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Centrio Font Family by Joelmaker

We And The Color

Say hello to Centrio, a vintage-inspired typeface that comes in four styles. Designed and published by Zulfikar, aka Joelmaker, Centrio is a beautiful retro font for various purposes such as magazine titles, posters, logos, t-shirt designs, book covers, templates, social media, greeting cards, quotes, etc. The Centrio font family consists of four styles including Regular, Italic, Outline, and Outline-Italic.

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Mapping how far you can travel by train in five hours, from any European station

FlowingData

This European travel map by Benjamin Td shows how far you can travel in five hours, given a station location. Just hover over the map, and you see the areas, or isochrones that are reachable in five hours, assuming 20 minutes for interchanges. The project is based on data from Deutsch Bahn, and was inspired by a more dotty map by Julius Tens. It reminds me of Tom Carden’s (now Flash-retired) travel time map from 2008.

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Autor Restaurant Identity by The Branding People

We And The Color

The creative people at The Branding People produced a beautiful new restaurant identity for Autor. ‘The Branding People’ is a graphic design studio based in Mexico City. They specialize in brand construction and the development of visual communication systems. Just recently, they have been commissioned to work on a beautiful new restaurant identity for Autor.

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Gucci ventures into the world of NFTs

Creative Review

Launched last year, Gucci’s online platform Vault looks back across the fashion house’s 100 years of design history with a series of rotating ‘editions’, inspired by the layout of magazines. Now the brand is taking its visual experiment one step further with the platform’s first online exhibition and auction of NFT artworks, which has been created in partnership with marketplace SuperRare. https.

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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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August 2022 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Colossal

Image © Katharina Grosse. Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you’d like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at hello@colossal.art. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Open Calls. Faena Prize for the Arts (International).

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Full of “freaks, weirdos and monsters”, Margaux Bigou’s illustrations are bizarrely beautiful

Its Nice That

The Tahiti-based illustrator discusses how the myths and visual culture of the South Pacific inspire her work.

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What does the way you carry your Business Cards say about you?

Moo

It’s a question you may have asked yourself, possibly. So here’s a totally scientific guide. If you can’t find the answer here, you’re obviously doing your own unique thing and to that we say, “Fair play”. 1. In your back pocket. You feel a close emotional attachment to your cards, and if that means they get a bit crumpled along the way, what of it?

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How to Effectively Critique a Client’s Ideas

SpeckyBoy

Much of the web design process depends on feedback. We learn about our client’s needs, then design a website with them and their audience in mind. For their part, clients are pretty good at telling us if we’ve hit the mark (or not). Ideally, this feedback loop will help to improve the final product. However, feedback is a two-way street.

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Vimeo’s new interactive video magazine lets users “choose their own adventure”

Its Nice That

Spotlighting “supremely silly” work and “terrific animations”, issue two of the enterprise marries “the curated joy of magazines and the richness of video”.

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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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What does the way you carry your Business Cards say about you?

Moo

It’s a question you may have asked yourself, possibly. So here’s a totally scientific guide. If you can’t find the answer here, you’re obviously doing your own unique thing and to that we say, “Fair play”. 1. In your back pocket. You feel a close emotional attachment to your cards, and if that means they get a bit crumpled along the way, what of it?

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Feminist, Open-Access, and Decentralized — Cita Press Share Five Favorite Books

Eye on Design

Cita Press is a library and press devoted to curating, highlighting, publishing, and promoting works written by women. It pairs contemporary authors and designers with open-access texts, and makes thoughtfully designed books available for free. We asked Cita’s Project and Editorial Coordinator Jessi Haley to share some of her favorite reads and tell us a bit more about the project.

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DAO start-up Metaphor’s branding aims to defy “techy tropes”

Design Week

Wildish & Co has rebranded DAO platform Metaphor, with space race-inspired illustrations designed to make web 3.0 (the third generation of web technologies) more accessible. A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is a program running on a blockchain which uses a set of rules written down in code to operate and is not influenced by a central authority.

