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Jump Jirakaweekul and Tom Elia of COLLINS on their rebrand for CNET, inspired by the 'golden age' of the printing press

Creative Boom

COLLINS is behind the brand refresh for CNET , heralding the vintage printing presses and an era when newspapers were king. The new logo and website design mark a new chapter for the tech media firm. We find out more about the work from COLLINS Design Director Jump Jirakaweekul and Creative Director Tom Elia. In looking to modernise its brand as part of a broader strategy to expand beyond tech, CNET appointed COLLINS in New York to develop a new visual identity, brand strategy and story.

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Complete Guide To Create and Promote A Photography Website

Graphic Design Junction

Having a well-developed, creative, engaging, and conversion-driving website is a must for any photographer to advertise their services online. But how to set up a photography website to get as many orders as possible? How to get started with a photographer promotion? While providing photography services is a highly competitive sphere, you have to use the whole mix of promotion methods to get the desired results.

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Geometric paintings of a window looking out onto New York City that follow the sun's path

Creative Boom

Windows Installation © Denise Kupferschmidt. Courtesy of Halsey McKay Gallery. What is it about a window that inspires artists so much? From Michelangelo and Johannes Vermeer to Frida Kahlo and Vincent van Gogh, the window allows them to play with light, show perspective or add a little mystery. For Denise Kupferschmidt , windows mark the passage of time whilst offering a comforting anchor for us all.

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Online Course: Adobe Illustrator for Fashion Design

We And The Color

Learn Adobe Illustrator from scratch to enhance your creative process and develop your unique fashion designs in a technical and creative way. This is an online course by fashion and textile designer Camila Aguirre Moura. Consisting of 5 main lessons, Mila will teach you how to use Adobe Illustrator from scratch. She also explains some basic clothing design concepts.

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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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Wolff Olins' refreshed global identity for GSK marks a new chapter for innovation

Creative Boom

Wolff Olins is behind the brand overhaul of GSK, a British multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in London. The fresh look has been unveiled today to symbolise how, through science, technology and talent, we can all work together to get ahead of diseases. Taking on board the organisation's new purpose and ambition, the work by Wolff Olins follows GSK 's proposed demerger this year, which will see it become a company fully focused on biopharma innovation.

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How to Download Instagram Reels (5 Ways)

HONGKIAT

Instagram is an incredibly popular photo-sharing app where users can upload and share their pictures with friends and family members. However, in recent years, Instagram has also begun to allow its users to create videos and short clips that they can share on the app too. These videos and images are often called Instagram Reels since they are usually presented as a series of photos or videos placed together in one video or image file.

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CENTER’s 2022 Award-Winners Explore Depression, Family Ties, Climate Action, & More

Feature Shoot

Paint it Blue © Heather Evans Smith. Tooley cuts open a red-fleshed apple. These apples become “beet-red” when fully ripe and were traditionally used to color sauces. © Esha Chiocchio. Indifferent Landscape, Charleston, South Carolina, 2021 © Maximilian Thuemler. For the first time in 124 years, a statue in Charleston, South Carolina comes down, as part of an overdue reckoning with our nation’s legacy of racial injustice.

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Anna Haifisch’s illustrations offer up a warped version of cute

Creative Review

Anna Haifisch has a beautifully singular, surreal way of discussing and sending up artists, art, and the ‘art world’ Strange, animal-heavy, and sometimes tear-jerkingly pathos-laden, her work has long explored the nuances, trials and tribulations of what it means to create. Haifisch’s book The Artist was published in 2016, having previously been serialised in comic form on Vice.

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The Better Together Collection Creates Beautiful, Sustainable Learning Spaces

Design Milk

The story begins with a Canadian brand – Natural Pod – a company that believes in creating beautifully designed, durable, sustainable products for students and educators to use in learning spaces. Natural Pod’s new Better Together partnership collection has led them to partner with other Canadian brands, ChopValue , Halfmoon , and Unbuilders , who all share the values mentioned above with the hope of creating an impact.

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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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How to Track User Behaviour in Your Mobile App

Inkbot Design

How to Track User Behaviour in Your Mobile App. Like any new phenomenon, the early investigations are the simplest, maybe due to a lack of data. The mobile app development company conducted a study to understand and anticipate user behaviour at the app's start, trend-focused mainly on the number of downloads. Although all owners of a mobile business application aspire to design and launch a successful app, most of them end up lost in a sea of competing apps in which all businesses compete to be

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10 Modern Must-Haves for Planning the Perfect Picnic

Design Milk

Picnics are one of the summer season’s simplest pleasures. And whether it’s happening at an outdoor festival, at the beach, or at your neighborhood park, planning the perfect picnic requires only some light preparation and shouldn’t be over-complicated by a lengthy packing list. After all, it’s the easy, breezy energy of a picnic that makes them special.

