UX Collective

JULY 1, 2022

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Design Milk

JULY 1, 2022

Nicko Elliott is the principal and co-founder of CIVILIAN , a building and interior design studio working with cultural institutions, forward-thinking companies, and creative individuals to tell their stories through design. Founded in 2018, alongside architect Ksenia Kagner, they work between scales and disciplines, designing environments, objects, and experiences with elegance, care, and levity.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 1, 2022

but this is pet photography at its finest.

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Design Milk

JULY 1, 2022

If the non-stop barrage of vacation posts on your social feed is giving you a serious case of FOMO, we’re here to tell you that you needn’t book a trip to the Amalfi Coast or stay at a bougie beachside hotel to make the most of your summer. Whether your summer plans involve working on a 2,000-piece puzzle with friends, experimenting with craft cocktail recipes in your kitchen, or turning your backyard into your own personal pool club, you can make this summer one to remember.

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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

Graphic Design

SpeckyBoy

JULY 1, 2022

Areas Where AI Can (and Already Is) Benefitting Web Designers – Artificial intelligence has the potential to make a web designer’s job easier. Avatarg Figma Plugin – This Figma plugin lets you generate avatar images. Single Element Loaders: The Bars – Learn how to create CSS animated loading bars with this tutorial. 2022 Stack Overflow Developer Survey – Find out what over 70,000 developers had to say about tools, learning, and more. dappKit – This SDK lets you build apps to sell NFTs, cry

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Design Milk

JULY 1, 2022

We’re excited to share an exclusive for this month’s Designer Desktop featuring Backdrop , the DTC brand founded by Natalie Ebel and her husband Caleb that has changed the way we shop for paint. While Backdrop is known for their paints, they’ve also expanded into wallcoverings with one collection already under their belt. Today, we’re giving you a sneak peek into their not-yet-released Backdrop II, a collection of five new vibrant and maximalist designs that will launch on July 11, 2022!

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Its Nice That

JULY 1, 2022

The Jakarta-based illustrator and motion designer demonstrates what joys can unfurl when a creative receives “full freedom” on a commercial project.

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We And The Color

JULY 1, 2022

Inspired by the 109th Tour de France that starts today, Thomas Yang of 100copies just created his bicycle art number 51 named ‘Peloton’ Right in time for the start of the 109th Tour de France, Thomas Yang of 100copies just shared with us his 51st bicycle print edition titled: Peloton. A peloton is a group of cyclists riding together in a race.

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Its Nice That

JULY 1, 2022

Inspired by old references in books and magazines, the Marseille-based designers elegant typeface Holise expertly revives a 130-year-old font.

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UX Collective

JULY 1, 2022

Whether it’s long-form content or short-form writing, words wield power all the same. The humble microcopy carries an equal but more flexible impact, adjusting to the context with snappy phrasings to guide users along the journey. By now it seems common knowledge that using these small, informational bits of text can lead to an improved flow and a more effective user experience.

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Abduzeedo

JULY 1, 2022

UX and web design inspiration — nothing. abduzeedo 0701—22 The Web has become so much richer and editorial. The UX has also improved drastically not only from the functionality but also the visual and motion point of view. I love visiting websites, especially for design studios and agencies. They remind me of when I used to spend hours flipping through design magazines like HOW.

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Colossal

JULY 1, 2022

All images © Fanni Sandor, shared with permission. Hungary-based artist Fanni Sandor ( previously ) expands her already minuscule menagerie with even tinier creatures. Using polymer clay, feathers, fur, and other materials, Sandor sculpts biologically accurate miniatures at a 1:12 scale, and many of her recent pieces include newborns and adolescents: a trio of joeys cling to their mother’s back, a chick slurps a worm, and a duckling grasps a monarch in its bill.

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Its Nice That

JULY 1, 2022

Commissioned by Netflix to visualise each episode thus far, illustrator Butcher Billy is ringing in the nail-biting finale with spoiler-free posters.

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Design You Trust

JULY 1, 2022

Israel-born graphic designer, illustrator Noma Bar creates amazing negative space illustrations. Noma Bar cleverly uses negative space to create some thought-provoking illustrations, often with double meaning. His cool designs are so simple, yet so clever you can’t fail to be impressed. Noma Bar has illustrated over one hundred magazine covers, published over 550 illustrations and released three books of his work: Guess Who – The Many Faces of Noma Bar, Negative Space and Bittersweet a 680 page

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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.

