Creative Boom

MAY 8, 2022

Teddy bears working on new AI research underwater with 1990s technology © DALL-E 2. You may have thought your jobs were safe from robots as an artist or creator. Think again. DALL-E 2, a new artificial intelligence application developed by OpenAI is expanding the world's perspective on how creative a machine can be. Have you ever wanted to paint a portrait of your cat in the style of Rembrandt Van Rijn but just didn't have the time?

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Spoon Graphics

MAY 25, 2022

Over the years I’ve shared several tutorials showing how to create retro text effects mostly using Adobe Illustrator, so today I thought I’d mix things up and show some techniques for creating retro striped text effects with a 70s vibe using tools in Photoshop. Photoshop’s Layer Style tools are the natural place to start, but as we’ll discover they don’t quite cut it.

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BP&O

MAY 5, 2022

In 1984, the death of the wrestler Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta – commonly known as El Santo – sent shockwaves through Mexico. Over the course of five decades and 15,000 matches, the legendary fighter had captivated audiences, helping to fuel the growth of Lucha Libre around the world. Through his appearances in film, comic books and cartoons, he established himself as.

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A Beautiful Mess

MAY 19, 2022

While it can be so easy to let all our photos live in our phones, actually printing them out is not just a great way to add some personal touches to your living space, but it’s also a fun decor element as well! Family photo displays don’t have to be a cheesy thing that only grandmas do, and to prove it, here’s a bunch of tips and different ways to create family photo displays in your home!

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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

Graphic Design

We And The Color

MAY 26, 2022

Xavier Esclusa Trias created this beautiful poster collection for Matoke Experience. Commissioned by the travel agency Matoke Experience, Xavier Esclusa Trias, a Barcelona-based art director and freelance graphic designer created this beautiful poster collection. The posters are based on Matoke’s M+ an illustration of each animal. Three pieces can be found below.

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Creative Boom

MAY 12, 2022

Image licensed via Adobe Stock. It's Mental Health Awareness Week again. A chance to consider our well-being and support others who might be suffering. In that spirit, we thought we'd take a closer look at a common issue for creatives, and that's imposter syndrome. In three easy steps, we'll show you how to beat it while sharing excellent advice from the creative community.

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Spoon Graphics

MAY 18, 2022

In today’s tutorial I’m going to show you how to create detailed pixel effects just using Photoshop’s Bitmap conversion tool. By configuring a few simple settings, you can easily create retro-style artwork just like old 8-Bit game screens. I’ll first show you how this effect can be applied to photographs, but stick around until the end to also see how this effect helps to create some really cool digital text effects.

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BP&O

MAY 17, 2022

The pandemic catalysed the at-home market for a whole host of products. Paired with social isolation, it’s no wonder that one of the markets to benefit would be alcohol. Just like coffee, dried flowers and cleaning products, alcohol was packed down into letterbox-sized parcels and sent through the post. Mail-order cocktails have been a somewhat surprising development.

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Graphic Design Junction

MAY 22, 2022

Highest quality packaging product mockups to present your work in a realistic and professional style. These mockups can make your design presentation stand out from other mockups and give it truly photorealistic look. Photoshop mockup templates can save your time and make your brand product look amazing with eye-catching effects. In this article we are gathered most useful mockup templates, which are very easy to use with smart objects , simply double-click the Smart Layer, copy & paste

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Advertiser: Issuu

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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We And The Color

MAY 10, 2022

Learn to create stylish patterns for diverse graphic design projects. This is an online course by Italian graphic designer Giorgia Smiraglia. Her striking designs have been used for a diverse range of international brands. With her help, you will learn to design a collection of patterns and apply them to a set of five different items. An intermediate level of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop skills are recommended for those who want to take this course.

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HONGKIAT

MAY 26, 2022

Web builders are basically a magic toolbox for non-web designers. What was once out of people’s reach can now be grasped with just little effort. But there are things that web builders can’t do that web designers can. The question now is, should you hire a web designer to make your website for you or just use a web builder and build it yourself?

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Creative Boom

MAY 2, 2022

Breakfast © Chang Chih. Taichung-based illustrator creates homely works Inspired by her family, the food her mother used to make, and even the daily weather. Chang Chih has only been illustrating for less than a year, but her finely refined style proves otherwise. Mature and consistent, Chang has developed an aesthetic that gives off the allusion that she's been working in the medium for decades.

