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Kira Koroknai's wine label designs are a 'glorious mess'

Creative Boom

Designer Kira Koroknai explains how she devised packaging designs for a limited-edition wine label. And they're pretty special, reflecting the unique balance of the drink. Kira Koroknai is a Budapest-based freelance designer, with a focus on branding, packaging and editorial design. Her latest packaging project is a special-edition wine label made for Glug Wine Club Scotland.

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Selected Logos & Marks from 2022 by Cesar Flores

We And The Color

Check out this great selection of logos and marks created by Cesar Flores in 2022. Cesar Flores is a Lima, Peru-based graphic designer specializing in logo designs and brand identity development. Just recently, he shared this great selection of logos and marks that have been created in 2022. For those who want to see more of Cesar’s creative work, feel free to take a look at his portfolio on Behance.

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Visual artist Danzhu Hu crafts a surreal and melancholic world where trauma can be reimagined

Creative Boom

© Danzhu Hu. Steeped in personal trauma, Danzhu Hu's breathtaking work lays bare the artist's psyche for all to see. Danzhu Hu is a visual artist from China, currently residing in New York City. After completing a Master's this year at the Fashion Institute of Technology, MFA Illustration course, she's now making waves with her intimate and emotive work.

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37 Creative Logo Design Inspiration #107

Graphic Design Junction

Creative inspiring logo design collection. This is the 107th round up of Creative Logo Design at GraphicDesignJunction.com. We are human and we love visual creations. Specially eye-catching visual identity, branding designs easily catch people’s attention! These logos are not only for inspiration, you will get new concepts and ideas for your next logo.

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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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Photo project uncovers the hunger, fear and mental scarring of Shanghai's harsh lockdowns

Creative Boom

Kay © Johnny Man. The Covid era hasn't just been about physical suffering. Chinese photographer Johnny Man 's project focuses on the mental side-effects of prolonged lockdowns in his home city. Even when lockdowns are officially over, some people still feel trapped in a mental lockdown that can be brutally restricting. One artist addressing this concern is Johnny Man, a Chinese documentary photographer based in Shanghai.

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Mellow Meadow's art sends you on a spiritual journey through natural and mystical beings

Creative Boom

Tiger Year © Mellow Meadow. The Chinese-born, New York-based artist, discusses how her illustrations make her feel more connected to nature. At its best, art can be transportive: taking you out of yourself, offering fresh perspectives, and putting you into a different state of mind. And the works of Mellow Meadow fit right into that category. The illustration artist from Shanghai, also known as Yue Li, is a recent graduate of the School of Visual Arts and is now based in New York.

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From Blue Note to Afrofuturism, Herbie Hancock’s Sleeve Designs Are as Adventurous as His Sounds

Eye on Design

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock has been at the cutting edge of technology for many of his 82 years. Like his contemporary Stevie Wonder, he developed a taste for synthesizers and electronics long before they were widespread, and he has fearlessly explored new genres like hip hop, funk, and electronica since leaving the Miles Davis Quintet in 1968 to go solo.

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Marilyn Wilde Handwriting Script Font by Mila Garret

We And The Color

Mila Garret has designed, Marilyn Wilde, a natural handwriting script font. Characterized by friendly curves, Marilyn Wilde is a natural handwriting font. Designed by Mila Garret, it comes with plenty of subtle ligatures. With its neat cursive handwriting style, the Marilyn Wilde font can add a human touch to your designs. You can use it for modern logo designs, Instagram posts, wedding invitations, printed collateral, websites, etc.

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10 Android 13 New Features and Tips You Should Know

HONGKIAT

Android 13 is the new release from Google, building upon the lovely Android 12. It improves upon and extends the two most important features of Android 12: the new design system dubbed “Material You” and the enhanced privacy and security controls. That means Android 13 protects your privacy even further! That being said, let me introduce you to its new and improved features and how to utilize them to make the most of Android 13.

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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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Illustrations That Prove Speech Bubbles Can Tell Their Stories Without Words

Design You Trust

Long Story Short. Tang Yau Hoong is an artist, illustrator, graphic designer based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. With a passion for creative thinking, he creates art that is conceptual, surreal and fun in a simplistic and unique way. Since 2007, he works with various clients globally in advertising, editorial, branding, corporate, marketing, and many other design projects.

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At Durat You’ll Find 1,000 Vibrant Colors of Surface Materials to Re-Imagine Your Space

Design Milk

If you’re looking for some colorful inspiration for home design, look no further than Finnish surface material company Durat. Located in downtown Helsinki, the new Durat showroom features the brand’s solid surface materials in a kaleidoscope of vibrant colors in various uses. The material is available in more than 1,000 colors and styles with a range of granule sizes and textures.

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Ugly Art for Ugly Times: Bizarre Cartoons by Janek Koza

Design You Trust

Janek Koza is a Polish illustrator and cartoonist. Studied painting and new media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroc?aw, Poland. Worked as an animator, created graphic novels. Has been drawing satirical cartoons for newspapers for over 10 years. Has a regular weekly column in one of the biggest Polish magazines, “Polityka” and partners up with other newspapers.