Graphic Design

Abduzeedo

JULY 1, 2022

Monaro naming and visual Identity. abduzeedo 0701—22 Caio Costa shared a branding project for Monaro including naming and visual identity. Monaro is an architecture firm based in São Luís (MA), Brazil, originated from the partnership between Ingrid and Victor, a duo of architects driven by the pleasure of materializing dreams through their projects.

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Design You Trust

JULY 1, 2022

Meet Nadia Tolstoy, an illustrator and cartoonist from Stockholm, Sweden that might change the way you look at some words. As she describes on her Instagram, she creates “mildly amusing doodles” that are “surreal at times and frequently silly” Nadia has made a series of illustrations showing a word as a combination of different things, which makes it look kind of absurd and funny.

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Spine Magazine

JULY 1, 2022

Alison Forner is the Art Director of Avid Reader Press and co-Art Director of the Simon & Schuster imprint. Here she takes us through her epic journey to secure the cover for Lisa Taddeo’s new story collection, Ghost Lover. As Senior Art Director for Avid Reader Press, I’ve had the privilege of overseeing and designing all of Lisa Taddeo’s books—from her first book (and Avid Reader’s first publication) Three Women , to her second book Animal , to Ghost Lover , her current collection of short

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Design You Trust

JULY 1, 2022

Every relationship has its ups and downs. As cliché as this sounds, there are no highs without the lows. Thanks to all the hardships and challenges, we can appreciate small things being with that special someone even more, and that’s what Pibubear comics are all about – sweet little moments shared with your loved one. Pi (she) and Bu (he) have been together for over nine years now and love to share their life adventures through comics.

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Design Everywhere

JULY 1, 2022

Book Art.

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Design You Trust

JULY 1, 2022

Amy Marques – Eyes Category. “Nature and wildlife photography has the power to change lives for the better, not only by making the wonder of nature accessible to so many, but by improving awareness of conservation issues across the globe,” says Rob Read, the founder of WildArt Photographer of the Year contest. The contest has 4 categories (Wet, Light, Silhouettes, and Eyes) and is a great platform for talented photographers to get recognition for their work.

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Design Milk

JULY 1, 2022

Resource Furniture , a leader in sustainable, multi-functional furnishings for home, hospitality, and commercial spaces has added to their Flex family of modular sofas with Curve. The comfort and warmth it offers through its smooth silhouette can be arranged over and over again to create new seating arrangements, including its innovative backrest cushions.

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Design You Trust

JULY 1, 2022

The journey of daily commuters around Mexico is captured in the photo series “Carpoolers” by Alex Cartagena. Looking down at the picture, we take in each scene as it appears, eventually lulled into a pattern that resembles the haze of a prolonged road trip; eventually, the landscape blurs into nothing. Cartagena deliberately uses this strategy to highlight how the working class is invisible in a society that prioritizes material wealth more and more and is led by officials who keep g

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Creative Bloq

JULY 1, 2022

It wouldn’t be Apple’s brightest idea.

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Booooooom

JULY 1, 2022

Evan Weselmann. Evan Weselmann’s Website. Evan Weselmann on Instagram.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 1, 2022

Now is the time for the best iPad Air (2020, 4 Gen) prices.

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UX Collective

JULY 1, 2022

In software, design can be one of the most important levers of growth. Image by Lili Kovac. On May 11th, 2022, Airbnb announced a redesign that, according to CEO Brian Chesky, was the app’s “biggest change in a decade”.  —  @bchesky It was met with mixed emotions: some people loved it while others didn’t even understand what changed.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 1, 2022

High specs at a low price, this iPad rival meets the needs of creatives on a budget. So what's the hitch?

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FlowingData

JULY 1, 2022

As you know, Reddit is typically a sophisticated place of kind and pleasant conversation. So Colin Morris analyzed the usage of compound pejoratives in Reddit comments : The full “matrix” of combinations is surprisingly dense. Of the ~4,800 possible compounds, more than half occurred in at least one comment. The most frequent compound, dumbass , appears in 3.6 million comments, but there’s also a long tail of many rare terms, including 444 hapax legomena (terms which appear only once

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Creative Bloq

JULY 1, 2022

Unleash the visual chaos.

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Six Leaf Design

JULY 1, 2022

Happy July, my friends! To be honest, the last week leading up to July has been very hard for so many people here in the States, including many of my friends, clients, and myself. Unfortunately, I’m not feeling very patriotic at all with the Independence Day coming up. So, instead of stars and stripes this month, for the free wallpaper for July I’ve got a black design for you to reflect what we’re feeling on the inside.

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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.

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