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How New Web Designers Can Level Up

SpeckyBoy

Starting your career as a web designer is an exciting experience. There is a whole world of possibilities available. Thanks to a massive number of learning opportunities, it may seem like the sky’s the limit. Growth takes time, however. Short of releasing an instantly popular (and lucrative) product, you’ll have to put in a lot of work to level up.

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24 Fresh Free Fonts For Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

Beautiful, fresh free fonts 100% free available for commercial use. Fonts are great for logo design, invitations, stationery, t-shirt design and packaging labels. The collection fonts included sans serif fonts , script fonts , handwritten fonts and brush fonts which can make your design more professional. The following fonts are ideal to make an creative design and perfect for any artwork.

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Greenmood’s Acoustic Solutions Are Inspiring the Blooming of Biophilic Design

Design Milk

We’ve witnessed biophilia making its way through the design world, adding creativity and innovation to the spaces it inhabits in its wake. The term “biophilic design” was first used by biologist Edward O. Wilson in his book, Biophilia, but the word “biophilia” was coined by psychoanalyst Eric Fromm. He described it as “a passionate love of life and all that is alive,” while hypothesizing that humans have an innate tendency to seek out connections with nature.

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NN North Sea Jazz Festival by Studio Dumbar/DEPT

BP&O

After seeing Collins’ work for the San Francisco Symphony – a pioneering typographic and digital experiment with Swiss foundry Dinamo – I thought it would be some time before I’d be surprised by another visual identity in the music space. Sure, there’s an abundance of styles and artists to be inspired by within an art that has evolved in tandem. The post NN North Sea Jazz Festival by Studio Dumbar/DEPT appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.

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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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Almost Shopping Time: Design Milk’s 2022 Gift Guide Preview

Design Milk

Whether you’re the type of person that begins their holiday shopping the year before, in the fall, or last minute, we can all use some fresh gift ideas for everyone on our shopping list. The holidays are overwhelming as it is so the Design Milk team has been doing some of the heavy lifting for you in hopes that we can make your 2022 holiday shopping a little bit easier!

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The Ultimate Guide to FMCG Branding, Marketing, and Website Design

Canny

FMCG branding can be a tough nut to crack, as you’ve got to create a product that stands out in an increasingly oversaturated marketplace. Just think about the amount of products that exist in the FMCG space , and it’s no surprise that brands have a difficult time competing. For absolute clarity, FMCG stands for fast moving consumer goods, which are products that are sold quickly at a relatively low price.

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“Florida Strawberries” by Photographer Anthony Blasko

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Designers as copycats, holistic design, Figma HTML converter

UX Collective

Weekly curated resources for designers?—?thinkers and makers. “ll creative endeavors come with a learning curve. And similar to how it aids in our development as human beings, imitation has long been a critical learning tactic for designers looking to develop and mature their craft from understanding to execution.” All designers start as copycats (and that’s ok) ?

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Vibrant Letters Drift and Twist in Bold Typographic Murals by Pref

Colossal

“Shake Hands” in Leige, Belgium. All images © Pref, shared with permission. For British artist Pref , the art of decipherment is as integral to his murals as the expressively layered designs. Known for looping and layering blocky text to give the illusion of floating forms, contrasting letters wriggle, tilt, overlap, and cast bold shadows.

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10 Ways to Identify User Friction & Improve UX Design Accordingly

Inkbot Design

10 Ways to Identify User Friction & Improve UX Design Accordingly. Good designs are frictionless, allowing users to complete the task most efficiently. But how do you know customers are having trouble using your website or app? Let's figure out how to identify user frictions and fix them in the best possible way. In this competitive digital world, creating a website that creates an optimal user experience has become a challenge for UX web designers.

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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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The 2022 Landscape Photographer of the Year Contest Captures Stunning Environments Around the U.K.

Colossal

“The Sacred Garden,” Gray Eaton. All images @ the artists, courtesy of the Landscape Photographer of the Year, shared with permission. From hazy lochs and grand mountainous vistas to water-side pedestrian paths, the 2022 Landscape Photographer of the Year contest highlights the vast splendor of Britain’s environments. Winners of this year’s competition encompass both the natural and human-made, showcasing a steam-engulfed train roaring across the Fellowman Crosses Ribbleh

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Graphic designer Yannick Nuss views his dramatic posters and book pages as a “stage”

Its Nice That

The Cologne-based designer’s avant-garde work moves swiftly between pop culture, media theory and visual storytelling.

