Mon.Sep 26, 2022

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Before: I Asked an Influencer to Design My Living Room and She Didn’t Disappoint

Design Milk

As an editor at Design Milk, I’ve been writing about design for 7+ years. You would think that after all that time – learning about design, meeting designers from all over the world, interviewing with heads of design – that I would have some semblance of experience when it came to designing my own living room. Nope. If anything, this experience has humbled me and taught me that b eing exposed to such a high bar of design is both a blessing and a curse.

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How to Make This Colourful ‘Rainbow’ Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

Spoon Graphics

In today’s Illustrator tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a colourful text effect, which comprises of a stack of text elements that transition through the colour spectrum to produce a rainbow effect. Illustrator’s Blend tool will form a core part of the procedure, but I will also share a useful tip that enables you to easily alter the wording of all the text instances at once.

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Top 10 Unlimited Graphic Design Solutions for Your Business

Inkbot Design

Top 10 Unlimited Graphic Design Solutions for Your Business. Have you ever watched a cooking show? I bet you did. Let's go deeper: have you ever wondered why chefs pay so much attention to the food presentation? Right! It's all about aesthetics, image, and thus design. Yes, graphic design builds the way you perceive the product. Psychology goes hand in hand with marketing.

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Artist Spotlight: Kyle Scott

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Kyle Scott. Kyle Scott’s Website. Kyle Scott on Instagram.

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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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8 CSS & JavaScript Snippets for Building Mega Menus

SpeckyBoy

When it comes to website navigation, the old rule of thumb is that content should be no more than a click or two away. It’s all about ensuring users can find what they need without having to jump through hoops. But the more content you have, the more difficult it becomes to organize navigation. Long drop-down menus or those with multiple nested levels can be a pain to use.

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How to thrive as a UX research manager

UX Collective

Originally presented as a talk at User Research London 2022. I want you to think about the worst manager you ever had. Can you picture this person? It could be your current manager. It could be a manager you had when you were a teenager. What made them a bad manager? If you are thinking of a negative experience, you might be feeling pretty awful right now.

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How To Create An E-Commerce Content Strategy To Improve Sales

Noupe

You are aware of the significance of e-commerce content strategy for improving sales in e-commerce businesses unless you are completely off the grid. The issue is that some marketers believe that if they provide enough content, people will find it. Unfortunately, this is not how it operates. Without a plan, content is merely words, pictures, and videos that are broadcast into cyberspace.

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Artist Elspeth Vince finds endless inspiration within the human body and mind

Its Nice That

The London-based painter uses emotion to create her beautifully moody and reflective oil paintings.

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Brilliant Star Trails Sweep Above a Fierce Tangle of Lightning in a Striking Photo

Colossal

Image © Marc Sellés Llimós, shared with permission. Back in June, Marc Sellés Llimós photographed multiple instances of illumination in a single nighttime sky. From the village of Manlleu, Osona, where he lives and works, Sellés Llimós captured a fierce thunderstorm as it raged on the other side of the Serra de Bellmunt mountain in Carcassonne, France.

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How Hjärta Smärta Challenged the Male-Dominated Status Quo in the Early 2000s

Eye on Design

Long before higher education in art and design was within reach for me, and before my imagination stretched to even considering book design as something one could do for a living, I accidentally found a publication in the school library that absorbed me and still sits in my heart as one of the “magic” books of my life. . It was an artist book depicting a character called “Miss Universum” (Miss Universe), the alterego of Swedish pop and performance artist Catti Brandelius.

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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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Has a US intelligence office really just put a UFO on its logo?

Creative Bloq

It's sent the internet into a frenzy.

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Popwell Wellness Discovery Banding by Jasmina Zornic

We And The Color

Jasmina Zornic is a Belgrade, Serbia-based design director at Unibrand Communications. Just recently, she created a visual identity, brand guidelines, and packaging design for Popwell, a new wellness concept. The result is a fresh, colorful design. Below you can see a few images of Jasmina Zornic’s work. For more, please take a look at her portfolio on Behance.

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Type & Treats a vivid, colorful brush like type treatment

Abduzeedo

Type & Treats a vivid, colorful brush like type treatment. abduzeedo 0926—22 Type & Treats is a collection of type treatments, done in a very unique and specific style Stefan Chinoff is using. It’s a vivid, colorful brush like type treatment, quite expressive in nature and two letters are the same. To empower myself sometimes Stefan applies images within the wording and some explosive lines, but thanks to the array of shades and colors, the words feel moving …. fast!

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Special Charisma Font by Say Studio

We And The Color

Download a stylish vintage retro font with a special charisma. As the name suggests, Say Studio’s Special Charisma font provides a unique look and feel. This lovely vintage retro font is inspired by the groovy vibe of the 60s and 70s. In full display size, the Special Charisma font will give your typographic work a striking look but on the other hand, it’s also easily readable in normal text sizes.

