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Sing King by Nomad

BP&O

I’m going to break with a decade of convention and jump right in. I love this. I was sold as soon as I saw the logo, it’s in the BP&O Gallery. It’s rare you see this kind of logo today. It’s mostly, and understandably, logotypes that prevail today. Those that are striped down to function well on multiple devices. Blanding?

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Dealing with People Who Don’t Value Web Designers

SpeckyBoy

If you spend a bit of time in the web design industry, you’ll undoubtedly run into someone who just doesn’t understand the value of what you do. What’s amazing is that, even in this high-tech world in which we live, there are still people who think that anyone can build a great website. Years ago, it seemed very common. As a young designer, I can remember a few co-workers (and even my boss) having no idea what I did.

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25 Beautiful Wedding Fonts for Invitations

Graphic Design Junction

Download the beautiful wedding fonts for those who are needing elegance and stylish for their designs and particularly well suited for wedding invitations, save the date cards and feminine branding. Fonts are perfect for creating stunning branding, sleek wedding invites, versatile holiday cards, and sweet book covers. A beautiful combination of fonts that will give your designs extra calligraphy feeling that complements the script perfectly.

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Christmas Postcard Templates with Knitted Sweater Pattern Textures

We And The Color

Available for free download with an Adobe Stock trial subscription, these Christmas postcard templates come in the style of knitted sweater pattern textures. Do you want something special for your Christmas postcards this year? If so, these Adobe Illustrator templates might be the perfect solution. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @Wavebreak Media , this set contains two postcard layouts with a red, knitted Christmas texture.

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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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Exploring the Free Font Index (and showing typefaces some love)

UX Collective

On this issue of Type Founds, I venture into a decade-plus-old series of catalogues featuring free fonts that you too can get your hands… Continue reading on UX Collective ».

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Disney’s UX before it was invented

UX Collective

How Walt Disney created great user experiences before UX was invented. Don Norman introduced the term “UX” in 1995, which is recognized as the beginning. Even though it took off from here, other people were already practicing UX without calling it that way. Walt Disney was one of those people. The Walt Disney mindset Walt Disney excelled at creating user experiences because he prioritized providing a valuable experience to his customers.

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Mischelle Moy’s pleasant and dreamlike photography pays tribute to her Chinese heritage

Its Nice That

The New York-based photographer uses an expressive colour palette, grand compositions and carefully considered props to add a new dimension to commercial photography.

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A new photo book pays tribute to the life of London’s pubs

Creative Review

The book is part of the publisher’s Vintage Britain series, which has used archive photography to celebrate everything from picnics and holiday camps, to dog shows and the London Underground. This latest edition turns its attention to the cultural importance of the capital’s historic drinking establishments. Spanning the last decade, the photographs reveal a rapidly changing city as war.

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Top 5 Tips for New Website Designers

Design Beep

Designing a website as a newbie web designer can be tough. Many new designers get bogged down in excessive details and give up. Remember, Rome wasn’t built in a day, and your first website shouldn’t be the Colosseum. It should be something more like a grass hut—nothing pretty, but it gets the job done. . Once you’ve laid the foundations of a basic website, you’ll be ready to start chiseling away at that masterpiece.

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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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Logo lessons from Tom Geismar

Creative Review

What does it take to design a symbol that lasts for 60 years, and should all designers go back to the drawing board? CR catches up with esteemed graphic designer and logo legend Tom Geismar.

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1970s’ venue Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace reborn in West London

Design Week

Prince, Robin Williams, Nile Rodgers, Cher, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Bowie. These are some of the faces you might have found in the nightlife hotspot of late 1970s Los Angeles known as Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace. Now, in archive photography blown-up on the walls, these same faces look down on visitors to the new Flipper’s, as it bids to revive its West Hollywood heyday in the west London.

