lines via color-coded route maps or learning more about a piece of art from the labels adhered to an exhibition wall.

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The Wooden cutout collection Gives Air + Light Its Freedom

Design Milk

Tel Aviv-based designer and woodworker Gila Bobich , founder of frill furniture , creates practical home decor that can make a space feel more alive. Her latest made-by-hand furniture and wall pieces, the cutout collection , was exhibited last month at SaloneSatellite. “I love the physicality of the woodshop, of breaking down giant boards of lumber into small, delicate pieces and putting them together into entirely different objects,” Bobich said of her process.

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10 eCommerce Marketing Design Principles for the Digital Age

Inkbot Design

10 eCommerce Marketing Design Principles for the Digital Age. Ecommerce websites have become a cornerstone of modern business, and no matter how big or small your online shop is, you need to stand out from the crowd. Simply put, eCommerce has become an essential part of our daily lives. The world wide web has made it easier to purchase everything from coffee and wine to clothing and computers.

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You Need These 10 Modern Finds for Your Next Pool + Beach Day

Design Milk

As a born and raised Miami resident, I like to think I’ve mastered the fine art of organizing a perfect beach or pool trip. Truth be told, there’s a lot that can go awry without the proper preparation – snacks getting soggy in transit, drinks boiling in the heat, sun burns, you get the idea. Once you start overthinking your packing list, though, your relaxing day at the pool can get pretty stressful.

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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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Weekly News for Designers ? 651

SpeckyBoy

WordPress Themes Team Releases New Plugin for Creating Block Themes – A new plugin lets you create a block theme directly within WordPress – then export it for use anywhere. Releasing Color.js: A library that takes color seriously – A look behind the scenes of this new JavaScript library. Make Way Grid Effect – Building a grid interaction effect where adjoining items make way to a selected one that expands.

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F5: Prasoon Shrivastava On His Hometown, How He Centers Himself + Speed

Design Milk

Prasoon Shrivastava is Founder and CEO of Prasoon Design Studio , a new-age architecture and design firm with headquarters in Dubai and an office in India. With a background in construction and sustainability, Prasoon is an architect, an entrepreneur, and a storyteller. It’s his curiosity that’s guided the firm’s design approach since 2020.

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Simple Lines and Shapes Comprise the Lavish Yet Minimal Animal Drawings of Jochen Gerner

Colossal

All images © Jochen Gerner, shared with permission. Lines and basic shapes are the basis of Jochen Gerner ’s distinct, almost paradoxical style that’s sometimes referred to as “abundant minimalism.” The French artist, who lives and works between Lorraine and Burgundy, draws birds and dogs that are sparse in form and yet rich in color and texture: checkered patterns overlaid with a chaotic array of markings create a shaggy fur coat, while variegated patches of feathers distingui

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Charming Stop-Motion Animation Created With Needle-Felted Art

Brown Paper Bag

View this post on Instagram. A post shared by Andrea Love (@andreaanimates). Animator and artist Andrea Love creates animation using needle felted art. The stop-motion pieces feature sets created entirely from the fiber material, and she does things with it you wouldn’t expect. Needle felting, in particular, is known for its stiffness. It’s only by stabbing the fibers over (and over) that you’re able to create a stable form.

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Jewels Encrust Ornamental Insects in Sasha Vinogradova’s Digital Illustrations

Colossal

All images © Sasha Vinogradova, shared with permission. Los Angeles-based artist Sasha Vinogradova merges her fascination with nature and ornate design in a series of jewel-coated specimens. Sculptural in form to evoke a brooch or other piece of wearable art, the digitally illustrated insects encase gems and vibrant, iridescent body parts within a metallic structure.

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Artist Painted Themed Rooms Featuring Celebrities And Animals, And Here’s The Result

Design You Trust

Zelenskiy’s Doves. According to Maria Titan: “A year ago, I joined an Instagram challenge called ROOMPORTRAITCLUB. Every Saturday, a photo of a room is posted and artists from all around the world are invited to interpret it in any way they choose. This weekly challenge has become my weekly addiction. Sometimes I add famous people, other times animals, depending on my mood or what suits the particular room.

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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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The Dispersion — satisfying loops with Blender 3D

Abduzeedo

The Dispersion — satisfying loops with Blender 3D. abduzeedo 0708—22 Gurlaldeep Singh shared a 3D post featuring a series of compositions exploring the dispersion and refraction of light. The 3D work was all done in Blender 3D. As the author describes — "The Dispersion is a collection of hand animated satisfying loops.". Check out the NFTs on Sale also make sure to follow Gurlaldeep Singh on: Behance.

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Wait, how many bars are in this optical illusion?

Creative Bloq

I am so confused.