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A photographic celebration of Manchester’s LGBTQ+ community

Creative Review

Manchester club the Haçienda is synonymous with a few things: Factory Records, New Order, Peter Saville’s design, acid house, and people generally having it large. And while Manchester itself has a rich and storied LGBTQ+ history, the iconic nightclub’s own associations with that community aren’t discussed perhaps as often as they should be.

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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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Emoji kitchen, Figma responsive cards, obsessive note-taking, CTA database

UX Collective

Weekly curated resources for designers?—?thinkers and makers. Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and, more specifically, Machine Learning are pervasive in our daily lives. From Facebook ads to YouTube recommendations; from Siri to Google Assistant; and from automated translation of device notice to marketing personalization tools; AI now deeply permeates both our work and personal lives.

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Wistful and weightless, Anne-Dauphine Borione’s hot air balloon typeface is about to take off

Its Nice That

The graphic designer, who goes by the moniker Daytona Mess, shares the family history behind her Annonay typeface.

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Desktop Wallpaper: August 2022

Design Milk

Another month, another Designer Desktop ! This month’s designer feature is Ahmad AbouZanat of PROJECT AZ , a Qatar-born, Lebanon-raised, current New Yorker whose work is a mix of French and Middle Eastern aesthetics. His latest work is Halo, a series of rugs inspired by the natural phenomenon of a solar eclipse. The collection mimics the ethereal colors that transpire during the event and incorporates copper threads for a shimmering effect similar to the ring of light that forms.

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Presentation Tips for Start-UPS and Small Teams

Template Monster

Entrepreneurs out to know how to pitch their businesses. The information in a pitch deck can be useful when you finally choose to seek investment. You may be asking yourself — what is a pitch deck? Each of these presentation tips helps potential investors and venture capitalists learn more about your business. . Understand that generating a successful pitch begins with having a thorough business plan.

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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 Sapphire Casa

Abduzeedo

Branding and visual identity for Sapphire Casa. abduzeedo 0801—22 xtremely Unusual is a design studio based in Accra, Ghana and they shared a branding and visual identity for Sapphire Casa. Sapphire Casa is more than just any construction company. They love to build peoples dreams. The process of making something out of nothing is really fulfilling.

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Dense Cross-Hatching Adds Deceptive Volume to Albert Chamillard’s Geometric Drawings

Colossal

All images © Albert Chamillard, shared with permission. On vintage ledgers and notebooks, artist Albert Chamillard ( previously ) harnesses the power of crosshatching and simple outlines to render flat, geometric shapes that appear to emerge from the page. The meditative works utilize varying densities to add depth and volume to clusters of cylinders or undulating, ribbon-like forms.

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Zero ABV Brand Spiritless Releases Tequila-Inspired Jalisco 55

The Die Line

Your margarita just got a whole lot less boozey.

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5 Creative Leadership Skills Every Leader Needs To Master

Inkbot Design

5 Creative Leadership Skills Every Leader Needs To Master. From visioning and planning to mentorship and team building, leadership is essential to every team, but it can be hard to stay motivated as a leader. Leaders are only influential when they understand the people around them and can inspire them. Being a leader is so much about communicating a vision, not only to your employees but to your stakeholders as well.

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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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Photographer Spotlight: Julius Frazer

Booooooom

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EIG

Design Everywhere

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Free Wallpaper for August 2022

Six Leaf Design

HEY-O! We’re headed into August full steam ahead! I typically see a summer slowdown that picks back up around back-to-school season, and I’m anticipating this season to be no different. So, I spent some of that slow time reworking my One Week Website package and, I plan to release the new details + slots this month (keep and eye out for that announcement or hit me up if you’re interested and I’ll make sure you’re the first to know!).

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How To Measure Your Content Marketing ROI

Noupe

How do you know if your content marketing efforts are working? How do you know if they’re making you money? And just what does your content marketing impact? If you’re struggling to answer these questions, then you might be due for a refresher on how content marketing ROI works. Many marketers are unsure of how to calculate the ROI of their marketing, and many others don’t even measure the return on their marketing!

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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.