Wed.Feb 05, 2020

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Artist Creates Remarkable Sculptures From Driftwood He Found On The Beach

Design You Trust

Hungarian artist Tamas Kanya is best-known for his creations made of driftwood and pebble stones. Living near the Romai-beach in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, the artist got inspired to make sculptures out of pieces of wood that washed ashore. More: Instagram, Facebook h/t: boredpanda “All my creations and photos are done on the spot where I source the materials.

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“Journey of a night time”: designing for the night train renaissance

Design Week

In January, the Brussels-Vienna overnight train service was revived; it was the first time the service ran between two continental cities since 2003. Trains may not seem the likeliest category for transport innovation but the Nightjet was the latest in a renaissance for sleeper trains in Europe. Reasons that have been given for that late-in-the-day popularity include the greener aspects of train travel and the comfort of a journey, especially over budget airline flights.

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Save 99% off This Treasure Trove of Design Resources

Spoon Graphics

The Creative’s Complete Treasure Trove is a brand new bundle of best-selling design resources currently discounted by 99%, which reduces the regular price of $2717 down to just $29 for a limited time only. This collection contains a variety of sought-after tools, including brushes, fonts, illustrations, textures and more! It also features my own Acrylic Design Toolkit, providing you with a great opportunity to pick it up with a huge discount as part of this deal.

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Shutterstock Celebrates Oscars With Reimagined Movie Posters

Graphic Design USA

Shutterstock has launched its eighth annual Oscar Pop! poster series to celebrate the best picture nominees in the 92nd Academy Awards.

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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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25 Best Free Corporate Business Flyer Templates

Speckyboy Design Magazine

When you want to announce something for your business, it’s imperative that you do so in a visually appealing and engaging way. Otherwise, you’ll be hard-pressed to have potential customers remember what it is you’re offering. Branding is essential, as you likely already know. That’s why we’ve spent the time putting together a collection of over 25 free corporate business flyer templates, so you can be sure to find something that speaks to your brand’s sensibi

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30 Best Consultant WordPress Themes For 2020

Graphic Design Junction

Best corporate WordPress Themes perfect for Training, Coaching and Consulting Business websites. Amazing WordPress themes with professional look and business features as well as it enables you to build a wide variety of business websites. By using these themes you can easily create corporate, agency, consulting, insurance, accountant and financial websites.

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Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup by Gretel

Under Consideration / Brand

“Bent out of Shape”. Established in 2000, Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup (SND) is a contemporary performance ensemble based in New York, NY. Founded by artistic director Stefanie Nelson -- whose choreographic work has been described as "instinctual, untamed, and edgy" -- the group produces original work in partnership with performers, visual artists, and composers, presenting their work nationally and internationally.

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Is this really coming back? UI Design Trends

Abduzeedo

Is this really coming back? UI Design Trends. abduzeedo Feb 05, 2020 We posted about this new trend a month or so ago, however it seems that it’s really picking up steam on sites like Dribbble. With more and more people sharing snippets of working exploring this style it makes me wonder, is the skeuomorphism or as we call it now, the neo-skeuomorphism coming back?

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Steven Marsden on Designing Queer Asia

Spine Magazine

Steven Marsden is a freelance illustrator and designer specialising in book cover design. Here he tells us about creating a mesmerizing cover for Queer Asia. I was commissioned by Zed Books to create this cover back in September 2018. Zed have been a client of mine for about 6 years and I have always enjoyed the wide variety of subject matter I get to work with.

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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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“Between You and Me” by Photographer Paolo Morales

Booooooom

Born and raised in New York City, photographer Paolo Morales moved to Virginia for a job in 2015, where he made the photographs in his series “Between You and Me” in reaction to his new surroundings. “Self-portraits, people who appear lonely or alone, couples, individuals in need of support, and broken landscapes emerge as subjects.

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The Beauty Of Romance's Chaos Inspires Love Can's Branding

The Die Line

Love Can saw an opportunity to create a RTD range of drinks that would resonate with the millennial market, with three flawlessly matched drinks to choose from.

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Can designers bring tech and the natural world closer together?

Design Week

The first month of a new year is traditionally one where we all indulge in some wild speculation to see where the industry might be heading over the next year. The beginning of February brings with it some perspective on where we’re actually heading and something has already become clear – there’s a definite tension between the excitement around smart cities on the one hand and simple sustainable practices on the other.

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Muted Color Palettes Makes Everyday Illustrated Scenes Feel Like Treasured Memories

Brown Paper Bag

This post contains some affiliate links. If you make a purchase, Brown Paper Bag may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more here. Illustrator Haley Tippman depicts people in the midst of work, commuting, and at rest—with a twist. Thanks to her muted color palette and gestural brushstrokes, her style evokes the feeling that these images are memories, distant or otherwise.

