Creative Boom

MAY 13, 2022

Image licensed via Adobe Stock. It was only a decade ago when mental health was something you didn't bring up with your boss. It was a taboo subject, and we worried it would impact our careers if we dared mention it. Today, all that has (thankfully) changed. For Mental Health Awareness Week, we asked four creative agencies to tell us what they're doing to tackle mental wellbeing in the workplace.

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We And The Color

MAY 13, 2022

Available for use as fully editable poster templates in Adobe Illustrator, these retro art-inspired designs are characterized by wavy lines in striking colors. This eye-catching retro art-inspired poster template was made by Adobe Stock contributor @Denys Koltovskyi. Designed as fully editable vector files, the templates include two design options. The design concept is based on abstract retro graphics in stylish colors.

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SpeckyBoy

MAY 13, 2022

PowerToys – 11 awesome features Microsoft won’t add to Windows – Add handy features to your Windows computer with this free download. It’s time we fix the unethical design of cookie consent windows – Thoughts on creating a more transparent cookie consent UI. Contextual Spacing For Intrinsic Web Design – Learn how to coexist with unpredictable browsing environments through spacing. 25 Free Watercolor Brush Sets for Adobe Photoshop – Add all manner of watercolor effects to your images with t

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Inkbot Design

MAY 13, 2022

Freelance vs Agency: Which is Best to Hire? Freelance workers tend to have more flexibility, but agencies can better match your skills with the job if you’re looking for the best fit. This guide explains the differences between hiring freelance vs agency. When you hire a freelancer, you get someone familiar with your industry. An agency, however, is a bit different.

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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

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Its Nice That

MAY 13, 2022

As he celebrates the publication of 500 zines with an exhibition at the Martin Parr Foundation, we talk to the founder of Café Royal Books about what inspired him to begin publishing.

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Trendland

MAY 13, 2022

Words Francois Correia. Vietnamese Ao Dai is not only a kind of national costume but also contains a rich history, cultural traditions, aesthetic conceptions, national consciousness and the spirit of the Vietnamese people. Vietnamese artist Chiron Duong translates the symbolism of the garment in his “Portraits of Ao Dai” photographic series.

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Design You Trust

MAY 13, 2022

Hideaki Kita was born in Kanagawa in 1972 and graduated from Multimedia Art Academy Background Department. After working for a game company and an animation production company, he became a freelance artist. He is active in a wide range of activities, including solo exhibitions and watercolour classes, while painting local landscapes of Shonan. Although he doesn’t currently work in the anime industry, he regularly holds large social gatherings for people in the anime industry.

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Colossal

MAY 13, 2022

Anthropomorph in regalia, with a rayed circle in the midsection, 0.93 meters tall. All images courtesy of Jan F. Simek, Stephen Alvarez, and Alan Cressler in Antiquity. Hidden in a narrow cavern extending less than two feet from floor to ceiling, five cave drawings are the largest of their kind discovered so far in North America. Three anthropomorphic figures and two rattlesnakes are etched into the mud surface of 19th Unnamed Cave in Alabama—the name is intentionally vague to protect the exact

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Creative Nerds

MAY 13, 2022

This resources is exclusive to our premium members. This is a collection of of 18 tea ring stains. This brush set is a great way to apply authentic tea stains to your design projects in matter of seconds using this handy premium photoshop brush. Preview Download (Premium members). The post Premium Members: 18 tea ring stains Photoshop brush set first appeared on Creative Nerds.

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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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Design Milk

MAY 13, 2022

Jean Lin is a New York City-based design entrepreneur. Initially trained as a fashion designer, she has professional experience as a designer, editor, trend forecaster, educator, and curator. Jean is the founder of Colony , a designers’ co-op; the charitable design organization Reclaim NYC ; and Tribeca Design District. She also serves on the board of the Female Design Council.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 13, 2022

“The places of our childhood never really change,” explain the architects at Turin-based firm lamatilde. “They are suspended in time, to remind us of who we are and where we come from.” This enchanting sense of nostalgia has informed lamatilde’s design of the LAQUA Countryside resort, a 6-suite retreat and restaurant in the town of Ticciano di Vico Equense, located on the Sorrento peninsula.

