Thu.Sep 30, 2021

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (September 2021)

HONGKIAT

There is lot happening this month in the tech industry; from Docker updating their business and plans , prominent WordPress businesses being acquired, Web3, NFT , as well as new resources and updates keep coming in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This is why we’ve put a few of these to keep you updated. First, we have some cool JavaScript libraries to create animations, a CLI tool to help you manage and deploy your WordPress site on DigitalOcean, there are also a couple of resources on CSS cate

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5 Big Ideas From the 2021 AIGA Design Conference

Eye on Design

After living through 18 months of an ongoing pandemic, our social and professional interactions have significantly changed since “The Before Times.” For many of us it’s been a period of isolation that has forced us to learn how to find social connection within virtual spaces or shift to remote work through distributed teams for the first time in our careers.

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5 Creative Ways to Make Every Web Design Contract More Profitable

Vandelay Design

There are two primary ways creative agencies and freelancers typically boost their profits. First, you can acquire more clients. While this is a reliable method, it has plenty of drawbacks. Finding new customers usually takes time and effort, which significantly cuts into your bottom line. New client relationships are also notoriously tricky. You must set proper expectations, identify potential obstacles so you can avoid them, and figure out their preferred communication and work styles—all with

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Mastering selfless art with multi-talented illustrator and animator Florence Burns

Its Nice That

As someone who is openly queer and with invisible respiratory disabilities, a lot of Florence’s work deals with making art accessible to all those who want (and need) 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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Designposts Pay Tribute to London’s Neighborhoods + American Red Oak

Design Milk

Designposts is a series of ten wooden sculptures introduced to the streets of the city during this year’s London Design Festival. A collaborative project between LDF, the American Hardwood Export Council. (AHEC) and three British furniture makers – Benchmark Furniture , Sebastian Cox and Jan Hendzel Studio – it paid tribute to the creative diversity of London’s neighborhoods.

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Easy Ways To Create The Best Small Business Website

Noupe

Now it makes no sense to think about whether it is worth developing a corporate website design to create your own representation on the Internet. 6-7 years ago it was obvious that this direction was the future. Although there are still skeptics in small businesses who think that it is too early for them to start, or owners of large companies, where things are going well without any Internet.

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Capitana Font Family by Felix Braden

We And The Color

Capitana, a bridge between humanistic and geometric sans serif fonts. Just a few days ago, German typeface designer Felix Braden of foundry Floodfonts released Capitana, a new font family that masterfully bridges the gap between humanistic and geometric sans serif fonts. All shapes are based on simple forms such as circles, triangles, and squares. In addition, they have been designed according to the classic proportions of the Roman Antiqua.

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30 Tutorials for Developing HTML5 Web Browser Games

SpyreStudios

Modern HTML5 specifications allow for a wide breadth of creativity. Web developers have always been toying around with JavaScript games. But, nowadays, it is so much easier to jump into the process and create something truly magnificent. This gallery is devoted to 30 tutorials you might use to learn about in-browser game development. These techniques focus on HTML5/CSS3/JS and should run identical in all modern Operating Systems.

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How to use grid and guide tools in Photoshop

Creative Bloq

Using the grid and guide tools in Photoshop to paint a landscape illustration.

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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 Guy Photoshopped Paddington Into More Than 200 Classic Movies

Design You Trust

witter user @Jaythechou has come up with a simple concept to spread joy and entertainment to social media – he photoshops Paddington into film scenes, and has been doing it every day for 204 days, at the time of writing. Some are beautifully subtle, others are larger than life – but all are skilfully done and a lot of fun. More: Twitter h/t: sadanduseless.

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A Time Of Transition (October 2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition)

Smashing Magazine Graphics

A Time Of Transition (October 2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition). A Time Of Transition (October 2021 Desktop Wallpapers Edition). Cosima Mielke. 2021-09-30T08:00:00+00:00. 2021-09-30T11:38:58+00:00. Inspiration lies everywhere. In the fall leaves shining in the most beautiful colors these days, in the misty mornings and golden afternoons that October might bring along, or taking a walk on a windy day.

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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 #book #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 #book #typography

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JDO Takes New Plant-based Ice Cream Idyll to a Dark, Delicious Place

Dexigner

JDO has created the identity for Idyll, a new 100% plant-based ice cream brand for Norway's oldest ice cream producer Hennig-Olsen.