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D.S. & DURGA

Mindsparkle Mag

The post D.S. & DURGA appeared first on Mindsparkle Mag.

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6 of Kanye West's biggest design debacles

Creative Bloq

These are Yeezily his most controversial design moments.

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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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Just 20 of These Balenciaga x Bang & Olufsen Speaker Bags Will Be Made Available

Design Milk

Unsurprisingly Balenciaga put on quite the memorable event for their 51st Couture show in Paris, giving the coterie of fashionistas sitting shoulder-to shoulder a celebrity-filled parade of models that included Dua Lipa, Bella Hadid, and Kim Kardashian donning the label’s latest collection. Beyond the celebrity factor, the show will be most remembered for its incorporation of dystopian face shields designed by Mercedes-AMG F1 Applied Science accessorized with a surprising collaboration: t

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Best Prime Day SSD deals (and external hard drive deals)

Creative Bloq

This is the Prime Day SSD deals page you need!

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Introduction to Substance Painter

CGIA

CGInspiringArtist. Introduction to Substance Painter. If you want to work faster in Substance Painter then you need to remember some shortcuts.The substance has already shared a detailed shortcut key on his website. It’s hard to remember all the shortcut keys, so you can remember the essential shortcut that you mostly used. You can also edit some shortcut keys.

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Burger King delivers a sick burn to the competition

Creative Bloq

New campaign is all about those 7 lines.

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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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Amazon A+ Content: All You Need To Know

Inkbot Design

Amazon A+ Content: All You Need To Know. Competition has always been a hallmark of eCommerce, and it's only getting more intense yearly. Amazon's marketplace is no exception, especially with the growing number of sellers on this platform. If you're one of them, you'll need all the marketing advantages you can get to carve out a niche for your brand and get the required traffic.

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The Splatoon 3 Nintendo Switch is kind of ugly

Creative Bloq

Sorry, Nintendo.

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Karl Font by Local Desk Designstudio

We And The Color

Take a look at the Karl font, a minimalist sans serif typeface for display use. Created and published by Local Desk Designstudio, Karl is a minimalist sans serif typeface. You can use it for unique logo designs, branding, bold packaging design, powerful website headers, etc. The Karl font comes with 26 stylistic alternates. Using these alternates, you can create diverse and totally unique typographic designs.

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'Boris Lie-PA' branding shows BrewDog still has teeth

Creative Bloq

It's fit for a work party, apparently.

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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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Money distribution for streaming music

FlowingData

From the listener perspective, we pay our monthly or annual fees and just turn on our music streams. The path those fees take from our wallet to musicians is less straightforward. For The Pudding, Elio Quinton does a good job of visually explaining where the money goes (and some of the better ways you can support artists). Tags: money , music , Pudding , streaming.

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6 logo Easter eggs you might have missed

Creative Bloq

Did you spot the hidden references in these clever logo designs?

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Atelier Št?pán’s Internal Landscape Villa Combines Atmosphere & Architecture

Azure Magazine

It can sometimes be hard to find the motivation to leave the comfort of your own home. With the Internal Landscape Villa, a residential project in the Czech Republic, Atelier Št?pán takes motivation out of the equation by bringing the outside in. Featuring a spacious atrium, an open concept interior and an abundance of circular skylights, the villa blurs the physical distinction between the interior environment and the outside world.

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How to get started with woodcut printmaking

Creative Bloq

Lino printing's older cousin is fun, effective, and produces beautiful results.

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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.

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Domenic Lippa on designing the LDF identity for 15 consecutive years, including this one

Its Nice That

As the London Design Festival unveils its 20th anniversary look, we find out how you keep a single-palette identity fresh for the decade. Hint: you're never just “knocking something out”.

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Is a new Google Play logo on its way?

Creative Bloq

I hope so.

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Japanese Energy Drink Pocari Sweat Partners With Loop and Releases a Recyclable Glass Bottle

The Die Line

Pocari Sweat is rolling out a recycled glass bottle in partnership with Loop, the global reuse system that teams up with major brands to sell their products in reusable packaging.

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“Pride means everything to me”: five photographers reflect on this year’s London event

Its Nice That

Last weekend, the crowds flooded in their millions to central London for the return of Pride. To mark the occasion, we asked five photographers to share an image that they feel best depicts their experiences from the day.

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Web Design for All: Accessibility, Inclusivity and Beyond

Speaker: Eden Spivak, Design Expert and Editor at Wix & Nir Horesh, Accessibility Lead and Senior Product Manager at Wix

When we design products or websites for people like ourselves, there are many others who are, as a result, left out. From visually impaired users who rely on assistive technology, to people with a temporary injury such as a broken arm, tech users are forever diverse and beautifully unique. The products we design can, and should, reflect the extremely wide range of human experiences and needs.