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8 ways to make money online as a creative (that you might not have thought of)

Creative Bloq

Make cash with these ideas.

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Beautiful oil paintings of floating lily pads created using only palette knives

Creative Boom

In her latest body of work, Chinese Panamanian artist MaiYap responds to racism against Asian Americans and the attacks many have suffered. Inspired by Chinese landscape art, her beautiful colourful pieces feature highly textured lily pads floating on top of the water in all shapes and sizes, painted in oils and using only palette knives. Titled Reflections on Awakening, the abstract series explores Asian American discrimination by bringing attention to what is "beautiful and meaningful in Chine

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8 Places to Showcase Portfolio For Designers

HONGKIAT

The one thing that speaks for a designer or artist’s talents is their work. And the best way to feature your work is through a portfolio. A well-built portfolio site gives global exposure to your work and makes it easy for potential clients to reach out to you. Creating a portfolio site shouldn’t be a problem as there are so many platforms available through which anyone can create a portfolio site.

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Paramount's new home for pop culture is designed to move at the speed of content

Creative Boom

Paramount has worked with New York-based branding and design studio Trollbäck+Company to design Mixible, a new platform specially designed to keep up with the speed of pop culture and all of the content it produces. Described as an "always-on" platform, Mixible is a digital offshoot of Paramount's other entertainment brands, specifically its flagship Hollywood program Entertainment Tonight and ET Live.

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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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Townsquares Collection 2 by Makers Company

We And The Color

Check out this new set of the popular Townsquares series by studio Makers Company. Inspired by their passion for travel and everything vintage, Townsquares is a fun project by the creative people of South African studio Makers Company. Each week, they portray interesting places around the world in the style of a good old postage stamp. The main challenge is to visualize the typical essence of a certain place within the confines of this tiny square.

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Minimal Black & White Resume and Cover Letter Template for Adobe InDesign

We And The Color

If you are looking for a well-designed Adobe InDesign resume template that is straight to the point, this might be it. Designed by Adobe Stock contributor @GraphicArtist , this minimalist resume template consists of three editable pages. It is created in the standard size of A4. The template is completely print-ready. With just a few simple clicks, you can add your own text, images, and graphics to the pages.

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A surreal new Spotify campaign is animated by “Gen Z’s most promising artists”

Its Nice That

The campaign is weird, fantastical and a bit chaotic – it could only be the handiwork of Fa & Fon, Fromm, Alexandre Louvenaz and Juan R. Lage.

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Primitive + Modern Collide in the Venusia Jewelry Collection

Design Milk

A mixture of art and design, Elena Salmistraro’s Venusia jewelry collection for Alessi is an exploration of textures, colors, and geometries that are all enhanced through Italian workmanship. The name ‘Venusia’ is a take on Venus, the goddess of beauty. Pieces of jewelry can act as decorative elements that shield and protect the wearer, whether through religion, ritual, or personal aesthetic.

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DJ and illustrator Jer Dee on finding a personal style which channels the dynamism of dancing

Its Nice That

The Manila-based art director and illustrator discusses creating “generic” vector assets for corporate companies, to landing a “pipe-dream” commission for Nike’s 2022 Pride month collection.

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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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The Oxford Triangle Residence Offers a New Spin on a Venice Beach House

Design Milk

If you’ve been to Venice Beach, California, the Oxford Triangle residence is not your typical beach house sighting. The unique home sits on a narrow triangular lot by a historic electric streetcar line in use from 1905 to the mid 1950s. Architect Matthew Royce , of M Royce Architecture , designed the home for himself with inspiration drawn from a trip to Iran in 2013.

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Cover Reveal! The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants by Orlando Ortega-Medina

Spine Magazine

We here at Spine are thrilled to reveal the cover of Orlando Ortega-Medina 's new novel The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants , an extraordinary tale about the value of family and friendship, loyalty, and love, in the face of adversity. Amble Press (an imprint of Bywater Books) is delighted to have Spine Magazine exclusively reveal the cover for The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants , the latest offering by award-winning author and attorney Orlando Ortega-Medina.

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This Lighting Collection Is Inspired by Actress Myrna Loy’s Floppy Hats

Design Milk

Designed by Seattle- and Brooklyn-based Ladies & Gentlemen Studio , the Myrna lighting collection brings a new form to define intimate spaces and add warmth and dimension through light. The collection came about through a collaborative commission with designer Giancarlo Valle , who had a simple yet complex request: “Challenge the traditional chandelier archetype while defining the dining space of his open loft home.” Photo: Matthew Williams.

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Artist Offers A New Perspective On Hong Kong Through His Surreal Images

Design You Trust

Hong Kong is a magical city on its own. However, in Tommy Fung’s images (previously featured ), it looks even more extraordinary! This photographer and graphic designer demonstrates his superb talent and imagination in transforming the town into surreal scenes and at the same time shows the beauty and diversity of this amazing place. The artist moved to Hong Kong in 2016, after years of living in Venezuela.