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Truthful Office Idioms Highlighting The Absurdity Of Office Speak

Design You Trust

According to Nobody Famous: “I wanted to start rendering daily in Blender to get better at quickly coming up with ideas. I decided to play with common phrases that are overused in office settings.” More: Nobody Famous , Instagram h/t: boredpanda. Source.

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Beginners. - Russian Carpet: Daily inspiration, trends, mood board. Architecture, art, design, fashion, photography. #inspiration #beginners #architect #russian #architecture #carpet #modernism

Designspiration

Beginners. - Russian Carpet: Daily inspiration, trends, mood board. Architecture, art, design, fashion, photography.

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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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Artist Made 20 Paper Cutouts That Tell Travel And Life Stories

Design You Trust

According to Ana Stretcu: “My name is Ana Stretcu and I created a series called “I was cutout for this” based on paper cutouts designed to add an aww-factor to the photos I take during a road trip. I didn’t want my travel photos to end up in a forgotten folder on my laptop, so I decided to make them more memorable by adding a quirky little twist.

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Crying Wolves, Photograph by Petra Warner. National Geographic - Photo of the Day: Best of February. #wolves #cry #dogs #snow #nature #photography #animals #pack #beauty

Designspiration

Crying Wolves, Photograph by Petra Warner. National Geographic - Photo of the Day: Best of February.

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Superb Polygonal Paper Artworks by RamĂłn Ramos

Design You Trust

Ramón Ramos is a Spanish artist based in Canada with a strong passion for geometric paper craft. His work is inspired by old and new decorative art elements from different cultures all over the world, and through his practice he explores the possibilities of geometric volumes and challenges the viewer’s perception. More: Ramón Ramos , Instagram h/t: theinspirationgrid.

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“Make It Like a Memory” by Photographer Tamara Blake Chapman

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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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Branding and visual identity for Moreau Kusunoki by Voodoo Voodoo

Abduzeedo

Branding and visual identity for Moreau Kusunoki by Voodoo Voodoo. abduzeedo 1124—22 Dialogues between space and time — Berlin-based studio VOODOO VOODOO creates a new visual identity for architecture practice Moreau Kusunoki. Moreau Kusunoki is an internationally renowned Franco-Japanese international architecture practice founded in 2011 by Nicolas Moreau and Hiroko Kusunoki, whose combined experiences include working at the renowned architecture firms of SANAA, Kengo Kuma, and Shigeru Ban.

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Ariel: Bright white | Ads of the World | Inspiration DE #white #inspiration #ads

Designspiration

Ariel: Bright white | Ads of the World | Inspiration DE #white #inspiration #ads

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What if the logo is the product? McDonald's in 3D

Abduzeedo

What if the logo is the product? McDonald's in 3D. abduzeedo 1124—22 I am a fan of Eslam Mhd and his always fun and beautiful 3D work. I follow him on Instagram where I get most updates of his new 3D explorations in Blender. Elsam also inspired me to learn Blender. Well, I haven't learned just yet but I am still trying. For this post I'd love to share the artwork imagining what if the McDonald's logo was made out of a Big Mac.

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book back #typography #layout #book #geometric #cover #text #back

Designspiration

book back #typography #layout #book #geometric #cover #text #back

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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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Figma widgets for collaboration

UX Collective

Useful widgets to improve collaboration in product teams Figma is the most collaborative interface tool I have ever used as a UX designer. It is improving this aspect in each update release. In June with the latest update, they announced the widgets which bring the collaboration to another level. Widgets are interactive tools and are visible to everyone using the file, unlike plugins.

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Spizak illustration, house of cards #illustration #posters

Designspiration

Spizak illustration, house of cards #illustration #posters

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The eerily beautiful world of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Creative Review

We hear from the director and the film’s head puppet maker, Georgina Hayns, about the painstaking process of bringing one of the world’s most famous stories to life in stop motion.

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kanna-toyokazu-nagano22 #photography

Designspiration

kanna-toyokazu-nagano22 #photography

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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.