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46 Creative Typography Print Ads

SpyreStudios

In today’s world, an eye-catching ad plays a very important role for a product or a company to be successful. The ad must deliver a powerful message that will attract the consumer’s attention. By using effective typography in print ads, you can make an impact on your audience. In this roundup, we have collected some awesome print ads using typography to inspire you in creating your own.

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To The Letter—Animated Short Film

We And The Color

To The Letter, an animated short film by School on Wheels in collaboration with CBS Leadership Pipeline Challenge. Watch this beautiful short film that follows the challenges experienced by a young unhoused student as she attempts to learn to read. Created by participants of the CBS Leadership Pipeline Challenge, the animated short film is streaming on YouTube and CBS.com. “TO THE LETTER follows a young unhoused student as she attempts to learn how to read.

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Using High Colour Contrast For More Accessible Design

HONGKIAT

A high bounce rate is frequently caused by the poor visual accessibility of a website. When fonts are too small, or they are hardly legible, when there are too many distractions or not enough whitespace, many people just leave the site without a second thought. One of the most frequent reasons for early abandonment is the poorly selected colour schemes that decrease the readability of the content.

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Here Design Unveils Ice-cream Recipe Book, Gelupo Gelato

Dexigner

Here Design has unveiled a dreamy pastel-colored design for Gelupo Gelato - a new ice-cream recipe book by renowned restaurateur Jacob Kenedy.

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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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DOG CITY Branding by Studio Shift

We And The Color

Studio Shift produced a lovely brand identity for DOG CITY. Dog City is an all-in-one center for pets. It combines a hotel, vet clinic, grooming center, and store. The creative people at studio Shift have been asked to work on a brand solution that communicates Dog City’s caring and familiar sense through a warm, playful, and soft color palette. An icon system was developed to differentiate each of Dog City’s service branches.

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25+ Awesome WordPress Themes to Arrange Your IT Website

Template Monster

WordPress World for Software Services, Websites and Blogs. At the age of modern technology where new gadgets, design studios and consulting firms, advertising companies and digital apps appear and develop every day, Tech Websites and Blogs come in handy. Every IT enterprise wants to present its service and solution in the best light. So, your agency needs something special: a distinct advantage, memorable feature that will never stop to impress both your clients and niche rivals.

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40 Slab Serif Fonts (Free and Premium)

Vandelay Design

Looking for the right font to use with your next design project? Slab serif fonts (sometimes called square serifs or Egyptian) can be a great choice in the right situation. The thick, blocky letters tend to look great with headlines, either in print or digitally. As one of the more versatile font types, slab serif […]. The post 40 Slab Serif Fonts (Free and Premium) appeared first on Vandelay Design.

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“Magic Carpet Ride”: The Psychedelic Abstract Graphics by Alycia Rainaud

Design You Trust

Alycia Rainaud is a french Graphic Designer and Digital Artist based in Montréal, also known as Maalavidaa. She graduated in June 2018 with a Master Degree in Graphic Design as well as a thesis dealing with the analogy between Book’s shaping and Psychology. Alycia recently started working as an independent director in January 2019. Her work is mainly focused on putting together editorial design, mental processes and visual experiments through a highly saturated yet dark aesthetic.

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Lee Broom Transforms NYC Penthouse Into Sustainable Masterpiece

Design Milk

We’re longtime admirers of British designer Lee Broom and while London is the city he calls home, he spends a lot of time in New York City for both work and pleasure. Wanting a place to return to in the evenings after long, hectic days, Broom acquired a duplex apartment occupying two floors of the White Street in Tribeca. The light-filled penthouse spans 3,000 square feet giving him a spacious backdrop to work with, as this project marks his first interior design project since 2015.

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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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5 Things IT Job Candidates Will Be Looking for in Your Hiring Process

Noupe

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, the demand for high-quality programming and information technology employees continues to escalate. The pandemic of 2020 brought with it major leaps forward in terms of flexible work arrangements. IT workers, many bound only by a laptop, were quicker than many to renegotiate the terms of their employment.

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Big Chief Demond Melancon Is Rewriting the Definition of Contemporary Art Through Beads

Design Milk

A needle and thread. Glass beads. Canvas. A whole lot of time. These are the tools and materials New Orleans-based artist Demond Melancon uses to create his Black Masking suits and his contemporary art portraiture series. For the past five years or so, Melancon has been building on his practice, but his story starts much earlier – 20 years ago to be exact.

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Studio Blackburn Creates Engaging Environment Design System for UCL School of Management

Dexigner

Studio Blackburn has completed a unique design system for wayfinding, interior supergraphics, and connected digital interface at UCL's School of Management at the heart of Canary Wharf.