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Typography #typography

Designspiration

Typography #typography

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Floating, Zombie Ballerinas.I Mean, Of Course….

Joe McNally

A number of folks chiming in our our recent Instagram post have asked about a “how to” sort of explanation of the lighting and staging of the banner photo up top. Others have asked, simply, what’s going on? Still others might be thinking of asking precisely what type of pharmaceutical regimen I’m engaged with. I’ve photographed dance my whole career, and it is certainly a beautiful thing to watch and make pictures of.

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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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One Mother’s Story of Raising a Son with a Rare and Severe Form of Epilepsy

Feature Shoot

Floor plan. one, one thousand… “When David was a baby, I sang a special song to him,” Debe Arlook , David’s aunt, tells me. “I still do, and it seems to warm his heart because it makes him smile.” For more than two years now, Arlook has been collaborating with her sister Lori, David’s mom, to tell the story of their family.

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From Fish to Typographic Identities: New Talent 2023 Latest Entries

Graphis

Students from the ArtCenter College of Design have immersed themselves in both the silly and the serious.

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Full Sail Students Help Design Land Rover

Graphic Design USA

Full Sail University Graphic Design students recently worked along side the school’s creative department to the design of a custom Land Rover to appear in the Rebelle Rally, a women’s off-road navigation rally.

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3D backgrounds blend with 2D trees on Ecosia’s first ever animated campaign

Its Nice That

Start Growing Your Forest Today uses the search engine’s updated design language, launched by Koto in August 2022, as a visual “stepping stone”.

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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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Artist Spotlight: Ophélie Paris

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Ophélie Paris. Ophélie Paris’s Website. Ophélie Paris on Instagram.

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Beyond Concrete?? Support our Kickstarter campaign

Design Everywhere

Beyond Concrete ?? Support our Kickstarter campaign.

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TOP Best WooCommerce Themes with Shop Page

Template Monster

Nowadays, people tend to buy online more often than just going to the shopping malls with family or friends. Statistics show that nearly 2.14 billion people shop online, which means that the daily traffic of any online shop might be much higher than the monthly audience in the regular store. So, why not use such a great opportunity and bring profitability to your business?

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Designers: how to prepare for a recession

Creative Bloq

How to prepare for recession? Figma's Luis Ouriach and Andrew Hogan offer some recession proof advice.

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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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Level Lock+ Is Turnkey Security You Can Unlock With an Apple Watch

Design Milk

I’m now on my third iteration of the Level Lock. That’s an amusing realization, noting for years I had been a smart lock holdout for a variety of reasons: cumbersome, wart-like designs marring the front door, high price tags, questionable security, alongside app integration that made those earliest smart locks frankly seem kind of dumb. Like many nascent technologies, the smart lock have improved considerably with every year, and the newest Level Lock+ might be the strong case for a

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Apple's radical iPhone 15 redesign could ditch buttons entirely

Creative Bloq

Are we moving closer to the first 'seamless' iPhone design?

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A Modular Food Display System by Taste : Work : Shop in Collab With Coexist

Design Milk

Dinner parties are notoriously where my favorite relationships start. From my spouse to lifelong friends, even potential collaborators… nothing quite compares to connections built around a table, where we share food and stories. Before they moved to Pennsylvania to operate a regenerative organic farm in Berks County, I had the pleasure of meeting the founders and creative duo behind Coexist Build , Ana Konopitskaya and Drew Oberholtzer, at a dinner party in Brooklyn.

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Original The Simpsons style guide reveals fascinating character design secrets

Creative Bloq

What shape are Lisa Simpson's teeth?

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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.

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design work life » Albin Holmqvist: EF Destinations #icon #typography

Designspiration

design work life » Albin Holmqvist: EF Destinations #icon #typography

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Designer claims new video game controller could fix the industry

Creative Bloq

Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft: take note.

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FFFFOUND! | Fast Eddie's Barber Shop on the Behance Network #eddie #shop #barber #logo #fast #typography

Designspiration

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This 'smiling sun' optical illusion is guaranteed to brighten your day

Creative Bloq

It's out of this world.

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Web Design for All: Accessibility, Inclusivity and Beyond

Speaker: Eden Spivak, Design Expert and Editor at Wix & Nir Horesh, Accessibility Lead and Senior Product Manager at Wix

When we design products or websites for people like ourselves, there are many others who are, as a result, left out. From visually impaired users who rely on assistive technology, to people with a temporary injury such as a broken arm, tech users are forever diverse and beautifully unique. The products we design can, and should, reflect the extremely wide range of human experiences and needs.