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Marset’s Funiculi Lamp Stands the Test of Time

Azure Magazine

“Fashion does not interest me , and I have never made fashionable lights because they soon go out of fashion. I have always made lamps I liked,” said the late Lluís Porqueras of his design ethos. The Funiculi lamp, perhaps one of the Cataladan designer’s most iconic works, is indicative of his affinity for timelessness. Designed in 1979, the light was reissued by Spanish manufacturer Marset in 2013 and has remained one of the company’s most popular products ever since.

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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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Wildin’ Out With Mestiz’s Zoomorphic Wood Objects

Design Milk

Mestiz’s latest collaboration is a bit of a serendipitous meeting. The Mexico-based studio had been inspired by wood carving and carpentry traditions during the 17th and 18th centuries and it was during a walk through the streets of San Miguel de Allende that Mestiz ran into Don Javier, a craftsman who still practices this lost art. Together, they came up with Wood Fauna , a collection of zoomorphic wood objects that embrace the vibrant colors of Mexican culture and its wildlife.

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Bringing minimalism and modernism to games brands

Creative Review

Graphic designer Cory Schmitz is a distinctive voice in the games industry, turning his love of corporate logos into work for indie studios, major titles and tech companies.

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RISD Continuing Education Opens Fall Registration With 10 Online Certificates

Colossal

Artwork by Lani S., Advanced Program Online student. Choose from more than 140 courses for adults and youth ages 13 to 17 this fall at Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education, including options for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students. Enroll by August 23 to save 10% with the code EARLYBIRDCE. This fall, RISD CE online courses offer adult students a range of courses for all skill levels that can be taken at any time of day or night, from anywhere in the world.

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Online Reputation Management: How Online Reviews Influence a Consumer’s Decision

Noupe

In the past few years, online reviews have played an important role in how consumers decide where to shop, what to buy, and who to trust. These reviews and ratings serve as the third-party confirmation that will influence the purchasing decision of many consumers who do not want to take any risks when it comes to the quality of goods and services they are getting.

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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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Pop & Pac’s fun and friendly packaging bucks Melbourne’s minimalist coffee scene

Its Nice That

Coffee receipt-inspired, unpretentious and “quite literal”: Pop & Pac speaks about creating a coffee brand for everyone.

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Find the story of your product

UX Collective

A memorable product story is invaluable for a startup. It helps your team unite around a common vision and it works miracles when communicating with customers or investors. “The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller.”?—?Steve Jobs But what if you don’t have a good story to tell about your product? Maybe you are just getting started, or the thing you are building is so new that it is hard to explain.

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Tombini d'Italia design studies on manhole cover

Abduzeedo

Tombini d'Italia design studies on manhole cover. abduzeedo 0815—22 This publication aims at bridging an important shortcoming regarding one of the most popular, but also one of the most overlooked products in design studies, i.e. manhole covers. These artifacts constitute a unique case in industrial manufacturing, in that they constitute a timeless product, an untouched ‘sine die’, for they have never undergone any substantial innovation or functional evolution.

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Genderless design, absolute position in Figma, dark mode tokens

UX Collective

Weekly curated resources for designers?—?thinkers and makers. “Design can never truly be free of culture, gender, and bias. Our pursuit of a neutral and universal design may bring us to modernism, minimalism, and the Apple-esque aesthetic, but these design schools, inspired by Eurocentric standards, carry qualities associated with masculinity. How can we go beyond the stereotypical binary view of masculine and feminine and create more universal, inclusive designs?

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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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Discarded Tools, Scrap Metals, and Fabrics Form the Spirited Sculptures by Mohsen Heydari Yeganeh

Colossal

All images © Mohsen Heydari Yeganeh, shared with permission. Artist Mohsen Heydari Yeganeh extends the life of broken tools, wooden handles, and scraps of fabric found in resale shops, stalls, and alleys. Utilizing chains for plumage or a long, steel blade for a beak, Yeganeh forms stylized animalistic assemblages of discarded materials, which he refers to as “flying garbages.” Conveying the awkward, jutting postures of birds or the broad stance of a bison, the spirited sculptures co

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Gradwatch 2022: Jeremiah Babatunde, Ravensbourne University

Creative Review

Jeremiah Babatunde graduated from the digital photography course at Ravensbourne University in London, where he learned the ins and outs of producing digital imagery and working in a studio. “When the pandemic came through it was hard at first because I was used to face-to-face learning,” he recalls. Logging into Zoom every day didn’t quite have the same effect, and it could be difficult to.

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Wagamama “strips out the unnecessary” with new “sustainable” takeaway packaging

Design Week

Wagamama has launched new packaging, which seeks to reduce the company’s use of virgin plastic by 330 tonnes each year. Moramma was approached by Wagamama in 2021 and tasked with redesigning the whole takeaway packaging range. The studio drew inspiration from “circular design strategies” and used knowledge from material, recycling and packaging experts to find “the best possible sustainable.

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How to Improve Your Google TrustRank and Rank Higher on SERP

Noupe

Google’s job is to help people find content on the web. Not just any content, however. It must be relevant and a good match to the search query. Have you ever tried searching for important information and the sites that come up are just full of badly written blogs or articles? Or, you click a link only to be annoyed by the pop-ups and ads that make it impossible to easily locate the actual info that you are looking for.

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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.