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D&AD Awards 2025: who won what?

Creative Boom

With the judging process changing dramatically this year, which agencies won big in the D&AD Awards 2025? For many, it's the biggest and most nerve-wracking night in the creative calendar. D&AD held its 63rd awards ceremony last night (Thursday 22 May) at London's Southbank Centre and handed out a record-breaking 668 Pencils across all categories.

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50+ Best Photoshop Tutorials in 2025

Graphic Design Junction

A list of 50+ best Photoshop tutorials in 2025 , perfect for beginners, intermediate, and advanced Adobe Photoshop users. The tutorials are essential learning tools for designers, photographers, and digital artists. The post 50+ Best Photoshop Tutorials in 2025 first appeared on Graphic Design Junction.

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10 Best CSS Snippets for Web Designers in 2025

Noupe

What Are CSS Snippets? CSS snippets are small blocks of CSS code that perform specific styling tasks. These can range from aligning elements with Flexbox to creating complex animations with just a few lines of code. By embedding them into a project, developers and designers can implement advanced visual features quickly and efficiently. Importance of Snippets in Modern Web Design In 2025, the emphasis on speed and efficiency in web design has never been higher.

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Process book design

Communication Arts

Mark Wynne’s design for Matthew Seiji Burns’s debut novel visually and textually represents the main character’s crumbling mental state.

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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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Optimising Web Performance: A Guide to Faster Load Times

Noupe

“ Users equate speed with trust. If your site is slow, you seem less credible.” — Steve Souders. It indicates that the website should be fast, as every millisecond matters to the users. It plays a vital role in engaging, retaining, and engineering the best user experience in modern web design. On the contrary, poor website performance leads to user abandonment, revenue loss, lower search engine rankings, damaged brand reputation, poor customer satisfaction , and negative mobile experiences.

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AI Pace Layers: a framework for resilient product design

UX Collective

Designing human-centered AI products can bearduous. Keeping up with the overall pace of change isnt easy. But heres a bigger challenge: The wildly different paces of change attached to the key elements of AI product strategy, design, and development can make managing those elementsand even thinking about themoverwhelming. Yesterdays design processes and frameworks offer priceless guidance that still holds.

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How to design characters for animation that fit a story

Creative Bloq

Pro artist Omar Gomet reveals how to create characters that push a story's narrative.

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Designer Danny Kaplan’s New Collections Explore New Materials

Design Milk

Known primarily for his masterful ceramics, Danny Kaplan has now ventured boldly beyond his established vocabulary, introducing three collections that signal a dramatic expansion of his material exploration while maintaining the sculptural sensibility that defines his work. Kaplan’s thoughtful approach to palette evident in his carefully developed ceramic glazes serves as a throughline connecting his new ventures in metal furniture, hand-knotted rugs, and resin mirrors.

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'It's a radical inversion of penis envy': how Evvy rewrote the rulebook on women’s health branding

Creative Bloq

Vaginal health shouldn’t be something to hide.

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Hotel Saint Augustine Is a New Urban Sanctuary in the Heart of Houston

Design Milk

Its only fitting that Austin-based hospitality group Bunkhouse Hotels should dub its new Houston locale, Hotel Saint Augustine , after Saint Augustine. The fourth-century theologian was canonized as the patron saint of printing because of his extensive writings on and early dissemination of the catholic faith. The new locale situates near the Menil Drawing Institute.

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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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Optimising Web Performance: A Guide to Faster Load Times

Noupe

Users equate speed with trust. If your site is slow, you seem less credible. Steve Souders. It indicates that the website should be fast, as every millisecond matters to the users. It plays a vital role in engaging, retaining, and engineering the best user experience in modern web design. On the contrary, poor website performance leads to user abandonment, revenue loss, lower search engine rankings, damaged brand reputation, poor customer satisfaction, and negative mobile experiences.

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Tilt and Shift Your Eyes Towards Stackabl’s Newest Lighting

Design Milk

In a clever fusion of sustainability, modern aesthetics, and made-to-order charm, the Tilt + Shift Collection of lighting is proof that eco-conscious design doesnt have to dim your style. Designed by David Rockwell of Rockwell Group for Toronto-based design platform Stackabl founded by Jeff Forrest best known for turning manufacturing waste into covetable objects Tilt + Shift is also a timely reminder that sustainability cant be a side note anymore.

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Yesenia Duran is recreating the encyclopaedia for everything from dinosaurs to balloon animals

Its Nice That

Taking the form of a Wheres Wally-esque explosion of information, viewers are invited into the lively world of educational drawings.

