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The Complete History of Rebranding in Basketball

Canny

When it comes to basketball, the USA have been a powerhouse in both mens, women’s and college basketball. Because of this, they have some of the most recognisable brands in basketball, some being good, and some not so good. This post will focus on the NBA and the WNBA for branding and rebranding, with the idea of expanding the article out as new brands pop up, as well as looking overseas to the European leagues.

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7 Highlights of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021

Azure Magazine

As a rhetorical question, “How will we live together?” is more pressing than ever. Given the news on various fronts, it takes on the urgency of a plea. For the world’s most important architecture exhibition, the question is a mandate, a broad and all-encompassing challenge. On the occasion of the 17 th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia , architects are responding to curator Hashim Sarkis’s overarching theme in myriad ways and from various vantage points.

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31 Incredible Photo Manipulations For Inspiration

Graphic Design Junction

Photo manipulation or Photo editing is just not an art, its passion and only creative photo loves can understand. There are millions of photo manipulation examples, but some photos are really breathtaking and mind blowing. Photo manipulation art getting people’s attention as long as you don’t make them too text heavy and you include an extremely creative photos in look-at-me colors and sharpness.

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Lipman: How the Internet Ruined Design…

Graphic Design USA

Gregg Lipman of CBX on why design is a process and a craft, not a software-driven deliverable, and is best left to design professionals.

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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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Download Amazing Vector Letters as EPS & AI Files

We And The Color

Consisting of the fully Latin-based alphabet, these vector letter sets are fully editable. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @plasteed , The following collection of vector letters includes a great variety of individual sets based on different styles ranging from retro to modern and minimalist typefaces. All letters are still available as fully editable vector files (EPS/AI).

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3D Typography Poster Experiments

Abduzeedo

3D Typography Poster Experiments. abduzeedo 05.18.21 Hadi Tulimat shared the first volume of a series of 3D and Typography poster experiments. This selection focus on 3D shapes mixed with 3D typography using Maxon Cinema 4D, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. The result is quite stunning. . For more information make sure to check out: Behance. Instagram.

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The Correspondent—Editorial Illustrations by Ibrahim Rayintakath

We And The Color

Check out these editorial illustrations created by Ibrahim Rayintakath for The Correspondent. Ibrahim Rayintakath is a Bangalore, India-based illustrator. From 2019 – 2020, he was commissioned to work on a series of editorial illustrations and preliminary sketches on topics related to mental health done for The Correspondent. Below you can see a few images of the project.

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How to Create Outstanding Prints That Will Last a Lifetime

Graphic Design Junction

The advanced photo editing tools available today let us transform almost any smartphone photo into a gallery-worthy exhibit. Many of us spend a long time editing our digital photos to perfect the fine gradients and color saturation. With that in mind, it’s a shame that we tend to view our photos on computer screens which simply can’t do them justice.

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An Opportunistic Red-Winged Blackbird Catches a Ride on an Osprey’s Stick

Colossal

Image © Jocelyn Anderson, shared with permission. A red-winged blackbird keen on protecting its chicks was recently caught escorting an osprey away from its nest. Rather than hover around the predator as the species is wont to do, though—it’s known for being aggressive and territorial and is likely to attack larger animals and humans for getting too close to its young—the smaller creature hitched a ride with the raptor by perching on a stick it carried in its talons.

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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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Why You Should Include Your Personal Passions in Your Design Work

SpeckyBoy

Anyone here have a bunch of strange, unusual, or, shall we say, “quirky” hobbies? Perhaps you like to collect bottle caps from around the world and photograph them as found typography. Or maybe you recycle old computer parts to fashion into handmade art pieces? Come on, you’re designers – I know there’s something juicy you work on when you’re not putting your nose to the old grindstone!

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A new exhibition celebrates James Barnor’s pioneering photography

Creative Review

A new exhibition held as part of the inaugural Bristol Photo Festival is presenting over 40 images by press photographer, studio portraitist and everyday documentarian James Barnor. James Barnor: Ghanaian Modernist features photographs spanning his decades-long career, including images made in the early 1950s when he opened his photography studio, Ever Young, in Accra, his camera at the ready as Ghana entered an age of independence from British colonial rule.

