Tue.Jan 15, 2019

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Shutterstock’s 2019 Creative Trends Emphasize Bright and Bold Memories

Graphic Design USA

Shutterstock's 2019 Creative Trends Report predicts a nostalgic return to the visual aesthetics of the past. The annual guide to the latest styles is based on billions of image, video and music searches and downloads from more than 1.9 million customers around the world.

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Turning Type Sideways

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

Typeface design has a lot of discarded bycatch: small discoveries and observations that aren’t large enough to develop, but are nonetheless interesting and useful. Instead of allowing these ideas to perish, I’d like to preserve and share them, with the hope that they’ll be helpful, diverting, or inspiring to other designers. This month, researchers made official something that typeface designers have long known: that horizontal lines appear thicker than vertical ones.

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How To Make a Logo Slider on Squarespace

Six Leaf Design

One of the biggest jobs your website has is to build credibility for you. And there are lots of ways to do that, but social proof is a super powerful one. That means showing that other people have had a great experience using your product or working with you. Testimonials are one great way to do that ( and you can see how I create a fancy-pants testimonials slideshow here ), but another great way to do that is to display the logos of big companies you’ve worked with or been featured by.

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Die Rote Fahne, #1 (9 Nov 1918) and #16 (16 Jan 1919)

Fonts in Use

Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: [link] Scan: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. License: All Rights Reserved. Die rote Fahne , Nr. 1 from 9 November 1918. On this day in 1919, one hundred years ago, German socialist leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising. This post takes a look at the typefaces used in Die Rote Fahne (“The Red Flag”), the newspaper founded by Luxemburg, Liebknecht and others.

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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