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25 Contenders to be the Best Laptop for Graphic Design in 2020

Design Wizard

Deciding on the best laptop for you. Choosing a laptop for graphic design can be difficult. There are so many things you need to take into account when selecting which laptop you should buy. Do you want to focus on the battery life or the display? Is it portability you’re after? Is RAM the most important factor for you? Can you survive with a limited selection of ports?

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Daniel Jensen: Current Events by Bedow

BP&O

Opinion by Richard Baird Daniel Jensen is a Swedish artist whose work moves between paintings, sculptures and drawings and explores themes such as society and pop-culture, film, literature and nature. His latest book, designed by Bedow, features artworks that are figurative and abstract, unrelated and absent a narrative. With such compelling and intense imagery of colour […].

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How to Get Quality Photos for Your Designs: Tips, Resources, and Tools

Noupe

Photos in design can kill it or breathe life into it. You can spend days and weeks on creating a fantastic design but use too generic hero image , and people won’t notice your work at all; they will see a stock-looking picture and leave. In this article, you will find tips on getting quality photos, not an obvious choice of photo stocks, and some handy tools to ease up your work.

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Urban Tetris by Mariyan Atanasov Imagines Bulgarian Architecture as the Classic Video Game

Colossal

The urban architecture of Sofia, Bulgaria becomes an oversized Tetris game in a series by Mariyan Atanasov. To create the visual allusion, Atanasov abstracted the Eastern European city’s geometric buildings into minimal images, editing out distractions like phone wires and trees. In each photo sections of architecture seem to float down, ready to slot into the stack in the same mode as the classic 80’s video game created by Soviet Russian software engineer Alexey Pajitnov.

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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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Sing It From the Mountain Tops: The Women Reclaiming Cholita Identity in Bolivia

Feature Shoot

Zongo glacier with the Cholitas . Huayana Potosi Mountain 6088m/19,974ft. Originally from New Zealand, Todd Antony first got involved with photography when he was 15 and his father brought a Canon EOS 650 home from work. He was immediately hooked and studied photography at college and university for a year, before spending three years traveling around the world, working on cruise ships as a photographer.

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21 Fresh Free Fonts for Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

Best fresh free fonts download for web and graphic designs. Fresh handpicked free fonts collection included script fonts, handwritten fonts and rough brush fonts which you can use them to make your website or design more attractive. The following fresh free fonts are ideal to make an creative design and perfect for any artwork. Take a look at beautiful commercial fonts for professional design, based upon suggestions from designers all over the world. .

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Welcome to the dark and absurd world of Macedonian photographer Viktor Naumovski

Its Nice That

With clients like King Kong Magazine and This Is Badlands, the 22-year-old photographer and video director creates surreal and sometimes disturbing parallel universes inspired by the history of the Balkans, his family background and Macedonia’s unique visual culture. Read more.

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The Future of Freelancing with WordPress

Speckyboy Design Magazine

If you’ve paid much attention to the WordPress space in the past year, you may have noticed that it’s been a time of prolific change. Perhaps the most public of those changes was the integration of the new Gutenberg block editor. This, along with some other recent behind-the-scenes developments, have helped to usher in a turning point. This affects the entire community.

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“Summer Strömma” by Photographer Tom Oliver Lucas

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Tom Oliver Lucas. Lines of flight is an ongoing series of images studying human-environment relationships, closely linked to the community life of the local inhabitants of a remote village in central Sweden. Seasonal social rituals are formed by community events which capture changing relationships amongst the community members and the landscape. A notion of a different way of life is discovered in the movement of the local inhabitants, which is in close connection to the movement of nature and

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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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Step into the Future at ‘This is Molly’ Club [China]

Trendland

Located in the heart of the city’s cultural district in Wuhan, China, ‘This is Molly’ club surely amaze its clients by its futuristic mood. Designed and built by J.H Architecture, the new highly cinematographic restaurant, bar and club is full of colorful lights, geometric shapes and a festive and subdued atmosphere unfold through the club for some fun entertainment.

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Dreamy Photographs Of Young Women Taken By David Hamilton From The 1970s

Design You Trust

David Hamilton (1933–2016) was a British photographer, who grew up in London. His schooling was interrupted by World War II. As an evacuee, he spent some time in the countryside of Dorset, which inspired his work. After the war, Hamilton returned to London and finished school before moving to France where he has lived ever since. h/t: vintag.es His artistic skills began to emerge during a job at.

