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Scotty Gillespie on unusual requests, ghostly ceramics and the joy of using humour in art

Creative Boom

© Scotty Gillespie. An illustrator based in South West England, Scotty Gillespie creates work that is bright and optimistic, celebrating inclusivity, playfulness and tenderness and spanning digital illustration, ceramics, animation, and design. It wasn't until a "second attempt" at finishing university in 2019 that Scotty's career began. During his final degree show, a local shop in Plymouth spotted his work and offered him the chance to showcase and sell his work on-site.

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Shedding The Old: The Houston Zoo Rebrand Explored

Canny

Can a leopard change its spots? They can if the leopard you’re referring to is the Houston Zoo who went through an extensive rebrand just last year. The Houston Zoo has been around for quite some time. Its goal is to inspire action to save wildlife, providing a home to over 6,000 permanent residents. Resources. The Rebranding Brief Template. The Rebranding Brief Template. download now. download now.

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Little Dead Rabbit: playful poetry book finds new ways to balance text and design

Creative Boom

Book-length poem Little Dead Rabbit is the latest collaboration between poet Astrid Alben and designer Zigmunds Lapsa. Created during the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, it tells the story of a little dead rabbit found on the verge of a road via an innovative combination of concrete poetry and abstract handmade die cuts. Described as partly an adult fairy tale, Little Dead Rabbit is as much a meditation on healing and joy as it is about death.

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All the Tools You Need to Achieve the Vintage Design Style

Spoon Graphics

The vintage look is more than just a design trend, it’s now a coveted style that’s used to produce stunning artwork for all kinds of projects from printed products through to digital web graphics. Mastering the crafts to painstakingly construct your creations using real life tools without the safety net of CTRL+Z can be extremely rewarding, but the time requirement just isn’t feasible for most design projects.

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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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Illustrations Transform Landscape Photos Into a Charming Cast of Characters

Brown Paper Bag

There are creatives who are inspired by the landscape and recreate it in their own artistic voice. Then there are others like Koketit , aka Shira Barzilay, who creatively incorporate the landscape into her art. Using photographs of the sky, land, and sea, she personifies Earth (both natural and manmade) with her character illustrations. She uses elements of the landscape as features.

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How to apply a tattoo effect in photoshop

Creative Nerds

This a short photoshop tutorial is the form of a screencast, which will guide you through how you can take illustrations and turn those into a tattoo and add it to some ones body part. This is a great technique to learn for when using Photoshop for editing photographs. Tutorial Details Program: Photoshop Time estimation: […]. The post How to apply a tattoo effect in photoshop first appeared on Creative Nerds.

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The 10 Sins of Mobile Device Addicts That Annoy Everyone

HONGKIAT

It’s hard to dispute the fact that smartphones and tablets have become an essential part of our increasingly connected daily lives. However, this doesn’t give any of us an excuse to let our mobile devices rule our lives and forget some basic aspects of decency and manners. Don’t get me wrong, smartphones and tablets are wonderful devices, but the way most of us use them willy nilly without regard for those around us is troubling.

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“The Swimming Pool” by Artist Fernando Bittar

Booooooom

Fernando Bittar. The Swimming Pool series is a personal project where I wanted to convey the sensation of being taken over by strong emotion. The pool served as a metaphor for being surrounded by water, coming up for air, and diving back down again. It’s also about the journey of exploring, going more profound, and finding new spaces that elicit a state of awe through their vastness combined with a feeling of warmth.

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Meet Tim Gagnon, Nasa’s go-to patch designer

Its Nice That

The illustrator and artist shares his incredible journey, from a childhood fascination with space to a career designing insignia for astronauts.

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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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Artist Creates Dreamy Phantom Clouds Descend From The Sky

Design You Trust

Barcelona-based artist and illustrator Vorja Sánchez creates dreamy Phantom Clouds Descend from the Sky. Vorja is fascinated by nature. He expresses all his love for it giving life to its elements, fauna, and flora through marvelous illustrations. In this series, each sprawling character is hand-drawn on top of a photograph. More: Vorja Sánchez , Instagram , Facebook h/t: 121clicks.

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How to Choose the Right Online Web Development Course

SpeckyBoy

The educational opportunities afforded to web designers are nearly endless. The chances to sharpen our skills and learn new technologies abound – and many don’t cost a thing. The evolution of tools such as WordPress has made publishing this content easier. Writing up a tutorial or sharing a code snippet is within everyone’s reach. In addition, the recent explosion of Learning Management Systems (LMS) means that just about anyone can create and sell online courses.

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tr4ns4ctions by Kim Asendorf

This is Paper

Tr4ns4ctions by Berlin-based conceptual artist Kim Asendorf is a series of real-time animations that use pixels to create an abstraction of the movement of values.

