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Discover the latest creative talent at New Designers 2022, the mother of all grad shows

Creative Boom

Freedom Billboard by Hannah Davis. Looking to be inspired by the best new creative talent in the UK right now? It'd be near-impossible to attend all the individual grad shows at each college and university – but don't worry, you don't need to because New Designers is back! Founded in 1985, New Designers is the largest graduate showcase in the UK and brings together the best of the best from around the country so that you can find all the latest top talent in one place.

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26 Best Photography WordPress Themes 2022

Graphic Design Junction

Responsive and clean Photography WordPress themes for the Photography creative portfolio websites. Also, best for creating unique and beautiful websites for photographers, photography agencies, photo studios, bloggers, videographers, musicians, and more. All the themes are fully customizable and editable that can save your expensive time and money.

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Javier Fuentes reconnects with his cultural roots via trippy digital illustrations

Creative Boom

Terraza Tropical © Xtrano by Javier Fuentes. Cuban multi-media artist and designer Javier Fuentes illustrates the mundane and ritualistic aspects of life as an immigrant in his recently launched project, Xtrano. Based on his personal experiences, Xtrano captures distant memories of his time in Latin America. A sense of identity can come from all sorts of places, including areas that, on the surface, would appear mundane.

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MDW22: MATTER by Norwegian Presence

Design Milk

Milan Design Week is back with a bang. The Norwegians always put on a good show and this year was no exception – DOGA (Design and Architecture Norway) presented MATTER by Norwegian Presence – a celebration of materiality, ingenuity, and the culture that is informed by Norway’s abundant natural resources and challenging wild landscapes – all set within the resplendent Galleria Milano in the Brera Design District.

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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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What Can You Do to Recover Unsaved Word Document on Mac?

Graphic Design Junction

One of the nightmares for Mac users is that the Mac suddenly shuts down before saving the files you are working on. Imagine you’ve already written hundreds of words in Microsoft Word but a simple power outage can place your efforts in vain. Miserable experience indeed. The priority now comes to how to recover unsaved Word document on Mac before it’s gone for good.

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Habitas Bacalar: An Eco-sustainable, Holistic Oasis on Lake Bacalar

Design Milk

Habitas recently opened up their newest experience-led property, Habitas Bacalar , located on Mexico’s Lake Bacalar, best known for its blue-hued, crystalline waters. As the first global hospitality brand to launch a property in Bacalar, Habitas maintains its focus on sustainability, community, and shared experience. With 34 cabanas, the interiors celebrate natural wabi-sabi furnishings with showers situated outdoors, allowing guests to fully connect with the surrounding environment.

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WantedDesign Manhattan 2022 Launch Pad Furniture Winner: Erika Cross

Design Milk

We’re excited to share that at this year’s WantedDesign Manhattan 2022 Launch Pad program , sponsored by American Standard , Erika Cross was the chosen winner for the Furniture category! Design Milk was the official media partner for the competition and assisted in the jurying process. Congrats Erica! “Elements is a collection about composition.

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11 Eye-Catching Business Card Design Trends

Inkbot Design

11 Eye-Catching Business Card Design Trends (+10 Templates). A business card is still one of the best ways to promote yourself and your business. It’s the key to making the most out of every opportunity. Handing out a business card can help turn a good first impression into a business relationship. And the design that you choose for your business card says a lot about your services, your business, and the unique qualities that make you stand out from the crowd.

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A New AI-System Designs Cameras as Playful Pop-Culture Mashups

Colossal

All images courtesy of Mathieu Stern, shared with permission. A photographer doubling as an inventor of the bizarre, Mathieu Stern has been developing new cameras based on simple ideas: one collection is created for pharaohs, another designed by Aztecs, and others are inspired by superheroes and pop culture. The devices are visually intriguing and wildly diverse, but unfortunately, they’re not real.

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Why a Design System Helps You Crush Your Competition

Inkbot Design

Why a Design System Helps You Crush Your Competition. Competition in the business world is fierce. It takes more than a great product or service to stand out from the pack and succeed. You also need to be constantly innovating. If you rest on your laurels, a competitor will come by and take your customers. What you need is a well-thought-out design system that helps you innovate quickly.

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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 hooky identity for fishing company Big C Charters

Creative Review

Big C Charters was named after its founder and captain, former pro basketball player Christian Cavanaugh, and his reputation for the biggest catches. His towering height of 6 foot 8 inches informed the new outstretched identity for the charter company, which runs fishing trips and excursions in the San Francisco Bay Area. Led by Mucho, the identity’s crowning feature is the typography.

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20 Best Brands with Social Media Marketing Strategies

Inkbot Design

20 Best Brands with Social Media Marketing Strategies. Social Media Marketing is a vast and dynamic landscape, and its results differ from brand to brand. Thus, you cannot be sure what will work for your brand and what will not. The best thing you can do is look at the other brands and their social media marketing methods , which make them successful and also learn from their previous mistakes.

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Move slowly and fix things: recommended reading for designers

UX Collective

A reading list for designers who want to make a difference. One of tech’s sacred mantras is Mark Zuckerberg’s own, “move fast and break things.” Originally, this was meant to be guidance for developers and engineers to aim for disruption and shun the conventional–you can’t create the next big thing by taking cautious baby steps. But now Meta has tried to distance itself from this motto , because moving fast and breaking things results in, surprise surprise, broken things.

