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Design Deals for the Week

Designer Daily

Every week, we’ll give you an overview of the best deals for designers, make sure you don’t miss any by subscribing to our deals feed. You can also follow the recently launched website Type Deals if you are looking for free fonts or font deals. 750+ High-Quality UI Sound Effects. Packed with over 750 high-quality recordings, the Useful Interface sound library delivers a diverse collection of tastefully crafted user interface sound effects for your UI needs.

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The history and psychology of colors

Canva

It’s believed that artists invented pigments using a combination of soil, animal fat and burned charcoal as early as 40,000 years ago. In this article, we deep dive into the history of colors and the color psychology behind them. In today’s society, color is perhaps something we take for granted. With one simple click, we have thousands of colors at our disposal.

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Old Bulgarian Lottery Tickets Were Winning at Design

Designer Daily

I couldn’t find much information about these lottery tickets from communist Bulgaria, but the design alone makes it worth sharing here. Heavily inspired by Russian constructivism, these tickets are an amazing display of great layouts produced with abstract shapes only. Images via Delcampe.net. Thanks for being a subscriber, here is your FREE house vector icons set.

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Marcea Decker: Educator To Watch 2019

Graphic Design USA

Marcea Decker of Shillington Education kicks off our 2019 Educator To Watch series. Marcea sees design as a way to improve quality of life through problem-solving and education as fundamental to it.

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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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Emily Osborne on Designing The Swallows

Spine Magazine

Emily Osborne is a graphic designer and illustrator, and Art Director at Penguin Random House, NY. Here she takes us through her process for designing The Swallows. The cover design for Lisa Kutz’s The Swallows , was one of those special experiences where my first round ended up including the final cover, every last detail was on that initial comp. When does that happen?

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New Age Fabulist: A Conversation with Jesse Fillingham

Juxapoz Magazine

Fantasy and mythology have the distinct capacity to captivate and connect, to reveal aspects of our humanity, good and bad, through imaginative ways of storytelling. Some of the most compelling tales over the past two decades, like Game of Thrones, Lord Of The Rings and Harry Potter have all used fantasy to share and find common ground in wild inventions that uncover larger truths can be uncovered, truths about ourselves and the culture we live in.

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How to Choose a Font: A Science-backed Guide

Creative Market

As any graphic designer will tell you, choosing the perfect font for a project can be a love/hate process. The more prevalent and permanent you expect the font choice to be, the more involved you become in the decision. It usually starts with a font family's overall look and feel, but you can quickly find yourself in the depths of the type designer's most detailed choices.

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LogoArchive Issue 5 by BP&O (Preview)

BP&O

LogoArchive returns with Issue 5 – Technique. The technical limitations of the mid-century—the need for a steady hand and a precise mind for mechanical reproduction—demanded that an exceptional level of care and creativity be given over to shape and space, association and perception. These considerations created a rich corporate and consumer form language and range […].

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Introducing Decimal

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

One of the telltale signs of a vintage watch is its lettering. The unique markings on watch dials, surprisingly consistent from one manufacturer to the next, evolved separately from typography: these are forms unconcerned with the needs of type designed for printing words on paper, and unmoved by the changing fashions of graphic design. Instead, watch lettering has been shaped by the curious technologies of dial manufacturing, the demanding requirements of working in miniature, and the unusual c

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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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10 Free Google Slides Templates Exclusively by GraphicMama

Graphic Mama

A collection of 10 free Google Slides templates designed by GraphicMama. Scroll down to download! Presentations are still one of the most engaging and effective ways to communicate your message and show your ideas to the world. Unfortunately, for most people, preparing the presentation itself is quite a burden. This is why we decided to ease the things for you.

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Learn Restaurant Menu Design in Adobe InDesign

Tuts Plus

What You'll Be Creating Take our new course, Restaurant Menu Design in Adobe InDesign , to learn how to design elegant menus while mastering the most essential tools in Adobe InDesign. In this course you’ll learn how to create two restaurant menus: a basic menu card and a trifold brochure. Don't miss instructor Laura Keung 's menu design ideas—she shares her top tips and tricks for creating effective menu designs, all the way through to printing!

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