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Ryoko Kaneta personifies the elements of nature by painting outsized female figures

Creative Boom

© Ryoko Kaneta. Tokyo-based painter Ryoko Kaneta , a rising star of the Japanese art scene, has found a new way to express a traditional belief in her country. In her work, the spirit of God, which is said to imbue all of nature, is expressed as towering female forms that loom over the landscape. Bringing together Japanese philosophies and an art style linked to the country the world over, Ryoko Kaneta has found a distinctly unique way to bring to life the belief that God dwells in all beings.

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Business Card Mockups: 25 Best Mockups

Graphic Design Junction

Business card mockup templates, super realistic, trendy and stylish mockups. High quality easy to use business card mockups with smart objects are best way to present your creative business card design! There are twenty one Photoshop Business Card Mockups to present your design professionally. Available in Photoshop format with the smart-object feature to help you replace the current designs with your own within seconds, perfect fit to the shape and well described layers.

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Brutalist Parisian architecture is the subject of Song for the Mute's stunning new fashion campaign

Creative Boom

Photographer Daniel Gurton has collaborated with design studio 21-87 to create a new campaign for Australian fashion brand Song for the Mute. Titled 22.1 Avenue D'Ivry, the project revolves around the people and buildings of a brutalist Parisian housing development. Fashion designers can get their inspiration in some of the most unusual places. And while the world of high fashion might seem remote and confined to the impractical garments you see models struggle to wear on the catwalk, it can, in

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Conso Font Family by Larin Type Co.

We And The Color

Download Conso, an elegant sans-serif font family with stylish contrast. Designed and published by Pasha of Larin Type, the Conso font family combines elegant vintage typography with modern design. The sans-serif family consists of 14 fonts including seven weights plus matching italics. Thanks to a great kerning and contrasting design, the Conso font family offers good legibility.

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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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Neubrutalism style in UX: a twist on the dominant modern minimalist

UX Collective

A quick look at what the style is, why we need it, and a list of websites using it in different ways. I’m really into Neubrutalism. Since discovering it, I’ve seen a number of articles exploring what it is, and examples of it in use with varying degrees of success. I think it is worth exploring this style in more depth because it offers a twist on the dominant “modern minimalist” design style.

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Digital Collages by Beto Val Splice Vintage Illustrations into Surreal Hybrid Creatures

Colossal

All images © Beto Val, shared with permission. Ecuadorian artist Beto Val alchemizes vintage illustrations into bizarre compositions that blend fruits with fowl and aquatic life with land animals. Using imagery available through the public domain, Val cuts and repositions fins, wings, and scaly talons into surreal creatures: round owl faces peer out from pineapples, autumn leaves sprout from tropical birds, and a rendering evocative of a biological chart displays fish with bodies made of strawbe

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UX career paths: A how-to guide

UX Collective

Creating a UX-focused career path that works for your situation and company context. What goals do I have? Where do I see myself in 5 years? How can I grow? And how can I get there at my current job? Unless you are part of a UX-led company, you likely won’t have a UX-focused career path to help you grow. We found ourselves in this exact situation at Randstad.

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A New Book Plunges into the Vast Diversity of the World’s Oceans Across 3,000 Years

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Carl Chun, Polypus levis, from Die Cephalopoden (1910–15), color lithograph, 35 × 25 centimeters. Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library/Contributed by MBLWHOI Library, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library, Massachusetts. All images © Phaidon, shared with permission. Despite thousands of years of research and an unending fascination with marine creatures, humans have explored only five percent of the oceans covering the majority of the earth’s su

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Sainsbury’s Tea packaging design

Abduzeedo

Sainsbury’s Tea packaging design. abduzeedo 0728—22 3rd Floor (Bart De Keyzer) love for everything British and experimenting with different illustration styles resulted in this self initiated (concept) project. Like many graphic designers Bart needs to regularly create personal work in order to maintain my sanity. This concept for tea packaging and the accompanying campaign is an example of that.

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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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Twin Tables by Sun at Six

Design Milk

Twin Tables , consisting of the Oyster and Wave Tables , are designed by Brooklyn-based studio Sun at Six. Both the Oyster and Wave tables were designed around the feel of natural wood characteristics present in only solid wood – knots, nooks, crannies, and all the features that make wood feel warm and natural. These features were paired with shapes eliciting strong tactile feedback to draw even more attention to hand feel.

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Photographer Spotlight: Orsolya Luca

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Orsolya Luca. Orsolya Luca on Instagram.