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Top 10 Ways to Get Over Creative Block as Designers

Inkbot Design

Top 10 Ways to Get Over Creative Block as Designers. To successfully build a business around your design skills , you need to overcome creative blocks and learn to work on projects without getting bogged down by worries. What happens when you get a creative block? For example, we'd assume you can't figure out how to write code. You know you have to, but you simply can't.

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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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Photoshop Will Soon Be Free.And You Won't Have To Pirate It This Time

The Die Line

Adobe is currently piloting a "freemium" version of Photoshop in Canada, and pretty soon, the rest of us can get our hands on it too.

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Milan Design Week 2022: Highlights from Our Camera Roll

Azure Magazine

“Design is Milano is design.” This phrase was splashed all over Lombardy’s capital last week on colourful street posters that signalled the triumphant return of the global design industry’s main event: Milan Design Week 2022. Commissioned by the local tourism agency, the posters are the work of Riccardo De Franceschi, the Milan-born creative director of London typeface design studio Dalton Maag.

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5 Tips to Help Convert Organic Traffic into Qualified Leads

Inkbot Design

5 Tips to Help Convert Organic Traffic into Qualified Leads. Building up a decent amount of organic traffic can be quickly done if the right set of SEO tools is used. We cannot say the same for directing that organic traffic to the checkout. You might talk about a mighty fine brand awareness game, but the war isn't over until an actual transaction or subscription takes place.

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Music and typography combine in the addictively colourful designs of Raissa Pardini

Its Nice That

From type to patterns and designing for musicians like Justin Bieber, the Italian-born and London-based designer amazed us all at this month's event with an inspiring run through of her experimental practice.

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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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Which video conferencing tools are the most accessible?

UX Collective

With us all suddenly working from home in the COVID era, most of us have had to make some quick choices from a huge variety of video conferencing and collaboration tools. But do all of these apps work well for everyone? If you have a co-worker or a student with a disability, would they be able to participate as well? This article was published in Smashing Magazine in June 2020.

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Photographer Spotlight: Piero Percoco

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Ofermax vibrant visual identity

Abduzeedo

Ofermax vibrant visual identity. abduzeedo 0616—22 Neo/saga ™ shared an elegant branding and visual identity project for Ofermax. There is not a lot of information about the project, however what caught my attention was the vibrant color palette and typography. Of course, they are also Brazilian, which always gets my attention :) . For more information check out Neo/saga ™ on: Behance.

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Taking an idea from graphic novel to Netflix series with the creator of DeadEndia

Its Nice That

We speak to Hamish Steele about converting comics to animation, a Netflix production with a radical queer POV, and why comics aren’t “just a stepping stone for streaming”.

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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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Branding and UX for Vostok blockchain solution

Abduzeedo

Branding and UX for Vostok blockchain solution. abduzeedo 0616—22 Dima Bertoluchi and Elena Saharova shared a branding and UX project for Vostok (East), a universal blockchain solution for scalable digital infrastructure. Developed on request and for use by large enterprises and government agencies. The key idea for the brand logo Vostok became the arrow from the compass pointing east. .

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How Minor Figures learned to lean back

Creative Review

With its irreverent illustrated characters and laidback personality, coffee products brand Minor Figures is offering a fresh take on the often divisive plant-based market. Co-founder Stuart Forsyth talks to us about challenging the challenger brand narrative.

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Designing the Invisible: MACK’s Morgan Crowcroft-Brown on the Understated Art of the Photo Book

Eye on Design

“The details are not the details,” said Charles Eames. “The details make the design.” I think Eames is saying that all the little, seemingly invisible decisions that no one else will notice, these are the things that make a piece of design work or not work. This idea is perhaps never more evident than in designing a photo book. As a long-time photography enthusiast, I’ve always found the book to be the ideal format for looking at images: it’s intimate and accessible, sequential and narrative. .

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Design Everywhere

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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.

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Burger King agency is sorry about Pride Whopper fiasco

Creative Bloq

“We’ve learned our lessons.”.

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A Compact Taipei Apartment Full of Curvy Details + Rose Gold Accents

Design Milk

Designed by PENY HSIEH INTERIORS , the Flowing Vector apartment in Taipei features bold curvy details paired with angular elements for a sophisticated yet minimalist aesthetic. The monochromatic palette of black and white grounds the compact interior, which also includes touches of rose gold. The curvy kitchen island becomes a spot to sit and work or enjoy a meal.

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Farewell, Internet Explorer

Creative Bloq

The browser's finally retiring, 27 years on.

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7 Best Security Plugins to Protect Your WordPress Site

HONGKIAT

It’s estimated that 30,000 websites are hacked on average every day. And with over 40% of the websites on the internet being powered by WordPress, an arbitrary estimate would assume that over 12,000 WordPress sites could have fallen victim to a cybersecurity breach in the past 24 hours. If your website is running on WordPress and you haven’t invested in a robust security plugin, your site could be next on the hit list.

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Web Design for All: Accessibility, Inclusivity and Beyond

Speaker: Eden Spivak, Design Expert and Editor at Wix & Nir Horesh, Accessibility Lead and Senior Product Manager at Wix

When we design products or websites for people like ourselves, there are many others who are, as a result, left out. From visually impaired users who rely on assistive technology, to people with a temporary injury such as a broken arm, tech users are forever diverse and beautifully unique. The products we design can, and should, reflect the extremely wide range of human experiences and needs.