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How to Turn Yourself Into Animated Cartoon in Zoom.Us

Graphic Mama

You might be wondering why you would want to turn yourself into an animated cartoon, it’s a reasonable question. So let’s look at some of the reasons – it adds interest, it shows humor, it emphasizes skills and imagination and it shows effort… a combination that can work really well. Take, for example, online teaching – more and more popular for obvious reasons – animating yourself is a great way to grab and hold the children’s attention and make you sta

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Aux zine keeps prisoners thinking creatively

Creative Review

Prisons have been the centre of debate during the Covid-19 pandemic. Outbreaks have been a source of ongoing concern, prompting a call for early releases and remote parole hearings, though only a fraction have gone ahead. Given the overcrowded nature of the UK’s facilities, prisoners have spent the last three months essentially held in solitary confinement around the clock, with a clampdown on external visits and educational initiatives.

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Remembering Milton Glaser: “You can’t be good at everything”

Design Week

Milton Glaser, the American graphic designer behind one of the most well-known logos in the world, has died on his 91st birthday following a stroke. He will be best remembered for his I ♥ NY logo, though his work spans hundreds of visual identities and poster designs. He spoke to Design Week in 2018, on the publication of a book featuring over 400 of his designs, and talked candidly of his life’s work, both good and bad. “I didn’t want to only show work that represented t

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Reviewed: New Logo and Identity for OneFootball by DesignStudio

Under Consideration / Brand

“For Kicks”. Established in 2008, OneFootball is a football (soccer) media platform headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Its flagship product is a mobile app that, among other traits, users can customize to follow their favorite team and is complemented by a very strong social media presence, reaching altogether more than 70 million fans worldwide every month.

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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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Free Web Accessibility tools won’t Protect you from ADA Lawsuits

Noupe

If you own a website and you haven’t heard about web accessibility or the ADA act, this article is for you. It’s been 3 years since a bind internet user won the first federal ADA title II web accessibility lawsuit , and 2 years since the Department of Justice made a statement confirming that ADA requires online businesses to be accessible to consumers with disabilities, but web accessibility is still slowly entering public consciousness. .

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Why So Many Medieval Manuscripts Depict Butt Trumpets?

Design You Trust

Knights fighting giant snails, rabbits murdering people, countless paintings of cats licking their butts, weird elephants …and now men and animals playing trumpets with their rear ends… Medieval art is really confusing and quite random. If you have any idea why artists were so obsessed with these themes, please leave a comment below. Source.

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The Alpaca River Photographed by Paolo Pettigiani

Trendland

Words TL Team. On the road to Patapampa in Peru, Italian photographer Paolo Pettigiani photographed his latest project: “Alpaca River”.

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Deconstructivist Design and Illustration by Clément OGIELA

Abduzeedo

Deconstructivist Design and Illustration by Clément OGIELA. abduzeedo 06.30.20 Clément OGIELA (Polak) created a series of illustrations for Reverse MOOKS between 2019 and 2020. His work is a mix of photomontages, handmade typographies and textures. The result is what we could call a 90s inspired look. It brings that deconstructivist style mixing different graphics that reminds me of David Carson and the End of Print type of work.

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Pride 2020: the role of design in the LGBTQ community

Design Week

“When it comes to design and the queer community, there’s not a world in which I would ever want one to exist without the other,” so says graphic designer Rebecca Brooker. Brooker is the co-founder of Queer Design Club, an online community for LGBTQ designers. Its mission, she says, is to provide queer creators with a space to share work and build relationships with each other.

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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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Your 2020 Guide to Finding Remote Work – [Infographic]

Noupe

Remote opportunities have reached a historical high, and it seems to be the new preferred way of work. With many benefits for both employers and employees, many are seeking remote work solutions amidst the pandemic to stay afloat. However, the surge of remote listings makes its job market difficult to navigate – especially for those new to seeking virtual opportunities.

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Rachel Hess adopts an experimental approach for her designs

Creative Review

Around nine years ago Ohio-born creative Rachel Hess was studying fine arts at the University of Cincinnati. While she enjoyed playing with mixed media and creating things from scratch, she soon became interested in learning more about typography and working within the digital space. “So I shifted into graphic communication design the following year, taking drawing, screenprinting, ceramics and painting alongside my design courses throughout,” explains Hess.