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In Memory of Colin Forbes, Celebrated Co-Founder of Pentagram

Eye on Design

Colin Forbes, who passed away just a little more than a week ago , was a key part of the design community, the AIGA, Pentagram, and my life. He was a founding member of Pentagram and the architect of a unique approach to design. Among many of his leadership roles and accolades, Colin served as AIGA’s president for several years in the 1980s and received the AIGA Medal for his lasting impact on design and its culture.

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A Colorful + Dreamy, Space-Age Inspired Apartment in Ho Chi Minh City

Design Milk

Designed for a couple working in the art world, this dreamy and colorful apartment has surprises around every corner. Red5studio designed the Dreamscape Apartment in Ho Chi Minh City to continuously provide inspiration the way their creative jobs do. in lieu of straight lines and hard angles, the apartment showcases curves from every vantage point. While the surfaces are white, the furnishings are anything but.

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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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Premium Members: 12 Sunbursts photoshop brush set

Creative Nerds

This resources is exclusive to our premium members. This is a collection of 11 unique sunbursts photoshop brushes to choose from to use in your design projects. Each brush is 4000px by 4000px to give your wide flexibility to be used in a wide range different digital and print projects. Preview Download (Premium members). The post Premium Members: 12 Sunbursts photoshop brush set first appeared on Creative Nerds.

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Third Nature by Hagit Pincovici x Kelly Wearstler

Design Milk

Third Nature is a new collection of furniture, sculptures, and objets d’art created by Milan-based designer Hagit Pincovici for world-renowned interior designer Kelly Wearstler. Born from Pincovici’s innate desire to reconnect with nature during the pandemic, the collection features foraged specimens, ranging from date palms to desert plants, that were then cast into bronze at Hagit’s studio in Milan.

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An Exhibition Unearths Rare Production Drawings from the Futuristic Neo Tokyo of the Anime Classic ‘Akira’

Colossal

Akira, cut #1, Final production background detail, Toshiharu Mizutani, poster color on paper, 93 x 53 centimeters. All photos from AKIRA (Movie), based on the graphic novel AKIRA by Katsuhiro Otomo. First published by Young Magazine, Kodansha Ltd. © MASH • ROOM / AKIRA COMMITTEE, shared with permission. Katsuhiro Otomo ’s 1988 sci-fi classic Akira has had an unparalleled influence on anime and film, and an exhibition at the Tchoban Foundation in Berlin showcases the original drawings that brough

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How the Global Business Mobility Visa Can Benefit Web Designers Coming to the UK

Noupe

Since the UK left the European Union (EU) on the 31st of January 2020, there have been a number of changes. Most notably, the rights and routes for international workers seeking to live and work in the UK. After a period of uncertainty for overseas workers, the introduction of the Global Business Mobility Visa in Spring 2022 is set to offer opportunities to a number of professionals, including website designers.

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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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10 Tips to Make a Secure WordPress Website

Inkbot Design

10 Tips to Make a Secure WordPress Website. Creating a website is a daunting task requiring concentration and focusing on making it stand out from the rest. At some point, you may realise that the site plays a fundamental role in the well-being of your livelihood. Remember that the goal is to generate those massive dollars from the site to pay bills back home.

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The best branding books: 8 books for brand inspiration

Creative Bloq

Get brand-savvy with the best branding books for inspiration.

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Photographer Spotlight: Stewart Lawrence

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Artist Transforms Old Paintbrushes Into Stunning Portraits

Design You Trust

San Francisco-based artist Rebecca Szeto transforms old paintbrushes into stunning portraits. She carves the ends of her used paintbrushes into refined painted renaissance ladies, and the colorful used brush hairs become the sweeping elegant fibers of their gowns. “These works play with notions of re-forming beauty and value,” writes Szeto in her artist’s statement.

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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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The 10 Best Free Graphic Design Websites for Students

Pixel 77

5 mins read If you’re searching for the best free graphic design websites, this guide is for you. As you probably know, best design resources are crucial in becoming a skilled graphic designer.

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Artist Creates Figurative Paintings With Peeling And Cracking Effects

Design You Trust

Artist James Bullough creates figurative paintings with peeling and cracking effects. James Bullough is an American born artist living and working in Berlin, Germany. More: James Bullough , Instagram , Facebook h/t: 121clicks. His paintings, and huge monumentally scaled site-specific murals combine delicately handled realistic portraiture with harsh graphic distortion and abstraction.

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GSK’s rebrand is inspired by the human immune system

Design Week

Pharmaceutical company GSK has revealed a rebrand, as it refocuses its efforts in the area of “biopharma innovation” London-based consultancy Wolff Olins is behind the new look, which includes an updated logo, bespoke typeface, and motion assets. [link] The rebrand follows GSK’s announcement.

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Design Market Barcelona

Design Everywhere

Design Market Barcelona.

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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.