Tue.Jun 29, 2021

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Emotional design for financial apps: how we make people smile

UX Collective

Created by the author When you are picturing a financial app in your head, what are you seeing? Boring numbers? Monotonous cold colors? Or dreary tasks you need to deal with? Personal finance is getting too serious today. We think users want something that is functional and maximize efficiency. Also, it should appear to be professional, reliable, and straight to the point.

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Fresh Free Fonts (16 New Fonts For Designers)

Graphic Design Junction

New fresh fonts, free available for commercial use. Download free fonts and used in your graphic and web design projects. There are sixteen fresh free fonts and few premium fonts for graphic designers. Fonts are best for branding, Logo design, t-shirt design, product packaging, magazine headers, or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image.

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JNS Coffee Branding & Packaging by Valentin Nogues for Wide Vision

We And The Color

Check out this modern and minimalist brand and packaging design of JNS Coffee. Created for agency Wide Vision , Polish graphic designer Valentin Nogues was responsible for the art direction and overall design concept of the JNS Coffee brand and packaging design. “Specialty coffees have made their way to the Polish market, and are here to stay.

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In Japan, A Floating Library Embraces The Elements

Azure Magazine

As an island nation, the significance of water in Japanese culture cannot be understated. From artistic motifs to spiritual rituals, water carries a deeply ingrained symbolic presence. So when it came time to rebuild a library at the heart of Matsubara’s civic centre, it was surprising that the client planned to fill in the city park’s reservoir pond to make way for the new structure.

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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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OEM Aims to Brings Cool Vaporware Aesthetics To Personal Care

The Dieline

OEM co-founders Ceilidh MacLeod and Shun Kinoshita wanted to change with their brand of personal care products, drawing inspiration from their upbringing, nature, and the singular feeling of being pampered.

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Business Plan Presentation Template for Adobe InDesign

We And The Color

This premium business plan presentation template offers plenty of customization options in a modern design. Created by the skilled team of @PixWork , This high-quality business plan presentation template for Adobe InDesign comes with 23 fully editable pages. Based on the size of 1920 x 1080 px, the template is well suited for both printed and web presentations.

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“I don’t care what people think. As artists, we have to express ourselves”: Yinka Ilori in conversation with Yinka Shonibare

Its Nice That

Our guest editor sits down with one of his very favourite artists, Yinka Shonibare, for an inspiring conversation on storytelling in art practices, identity and heritage.

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Picks of the month: the best design events to catch in July

Design Week

Panel: Happy Hour: Design Edition. Just in time for graduate season, the Happy Hour panel hopes to offer valuable insight for design students and recent graduates. It’s hosted by a Superunion panel – led by creative director Louise Hunter – and will discuss the importance of team work, different studio roles, vital skills and a more elusive topic: the mindset of a creative.

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Enter the weird and wonderful world of Robert Strange

Creative Review

Animator and director Robert Strange realised he had a talent for the moving image after making music videos for bands he was playing in. “I’ve always loved music videos, so after trying to be an actor and a guitarist for years I realised it was way more fun to do something you’re actually good at,” Strange tells CR. “I made psychedelic mixed-media videos for my band Superorganism and eventually started working on videos for other artists like Tinie Tempah, Stephen

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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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The Peruvian Father of Pinup, Alberto Vargas

Juxapoz Magazine

One of the original kings of pinup art, Joaquin Alberto Vargas was famously quoted saying, "Show me something more beautiful than a beautiful girl, and then I'll go paint it.".

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Photographer Captures Japanese City in Gloomy Lights of Dark Neon

Design You Trust

Photographer and illustrator Rolling Mackey travels around the city of Kanazawa at night and takes pictures of the streets illuminated by neon lights. More: Instagram.

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D Studio: A New Modern Design Destination Opens in Copenhagen

Design Milk

Design Holding , the global high-end design group with a roster of notable European brands, including B&B Italia , Flos , Louis Poulsen , Arclinea and Maxalto , unveiled their first retail location in Copenhagen, called D Studio. Design Holding envisions a unique design destination where their brands will live under one roof offering a multi-brand experience.

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The identity for London Centre for Book Arts by Studio Bergini represents the joy of materiality in graphic design

Its Nice That

Working with the studio as collaborators as well as friends over the past few years, the London-based studio have taken a dialogic approach to this thoughtful identity revamp.

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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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Surprising Materials and Literal Pathways: The Tapestries of Igshaan Adams

Design Milk

Igshann Adams’ tapestries are composed of colorful nylon rope, gold and silver chains, seashells, wood, and glass beads. Even more intriguing, they are all inspired by remnants of decaying linoleum floors. His exhibition “Veld Wen” is on view at Casey Kaplan Gallery in New York through July 30 th , 2021. DIE GROT EN DIE GOUE VENSTERS (the cave and the golden windows), 2021.