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Eden "26 Days of Type" blends 3D & Typography

Abduzeedo

Eden "26 Days of Type" blends 3D & Typography. abduzeedo 06.30.20 I talked in the past about how much I love the 36 days of type challenge ( [link] ) - I’ve never done it, however I always feature designers and illustrators that took the challenge and succeeded. That’s the case Eslam Mohamed , even though he forked the guidelines to create the “26 Days of Type” called Eden, a beautiful example of blending 3D and typography.

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Organic, Sunrise Gradients Mask Front Pages of The New York Times by Artist Sho Shibuya

Colossal

All images © Sho Shibuya, shared with permission. For many people, blocking out the news has meant logging off of Twitter and resisting the urge to check every breaking update. But Sho Shibuya has taken a more literal approach to the stress-reducing action. The Brooklyn-based artist and founder of the design studio Placeholder has taken to painting over the front page of The New York Times with vibrant gradients that mimic the day’s sunrise.

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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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A Month in Photos: June

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“I learned to rely and trust in the people around me”: Isabel Okoro on her photographic process that revolves around her friends

Its Nice That

Inspired by the sun, the Nigerian photographer aims to depict the relationships that exist within the Black community.

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Creative Heroes: FKA twigs

Creative Review

As part of our 40th celebrations, we're honouring some of the artists and creatives we feel are changing the industry today and inspiring new generations. Here, we interview musician FKA twigs, who discusses her journey from humble beginnings to global recognition. The post Creative Heroes: FKA twigs appeared first on Creative Review.

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COVID LATAM: Latin American Photographers Document The Pandemic

Design You Trust

matildecampodonico One virus; 18 ways of seeing the world. Covid Latam is a collective project documenting the coronavirus pandemic as it unfolds across Latin America. Photographers – 9 men and 9 women – are working in 13 countries: Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Cuba and Mexico to document the unfolding story of the pandemic.

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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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#ILoveTheseGuys Creative Inspiration: Pragun Agarwal

Shillington

Shillington students and staff from around the world share the work of creatives who inspire them in the #ILoveTheseGuys series. In this post, the Shillington team highlights projects from Hamburg-based graphic designer, Pragun Agarwal. Pragun has a solid understanding of analog type using brush strokes. With his skill and talent he has conducted lettering workshops internationally.

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Illustrator Spotlight: Austin Rossborough

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Austin Rossborough. Austin Rossborough’s Website. Austin Rossborough on Instagram.

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Damn Good Advice on Spec Work

Inspiration Feed

There is an ongoing trend or practice in the designing industry these days that border on unethical and acceptable where creativity is concerned.

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How to Create an Intuitive Design

Interaction Design Foundation

“The main thing in our design is that we have to make things intuitively obvious,” the founder and former CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, explained. We can easily agree that design should be intuitive. We can also easily agree that something is intuitive when we can use it without thinking about it. Making a design intuitive is much tougher. Solving this task requires an understanding of the psychology behind human interaction, specifically how humans come to understand the physical and cultural envir

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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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Pantone's New Connect Platform Makes Designing Under COVID-19 Easier

The Die Line

Pantone, the color experts 10 million designers and producers around the world rely on, have announced a set of tools to help creatives working from home easily capture and collect colors using an Android or iPhone.

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Prototyping: Learn Eight Common Methods and Best Practices

Interaction Design Foundation

There can never be an exhaustive list of prototyping methods, since there is quite literally an endless number of ways you can build prototypes. What we can do, however, is provide a useful list of the eight most common prototyping methods, together with best practice tips that help you maximise your prototyping and testing sessions. By arming yourself with these eight common methods, you can begin your iterative process of building prototypes in order to empathise with your users, to decide on

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Site Visit: Scott & Scott Architects

Azure Magazine

Join AZURE Media as we go face-to-face with Vancouver-based practice Scott & Scott Architects , the second in our ongoing series Site Visit. Site Visit is a new collection of virtual talks bringing you face to face with some of the most exciting international architects and designers working today. Join us on Instagram ( @azuremagazine ) for this series of live conversations led by our editors and featuring a host of creatives from New York to New Delhi and beyond.

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Three Ideation Methods to Enhance Your Innovative Thinking

Interaction Design Foundation

“In a world where business is more interested in ‘best practice’ rather than different practice, is it any wonder that products and services, companies and organisations are all beginning to look the same?” the three authors rhetorically ask in ?What If!'s classic book on creativity and innovation, Sticky Wisdom. How to Start a Creative Revolution at Work.

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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.