Creative Boom

JUNE 16, 2022

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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Graphic Design Junction

JUNE 16, 2022

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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Creative Boom

JUNE 16, 2022

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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Inkbot Design

JUNE 16, 2022

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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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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Creative Review

JUNE 16, 2022

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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Typography 123

Colossal

JUNE 16, 2022

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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Inkbot Design

JUNE 16, 2022

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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Design Milk

JUNE 16, 2022

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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Its Nice That

JUNE 16, 2022

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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Design Milk

JUNE 16, 2022

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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The Dieline

JUNE 16, 2022

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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Design Milk

JUNE 16, 2022

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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Inkbot Design

JUNE 16, 2022

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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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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Azure Magazine

JUNE 16, 2022

“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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Creative Review

JUNE 16, 2022

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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UX Collective

JUNE 16, 2022

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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Publishing Publishing Presentation Production 77

Abduzeedo

JUNE 16, 2022

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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UX Collective

JUNE 16, 2022

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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Abduzeedo

JUNE 16, 2022

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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Graphic Design Junction

JUNE 16, 2022

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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Programming Graphic Graphic Design 63

Its Nice That

JUNE 16, 2022

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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Animation Graphic Production 63

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Booooooom

JUNE 16, 2022

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Photography 94

Design Everywhere

JUNE 16, 2022

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Creative Review

JUNE 16, 2022

Experiences offer a brand the opportunity to elevate themselves beyond two-dimensional entities, allowing them to articulate personality and emotion in different ways. Through experience design, brands can take their visitors on an immersive experience that reflects their values, mission, history and so on. At the forefront of this movement is Mather & Co, an agency that helps commercial brands.

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We And The Color

JUNE 16, 2022

Shalomita, a unique ligature serif font with elegant shapes. The Shalomita font by Burntilldead comes with plenty of elegant ligatures. This beautiful typeface is a great choice for logotypes, branding projects, wedding invitations, social media ads, and websites, just to name a few. It’s made for basically everything that asks for a classic look.

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