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The Month in Type: Nov. 2021

I Love Typography

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Jony Ive’s name will forever be associated with Apple and the iPhone. But what’s he been up to since leaving Apple? Would you believe this is the work of Ives? A beautiful departure: Type designer Craig Ward applies his typographic talents to LEGO: Grab some paper, scissors, and glue, and you’re ready to go! Thanks to Spacetype.

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Top 20 Fonts That Will Be Popular with Designers in 2022

Shillington

It’s that time of year again! As the new year approaches, it’s become somewhat of a tradition for us to look back at our students’ work, plus that of the design community in general, to highlight the fonts that are currently in vogue and likely to be big in the coming year. We’ve delved into the biggest Shillington projects, from our six physical campuses and our global body of online students, to predict the typefaces that will matter most in 2022.

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100 Logos by Sylvan Hillebrand

We And The Color

Discover a selection of one hundred logos made by Sylvan Hillebrand. Sylvan Hillebrand is a graphic designer who lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He mostly specializes in a wide range of branding and packaging projects. Just recently, he has published this amazing selection of one hundred outstanding logos designs. Just take a look below. For those who want to see more of his work, feel free to visit Sylvan’s website or follow this talented designer on Behance , Dribbble , or Ins

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Meet Becky Dore, Shillington Graduate and Designer at OnThree

Shillington

After a long stint working in architecture studios, Shillington London graduate Becky Dore realised exactly what she wanted to do: graphic design. She turned to some designer friends and the answer was obvious: Shillington. Becky enrolled on our January 2021 course which, due to the UK’s Covid-19 lockdown, took place entirely online. Becky flourished online, with our Teachers and her fellow classmates logging onto Zoom every day with a smile, and graduated in April just as the UK was start

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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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People Are Hilariously Roasting ‘Target’ Fashion Designers By Taking These Pics Wearing Their Dresses

Design You Trust

Lorca Damon. The chance that these floral farm dresses that objectively look like the last thing you’d wanna wear are sold out at Targets all over is a high one. And it’s not because people have damaged their fashion sense for good after spending prolonged periods of time in quarantine (although that would be a fair reason), but rather because the #TargetDressChallenge is going viral.

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It’s That Time Of The Year (December 2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition)

Smashing Magazine Graphics

It’s That Time Of The Year (December 2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition). It’s That Time Of The Year (December 2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition). Cosima Mielke. 2021-11-30T09:45:00+00:00. 2021-11-30T11:34:54+00:00. Slowly but surely, 2021 is coming to an end. And, well, could there be a better way to celebrate the last few weeks of the year than with some cheerful desktop wallpapers?

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Cyber Monday Sale – Last Chance to Save 40%

Graphic Design Junction

This Cyber Monday we’re bringing the creativity to you. Get up to 40% off unlimited downloads of 56+ million creative assets. Lock in your special Cyber Monday price now, It’s final call and keep it for the lifetime of your subscription. You can cancel you subscription any time! Let’s jump in! Take Your Creativity To A New Dimension. Check out some of the greatest graphic design resources.

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Shelter ad highlights the challenges faced by the homeless at Christmas

Creative Review

While many Christmas ads this year have been focused on the opportunity for family and friends to come together again after the restrictions that were in place in 2020, this film from homelessness and housing charity Shelter paints a different picture. Centred on the relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter, it initially seems to tell a fairly typical tale of complicated family interactions in the festive season but takes a darker turn at the end.

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Designing Guest Suites for Holiday Company

Design Milk

This should be a happier, healthier, more celebratory holiday season than last year’s! People are freer to travel and potentially safer in doing so. Families and friends will enjoy reunions in each other’s homes. That’s great news, right? Yes, but… All of this gaiety can also mean labor, expense, friction, and stress on the host’s part. Particularly right now, since we still do have a dangerous virus circulating.

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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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Blue Trifold InDesign Brochure Template with Circles

We And The Color

This trifold InDesign brochure template can be downloaded for free with an Adobe Stock trial subscription. Created by the Adobe Stock contributors of graphic design studio @Bergens , this trifold brochure template has been designed the size of A4. It is completely customizable in Adobe InDesign. Please note, photos shown in the preview images are for display only and are not included in the downloaded file.

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A new campaign uses travel posters to tackle anti-Asian hate crime

Creative Review

The US is in the midst of an anti-Asian crisis, with hate crimes against Asian people increasing by over 70% last year according to the FBI. To help combat this worrying trend, agency Droga5 has teamed up with the Asian American Foundation and its Hope Against Hate community programmes on a pro bono campaign that addresses the question many Asian-Americans dread: Where are you really from?

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Loose Threads Dangle from Bizarrely Expressive Portraits Sewn by Yoon Ji Seon

Colossal

“Rag face #21004” (2021), sewing on fabric and photography, 112 x 73 centimeters. All images © Yoon Ji Seon, courtesy of CRAIC AM , shared with permission. The cheeky, uncanny works that comprise Yoon Ji Seon ’s ongoing Rag Face series bring the knotted, twisting, and generally convoluted entanglements of a subject’s psyche to the forefront.

