Fri.May 14, 2021

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How to Achieve the Best Doctor Website Design?

Design Beep

Setting up a medical website may seem daunting as there are a lot of factors to be considered and work to be done, but there are simple ways to ensure that you achieve the results you have set out for your medical practice. If it is your first time, make sure to consult experts in the field or check out medical websites by Officite for inspiration. In the meantime, check out these few helpful tips below to kick-off your website development and achieve the best design for your healthcare practice

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Purevirtual AG Branding by Alphamark

We And The Color

Branding studio Alphamark created a modern visual identity for Purevirtual AG. In close collaboration with the founder and the managing directors of Purevirtual AG, the team of branding studio Alphamark developed a new visual experience that emphasizes stability, efficiency, and growth. The first step was to understand the core of the business and identify positioning opportunities. “The graphic of a forward-moving arrow was the starting point of the visual communication strategy, clearly

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Microcopy: an essential guide to becoming a more literate designer

UX Collective

Illustration by David Hall Designers should not be mere decorators, but have an understanding of language and microcopy, a crucial design skill, now more than ever. Look at these two images: Onboarding screen A and B The obvious difference between these two onboarding visuals is that option A is devoid of words and is absolutely useless. No direction, no guidance, or calls to action, nada.

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Denton Font Family by Peregrin Studio

We And The Color

Denton, a typeface inspired the warmth, bringing expressive of 70s design. We told you that vintage-inspired fonts will be still a big thing in 2021 and the following typeface is no exception. Designed by Ellen Luff for Peregrin Studio, the Denton font combines modern typography with the best 70s design assets. This beautiful display typeface comes as a variable font family including two styles (Denton and Denton 70) plus various weights.

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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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Good Reads: Insomniarghh is a dream-inducing zine for irregular sleepers

Creative Review

Struggling to get to sleep is never fun, but the anxiety surrounding our new normal has only made it harder to get a good night’s rest over the past year. Last August, a study from the University of Southampton showed that the number of people experiencing insomnia rose from one in six to one in four during the pandemic, with experts dubbing the phenomenon ‘coronasomnia’ Insomnia is something that London-based copywriter Kitty Sutherland has a lot of personal experience with.

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HELIUM-10000 Is a $10,000 Gas-Filled Jacket That Floats Like a Balloon

Design Milk

When designers refer to “blue skies”, it’s usually made in reference to no-limits brainstorming sessions, the purely creative exercise of investigating “what if?” Designer Andrew Kostman’s HELIUM-10000 helium jacket is a blue sky idea that is coming to life, fashion imagined to literally float above its owner’s head like a balloon.

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27 Best Free Script Fonts for Designers

Graphic Design Junction

Stylish collection of lettering bold scripts, brush fonts and free script fonts are available for commercial and personal use. These free fonts are perfect for Mockups, Logo Design, Badges, Branding, Apparel, Badge, Packaging, Invitation, print design, Web UI and more. The following typefaces and fonts are ideal to make an attractive design and fit for any artwork.

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Interview with Deepa Shanbhag, Designer and Founder of TCTLE

Shillington

Deepa Shanbhag is a graphic designer, educator and founder of her business TCTLE , dedicated to supporting creative womxn of color. In her design career, she’s worked for fashion brands like LOFT, White House Black Market, Tommy Hilfiger, Victoria’s Secret and J. Crew to name a few. We caught up with Deepa to learn more about TCTLE and how it was born from a direct reaction to what she didn’t like about the fashion retail industry (from lack of diversity in the C-Suite to cultural ap

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How can photography be used to rehabilitate in prisons?

Its Nice That

A new book, The San Quentin Project, addresses this. It features a largely unseen archive of daily life inside one of America’s oldest and largest prisons. Here, we chat to the book’s author Nigel Poor about why the archive proved to be the perfect “bridge for conversation” between her and her incarcerated students.

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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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This Artist Photoshops Old Paperback Books With Ridiculous Titles

Design You Trust

Even though the internet is primarily focused on knowledge, connecting people, and providing services, a very nice and, to be honest, necessary function of the internet is to give people things to laugh about. In the sea of comedy that anyone can find on the various social media, there’s also Paperback Paradise, a page dedicated to photoshopping vintage paperback book covers with funny, weird, and absurd titles, subtitles and marketing blurbs that were oh so popular on books back in the day; and

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10+ Sites to Download Free Printable Calendar Templates

HONGKIAT

Apart from the new year resolutions, the second most important thing about a new year is the calendar. Every year there is a search for new calendars that would be most suitable for people’s specific needs. However, instead for relying on pre-made options in the market, this post brings you a number of interesting calendar templates that are editable, printable and free for use.

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Adult Website Design: Yes or No, and Where to Find the Templates?

Template Monster

Yes, you heard it right. Today, we are going to discuss the 18+ rated topic. As a web designer, you never know what will be the next order that the client will request you to bring to life. The Internet is crowded with adult websites competing with one another for the higher traffic flow. There is no doubt in the fact that the adult website design industry is booming.

