Fri.Jun 12, 2020

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Pantone Colour Swatch Mockups for Premium Members

Spoon Graphics

Access All Areas members have a really unique collection of Photoshop mockup templates to download this week, courtesy of New Tropical Design Studio. These Pantone Colour Swatch Mockups help you quickly and easily create trendy photographs, style guides, and cool social media content. Choose from 5 templates to create endless layouts that incorporate colour schemes in the style of Pantone swatch books.

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How to Find Design Clients During a Lockdown

Creative Market

One of the biggest concerns for designers is how to find clients during this time of worldwide lockdowns. With many businesses still shut, regular customers disappearing, and no short-term end to this uncertainty, what are designers supposed to do? Though this pandemic and lockdown are unprecedented challenges for graphic designers, it’s still possible to find good clients during this hardship.

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Josh Durham on Designing Throat by Ellen Van Neerven

Spine Magazine

Josh Durham is a multi award-winning designer who worked in the magazine industry before setting up his company Design by Committee in sunny Australia. Here he talks us through his process for creating the vibrant cover for Throat. The author Ellen Van Neerven describes their poetry collection Throat as ‘a fierce cry: a collection of poems about whiteness, climate change, extinctions; about types of shame lodged squarely in the throat; about culpability and protection.

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Web Fonts are Critical to the Online User Experience - Don’t Hurt Your Reader’s Eyes

Interaction Design Foundation

Bill Gates said; “Content is King” and when it comes to the online user experience it is the 100% truth. Delivering a great user experience doesn’t just mean delivering great content – it also means providing that content in a usable and useful format that encourages reading and interaction rather than clicking out of the site because it’s unreadable.

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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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Reviewed: Friday Likes 332: From Peck Design Associates, Positivity Branding, and Olssøn Barbieri

Under Consideration / Brand

“From Peck Design Associates, Positivity Branding, and Olssøn Barbieri”. No connecting thread or common approach this week, with work from Nashville, Amsterdam, and Oslo. Rare Bird by Peck Design Associates. Rare Bird is a rooftop bar in the Noelle hotel in Nashville, TN, serving draft cocktails and "uncaged spirits". The identity, designed by local firm, Peck Design Associates , features what they call "ornithic typography" -- ornithic means related to birds -- which I didn't realize was a poss

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Noted: New Logo and Identity for Population Foundation of India by Lopez Design

Under Consideration / Brand

“One Step Ahead”. (Est. 1970) " Population Foundation of India (PFI) is a national NGO, which promotes and advocates for the effective formulation and implementation of gender sensitive population, health and development strategies and policies. The organisation was founded in 1970 by a group of socially committed industrialists under the leadership of the late JRD Tata and Dr Bharat Ram.

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London Design Festival 2020 to go ahead with extended deadlines

Design Week

2020’s London Design Festival will go ahead, its co-founders say, though in a revised format. The global COVID-19 pandemic has put many live events and festivals on hold, including many design mainstays such as Milan’s Salone del Mobile. Last month, the London Design Biennale was also cancelled. However, John Sorrell and Ben Evans say that LDF will go ahead.

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30 Hand-Cranked Machines Comprise Amusing Series of Miniatures by Artist Federico Tobon

Colossal

Similar to Lalese Stamps’s personal challenge to create 100 ceramic mug handles , a Los Angeles-based artist has crafted an amusing series of hand-cranked automatons in just 30 days. Federico Tobon, of wolfCat Workshop , used popsicle sticks, metal clips, paper, and scrap material for One Month of Small Machines , a four-week-long project that generated different, moveable figures and animals each day. “The A-HA moment from these projects was when I discovered that using paper gives

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Artists design charity masks to support homeless people

Creative Review

Socially engaged art organisation Migrate Art is leading a charity project with the help of 11 visual artists and illustrators, who have contributed designs to a new series of reversible, re-usable masks. The masks are being sold to raise money for Refugee Community Kitchen, which has been feeding displaced people in the UK, France and Belgium since its inception in 2015.

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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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A Model Morphs into a Rotund Tomato, Peeled Banana, and a Hoagie in a Bizarre Photographic Series

Colossal

All images © Annie Collinge, with styling and art direction by Rottingdean Bazaar, shared with permission. A new photo series, titled Table For One , takes the proverbial saying that “you are what you eat” literally as it transforms model Tin Gao by sandwiching her between layers of cheese, lunchmeat, shredded lettuce, and sliced tomato in a bulging hoagie.