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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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Bright + Maximalist Homewares by Kiki Goti Are a Multi-Sensory Delight

Design Milk

As a formally trained architect, Greek designer Kiki Goti has a unique connection to form and materiality – particularly, the special way in which the two influence our experiences in a space. In the Brooklyn-based designer’s latest collection of bold and tactile homewares, she takes her exploration to new, fantastical places. Featuring striking patterns, bright and playful hues, and an endlessly satisfying combination of rigid and malleable materials, Kiki Goti’s homeware collection is a multi-

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Top 10: Typographic Branding

Mindsparkle Mag

Typefaces can communicate way faster than a logo does. With fonts, you don't have to break them down to understand them unless they are hard to read or have a certain logic to be coded. Here at Mindsparkle Mag, you know how fond we're of branding projects. This week meet the best of the best with our Top 10: Typographic Branding. . Yes, we mentioned above that some fonts are challenging when you want to understand them, or others have a greater purpose in life rather than being aesthetic.

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’90s Patterns and Backgrounds for Authentic 1990s Designs

Vandelay Design

These '90s patterns and backgrounds are perfect for giving your designs an authentic look of the 1990s. Video games, VHS tapes, roller skates, geometric shapes, and more. The post ’90s Patterns and Backgrounds for Authentic 1990s Designs appeared first on Vandelay Design.

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Ellis Island Workshops

Joe McNally

It’s been a while, given the pandemic, and the general craziness of the world, but on September 22nd and 23rd, we will once again be conducting back to back, one day, Ellis Island Photo Workshops. The deserted old hospital wing on the southern end of the island remains a hauntingly beautiful place, evocative of the days during which Ellis was the main portal for entry into America.

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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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Using design thinking to create ideas that better meet customers' needs and desires

Abduzeedo

Using design thinking to create ideas that better meet customers' needs and desires. abduzeedo 0726—22 We usually post about design inspiration and we tend to focus on the visual side of things. We also understand that design is form plus function in harmony. So for this post we'd love to share a UX design case study highlighting the design thinking framework of empathize, define, ideate, prototype/test, learn and iterate.

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This Artist Creates Superb Minimalist Pixel Artworks

Design You Trust

The artwork of a Ukrainian artist that goes by a nickname Viter Stepoviy can be recognized by its pixel art style. Most of it was made in Kharkiv under the shelling. More: Instagram h/t: birdinflight. Source.

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New Droga5 Amazon campaign celebrates books’ “invisible magic”

Creative Review

Creative agency Droga5 London has worked with Amazon Books to launch its new global campaign, That Reading Feeling Awaits, which aims to “celebrate the place of books at the foundation of culture” The campaign includes six different videos which combine animation with footage of different readers to denote different book genres, which come together to demonstrate the magic of reading.

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Artist Creates Surrealistic and Absurd Paintings Inspired By Everyday Objects

Design You Trust

Los Angeles-based artist Derek Paul Jack Boyle create surrealistic paintings inspired by everyday objects. Derek Paul Jack Boyle is a visual artist whose work frequently involves the anthropomorphism of everyday objects and absurdist interventions. More: Instagram h/t: 121clicks. Boyle’s work has been featured in The New York Times, VICE Creators Project, Elephant magazine, WYNC/NPR’s Radiolab, and exhibited at Reed College RAW Festival and Brown University Pixilerations Festival.

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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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How VR Tech is Helping Games Designers Break New Ground

Inkbot Design

How VR Tech is Helping Games Designers Break New Ground. There was a time when VR technology in online games was ridiculed, with headsets weighing as much as a brick and cables tying players in knots. So much has changed since the technology's unfortunate first outings into the public domain. Now games designers are harnessing it to create some of the most innovative and exciting games and virtual experiences that exist today, from diving in oceans to  making incredible content in a VR worl

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This Instagram Page Shares People That Decided To Ink Themselves With Badass Tattoos

Design You Trust

The world is full of some seriously talented and dedicated artists. Today, we’re taking a deep dive into the world of ink and looking at some of the most impressive tattoo designs, as shared on the ‘Crazyy Tattoos’ (yup, with two y’s) Instagram page. A page with a jaw-dropping following of 1.1 million people, ‘Crazyy Tattoos’ celebrates the best of the best and the weirdest of the weirdest.

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“The Cellar Door” by Photographer Adam Riding

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Adam Riding. Adam Riding’s Website. Adam Riding on Instagram.

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With foot-stamping and doodles, Tiny Studio pokes fun at corporate customer feedback surveys

Its Nice That

By exploring the relationship between real life and the internet, the Jakarta-based creative studio combines graphic design and art to make light of the digital age.

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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.