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Coffee & TV's rebrand by Ragged Edge celebrates 10 years of 'something different'

Creative Boom

For Coffee & TV , the UK's first B Corp certified creative studio, London branding agency Ragged Edge brewed up (yes, we really went there) a new identity that marks almost a decade of making magic behind the ads with visual effects, motion design and direction being a speciality. The four founders of Coffee & TV launched the business nearly ten years ago and the studio has since become known as the place where the industry's leading talent goes to create award-winning work that delivers

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Full Guide On How To Design A Perfect App Icon

Noupe

In the first quarter of 2021, Google Play had almost 3.5 million apps , and App Store – more than 2,2 million. It means that while users don’t have to limit their demand, developers struggle to keep up with the competitive edge. The way to the client’s heart is long and tedious: you should perfect everything about your app, and the icon isn’t an exception.

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NYC Pride — New Brand Identity

We And The Color

Heritage of Pride unveiled a new brand identity for NYC Pride. The nonprofit organization of Heritage of Pride partnered with a diverse team at creative consultancy Lippincott to work on a new visual identity for NYC Pride. Please read more below. NYCP Visual Identity Elements. “NYC Pride creates powerful experiences that unite u s in activism, in protest, in celebration, and in advocacy,” said Dan Dimant, Media Director at NYC Pride.

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Dive into illustrator Fraink’s colourful and peacefully monotonous world

Its Nice That

The illustrator tells us how he uses photography and bold colour choices to create his distinctive iPad drawings.

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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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Intricate Cross-Hatching Layers Elena Limkina’s Exquisite Illustrations in Black Ink

Colossal

All images © Elena Limkina, shared with permission. From her studio in Moscow, Elena Limkina ( previously ) illustrates pages upon pages of sketchbooks with delicate studies of birds, architectural flourishes, and surreal compositions that trap cats and small mice inside glass vessels. She’s spent a decade drawing these elegant compositions, and while they originally functioned as diaries filled with objects, phrases, and impressions she encountered throughout her day, they’ve evolve

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Negative Youth — Retro 3D Artwork

Abduzeedo

Negative Youth — Retro 3D Artwork. abduzeedo 0217—22 Nicolaas Kotzé shared an amazing 3D illustration and graphic design project inspired by my favorite decade, the 80s! Nicolaas really captured the feeling of that decade with shining chrome materials with surrealistic settings featuring the always present 3D grid plane. The designs and artworks for Nicolaas music project called Negative Youth. .

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Broken Japanese: exploring exoticisation and stereotyping in graphic design

Its Nice That

In the second instalment of our in-depth three part series, designer and writer Ray Masaki reflects on the Euro-American’s creative fascination with Japan. Delving into topics such as cultural appropriation, exoticisation, Japanese aestheticism and more, this thoughtful column helps us to consider the various wider implications of the issues at hand, especially if you’re someone who’s just really into Japanese culture.

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Neuroergonomics : towards a new paradigm of product design

UX Collective

Neuroergonomics : towards a new paradigm of product design Illustration by Sara di Meglio Neuroergonomics provides a multidisciplinary approach that merges elements of neuroscience, human factors, and ergonomics to study brain response to stimuli. It is a research field that investigates the human brain functions whether through perceptual, cognitive, or emotional brain data and tests them in natural environments and everyday settings.

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Lossapardo’s evocative late-night artworks

Creative Review

The kernels of Lossapardo’s hybrid creative practice were there from a young age. The Paris-based artist was always drawing as a child and he began playing piano early on in his life, too, while cartoons, anime and comics were also a steady presence growing up. Having failed his entrance exams for art school in Paris, he decided to teach himself his craft, and knew little about painters or art.

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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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Value Before Usability

UX Collective

Value before usability Why usability isn’t UX’s primary goal As someone who has been both a Product Manager and a UX Designer, one of the most common misconceptions I often hear in the product world is this: “Product Management’s primary job is to make the product valuable, whereas UX’s primary job is to make the product usable.” This stems from Marty Cagan and the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG) belief that… “In an empowered product team, the product manager is explicitly responsible for en

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Malene Barnett Translates Her Ceramic Work Into Wallpaper

Design Milk

Ask any interior designer and they’ll tell you that wallpaper is gaining in popularity once again. But these wallpapers aren’t your grandmother’s neon floral designs, these are patterned wallcoverings equivalent of wall art. Artist and activist Malene Barnett recently released the exclusive Kindred Wallpaper Collection with Lulu & Georgia.

