Tue.Sep 28, 2021

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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Oposta

I Love Typography

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. In this second episode of our new monthly column, the legendary Steven Heller takes a closer look at one of his favorite fonts. Oposta , designed by Pedro Leal for DSType , with swashes aplenty, is an unabashed and oversized slab serif that seamlessly melds flamboyance and finesse. The post Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Oposta appeared first on I Love Typography.

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Geltor’s identity by &Walsh emphasises the wild beauty of nature

Creative Review

Biodesign company Geltor creates animal-free ‘designer proteins’ for brands across various consumer packaged goods, including beauty, food and drink, and nutraceuticals (products derived from food considered to have physiological benefits). Among its developments is the world’s first vegan collagen – which typically comes from pigs – for the food and beverage market.

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Motion, Branding, and Interaction

UX Collective

When motion standards (principles, timing, duration, and easing) align to your brand, they serve to bring tangible personality into micro-interaction and video. Picture of an analog clock transitioning hours and minutes. Credit: Djim Loic via Unsplash Motion + Brand ? Motion connects the digital to the real world.

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Kyle Ellingson on how his personal work informs his editorial commissions

Creative Review

Before becoming an illustrator, Brooklyn-based Kyle Ellingson wrote short stories and worked as a bookseller. It was after a colleague, who read graphic novels, introduced him to the work of Adrian Tomine, Rutu Modan and Moebius that his love for drawing and comics was ignited. “Stylistically I still feel grounded in that world, and enjoy remixing comic elements into my editorial work,” Ellingson tells CR.

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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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Creating a handwritten font for Culture Amp

UX Collective

How to prototype, test and build a typeface that embraces uncertainty and human expression. Even before we started work on Culture Amp’s custom typeface, I was nervous about making a handwritten font. Disastrous images of a marginally improved Comic Sans or Chalkboard circled ominously. The graveyard of student projects that is DaFont haunted my dreams.

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Entering The NFT Art World – Create Your Own NFT Artwork With Pixlr

Pixlr

NFTs, also known as non-fungible tokens, have been all over the news lately — people are raving about their favorite NFT artwork or artist, showing off their newly bought collectibles on social media; millennial creators are making 6 figures selling their trippy creations online. The estimated total sales of NFTs since 2017 is said to [.].

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Illustrator Pat Wingshan Wong on creating a collaborative archive with the fishmongers of Billingsgate Market

Its Nice That

As gentrification begins to push centuries-old London markets to the outskirts of the city, Pat captures the bantering and bartering of the famous Billingsgate Fish Market.

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Van Orton Design + 11th Hour Racing Team Collaborate on Artistic Canvas Promoting Ocean Health

Abduzeedo

Van Orton Design + 11th Hour Racing Team Collaborate on Artistic Canvas Promoting Ocean Health. ibby 09.28.21 We've featured the colorful work of Van Orton Design in the past and are delighted to see this Italian-born dynamic duo’s latest project in collaboration with 11th Hour Racing and French yacht design specialist Jean-Baptiste Epron to raise awareness around ocean health.

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Amorphous Explosions of Particles Envelop Dancers in Digital Compositions by Jean-Yves Lemoigne

Colossal

All images © Jean-Yves Lemoigne, shared with permission. In his aptly titled series Dancing with Particles , photographer Jean-Yves Lemoigne accentuates the curves of bodies in motion with coiled ribbons, paint-like splashes, and bursts of bright dots. Created digitally with a focus on texture and complementary colors, the sculptural compositions follow the long lines of a leg or erupt from a torso in amorphous swirls, creating an interaction between the often airborne figures and Lemoigne’

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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 Rounds: Round Two on Kaaskoekjes Dutch Treats

Design Milk

Even though it may seem like life is somewhat back to normal, it’s not for small businesses. It’s going to take a lot to recover from this devastating blow. The big guys will weather this storm, it’s the small ones we need to give some extra love to. So in an effort to encourage our readers to shop small, shop independent, and keep the economy going… we wanted to highlight a Brooklyn business: The Rounds.

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Pottery & Poetry

Mindsparkle Mag

Have you ever experienced creating something with your bare hands and enjoyed more the process than the final result of what you’re making? We certainly know that this cannot happen every day at work or in academic studies. Though it’s propitious to commit to something and not worrying if you deliver or not, appreciate the time spent. And we directly link it to artisanal handcrafted objects.

