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Launch with a Bang: 17 Tips for Successfully Launching a New Business Website

Just Creative

This article was contributed by Smash Digital. In today’s day and age, a website is not just an additional marketing tool, let alone a glorified brochure. It is an essential branding and marketing tool that should be exploited to its full potential to get the maximum benefits. . Launching a new website is far from easy, and if you don’t do it properly, it may end up lost among approximately 1.94 billion websites that are currently active.

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50 Free Wireframe Templates for Mobile, Web and UX Design

SpeckyBoy

In the initial stages of a project, when ideas aren’t quite fully formed, it’s good practice to wireframe the layout of your mobile app or web project by stripping away all design elements and flourishes to help define and better communicate the information hierarchy of the layout and plan for functionality and user flow. Whether you create them using a whiteboard, pencil and paper , web-based tools , or using a graphic application, effective wireframing and planning play a critical

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10 Best Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Creatives from Australia

Shillington

At Shillington, we love to celebrate great design and share projects from creatives around the world. We’ve covered the work of many studios so far. Up next? We are celebrating some of our favourite Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creatives from Australia. In writing this article, Shillington would like to acknowledge the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of the nation and the traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.

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25 Fresh Free Fonts for Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

2020’s new fresh fonts free are here. Great fonts perfect for website and graphic design projects. In this font collection we are included script fonts, handwritten fonts, brush fonts and sans serif fonts which can give more professional look to your design. The following simple and clean fonts are ideal to make an creative design and perfect for any artwork.

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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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Biodiversity Heritage Library Makes 150,000 Animal And Botanical Illustrations Available To Download For Free

Design You Trust

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a veritable storehouse of natural history documentation that provides open access to its digital library, which includes over 150,000 animal and botanical illustrations that can be downloaded for free. The mission of the BHL is to make its gathered documentation openly available to the public as a tool for biodiversity education.

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The Story Of The Wind And The Sea: Latvia-Based Vietnamese Artist Perfectly Illustrates Baltic Tales And Legends

Design You Trust

Cao Viet Nguyen is a vietnamese artist living in Latvia for more 10 years. He is specialized in comics book, illustration, traditional painting and concept art for movies. More: Artstation, Instagram. Source.

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How much for a logo? 6 things that affect the cost.

Lisa Maltby

How much for a logo? 6 things that affect the cost. It probably comes as no surprise that one of the questions most frequently put to designers is: ‘How much does a logo cost?’ With the rise in startups, online businesses and social media influencers, the need to invest in visual identities and personal brands has become more prevalent. Costs for logo design can vary dramatically and you may be left wondering why logos do not always have the same value.

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Scared Of Coronavirus, Chinese People Have Started Putting Masks On Their Pets

Design You Trust

Zhou Tianxiao According to the live map that tracks the spread of coronavirus (#2019-nCoV), there are thousands people currently infected with the virus. There have also been over 200 deaths after people contracted the virus which causes such symptoms as fever, cough and shortness of breath and conditions varying from people being mildly sick to people being severely ill and dying. h/t: Source.

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20 Shillington Student and Teacher Winners of 2019 American Graphic Design Awards

Shillington

We’re so excited to announce that 15 Shillington graduates and 5 Shillington teachers were selected for the 2019 American Graphic Design Awards! Big applause for Shillington graduates— Alexandria Pinson , Chanelle Diaz , Diana Fuji , Elizabeth Calo , Esther Yi , Jessica Di Scipio , Jordan Kamp , Kathryn Pickett , Lorik Khodaverdian , Marianne Dabir , Roman Suliteanu , Sara Cohen , Sarah Staunton , Viet Pham and Ylimay Zavala.

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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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Seagulls and Pigeons Photobomb Shots of Rome by Photographer Skander Khlif 

Colossal

All images © Skander Khlif, used with permission. Munich-based photographer Skander Khlif documents public spaces with the Shakespearian mentality that life is theater and we are all actors. The play becomes both comedy and drama in his recent From Rome, With Birds… series. Seagulls and pigeons take center stage as they fly between the camera and scenes of Italian street life.

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Interview with Mikeila Scheckenbach, Owner and Creative Director at Bandit Design Group

Shillington

Based in Sydney and Canberra, Bandit Design Group is a small boutique creative studio doing big things in branding, web and packaging. Owner and Creative Director, Mikeila Scheckenbach , founded Bandit in 2017 with the kind of drive and vision that can be seen in the amazing client work that they have produced since the beginning. With all the great things Bandit are doing catching our eye, the news that Shillington Sydney graduate Ella McLean has joined their tight knit team was something we ar

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Geeky Valentine’s Day Cards Featuring Pop Culture Stars Expressing Romantic Feelings In Their Own Way

Design You Trust

As he does each year, the very talented PJ McQuade has created a new series of 21 wonderfully geeky illustrated Valentine’s Day cards featuring pop culture celebrities and characters who each express their romantic feelings in a style of their own. “Want to share some VDAY love this year? Look no further! Includes ALL 21 of my Valentine’s Day cards – Larry David, Ripley.

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Maude Releases Valentine's Day Kits With Intimate Essentials

The Die Line

Maude, a modern and inclusive sexual wellness brand, wants to make the evening a little more special this holiday with two selections tailored for the bedroom festivities—the nightcap and love kits.

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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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No One Knows Who Took These Superb Hand-Colored Albumen Prints Of Japan In The 1890s

Design You Trust

In the 1850s Japan permitted Western barbarians to trade in its ports for the first time in an age. The weird foreigners were corralled in zones of tolerance, unable to roam freely and kept apart from the Japanese. Over the next decades, Westerners would gain more access, exporting images of the warriors, traders, famers and geishas to an intrigued audience back home.

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The Selfie Generation Gets Their Own SelfieBud

The Die Line

Bud and JKR promise no more backward beer labels on your selfies with these special-edition bottles and cans.

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7 Ways to Create a Killer Marketing Video [Infographic]

Noupe

Video has rapidly become one of the leading content formats of this digital age. In fact, more video content is uploaded in 30 days than major television networks in the United States have created in over 30 years. This can be owed to the fact that people no longer rely on television for entertainment. Gone are the days when people have to schedule their days around their favourite shows.

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McDonald's Want You To Eat A Big Ol' Typeface Sandwich

The Die Line

McDonald’s eschews its logo for type.

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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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Forth + Back

Communication Arts

At this East Los Angeles–based design studio, partners Nikolos Killian and Tanner Woodbury design to the rhythm of their clients’ businesses.

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How to Run a Damn Good Brand/ Website Project Combo Deal: Sydney

Shillington

This is an unbeatable, two-part workshop series, run by writer and strategist Richie Meldrum in conjunction with AGDA. Workshop one is the ‘How to run a damn good brand project’ and workshop two is ‘How to run a damn good website project’ How to run a damn good brand project. We’re always being told about the power of brand, but rarely do we get the chance to find out how to go about creating one – from strategy, to creative and beyond.

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Nissan “Personal Space” print ads

Communication Arts

These print ads encapsulate a quintessential trait that both Nissans and Finish people have: safety distance as a standard feature.

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10 projects selection N°03

Mr. Cup

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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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KEX

Communication Arts

Designed by Studio Mega and developed by 14four, this Portland-based hotel’s website reflects the texture and feel of the in-person experience.

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Promithic

Shillington

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