Spoon Graphics

APRIL 13, 2020

It’s that time of year when Spoon Graphics gets a little older, with 2020 marking 13 years of tutorial creating, freebie sharing and article writing on what started as a blog that was attached to my portfolio website in 2007. Every April I take some time to reflect on the past 12 months and talk about how things have changed. Last year I talked about how much the landscape of the Internet has changed since I started Spoon Graphics and my worry for what the future might hold, so let’s take

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Just Creative

APRIL 13, 2020

This article has been contributed by Victor Blasco. From a digital marketing standpoint, it’s not hard to make a case for whiteboard animation. The mechanics are shockingly simple: Have a moving hand draw an illustrated story on a whiteboard or similar surface using a marker pen. Both marketers and scientists agree on the format’s ability to enhance learning and long-term retention of ideas.

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Creative Market

APRIL 13, 2020

There's something undeniably refreshing about the outdoors. Being in the midst of mountains, trees, and crisp air rewires us somehow. There's even have a name for it: earthing. Earthing, also known as grounding, is a form of therapy that affirms that interacting with the ground can literally reconnect you to the Earth via electrical charges. Whether it's ethereal landscapes, furry animals, or minty leaf aromas, thinking about woodlands immediately takes us to a cozier, calmer place — and that's

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APRIL 13, 2020

Winter’s frigid temperatures may chill the bones, but snow and ice lend a magical air to almost any landscape. From the frozen wonders of Northern Hokkaido to the famous Christmas markets in Strasbourg, here are the top 25 most beautiful and sought-after places to shoot winter landscape photography. 01. Antarctica. Photo by Torsten Dederichs.

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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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Just Creative

APRIL 13, 2020

This article has been contributed by Roman Daneghyan. If you think cyber theft is just a problem of big businesses, you’re mistaken. According to an article published in CNBC, 43% of cyberattacks are targeted at small businesses. Cyberattacks now cost small businesses about $200,000 on average. Therefore, no matter the size of your business, it’s critical that you consider ways to secure your business online.

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Noupe

APRIL 13, 2020

Video content is all over the internet! According to Cisco, by the year 2021, the online video content will make up around 80% of the global online traffic. However, even that doesn’t seem to be enough to meet the worldwide demand for video content. In a study, HubSpot states that 43% of people want to see more video content in the future. However, as always, creating online content is never enough.

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APRIL 13, 2020

Colors help shape everything from our mood to the products we buy. With each new year comes a new color trend, and whether you’re a digital marketer, or a graphic designer, knowing these trends in advance is helpful for all your design tasks. In this article, we predict the biggest color trends of 2019, and show you how to use them in design. Similar to fashion trends, there are also design trends that come and go with each new year.

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APRIL 13, 2020

“The Future is Super”. Established in 2018, SuperShe is a community for people who identify as she, providing a bevy of content, products, and connections to empower and inspire. The community is now based around a newly launched app but its origin is as an island -- nope, not a metaphor -- for women only. The 8.4-acre island in the Baltic Sea, accessible off the coast of Raseborg, Finland, was purchased by entrepreneur Kristina Roth after she sold her tech consulting company and has served as a

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APRIL 13, 2020

There are plenty of guides out there for growing your audience and gaining a bunch of shiny, new customers. But even as you’re building your following, it’s important to remember to nurture the customers you already have and generate brand loyalty. Think about the Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule. According to this rule, 80% of your company’s revenue will come from only 20% of your current customers.

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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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APRIL 13, 2020

“Hasta la Vista, Mob”. (Est. 2013) " Mobvista is a leading technology platform providing mobile advertising and mobile analytics services to the app developers globally. With its global coverage and local service capabilities, Mobvista has provided one-stop advertising services to over 2000 app developers in 60 countries, meeting their various needs from user acquisition to monetization.

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Canva

APRIL 13, 2020

Whether taking photos is a creative or professional pursuit, Instagram is one of the most powerful tools that both budding and established photographers can use to promote their work. The visual social media app is an effective way to build interest in your work, connect with other photographers, find potential clients, get published, and give and receive feedback to improve your practice.

