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The Ultimate Guide to Business Process Design

Inkbot Design

The Ultimate Guide to Business Process Design. If you want to design the best business processes possible, it helps to understand why they exist in the first place. Business Process Design might not seem like a hot topic when you hear people talk about it, but if you think about it, almost everything in your business happens through a process. You take an order; someone takes it off the shelf, it gets packed, shipped, invoiced, and so on.

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D&AD crowns 186 Pencil winners at its annual celebration of emerging creative talent

Creative Boom

The Conscious Merch. The best emerging creative talent has been recognised at the D&AD 2022 New Blood Awards , with 186 highly coveted Pencils being distributed to the lucky winners. Among them are four White Pencils that recognise creativity being used for good, and one Black Pencil, the award's highest accolade. Today sees the third all-virtual New Blood Festival come to a close.

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Color Therapy: Get Glowing with Neons + Brights

Design Milk

From 80s fashion and roller rinks to glow sticks and the iconic blinking signage that started it all, neon hues have always been the life of the party. Today, neon is new again – the electric lime greens, hot pinks, fluorescent yellows, and ultra-bright blue shades are popping up all over the design world in everything from lighting and decor to candles and furniture.

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Erre. Brand Design by Anatoliy Terentyev

We And The Color

Anatoliy Terentyev created a sophisticated brand identity for Erre, a design studio specializing in modern furniture and interiors. Anatoliy Terentyev is an experienced graphic designer with a strong focus on brand design and communication. His aim is to create a conscious design that makes a product or brand clearer and closer. The skilled designer was recently commissioned to work on a sophisticated brand identity and visual communication for Erre, a design studio specializing in modern furnit

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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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Levi: A Hybrid Restaurant Featuring Italian + Japanese Food + Design

Design Milk

Levi is an atmospheric restaurant located in Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Johannes Torpe. The restaurant features a hybrid of Italian and Japanese culinary traditions that is matched by the aesthetics of the space. Named after artisan Romano Levi for his mastery in grappa art, the restaurant wanted a space that represented the spirit of his universe.

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Soft Services by Decade

BP&O

Skin is the human body’s largest organ while skincare is the fastest growing segment of the beauty industry. Yet with all their promises of ‘dewy’, ‘glowing’ and ‘blemish free’, most products on the market, are focused on the face. Soft Services creates skincare products for specific body skin problems, such as acne, ingrown hairs, stretch marks and fungal issues.

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From Africa showcases some of the continent’s best design work

Creative Review

Art and design publisher Counter-Print has released From Africa, the seventh book in its popular From series, which has so far brought us work from Japan, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Switzerland and South Korea. Each book is a celebration of the design culture belonging to the different countries and regions. Moving between fashion, illustration, lettering, book design and more.

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UX principles for AI art tools like DALL·E

UX Collective

Setting a course for better image-generation tools. A composite image made with DALL·E, using the prompt: ‘1980s illustration of a face with a visible brain that’s exploding in shapes and colours’ For the past year, I’ve been experimenting with several AI art image generating systems: VQGAN+CLIP and Diffusion notebooks on Google Colab , Midjourney , a text-based image-generation system, built on top of Discord , and DALL·E , a web-based image creation tool from OpenAI.

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Learn Professional Photography and Video Production for Mobile and Social Media

We And The Color

Learn something new this year and take this online course by Nay Jiménez to produce eye-catching photography and videos for mobile and social media. Nay Jiménez is a professional publicist and photographer specializing in art direction. In her online course, she will show you how to take full advantage of your mobile phone to create visual content in the form of stunning photos and videos for your social media presence.

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Noun Project is a 5 million strong library of icons and photos building “a global visual language”

Its Nice That

Discover an ever-growing library of icons and stock photography built by creatives across the globe.

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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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In the ’70s, the Dalit Panthers Made Pocket-Sized Magazines That Challenged Social Hierarchies in India

Eye on Design

In the early ’70s, artist, publisher, and activist Raja Dhale published a pocket-sized magazine called Chakravarty for thirteen consecutive days. . It was one of the most seminal publications that celebrated Dalit literature — a writing movement produced by people belonging to the lowest stratum castes in India — and it marked the intersection of the Dalit Panthers Movement and the country’s avant-garde and modernist Little Magazine Movement.

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Be a cultivator of ideas to achieve trust, buy-in, and design excellence

UX Collective

Be a cultivator of ideas because you are more likely to achieve design excellence when you include ideas from a diverse group of people. Field Of Sunflowers by Matthew T Rader One of the UX Designer ‘s primary roles is to not generate all the ideas but to cultivate ideas from the various stakeholders in a project. Early on in my career, I thought I had to be the source of all the design ideas.

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Modern Age’s Flagship Location Reinvents the Healthcare Interior

Azure Magazine

Madelynn Ringo knows her way around retail. From cult-classic cosmetics label Glossier to the as-seen-on-TV Bala fitness brand, the Brooklyn-based designer has become renowned for her ability to translate a company’s mission into an experiential space. Her latest post as the Head of Studio Design for Modern Age , a digitally-integrated wellness brand — also her first foray into the healthcare sector — has proved to be no exception.

