Creative Boom
APRIL 18, 2022
Image licensed via Adobe Stock. Portfolio templates have come a long way over the last decade. You can now create a professional website with minimal effort. But the best designs are ones that let your work stand out. They're clean, functional and professional. Here are some of our favourite templates for 2022. We're not dismissing the importance of web design when we talk of portfolio templates.
Designer Daily
APRIL 5, 2022
Creating a business brochure is important to promote your company and its products. A well-designed brochure can help you get more customers and a lot of sales. The main purpose of a brochure is to educate potential customers about your company, the services you offer and also about the product or products that you sell. A business owner will have an advantage over other business owners if he has a powerful promotional tool such as a great-looking, eye-catching professional brochure for his comp
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Creative Boom
APRIL 6, 2022
As the old saying goes: 'Be yourself, everyone else is taken'. It's a lesson the characters in Angela Kirkwood's animated music video would do well to learn, as it follows the life of a cat who has become completely obsessed with a dog and pays the price along the way. Created for Toronto-based band No Frills' new single 'Copy Cat', the animation is Angela's first and longest animation commercial project.
Graphic Design Junction
APRIL 19, 2022
Making a monogram logos just got much quicker and easier. You won’t need any magic school training to start pulling monograms out of hats in seconds rather than minutes. Simply type any two-letter combo starting with an uppercase letter followed by a lowercase letter, and “Shazam!” Now you’ve your own created monogram. In this article there are thirty five elegant and creative Monogram Logo designs for your inspiration.
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
Spoon Graphics
APRIL 4, 2022
It’s that time of year when Spoon Graphics gets a little older, with 2022 marking 15 years of tutorial creating, freebie sharing and article writing on what started as a blog that was attached to my design portfolio website in 2007. Every April I take some time to reflect on the past 12 months and talk about how things have changed. Last year I talked about how it was nice to see traffic levels plateau somewhat after the massive declines over recent years, so let’s take a look at the latest stat
Design Milk
APRIL 4, 2022
Materials expert 3form introduces a woodland-inspired Biophilic Graphic Patterns collection that looks no further than the brand’s backyard for inspiration. Located less than 200 miles from 3form’s Salt Lake City headquarters is Pando the Tree, a colony of Aspen trees connected by a single root structure that dates back 2.6 million years. Fascinated by the Aspen trees’ rich texture and history, they became the jumping-off point for this collection, spurring three new graphic patterns inspired by
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Designer Daily
APRIL 14, 2022
Whether you are afraid of bugs or you love them, you may need them in one of your upcoming designs. Good news: our cute three littles buggies are available completely free of charge. All you have to do to get them is to sign up to the Designer Daily and get the chance to get regular updates about design news, resources, or tutorials. You will receive the vector files at the bottom of each newsletter.
Creative Boom
APRIL 29, 2022
Image licensed via Adobe Stock. Instagram has been a beloved tool to creatives everywhere since its launch in 2010. But recent algorithm changes and a push for more video content have left many artists and designers struggling to enjoy the same likes and reach. If IG has become too exhausting, what marketing alternatives are there? We explore some options.
Graphic Design Junction
APRIL 13, 2022
Best modern resume templates with minimal cover letter design and portfolio pages. Simple and clean resume templates perfect for any job opportunity and help you to get your dream job. Super minimal design resumes with cover letters are available in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, In-design and MS Word format files. The templates are professionally organized and labeled with smart objects, so every beginner can edit it like a professional.
Spoon Graphics
APRIL 13, 2022
In today’s Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you a simple technique to create what has become known as double colour exposure, where two images are overlaid to produce an interesting effect with contrasting colours. It’s a similar visual style to 3D anaglyph images, or the overprint effect used in old school print designs. The steps to create the basic double colour exposure are very simple, so stick around until the end to also see a few additional tips and tricks to add colour grading effec
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Design Milk
APRIL 28, 2022
The contemporary aesthetic of Marset’s new Zenc light fixture is inspired by the water tanks found on rooftops in New York City – do you see it? The hint of industrial aesthetics, the drum pendant that seems to be made of oxidized metal with welded joints. Long an integral part of New York’s identity, water towers are still performing the very same function now as back at the beginning of the 19th century when they debuted.
