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Upgrade Your Font Library with These Professional Level Typefaces at 99% Off

Spoon Graphics

Is your font library in need of an upgrade? If so, you won’t find a better deal than this bundle of professional level font families. This collection is discounted by 99% for a limited time, giving you the opportunity to acquire $2485 worth of top quality fonts for just $29. It contains some exceptional typeface designs that are ideal for logos, headings, and producing top class typography for your graphic design projects.

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Print Equals Human

Graphic Design USA

Kevin Kernan of GDLOFT on the power of print, especially now, to cut through the digital clutter and appeal to the senses. People, he writes, want their humanity back.

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Mobile App Marketing: How To Make Your New App Visible To Potential Customers

Noupe

If a website wants to be visible on Google, it needs a good SEO strategy. The same story goes for mobile apps , only this time it needs an ASO strategy – basically, how to get your app visible in the app store. It doesn’t matter how awesome, how user-friendly or how useful your app is. If no one can see it, no one will download it. While this can be a source of great frustration, it doesn’t have to be.

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Rick Caballo: Technology Can Be A Gift…And A Curse

Graphic Design USA

While technology has streamlined the design process, co-founder of Dead Horse Branding, Rick Caballo, believes that overdependence on technology leads to inauthentic solutions.

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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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Formula 1 reveals 70th Anniversary Season with 3 new Formula 1 70th Anniversary Logo Designs

The Logo Smith

The post Formula 1 reveals 70th Anniversary Season with 3 new Formula 1 70th Anniversary Logo Designs appeared first on The Logo Smith ™ All Content © 2020 The Logo Smith.™ |. Back in January 2020, Formula 1 announced the 70th Anniversary Season with 3 New F1 Logo Designs, and somehow I missed this until June. I love these 3 new 70th Anniversary logos, and had to put out a quick Tweet, but full well expected to be laughed at, given how late I was to the party.

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Adobe Character Animator: Everything You Need to Know + Free Puppets

Graphic Mama

American computer software company Adobe has been widely known as specialists in Creativity software products for years with a host of top-ranked household name products like Photoshop, Acrobat, Flash, Lightroom, and Illustrator among many, many others. It’s a brand that carries the mark of quality be it with Web or Graphic Design software, Digital Marketing, Visual Editing, or just about anything they put their name to.

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Noted: New Logo and Identity for FOPE by North

Under Consideration / Brand

“A Glimmer of Fope”. (Est. 1929) " FOPE (Fabbrica Oreficeria Preziosi Esportazione, Factory Goldsmiths Precious Export in English) is an Italian goldsmith, an international company, a tradition that has evolved to become one of the world's most sought-after jewellery brands. Its headquarters - management and production - are located in Vicenza, Italy, where the company's roots are and where a continuous progress proudly takes place thanks to the skilled craftsmen and to the precision of the mach

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Sony World Photography Awards winners 2020

Creative Review

Following on from the recent announcement of the open competition winners in this year’s Sony World Photography Awards, the World Photography Organisation has now revealed the winners in the main competition, along with the overall Photographer of the Year. Given the changes to events this year, the winning works and finalists will all be on display in a virtual exhibition.

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Play Brew Co Uses Illustrated Characters To Keep It Fun

The Die Line

We worked on a limited but bold color scheme for each release with a strong black keyline as a key recognizable brand feature to help the identity stand out across print and digital touch points.

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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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Photographer Spotlight: Karim El Maktafi

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Luke Bird Embraces Minimalism to Create a Cover for Pew

Spine Magazine

Luke Bird is a graphic designer specializing in book covers, branding, food packaging and limited edition packaging for music and books. Here he outlines his process for designing the cover of Pew. Pew is found on a sleeping on a church pew in an unnamed American town. They have no specific gender or race, and very rarely speak. As Granta’s brief mentions, this book is at the cutting edge of contemporary literature.

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Rope Twists into Massive, Fibrous Circuit Boards by Artist Windy Chien

Colossal

(2019), cotton, 24k gold vintage Japanese thread, and walnut. All images © Windy Chien, shared with permission. California-based artist Windy Chien began her career with macrame before becoming frustrated with its limitations. “ I gave myself an assignment to learn one new knot every day for one year, and thereby increase my vocabulary of knots and become fluent in what I now recognize to be a language—the universal language of knots,” she says.