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Colossal

APRIL 13, 2020

All images © Jose Arias. Lima-based graphic designer and illustrator Jose Arias has created a wacky cast of typographic monsters ready to cuddle you in their serifs and ascenders—Monsters Inc. meets the alphabet. Often smirking or baring a couple of teeth, Arias’s letter-based characters sometimes come adorned with coiffed hair, a gold crown, and a pair of headphones.

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Trendland

APRIL 13, 2020

Known for injecting an artistic visual purity into the routine, Maria Svarbova images often hold a distinct sense of cool, alongside themes of space, isolation and a strong Wes Anderson inspiration.

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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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Abduzeedo

APRIL 13, 2020

Simplicity at its best with Circula visual identity. abduzeedo Apr 13, 2020 Sofia Dimitrova , Atanas Teodosiev and Jenny Tsaneva shared a branding and visual identity project for Circula , a company that struck them only as a young and determined name on the market, that would not be the whole picture, however. The thing that made them the strongest impression was their simple ambition to make people's lives easier by saving them the only irreversible value in the universe - time.

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Colossal

APRIL 13, 2020

Considering many of you found our previous Skillshare picks useful, we thought we’d share another selection of courses from the popular online platform that we’re loving here at Colossal. This next round encompasses art, design, and even the basics of home gardening in simple, multi-lesson units. If you need some completely offline entertainment, check out these modern puzzles and DIY kits , too.

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Design You Trust

APRIL 13, 2020

According to Looma, a creative production agency from Kiev, Ukraine: “During the current coronavirus pandemic, many people still ignore the basic rules of quarantine and personal security. We can say that the ability to preserve the quarantine is a kind of art. This is how Looma agency came up with the idea of “Art of Quarantine” social campaign. Classic art pieces get a new look and teach how to.

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Brown Paper Bag

APRIL 13, 2020

It’s been a while, but I am finally opening slots for my custom commissioned animal portraits again. What are those? Well, they are your favorite furry friend, reptile, or even wild creature that is stitched on the collars of a shirt. You’ll send me a garment that you want to be embroidered as well as the animal (or animal’s) picture(s) and I’ll create a sketch based on that.

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Design You Trust

APRIL 13, 2020

Probably most of us know at least one bar that has gone quite overboard with its unique decorations. Antique furniture, really weird vintage animal posters, family pictures all over the walls, coins glued to the bar?—you name it. Well, it turns out some of them might actually be useful in these grim times during the coronavirus pandemic. Especially the latter.

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APRIL 13, 2020

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Design You Trust

APRIL 13, 2020

Along with dogs, cats have been also close friends with humans since a long time. These vintage lovely pics will prove this. h/t: vintag. Source.

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Abduzeedo

APRIL 13, 2020

Quarantine Barcodes by RETOKA. abduzeedo Apr 13, 2020 During these quarantine days, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, RETOKA. took a breath and decided to make a series of posters inspired by the most common words and hashtags related to this problem. They have drawn the lines with barcodes of the words themselves. These codes have been generated following the standard Code-39 ASCII.

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APRIL 13, 2020

When the world stopped due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some artists did the opposite. They started to create to reflect more on the world’s current situation and record the impact of the sudden changes on our lives. One of those artists is Viktor Hertz from Uppsala, Sweden. More: Viktor Hertz, Instagram, Facebook, Behance h/t: boredpanda The artist decided to give a new humorous look to things that.

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Booooooom

APRIL 13, 2020

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Design You Trust

APRIL 13, 2020

The highly classified US Air Force facility in Nevada commonly known as Area 51 has long been a source of intrigue for conspiracy theorists, some of whom believe that the site is used for studying crashed alien spaceships. Private pilot Gabriel Zeifman took to the skies this past weekend and captured some rare aerial photos of Area 51. Zeifman has published a huge set of photos (including RAW.

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The Die Line

APRIL 13, 2020

The illustration on the Original Gin & Tonic can references a woodland hunt that was carved into an 8th century Pictish sarcophagus which was discovered during excavations of St Andrew’s Cathedral.

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