Creative Bloq
APRIL 22, 2022
Illustrator: Still the best or lagging behind the competition?
Designer Daily
APRIL 24, 2022
As a designer, your work doesn’t start when you put down that pen or mouse to sketch something. At the other end of the project spectrum, it doesn’t finish when you send the logo to print or push your website to production. No, it starts when you think about the project and start collecting inspiration, and it ends once all the project phases are organized and the final results are archived properly.
Creative Boom
APRIL 20, 2022
Smoothie © Helga Stentzel. During a spot of laundry a few years back, London-based Russian-born artist Helga Stentzel got the idea for a unique series featuring clothes on a washing line cleverly staged as different animals. Thus began a viral Instagram account that gained thousands of fans and likes. "I saw a sock on the floor next to some pegs and realised that it looked like a horse's head," she tells Creative Boom.
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Graphic Design Junction
APRIL 27, 2022
The new fresh collection of modern free fonts , 100% free fonts available for free download and use for any commercial graphic design projects. New high quality free fonts perfect for logotype, branding and any kind of typography artwork. This collection included sans serif fonts , script fonts , handwritten fonts and brush fonts which can make your design more professional.
Spoon Graphics
APRIL 18, 2022
Access All Areas members have a great collection of Photoshop Actions and Lightroom Presets to download this week, courtesy of Hydrozi. This set of Clean Tones effects transform your images with a bright, clean and warm look. A variety of file formats are supplied, making these photo effects compatible with Adobe Photoshop, the mobile and desktop versions of Adobe Lightroom, and the Adobe Camera RAW tool.
Design Milk
APRIL 13, 2022
A new experimental sculpture has been created by Giles Miller Studio in honor of the Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids (DIFFA) in New York. What Is Hope? was unveiled in March 2022 during an event celebrating DIFFA’s nearly four decades of raising funds to fight AIDS, homelessness, food scarcity, and mental health issues. “Inspired by their cause, and at a time when global issues feel relentless in their oppression of humanity and happiness, we saw an opportunity to call for optim
Creative Bloq
APRIL 15, 2022
Two of the internet's favourite things combine. to leave us bamboozled.
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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.
Creative Boom
APRIL 4, 2022
To create great websites, you need to have a passion. And Denise Foy, owner of De La Foye Design Studio , is quite clear about where her passion lies. It all began when she helped a chef turn an ailing restaurant around by getting it online. As a result, a failing business became a roaring success. Denise thought to herself, "If I can help another business owner succeed, I'd be incredibly honoured.
Creative Boom
APRIL 24, 2022
Vintage paper, daily fantasies, and retro-futurism are just some of the many inspirations that fuel illustrator Megan Du. Bright, bold, and impossible to miss, Megan's art also focuses on female perspectives to tell unique stories. Originally from China, Megan Du is a London-based artist studying illustration at the University of the Arts London. Her desire to be an illustrator stretches back to her childhood when her family would praise her drawings and display them all over the living room wal
Creative Boom
APRIL 7, 2022
Marina Willer and her team at Pentagram are behind a super cute new identity for leading pet charity Woodgreen that has been designed to reflect the charity's special mission: "to help pets and their people". Established in North London in 1924, Woodgreen provides a safe haven for vulnerable pets in need of urgent care or a loving new home and offers expert advice and hands-on support to owners of pets, not only dogs and cats but also a range of domestic animals including rodents and chickens.
Creative Boom
APRIL 18, 2022
Say Goodnight, 2021 © Holly Stapleton. Taking a photographer's favourite hour of the day, when a golden light bathes everything in a flattering warmth, Holly Stapleton 's illustrations are pleasingly soft, charming and tender. The Toronto-based artist masterfully mixes hand-painted gouache with digital art to achieve this unique style. "I would say my style focuses on merging analogue and digital illustration in a minimalistic way," Holly tells Creative Boom.
