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Learn Some New Skills for 2020 with 40% off Skillshare Premium

Spoon Graphics

The start of a new year is the ideal time to set new goals, improve yourself and become more prosperous! With 40% off Skillshare membership throughout January, and 2 months FREE, this is the perfect opportunity to learn new skills or expand your existing talents with 1000s of online classes. Have you ever wanted to get better at drawing, design or photography?

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Combining Vibrant Shapes and Simple Lines, Illustrator Willian Santiago Evokes Scenes of Brazil

Colossal

All images © Willian Santiago. With an affinity for bold colors, Willian Santiago documents what he sees around Londrina, the city in southern Brazil where he lives. He utilizes bright blues, greens, and reds to create his illustrations of wild animals and posed female figures that often resemble the geometric shapes and lines of woodblock prints frequently seen in Brazilian art.

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Announcing the Winners of The Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards!

Feature Shoot

‘Fading Flamingos’ © Maximilian Mann. We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2019 Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards. Now in its fifth year, our international competition drew hundreds of outstanding submissions, and in the end, our judges selected thirty-one photographers to be part of our upcoming group show at Aperture Gallery in Chelsea, New York on January 23, 2020 from 6-8PM.

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“The Magician and The Thief” by Artist Kenichi Hoshine

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On January 9, Hollis Taggart will open Kenichi Hoshine: The Magician and The Thief, a solo exhibition of the New York-based artist’s work. Inspired by a wide range of subjects—from film and television, to theatrical sets, to found imagery—Hoshine’s painting practice is grounded in the experiences of his daily life. Expressed in abstract forms and gestures, however, these everyday references are imbued with newfound emotion and narrative quality.

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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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How to Make a Responsive Mockup for the iPhone Without Photoshop

Tuts Plus

What You'll Be Creating If you've created an app that works on different devices, it's good to let your potential users know about it by showing the app on a responsive mockup. You can do it easily with the online responsive mockup generator at Placeit. Follow along with us over on our Envato Tuts+ YouTube channel : How to Make a Responsive Mockup for the iPhone Without Photoshop Step 1 Go to Placeit.net.

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HTML forms: Learn how to create them like a pro

Noupe

One of the main drivers of business success is good customer relations. Companies must listen to their customers and take appropriate action. Many online businesses collect feedback from their customers through online forms. You can see these forms on the contact page of almost every website. They ask for the following basic information: Name Email Message.

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“Eternal” by Illustrator Evan M. Cohen

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Evan M. Cohen (previously featured here ). Evan M. Cohen’s Website. Evan M. Cohen on Instagram.

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The Art of Street Photography Through the Lens of Magnum Photos

Feature Shoot

USA. Daytona Beach, Florida. 1997. © Constantine Manos/Magnum Photos. USA. New York City. 1987. 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue. © Bruce Gilden / Magnum Photos. The street is common ground for the society writ large, perhaps the most free and open space in the world. It offers both a world of anonymity and community, for exhibitionism and voyeurism, engagement with or separation from the teeming masses.

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Free Hand Drawn Hearts: Vector Clipart Selection for Romantic Projects

Graphic Mama

A selection of free hand drawn hearts perfect for all your romantic projects. In this post, you will find free colored hand drawn hearts, free hand drawn hearts patterns, and free black-and-white hand drawn hearts. These free hand drawn vector hearts are suitable for Valentine’s day posters, cards, banners, as well as for romantic and girly projects all year round.

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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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Real Estate Investor Business Cards

Noupe

Do you consider yourself a big Chip and Jo Gaines fan? Do you always find yourself watching Fixer Upper and thinking “I can do this too!”? If you have some money lying around, real estate investing might just be a great way to get that money to use. Networking plays an important role to build up that initial circle of real estate people to get things going.

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Weekly News for Designers ? 521

Speckyboy Design Magazine

2020 Copyright – It’s time to update the copyright year on your site! Flash Grid – A new lightweight (1KB minified and gzipped) grid system based on CSS Grid Layout. Browser 2020 – A non-exhaustive list of those lesser-known features that have been implemented in today’s browsers. massCode – A new, free and open source code snippets manager for developers.

