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AUGUST 16, 2022

Image licensed via Adobe Stock. The excesses of the UK's recent heat wave may have peaked, but there's still plenty of life left in the summer, both at home and abroad. And so, whether you're relaxing on a beach, sitting in the garden, or killing time on planes, trains and automobiles, there's nothing better than burying yourself in a good book. But if you're staring at the bestseller lists and feeling underwhelmed, we're here to help.

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Design Milk

AUGUST 16, 2022

There are lots of design books on the market that are great for serving up inspiration for creating beautiful, modern spaces in your own home but sometimes, they’re not very realistic, attainable, or even relatable. Finding the perfect antique dresser or just the right shade of white paint can be important but style and aesthetics alone won’t bring happiness into your home.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 16, 2022

Image licensed via Adobe Stock. Play your cards right, and your worst client relationships can eventually become your best. These tips from the Creative Boom community will help you on your way. We've all had clients that have made our lives a misery. And sometimes, the best thing to do is just to cut them loose. But in uncertain economic times, it's best to avoid the nuclear option if possible.

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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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Design Milk

AUGUST 16, 2022

Design collaborative BCXSY never disappoints with their design philosophy that invites people in through emotion and human experience. Today we’re sharing two furniture projects they’ve completed in 2022: Reframe and Pipelines. Both rely on elements that might be considered mundane and give them a fresh spin. For Reframe, commissioned by DESIGNEW and designed in collaboration with MAGISTER.UT , BCXSY approached known, familiar forms as something fresh and timeless.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 16, 2022

Emma Eriksson. Books always play a part in influencing our career paths. It's why we often ask our creative community about their top five titles, as it reveals so much of their personal experiences and approach. This time, we hear from Emma Eriksson, head of creative at Forsman & Bodenfors in New York. After heading creative at her own firm for more than a decade, teaching classes in advertising and art directing at Miami Ad School, working for ad giants like TBWA, and producing award-winni

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 16, 2022

© Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze, Bather in Lei Yue Mun, Hong Kong 2020, Courtesy of Blue Lotus Gallery. A new exhibition and book provide an intriguing perspective on Hong Kong's life, community and culture. There's something quite humbling about the power and permanence of a mountain. As the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai once wrote: 'We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains'.

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SpeckyBoy

AUGUST 16, 2022

Photography is a powerful way to bring the outdoors to your fingertips. An incredible landscape can teleport you back to a moment, even when you’re working in your home office. Landscapes come in all shapes and sizes. So too do the Adobe Lightroom presets that style them. While your landscapes may seem flat as RAW images, presets can transform them back to life.

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Its Nice That

AUGUST 16, 2022

While preferring to work in the digital realm, the illustrator wants his work to have a hand-drawn feel and takes inspiration from traditional Japanese painting techniques.

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We And The Color

AUGUST 16, 2022

This fully customizable minimalist business card template is currently available for free download with an Adobe Stock trial subscription. Adobe Stock contributor @Senti Studio created this easy-to-use two-sided business card template in the standard size of 85 x 55 mm. Based on a modern and minimalist look, the vector design can be edited in Adobe Illustrator.

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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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Graphic Design USA

AUGUST 16, 2022

In the lead-up to the 2022 midterm elections, AIGA has created resources to encourage all voting-age populations to exercise their civic rights.

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Noupe

AUGUST 16, 2022

CX (customer experience) and UX (user experience) are two important business strategies aimed at optimizing customer communication and engagement. The principles of UX have been around for centuries, but the term was first coined in the 1990s by Don Norman. CX is a much newer concept that’s been gaining popularity as companies look to improve customer satisfaction.

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Moo

AUGUST 16, 2022

Whether you’re self-employed or starting a company, client acquisition is a must-have skill. If you’re wondering how to find clients, you’re in the right place. We’ve put together 14 ideas to help you connect with new clients – and keep the ones you’ve got. New business can come from all kinds of unexpected places, but to get regular work, you need to have a little more of a client acquisition strategy in place.

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Joe McNally

AUGUST 16, 2022

Meditation? Yoga? Giant bag of weed? In the midst of a big photo production, sadly, none of those things are truly practical. On these types of photo shoots, where there are many, many moving parts, and the unknowable, unanticipated wrench in the works lurks behind every woebegone test shot you make, the photographer remains the eye of the storm. Whilst all rages about you as if you are an extra in the movie Twister (“Is that the same cow?

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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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Brown Paper Bag

AUGUST 16, 2022

This post contains some affiliate links. If you make a purchase, Brown Paper Bag may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more here. Artist Sëlynn Lee paints a particular subject matter: cats wrapped in patterned babushkas. Looking like tiny grandmas, these felines are cozy and cute. Their headscarves are often patterned with motifs of plants, fruits, or a combination of the two.

