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10 Tools and Accessories Every Graphic Designer Needs

Designer Daily

Working as a graphic designer comes with certain challenges. Early on, you might struggle with finding your rhythm, and these issues could be the result of lacking certain tools and accessories commonly used among graphic designers. This article will give a quick review of 10 tools and accessories a graphic designer should have and why you need them.

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The Top 10 Best Free Fonts Designers Will Love in 2022

We And The Color

Enjoy our hand-picked selection of the top 10 free fonts graphic designers can download to create amazing typographic designs in 2022. As we did in the past, we once again have examined countless free fonts from different platforms to show you our hand-picked selection of the 10 very best fonts graphic designers can download for free in 2022. This particular collection includes a variety of styles.

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A Guide To Modern CSS Colors

Smashing Magazine Graphics

A Guide To Modern CSS Colors. A Guide To Modern CSS Colors. Michelle Barker. 2021-11-17T16:00:00+00:00. 2021-11-17T16:37:20+00:00. There’s more to color on the web than meets the eye, and it’s about to get a lot more interesting! Today, we’ll take a look at the best ways to use colors in a design system, and what we can expect from our colors in the not-too-distant future.

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New Modern Business Cards Templates (25+ Design)

Graphic Design Junction

Simple clean business card templates , modern design with elegant corporate look. Perfect for professional & individuals. Creatively designed business cards with logo can make your brand more attractive and eye-catching. Simple print ready templates are suitable for any business or personal use. The super clean business card designs have been crafted for the true professionals.

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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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The Good Boy: Natural Dog Food Branding by Andrea Ayensa

We And The Color

Andrea Ayensa just created this lovely visual identity for The Good Boy. Andrea Ayensa is a creative art director who lives and works in Barcelona. She was kind enough to share with us her latest brand and packaging concept named “The Good Boy – Natural Dog Food” Using a range of cute illustrations, this conceptual line proves that packaging can shine even without color.

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17 Deliciously Pretty Candy Websites for National Candy Day

SpyreStudios

Candy is a normal design theme, but designing a candy website for National Candy Day is not too common. As designers, we have designed for education, fashion, and all that. But, candy? It is quite a rare design project. Knowing this, it could be a pretty overwhelming job. Choosing to make it appealing and colorful without making the overall design too distracting is a true challenge.

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The World of Modern Graphic Design & Typography by Kyle Kemink

Design You Trust

Kyle is a 23-year-old graphic designer, photographer and digital artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Having studied at The Open Window, followed by a two-year stint at Grid Worldwide, Kyle lost his job during the 2020 pandemic. Since then he’s been freelancing full time and creating from home. More: Instagram , Foundation , Rarible , OpenSea h/t: satorinotebookco.

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#ILoveTheseGeniuses Creative Inspiration: Daniel Tan (Tofu Design Studio)

Shillington

Shillington students and staff from around the world share the work of creatives who inspire them in the #ILoveTheseGeniuses series. In this post, Brisbane student Sharon McGovern highlights a project from Singapore-based designer Daniel Tan , Co-founder and Lead Designer at Tofu Design Studio. “Here’s why I love Daniel’s work on the burger website: The animated design, vibrant colours and balance through symmetry all attracted me to this rad user interface.

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Human vs algorithm: how AI is impacting type design

Design Week

In his 1991 book Typography Now, Rick Poynor noted, “In the age of the desktop computer… type has acquired an ease of manipulation and, potentially, a lack of conceptual boundaries unimaginable only a few years ago. “Traditionalists argue that the accessibility of the technology will accelerate the decline in typographic standards… evangelists enthuse about a soon to be realised digital paradise,” Poynor wrote.

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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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Study Design Abroad: Ana Perez, Mexico to Shillington New York

Shillington

A tale of graphic design dreams, a passion for branding and a creative journey to the heart of New York. Shillington New York graduate Ana Perez originally studied Architecture, intending to eventually migrate to other fields of design—after being discouraged from pursuing pure graphic design. But throughout her studies, she began to develop a renewed passion for branding, one she couldn’t resist.

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A Remodeled Office in Prague Adapts to New Changes of Hybrid Working

Design Milk

In March 2020, Avast, a global leader in digital security and privacy, closed its Prague office due to the growing pandemic. It opened its doors in January 2021 after taking its seven-month hiatus to remodel the office and welcome employees back in a new hybrid working environment. Inspired by urbanism principles, the new design concept designed by Capexus carves out spaces reminiscent of urban units (you’ll even notice a house motif throughout the office).

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An Emotional Stop-Motion Ad Follows a Family Revitalizing Their Organic Farm

Colossal

?. Ten years after Irish animator and director Johnny Kelly ( previously ) brought us a charming stop-motion ad for Chipotle about a farmer’s return to organic methods, he’s back with an emotional sequel that revisits the now-aging protagonist. The new short film, titled “ A Future Begins ,” follows the same mustached rancher as he struggles to maintain his pesticide-free fields and natural techniques amidst weather catastrophes and other struggles.

