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Studio Moross spins a vibrant new identity for Glitterbox's 2025 season

Creative Boom

Glitterbox's fresh global campaign is complete with five dance floor muses, punchy palettes and a rallying cry that it's all 'Made For The Dancefloor'. When Glitterbox burst onto Ibiza's club circuit in 2014, it promised the purest joys of disco, house and soul for everyone who could squeeze into the booth or shimmy under the mirror ball. Eleven years, countless jet-lagged after-parties and a devoted international following later, the label-cum-nightlife-phenomenon has called in London design ou

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How to paint a portrait with personality in Photoshop

Creative Bloq

Artist Jane Radstrom shows us step-by-step how she creates a portrait with personality that draws in the viewer.

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50+ Best Japanese Style Fonts – Perfect for Art & Design

Graphic Design Junction

When choosing Japanese style fonts , you're not just picking type, you’re selecting stylish fonts that reflect precision, flow, and the spirit of calligraphy and tattoo art. Fonts carry meaning beyond letters. The post 50+ Best Japanese Style Fonts – Perfect for Art & Design first appeared on Graphic Design Junction.

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Artist's astounding optical illusion sculptures go viral

Creative Bloq

Artist goes viral, and for good reason.

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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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Bugak Is a Clever Stool That Hides a Storage Shelf Inside

Design Milk

Butterfly joints don’t always get the recognition they deserve. In traditional Korean wooden architecture (called hanok ), woodworking, and masonry, these graceful connectors – known as nabi-jangbu – quietly hold everything together with precision, tucked out of sight within beams and frameworks. Rather than hide this essential element, designer Jin Kim , founder of the studio JAYUJAJE , brings it into the spotlight.

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10 Must-Have Adobe InDesign Templates to Elevate Your Creative Projects in 2025

We And The Color

The rise of AI in the creative field has shifted the ground beneath our feet. While AI tools can generate images and text at an astonishing speed, they often lack the foundational structure and narrative flow that define professional design. This is where the enduring power of a well-crafted layout comes into focus. A superior design framework doesn’t just present information; it tells a story, builds trust, and transforms a simple concept into a compelling experience.

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30+ Best Collegiate & College Fonts

Design Shack

College fonts carry with them an air of nostalgia and authority, reminiscent of classic letter jackets, spirited chants, and the ivy-covered walls of academia. In this carefully curated selection, we present the best college fonts that stand out for their readability, character, and ability to convey the dynamic essence of college life. Collegiate fonts are pivotal in evoking the sense of community, pride, and scholarly excellence that educational institutions stand for.

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Infinite Machine Launches the Robust Olto E-Bike for the Bike Lane

Design Milk

New York-based Infinite Machine’s newest release, the Olto , is a formidable new player in the world of e-bikes – designed specifically for the bike lane, but bold enough to challenge the everyday car. With its angular, automotive-inspired frame, hot-swappable battery, and enough power to reach over 30 mph, Olto is built for the demands of modern mobility.

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Melancholy Illustrations and Book Cover Artworks by Audrey Benjaminsen

Design You Trust

What is most moving about Audrey Benjaminsen’s art is the way it captures a feeling of beautiful melancholy. Her work for these classic gothic tales feels less like an illustration and more like a personal, dreamlike interpretation. The clarity of her figures, combined with the rich, flowing colors, creates a world that is at once concrete and ethereal.

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Fantasy Island shows Ireland from 70 photographers’ alternative perspectives

Its Nice That

Reading "Fantasy Island shows Ireland." More from Work Search Search Events Next Generation Showcase Creative Jobs Board Home Menu Disciplines Advertising Animation Architecture Art Creative Industry Digital Event Fashion Film Graphic Design Illustration Photography Product Design Publication Popular Tags 3D Book Branding Collage Comic Exhibition Font Food & Drink Identity Logo Magazine Music Politics Portrait Poster Sport Sustainability Technology Typography Web Design Zine It’s N

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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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It’s more than picking a pretty font

UX Collective

A guide to accessible typography. Text is the most important element on a webpage. Text provides information the user needs–communicating what the website is about, guiding them to action, and keeping them engaged. But if the text isn’t legible due to the typography used, the user can’t read or consume the content. What would you do if you can’t read the text?

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How to Create Reusable Canva Templates for Your Brand

Design Shack

Consistency is key when it comes to building a memorable brand. But keeping your designs aligned, especially when your team is growing or juggling lots of content, can be time-consuming. Reusable Canva templates are a great solution to this problem. With a few smart setups, you can save time, reduce design stress, and make sure every post, presentation, or flyer looks and feels on-brand.

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40 Geometric Logos: The Power of Shapes in Branding

Inkbot Design

📖 Reading Time: 5 minutes 🏷️ Categories: Design, Branding, Marketing 📅 Published: [DATE] 40 Geometric Logos: The Power of Shapes in Branding Let’s be honest. Most conversations about branding are filled with fluff. Vague notions of “brand storytelling” and “emotional connection” leave entrepreneurs with more questions than answers.

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A Manifesto for the Pan-African Architecture Biennale

Azure Magazine

Every two years, the design world descends on Venice. On now, the exhibition’s 19th edition is expected to bring some 300,000 visitors to the Italian city, while smaller events in cities from Chicago to Sharjah are shaping an ever-evolving global architectural dialogue. Yet, while the African continent is increasingly the subject of international design discourse, the gaze typically remains detached and external — even fetishistic.

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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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What is impasto and how can you do it in digital art?

Creative Bloq

This traditional art technique is fun to try on a drawing tablet.