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Illustrator Lauren Martin hopes her work “makes people laugh or smile”

Its Nice That

Dinner parties, comical characters and tasty spreads take centre stage in the New York-based illustrator’s colourful scenes.

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Scottish Photographer Alan McFadyen Digs Pool In Forest For ‘Mirrored’ Wildlife Photos

Design You Trust

Scottish photographer Alan McFadyen recently spent a great deal of effort digging a pool in a forest. He then used the water’s surface to capture perfectly symmetrical reflection photos of wildlife. The 50-year-old photographer took advantage of dry days in May and June to dig a large hole in a wooded area of Dumfries, Scotland. He then spent three days filling the hole with 200 buckets of water.

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Designer Aurane Loury breaks down “frontiers between different creative mediums”

Its Nice That

The French graphic designer is interested in myriad creative pursuits, including performance, theatre, and objects.

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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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How I Work: Director of Photography Newton Thomas Sigel

Creative Review

Newton Thomas Sigel has created striking aesthetics for a dizzying array of films, from cult action flick Drive to Spike Lee’s new Vietnam War joint Da 5 Bloods. He tells CR what drives him to work across so many genres, and the importance of the DP-director relationship. The post How I Work: Director of Photography Newton Thomas Sigel appeared first on Creative Review.

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Subtle, textured and revealing, Lawrence Agyei sees photography as a mechanism to tell the truth

Its Nice That

The Ghanian photographer, based in Chicago, feels most alive when making photographs. Here, he tells us about the ethos behind his practice.

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Extinction Rebellion’s new film paints a hopeful picture of a “gigantic change”

Creative Review

As we start to plan how to rebuild our world post-coronavirus, Extinction Rebellion has been asking us to reassess what we want that world to look like in a series of campaign films. Following on from recent short How Normal was Normal? , the organisation’s latest project comes in the form of beautiful new animation, The Gigantic Change. XR approached Passion Pictures – the production company behind Iceland’s memorable orangutan Christmas ad – early on in the process to h

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Delali Ayivi’s photography strives to address “uncomfortable truths” and the lack of diversity in the media

Its Nice That

Born to a German mother and Togolese father, the London-based photographer uses her medium to present a different narrative to a world that’s dominated by Western ideals.

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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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“Bestiary 5+”: Virtual Museum Of Children’s Fine Arts

Design You Trust

In 2017, the “Bestiary 5+” community page was created in VKontakte, the Russian social network. It’s dedicated to children’s work of art. An art teacher’s virtual museum consists of photos of ceramics, drawings, mysterious animals and surreal portraits. Among other creatures and subjects, there are visualizations of abstract concepts. An art teacher, Andrei Petrov, created the page.

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Empathy Map – Why and How to Use It

Interaction Design Foundation

Did you know that users are more likely to choose, buy and use products that meet their needs as opposed to products that just meet their wants? An Empathy map will help you understand your user’s needs while you develop a deeper understanding of the persons you are designing for. There are many techniques you can use to develop this kind of empathy.

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Boy Smells Illuminates Inclusivity By Releasing Non-Binary Candle Collection For Pride

The Die Line

Boy Smells' Pride candles, launched in commemoration of Pride month, include scents that unabashedly combine earthy scents with floral aromas, combinations as nuanced as the cultural understanding of gender.

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Design Patterns for Fluid Navigation – How to Use Inline Linking

Interaction Design Foundation

When you’re designing a website for an online newspaper, your users will probably want to read some background information relating to a new government policy, a new whistle-blower, or any other word or phrase they don’t have all of the information on yet. When you’re designing something completely different, such as a complex online tax return form, users will probably need additional explanations of terms and regulations.

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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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Freedom in isolation by Casper Faassen

Trendland

Words Claire Granlund. While the whole world has been in isolation during this global pandemic, we all got to share a universal feeling of constrain. Especially now the regulations are getting a bit more relaxed in most countries it is good to keep reminding us of these trying times.

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Artist Spotlight: Em Jiang

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Em Jiang. Em Jiang’s Website. Em Jiang on Instagram.

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Bisa Butler Create Stunning Artworks with Textile

Trendland

Words TL Team. These absolutely stunning textile portraits are from New Jersey based artist Bisa Butler.

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How to Add a Speech Bubble to Your Photo?

Fotor

Looking to add a speech bubble to a photo? Or maybe cre […].

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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.