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Dawn by LAUN Is a Future-Forward Collection of Furniture

Design Milk

Best known for sculptural, California-inspired indoor/outdoor furniture , collaborative design studio LAUN Los Angeles has dropped a new future-forward collection. Their inspiration was the symbolism found in Octavia Butler’s cult 1980s science fiction novel: Dawn. “The pieces in this collection are some of our most bold to date. The strangeness and pause of the past few years gave us the freedom to think in a different way, to push ourselves creatively and play with the possibilities of c

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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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Seeing more clearly as a new design manager

UX Collective

Decrease your blindspots by facing them head-on The first step to making sense of the routine challenges of leading a team is seeing things as they really are. Here are two methods you can begin using now. MDARIFLIMAT via Pixabay Every day we are confronted with so much incoming information that it is impossible to make sense of it all. So we use mental models to help make sense of what we can.

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DMTV Milkshake: Sharing the Beauty of Concrete With Kate Balsis

Design Milk

On this week’s Milkshake , we talk to Aussie-born, California-based Kate Balsis , creative designer of Concrete Collaborative , offering “next-generation concrete and terrazzo surfaces like floor and wall tiles, exterior pavers and pool copings, countertops and vanities, and more.” That means gorgeous terrazzo tiles, chic concrete floors, and beautiful collaborations with designers like Sarah Sherman Samuel. ?

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Afraid to Ditch Your Job and Pursue Your Passion? It Worked for Holly Ovenden

Eye on Design

Holly Ovenden was exhausted. . Having graduated college with a degree in physical therapy, she’d spent four years working on the admin side of medical practices. The hours were long and dull. The work was stressful and unfulfilling. Moreover, nothing about it was creative in any sense—so Ovenden’s natural inclinations toward painting and drawing were relegated to evenings and weekends. .

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The Best Modern Holiday Gifts for Pets + Pet Lovers

Design Milk

Our pets bring immeasurable amounts of joy and happiness to our lives, so why wouldn’t we want to spoil them any chance we get? If you’re looking for a way to show your dog or cat just how much you love them this holiday season, look no further than these hand-picked modern howliday gift ideas for dogs and cats (and the humans that love them!). For more best-in-show gifts for the humans in your life, visit the Design Milk Shop here.

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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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Illustrations & Creatures by Luiza Kwiatkowska

Design You Trust

Luiza ‘Lui’ Kwiatkowska’s practice incorporates illustration, character design, tattoo art and climate activism. Choosing projects that reflect her values, she uses her drawing skills to support climate movements and pro-animal organisations. Collaborations include Fish Skateboards, for whom she designed longboard graphics with the message ‘Save Water.

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A Striking Short Film Documents the Otherworldly Organisms Living Just Beneath the Water’s Surface

Colossal

?. With the aid of multiple microscopes, filmmaker and photographer Jan van IJken ( previously ) unveils the otherwise imperceptible maneuvers and bodily transformations of plankton. He focuses on a diverse array of underwater organisms, which all fall under the same taxonomy because of their inability to swim against the tides and are crucial to life on Earth, providing half of all oxygen through photosynthesis.

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Beautiful Colorized Photos of Helsinki, Finland in the 1930s

Design You Trust

Horse and carriage in Helsinki, circa 1930. Helsinki is the capital, primate, and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and the most populous urban area in Finland as well as the country’s most important center for politics, education, finance, culture, and research.

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Shop 19 New Prints from Sebastian Foster’s Fall Collection

Colossal

Andy Kehoe. Austin-based gallery Sebastian Foster just announced its Fall Print Set , the first collection of its kind in almost a decade. The new release features 19 works by well-established illustrators, printmakers, artists, and painters from across the U.S. and Europe, many of whom have worked with the gallery for years. Encompassing an eclectic array of mediums and themes, the collection showcases works from artists previously featured on Colossal, including the quirky, cartoonish characte

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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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Learn about the illustrated history of Japanese film posters with the BFI

Its Nice That

Having begun in October, the BFI continues its Japan 2021 season with a free Zoom webinar.

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NFT Drop — CULTure CULT by Vector Meldrew & friends

Abduzeedo

NFT Drop — CULTure CULT by Vector Meldrew & friends. AoiroStudio 1117—21 Our great pal Vector Meldrew is launching his next NFT Drop titled CULTure CULT to celebrate the NFT movement with PFP (Profile Pic) revolution. CULTure CULT is dropping on 9pm GMT Wednesday, 17th November on Rarible using a 24 hour auction format. Bidding starts at 0.1 ETH. I would like to mention as well that Vector Meldrew is donating 10% of all proceeds from the drop of CULTure CULT to AmazoniAlerta.

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“Forced Induction”: The Superb 3D Artworks of Luk

Design You Trust

“Hi im Luk, self taught 3d artist since 2017, mainly using Houdini and Zbrush to build my scenes and redshift for rendering.” More: Instagram , Foundation , Makersplace , KnownOrigin.

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Conceptual minimalist lighting collection — Industrial Design

Abduzeedo

Conceptual minimalist lighting collection — Industrial Design. abduzeedo 1117—21 Dimi Litz shared a beautiful minimalist light collection inspired by the research of parallels between the Bauhaus movement and Constructivism. Untangling the tangle of historical threads reached the art of Kazimir Malevich where it became the starting point of a revolution of form, color and their relationship.

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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.