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Spine Magazine

MAY 13, 2022

Jason Arias is a freelance graphic designer, illustrator, and art director based in Nashville, TN. Here he takes us through his process for designing Time Shelter. Synopsis for Time Shelter : “In an apricot-colored building in Zurich, surrounded by curiously planted forget-me-nots, Gaustine has opened the first “clinic for the past,” an institution that offers an inspired treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor reproduces a past decade in minute detail, allowing patients to transport the

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UX Collective

MAY 13, 2022

Consider this: we replace every cell in our body every three years. Our memory is flexible and re-formattable. So, every one of us has the power to, as Gandhi once said, “become the change you want to see in the world”. We change and transform our lives regardless, whether we use any aids to do so or not. So, why not turn such transformation into a conscious and deliberate process?

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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.

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Design You Trust

MAY 13, 2022

Sunday Women, Drying Their Hair, 1912. John French Sloan (August 2, 1871 – September 7, 1951) was an American painter and etcher. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Ashcan school of American art. Documenting city life with an unflinching eye, John Sloan’s realism was part of an early 20th-century revolution in American art. Turning their backs on the refined subjects and styles of traditional art, the members of The Eight, commonly known as the Ashcan School, captured the ev

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Press'd

MAY 13, 2022

Our baby announcement gallery might not be the first place you look for wedding invitation inspiration, but these three customizations may change that. Since all of our designs are customizable, we can update any of them to create the perfect invitation for any celebration. Our Anakin design blends ultra modern typography with our Gray paper and dramatic blind embossing.

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Swiss Miss

MAY 13, 2022

( via ). – My friend Gareth launched a beautifully minimal app that tracks how you feel. Love it. – I gasped multiple times while listening to this interview with Sherri Mitchell in the latest Hurry Slowly Podcast episode on Showing Up in Fullness. – A little bit of hope: Scientists Discover Method to Break Down Plastic in Days, Not Centuries. – This is wonderful: Royal frogs, masquerading lemurs, and florals with human faces are just some of the eccentric characters in a

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Design You Trust

MAY 13, 2022

“My number had come up with the draft before my Jan 1968 graduation from Fresno State College,” writes Lance Nix, “so I worked a part time job until I was finally inducted into the U.S. Army early June of 1968. By the end of October 1968 I was en-route to the Vietnam War. I was assigned to MACV Team 66 in the Mekong Delta as a member of the PHOENIX Program.

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Its Nice That

MAY 13, 2022

The Barcelona-based animation studio talks us through the character-building process behind The Feelings, visualising real emotional states identified by first responders.

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UX Collective

MAY 13, 2022

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Mindsparkle Mag

MAY 13, 2022

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Trendland

MAY 13, 2022

Words Alisa Ota Tietboehl. Arimatsu Narumi , an area near Nagoya, in Central Japan is famous for the historic tie dye technique, called Arimatsu Narumi Shibori since over 400 years ago.

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Design Milk

MAY 13, 2022

Still a concept looking to be manufactured, Girelli Studio’s Arch Chair is a statement piece ready for its moment in the spotlight. Made of Ash wood, with a plywood backrest and seat surface, its strong architectural design features structure. At the same time, it doesn’t compromise on the softness created by the curves. The Arch Chair pulls from mid-century aesthetics as well as Japanese architecture and the work of Charles Rennie Macintosh.

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Trendland

MAY 13, 2022

Words Katarzyna Suzuki. "Useless Bodies?" is a recent exhibition by the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset at Fondazione Prada, Milan.

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Its Nice That

MAY 13, 2022

This week, our sister company launches a guide for overcoming first-month fears at a new job, and an annual salary survey with the chance to win an array of goodies.

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Creative Review

MAY 13, 2022

Earlier this year, we covered a McDonald’s campaign in Norway, which highlighted the problem of littering in Norwegian cities. In a bold move, the ads featured photos of McDonald’s packaging discarded on the ground, alongside the message ‘Take away your take away’ Hot on the heels this campaign is Belgium’s take on the theme, created by TBWA, which puts bins centre stage. “We want to make trash.

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