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Denomination's designs add animal magnetism to eco-friendly wine brand Wise Wolf

Creative Boom

These days, we're all looking to brands to be more environmentally responsible. But that doesn't necessarily mean sticking to the same cliched aesthetics of eco-friendly design. We still want to see packaging that delights and surprises us – and so we love this environmental identity for Accolade Wines by Banrock Station. The packaging itself ticks lots of pro-planet boxes.

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How To Design Custom Online Learning Programs

Designer Daily

Nowadays, it’s more accessible to learn new skills or earn certification through online programs. Various platforms provide opportunities to anyone who wishes to expand their knowledge or supplement their studies. However, it’s also undeniable that there are many available platforms online, making it challenging for new programs to gain many students. .

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Matoke Experience Poster Collection by Xavier Esclusa Trias

We And The Color

Xavier Esclusa Trias created this beautiful poster collection for Matoke Experience. Commissioned by the travel agency Matoke Experience, Xavier Esclusa Trias, a Barcelona-based art director and freelance graphic designer created this beautiful poster collection. The posters are based on Matoke’s M+ an illustration of each animal. Three pieces can be found below.

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Guil Hernandez, Dave McFarland, and More: Will’s Inspirations

Canny

To understand what inspired me to become a website developer, we need to go back to the beginning. It all really started during my college days, when I was given web assignments. Before discovering web technologies, our lecturers gave us a wide range of tasks within computing, to give us a taste of what jobs are available within the industry. When I started completing the different web projects, I discovered I wanted to be a website developer.

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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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Should You Hire a Web Designer or Use a Web Builder?

HONGKIAT

Web builders are basically a magic toolbox for non-web designers. What was once out of people’s reach can now be grasped with just little effort. But there are things that web builders can’t do that web designers can. The question now is, should you hire a web designer to make your website for you or just use a web builder and build it yourself?

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Adobe Illustrator Resume Template for Creatives

We And The Color

This simple resume template for creatives is available for download on Adobe Stock. Created by graphic designer and Adobe Stock contributor @Guuver , this A4 Adobe Illustrator template consists of three fully editable pages including a resume, cv, and portfolio page. All sample texts and images are for display only. You can add your own content with just a few simple clicks.

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A Mid-Century Modern Los Angeles Home Inspired by Japanese Ryokans

Design Milk

Palmero is a minimal residence located in Los Angeles, California, designed by Joel Wong and Amanda Gunawan of Owiu. The project, perched on Palmero Drive, is a mid-century modern home set in the foothills of LA’s Mount Washington neighborhood. Influenced by the design of Japanese ryokans, the building sits in harmony with its surrounding landscape.

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WordPress Tips & Plugins for Those “Oh $#!%” Moments

SpeckyBoy

It’s happened to all of us at one time or another. We work hard to build a flawless website (in our eyes, anyway), and then a client comes along with a “suggestion” that blows it all to bits. Then there are those times when we make a boneheaded mistake that means having to rip things up and try to piece it back together again. Not so fast.

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How do I learn Digital Marketing? – 2022

Noupe

Digital marketing is a spreading buzz and a new profession in marketing and on the internet as well. Everybody is now a part of digital marketing and everyone wants to be a digital marketing expert or want to be a part of digital marketing. If you want to learn digital marketing then, you must go to the best institutes of digital marketing. Nowadays, digital marketing courses are valid in the list of courses after the 12th for commerce , Science, and Arts streams.

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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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10 Tools to Teach Kids Basics of Programming

HONGKIAT

We are living in a digital era where gadgets from computers and smartphones to tablets have become an essential part of our lives. Even kids these days pick up an iPad and figure out apps like how a fish takes to water. With kids becoming more tech-savvy as time goes on, there’s no reason why they can’t learn the basics behind their favorite technology.

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Artist Creates Beautiful Ballpoint Pen Illustrations

Design You Trust

Meet French artist Louis Gibiard. He uses nothing more than an everyday ballpoint pen to create beautiful illustrations that remind people of classic art. More: Instagram , Imgur. Source.

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Welcome to the wonderfully wobbly world of illustrator Talia Melda Temuçin

Its Nice That

Including references to proverbs and superstitions and always getting “lost in the details”, throughout the Berlin-based illustrator’s pieces, there’s always more than first meets the eye.

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Children Live Out Their Dreams in This NFT Photo Collection

Feature Shoot

Children and dreams 13 , owned by SpiderFamily. Children and dreams 16 , owned by @TorokuroApe. “You know, children have an irrepressible urge to draw on walls and floors,” the artist and educator Leyla Emektar admits. As a visual arts teacher in Kocaeli, Turkey, she’s learned to celebrate that impulse rather than discourage it. Once, when she and her pupils were working en plein air , a student was struck with inspiration and decided to draw, with chalk, on the wall of the sch

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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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If you’re so inspired by us, why not hire us?