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Summer Hosting: Create a Scandinavian-Style Space for Outdoor Entertaining

Design Milk

Summer isn’t officially here yet, but it’s just around the corner (June 20th, to be exact!). This means you have less than a month to prepare your backyard space if you want to kick off the first day of summer in style for some much needed outdoor entertaining. After more than a year of social distancing, I made sure that renovating our backyard was a priority so that we could safely host our small group of vaccinated friends + family for balmy al fresco suppers and cocktails.

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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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Moving from user experience (UX) to participant experience (PX) design

UX Collective

Designing Spatial Experiences that people would naturally inhabit using Perception Design Moving from user experience (UX) to participant experience (PX) Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash Throughout media history, we have always interacted with information on some form of 2D surfaces as observers from the outside. Think books, billboards, TVs, phone screens, car dashboards.

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The Best Food Photography Tips and Tricks

Vecteezy

Food photography is a delicate art form, and capturing the perfect shot of a dish can be as challenging as making it in the first place. High-quality food photos look almost effortless, but if you’ve ever tried to capture a shot of your favorite dish, you may have found that it’s not as easy as it looks. Whether you’re photographing your creations or someone else’s, these seven tips will help you come away with mouth-watering photos viewers will love. 1.

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The Liquid Typography by Alex Valentina

Design You Trust

Alex Valentina is a graphic designer from Italy who graduated from KHIB, Bergen, Norway, and is based in London, UK. A musician, music producer and video director, he also occasionally designs typefaces. At The Designers Foundry, he released the fairytale font Goliagolia in 2019, and the spindly lava lamp font GabyGaby in 2020. More: Alex Valentina , Instagram.

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Design: Minimal is not equal to intuitive

UX Collective

Minimal design is relatively new, and it can be confusing sometimes For years, I thought products with a minimal design would be easy to use. While sometimes it’s true, being minimal is different from being intuitive. And it can be confusing to use. Intuitive design is a familiar design A design is intuitive when a user can immediately understand and use it , without consciously thinking about how to do it.

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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 Mediterranean-Inspired Cara Hotel in Los Angeles by Bishop Pass

Design Milk

Cara Hotel is a Mediterranean-inspired boutique hotel located in Los Angeles, California, designed by Bishop Pass. Situated within the Los Feliz neighborhood, the 60-room property sits at the foothills of Griffith Park. Originally built as a 1950s-era motel, the hotel received a full transformation, having both the interior and exterior redesigned. The resulting space is an open-aired concept anchored by a central courtyard featuring an expansive dining venue along with a serene reflecting pool.

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Olafur Eliasson Floods an Art Gallery in Basel

Azure Magazine

“Who made this planet livable and breathable for animals like us?” asks anthropologist Natasha Myers in her essay “How to Grow Livable Worlds: Ten Not-So Easy Steps.” The answer: photosynthetic organisms — those that create oxygen, most often plants. This notion is at the centre of artist Olafur Eliasson ‘s new biocentric installation, Life , at the Swiss Fondation Beyeler.

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Pentagram’s Harry Pearce designs the brand identity for John Lewis’ new affordable range, Anyday

Its Nice That

The London-based graphic designer tells us more about the new branding, which features unexpected design choices for the well-known retailer.

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These 11 Photographers Are Challenging the Mental Health Stigma

Feature Shoot

One in five US adults experiences mental illness each year. I happen to be one of them. At least 8.4 million Americans provide care to an adult with an emotional or mental illness, and depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. May is Mental Health Month, so this year, we took the opportunity to revisit some of the stories we’ve run on this complex subject.

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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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Travel Sketchbook Illustrations

Abduzeedo

Travel Sketchbook Illustrations. AoiroStudio 05.27.21 David Leutert is a illustrator & letterer based in Berlin, Germany. David has shared a really cool series of sketches titled: ' Travel Sketchbook', it's a series of where I am pretty sure it's taken from David's past traveling around the world. With the summer season coming slowly and things are going back to some normality.

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Young Guns 19: Call for Entries

Dexigner

The One Club for Creativity is calling for entries for Young Guns 19, celebrating international creative professionals age 30 or younger. Young Guns is the industry's only global, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies and celebrates today's vanguard of young creatives.

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“This Won’t Ever Change” by Photographer Andrea Urbez

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Premium members: 8 Light rays Photoshop brushes

Creative Nerds

This is another great premium design resources, which is exclusive to our Creative Nerds Premium members. Preview Download (Premium members). The post Premium members: 8 Light rays Photoshop brushes first appeared on Creative Nerds.

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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.