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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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Lasto Foods

Mindsparkle Mag

Today we’re traveling to beautiful California to present Lasto Foods’s brand identity for the silkiest nut butter in the world, crafted with love with 100% natural ingredients. Algoritmo’s design team was creatively in charge of the brand strategy to articulate the unique personality of Lasto Foods. And a brand identity system that could work across print and online applications, including packaging, social media, and illustrations for advertising.

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New Science Museum gallery will be a “visually dazzling” tribute to technicians

Design Week

The Science Museum has today announced it will be opening a new permanent gallery dedicated to technicians in 2022, designed by Copenhagen-based design consultancy JAC Studios. Technicians: The David Sainsbury Gallery will be a free interactive gallery dedicated to 11 to 16-year-olds, which aims to showcase technician jobs across four sectors: advanced manufacturing, the creative industries, health and energy. “Experiencing everything in a connected way” Technicians will be the first

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&Walsh creates an identity for “designer proteins” brand Geltor inspired by “biodesign, science, nature and art”

Its Nice That

The identity features a series of 3D orbs which act like cells and contain the ingredients for each product.

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Vivid Illustrative Portraits made in Procreate

Abduzeedo

Vivid Illustrative Portraits made in Procreate. AoiroStudio 09.30.21 I am surprised we haven't featured the work of Samy Halim before on abdz. We are featuring his stunning series Samy created in Procreate on iPad Pro; the overall style is super cool. It features vibrant colors, textures, and unique visual styles. I just love the shades and the hair does.

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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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Beautiful Digital Art Paints the teamLab Forest in Fukuoka with The Colors of Autumn

Design You Trust

The digital art group teamLab recently opened a new exhibit, Forest Fukuoka, in Fukuoka City. It first opened last year, in 2020, and starting from September 18th, 2021, they introduced more seasonal pieces to make the transition to the next season. More: teamLab , Instagram , Facebook h/t: grapee. Visitors have the opportunity to enjoy the digital displays, which include butterflies dancing while changing colors according to the season, animals drawn in autumn colors, granules of reds, yellows,

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An Eerie, Fairytale Forest and Silhouette Creatures Sprawl Across a Three-Story Mural by David de la Mano

Colossal

All images by Sol Paperán, Nicolás Pezzino and David de la Mano, courtesy of David de la Mano. Set against a forest in shades of blue and white, a dark, twisted fairytale lines the entrance hall of the Catholic University of Uruguay. The three-story mural by David de la Mano is titled “Cosmos” and uses the Spanish artist’s signature silhouette figures and thin, branch-like lines to create a sinister narrative consumed by mystery and disorder: hybrid creatures escape down a stai

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Enter the Metaverse.With Dunkaroos Streetwear

The Die Line

Cop that virtual, sugary drip with Dunkaroos' 90s-inspired streetwear.

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2022's design trends are here, but we're not convinced

Creative Bloq

Are branded memes actually graphic 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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Cute Illustrations With the Soviet Mood From Anna Desnitskaya

Design You Trust

Illustrations of Anna Desnitskaya are all about domestic traditions, mode of life of Soviet people. We’re pretty sure that many people aged 35+ will recognize themselves on these pictures. More: Instagram , Behance , Facebook.

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Museum of Childhood becomes Young V&A in £13m transformation

Design Week

The V&A Museum of Childhood has been renamed Young V&A, as the space undergoes a £13m change to become a “a place to play, create, debate and design for tomorrow” Based in East London, the redesigned museum hopes to become the “UK’s premier national museum entirely dedicated to children” aged up to 14 years, according to the V&A.

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Soon in your local Tictail store! Limited edition print á 500x700mm. Designed and printed in Sweden shipped to anywhere'ish in the world! #illustration #modular #pictogram #graphicdesign #design #poster #swedishstampclub #type #picoftheday #logotype #stamp #sweden #magictoyfactory #iconography #icon #nasa #space #store #modernism #typography #gns #symbol #art #toy

Designspiration

Soon in your local Tictail store! Limited edition print á 500x700mm. Designed and printed in Sweden shipped to anywhere'ish in the world!

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Exposure: Rory Hamovit

Creative Review

Gem Fletcher profiles LA-based photographer Rory Hamovit, who uses photography as a stage to play with manhood and queerness, and speak to the complexity and fragility of masculinity. The post Exposure: Rory Hamovit appeared first on Creative Review.

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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.