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Blooming bar charts: The growth of the data visualization industry

UX Collective

Exploring data visualization industry trends for 2022. Like a cultivated garden, the data visualization industry continues to blossom. According to Mordor Intelligence , data visualizations were valued at USD 2.99 billion in 2020 and are projected to reach USD 5.17 billion by 2026. Premium brands rely on data visualizations to make sense of the data they have for informed strategic development.

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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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Olimpia Zagnoli and Joshua Kissi on how to push your creativity further

Its Nice That

The Italian illustrator and the LA-based photographer and director are our two most recent guests on the It’s Nice That Podcast. Each of them has taken a leap out of their creative comfort zone in the past year, and here, they share some learnings from the process.

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Mr Doodle in Love: The famous artist invites you to a world of romance in his first solo show

Creative Boom

World-renowned artist Mr Doodle has made his solo exhibition debut at Shanghai K11. Titled Mr Doodle in Love, the unprecedented show celebrates the artist's romantic journey and features 108 completely new paintings. Running until 5 June 2022 at Shanghai K11 Art Museum, the solo exhibition curated by Dimitri Ozerkov includes works by Mr Doodle – AKA Sam Cox – amassed from 10 countries and across almost all continents.

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A Timeless Ode to Sisterhood Across the African Diaspora

Feature Shoot

“I was raised by black women,” the Haitian-American photographer Sheilby Macena tells me. “I was surrounded by proud black women growing up. I saw them cooking together, going to church, bringing food to one another, laughing and sharing. My mother had friends she knew since she was living in Haiti.” The artist thought of her family and their shared history decades later as she traveled the world and visited Dakar, Senegal, a year ago. “I felt spiritually and mystic

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Branding for Undo — vegan gastronomic community

Abduzeedo

Branding for Undo — vegan gastronomic community. abduzeedo 0323—22 ???Mohammed Ismail shared a branding project for Undo. Vegan companies always introduce veganism in a narrow way that makes us feel guilty about what we eat. People have many prejudices about vegans. That's why we positioned undo as a vegan gastronomic community that wants to break people's prejudice about veganism.

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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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How Modern Tools Are Reshaping Creative Workflows

Graphic Design USA

Alan Reuter of MCD Partners on three ways the creative workflow is making the design and development process more team-oriented and collaborative.

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How to Create a Travel Magazine Cover

Envato Tuts+

What You'll Be Creating. In the world today, people are constantly looking for a getaway. It doesn't matter if they've been places before or not. Creating a new experience is what it's all about. In this travel magazine front cover tutorial, I'll show you how to prep and format cover images in Adobe InDesign and how to create the best travel magazine cover layouts.

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Awista Montagne challenges you to decipher his labyrinthine typeface, inspired by an ancient Greek maze

Its Nice That

Favouring expression over legibility, the Paris-based type designer discusses some of his influences from mythological mazes to butterfly wings.

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Hem Launches a New Sub-Brand For Limited-Edition Eccentricities

Azure Magazine

Traditional thinking is that a product needs to sell in high volumes to be considered a real success. But for customers who desire hyper-unique spaces, there can be a fine line between a commercial hit and a design that feels overly ubiquitous. Now, the rising value placed on individuality is leading some shoppers to another segment of the industry: collectible design.

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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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Illustration Series: March’s Favorites

Mindsparkle Mag

Hyped by 2022 trends, we are back with our Illustration series. Today, we're excited to showcase a wide selection of projects that don't solely belong to the digital world. We're going bold! Our picks include haute-couture photography intervention, a cafe located in Buenos Aires, and more Here to you, Illustration Series: March's Favorites. On this occasion, we wanted to intentionally expose how illustration is present in small, ordinary things.

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A Melting Polar Bear and Surreal Wildlife Sculptures Burn in the Annual Falles Spectacle

Colossal

Photo © Carlos Segura. All images shared with permission. After a COVID-related hiatus, the annual Falles festival in Valencia, Spain, returned this year with an extravagant celebration full of flames and sparks. The five-day pyrotechnic event draws thousands of people into the streets each March to witness fireworks, explosions, and a variety of sculptures burn to the ground, and at the heart of this year’s production was a 23-foot polar bear by artist Antonio Segura, aka Dulk ( previousl

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Inside “the feminine and fluid” world of artist Yimiao Liu

Its Nice That

The illustrator and painter talks to us about her stunning craft, and “trusting sensitivity” to lead the way.

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In the blazing sun — Illustration

Abduzeedo

In the blazing sun — Illustration. abduzeedo 0323—22 We have featured Hello Kaczi on ABDZ in the past, however their illustration work and style is just beautiful. I am a fan of the themes chosen and how well they capture those moments. For this collection, titled “In the blazing sun” Hello Kaczi is able to translate the feeling of surfing and being on the beach in this incredible set of illustrations.

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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.