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Valha Basic Apparel

Mindsparkle Mag

For today’s first project, we suggest you play Know your worth by Khalid, as this branding has tons to do with that. A couple of weeks ago, we came up with Top 10: Fashion branding. Back in theme, we’re showcasing Valha’s visual identity. Its branding was in charge of Minoru ‘Kisho’ Higa. The self-worth of looking good is what most identifies the brand with; they want us to own our outfits and conquer the world. .

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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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Meticulous Sculptures by Artist Carol Long Highlight the Curved Lines and Colorful Embellishments Found in Nature

Colossal

All images © Carol Long, shared with permission. Honoring the humble shape of the vessel is at the center of Carol Long ’s practice. From her studio in rural Kansas, the artist throws simple ceramic cylinders that she contorts into supple butterfly wings, curved chrysalises, or vases with embellished handles.“When it comes off the potter’s wheel, that’s just the beginning,” she tells Colossal. “I usually sit for a second and look at the piece and see which way I can push it ou

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Adam Reed London Brand Identity

Mindsparkle Mag

The beginning of the day is crucial as it mostly predetermines our mood for the rest of it. Sometimes we’re influenced by simple things. We thought of three that would give us a bumpy start to the day, like running out of coffee, stepping into a puddle of water, or even a bad hair day. . Today, we have a solution to the last inconvenience. When award-winning hairstylist Adam Reed set out on his brand, he approached HereAfter to create the visual identity for his new venture.

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From philosophy books to art installations, Anna Sukhova loves pushing the limits of her practice

Its Nice That

The Moscow-born graphic designer says she learns by getting involved in “projects from different fields”.

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Why Design and Discovery are not interchangeable

UX Collective

And why it’s dangerous to treat them the same. Continue reading on UX Collective ».

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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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Winter In The Rainforest: Porcelain Characters Navigate the Amazon in a Surreal Stop-Motion Short

Colossal

?. In Anu-Laura Tuttelberg ’s stop-motion short “ Winter In The Rainforest ,” time passes at an unusual pace. The Estonian writer, director, and animator ( previously ) sets a cast of fragile, porcelain puppets within the lush rainforests of Chiapas, Mexico, and the Peruvian Amazon, a contrast of real and manufactured that grounds the surreal story.

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Totem.earth

Communication Arts

With interactive animations and immersive worldbuilding, off brand’s site conveys the spirit of this NFT artist collective.

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Kunsthalle Prague — Branding 

Abduzeedo

Kunsthalle Prague — Branding . abduzeedo 1130—21 Studio Najbrt created the branding, visual identity and typeface of Kunsthalle Praha, this new art institution at Klárov, and the Kunst font became the basis and an integral part of the future visual style of the orientation system and exhibitions. This font, designed by Mark Pistora, is based on a sketch by German typographer Jan Tschichold from 1930, the same time when the building of the former Zenger Transformer Substation was built.

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Photographer Decided To Include People In Her Photographic Series “Cats In Venice” And Something Beautiful Happened

Design You Trust

Ludovica And Kalypso. According to Marianna Zampieri: “My name is Marianna and I am a photographer from Italy. I am passionate about taking cat photos! As I have been working on a photographic series “Cats in Venice” since 2017, I decided to try something new. I started adding people in my photos of cats and something beautiful happened!

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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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Kitsch everyday — 3D series NFT

Abduzeedo

Kitsch everyday — 3D series NFT. abduzeedo 1130—21 Charly Arias, AKA Soy.ghetto , shared a 3D project and his first NFT collection inspired by that aesthetic language and objects that he grew up with. Those tacky universal objects actually transformed and are part of a day to day. The NFT collection is conceptualized by the art and colors of those houses that lack an interior decorator or some other design process.

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Artist Spotlight: Milena Bucholz

Booooooom

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Pechkeks Misfortune Cookies – The Dark Humored Biscuit That Bites Back

Design You Trust

When is the last time your fortune cookie ever said something accurate, foretelling or even grammatically correct? Never, that’s when. Easy to eat but tough to swallow, these Misfortune Cookies are much more accurate. More: Amazon h/t: sadanduseless. Each treat’s wrapper features a creature whose maniacal eyes foreshadow the sinister fun to come. After cracking into the biscuit, you’ll reveal a mercilessly funny message (“You have an inferiority complex, and it’s entirely justified”) or wicked c

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Best Clean WordPress Themes, But Not as Clean as Your Teeth After Crest

Template Monster

Hi there! Have you ever thought about the pure whiteness? Seems like, people all over the world spend hours on whitening their teeth with Crest whitestrips but what about cleanness in other stuff, especially relevant, in business? Let's discover how the best clean WordPress themes can help you to hit the mark! It comes as no surprise that people take their business online to enhance the audience and to make more money, of course.

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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.