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The case for Liminal Design

UX Collective

On the narrative of design for complex emotions in technology. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, detail of Pluto and Proserpina, 1622: the embodied narrative in the marble is not unleashed by the stone, but by our approach and imagination. It is easy to assume that the beautiful messiness of desires, awe and transformation belong to worlds far away from the good folks that brought you smartphones, digital assistants, and Hello Kitty vibrator ads (matching flip-flops included!

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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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Graphic Designer Proposed How The Logos of Famous Brands Could Look Like

Design You Trust

Allan Peters is the Partner and Chief Creative Officer of Peters Design Company. At PDCo he has partnered with brands such as Nike, Amazon and Patagonia. His work has been recognized internationally by numerous award shows and magazines including Clio, Communication Arts and How Magazine. He is a lover of handcrafted vintage and antique goods and comes alive when scouring small town antique malls and swap meets.

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30,000 Photographs of Black History and Culture Are Available From Getty’s Archive

Colossal

August 7, 1962, a student at the Jamaican School Of Arts And Crafts models a bust of a woman in clay. Photo by Central Press/Getty Images. From a black-and-white portrait of a reclined James Baldwin to a candid shot of a father and daughter on a Harlem park bench, a new archive from Getty grants open access to thousands of images devoted to Black history and culture.

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Good Vibes: Creative Post-Design Inspirations by Grafikonelu

Design You Trust

Today we have some cool examples of post-design from Spain. Just a visual orgasm. Just relax and enjoy. More: Grafikonelu , Instagram. Source.

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The ups and downs of Anu Ambasna’s personal practice, from NTS comics to Zayn Malik fan-fiction

Its Nice That

Not shying away from the lower points in life, the illustrator and DJ shared how her long-lasting love of music and drawing helped her through the tougher times in June’s Nicer Tuesdays.

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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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Itzal Zikinak

Design Everywhere

Itzal Zikinak.

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The Impressive Contemporary Abstract Art Works of Beñat Olaberria

Design You Trust

Beñat Olaberria is a Basque artist living in London. His practice is about form, composition, rhythm and balance. His creative process starts with accidental and impulsive pencil drawings which sometimes are developed into multilayered prints and abstract paintings. Beñat has taken part in a number of group exhibitions and his work can be found in private collections in the USA and across Europe.

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Itzal Zikinak

Design Everywhere

Itzal Zikinak.

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Futuristic Cylinder Homes by Guy Dessauges, 1966

Design You Trust

An alternative mode of high rise living, these futuristic homes were dreamed up by the Swiss architect and artist Guy Dessauges in the mid-1960s. The eccentric creator was obsessed with the idea of designing completely cylindrical buildings, inspired by the semi-circular forms of ancient cave dwellings and Roman vaulting. h/t: vintag.es. He was also focusing on a new use of materials, structural and social connectivity of the new modes of design.

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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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How are there 16 circles in this optical illusion?

Creative Bloq

Colour me perplexed.

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This Modular, Modern Indoor Forest Is a Grower and Shower

Design Milk

Generally speaking, planters designed for vertical farming using no-soil hydroponic solutions abide by function dictating form. Beyond tabletop small growing systems or passive hydroponic action planters, growing plants for consumption seems a goal best prescribed for outdoors. But with the explosion of interest in both houseplants and gardening, it’s a bit of a mystery there aren’t more thoughtfully designed solutions like the Mother’s Forest modular green wall system – the fi

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Stranger Thing's Vecna was meant to be even more terrifying

Creative Bloq

These concepts will give you nightmares.

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The One Where Monica Geller’s Apartment Gets a Biophilic Intervention

Design Milk

With biophilia being embraced more and more by the design world, HouseFresh decided to give Monica Geller’s beloved New York City Friends apartment a refresh by bringing in a bit of nature. Much of the instantly recognizable decor has been removed in lieu of natural materials and shapes that are known to help us relax and heal. Uptight and controlling Monica could have probably used some of that.

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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 best LG G1 deals and prices in 07 2022

Creative Bloq

The best LG G1 deals on the best LG wall-mounted TV.

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The Loop Table by Victor Vasilev Takes Your Eyes for a Spin

Design Milk

The circle is the most perfect shape and the Loop Table has three, confirming its flawless design as a furniture piece. Designed by Victor Vasilev for Bross , Loop derives its name from the metal ring adjacent to its top surface, which gives it both a functional and aesthetic purpose. This detail allows for the table to be moved freely by providing an easy grip, while also giving it its decorative motif. .

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Something could be missing at the iPhone 14 launch

Creative Bloq

But will it be worth the wait?

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Kapkan Agency

Mindsparkle Mag

The post Kapkan Agency appeared first on Mindsparkle Mag.

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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.