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James Hurst on his new role at Google, Big Tech's bad press and why he's hopeful for the future

Creative Boom

James Hurst, Head of Brand Design at Google. Dream jobs don't just have to stay dreams. British designer James Hurst is living proof. After 17 years in the profession, he landed the role of Google's head of brand design this April, and so far, it's been everything he ever wished for. In our exclusive interview, James walks us through his spectacular career and talks about the challenges facing big tech and what the future has to offer.

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Everything You Need To Travel With Your Pets This Summer

Design Milk

As much as we all love our pets, I’m sure we can all agree that traveling with them isn’t always all it’s barked up to be. For most dogs and cats (and some humans, really), a change in environment can be disorienting, causing your pet to feel anxious and not like themselves. Which is why having the right tools and accessories on hand is of the utmost importance – we also just want our fur babies to have the cushiest accommodations available because they deserve the best, after all.

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Weekly News for Designers ? 647

SpeckyBoy

Why most design systems implode – According to one survey, only 40% of design systems were successful. Why is that? AutoAnimate – This drop-in JavaScript utility adds smooth animated transitions to your projects. Scroll Animation Ideas for Image Grids – This tutorial explores animating images in a grid while scrolling. Payload is now completely free and open source – The headless CMS moves to an open-source model.

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F5: Olga Hanono Shares a Rebellious Garment, a Favorite Playlist + More

Design Milk

For more than 21 years, Mexican-born Olga Hanono has been a leader in interior design with a passion for aesthetics, beautiful objects, and space. She’s known for designing around the world and is passionate about the work she is doing to contribute to wellness in our everyday lifestyle. Much of Olga’s inspiration can be found in her travels to exotic destinations, uniqueness, and glamour.

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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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Marketing for Small Businesses – How to Get the Most Out of It?

Inkbot Design

Marketing for Small Businesses – How to Get the Most Out of It? Marketing is an integral part of any business, whether a big company or a small one. Marketing helps businesses reach out to potential customers, promote their products and services and create brand awareness among the target audiences. If you're looking for ways to grow your small business online , you may be overwhelmed by all the choices.

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OUTLAB Branding by Dmytro Khrunevych and Andriy Konstantynov

We And The Color

Check out the new brand identity of architecture studio OUTLAB. These are very difficult times for the Ukrainian people since the Russian invasion. Therefore it’s a special pleasure for us to receive those design submissions from Ukraine. Dmytro Khrunevych , a Kyiv-based graphic designer has created this modern and minimalist brand identity for architecture studio OUTLAB in collaboration with Andriy Konstantynov of Mint Type.

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Babe Font by New Tropical Design

We And The Color

Discover Babe, a unique sans serif font from New Tropical Design. Created and published in 2022 by New Tropical Design, the Babe sans serif font is based on a unique style characterized by fun curves, a bold appearance, and a touch of cuteness. The clean, legible sans serif font comes with groovy alternates to give you a lot of typographical freedom.

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Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written

Eye on Design

This story is part of our Weekend Reads series, where we highlight a story we love from the archives. It was originally published on March 23, 2021. One of my favorite pieces by the artist Shannon Ebner is ASTER/SK R/SK R/SK, a work that comprises four flickering light boxes spelling out ASTER/SK over two lines. Each letter is made out of cinderblocks arranged on a gridded pegboard and photographed; the light behind them flashes in a choreographed sequence, illuminating over time the piece’s rep

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Browser share over time

FlowingData

James Eagle used an animated donut chart to show browser share from 1996 to present. I have fond memories of firing up Netscape to punch in a web address I saw in a magazine. It felt like I was opening something top secret. I didn’t realize Internet Explorer took over so quickly. I was born before the world wide web. We can't imagine living without it.

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Theaster Gates Unveils the 21st Serpentine Pavilion: Black Chapel

Azure Magazine

Intensely black, monumental in scale and strikingly minimal, the 21st Serpentine Pavilion, Black Chapel , by the American artist Theaster Gates is perhaps the most daring and uncompromising of all the pavilions that have been erected outside the Serpentine Galleries ’ main building in Hyde Park over the years. Gates’ Black Chapel is not the most accessible architectural concept of the Serpentine pavilions: The artist does not spoon-feed visitors how to engage with it.

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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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Vivid Spectrums of Color Radiate from Chris Wood’s Intricate Installations of Dichroic Glass

Colossal

Commission for Clé de Peau Beauté. “Light,” says Chris Wood , “is the purest form of radiance.” The Cambridgeshire-based artist is known for her dazzling installations made of dichroic glass—this transparent material produces a shifting spectrum of color depending on the viewpoint—that emit phenomenal prisms illuminated. Often arranged on a panel or wall, the works evoke organic patterns, like helices, murmurations, and in the case of Wood’s most recent piece, the s

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 Faina Gallery by Yakusha Studio

This is Paper

The colors of the newly opened Faina Gallery, a showroom designed by Yakusha Studio, were inspired by earthy natural tones of soil, moss, and clay.

