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Top 20 Illustrator Brushes (Free & Paid)

Just Creative

Adobe Illustrator is used by millions of professional and hobbyist graphic designers all over the world. It is the industry-standard vector graphics software and while the tools that the program normally comes with can make some of the most beautiful artwork in the world, one of the best parts about Illustrator is the ability to add custom brushes. With this in mind, we wanted to feature 20 Illustrator Brushes, both free and paid, so that when you need something other than just the standard brus

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9 Best Creatives from Russia

Shillington

At Shillington, we love to explore and celebrate great design from around the world. We’ve covered the work of many creatives, from freelance designers to animation studios, in many different countries so far and now we’ve set our sights on Russia. This vast transcontinental nation makes up one-eighth of the world’s inhabited territories and spans the divide of Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.

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Top 15 Digital Scrapbooking Downloads (Free & Paid)

Just Creative

Scrapbooking is a way to keep treasured memories or objects as a record of a time or moment in someone’s life. Dating back to the 15th century, scrapbooking has come a long way since then even going digital with the ability to use different accents to give your scrapbook a custom look. With that in mind, we wanted to showcase the Top 15 Digital Scrapbooking Resources for Designers to help give you some ideas that you could add to your next scrapbook.

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Studio Dumbar rebrands Brugge’s women’s soccer team

Creative Review

It’s been a long time coming, but after years of being overshadowed by male-only leagues, women’s football has finally become a major sporting success in its own right. The FIFA women’s World Cup reported its highest-ever viewing figures last year, with over 260 million people tuning in to watch the final between the Netherlands in the US.

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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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Working In A Coronavirus World: Tools For Virtual Team To Stay Connected And Productive

Noupe

Staying connected to work is a big challenge for remote teams, especially in the current scenario where everyone is panic-stricken due to the coronavirus pandemic. Distractions while working at home, poor time management and delay in communication are some of the biggest challenges that remote teams have to face. Technology does provide us with a solution to all the problems that we all are facing while working remotely.

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A collection of game interfaces for your inspiration

Abduzeedo

A collection of game interfaces for your inspiration. AoiroStudio Apr 26, 2020 Hope everyone has enjoyed their weekend. As a designer working in the universe of user interfaces, I think we all somehow had feedback on 'game interface design'. Personally, I would have feedback on everything that would involve an experience. For games for example, it's an introductory to a virtual world where we usually go to escape the 'real world' and enjoy ourselves to stress down from our daily lives.

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Going Down The London Underground In The Later 1980s

Design You Trust

Paul Baldesare was taking photographs on the London Underground between 1987 and 1990. He was drawn to recording life on the Tube network. Is that you or someone you know shoegazing or reading the adverts, keeping senses working under-time and waiting to exhale as you or they rode the Tube? The images shown here were taken over a three year period on the London Underground.

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Free Paper Cup Mockup PSD

Graphic Design Junction

Today’s freebie is a beautiful Paper Cup Mockup PSD templates. This mockup is also use as a coffee cup mockup , plastic cup mockup, tea cup mockup, and disposable cup mockup to showcase your coffee branding in a realistic way. You can easily change the paper cup color, background and add your own graphics / lettering with the smart layer. There are three different styles of Paper Cup Mockup, will help you to present your brand design will look like printed on a cup.

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An inside look at the original #AppleWatch development

Abduzeedo

An inside look at the original #AppleWatch development. AoiroStudio Apr 26, 2020 Back on April 24, 2015 the world was introduced to the original Apple Watch that literally changed the 'watch industry' forever. Happy 5th Birthday Apple Watch! For the occasion, one of the designers that worked on the first Apple Watch team shared a few fun facts that we took the liberty to embed it below.

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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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Hong Kong’s Human Battery Hens: Claustrophobic Images Show How Slum Families Squeeze Their Lives Into The Tiniest Apartments

Design You Trust

A family of four tries to get on with everyday life despite living in a room where there is barely space to move in the urban slums of Hong Kong. They are barely bigger than a toilet cubicle. Yet these depressingly cramped spaces serve as a kitchen, living room, dining room, bedroom, pantry and everything in between for their cooped-up inhabitants. Those unfortunate enough to live in these urban.

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Enjoy some moments of ‘literary respite’ with Google Assistant

Creative Review

If, like many, you’re finding it hard to concentrate at the moment, Google Assistant might have the answer. Its Stories of Splendid Isolation series is sharing short clips from various writers, reflecting on the Covid-19 crisis. There’s a choice of three different authors to listen to each day, with each clip around two minutes long. Writers’ thoughts range from their personal experience of the pandemic, to what life might be like post-lockdown – which, according to Nikes

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Photographer Dieter Klein Captures The Nostalgic Beauty Of Abandoned Cars Across The Europe And United States

Design You Trust

In his unique photo journey, Dieter Klein travels to remote corners of Europe and the United States to find abandoned cars in forgotten places. More: Lost Wheels In shabby backyards and dusty barns, in deserted fields and thick forests, Klein roams strange and isolated places to find once gleaming vehicles left to rust and ruin. From a dented Porsche to a faded Cadillac, a battered VW Beetle to a.