Its Nice That

Mary Ojidu – founder of Ájífa – reflects on what it will take to tackle the longstanding racial and ethnic disparities within the creative industries.

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10 Portable Lights That Set the Mood for Entertaining Indoors + Out

Design Milk

With warmer weather in full effect, there’s no better time to host a little outdoor soirée of your own. If you’re a Miami dweller like myself, you’ll know that the price we pay for a tropical climate all year round are sporadic rainstorms that often push outdoor festivities indoors – making the right portable lighting (and a flexible mindset) necessities for spring and summer entertaining.

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“A Black book of creative inspiration”: Pinterest UK launches the Black to Z alphabet

Its Nice That

The alphabetical pinboard features a bespoke typeface by The Elephant Room and personal videos recorded by its 26 contributors.

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Soviet Spirit in Naive Illustrations of Angela Jerikh

Design You Trust

Angela Jerikh from Donetsk, Ukraine, keeps painting the Soviet past with an ordinary man in the center of events. The one who has his simple desires, wants to love and to be loved, to drink with friends and enjoy other worldly pleasures apart from building global socialism. Join the world’s largest social media rally for refugee relief. We need your voices to join those of artists, athletes, actors, and creators – all calling for the world to Stand Up for Ukraine by committing billions for

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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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Dripping in “Arab nostalgia”, 3asal mag platforms MENA creatives who are abandoning conformity and thrashing outdated stereotypes

Its Nice That

We talk to 3asal’s founder and editor-in-chief about what inspired her to found the magazine and some of the exciting features she’s worked on so far.

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Tiny Human Activities Erupt into Vast Celestial Nightscapes in New Paintings by Oliver Jeffers

Colossal

All images © Oliver Jeffers, courtesy of Praise Shadows Art Gallery, shared with permission. Whether working in acrylic on panel or illustrating a scene for one of his children’s books, artist Oliver Jeffers is fascinated by positioning. He returns to questions about perspective and finding a place in the world amidst chaotic politics and an overwhelmingly vast universe.

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Evils of Politicians in the Satirical Art of Semyon Skrepetsky

Design You Trust

An American artis of the Russian origin Semyon Skrepetsky is a master of satirical art who focuses on human sins. He exposes atrocity, greed, lie, passion for power and other negative human qualities. And it naturally comes that Semen uses images of politicians to demistrate those qualities. More: Instagram. Source.

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Belgian Graphic Design Is a “Crossroads of Influences”

Eye on Design

In many ways, we’re living in the golden age of graphic design histories. All over the world, designers, historians, and enthusiasts are uncovering forgotten figures, objects, and movements. There are efforts to decolonize, queer, and expand the canon. The linear, oversimplified design timelines many of us were taught are no longer sufficient. . I found myself thinking about all of this while reading Sara De Bondt’s new book, Off the Grid: Histories of Belgian Graphic Design.

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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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Q Orange

Mindsparkle Mag

Q Orange is a brand new e-cigarette brand for the young generation, mainly for cartridge small cigarettes and disposable cigarettes. G’day Design uses brand messages to imply opposites and possibilities with a flexible, flip, and visual language to express the concept of “novelty” with significant brand differentiation. Featuring a fresh and modern approach, designers gave the brand an impeccable art direction scene by playing with clear and colored props.

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The Mullet Shoe: Now You Can Wear a Stylish Hairstyle Not only On the Head, but Also on The Feet

Design You Trust

Sneaker in the front, party in the back! The Mullet Shoe is a high-top with silky smooth set of light brown locks cascading down the back. It’s a mullet … for a shoe… ready to swish all sultry when you walk, and blow romantically in the breeze. And also get muddy, matted, and rank when you drag it through the dirt, and possibly make you trip and fall on your face if you don’t mind its flowing length, which appears to be couple inches longer than the shoe itself.

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Three more Black Pencils given out at the D&AD Awards 2022

Creative Boom

Real Tone, Google, Product Design, Inclusive (Black Pencil). The second and final day of the D&AD Awards 2022 has come to a close, with the remaining categories being awarded their Pencils, including an incredible batch of three Black Pencil accolades. The 60th D&AD Awards have just wrapped up, and with it, the categories of Craft, Side Hustle, Design, Culture and Impact have all been awarded their respective Pencil accolades.

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A new exhibition spotlights Magnum photographers’ commercial work

Creative Review

Founded 75 years ago, Magnum Photos is steeped in photographic tradition, and its members are heralded in particular for their documentation of everyday life from multiple angles, whether seemingly mundane street scenes or highly charged warzones. Foam in Amsterdam, which is staging an exhibition of Magnum photography, is the first to admit that even the cooperative’s members rarely promote the.

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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.