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Le Patissier

Mindsparkle Mag

Building on the brand identity for the iconic Restaurant Le Drugstore for which Design & Practice designed the identity and British designer Tom Dixon designed the interiors, “Le Patissier” of restaurant Le Drugstore brings back a timeless mystique to the famous pâtisserie scene of Paris. By referring to it as Le Patissier rather than Patisserie Design & Practice chose to emphasise the personal artisanal skill of the pastry chef, a role that doesn’t always garner the sa

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Absurda Tells A Ridiculously Beautiful Stereotypical Story

The Die Line

Absurda delivers packaging designed by Human that dreams are made of through funky colors, beautifully ridiculous illustrations, and a visual story.

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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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Paraje de Dondellas Features Packaging Inspired By The Soil Of The Vineyards

The Dieline

Paraje de Dondellas, designed by Javier Garduño Estudio de Diseño, has labels inspired by the granite soil in charge of making these wines unique.

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Only Good Things’ Spring Collection Playfully Bends Tradition

Design Milk

The following post is brought to you by Only Good Things. Our partners are hand-picked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design. Only Good Things’ Spring Collection playfully bends tradition – literally. Steam bent wood tables, rounded outdoor chairs and curvy stools effortlessly bring joy to any residential space they’re placed in.

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Yael Steinwurzel’s Architectural Drawings with a Twist

Trendland

Words TL Team. Tel-Aviv based Israeli architect Yael Steinwurzel creates beautiful illustrations that try to capture the unexpected mystery in the everyday built surrounding with detailed, digital architectural illustrations.

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ULTRALEGGERA 1660 Is the World’s Lightest Chair

Design Milk

It’s true, weighing in at a little over 1660 grams, ULTRALEGGERA 1660 is currently the world’s lightest chair. It was designed by Oskar Zi?ta as a response to the lightweight challenge set by Gio Ponti’s design icon, the Superleggera chair from 1957. The minimalist ULTRALEGGERA chair is a mono-object, or a piece of furniture created in response to the challenges of the modern world.

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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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Intriguing Vector Illustration - Novelty Waves Vol 4

Abduzeedo

Intriguing Vector Illustration - Novelty Waves Vol 4. abduzeedo 05.18.21 . Mario De Meyer shared a set of really intriguing vector illustrations titled Novelty Waves. It’s the fourth installment of the series where Mario explores organic ways to deform lines. Imagine a 3D topographic view on steroids. The most fascinating thing is the tool of choice for this work.

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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 #print #design #graphic #book #publication

Designspiration

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

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Zitong Zhao on bringing daily observations into her graphic design practice

Its Nice That

For the Beijing-based designer, projects nearly always start with a photograph from her 60,000-strong cameral roll.

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Illustrations of Sensual And Delicate Woman by Lina Toffini

Design You Trust

Based in Paris, Lisa Toffini is an illustrator who is on a mission to “bring colorful magic” into the life of the viewers, through “whimsical visual stories with a strong feminine vibe, boosted by high dishes of enchanting nature”. Her pieces are almost allegories of feminity with a touch of innocent primordial sensuality. If art has always been a part of her life, her style and creative voice are a reflection of her travels and discoveries.

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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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Are designers idealists, path makers, or fortune tellers?

UX Collective

For those working in highly agile development organisations, there remains to be pockets of misalignment or certainly a misperception that designing ahead of the team is idealistic or worse still anti-Agile. The idea that prefacing delivery with some work upfront to explore and architect the desired experience will somehow fly in the face of agility.

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Where I Work: Aly Velji of Alykhan Velji Design

Design Milk

For the last 14 years, Principal Designer Aly Velji has run his eponymous boutique design firm, called Alykhan Velji Designs , in Calgary, Alberta. Specializing in both residential and commercial design, Velji’s firm has perfected a timeless aesthetic by seamlessly merging modern and classic elements and bringing their clients’ visions to life.

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Websites We Love — Showcasing The Best in Web Design #agency #director #design #best #website #ui #nike #minimal #webdesign #art #web #typography

Designspiration

Websites We Love — Showcasing The Best in Web Design #agency #director #design #best #website #ui #nike #minimal #webdesign #art #web #typography

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The Gaze: Barry Jenkins Directs a Stunning Non-Narrative Film that Preserves the Legacy of Black Ancestors

Colossal

?. At the heart of Barry Jenkins ’s extraordinarily moving new film is “the Black gaze; or the gaze distilled.” The Oscar-winning director shot the standalone project while filming the TV adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad , which premiered on May 14. Notably titled The Gaze , the parallel project isn’t an episode of the series but rather a compelling collection of non-narrative portraits captured spontaneously alongside the show.

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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.