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The Duolingo diaries: an honest UX review

UX Collective

Part 1: Onboarding So first, I need to admit that I’m not exactly new to Duolingo. I’ve used the site on and off for years, and used to work for Babbel, and took a keen interest in Duolingo’s product strategy and somewhat baffling educational philosophy. However, recently, a friend sent me Duolingo’s TikTok , and let me tell you?—?the eponymous green owl has always been a little bit quirky and isn’t a stranger to turning up in your inbox at 2 am crying if neglected, but suddenly they’re also sas

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Marcante Testa Boldly Layers Past and Present in a Unique Turin House

Azure Magazine

Turin’s Marcante Testa has a wonderful way with architectural ornamentation — and it shows in its aptly titled project “An Explosive Compound.” The exterior and interior design commission reimagines a home with a particular history: Part of a larger complex dating back to the mid-19th-century, the house in Cavallermaggiore, in the northwest of Italy, once belonged to scientist Ascanio Sobrero.

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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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Love, Love, Love: Naughty Comic Illustrations by Andrés Garrido Martín

Design You Trust

Andrés Garrido Martín is a Madrid-based artist who draws comics (“Love, love, love”) and funny illustrations. Martin creates incredibly dynamic images inspired by dark masterpieces like Dark Souls and Bloodborn, and he always does it tastefully – each character is so cute and colorful that he at least deserves his own cartoon, or even a whole series.

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JP Bonino’s photography has gotten better and a heck load weirder

Its Nice That

Since we last spoke, the photographer has experimented even more with digital techniques. And the outcome is incredible.

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Charming Beauties and Warfare Kittens: Illustrations by Kyounghwan Kim

Design You Trust

Kyounghwan Kim is a South Korean freelance artist. He specializes mostly on the concepts for different Asian MMORPGs, but unlike some other artists from this area, Kim can’t be accused of clichéd and stereotypical characters. First, his characters are colorful, detailed and quite inventive in terms of elaboration, second, Kim draws fantastically charming beauties, and third, his work includes a whole series of fantasy, extremely warfare kittens, for which he can be forgiven anything.

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Sinister Storms and Twisters Disturb Rural Landscapes in Dramatic Black-and-White Photos by Mitch Dobrowner

Colossal

“Lightning Cotton Field.” All images © Mitch Dobrowner, courtesy of photo-eye Gallery, shared with permission. Shooting solely in black-and-white, Mitch Dobrowner ( previously ) documents storm cells, tornadoes, and other menacing weather events at peak destruction. Funnel clouds plunge to the ground in spindly tunnels and churning clouds frame bright bolts of lightning.

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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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Macabre Anatomy and Creepy Dogs: Bizarre Paintings by Dusty Ray

Design You Trust

Dusty Ray is an artist from the United States who paints extremely dark paintings in gouache and oil. On the one hand, his works are frightening and make the unprepared viewer feel uncomfortable, but on the other hand, lovers of creepiness and dismemberment will surely enjoy his works. What can I say, each of his paintings begs to be on the cover of some black metal album, so creepy are they.

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Bizarre Picasso TikTok is inspiring artists around the world

Creative Bloq

This is seriously abstract.

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Portraits of Twiggy Taken by Ron Burton for the Mirror and Herald in 1966

Design You Trust

Twiggy was a British cultural icon and a prominent teenaged model during the swinging ’60s in London. h/t: vintag.es. Twiggy was initially known for her thin build and the androgynous appearance considered to result from her big eyes, long eyelashes, and short hair. She was named “The Face of 1966” by the Daily Express and voted British Woman of the Year.

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Some people actually think Pixar animation is getting worse

Creative Bloq

Yes, really.

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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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design work life » cataloging inspiration daily #cups #packaging #minimal #coffee #mugs #shirts

Designspiration

design work life » cataloging inspiration daily #cups #packaging #minimal #coffee #mugs #shirts

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Map of Russian gas exports

FlowingData

Speaking of Russian gas, Josh Holder, Karl Russell and Stanley Reed for The New York Times mapped gas exports from Russia to E.U. countries. NYT used Sankey flows where thicker lines mean more gas, which are paired with a choropleth map that represents share each country’s natural gas imports that are from Russia. Tags: gas , New York Times , Russia.

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logo for the Russian building company #mark #greek #label #atlant #cyrillic #logo #typography

Designspiration

logo for the Russian building company #mark #greek #label #atlant #cyrillic #logo #typography

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10 Free WordPress Plugins to Help with Legal Compliance

SpeckyBoy

These days, part of doing business on the web is ensuring that you comply with local, national, and international law. While laws can vary from place to place and by what type of website you’re running, WordPress plugins help you with those responsibilities. While nothing here should be substituted for actual legal advice (if you have questions, ask someone whose job it is to know the answers), here’s a list of plugins to help with compliance issues, broken down by category.

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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.