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10 Vital Elements of Art That Make a Good Design

Graphic Design Junction

Creating a good print design can be quite a challenge. Even if you’re an experienced web designer who creates all kinds of responsive design and is familiar with all CSS tricks, working on a print project might be quite difficult because print production and web design require you to use different skills and pay attention to different aspects of work.

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The Ultimate Guide for Flyer Size and Design

Noupe

Although it may sound obsolete, a flyer is still one of the most effective and inexpensive ways to promote a business. They are also very easy to distribute. So, if you want your flyers to be impactful, you have to make sure you choose the right size, the right font, colors, and message. Depending on your needs, these parameters will change. Let’s see together how you can create the ultimate flyer by choosing the right size and design.

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3 Creatively Designed Forums and Bulletin Boards

SpyreStudios

The process of designing a website can be long and arduous. Typical static content websites are more of the bread-and-butter layouts we see every day. However, there are plenty of more detailed examples involving message boards, forums, and other social communities. In this gallery, I’ve put together 35 screenshots of well-crafted bulletin boards for designers.

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Personal Illustrations by Katherine Lam

We And The Color

Selected personal illustrations created by New York City-based illustrator, Katherine Lam. Katherine Lam is an illustrator based in New York City. Her artworks are often inspired by emotions as well as random or certain moments of daily life. In her illustrations, Katherine Lam masterfully crosses the boundaries between reality and fantasy. Created during the past years, below you can find a small selection of personal illustrations by Katherine Lam.

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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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New self-portrait exhibition focuses on Black women photographers

Creative Review

A new group show at north London arts space Home features original works by 13 photographers who have placed themselves in front of the lens. Held in partnership with WePresent, the exhibition, titled The Self Portrait, features myriad interpretations of the theme, which seek to illuminate the nuances and experiences of Black women photographers, but also stretch the notion of photography and self-portraiture.

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11 Reasons Why Graphic Designers Love Teaching at Shillington

Shillington

Teachers are the ones who inspire, encourage and bring out the best in ourselves even when confidence is low. At Shillington, our teachers do all that and more. All practising graphic designers — they bring with them diverse and rich industry experience to shape the creatives of the future. Design education has never been more relevant, and the brilliant minds we have on board at Shillington love to share their knowledge.

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Duke Charming Font by Letterhend Studio

We And The Color

Duke Charming, a bold serif typeface created by Letterhend Studio. Carefully designed by the team of Letterhend Studio, Duke Charming is a bold serif font that combines modern typography with the charming appearance of vintage lettering. The font comes with plenty of stylistic alternates and ligatures to give your typographic work a unique look and feel.

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How to Create a Portfolio Website to Promote Your Business

Vandelay Design

A portfolio website is an essential tool for creative professionals like web designers, graphic designers, developers, and marketing specialists. Whether you’re a freelancer or running an agency, having an effective portfolio website is the best possible advertisement for your business. Most potential clients will judge creative professionals based on the quality of their portfolio site […].

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DesignStudio rebrands Mind with focus on social change

Design Week

DesignStudio has refreshed the branding for UK mental health charity Mind, in a bid to reveal the organisation’s “fighting spirit and authentic personality” as it looks to push for social change and become a source of inspiration. Established in 1946, Mind is among the oldest charities of its kind in the UK. The aim of the organisation is to provide advice and support to anyone experiencing a mental health problem.

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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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Feast Your Eyes On Paperizza's Illustrated Pizza Boxes

The Die Line

Paperizza is taking that magic one step further by working with Nômada Studio to design the most whimsical pizza boxes I've ever feasted my eyes on.

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How I Work: Andrea Love

Creative Review

We dive into the world of stop-motion animator Andrea Love, who explains her love of wool, what being self-taught brings to her work and the joy of making "inanimate objects move and come to life". The post How I Work: Andrea Love appeared first on Creative Review.

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Natural Light Illuminates Flowers in Full Bloom in Otherworldly Photographs by Xuebing Du

Colossal

All images © Xuebing Du, shared with permission. Xuebing Du finds the balance between light and shadow in her photographs that cast flowers and plants in a dreamy, refined manner. Currently based in Sunnyvale, California, Du scouts the botanical subject matter as the forms reach peak bloom, using only the natural glow from the sun to capture their vivid color.

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Youtube Marketing: 50 of the best Youtube Marketing Campaigns EVER!

