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Hulda Guzmán celebrates the people and luscious nature of the Dominican Republic

Creative Boom

What You See Is What It Is, 2022 © Hulda Guzmán. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Photo by Todd-White Art Photography. In her vivid and joyful artworks, the painter represents a moment of calm – a place where time is frozen, and the swaying trees are caught in a sun-drenched freeze frame. It's unsurprising to learn that Samaná-based Hulda Guzmán is most interested in painting tropical landscapes.

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Yes You Can by Marx Design

BP&O

Yes You Can is a non-alcoholic ready-to-drink range developed by former Olympic athlete Tyler Martin. It exists in the growing direct-to-consumer space alongside more traditional channels of distribution that includes major liquor retailers across Australia. Yes You Can launched with three products aimed at a young ‘social “seltzer” crowd’ looking for healthy and sophisticated alternatives to other ready-to-drink products.

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Camille Walala creates exclusive paintings to tackle creative poverty with Make Bank

Creative Boom

Camille Walala. Everyone seems to be feeling the squeeze at the minute, especially people working in the creative industries. To help deliver support to young creatives, artist Camille Walala has teamed up with social enterprise Make Bank to raise money with a new set of automatic paintings. Launched on 31st March, the partnership between artist and designer Camille Walala and Make Bank has seen 18 exclusive and original paintings go up for auction.

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10 Logo Makers & Generators to Design Your Logo For Free

HONGKIAT

The importance of a logo to a business cannot be overestimated. A logo defines your business for your existing and potential customers and makes you stand out from the competitors. When starting a business, people usually hire a professional graphic designer to design a logo for their company. This may be a good practice, however, you do need some really deep pockets for that as a professional graphic designer costs a lot.

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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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50 Best Logo Mockups Sets (Free & Premium)

Graphic Design Junction

Highest quality photorealistic best logo mockups for logo presentation. There are 50 sets of logo mockups with different effects and environments to showcase your corporate branding designs great for presenting your logo design, badge, sign, text or shape. All mockup templates are available in Photoshop PSD files with hi-res pixels with smart objects included to easily replace sample images with your logo.

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10 Tools to be Productive as a Graphic Design Student

Inkbot Design

10 Tools to be Productive as a Graphic Design Student. As a graphic design student, you’ll constantly be pressured to deliver competently made projects such as brand guidelines, posters, essays, and case studies. This can all get overwhelming no matter how much you love graphic design. It’s why using useful tools, platforms, and resources can make your life as a graphic design student more manageable and easier for your mental health.

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Here’s How We’re Celebrating Our Animals on National Pet Day

Design Milk

Happy National Pet Day ! While we pledge our love to our paw-footed friends all year round, the Design Milk team will jump at any excuse to spoil our fur babies a little more than usual. So if you’re looking to treat your pet to more than a milk bone this Pet Day, we’ve got plenty of modern pet gift ideas that are sure to get tails wagging. Read on to see what the Design Milk team is grabbing for their pets this year.

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Out Of The Blue, Kit Kat Released A New Limited-Edition Blueberry Muffin Flavor

The Dieline

Say hello to Blueberry Muffin Kit Kat bars. The blue-toned bars get wrapped in a fittingly blue wrapper with blueberry-inspired illustrations.

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A Historic Cinema is Revived in Berlin

Azure Magazine

The magic of film lies in its ability to immerse an audience in a particular time and place. When a cinema is itself designed to possess the same transportive quality, the experience is only amplified. At the newly reopened Yorck Kino Passage in Berlin, movie-goers have the unique opportunity to step back in time. Recently renovated by local firm BATEK ARCHITEKTEN, the cinema’s reimagined interior celebrates the building’s neoclassical character.

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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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10 Small Modern Cabins We’re Dreaming of Escaping To

Design Milk

With just 96 square feet of floor space on the bottom and 50 square feet above for sleeping, the Nido micro cabin is built overlooking a lake in Finland. Robin Falck constructed the cabin in the span of three weeks and spent around $10,500 without the need for permits thanks to the design’s small size. Photo: Younes @ Doublespace Photography. Working in collaboration with Design Base 8 , Omar Gandhi Architect Inc. , designed the Rabbit Snare Gorge , a cabin in Nova Scotia.

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Fifty Fifty Font by Up Up Creative

We And The Color

Discover Fifty Fifty, an elegant display serif font from foundry Up Up Creative. The Fifty Fifty serif font consists of a regular and italic version. It is characterized by gently smooth curves and comes with more than 100 ligatures. The Fifty Fifty font is a great choice for a range of work including headlines, editorial design, monograms, branding, logotypes, and poster designs, just to name a few.

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Behold The Astonishing Load-Carrying Motorbikes Of Vietnam

Feature Shoot

Bikes of Burden #37. Hoses. Bikes of Burden #44. Hoola Hoops. Bikes of Burden #118. Baskets. Hans Kemp first traveled to Vietnam in 1991, while working as a freelance photographer based in Hong Kong. “It was just before Tet, the Vietnamese (Lunar) New Year,” he remembers. “I landed in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), and, on the way downtown from the airport in an ancient beat-up Renault Dauphine taxi, I felt an incredible rush.