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Applying the principles of permaculture for a more sustainable design ethos

UX Collective

As we try to live in more ecologically conscious ways, the digital sphere becomes increasingly interwoven with our physical surroundings. Sustainable tech is still but a seed sown, and not quite nurtured to scale with our environmental footprint. You may have heard of permaculture as a guiding principle and approach for creating sustainable design systems.

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Design inspiration: our favourite projects from May

Design Week

CBD drinks are hardly a rarity these days. But while many brands highlight the potential health benefits of CBD, Little Rick’s new identity was all about instilling a sense of chill. The design team at Now looked to skate culture and artists like Keith Haring as exemplars of a relaxed vibe, ending up with a neat logo lock-up that can be seen on packaging as well as OOH campaigns.

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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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Visual identity for Opal Camera

Abduzeedo

Visual identity for Opal Camera. abduzeedo 0610—22 Niklas Rosén was approached by Opal to develop a modern, relevant yet timeless visual identity for the brand, to clearly differentiate from their competitors, and to become the leader within the segment. The brief also entailed a new website, creative direction for product renders and product branding, as well as packaging design.

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MidJourney Neural Algorythm Sharpens Style of AI Art

Design You Trust

“McDonald’s in Underwater” @jeffhandesign. MidJourney is a new art-making tool in closed beta. Though both mysterious and obvious—the output suggests AI-powered generative networks trained to perform style transfer—the resulting art is breathtaking. As test participants write, invitations come much more often compared to DALL-E 2, because the neural network is more focused on creating amateur art.

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So it looks like Kanye West is into NFTs now?

Creative Bloq

Yeezus, make up your mind.

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Italian Artist Creates Dreamlike Figurative Wood Sculptures

Design You Trust

Italian artist Willy Verginer creates dreamlike figurative wood sculptures. A 60-year-old Italian artist who lives and works in Ortisei BZ, South Tyrol, and whose works are located in numerous private and public collections, both Italian and international. More: Willy Verginer , Instagram , Facebook h/t: 121clicks. Once his naturalistic, near-life size wooden sculptures are carved, the artist adds eye-catching blocks of geometric colour using acrylic paint.

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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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I really, really want this custom Ms Marvel Xbox

Creative Bloq

And there's a chance to win this clever design.

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The Fleetingness of Design Is the Theme of Jerusalem Design Week

Design Milk

Jerusalem Design Week returns for its 11th edition at this year’s venue, the Hansen House Center for Design, Media, and Technology. The festivities will run from June 23-30th, 2022 to showcase the creative talents of both Israeli and international designers. This year’s provocative theme is “For Now,” which addresses the idea that design is fleeting at a time when the future is made uncertain by ecological issues, technological advancements, and radical social transformation.

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Foundation App

Mindsparkle Mag

The post Foundation App appeared first on Mindsparkle Mag.

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WantedDesign Manhattan 2022 Launch Pad Lighting Winner: Tianning Zhao

Design Milk

Design Milk was the official media partner for the 2022 WantedDesign Manhattan Launch Pad program, sponsored by American Standard , and today, we’re excited to present the winner for the Lighting category: Tianning Zhao for his Astral lamp design! ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? “Astral is an indoor and outdoor portable lamp with wireless charging.

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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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Tre Product — Photography & Catalog by Thisispaper Studio

This is Paper

A good life depends on rejection of the unnecessary. Tre believes that simple things are superior and admire the ingenuity behind the obvious.

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Meat Studio Rebrands Mid-Day Squares To Highlight Brand’s Dynamic Personality

The Dieline

The packaging system comes from Meat Studios in collaboration with Mid-Day Squares, and it finds inspiration in the graphic language of high street fashion.

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How to write a UX writing case study

UX Collective

A step-by-step guide to breaking down the UX writing approach of a user experience and improving upon it. Photo by Jess Bailey Designs: [link] I’ll be one of the first people to tell you that, especially in the case of user experience, you can find nearly all the educational material necessary to become a pro online. Therefore it is with a heavy heart that I report that the internet has failed me: I could not find a guide to writing a UX writing case study.

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So Here's That New Russian McDonald's Logo

The Dieline

In Russia, you only get one burger patty and two fries.

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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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You’re Losing Money By Not Using Digital Marketing

Noupe

Having an excellent internet presence is essential in today’s advancing technological era. These days it is common knowledge that everyone has an online presence.And indeed, it is likewise with the digital marketing industry; even with all its extreme competitiveness, merely having just a website development for sure isn’t enough. . In today’s time, it is a positive and good practice to seek professional assistance from a digital marketing firm to up your game as a brand/organi

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Guild Member Invitation to RightsClick

Guild News Blog

Graphic Artists Guild members are invited to participate in the initial launch of RightsClick, the comprehensive rights management tool. The post Guild Member Invitation to RightsClick appeared first on The Graphic Artist Guild.

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How to Get More App Reviews (Without Annoying Your Users)

Noupe

Increasing positive reviews is a byproduct of a great solution, so having a great app that solves a clear problem for your users should be enough, right? Well, not really. Users are more likely to leave bad reviews than positive ones. In other words, if you’re not actively asking for feedback, you could be missing out on hearing from your satisfied users.

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Stephanie Falaschetti

Typewolf

Fonts: New Spirit , Aktiv Grotesk , Graphik

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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.