Fri.Apr 17, 2020

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Affinity Airbrush Shading Brushes for Premium Members

Spoon Graphics

Access All Areas members have been requesting more Affinity Designer resources, so this week members can download this great set of Airbrush Shading Brushes made specifically for Affinity, courtesy of The Artifex Forge. Add organic texture shading to designs and illustrations with ease! This versatile shading brush pack contains a wide variety of textures – from dense to light and thick to thin – all designed to add scattered texture to your designs and illustrations.

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Women in Web Design: How To Achieve Success

Noupe

Traditionally, web design is a male-dominated industry. But in recent years there’s been a spike in the number of women emerging in the sector. With more support and training opportunities available for women wanting to break into the industry than ever before, the field is beginning to level. However, the numbers still show that web design is more man’s world than woman’s.

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Kata Geibl reflects on the changing nature of society in her ongoing series

Creative Review

Kata Geibl has always wanted to be a photographer. When she was five years old, she asked for a camera from her parents, and that was just the beginning for her. “I carried that green 35mm film camera everywhere, always taking snapshots,” says Geibl. “Then later in my 20s when I studied film history, I watched Michelangelo Antonioni’s movie, Blowup , for the first time.

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Noted: New Logo and Identity for Keeping Forests by Matchstic

Under Consideration / Brand

“Grow, Forest, Grow!”. (Est. 2016) " Keeping Forests was created as a broad regional initiative with a focus on maintaining the long-term economic and ecological viability of southern forests. KFAF is supported by a diverse coalition of both private and public stakeholders ranging from human health professionals to traditional forest product manufactures and conservationists.

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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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Tom Misch goes on a mellow animated journey in new video

Creative Review

We might all be feeling trapped right now, but Tom Misch and Yussef Dayes are providing a little escapism in the music video for their new track, Nightrider, which comes off their collaborative album What Kinda Music. The animated video features Misch, Dayes and rapper Freddie Gibbs cruising with the top down through a deserted landscape at dusk. As if things didn’t start off laid back enough, a puff of smoke then transitions into a moonlit dream sequence where the trio hover above marshma

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Illustrator Spotlight: Austin Rossborough

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Austin Rossborough. Austin Rossborough’s Website. Austin Rossborough on Instagram.

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Free Resume + Cover Letter Templates (PSD)

Graphic Design Junction

Today’s freebie is a high-quality, free resume template that may help you land your dream job. Professionally designed resume + cover letter templates (PSD) available in two different colors. Resume download pack contains resume template + covet letter. The template can be easy to edit and customize Photoshop PSD files , well organized with smart object, so every beginner can edit it like a pro.

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Newsletter Signup: 7 Essential Tips for Higher Subscription Rates

Noupe

Behind every successful mailing list, is a great newsletter signup form. Having an engaged mailing list that will interact with your email campaigns is a must for a successful business that wants to develop an effective customer lifecycle marketing strategy. However, to enjoy the benefits of your mailing list, you need to make sure that you get as many subscribers as possible.

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Type Crit Crew is a new virtual one-on-one typography class from industry experts

Its Nice That

Launched by Monotype type designer Juan Villanueva, the project will put mentors from the likes of Hoefler&Co, Sumotype Foundry and XYZ Type in touch with eager students.

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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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Meltdown Flags Project Raises Awareness over Climate Change

Trendland

To illustrate the negative effects of countries on our climate, a Munich-based design studio Moby Digg has collaborated with an environment company METER to reflect effects of glaciers' retreat by reducing white in each country flag.

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Magnus Holmes’ series Roommates examines the strength of a unique platonic realtionship

Its Nice That

Magnus sees documentary photography as a means to understand the world better, and Roommates was yet another opportunity for him to use his camera to learn about others.

