Tue.Sep 22, 2020

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Textured Embroideries Capture the Thick Patchwork of Scenic Farmland and Forests

Colossal

All images © Victoria Rose Richards, shared with permisison. Based in South West Devon, Victoria Rose Richards ( previously ) accentuates the textures and patterns of landscapes through her aerial embroideries. She depicts sprawling forests with tufts of French knots and employs satin and seed stitches to form the tight, straight rows of farmland. Richards tells Colossal that in recent months, she’s added minuscule details, “like gates, sheep, birds, and people to the whole piece to

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5 Tips for Designing a Better Logo

Six Leaf Design

Creating a unique and memorable logo may sound easy, but there are so many things to take into consideration when trying to create the most important aspect of your branding and professional image. Your logo is the first thing that people see and could either result in them jumping into your sales funnel or disregarding you as a legitimate business.

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Penguin Random House reveals winners of Student Design Award 2020

Creative Review

Chi Park, first place in Children’s Cover Award For this year’s edition of its annual Student Design Award, Penguin Random House UK invited students to produce a new cover for three widely known books: The Night Manager by John le Carré, Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything, and children’s book Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian.

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The Animade rebrand by Koto uses its logo as eyes, adding instant character to all it touches

Its Nice That

This jubilant identity also brings out the animation studio’s distinct personality through abstract shapes, bright colours and a typeface full of “fun quirks”.

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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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Dieline's Weekly Community Roundup

The Die Line

Each week, we will gather some of our favorite projects posted in our Community section. It's pure design inspiration, from you and for you, whether you're a reader, designer, or agency-we'll highlight some of the absolute best packaging design from around the globe.

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Typographic Poster Studies by Xtian Miller

Abduzeedo

Typographic Poster Studies by Xtian Miller. AoiroStudio 09.22.20 Xtian Miller is a designer from Detroit, MI, USA and he is back another typographic poster studies, I really dig his style and his sense of graphics. Having featured his work before on abdz, you just can't help to appreciate his creative senses and his willingness to constantly keep exploring through discovery.

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An Intimate Short Film Highlights 2020’s Crises through Exquisitely Surreal Scenes

Colossal

? ?. Set to subdued music, Nicolas Lichtle ’s short film titled “ à la fin… ” is an unusually ethereal depiction of the crises climaxing in 2020. The delicate animation flows through a series of lightly-hued scenes that explore reactions to COVID-19, the wildfires raging across the planet, and the endless distractions of technology. “It’s a moment of introspection, very intimate, staged through a succession of small moments imbued with poetry, absurdity, and sometimes sur

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At the International Garden Festival, Absences, Abstraction and Off-Site Work Define the Quebec Showcase’s 2020 Lineup

Azure Magazine

Over the past six months, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced cultural institutions of all kinds to fulfill their mandates and serve their constituencies in new and unusual ways. Art and history museums, for instance, have staged virtual exhibitions, facility tours and artist talks aplenty, while digital pivots by theatre companies the world over have included live-streaming new plays in limited runs that mimic those in physical theatres.

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The first Photoworks Festival is coming to you in three ways

Creative Review

Launching on September 24, the first edition of Photoworks Festival – an evolution of the Brighton Photo Biennial – is centred on the theme of Propositions for Alternative Narratives. With the festival running amid the pandemic, which has upended the traditional format of the vast majority of events due to social distancing requirements and travel restrictions, Photoworks Festival will unfold in three ways.

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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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Logo Design Folio by Álvaro Studio

Abduzeedo

Logo Design Folio by Álvaro Studio. AoiroStudio 09.22.20 Álvaro Studio is a creative studio based in Barcelona, Spain specializing in art direction, graphic design, and illustration. They have shared a logo design folio I thought would be worth sharing on abdz. 'Logo design' has been a little obsession even since I designed a logo for a friend of mine who is starting a business.

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This Artist Creates Eerie Sculptures That Look Like Victorian-Era Ghosts Emerging From Mirrors

Design You Trust

Michael Locascio is a New Jersey-based artist and the owner of Dellamorte & Co. – an online store that sells all sorts of eerie and macabre sculptures that draw inspiration from mythical creatures, catacombs, and mysticism. And even though Michael’s store is already incredibly successful with over 39k sales and nothing but positive reviews, one specific sculpture recently caught the attention of.

