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The Month in Type: January 2022

I Love Typography

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Apparently, it’s now the year 2022 AD! I hope that you were able to decompress over the holidays and New Year, and that you’re now in good health and good spirits. If you missed last month’s edition, be sure to check it out. We named it The Year in Type. Oh, and be sure to take a […]. The post The Month in Type: January 2022 appeared first on I Love Typography.

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This New Tool Makes Designing Vintage Logos EASY!

Spoon Graphics

Forget Photoshop, forget Illustrator! If you ever want to design a logo, label, T-shirt, poster, greetings card or invitation with a vintage style, this amazing new free-to-use tool from Heritage Type will help you create stunning graphics with ease! Choose from hundreds of ready-made templates (or start with a blank canvas) then customise the text and layout with a complete library of fonts, illustrations, ornaments, and effects.

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50+ Most Useful Mockups PSD Templates

Graphic Design Junction

Premium quality Photoshop mockups / product packaging mockups allows you to create a fully professional brand presentation in just a few clicks. Give your brand a competitive edge and wow your customers with sleek and stylish looks. Your products will look amazing applying to these mockups. All colors come from labels and color overlays, so you can change these to any color you want it to be.

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How to recolour artwork using illustrator

Creative Nerds

This is a short illustrator tutorial we will be sharing with you how you can quickly recolor artwork using illustrator. This is a great technique that will save you a huge amount of time when working in illustrator. The tutorial is in the form of a screencast to make it really easy to follow along […]. The post How to recolour artwork using illustrator first appeared on Creative Nerds.

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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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Guide to Becoming a Photographer in 2022

Graphic Design Junction

Nowadays, people are more inclined towards creating content as a photographer. Photography is quite a trend these days. People like to cover important events. Like weddings, birthdays, etc. They like to capture special moments as well. They like to convey a story through their creative frames of the photograph and its aesthetics. They try to capture and convey thoughtful and meaningful emotions through their pictures.

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Designing the Road Less Traveled: Encouraging Exploration through Wayfinding

SEGD Blog

Read Time: 5 minutes. “People do not travel, nor experience life, in a rigid way that can be wholly preordained,” contends SEGD guest contributor Lisa Bambach. In this essay, inspired by International Wayfinding Month, Lisa examines how experiential designers can create wayfinding systems that go beyond “pointing in the right direction,” and instead encourage exploration, allowing individuals to make their own way, no matter where they might find themselves along their journey.

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Doppler Effect Poster Series by Diatomic Studio

We And The Color

Take a look at the amazing Doppler Effect poster series by studio Diatomic. Adrià Molins and Sergi Delgado created the Doppler Effect poster series for their Diatomic Studio as a tribute to the mathematician and physicist Christian Andreas Doppler. Celebrated for his principle – known as the Doppler effect – that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the relative speed of the source and the observer, used to discover the movement of the stars.

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M&M'S Latest Packaging Inspired By Album Art

The Die Line

Following a major and somewhat polemic brand refresh, M&M'S has released its Album Art series of packaging.

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The Award-Winning Low Carbon Footprint Aline Outdoor Chair

Design Milk

We love putting our support behind emerging design talent and the organizations that help them succeed. Today, we’re sharing the Aline outdoor chair , a project executed by Willie Tay and Christophe Gaubert with the support of National University of Singapore’s Design Incubation Centre (DIC). DIC sometimes participates in design consultancy with other NUS faculties and external companies, which is what Aline is a result of.

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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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Sun Woo on how her nomadic childhood inspires her painting practice

Its Nice That

The South Korean artist talks to us about how her transient notions of home, as well as her relationship with technology, have had a strong influence on her work.

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In ‘Architecture in Music,’ Striking Photos Reveal the Hidden Structures of Instruments

Colossal

1780 Lockey Hill Cello. All images © Charles Brooks, shared with permission. A cellist since childhood, Auckland-based photographer Charles Brooks spent twenty years performing with orchestras around the world, an experience that incited curiosity about the inner workings of the instruments surrounding him. “I never really knew what was going on inside.

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21 Best Fonts For Menu Boards

Creative Market

Whether you’re a restaurateur or a designer with a café design project, you’re definitely aware that well-designed graphics and appetizing visuals are as crucial as the food you’re going to serve. Elevate the dining experience for your potential customers by crafting an excellent restaurant menu. To do that, take your time in choosing the perfect menu font.

