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Erik Mark Sandberg's furry creations are devised from 'long, unhealthy painting marathons'

Creative Boom

Girls With Hot Summer Fashion © Erik Mark Sandberg. Some might think it's ghastly, but others – probably most – might believe that using hair as an artistic subject matter is a stroke of utter genius. Tactile and textural, Erik Mark Sandberg 's portraits of people have this unbelievable aesthetic that makes you want to reach out and touch them. "There is a comfort that the hirsutism and fur textures communicate," he tells us.

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Narrative Photography Online Course

We And The Color

With this online course by Dara Scully, you will learn the resources to tell a story through photography. Dara Scully is a renowned photographer and writer specializing in narrative photography. In this online course, she will show you how to create a photo series in which the photographs have the power to tell a certain story. She will tell you about her professional working methods, ranging from the initial idea to the final development of the photoshoot as well as the image editing and retouc

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25 Photorealistic Packaging Product Mockups

Graphic Design Junction

Highest quality packaging product mockups to present your work in a realistic and professional style. These mockups can make your design presentation stand out from other mockups and give it truly photorealistic look. Photoshop mockup templates can save your time and make your brand product look amazing with eye-catching effects. In this article we are gathered most useful mockup templates, which are very easy to use with smart objects , simply double-click the Smart Layer, copy & paste

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How to Ensure that the Grumpy Designer Never Buys Your Product

SpeckyBoy

When it comes to products and services geared towards web designers, the “hustle” is unique. The classic methods of marketing in-person or on a printed page aren’t as relevant. That means the real legwork has to be done online. It’s a monumental challenge. The chaotic noise of social media , the bidding wars of advertising networks.

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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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Artist Creates Handmade Illustrations Using Only Strips Of Paper

Design You Trust

Artist Yulia Brodskaya creates stunning 3D handmade illustrations using only colorful strips of paper and glue. Yulia Brodskaya is a highly regarded paper artist and illustrator. She uses two simple materials-paper and glue, and a simple technique that involves the placement of carefully cut and bent strips of paper – to make lush, vibrant three-dimensional paper artworks.

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ROOK/NYC creates a wildly-unique design for ‘Bubbly Superdrink’ Shrubbly 

Abduzeedo

ROOK/NYC creates a wildly-unique design for ‘Bubbly Superdrink’ Shrubbly . abduzeedo 0522—22 Shrubbly , founded by Matt Sayre in early 2020, was established on the basis of turning old-fashioned Shrubs into a modern functional beverage. The process of creating ‘Shrubs’ preserves often overlooked fruits and berries with herbs, spices, and vinegar. Shrubbly combines the crisp, refreshing flavor of Shrubs with a lightly carbonated water, and in turn, creates a natural, benefit-driven beverage optio

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2.7 Million views on Unsplash download our free photos

Creative Nerds

Unpslash is a library of free high-resolution photographs contributed by thousands of photographers. We have our very own Creative Nerds Unpslash profile, and are very proud to announce we have reached a major milestone of over 2.7+ million views combined. We have put together this short post to showcase a cherry picked collection of just […].

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The Superb Modern Graphic Design by Kushagra Gupta

Design You Trust

Kushagra Gupta is a graphic designer and visual artist, living in India, who loves nature and that’s always a starting (and ending) point for a lot of his artworks. More: Instagram h/t: thisispaper. His subject matter tends to be derived from the more abstract – the weird and uncanny – as he draws elements inspired by nature, mythology and fantastical art.

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The Gatherers Identity

Mindsparkle Mag

This week like every week, we’ve selected the best ten projects featuring the embossing technique. If you haven’t checked our Top 10: Branding & Embossing , do it right away! One of the works featured in our weekly inspiration entry really caught our attention, and we’ve decided to create an exclusive post for it! Meet: The Gatherers, a New Zealand-based floral studio, specializes in arrangements that embrace and celebrate the natural environment. .

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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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Fashion Photography and Digital Experiences of Shavonne Wong

Design You Trust

Shavonne Wong is a 3D Virtual Model Creator and NFT Artist. Building on her experiences as a Fashion and Advertising Photographer for the past decade, she creates life-like virtual models and places them in surreal environments and the metaverse. Shavonne was named Forbes 30U30 Asia in 2020. More: Shavonne Wong , Instagram. View this post on Instagram.

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Winter Malvern

Mindsparkle Mag

One of the things we’ll be missing about winter is the comforting feeling of sipping a warm coffee on a cold, snowy morning. However, here’s Pop & Pac Studio ‘s visual identity for Winter Malvern cafe, which will take you back to that special moment. Let’s consider that this Australian studio is about to enter winter anytime soon, so let’s share some of our colds with them.

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Unbalanced, Wobbling, Newborn: Cool Conceptual Illustrations of Sam Spratt

Design You Trust

Sam is an NYC based artist working out of his studio in Manhattan. He has spent the last decade learning to use digital mediums to paint in a traditional manner. The art has found homes in games, films, music, books, comics. More: Sam Spratt , Instagram , SuperRare. Source.

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Design Everywhere

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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 to evaluate product ideas?—?a systematic approach

UX Collective

A structured guide to evaluating product/feature ideas, meant for product managers and product owners ready to up their game. Continue reading on UX Collective ».

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Forgotten yet remained

Design Everywhere

Forgotten yet remained.

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House in Okusawa by Schemata Architects

This is Paper

Japanese architects Schemata have completed the renovation of a house in Tokyo by covering parts of the exterior and revealing elements of the interior.

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UI & UX micro-tips: Volume fifteen

UX Collective

A collection of handy tips to help improve your designs instantly Continue reading on UX Collective ».

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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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Fancy an optical illusion with your flat white?

Creative Bloq

This cafe accidentally served up an optical illusion that's puzzled people for decades.

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Outerspace

Typewolf

Fonts: Cigars , Roobert

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Download files for 3D World 287

Creative Bloq

Here you'll find all the files, resources and videos to accompany issue 287 of 3D World magazine.

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A Trail Tale

Communication Arts

Andy Moliski’s site invites visitors to experience the Appalachian Trail with him through representative pixel art that changes as he hikes.

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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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An overview of web accessibility and good semantics

UX Collective

Today, May 19, 2022, is the 11th Global Accessibility Awareness Day. This article is a tiny contribution and an attempt at educating myself further on the matters of accessibility. Icon of a pointer with a blue emphasis on the index finger. According to the 2011 World Report on Disability , at least one billion people out there live in a world that was designed for somebody else.

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Random but very considered, each issue of Sociotype Journal is designed themed on a single type family

Creative Boom

It's always interesting to hear of the different branches that grow out of a studio's practice. For Socio , on one branch, it's a brand design agency that's been running for 18 years. On another, it's a fairly recently launched design-led type foundry named Sociotype , now in its second issue. Led by a small team, the studio decided to launch its own journal as both a way of sharing interesting ideas as well as a type specimen in itself – a means of showing the type the studio has been designing

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The future of work is fun?—?here are 10 hybrid energizers to start

UX Collective

The future of work is fun?—?here are 10 hybrid energizers to start Have we as designers lost the joy and love of senseless doodling or going on idea road trips? When was the last time we just had fun at work? (source: reddit ) Kevin Bethune, former VP of Strategic Design in BCGDV, declared that we need more folks in multidisciplinary teams to be creative in his latest book, Reimagining Design.

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