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Beautiful Sense Illustrations by of Menghui Huang

Design You Trust

Helsinki-based illustrator and motion designer Menghui Huang creates work that balances playful charm with poetic depth. Her art often drifts between peaceful scenes of daily life and fantastical, dreamlike worlds. This unique sense of visual fantasy is the common thread in a diverse portfolio that includes collaborations with major brands like Tencent, Huawei, and Carlsberg, showcasing her ability to blend rich storytelling with commercial polish.

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Alicja Kwade Reflects the Warped Nature of Time and Reality in Poetic Installations

Colossal

Square steel bars give way to knotted branches covered with patina in Alicja Kwade ’s monumental meditation on time. Anchoring Telos Tales at Pace Gallery in New York is a sculpture in which architecture and nature converge. Mirrored cylinders hang among the structures with distorted clock faces on their ends. Warping further as viewers move around the forms, these timepieces reflect the ways we are all bound up with the passing of the days.

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Crafting Digital Visual Identity: The IMCI Branding

Abduzeedo

Crafting Digital Visual Identity: The IMCI Branding abduzeedo 06/25 — 2025 Explore how Studio Format forged a clear, inspiring branding and visual identity for IMCI Digital School, embodying digital expertise. Hey, fellow creatives! Let's talk about branding and visual identity. It's more than just a logo. It's the company's core. A brand needs to connect.

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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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Kelly Mackenzie on boundaries, balance, and why 'hustle' isn't a dirty word

Creative Boom

As part of our Caregiving & Creativity theme, we speak with Kelly Mackenzie, founder of White Bear , about learning to delegate, redefining hustle, and how becoming a parent reshaped her relationship with work. For Kelly Mackenzie, hustle isn't something to be ashamed of. It's part of what's fuelled a decade-leading branding agency, White Bear. But becoming a mother forced her to rethink how she works, set clearer boundaries, and delegate with purpose.

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See the First Images of Our Solar System Taken by the World’s Biggest Digital Camera

Colossal

If you’ve ever stood beneath a clear night sky and taken in the incredible, sweeping Milky Way overhead, you’ve probably wondered just what is actually up there. We know there are millions of stars, galaxies, nebulae, asteroids… the list goes on. But what if we could see them up close? Thanks to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, we’re able to see new high-resolution composites of the Solar System with unprecedented clarity.

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A Glimpse in to the Past: Vibrant Vintage Photos of ’70s Youth Style

Design You Trust

Mark Susina’s vintage photographs serve as a time capsule to the 1970s, a decade defined by its audacious fashion and a youth culture embracing radical self-expression. From flowing bell-bottoms to mesmerizing prints, the era’s style was a testament to individuality and change, all perfectly preserved in these candid moments.

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Top 10 Best Shopify Web Design Agencies in the US

Inkbot Design

📖 Reading Time: 5 minutes 🏷️ Categories: Design, Branding, Marketing 📅 Published: [DATE] Top 10 Best Shopify Web Design Agencies in the US Let’s Be Honest: Picking the Right Design Partner Is Tough Launching an eCommerce brand? Good. That means you're probably staring at a million tabs open—Shopify theme marketplaces, agency portfolios, Reddit horror stories, and some dude on YouTube telling you to “just use Dawn.” Yeah, not helpful.

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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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This UV printer just broke a Kickstarter world record - and now I want one

Creative Bloq

The eufyMake E1 has surpassed $44 million in pledges, and the campaign ends in just 3 days.

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Coronet Introduces STFU Contours Collection of Shapely Acoustic Luminaires

Design Milk

With an ever-expanding range of solo sound-reducing products on the market, architectural lighting manufacturer Coronet LED introduces STFU Contours , a collection of fixtures that combines optimal lighting with acoustic performance. The new line is an extension of the company’s original STFU Acoustic series launched seven years ago, now with curved forms that bring a sense of movement to commercial interiors.

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How to paint from life on a Samsung Galaxy tablet

Creative Bloq

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Artist Spotlight: Reeha Lim

Booooooom

Paintings on silk reflecting on diasporic memory, spatial belonging, and the fragmentation of the self across borders by artist Reeha Lim.

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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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Explore Storytelling Through 300 Years of Quilts in ‘Fabric of a Nation’

Colossal

While we often associate quilts with their function as bedspreads or an enjoyable hobby, the roots of the craft run very deep. The art form has long been associated with storytelling, and numerous styles have enabled makers to share cultural symbols, memories, and autobiographical details through vibrant color and pattern. African American quilters have significantly influenced the practice since the 17th century, when enslaved people began sewing scraps of fabric to make blankets for warmth.

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Tractor-Cycle, Treaded Motorcycle Designed by French Inventor J. Lehaitre, ca. 1938

Design You Trust

In 1938, French engineer J. Lehaitre introduced the “Tractor-Cycle,” an ambitious attempt to revolutionize off-road military vehicles. This unique machine replaced conventional wheels with a single, continuous track system designed to navigate rugged terrain where traditional motorcycles failed. Although it was designed to carry a machine gun and could reach speeds of up to 25 mph, the Lehaitre Tracked Motorcycle was ultimately rejected by the French army after military trials.

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Rogue Trooper could be that movie that makes or breaks Unreal Engine as a platform for filmmaking

Creative Bloq

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Weather displayed as vintage 1990s forecast on the Weather Channel

FlowingData

There was a time when you tuned in to the Weather Channel on something called television and all you saw was a cycle of forecasts. A saxophone tune played in the background and you waited for your city to show for a second. Michael Battaglia recreated the experience with a vintage weather view , but you can search for your location instead of waiting.

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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.