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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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Cranbrook Academy of Art Announces a Free Online Conversation Series About Graduate Programs

Colossal

Clockwise from left: Madeline Isakson (3D Design ’22), Julian Jones (Photography ’22), Erika Nj Allen (Ceramics ’23). All photos by PD Rearick. For nearly 90 years, Cranbrook Academy of Art has remained one of the nation’s most distinctive and celebrated graduate-only programs, and our students have helped shape the historical and contemporary landscape of art, architecture, and design.

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Lenovo Yoga 9 Series full CGI spot and a new visual language

Abduzeedo

Lenovo Yoga 9 Series full CGI spot and a new visual language. abduzeedo 0926—22 Ars Thanea shared another incredible 3D project. This one is for the full CGI spot and a new visual language for the Lenovo Yoga. The starting point for them were shapes, colors, and most of all, motion. To create a beautiful movement, the folks over Ars Thanea used motion capture technology to record a real living and breathing artist whose dance was converted into an avatar whose moves you can now admire along with

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30 of the Best Pixel Fonts for a Genuine Retro Look

Vandelay Design

The best pixel fonts are extremely useful for retro designs like game covers, posters, flyers, t-shirts, merchandise, and more. The post 30 of the Best Pixel Fonts for a Genuine Retro Look appeared first on Vandelay Design.

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Xencelabs scoops drawing tablet of the year in the Creative Bloq Awards 2022

Creative Bloq

Apple, Wacom and XP-Pen all earn awards in the Drawing Tablets category.

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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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Link + Loop Make Being Seated Look Oh So Good

Design Milk

Talk about a collaboration that’s overflowing with colorful fun. Industrial design studio Raw Color and Sancal have released a two part sofa project: LINK and LOOP. Raw Color excels at understanding and using color by connecting it to light, shadow, and volume, making each piece of furniture they create a full-on graphic expression. The partnership that began before the pandemic eventually turned into the idea of celebrating the moment we can sit down together again.

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Apple MacBook Air (M2) wins big in the Creative Bloq Awards 2022

Creative Bloq

Apple joins Razer, HP and Asus by scooping awards in the Laptops category.

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The Land Rover Defender 75th Limited Edition Will Make Others Green With Envy

Design Milk

Named after the verdant Lake District countryside village in England, Land Rover has bestowed the Defender 75th Limited Edition a captivating new Grasmere Green color theme. The mildly matte and herbaceous hue is one dashing color, with the light metallic green imparting the automotive adventurer’s silhouette a notably new personality extending right down to its matching wheels while accentuating its satisfyingly rugged and boxy proportions.

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Amazon to overshadow Black Friday with 'Prime Early Access Sale' event

Creative Bloq

It's back with massive discounts (just don't call it Prime Day 2).

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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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The Dough Collection Pays Homage to Baking and Pottery

Design Milk

British designer Faye Toogood is launching her first homeware collection, starting with the sculptural Dough ceramic series. The name of the collection pays homage to the regular act of kneading both in baking and pottery. There are six pieces in this inaugural launch: a mug, jug, platter, bowl, vase, and centerpiece. All of them complete Toogood’s desire to “bring sculpture into the home, onto the table, in an everyday usable way.”.

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Color Splash Effect and Why We Love Them

Pixlr

What is a color splash effect? True to its name, the color splash effect is an image editing trick that transforms full-color photos into black and white, with a dash of colors left usually to emphasize its main subject. This artistic decision can be done either to elevate your portfolio, to beautify your social media [.].

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Studio Lisboa ltd

Shillington

The post Studio Lisboa ltd appeared first on Shillington Design Blog.

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Golden Brown Gifts + A Haunting House: Photography 2023 New Entries

Graphis

The Extended Late deadline for the Photography 2023 competition is tomorrow, so enter your work while you.

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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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Artist Spotlight: Aglaé Bassens

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The missing element of the Double Diamond design process

UX Collective

Design teams need more than just a process; they need a clear understanding of why they do what they do. Continue reading on UX Collective ».

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Maps of wildfire smoke pollution

FlowingData

Wildfire obviously damages the areas it comes in direct contact with, but wildfire smoke can stretch much farther. Based on research by Childs et al. , Mira Rojanasakul, for The New York Times, shows how pollution from smoke spread between 2006 and 2020. My kids’ rooms still have air filters from a few years ago, when a fire many miles away made the sky orange and our indoor environment smokey.

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Download resources for ImagineFX 219

Creative Bloq

Here you'll find all the files, resources and videos to accompany issue 219 of ImagineFX magazine.

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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.