April, 2019

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My Top Tips For Writing Web Content

Six Leaf Design

Obviously in my opinion, your visual brand is what makes the very first impression on your website and hooks your audience. But once they’ve decided to stay and look a little closer, your content is what’s going to keep them there. First off — what is website content? Your content is the meat of your site. It’s all the writing that tells people about you + your business.

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Petbarn

Identity Designed

Petbarn has been delivering expert pet care in Australia for nearly twenty years and they know the importance of delivering the best for our pets. The rise of convenience supermarkets that now offer a diverse range of pet products was beginning to impact their business. Petbarn needed to deliver a differentiated brand experience to elevate the company above and beyond the cold, corporate, and value-driven face of the competition.

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Taking Your Graphic Design Further, Expanding Into Animation and Motion Design

Graphic Design USA

Animation and motion design can add more impact to your projects and add more glamour to your graphic design career.

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Leadbelly's

Under Consideration / Menu

Contemporary in London, UK. Designed by betwixt. With each table at Leadbelly's getting its own succulent and a number of plants adorning the space, the menus echo the lovely nature details from the space in the different menu covers with a cool range of linocut illustrations, accompanied by industrial typography and a bold colors for a strong collection of menus.

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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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Solo travelling to the Peak District

Marloes De Vries

In June of last year I travelled to the Peak District in the UK for three weeks, by myself. It was the best gift I could have given myself. Three full weeks of sleeping in, hiking, exploring, enjoying nature, sleeping in a little hobbit-cottage with grass on the roof. I enjoy travelling alone as I tend to worry too much about others needs when going on vacation with family or friends.

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Free Wallpaper for April 2019

Six Leaf Design

Hello and happy April! I’m so happy that Spring is finally here and the green is starting to poke it’s head out of the ground. Anyone else start craving all the veggies when spring starts? I’m obsessed with this illustrated wallpaper pattern for the free April wallpaper design featuring some of my favorite veggies and also a little drummie for good measure!

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Emmeline Illustration Q&A at the 'Crazy Animal Face Block Party' Manchester

Emmeline Illustration

Last month I was invited to spend an hour talking to an audience about my passion for illustration, creative freelancing, and my life behind the scenes of Emmeline Illustration at the second Crazy Animal Face Block Party! Okay, I always get a little bit nervous before talks and panels no matter how often I do them; but the atmosphere and crowd were so welcoming (and the venue was so chilled out) it ended up being one of the most casual and comfortable events I've ever done!

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Anthony Wood: Design Showdown Between Fiverr vs. Professionals

Graphic Design USA

Anthony Wood argues that, yes, one can get graphic design on the cheap; but, just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

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Issue 41's cover, animated by Lucie Duclos!

Uppercase Magazine

The cover of our new issue is by UPPERCASE subscriber Lucie Duclos , whose colourful and patterned collages caught my eye on Instagram. I liked the idea of creating a cover with found patterns (plus a few from past UPPERCASE covers). It's abstract with a nod to mid-Century shapes, and the dimensional shadows make you think that the elements are still at play.

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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 every New Designer should know about Typography

Design Soak

Ninety five percent of the information on the internet is written language thanks to typography. Typography in simplest words is the art of structuring text for human consumption.

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Embracing Danger and Weirdness with Designer James Victore

High on Design by Wix

James Victore hopes to be Moses for creative people. It’s a bold statement, fit for his distinct bluntness and clear sense of passion. “I want to help give hope and freedom to the weird ones,” he tells High on Design. By weird ones, of course, he means creatives just like himself. With this as his mission statement, James’ design work and teachings are a celebration of self-expression, risk-taking, and autonomy of thought.

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16 Design Symbols Your Business Can Use to Improve Its Brand Identity

crowdspring

Symbols are one of the earliest forms of written communication. From cave walls to hieroglyphics to the printed word as we know it today, symbols are a powerful way to communicate concepts at a glance. The ability of symbols to convey information, culture, and identity has made them an invaluable part of our shared visual language. This is true not only in popular culture but also when it comes to business.

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The Dog: Illustrated playing cards for Chatsworth House

Lisa Maltby

‘The Dog’ is an exhibition at Chatsworth House which explores the Cavendish family’s love for dogs, through paintings, drawings, sculpture, letters, photographs and contemporary art. In order to engage young visitors with the exhibition, playing cards were devised which contained interesting facts. The cards encouraged children to find various breeds throughout the house, hidden within the various works of art.