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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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Ectlectrc Pencil: Lost Collection of Pencil Drawings Reveals Trials of Patient at Missouri State Hospital No. 3

Colossal

All images © The Electric Pencil , shared with permission. Harris Diamant knew he discovered an important piece of outsider art when he came across a hand-bound book of drawings for sale on Ebay in 2006. Listed by a bookseller in Lawrence, Kansas, the collection was comprised of 238 crayon and colored pencil illustrations on ledger paper by a then-anonymous author and was sold to a collector minutes after being posted.

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Plan your next trip … inside the world of the Xbox

Creative Review

If you’ve ever dreamed of a trip to Mexico, or maybe fantasised about what it would be like to travel back in time to Ancient Greece, then it turns out you don’t need to go any further than the on button of an Xbox. And thanks to the new Rough Guide to Xbox, it’s easy to find some of the most beautiful locations from the console’s range of games.

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Glass Vessels Skew Florals in Illusory Photographs by Suzanne Saroff

Colossal

All images © Suzanne Saroff, shared with permission. Suzanne Saroff doesn’t mind if her audience has a distorted view of the vibrant flowers and leaves she captures. The New York-based photographer, who’s worked with a long list of clients like Glossier, Sephora, and The New York Times , is a master of illusion in her tonal images that place florals behind clear glasses of water, skewing their structures in her red, pink, and beige compositions.

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Trey Abdella’s cartoonish paintings are a textural joy

Creative Review

“When I was a kid I did something that really pissed my parents off. I don’t remember what it was, but they grounded me,” remembers Trey Abdella. “I couldn’t watch TV, go on the computer, or go outside. They gave me some pencils and paper and told me to make my own cartoons. I guess I’m still doing that now.” Based in New York, Abdella’s oddly fascinating paintings reference cartoons from his childhood and the video games he grew up on but the them

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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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How to Create Phone Case Mockups in Photoshop

Tuts Plus

What You'll Be Creating If you want to create an iPhone mockup, you can use an iPhone template or create your own phone case mockup in Photoshop. The second option may sound complicated, but it gives you more flexibility. In this tutorial, I will show you how to create phone case mockups in Photoshop using a photo as a base. If you want to save time, you can always use a mobile case mockup generator on Placeit.

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It’s All in the Details: Thom Fougere’s New Line for Mjölk Quietly Dazzles

Azure Magazine

Since leaving his position as creative director of EQ3 , a nine-year tenure he capped off by spearheading the design and building of the Canadian manufacturer’s New York City showroom, Thom Fougere has already had a busy schedule as an independent designer. In January, he unveiled five new products for Toronto’s Mjölk : a daybed, two tambour cabinets and two editions to his fire tools collection.

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The Khampas by Rinchen Ato

This is Paper

05.02.2020 The Khampas by Rinchen AtoResearch, Photography ©Leeor Wild Rinchen Ato has been travelling to her father’s home country since she was a baby, and for the past two decades has captured the region’s unique customs and characters. The people of Kham, ????, in Tibet, are renowned for their bravery, horsemanship, marksmanship and fierce sense of independence.

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Royal Mail marks 200th anniversary of Royal Astronomical Society with new stamp set

Design Week

Royal Mail has unveiled its latest special edition stamp collection, celebrating the 200 th anniversary of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) and the UK’s contribution to the field. The set of eight stamps have been designed by True North, the Manchester-based design studio that has previously worked with Royal Mail on several special stamp issues, including the Football Heroes , Ladybird Books and London 2012 collections, as well as last year’s yearbook. “Visuals that photog

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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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Ocean Tea Bags Are Sea Life-Shaped Sachets That Come Alive In Your Cup

Design You Trust

Japanese brand Ocean Tea Bag (previously) has tried a new approach to packaging its tealeaves with a series of animal-shaped sachets. The collection features sea creatures including giant squids, sea turtles, and an anglerfish, as well as other mammals like a panda, squirrel and a fox. More: Ocean Tea Bag (jp), Facebook, Twitter h/t: designboom A combination of perforations and layers.

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Photographer Spotlight: Leonardo Scotti

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Adam Lister Pixalates Pop-Culture Characters And Iconic Art

Design You Trust

Adam Lister is a 42-year-old artist living and working in Beacon, New York who creates pixelated paintings. He says that he is visually breaking down an image and then reconstructing it with an organized jumble of right-angled shapes. More: Instagram In his gallery, you can see portraits of popular pop cultural characters like Homer from The Simpsons, Alice from Alice in Wonderland.

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Ragged Edge rebrands Airbnb hosting service as Houst

Design Week

Professional hosting service Airsorted has launched a new identity and will now operate under the name Houst. The rebrand project was led by London-based branding agency Ragged Edge, and also includes a new brand strategy and visual identity. Since the arrival of home sharing platforms like Airbnb, hosting services have enjoyed a similar level of success.

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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.