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Inspired by Mineral-Rich Land, This Wine Label is a Mineral Marvel

The Die Line

The label appears textured for a bottle design where you can feel the sophistication. .

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Liquid Colorful Paint in 3D by Ditroit Studio & Malaki

Abduzeedo

Liquid Colorful Paint in 3D by Ditroit Studio & Malaki. abduzeedo 09.22.20 The third installment of Ditroit Studio collaboration with Malaki concerns the Molasses essences. As the Molasses flavors are brought to life through abstract paintings, each one an artistic representation of the taste it is named for, the designers and motion designers drew inspiration from the iconic graphic element of the Molasses packs, the very brushstroke decoding this neat concept through 3D play involving liquid c

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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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MORE THAN NOTHING

Illustration Art

Legendary animator Richard Williams chased his masterpiece, The Thief and The Cobbler , t he way Captain Ahab chased Moby Dick. The story of Williams' obsession with his film has been well documented elsewhere. For 24 years, from 1968 to 1992, Williams exhausted one backer after another (including a Saudi prince) in his heartbreaking pursuit of perfection.

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“Yosh” by Photographer Drew Leventhal

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This German Grandma Spends 30 Thousand Euros To Tattoo Her Whole Body

Design You Trust

It’s not a joke. German grandma and tattoo model Kerstin Tristan spent 30 thousand Euros ($35,000) for body tattoos. It should not be said that it is impossible, when it comes to tattooing everything happens. More: Instagram Kerstin Tristan, who lives in Leipzig, Germany, has been a taxi driver for a long time and has been busy with daily chores.

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Expedia spot

Communication Arts

“Stop Motion. Start Traveling.” uses household items and quirky imagination to capture the sense of wonder that travel can inspire.

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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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Photographer Spotlight: Aiden Harmitt Williams

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For the Last Decade, Artist and Collector Thomas Sauvin Recovered Discarded Negatives from A Recycling Plant Outside Beijing

Design You Trust

Since 2009, the French collector and artist Thomas Sauvin has salvaged discarded negatives from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing, negatives that were destined to destruction. His Beijing Silvermine archive, one of the largest archival projects in China, now encompasses over 850000 anonymous photographs spanning the period from 1985 to 2005, thus allowing the reconstruction of a large part.

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New Talent Releases Typography Designs

Graphis

Student Ruonan Hu at the Academy of Art University was tasked with designing promotional materials for a type foundry that had released a new typeface. For the project, titled “Discovering Greatness,”(above) they needed to create a promotion that included a type specimen that was engaging. They approached the design by trying to appeal to graphic […].

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KIKK 2020

Communication Arts

Throughout Dogstudio’s site, playful animations and transitions convey the tone of the 2020 iteration of this digital culture 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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Augmented Reality – The Past, The Present and The Future

Interaction Design Foundation

Augmented reality has come a long way from a science-fiction concept to a science-based reality. Until recently the costs of augmented reality were so substantial that designers could only dream of working on design projects that involved it – today things have changed and augmented reality is even available on the mobile handset. That means design for augmented reality is now an option for all shapes and sizes of UX designers.Augmented reality is a view of the real, physical world in which elem

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Top WP Plugins Breached by Hackers

Noupe

No content management system measures up to WordPress in terms of popularity. It is an indisputable champion in its niche, boasting an impressive 60% global market share. Furthermore, roughly 35% of all websites on the Internet run WordPress. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out why this CMS has been creating ripples in the web ecosystem area for years.

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Flat Design – An Introduction

Interaction Design Foundation

With the dawn of personal computing skeuomorphic design became important to introduce users, unfamiliar with technology, to new concepts. Skeuomorphism takes a simple approach – it creates lifelike affordances in user interfaces (UI) that the user can relate to from their real lives. Thus when you delete a file – it goes in the trash can on screen. The act of throwing something away is something that everyone can relate to.As time progressed skeuomorphic design became ever more realistic with co

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Óura's Branding Makes Use Of Paper Scraps And Creates An Organic Look

The Die Line

Óura wanted a unique identity that spoke to its values while standing out in a crowded lifestyle space, so the brand enlisted self-taught designer Michael Arnold to create the identity, branding, and packaging.

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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.