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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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Books Are Magic

Diana Toledano Illustration & Education

Happy World Book Day! ¡Feliz Día del libro! Books were a fundamental part of my childhood. Growing up I didn’t always had friends… but I always had books, and for that, I’m grateful. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve read and re-read Anne of Green Gables, Matilda, Asterix & Obelix, Mafalda, Harry Potter… These books and comics were magic for me!

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Oslo Weekend Guide

Viktorija Illustration

Oslo was a place I always wanted to go, but I didn’t know what to expect or had a very clear idea of what it’s going to be like. I fell in love with Oslo from the first Hei Hei ???? It’s such a beautiful and grand city but it’s so calm, charming and not showing off at all (because when you are that cool and amazing you don’t need to do that, right?!

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Subscription Free Design Tools

A Graphic Design Blog

Yes you read right – absolutely free design tools to resize images, convert images, create collages, create promotional banners and colours gallery (my fav!) at no cost! Now let’s start with the Image Converter. This tool helps to change your images to JPEG, PNG, or TIFF by simply dragging and dropping any image in to the converter, select the preferred file format you want in the options and download.

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Playlist: Work at – Night

High on Design by Wix

This playlist was created at nighttime. I was thinking about the night being a time not intended for work, yet, more often than not, I find myself working later than planned. I think this happens to many designers when deadlines are stressful and require working at unconventional hours. But at night, you can usually work quietly and more productively.

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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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Guest Blog: Hiring Basics by Tami Wiersma of Quad County, Inc

Purple Rose Graphics

Patrice’s Note: As a graphic designer in Orange County, California, I get asked all the time about best hiring practices. The truth is I don’t know that much about them so I reached out to my amazing client Tami Wiersma of Quad County, Inc who specializes in human resources! Enjoy the guest blog!! __ __ __ __ __ __. I just got a call from a client today and it started off like this: “I saw on a reality show where a restaurant didn’t pay their staff for 3 months while they were strug

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Hardwick Hall Estate Map

Lisa Maltby

A new map needed to be devised for Hardwick Hall in order to simplify it and make information clearer for visitors, especially when produced at a smaller scale. I created a map for both the full grounds and the house estate with a simple colour coded key to make it easier to find areas, facilities and walks.

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WHAT DO THESE 70 ILLUSTRATIONS HAVE IN COMMON?

Illustration Art

Dean Cornwell Skidmore James Montgomery Flagg Pruett Carter Gruger Harrison Fisher Charles Mitchell Richard Flanagan Answer: they were all in a typical issue of Cosmopolitan magazine in the 1920s. (In this case, September 1923).

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The World’s Most Famous Graphic Designers in 2019

Design Wizard

Famous Graphic Designers of 2019. In today’s online world, it’s difficult to get by without good design! Websites, blogs, beer bottles, logos, or book covers ; you name it, if the visuals aren’t compelling, the appeal of your product or service is undoubtedly compromised. It can the making or breaking point of so much. Therefore, the importance of learning design from the very best there is can’t be overstated.

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Web Design for All: Accessibility, Inclusivity and Beyond

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.

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Sina Plaza

Enviromeant

Sina Plaza by Aedas is located in Zhongguancun Science Park, a technology hub akin to Silicon Valley, in northwestern Beijing. Central to the design concept of “limitless,” and as a nod to traditional Chinese architecture, the building frames two major courtyard gardens, creating an internal circulation route that resembles a flowing infinity symbol.

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5 Essential Ways To Stay Creative

Graphic Design USA

FunctionFox is offering a free online demo of its leading timesheet and project management software for creative professionals. The goal: stay creative, transparent, accountable, focused.

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Keeping up with the Insta-Joneses

Paul Jarvis

In 1913 Arthur Momand created a comic strip that depicted a social climbing family who struggled to “keep up” with their neighbours who seemingly always had more. More respect, more social standing, b.

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Before + After • My Aunt's Living Room

Old Brand New

Last week I went on a weekend ski trip with my boo’s friends in Breckenridge, Colorado. It was my second time skiing and I somehow felt comfortable doing the green run and I only fell once! It was terrifying but I did it! Yaaas! Afterwards, I decided to drive over to my aunt’s new home in Denver which is about two hours away. It’s been almost 10 months since she moved in and the place is still pretty much empty.

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What in the World is a Force Majeure?

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?