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A Tiny Lizard Attends Miniature Gallery Opening to See ‘American Gecko’ and ‘The Birth of Gecko’

Colossal

All images © Jill Young. The Gecko Museum’s opening only had one visitor to consider its most prized pieces: a mango-loving crested gecko that goes by The Mayor. Arriving around 7 p.m., the nocturnal lizard visited his personal gallery earlier this week, stopping to contemplate “American Gecko” and “The Birth of Gecko.” Dallas-based Jill Young , who both painted and curated the miniature museum’s permanent collection as part of a humorous quarantine activity, told Hyperallergic

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Artist Spotlight: Old City [Interview]

Trendland

Artist Spotlight: Old City. Interview with Amer and Hassan, two best friends behind Old City , the DJ duo that was founded at Burning Man, nourished in New York City and inspired by the Middle East.

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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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Why should browser windows be rectangular? Studio 24/24 on its radical practice

Its Nice That

Starting out in graphic design, the Lisbon-based studio talk us through its playful approach to web design.

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Medopad rebrands as Huma in bid to “humanise healthcare”

Design Week

Koto has given medical start-up Huma a new identity, including a logo, name change and strategy guidelines. Huma, previously known as Medopad, was set up in 2011 with headquarters based in London. It creates apps that use health data from hospital databases to help medical practitioners monitor patients. Huma also announced the appointment of its first chairman and acquisition of two AI start-ups, BioBeats (which focuses on mental health) and a cardiovascular start-up Tarilian Laser Technologies

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Finding the sweet spot in between art and design, Jiaxi Wei discusses her type-led practice

Its Nice That

The Tokyo-based creative treats Kanji lettering in the same way she would illustrate a character, with the appropriate personality.

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How to Create an Online Course in 7 Simple Steps

Graphic Mama

This is a brief guide, not a comprehensive step by step process by any means. The idea is to give you things to consider before you set up an online course, detailed information can be found online for each of our 7 key categories and by following the links given, but let’s take a step back. Online courses have been becoming more and more popular for obvious reasons not least improved technology and connectivity.

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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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Lukas Eggert’s observational illustrations look at the charming idiosyncrasies of bizarre personalities

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With a keen eye for the domestic, Lukas finds intrigue in the unnoticed elements of everyday life.

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“The Portrait of the Sun” by Photographer David Vades Joseph

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MJ.Hiblen ART pays homage to today's heroes

Abduzeedo

MJ.Hiblen ART pays homage to today's heroes. abduzeedo Apr 17, 2020 It’s Friday, the week is over. A full weekend ahead. Where to go? What to do? So many options. Not today, not this Friday. This one looks like a Tuesday, which also looks like a Monday and a Wednesday, perhaps a Saturday. Every day feels the same for me, for you if you are a designer like me.

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Photographer Spotlight: Alina Trifan

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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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Victor Vasarely, an Influential Master of Optical Art

Graphis

The legendary Victor Vasarely is one of our Graphis Art/Illustration Masters who enjoyed a very successful career from the 1930s up until his passing in 1997. He is internationally recognized as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. As a leader of the Op Art movement in the ’60s, he was known […].

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The Wonder Years: Cool Snaps Show Lifestyle Of American Teens In The Late 1980s

Design You Trust

The 1980s is the period of multi-style fashion, especially for young people in the United States. From hairstyles to clothes, everything looked pretty rock. These cool snaps from Aimee Dars Ellis captured her life as a teenager with friends in the late 1980s. Most of photos were taken in Oklahoma, a few were from Texas. More: Flickr h/t: vintag. Source.

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“Create an image inspired by a scene/moment from your favourite movie or TV show” – our top picks from the Weekly Brief

Its Nice That

Cute, funny, and emotional – here’s some wonderful homages to TV and film’s best moments.

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Creative Chef Experiment with a Morphing Table

Trendland

A great concept for future high-end restaurants or Michelin-star chefs wanting to interact and play with their cuisine creations. The Morphing Table is a project in which Creative Chef collaborates with Designfabrik BASF to create a new and experimental way to interact with objects.

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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.