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Stones, Leaves, and Shells Whorl in Hypnotic Land Art by Jon Foreman

Colossal

“Whirling Colour” (2019), Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire. All images © Jon Foreman. Jon Foreman arranges his seashell coils and stone gradients knowing that they’ll be washed away by the tide or kicked over by passersby. The artist’s ephemeral land art is hypnotic and entrancing in its precision, arranged in perfectly concentric circles and exacting compositions depressed in the sand.

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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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Ghana’s Coffin Dancers Figurines Are Here To Turn Your Dull Indoors Into A Fiesta

Design You Trust

Have you been scrolling through memes to keep your sanity during this challenging time? If so, you’re likely to have seen the “coffin dancing” or “dancing pallbearer” meme bop its way into videos of people who are presumed to have foolishly sabotaged their own lives. More: Instagram, Facebook h/t: designtaxi Now, you can put up miniature versions of Ghana’s dancing pallbearers in your room as a.

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Perry Nightingale on the unknown

Creative Review

In our digital world, it is unusual to find ourselves in unknown territory. Yet, as proven recently, our systems don’t always have all the answers. Which can be a good thing, says WPP's creative AI lead Perry Nightingale. The post Perry Nightingale on the unknown appeared first on Creative Review.

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The masks we wear by Vini Naso

Abduzeedo

The masks we wear by Vini Naso. AoiroStudio Apr 26, 2020 Vini Naso , a visual artist from Canada shared a very interesting series titled: 'The masks we wear'. With the current moments that we are all familiar with living, I think it's fitting perfectly our 'new normal'. Vini instead took a different visual approach based in 'human emotions' with a definite flair and honorable knot to the Japanese culture, Cyberpunk, and modern fashion.

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Reimagining Normal People for the small screen

Creative Review

As Sally Rooney’s bestselling novel gets a TV adaption, director Lenny Abrahamson discusses the challenges of translating the book’s intense emotions and internal monologues to a visual medium, and rethinking the way teenage relationships are portrayed on screen. The post Reimagining Normal People for the small screen appeared first on Creative Review.

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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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Kris Andrew Small

Communication Arts

This Sydney-based artist and designer hopes to make his work accessible and raise awareness on the issues that the LGBTQ+ community is facing.

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Stay Safe Carabiner: EDC Stylus, Door Hook & Box Opener

Design You Trust

In the heat of the fight against pandemic and currently the insecure world, they have developed a product, that enables people to be a bit safer. With a Stay Safe Carabiner, you don`t need to touch door handles, pin pads, elevator buttons and many other public surfaces with bare hands. The multifunctional carabiner will enable you to do everyday tasks in a safe and easy way.

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Jane Austen’s House identity

Communication Arts

Authentic yet contemporary, the typographic identity for Jane Austen’s House presents one of the world’s most beloved writers in a trailblazing way.

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Daimler Buses Converts Mercedes-Benz Citaro For Transporting COVID-19 Patients

Design You Trust

In only three weeks, Daimler Buses converted an inter-city bus into a special vehicle for the transfer of COVID-19 patients at its plant in Neu-Ulm. The Mercedes-Benz Citaro, now the largest intensive care ambulance in Germany, is to be used by DRK-Rettungsdienst Heidenheim-Ulm gGmbH (German Red Cross Emergency Medical Services Heidenheim-Ulm). More: Daimler The vehicle is a loan.

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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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Color High

Communication Arts

This interactive lookbook from Plastic Sunshine dives into the vibrant world of Color High, a line of lip colors by Olio E Osso.

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20 Google Slides Tips to spice up your Presentations

Graphic Mama

If you need to make a presentation, you want to give yourself the best chance of success. To sell the product or yourself, to inform, to get your message across – the better the presentation the better the chances. Slide show presentations are a common way of doing this, but they are no less useful for that. They have many advantages, it’s why they are so popular, they can get the information across clearly, concisely and memorably if done well.

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Design Inspiration: A Gallery of COVID-19 Awareness Projects

Creative Market

Design is visual communication. Given the right messaging, execution, and channel, it can move millions to act on ideas that matter. While we’re familiar with the persuasive power of great design, never in our time had we faced a global health challenge for which that power was so crucial. Overcoming this crisis will require informed, science-driven action all around the world, and design can be an effective vehicle to convey key messages.

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