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Artist Butcher Billy Creates a Series of Posters for Stranger Things Season 4

Design You Trust

The Brazilian Pop Art illustrator Butcher Billy (previously featured ) has created a series of posters for the Netflix production Stranger Things 4 which has captivated audiences and become a worldwide phenomenon on social media, and beyond. The nine artworks – one for each episode of Stranger Things season four – chime with the show’s avowed 1980s vibe, playing on the aesthetics of old comics, horror novel jackets and movie posters.

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Times New Roman doesn’t have to be boring. Here’s why.

UX Collective

We got to push it out of its “comfort zone;” its typicality. Continue reading on UX Collective ».

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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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French Artist Recreates Famous Album Covers as Cartoon Characters

Design You Trust

Nirvana “Nevermind” Linda Bouderbala is an illustrator from France who discovered her love for art from a really young age. Scrolling through her art, you will notice that the colors she uses are very vibrant and the people she draws are expressive. One of her projects involves recreating famous album covers as if they were part of a cartoon world.

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Make a Splash: July Roundup + Music Playlist

Design Milk

We’re right in the middle of summer, which means pool parties, beach days, and backyard BBQs enjoyed with our favorite people. After being holed up all winter and for much of the past two years, escaping outside feels like a dream and we are soaking up every second of it. Whether you’re a toe dipper or a deep diver, make a splash and create some sun-soaked memories with the people you love!

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Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration reveals new visual identity

Design Week

Fraser Muggeridge Studio has rebranded the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration using a typeface inspired by its new building, located in Clerkenwell, London, which opens in 2024. The organisation, formerly known as House of Illustration, has repositioned with a new name and visual identity in preparation of the move from its old Camden home. The name change is meant to reflect “a major shift in.

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Capri Sun releases an animated content series for kids

Creative Review

Best known for turning up in kids’ packed lunches and at picnics, Capri Sun’s latest launch comes not in the form of a new juice range but, more surpisingly, an irreverent animated series on YouTube. Created in collaboration with agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners and animation studio Blinkink, Break Free TV is a five-part mini-show designed to provide a sip-sized dose of entertainment for kids.

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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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5 Rules of Layout Design and Composition

Designs.Ai

Introduction: What is ‘Layout design’? Designing content is all fun and games until you’re sat down with the ultimate dilemma of a question: What, where, and how do I begin? It’s the stuff of nightmarish procrastination for any designing content creator. This is why layout design is a fundamental process in every designer’s day-to-day work; […].

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Create A Wizarding World Inspired Artwork with Pixlr

Pixlr

Fellow muggles, have you ever wondered what it’d feel like to be born into the wizarding world, how it’d feel to wield a wand and cast spells? Unfortunately in the muggle world, the only magic we can do is Pixlr! With Pixlr, you can transport yourself into the wizarding world with ease. But instead of [.].

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“Like a snapshot in an album”: Zhigang Zhang’s peaceful illustrations preserve fleeting moments of everyday life

Its Nice That

The illustrator uses colour to emotionally communicate the moods of the people he observes.

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A Bold, Architectural Installation Recreates an Ancient Roman Gatehouse with Messages of Belonging

Colossal

All images courtesy of English Heritage , shared with permission. Temporarily occupying the site of the ancient Housesteads Roman Gatehouse at Hadrian’s Wall , a vibrant installation by British artist Morag Myerscough recreates the structure that once stood on the bucolic landscape in northern England. “The Future Belongs To What Was As Much As What Is” is a bright, architectural reinterpretation of the 2nd-century building, reaching the same 8.5 meters high and 12.5 meters wid

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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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“Island Gals” by Photographer Karabo Mooki

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Old Fashioned Cannibalism: Stunning Lovecraftian Art by Paul Hazen

Design You Trust

Lovecraftian art by Paul Hazen aka Azhmodai is incredibly atmospheric and dark. A gentleman from Providence would definitely love it! More: Instagram , Artstation , Etsy. Source.

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A Frank Conversation About Chronic Illness and Creativity

Eye on Design

When I was finally diagnosed with a couple interrelated chronic illnesses last year, a lot of things that had never made sense before finally did. . There’s a reason why some days I’m so tired that I can’t make it out of bed. There’s a reason why I could never commute to work and always have to sit down on crowded subway floors because I’m in so much pain.

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The Independent Photographer Has Announced The Most Moving Color Photographs Taken By Photographers From Around The World

Design You Trust

The Independent Photographer has just released the winners of its Color Photography Contest, which took place in June 2022. Many images from more than 30 different countries have been rewieved and 10 Winners and Finalists. The Color Photography Award aimed to discover and bring exposure to the best contemporary artists working across all photographic fields.

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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.