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The Shongololo Rug by Ghislaine Viñas Is Inspired by Millipedes

Design Milk

If you’re a lover of design and nature, you might love the Shongololo rug as much as we do. Designed by Dutch-born, New York-based designer Ghislaine Viñas for The Rug Company , the rug instantly injects kooky personality into any space. Viñas was inspired by the shape and movement of millipedes that she found so fascinating when she lived in South Africa as a child.

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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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Daily Activities Are Interwoven into Rural Landscapes in Ágnes Herczeg’s Lace Sculptures

Colossal

All images © Ágnes Herczeg, shared with permission. Strands of silk thread are delicately intertwined to create inviting pastoral scenes in miniature needlework sculptures by Ágnes Herczeg ( previously ). The Hungarian artist has recently begun to incorporate found driftwood into her pieces, foraged from the shores of the nearby Danube River where floodplain trees dot the riverside.

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Watch illustrator Lony Mathis draw your dream 00s bedroom, including the dog you were never allowed

Its Nice That

Alongside kid-friendly commissions for publications, the Vienna-based illustrator creates work guaranteed to bring every 00s childhood fantasy into sharp focus.

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TikTok: Art market disruptor or passing fad?

Creative Boom

Image Courtesy of Tessa Reed. For many artists, the social media platform has been revolutionary, but is it becoming too central to the creative process? It started with the pandemic. Like so many others who found their lives and livelihoods upended by Covid-19, artists turned to digital spaces. As museums, galleries and other venues for sharing and viewing art closed, a path forward became obscured.

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“Exploded Views” by Photographer Kevin Cooley

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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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We Are Just Grains of Sand on This Earth: Tomás Sánchez Draws Giant Forests and Massive Landcapes

Design You Trust

Tomás Sánchez was born in 1948 in Aguada de Pasajeros, Cuba. He began his studies as a painter in 1964 at the San Alejandro School of Plastic Arts in Havana and later at the Escuela Nacional de Arte. In 1980 he won the Joan Miró Drawing Prize, given by the Miró Foundation in Barcelona and in 1984 he won the Amelia Peláez Award for painting at Havana’s first biennial.

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Realpaw Amazônia - Branding

Abduzeedo

Realpaw Amazônia - Branding. abduzeedo 0411—22 Realpaw is a premium line of natural products for dogs that uses only natural ingredients to help humans who already have an ecologically responsible lifestyle and want well-groomed, happy and long-lived dogs. The brand believes that pets are like family members and should be treated and cared for as such.

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Top 10: April Branding

Mindsparkle Mag

A new month, a new edition of our series. Today, meet Top 10: April Branding edition, which hosts some of the best brandings during this month. Triggered by your valuable, constant support, we continue publishing this series. We found tons of new projects worth being in this selection, but we had to cut up to 10. However, they will be published this week.

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Pedro Troncoso on his slightly chaotic yet wildly imaginative artworks

Creative Boom

Pedro Troncoso. The artist uses his medium to spark conversations about society, expectations, stereotypes and identity. Before finding his feet as an artist, Pedro Troncoso 's career began in aviation. He grew up in La Romana, Dominican Republic, where he'd practice his artistic pursuits in his free time. Perceiving it as a hobby, he shares, he eventually built a portfolio of works which meant he could apply to art school for a scholarship.

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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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Elden Ring UX, making money as a designer, mind map tools

UX Collective

Weekly curated resources for designers?—?thinkers and makers. “A few days ago, I had a provocative conversation with a colleague. We were talking about designing for behavior change and how it’s probably one of the most interesting challenges in Product Design (thinking about it, designing for behavior change is Product Design). He jumped in with a bold statement: ‘Actually, it’s all very simple.

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Ice Boy

Mindsparkle Mag

Ahoy there! Meet Ice Boy. Specialists in keeping your stuff cold and your thirst quenched. Ice Boy vending machines are beginning to show up in convenient locations around town. That’s because they’ve found a way to provide fresh ice and water that works better for you, your customers, and the environment. The brand asked Lucy Kirkwood to design and create the complete visual concept for them.

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In ‘King Pleasure,’ Family Stories and Personal Artifacts Illuminate Basquiat’s Life and Work

Colossal

All images by Ivane Katamashvili, shared with permission. An expansive exhibition sprawling through the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea offers an intimate and holistic glimpse at the life that inspired Jean-Michel Basquiat’s body of work. Opened Saturday, King Pleasure is curated by the artist’s two younger sisters, Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, who unearthed more than 200 artworks and artifacts as part of the broad, deeply personal look at their brother’s world.

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Hanna Hark builds recognisable 3D scenes and sprinkles them in glassy hues

Creative Boom

Sad Scorpion © Hanna Hark. From a rose to a scorpion, you might first believe that these are real-life scenes you're looking at. In fact, they're completely fake and made from a bunch of 3D programs. Lockdown taught cut many things. For Hanna Hark , it was the techniques behind making 3D artworks. "With more time on my hands than ever before," she tells us, "I longed to envision myself someplace other than the same four walls every day.

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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.