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A Bucolic Quebec Home Channels Mid-Century American Style

Azure Magazine

Past the urban bustle of Montreal, the Hochelaga Archipelago — formed by the confluence of the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers — gives way to pastoral riversides and a rich canopy of deciduous and evergreen trees. In a quiet pocket of nature north of the city, a new family home by Chevalier Morales channels both the Quebec landscape and 1950s American domestic architecture.

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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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Weekly News for Designers ? 592

SpeckyBoy

Build your Responsive website without media query – Modern CSS allows you to drastically reduce, or eliminate, the use of media queries. 8 Stunning Examples of CSS & JavaScript 3D Text Effects – If you’re looking to make a visual impact in your web projects, 3D text effects are a surefire way to do so. Signflow Free WordPress Theme – A free startup & technology WordPress theme that could be used for building startup web sites, web services, businesses, internet services, and so mu

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OSUISSE

Mindsparkle Mag

Paperlux Studio designed the product and branding for OSUISSE. OSUISSE is a water brand based in Switzerland’s most treasured resources: Water. The red and white Swiss cross, one of the most recognizable national identification signs and seals of quality worldwide. Graphic and Product Design, an important tradition in Swiss culture and everyday life.

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Swiss Legacy | Swiss Legacy, by the initiative of Art Director Xavier Encinas, is a blog focused on typography, graphic design and inspirational matte #chinese #print #bilingual #typography

Designspiration

Swiss Legacy | Swiss Legacy, by the initiative of Art Director Xavier Encinas, is a blog focused on typography, graphic design and inspirational matte #chinese #print #bilingual #typography

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Notorious Nooch branding aims to reflect how vegans are eating today

Design Week

Wildish & Co has designed the branding for its own plant-based nutritional yeast product Notorious Nooch. Nutritional yeast is a deactivated form of the raising agent, which offers a range of different vitamins and minerals when consumed. As an ingredient in vegan and plant-based food, it can be used to mimic the flavour of cheese. It’s a product that has been on the market for some time, but has grown in popularity with the development of the vegan lifestyle movement. “What if w

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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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“Waste Management Confidential”: The Superb Vintage Inspired Artworks of Paco Pomet

Design You Trust

A selection of work by artist Paco Pomet from Granada, Spain. Highly iconoclastic, Pomet’s work descends from a tradition in Western art building from the irruption of photography where credibility becomes a starting point for distortion and crises of representation. In this way, Pomet often uses photography to establish a sense of realism that is later dismantled by the introduction of a discordant element to the scene.

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Behind the Anonymous mask: how V for Vendetta created a timeless symbol of protest

Design Week

The Anonymous mask, one of the most recognisable symbols of modern protest, is the subject of a new exhibition opening at London’s Cartoon Museum. V for Vendetta: Behind the Mask explores the visual history of the mask, from its origins in a British comic series, to its modern popularity in protest movements. What is now popularly known as the Anonymous mask is the creation of English illustrator David Lloyd.

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Coolest Random Inspiration | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials #layout #machine #objects

Designspiration

Coolest Random Inspiration | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials #layout #machine #objects

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3rd Ritual’s Mindful Objects + Botanicals Inspire a More Connected Life

Design Milk

When you move half as fast, you notice twice as much. Those words alone are powerful and inspiring, but they only represent one belief of 3rd Ritual. Founded by aromatherapist and meditation teacher, Jenn Tardif, 3rd Ritual is a collective made up of teachers, seekers and makers. The shop creates mindful objects, such as their BEL Meditation Candle Holder and Candle, and botanical creams and gels.

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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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Hydrophobia | Volt Café | by Volt Magazine #beauty #design #graphic #volt #photography #art #fashion #layout #magazine #typography

Designspiration

Hydrophobia | Volt Café | by Volt Magazine #beauty #design #graphic #volt #photography #art #fashion #layout #magazine #typography

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F5: Viktor Udzenija’s Interests Led To Limited Edition Furniture + Light Installations

Design Milk

Photo: Mariano Vivanco. In 2011, Croatian architect and interior designer Viktor Udzenija founded his eponymous studio in Dubai, UAE, and in Summer of 2020 expanded to Europe. In his global portfolio of projects, Viktor takes an artisanal, bespoke approach to high-end residential, retail and commercial design. Having gained his architecture degree at the Technical University of Munich, and shaping his career early on at Foster+Partners in London, his approach is rooted in his understanding of sp

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Amazing Vintage Photographs of Linemen on Utility Poles at the Turn of 20th Century

Design You Trust

Most people don’t think much about the wooden utility poles in their neighborhood. However, they rely on them each day—utility poles support overhead power lines, cable services, streetlights, and other public services in the area. As it happens, these important structures were created by mistake. h/t: vintag.es. In 1843, the United States Congress gave Samuel Morse $30,000 for a demonstration project to prove he could send messages over a distance more quickly and efficiently than the means ava

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Creative Journal - design, art, architecture and photography inspiration #illustration #bird

Designspiration

Creative Journal - design, art, architecture and photography inspiration #illustration #bird

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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.