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Experiments with 'Paper' by atelier MARTINI _

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Experiments with 'Paper' by atelier MARTINI _. AoiroStudio Jan 03, 2020 As the beginning of the year settling its sails, I think it's important to set off some goals and TRY your hardest to accomplish them. I think it's the hardest part! In my case, I always wanted to do more CGI/3D related works to be specific. I tried many times but it's not a 'demand' per se towards my daily work so it's hard to keep giving it more time.

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Sinister Sunrise Captured by Photographer Elias Chasiotis During an Eclipse in Qatar

Colossal

All images © Elias Chasiotis. Athens-based photographer Elias Chasiotis was visiting Qatar in late December 2019 when he captured a photo of an annular eclipse that has since gone viral. Taken at sunrise as a part of a series, the image shows the moon covering the center of a red sun. The timing of the photograph turns the crimson star into curved horns emerging from the horizon.

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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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Extraordinary Publicity Photos Of Sue Lyon As Stanley Kubrick’s Iconic ‘Lolita’, Photographed By Bert Stern

Design You Trust

One of the most iconic images in modern photography comes from the movie poster for Stanley Kubrick’s film adaption of Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial book Lolita. The young actress who embodied this mythical nymphet was Sue Lyon. In 1960, Kubrick asked his friend photographer Bert Stern to take some pictures of the 13 year old actress he had cast in his upcoming film to generate some pre-filming.

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Selected works by by Abdulla Elmaz

This is Paper

03.01.2020 Selected works by Abdulla ElmazResearch, Photography. ©Abdulla Elmaz Working between Melbourne, London & Dubai; Australian born photographer Abdulla Elmaz compasses the notion of surrealism and the fundamentals of classic renaissance art into his photography. His background education in architecture manifests in the play between positive and negative space in his work.

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Marcos Sánchez Animates The Breeders Video

Hi-Fructose

Chilean artist Marcos Sánchez is the director behind The Breeders' music video for "Walking With A Killer.” Found footage is given new context and intrigue as animated by Sánchez, which follows the horror-themed aspect of the song’s lyrics. The artist's short films and music videos have previously appeared in festivals across the globe. More.

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Great Read: The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

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Great Read: The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You. abduzeedo Jan 03, 2020 I have been working in the design field since 1998, that is 22 years in the field. Throughout all these years I have had the opportunity to play different roles. From intern, to founder; from simply the lone designer on a team to owning my own design studio and finally working on a massive company like Google.

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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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Junyi Xiao’s short film imagines the last man on earth meeting an alien

Creative Review

Filmmaker, designer and animator Junyi Xiao currently works full-time at Buck Design in Los Angeles but in between his day-to-day design work he also creates an array of personal projects including this animation, The Last Man on Earth Sat Alone in a Room. . Launched at the end of last year, the short is a humorous response to Frederic Brown’s well-known shortest short story which reads as: ‘The last man on earth sat alone in a room.

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Great reading: The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

Abduzeedo

Great reading: The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You. abduzeedo Jan 03, 2020 I have been working in the design field since 1998, that is 22 years in the field. Throughout all these years I have had the opportunity to play different roles. From intern, to founder; from simply the lone designer on a team to owning my own design studio and finally working on a massive company like Google.

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Design in 2020 – what will product design look like?

Design Week

Jo Barnard, founder and creative director of Morrama What do you think 2020 will hold for product design? We are seeing a shift in what ‘product’ is and this is going to become more apparent in 2020. People want on demand convenience, companies want brand loyalty, and the industry can no longer turn a blind eye to environmental responsibility.

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“The Era of Hopeful Monsters” by Photographer Caleb Churchill

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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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Feed: Selected works by by Abdulla Elmaz

This is Paper

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Mineral Is A Luxe CBD Beauty Brand With Compostable Packaging

The Die Line

Mineral is a Colorado-based cannabis beauty line, but their genetically-exclusive hemp isn’t just used in their product formulations as they have also leveraged the versatility of the cannabis plant by using it in their outer packaging as well.

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The Branded Smokes of Artfucker

Hi-Fructose

Artfucker’s recent body of work, displayed in the exhibition “Smoke Show,” meditates on just how accustomed viewers are to the omnipresence of marketing efforts. The New York artist’s practice is a blend of mixed-media and photography, with their identity still unknown to the public despite widely seen work. More.

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MIXXTAPE Captures The Magic Of The Cassette While Modernizing It

The Die Line

The folks behind MIXXTAPE recognize how much having a physical connection to music can add to the experience.

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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.