Speaker: Eden Spivak, Design Expert and Editor at Wix & Nir Horesh, Accessibility Lead and Senior Product Manager at Wix
When we design products or websites for people like ourselves, there are many others who are, as a result, left out. From visually impaired users who rely on assistive technology, to people with a temporary injury such as a broken arm, tech users are forever diverse and beautifully unique. The products we design can, and should, reflect the extremely wide range of human experiences and needs.
Creative Boom
APRIL 20, 2022
Holloway Lightbox - John Holloway Photography. As remote working is well and truly here to stay, you might want to swap your humble dining room table for something a little more permanent. To get inspired, a new book by Hoxton Mini Press reveals some of the world's most extraordinary garden offices, not just from leading architects but from the people who rolled their sleeves up and built their own.
Creative Boom
APRIL 3, 2022
© Joshua Thelwell. Based in London, Joshua currently has his finger in many pies as a fashion designer, graphic designer and digital artist. Below, he tells us more about his 2D creations and who he strives to represent in his imagery. Spanning digital, photography and graphic design, Joshua Thelwell is a creative polymath of sorts. In his 2D works specifically, he replicates people, models or musicians with utmost accuracy and precision – from FKA Twigs to the lesser-known.
Creative Boom
APRIL 6, 2022
It Must Be Nice is a new picture book from freelance illustrator Ri?ards Znuti?š-Znut?ns. Delving into the world of human emotions, this beautifully illustrated tome examines the 27 feelings people encounter throughout their lives. Partly inspired by Ri?ards' interest in psychology, It Must Be Nice evolved from his Erasmus+ studies. While studying in Portugal, he collaborated with the publishing house Stolen Books to put together an illustrated book that details the 27 emotions scientists have i
Creative Boom
APRIL 24, 2022
Today we've launched the fourth season of The Creative Boom Podcast with guests including Pentagram's Marina Willer, Bulletproof founder Gush Mundae and graphic designer and type researcher Sarah Hyndman amongst the exciting lineup. Every Monday, our show will bring you the inside scoop from other artists, designers, illustrators and photographers about the highs and lows of being a creative professional.
Speaker: Michele Berdinis
This session will answer business law questions that people are asking most during the pandemic. If my business can’t pay its bills, can my creditors come after my personal assets? Do I have to pay the rent on my co-working space or office? Can my clients cancel signed contracts? Can I cancel contracts for things I no longer need because my business has slowed down?
Creative Boom
APRIL 21, 2022
From the series and book, Living With Dogs © Dylan Collard. Award-winning photographer and keen dog trainer Dylan Collard explores people's connections with their canine friends in Living With Dogs, an upcoming photo book filled with snaps of owners and their pets. Due to be put up on Kickstarter towards the end of May, Living With Dogs follows in the footsteps of Dylan's previous photography work in that it involves shooting real people on location.
Creative Boom
APRIL 26, 2022
© Hannah Lock. The work of West Yorkshire-based illustrator Hannah Lock is hard to miss, thanks to its bold, in your face colours. But rather than layering up these tones digitally, she creates them the old fashioned way by pressing coloured pencils firmly onto the page. As well as describing her artistic style as colourful, Hannah says that her illustrations sit "somewhere between semi-realistic, and not.
Creative Boom
APRIL 19, 2022
Illustrator, designer and author Aura Lewis creates joyful, colourful worlds where the personal is political. Renowned for her feminist-themed illustrations, Aura's work takes traditionally 'girly' visual elements and turns them into empowering statements. It's hard to know where to start with Aura Lewis' many talents. An MFA graduate from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, her lush, almost textural illustrations have appeared on murals, in the pages of books she's written, and in the t
Creative Boom
APRIL 4, 2022
© Marcel George. Freelance illustrator and artist Marcel George has a unique style, combining watercolour and hand-cut illustrations. Currently living and working in London, clients include Financial Times, Esquire, Stella Artois, Vanity Fair, and Penguin Random House. "I spent a lot of time in lockdown working on new styles and directions for my work," says Marcel.
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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