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Yum Bun by How&How

BP&O

Arguably Londons street food scene has become less a scene, more a network of long queues sprawling their way across the capital faster than you can say ‘SEVEN pounds! For some strawberries!’ From Borough to Barbicans Whitecross Street, Spitalfields to Southbank, Camden to Covent Garden; the menus are global, the prices hefty, the hype palpable, and the branding overwhelmingly forgettable.

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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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4 Design-Forward Destinations for Your Summer Sojourn

Azure Magazine

When it comes to booking accommodations, there are two camps: those who believe that a hotel is just a place to crash at the end of a busy day of sightseeing, and those who view it as a destination in and of itself. Design lovers typically identify with the latter. So, instead of following the traditional order of operations, why not plan your summer holiday around a high-design hotel or home rental rather than the location?

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5000+ Free Photoshop Brushes: The Master Collection Across 50+ Categories

Design Beep

Free Photoshop brushes are essential tools that can transform your digital artwork and design projects without breaking the bank. Whether you’re a professional designer, digital artist, photographer, or hobbyist, having access to high-quality brushes can significantly enhance your creative workflow and help you achieve stunning visual effects.

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Bond’s typeface for the Finnish football league is based on the shape and movement of fan scarfs

Its Nice That

The design of Veikkausliigas bespoke typeface, Scarf Gothic, is inspired by the folding and movement of football scarves, putting fans front and centre of the rebrand.

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10 Best CSS Snippets for Web Designers in 2025

Noupe

What Are CSS Snippets? CSS snippets are small blocks of CSS code that perform specific styling tasks. These can range from aligning elements with Flexbox to creating complex animations with just a few lines of code. By embedding them into a project, developers and designers can implement advanced visual features quickly and efficiently. Importance of Snippets in Modern Web Design In 2025, the emphasis on speed and efficiency in web design has never been higher.

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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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Right now, I wouldn't use an iPhone if you gave me it for free

Creative Bloq

And not just because of the feature-set.

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Casa de los Abuelos: HOMU ARQUITECTOS Reimagines a Vineyard Home as a Timeless Family Legacy

We And The Color

Imagine a home that doesn’t just shelter, but tells a story. The Casa de los Abuelos , which beautifully translates to Grandparents’ House, is exactly thata remarkable full-scale renovation by the talented HOMU ARQUITECTOS. This isn’t merely about architectural precision; it’s a project deeply infused with emotional depth, transforming a rural dwelling among the vineyards of Valencia’s Utiel-Requena wine region.

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What’s the worst professional mistake you’ve ever made? It probably wasn’t as bad as these

Creative Bloq

Baxter & Bailey’s Design Laundry shares the “messy stories behind the shiny products”

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Emi O’Connell retraces her grandmother’s escape from a mother and baby home in Ireland

Its Nice That

Drawing on personal history, this powerful series sheds light on a system that that institutionalised and abused thousands of women in Ireland.

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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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"Before AI, I was living a life full of discipline and rules”: inside the surreal AI art of Niceaunties

Creative Bloq

Discover the world-building project shaped by cultural preservation.

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A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square

Colossal

It takes a real knack for design to make something as hefty and industrial as steel and bricks appear weightless or even playful. But British artist Alex Chinneck ( previously ) is no stranger to monumental projects that reimagine urban infrastructure and buildings into striking public installations. As part of London’s Clerkenwell Design Week , Chinneck unveiled “A week at the knees,” a new sculpture in Charterhouse Square that takes its cue from an iconic predecessor.

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Adobe leaves no excuse for musty digital twins with on-trend Substance 3D assets

Creative Bloq

A collaboration with Peclers Paris aims to help product designers keep ahead of trends.

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Inferred art—painting a computer program

UX Collective

How trying to depict the complex workings of our machines can help us balance our relationship between art and AI.

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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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The brilliant 3D printer I used to print this Deadpool helmet is on sale

Creative Bloq

The super reliable Bambu Lab X1 Carbon makes 3D printing cosplay props effortless.

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✚ Conflicting points of view over the same data

FlowingData

Welcome to the Process , the newsletter on designing useful charts that work and read better than defaults. This week we look at how the same data can easily lead to different conclusions that can all be correct, even when they conflict. Become a member for access to this — plus tutorials, courses, and guides.

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Find ways to "reconnect with the joy of drawing" – game art advice everyone needs to hear

Creative Bloq

Creativity tips from Chenrui ZENG, environment artist on AFK Arena.

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Ajijic House by Tatiana Bilbao — Thisispaper

This is Paper

Mexican architecture firm Tatiana Bilbao has designed Casa Ajijic, a summer house on Chapala Lake in Jalisco, Mexico.

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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.