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Lee Broom Reimagines London Flagship Showroom to Feature Latest Designs

Design Milk

Just in time for London Design Festival, British designer Lee Broom reimagined and expanded his Shoreditch showroom to launch two new collections. The new space takes on a residential feel, much like his recently transformed New York City apartment that doubles as a showroom. Previously more of a lighting showroom, it’s now a lifestyle interior that allows visitors to imagine the designs in their own spaces, or as an aspirational setup they can use to inspire their own redesigns.

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How design became socially conscious: Get inspired with Dropbox and The Ulm School of Design’s new digital archive

Its Nice That

In this never-before-seen digital archive , we dig deep into The Ulm School of Design’s many masterpieces and explore why it became an industry-defining period of design history. Thanks to Dropbox and its easy-to-use organisational tools, this exclusive digital archive marks a significant moment in bringing the design school’s treasured artefacts to a screen near you.

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

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Easy Steps to Convert Photoshop Designs Into a Website

Design Beep

Here’s a simple guide to solving the troublesome task of turning Photoshop designs into a website. Or, in more technical terms, convert PSD files into responsive HTML. Modern business cannot operate without the Internet today. Therefore, it is very important to have a high-quality presence in it, for example, in the form of websites that reflect all the important features of your business.

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Fumi Homma talks us through bringing a “sense of humour” into his photography

Its Nice That

The London-based photographer specialises in portraiture and has recently been experimenting within the genre and trying out new formats.

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Introducing Flek Pure: 3form’s Innovative New 100% Recycled Architectural Material

Design Milk

The following post is brought to you by 3form. Our partners are hand-picked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design. Good things come to those who wait, and after 10 years of research and development, award-winning manufacturer 3form has introduced a 100% recycled material – Flek Pure. Mainly sourced from in-house waste, the innovative material encapsulates pelletized trimmings from 3form’s Varia resin to create a textured, terrazzo-like product.

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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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Best of the web for Design and Web Development September 2021

Creative Nerds

The end of means we finishing month in our usual format by compiling a round up of all the best design tutorial and web and design articles published through the month of September. This months post is jampacked with resources from how to create a lettering illustration to an article on how to design beautiful […]. The post Best of the web for Design and Web Development September 2021 first appeared on Creative Nerds.

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Google Designers Isabelle Olsson + Sung Bai Chat About Challenging the Status Quo in Technology

Design Milk

Security cameras, doorbells, thermostats – these ubiquitous items found in almost every home have come a long way from their lackluster predecessors, thanks largely (if not solely) in part to Google who has made it a point to continuously challenge the status quo when it comes to the objects we live with every day. Google’s recent announcement of their next-generation line of Nest Cams and Doorbell is a continuation of that mission.

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Simple ways for a remote (or geo-diverse) team to stay connected

UX Collective

And I’m not talking about virtual happy hours, though we do those too. Thanks for the illustration, Freepik ! In my 15+ years leading teams, all of them have included 2–6 office locations plus some fully remote staff, never completely co-located. And now I’m living a little dream of mine: building and leading a team that is 100% remote with intention.

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Design inspiration: our favourite projects from September

Design Week

Tierra Dulce branding, from Shift. Design studio Shift – which has offices in America and Mexico – has crafted the identity for a bulk store in Monterrey, Mexico. Tierra Dulce hopes to put an emphasis on local consumption while staying true to Mexican markets with a range of spices, grains and cereals and more. According to the design team, the identity ties these influences together with a colourful palette and a repeating graphic layout which “alludes to the colloquial seller

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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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Stylish Illustrations by HELLO KACZI

Abduzeedo

Stylish Illustrations by HELLO KACZI. abduzeedo 09.28.21 HELLO KACZI is an illustrator based in Warsaw, Poland with an incredible style that beautifully captures motion and in a way that’s hard to describe, the moods of the scene being illustrated. HELLO KACZI also features a huge list of big client names including Deep Creek Brewing Co., Hoppy Beverage Co., ?

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Concept evaluation tests and how they can help your product

UX Collective

A UX Researcher's take on interviewing users for an expansive TabBar project In August of 2021 the UX Research team of the company I work at invited 6 users to perform a Concept evaluation test to best capture their perception of a prototype. The Design and Product teams were eager to know how the new features and improvements on the app were going to be received by customers.

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Photographer Spotlight: Ben Ward

Booooooom

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HOW Design Live is Where Creativity, Community, and Inspiration Converge.

The Die Line

How Design Live in Nashville October 19-21. Get your tickets today!

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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.