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Creative Review

AUGUST 16, 2022

Jack McKeon’s portfolio is impressive in its breadth of media (packaging design, branding, illustration, animation) as well as its range of themes. At times, it’s commercially astute and slickly professional, at others, it’s using animation to explore ideas around community and societal division, or examining Irish cultural idiosyncrasies and the country’s deepening housing crisis.

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Abduzeedo

AUGUST 16, 2022

Amiga — a contemporary 80s pixel fonts using color font technology. abduzeedo 0816—22 At Amiga is a new look to old pixel fonts. A homage to early computing, retro video gaming, fantasy tales, and space operas. It is an updated version of what we imagined back in the day. At Amiga is boxed but smooth; legible but inviting; evocative but refreshing. It is also a tribute to Wim Crouwel’s New Alphabet.

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Its Nice That

AUGUST 16, 2022

Covering a 200 year period from 1800 to 2000, the book – which features charming illustrated brasseries to doodles from David Hockney – is every design foodie’s dream.

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UX Collective

AUGUST 16, 2022

Rules of thumb for producing learnable designs I wrote here about how people build mental models of the products they use and how designers can leverage them to produce better experiences. One way I suggested doing this was using a model of building mental models as a design heuristic (see the previous article for more on that). The more I thought about it, the more I realized the benefits to be gained from a formal list of mental model heuristics drawn from the decades of published research on

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Creative Review

AUGUST 16, 2022

Symbol is a hi-fi storage brand that creates home listening setups, specialist furniture and other storage solutions geared towards vinyl lovers. The brand’s mid-century modern design ethos has been carried over into the new visual identity created by Danny Miller’s Brooklyn-based creative studio High Tide, fresh from launching another period-inspired project for appliance manufacturer Airsign.

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UX Collective

AUGUST 16, 2022

How do we approach designing experiences for something as complex and black-box as the metaverse? The answer is, we need to go back to the basics of immersive design. As a designer, you hear it wherever you go: the metaverse is a disruption. It poses a radical challenge for the design industry. It requires a completely different set of tools, methodologies, and conventions, yadda yadda yadda.

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Design You Trust

AUGUST 16, 2022

Do you believe that oppressed feelings and thought lead to a creative positive world? If no, this blog will be a great example of it. Stef Euphoria is a concept artist, born and raised in Tunisia. Stef’s artworks are getting more and more attention each passing day through social media pages and by the Tunisian communities. His artworks demonstrate how much talented one can be if you infuse your feelings into your art and keep practicing on your craft.

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UX Collective

AUGUST 16, 2022

On asking the existential questions about a UXR’s purpose, being a thought partner, and bringing questions, not just answers This is the second post in a bi-weekly UXR Q+A series. Submit your questions in the comments, or in this Google form , and it they may be answered in future posts. Follow “Ask a UXR” by subscribing here for email updates. Illustration from Undraw “What is the best strategy for the first/sole UX researcher on the team to establish UXR practices in the organization, and col

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Colossal

AUGUST 16, 2022

All images © Jon Carling, shared with permission. From his studio in northern California, artist Jon Carling summons the metaphysical by scrawling scenes tinged with magic and whimsy. He works in pen and pencil, layering lines and wispy markings into a wave of florals enveloping a levitating figure or a beam radiating from a woman’s eyes. Many of the works feature an element of hidden sorcery, veiling the largely natural subject matter with mysteriously powerful energy.

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UX Collective

AUGUST 16, 2022

A systems viewpoint and how self-organizing principles can help. Photo by Jason Goodman on Unsplash Micromanagement… It feels like a four-letter word. Something heavily denounced in the gospels of management self-help. A known killer to creativity and the creative team. And yet, it is still so rampant. How can this be? And, how can we combat it? To explore this question further, I want to explore micromanagement through the lens of a systems framework.

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Booooooom

AUGUST 16, 2022

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Its Nice That

AUGUST 16, 2022

Our second speaker at July's Nicer Tuesdays talked about his recent project for EA FIFA and the development of his illustration practice.

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Vandelay Design

AUGUST 16, 2022

Here are the best Asian fonts that will give your designs a genuine and authentic look. Inspired by lettering from China, Japan, Korea, and other Asian countries. The post 40+ Asian Fonts for Designers appeared first on Vandelay Design.

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Design Everywhere

AUGUST 16, 2022

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 16, 2022

How to Develop a Marketing Outline Plan for Your Website. A solid marketing plan will help you reach your goals faster and establish a foundation of success for your online business. Marketing strategies , tactics, and techniques are often discussed in vague terms—it's hard to know whether or not you're doing things right if you don't have a clear idea of what you should be doing.

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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.

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