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Interaction Design Foundation

MAY 2, 2022

Hospital emergency rooms have been inspired by F1 pit stop crews. Henry Ford's assembly line was inspired by observing systems within slaughterhouses and grain warehouses. Executives, artists, writers and all kinds of other creative professionals have relied on creating analogies as a powerful tool for empathizing with audiences and communicating and sparking ideas.

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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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SpeckyBoy

MAY 22, 2022

When it comes to products and services geared towards web designers, the “hustle” is unique. The classic methods of marketing in-person or on a printed page aren’t as relevant. That means the real legwork has to be done online. It’s a monumental challenge. The chaotic noise of social media , the bidding wars of advertising networks.

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Graphic Design Junction

MAY 21, 2022

Once again we are featuring passionate and hardworking professional Digital Paintings Illustrations Instructor and Art director “ Hanaa Medhat “. She has extensive experience managing and creating a wide range of design project s from posters to brochures. Her achievement oriented new media designer with keen eye for details and strong commitment to contemporary design.

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We And The Color

MAY 22, 2022

With this online course by Dara Scully, you will learn the resources to tell a story through photography. Dara Scully is a renowned photographer and writer specializing in narrative photography. In this online course, she will show you how to create a photo series in which the photographs have the power to tell a certain story. She will tell you about her professional working methods, ranging from the initial idea to the final development of the photoshoot as well as the image editing and retouc

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Its Nice That

MAY 23, 2022

Since the pandemic the collective have been meeting every fortnight to create innovative web-based experiments inspired by their random word selector.

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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.

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Creative Boom

MAY 2, 2022

Office of Tom Muller. Image courtesy of the designer. We've spent 13 happy years supporting the creative industry through Creative Boom. One of the things we enjoy most is visiting people in their studios, seeing where and how they work. What might surprise you is how often these spaces share similar decor, as though without them, they simply couldn't call themselves graphic designers.

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UX Collective

MAY 19, 2022

Seemingly outmoded technologies sometimes hold the key to better user experiences. I started my career as a user interface designer and human factors engineer 20 years ago. As a designer who focused on medical devices, most of the user interfaces I worked on back then were relatively “low tech”; user interfaces that convey information via LED lights or simple displays, like dot matrix or segmented LCD displays, and enable user interaction via physical controls such as push buttons, snap domes, a

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SpeckyBoy

MAY 5, 2022

When it comes to design, some styles come and go. On the other hand, others remain popular for years, if not decades. The watercolor effect is one of the most popular design styles in both web and graphic design. Using combinations of pastel and neutral colors, this subtle technique gives designers the ability to give a natural, fresh, and spring-like feel to their designs.

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Graphic Design Junction

MAY 9, 2022

The huge collection of photorealistic packaging mockups and packaging product mockups design to showcase your product packaging design in different styles and light arrangements. The mockups are perfect to display beverage, drinks, cosmetic products, chocolates, milks and box packaging designs and impress your client. All presentation mockups are available in Photoshop PSD format, easy to use and customize, just use smart object for the replacement of design, change font size/color, background

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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.

Web Design

We And The Color

MAY 10, 2022

BRAND.S.G. Studio created this beautiful brand identity for Gusztav.architecture. BRAND.S.G. Studio is a Budapest, Hungary-based design firm offering all-in-one solutions for branding, web development, content creation, strategy, and performance marketing. The studio has created this branding concept for architecture and interior designer Gusztav Veres.

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Its Nice That

MAY 24, 2022

With a recent open call, the Icelandic Graphic Design Association and Central Bank of Iceland try to solve a taxing design challenge: inventing a country’s first monetary symbol.

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Creative Boom

MAY 23, 2022

© JeeYoung Lee. South Korean visual artist and designer JeeYoung Lee is returning to London's NOW Gallery with her upcoming exhibition, Maiden Voyage. Make sure you see it while you can, though, because once it's gone, it's gone for good. JeeYoung Lee has been touted as one of the rising stars in the Korean artistic world, and with her new installation coming to London, there's never been a better time to see her work in person.

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Design You Trust

MAY 22, 2022

Artist Yulia Brodskaya creates stunning 3D handmade illustrations using only colorful strips of paper and glue. Yulia Brodskaya is a highly regarded paper artist and illustrator. She uses two simple materials-paper and glue, and a simple technique that involves the placement of carefully cut and bent strips of paper – to make lush, vibrant three-dimensional paper artworks.

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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?

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