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Girl’s Dreams and Robots: Illustrations by Eri Cruz

Design You Trust

Eri Cruz (EllieMapleFox aka Raw Sushi) is a Filipina artist who draws cute anime girls. We love anime girls, you love anime girls – what else do we need to be happy on this magical day? More: Instagram , DeviantArt , Artstation.

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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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12 Best Signature Fonts For All Types of Design and Branding

Creative Market

A font is more than just a typeface. It can be used to evoke emotion, set the tone for a document, or add visual interest. When selecting a font for your design or branding project, it’s important to choose one that will create the right impression and fit the overall style of your work. When to Use Signature Fonts. A signature font is a typeface that is designed to look like your own personal handwriting, most often used for personal branding, as they can help to create a unique and memor

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Lights Out and Easy peasy — Illustration and Graphic Design

Abduzeedo

Lights Out and Easy peasy — Illustration and Graphic Design. abduzeedo 0126—22 Back in 2019, British apparel brand P&Co contacted Pedro Oyarbide to design two t-shirts for their SS20 collection. 'Lights Out' and 'Easy peasy' were the two that made the cut. The result you can see below, and spoiler alert, it’s an awesome pair of illustrations and graphic design work!

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Behavioural design: a lean guide to using psychology and motivation for product teams

UX Collective

Behavioural design uses behavioural science, psychology, and motivation to guide how people use our products. Design influences behaviour. Using psychological principles and theories of behaviour, we can design with intent, for how users behave, building an environment that supports whatever route they take, instead of forcing them to conform to how our products and services work.

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MILKME — packaging design inspired by nature

Abduzeedo

MILKME — packaging design inspired by nature. abduzeedo 0126—22 Ilya Volgin shared a super clever packaging design and branding project titled MILKME. The objective was to create naming, visual concept and unique packaging for brand new milk products. As for product packaging I got an inspiration from animals themselves i.e. several packages combined together in one module element resemble the shape of cow udder.

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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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The Melancholy of Dreams: Illustrations by Felicia Chiao

Design You Trust

Felicia Chiao is an artist from California who sketches the life of a certain bald man. The little man is melancholic but sweet, and his existence is dull and sad, but his sadness is light and even cozy. Chiao’s illustrations suggest that she depicts the typical everyday life of each of us – drawn out like an old man’s daydreams. More: Instagram , Patreon.

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Type foundry Boharat Cairo on the vast possibilities of Arabic type design

Its Nice That

In conversation with Abdo Mohamad of Boharat Cairo, we find out how the Egyptian capital is full of typographic inspiration.

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Busch Light's Latest Packaging and Promo Inspired By Ice Fishing

The Die Line

Tis' the season for ice fishing, and Busch Light has got you covered.

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Studio Miles Rebranding

Mindsparkle Mag

While listening to Tiny Desk feat Mac Miller, we’re presenting Studio Miles ‘ rebrand. The trendy skater brand’s vibes also give a groovy look and feel. Cool t-shirt stamps and pale lilac as its protagonist color are part of 2022’s trends, which revive some ’60s features too. Its clean, street style, and beanies are more than on point for this chilly season. .

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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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The 8 hottest graphic design trends in 2022

Creative Bloq

The graphic design trends set to rock this year.

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Isle of Dogs animator Tobias Fouracre creates stop motion thieves for VanMoof campaign

Its Nice That

The campaign opted for animation to discuss biking security without being “too severe and techy”.

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Photographer Captured Fascinating Photographs that She Found on Old Tombstones in Italian Cemeteries

Design You Trust

According to a photographer Laura Signorelli: “I’m a 36-year-old Italian who is fascinated by the past and by many things that are death-related. That is probably because I lost my parents at a young age and I was forced to deal with mortality, loss, and mourning.” More: Instagram h/t: 121clicks. “I created an Instagram account to collect pictures of the photos of old tombstones, mostly found in Italian cemeteries.

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Sanacore

Mindsparkle Mag

In continuity with the ’60s vibes, we’re inviting you to share teatime with Sanacore and us. It is a colorful whirlwind of joy and sweetness that conquers you. Federica Marziale Iadevaia was behind Sanacore’s branding; she added a lot of character and colors to this charming, sweet brand. . Sanacore revisits the traditional sweets contemporarily.

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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.