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Call for Submissions: Hip Hop as Design Justice Imagines a World After Racism

Azure Magazine

“Everyone’s talking about what the world will look like after COVID,” Michael Ford said, “but I want us to think about what the world will look like after racism.” Speaking live on Azure’s Instagram Live talk on June 9, the architect and Hip Hop Architecture Camp founder laid out the inspiration for an open call for ideas that invites participants – including architects, designers and hip hop fans of any creative industry – to consider a different kind of post

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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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#ILoveTheseGuys Creative Inspiration: Wild Logic

Shillington

Shillington students and staff from around the world share the work of creatives who inspire them in the #ILoveTheseGuys series. In this post, New York teacher Cathy Sison highlights projects from multi-disciplinary design space, Wildlogic. I came across Edinah’s creative visual direction through a Refinery29 blog post feature. I started following her instagram and was instantly drawn to her beautiful aesthetics, stunning typography and visual story telling.

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The Superb Provocative Digital Art By Doping-Pong

Design You Trust

Based in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, Doping-Pong is a digital art-project started in 1997 by Dima Mishenin, Lova and Anna Maugli. Doping Pong are the pioneers of digital art in Russia. The digital art world of Doping Pong is incredibly diverse. It is closely linked to contemporary visual culture and pop aesthetics. In the 90ties, te first digital works of Doping Pong were featured in popular youth.

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Extinction Rebellion’s latest animation calls for The Gigantic Change

Its Nice That

Whoopi Goldberg narrates a new film by Extinction Rebellion illustrating that now is the time to act to secure a brighter future.

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The Top 10 Illustrations Trends You Need to Know in 2020

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Illustrations are a core part of modern design since they can add a nostalgic visual touch to any kind of media or platform. You’ve probably seen them all over the internet and used for a variety of purposes, whether that’s the header images for articles and blog posts or logos, as well as being used.

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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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Ojima Abalaka’s serene portraits are filled with clues to their subject’s character and culture

Its Nice That

The Nigerian illustrator explains how she began illustrating as a form of meditation before a commission from The New York Times turned it into a career.

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Joe Mazza and Lindsay Siu Capture Raw Emotion in their Gold-Winning Photography!

Graphis

U.S photographer Joe Mazza wins Gold in the Graphis Photography Annual 2020 with his entry, “Satchmo” (above). Joe Mazza is the owner of the photography agency, Brave Lux, and often does work for the theater industry and clients such as The New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune. Court Theatre put on a one-actor production […].

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D&AD announce first round of winners for updated 2020 awards format

Design Week

The first round of winners for this year’s D&AD Awards has been announced, with 129 Pencils awarded across the competition’s Impact, Side Hustle, Next and Craft categories. This limited set of winners represents the first instalment of the organisation’s rethought awards scheme in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier this year, D&AD confirmed it would be switching to an all-digital programme of events in lieu of its usual week of celebrations, which traditional

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Rydel Cerezo’s latest series examines “the drama of the home” during lockdown

Its Nice That

Back of My Hand reconsiders Rydel’s relationships with his family, poetically assimilating portraiture and still life photography to do so.

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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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Building a brand for an Olympic athlete

Creative Review

JKR has created a playful identity for gymnast Courtney Tulloch, inspired by his signature moves. We talk to JKR and Tulloch about the project and how branding can help athletes grow their following and build a career beyond competitive sport . The post Building a brand for an Olympic athlete appeared first on Creative Review.

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Design Museum briefs designers to create work from home table

Design Week

The Design Museum has challenged nine designers to come up with a table and seating component, which are adapted to new working practices. The London museum’s new project aims to showcase changing working practices among designers amid the COVID-19 outbreak. It is a collaboration between the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) and Benchmark Furniture, a UK-based furniture company founded by Terence Conran and Sean Sutcliffe.

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Heinz gets first ever global masterbrand, served up by JKR

Its Nice That

Bringing the condiment king’s iconic “keystone” shape to the forefront, the agency has tweaked the logo, identity, packaging and more to better convey its “simple greatness”.

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Service Blueprints - Communicating the Design of Services

Interaction Design Foundation

Service blueprints were first described by Lynn Shostack, a banking executive, back in 1982 in the Harvard Business Review. They’ve become popularized over the last few years as service design has grown as a profession. In addition to being useful in service design they are often used by operational management to gauge the efficiency of work within an organization.A service blueprint is, in essence, an extension of a customer journey map.

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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.