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Stormzy’s publishing imprint #Merky Books announces its first children’s book of Superheroes

Its Nice That

Titled Superheroes: Inspiring Stories of Secret Strength, the comic-style publication aims to address the lack of representation in children’s books.

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Sweltering Photos Capture the Charred and Molten Rock Rippling Down from an Icelandic Volcano

Colossal

All images © Jan Erik Waider, shared with permission. Whether shooting in the harsh snowy regions of Greenland or on the basalt-lined waters of Iceland’s Stuðlagil canyon , Jan Erik Waider highlights the textures and fleeting shapes of the earth’s landscapes. His photographs often isolate monumental subject matter like glaciers and deep, rocky canyons in a way that makes the abstracted forms appear like mysterious, otherworldly environments, an approach he continues in his recent LAV

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Strawford Font

Mindsparkle Mag

This week’s Top 10 series had much to do with typography, so today, we are showcasing a type font project developed by atipo. You know we have a healthy obsession, for now, with character design. And this year, we’ve seen lots of trends about this topic, as the use of bold curvy fonts and serif’s return from the ashes. However, Strawford font can become a more personalized typeface because of its alternate characters.

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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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Asynchronous usability tests: how to keep users engaged?

UX Collective

User Testing, a popular platform for both synchronous and asynchronous usability testing. Asking a qualitative researcher what they dread the most about conducting a research engagement, there is a high chance you might hear: a disengaged participant. Qualitative research concerns with the texture of an experience, be it a daily phenomenon or a digital interface.

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Meet the graduates: Manchester School of Art’s Kulsum Karolia

Design Week

Kulsum Karolia is a 22-year-old graphic design graduate from Manchester School of Art. These end of year projects are called Lemon Tree Trust and Makeshift. Lemon Tree Trust stop motion video Design Week: Can you explain what these two final projects are about? Kulsum Karolia: The Lemon Tree Trust is a non-profit organisation transforming refugee camps through the power of gardening.

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“Rites” by Photographer Vaughan Larsen

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Web Design Trends That Should Die

Devlounge

Web design is a competitive industry. Even when web designers make bespoke websites for paying clients, they want their site to look better than anything that any other designer could have come up with for the same site. They also want the finished product to look better than the majority of websites that operate within the same sector. Designers take pride in their work just as surely as any other creative artists do, and because of that, trends develop.

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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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The Design Milk Tech 10: A Visualization of Sound, Zen Garden Speaker + Dyson’s Dust Hunting Vacuum

Design Milk

Every month we share some of the most interesting and promising announcements from the realm of tech, including personal entertainment devices, the intersection of art and tech, home appliances trends, health tech and smart home solutions. 1. Dyson V15 Detect. Dyson’s latest stick vacuum gamifies cleaning with a precisely-angled laser on its cleaner head, a piezo sensor within, and a bright color LCD screen, the sum which allows household cleaners to keep tabs on which minuscule particles

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A Trio of Colorful Characters Expand Jean Jullien’s Installation in a Nantes Botanical Garden

Colossal

All images © Jean Jullien, shared with permission. Three new faces join the quirky cast of characters at Nantes’s Jardin des Plantes. Part of artist Jean Jullien ’s Filili Viridi project that’ll be on view through November, the colorful trio is spotted reclining in the grass, perched in a tree, and plunged in a small reservoir. Joyful and slightly mischievous, the new additions, which are made of painted steel, join six others that have been hanging out in the botanical garden since last s

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A “Zero-b t” Typeface Gets Demolished and Reassembled From the Ground Up

Eye on Design

Name: Brik. Designer: Michael Bagnardi. Foundry: TDF/BurnType. Release Date: June 2021. Back Story: Sometimes, you just have to kill your darlings. Brik was initially released in 2018 (and EoD covered it here ), yet Bagnardi wasn’t fully satisfied with several aspects of it. So he redrew it this year—completely. As in, total overhaul. “I’ve learned a lot more about type over the last three years and noticed things with the original cut that I felt could be improved upon,” he says.

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Wonderful Friends, Wonderful Workshops

Joe McNally

Been back on the streets of NYC with a camera! Never could have dreamed of a hiatus such as we all have just experienced. Thankfully, optimistically, the worst seems behind us, and the streets are starting to bubble with life and light again. We just did two workshops this past month. Hard at this point to call them workshops, even though there’s a lot of photography, critiquing, banter, advice, discussions of technique and lighting lessons.

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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.