Design Wizard

Everyone has done it: Gone down Youtube rabbit holes! You log on to watch one video, then six hours later it’s 3 AM and you’re watching Irish Gypsys duke it out with their cousins, as narrated by Joe Rogan in conversation with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, right before Neil moves on to explaining why there aren’t any flying cars yet. You don’t know how you got there, but you don’t know how to get away from there.

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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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SVA’s Summer 2021 Continuing Education Courses Begin June 7

Colossal

Artwork by Lisa DiPetto, SVACE student. Courses begin June 7 at the Division of Continuing Education at the School of Visual Arts. Whether it’s to advance your career or try something new, SVACE offers more than 170 online courses to choose from. Visit sva.edu/ce to view all course offerings. Online courses are available in: Advertising. Animation. Art & Activism.

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“Retric Dreams”: The Superb Synthwave Inspired Artworks in Dark Neon by Maximilian Auer

Design You Trust

According to Maximilian, a digital artist based in Ludwigsburg, Germany: “This is my personal exploration in digital art. Heavily inspired by synthwwave & music in general, I aim to capture fleeting, somewhat dreamlike, nighttime moments, which could be just around the corner but still feel miles away. Transporting emotions of nostalgia and longing for something distant and yet close, like a memory that comes back up to your mind, is at the core of what I try to achieve with every new

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It’s Never Been Easier To Start a Brand, but Is That a Good Thing?

Eye on Design

Like many people, Caroline Reid experienced a sudden and unwelcome drop in business when the pandemic hit the U.S. last spring. An Australian comedian based in Miami, Reid went from giving live performances to figuring out online shows, some of which, she says, “were absolutely awful and horrendous.” The shutdown of global travel didn’t mix well with the content of Reid’s comedy, either: she performs in character as the larger-than-life “Pam Ann,” a flight attendant with a penchant for dramatic

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Photographer Spotlight: Guilherme da Silva

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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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Nimble Pugs and Other Cheery Canines Are Chiseled into Stocky Wooden Sculptures by Misato Sano

Colossal

All images © Misato Sano, shared with permission. Studies show that people are inclined to adopt canine companions that resemble themselves or family members, a psychological impulse that Misato Sano ( previously ) flips on its head. Rather than carve a pack of doggy doubles, the artist creates textured wooden sculptures of curly-haired poodles and acrobatic pugs imbued with different aspects of her own personality.

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Sweet Minimalist Designs by Celeste Prevost | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials #illustration #design #icons

Designspiration

Sweet Minimalist Designs by Celeste Prevost | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials #illustration #design #icons

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Printmaking Challenge V7 - Graphic Design Inspiration

Abduzeedo

Printmaking Challenge V7 - Graphic Design Inspiration. abduzeedo 05.17.21 We have featured the super inspiring print challenges that Jerry-Lee Bosmans shares on his Behance profile. However, Jerry keeps delivering and it’s hard not to post about. For this collection I was quite amazed by some compositions using simple forms like rectangles. They reminded me of some tutorials I wrote literally a decade ago.

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Photographer Spotlight: Nina Röder

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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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Design Bridge crafts “hedonistic” identity for new rosé brand The Pale

Design Week

Design Bridge has unveiled the identity and bespoke bottle design for rosé wine The Pale, which aims to put a twist on the competitive sector. The Pale is the latest range from Sacha Lichine, the winemaker behind the popular brand Whispering Angel. The studio has worked with Lichine on previous collections from his Château d’Esclans portfolio.

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Google UX course, women in UX, the software architect fallacy

UX Collective

Weekly curated resources for designers?—?thinkers and makers. “Because it’s Google, they aren’t teaching you UX, they are teaching Google UX. In a way, it’s their way of training their next generation of future employees. Not mentioning iOS design patterns in the course at all can be misleading, because people may assume all apps for all platforms are designed exactly the same?

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3D art: 34 incredible examples to inspire you

Creative Bloq

Visit another dimension with this stunning 3D art.

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No laughing matter: How sketch comedy can enlighten designers

UX Collective

Originally submitted as an academic paper for the winter graduate seminar in design at the University of Washington A few weeks ago, I went down the rabbit-hole of watching old Saturday Night Live videos. I came across this hilarious digital short about an Amazon Echo that could cater towards the nonsensical requests of the senior population. After I wiped the tears from my eyes and stopped chuckling, it hit me: the writers and actors in this sketch could actually be proficient designers.

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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.