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Nature: with a bespoke typeface & a new logo the journal's evolution is on

Type room

Tags. Rebranding , redesign , Journal , Britain , academic , typeface , Bespoke , font , Commercial Type. Nature aka the British multidisciplinary scientific journal , first published on 4 November 1869 and one of the most recognizable scientific journals in the world sure looks different. Nature has evolved and it is being redesigned aiming at “clearer research communication in the digital age.

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Photographer Yann Philippe Captures A Cold Beauty Of Norway In Infrared

Design You Trust

According to Yann Philippe: “When I had the opportunity to visit Norway in 2014, 2017 and 2019, I took my infrared-converted camera with some prototype filters of what would later become KolariVision’s IRChrome filter. South-Norway’s breathtaking views from the coast near Bergen up to the Preikestolen were absolutely astonishing. At first, I doubted that infrared photography.

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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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Magnificent Hand Lettering by Emilee Rudd

Abduzeedo

Magnificent Hand Lettering by Emilee Rudd. GisMullr Oct 25, 2019 I'm slightly obsessed with hand lettering. I simply love when I stumble upon any branding, print, signage, mural, etc. showcasing a beautiful lettering work. The talent involved in creating beautiful things using only your free hand, creativity and skills never ceases to impress me. From packages on a supermarket shelf to restaurant chalkboard menus or street signs, I'm always delighted to see a good old hand-drawn piece.

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I Fought The Law: Photographs By Olivia Locher Of The Strangest Laws From Each Of The 50 States

Design You Trust

In Alabama, It Is Illegal To Have An Ice-Cream Cone In Your Back Pocket Many laws still in existence throughout the united states are wildly outdated, rendering them completely ridiculous, useless and bizarre. The absurdity is illustrated by new York-based photographer Olivia Locher, who catalogs the crazy rules and regulations of each state in a playful photographic series ‘I fought the law’.

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5 Playful Tile Collections that Hint at the Next PoMo Revival

Azure Magazine

This ain’t imitation marble. At last month’s Cersaie tile show, a revival of Postmodern flourishes caught our attention amidst a sea of stone and wood finishes. From big floral patterns to playful geometries and unapologetically synthetic colours, many of the most eye-catching designs flirt with melodrama while retaining an elegant look.

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Stylish Digital Art: The Way of Waking Up

Abduzeedo

Stylish Digital Art: The Way of Waking Up. abduzeedo Oct 25, 2019 Jesus Amador is a product designer working with UI and UX design but he is also an incredible digital artists as you can see on this beautiful project he shared on his Behance profile. The illustrations and digital art have a super stylish look with a sort of sepia tone and a very surrealist feel.

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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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“Shifting Landscapes Opposing Prophecies” by Peter Sutherland

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Ascari identity

Communication Arts

Inspired by Formula 1 racer Alberto Ascari, the identity for this Italian eatery imbues his essence and love of life.

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Aint–Bad Magazine: Issue No.14 and Book Prize

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Paul Hiller’s bittersweet photographs document the ultimate form of escapism

Its Nice That

For the past 12 years, the German photographer has been visiting amusement parks around the world, from the famous to the obscure, steadily capturing syrupy scenes in these parks. As “a preservation of an older time,” he tells us about the parks that have closed since and new ones that he finds. Read more.

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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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Bad Fruit: Rotten Fruits Transformed into Art Piece

Trendland

To denounce our society’s culture of food waste, New York-based artist Kathleen Ryan has created ‘Bad Fruit’ These oversized non-edible, faux moldy fruits are adored with pearls to create intricate fruit-like pieces of art. Starting with a 70 cm wide polystyrene base, she uses precious and semi-precious stones to create a real contrast to the repulsive moulds it represents.

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Believe it or not, these images are actually 3D renders

Its Nice That

The Julius Hahmann talks us through his mind-bogglingly realistic 3D renders. For the Berlin-based digital artist, the most interesting places to replicate are often the most ordinary, even if it’s just a regular corridor that doesn’t seem like anything special until you look in the right place. Read more.

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Beginning to End: The Making of Hard Mouth, Part 3: Cover Design

Spine Magazine

Beginning to End follows a book from inception to bookshelf. For our second "season," we're following Hard Mouth , Amanda Goldblatt's debut adventure novel about a woman facing—and sometimes fleeing from—her father's drawn-out battle with cancer. Counterpoint Press published the book in August. We previously spoke with both the author and agent of the book.

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Digital and creative skills should no longer be considered separate, says report

Its Nice That

The study by CIPEC analysed 35 million job adverts to find the roles that mentioned “createch” skills the most, and discovered that while employers assume a level of digital know-how from creative job applicants, education and government policy is lagging behind. Read more.

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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.