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How to Stop Getting Burned by Your Design Clients

Speckyboy Design Magazine

It seems like every designer has a horror story or two (or seventeen) about getting ripped off by a client who refuses to pay. Once it happens, there’s not too much you can do. It sucks, but it’s the simple truth. If you didn’t get a contract or a clear payment process established in the beginning, a lot of the time you’re just going to have to eat the loss.

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How to Create a Colorful Retro-Style ‘Rainbow’ Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

Spoon Graphics

Follow along with today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a colourful text effect, which comprises of a stack of text elements that transition through the colour spectrum to produce a rainbow effect. This text style has somewhat of a retro vibe, with it being the kind of effect you might see on an old VHS tape box or brand identity for a 70-80s tech or media company.

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How storytelling is at the heart of the Nike brand

Creative Review

Walk down any city street, and it will only be a matter of minutes – maybe even seconds – before you spot a Nike Swoosh. Over the course of its near 50-year life span the logomark has become a ubiquitous addition to our visual landscape, so easily identified that for half of that time it has stood alone, without supporting typography, to represent the Nike brand.

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10 Best Charcoal Brushes for Procreate

Just Creative

Charcoal is a great medium to create life-like portraits. It equips an artist with the perfect option to highlight the effects of light and shadow with shading. Charcoal sketches also work great to distinctively elaborate the gradients on a hand-drawn surface. Apart from creating portraits, charcoal also plays a crucial role in rough sketching and under-drawing for paintings.

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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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World Eye: Latest Design From Collective Arts Brewing

Designer Daily

Collective Arts Brewing is a craft brewery from Canada. Hamilton, Ontario, to be more specific. What’s special about them? They combine their beer crafts with the talent of artists by inviting them to submit their work twice a year in calls for art. Their latest design was named World Eye and is as hipsterish as you could expect from such a brewery.

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Orwell gets a neon-tinged makeover in new Penguin series

Creative Review

Reimagining one of Penguin’s classic titles would be a dream commission for most designers, let alone being let loose on the work of arguably England’s most celebrated writer, George Orwell. The author and social commentator’s most famous work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, has been reimagined by everyone from designer David Pearson to illustrator Noma Bar in recent years.

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How to Create Engaging Images for Social Media – 5 Proven Methods

Just Creative

This article has been contributed by Ashley Lipman. In the 1800s, playwright Henrik Ibsen coined the phrase that would evolve into the adage, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. While the way we consume imagery has evolved dramatically over the past two hundred years, that phrase still rings true — especially in social media and marketing. Strong visuals are often the driving force behind audience engagement on social media.

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Shillington Graduates Collaborate with Print Social and Crisis

Shillington

At the start of 2021, Shillington were approached by Print Social , an accessible, sustainable pre-sale platform based in South London, and Crisis , the UK’s national charity for homeless people, for an exciting project for our Shillumni across the world. Print Social invited Shillumni to submit designs for a t-shirt to help raise funds for the charity and support homeless people in the UK during the Coronavirus pandemic.

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Master the Vintage Design Style with $2014 worth of Resources for Just $29

Spoon Graphics

If you’re a fan of the vintage style you’ll love digging through the wealth of quality design resources in this vintage themed bundle! The Designer’s Timeless Vintage Collection brings you over 20 tools that help you create retro and vintage artwork, including fonts, vintage patterns and illustrations, classic elements, and much more. It’s a true treasure trove for any vintage design lover.

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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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Photographer Cassian Gray honours the humble postal worker

Creative Review

When London was placed into tier three restrictions after the first national lockdown, photographer and Kingston University student Cassian Gray decided to shine a light on unrepresented key workers in society. “There had been an extensive amount of coverage for NHS workers … and that’s when I thought of the Royal Mail postal workers,” explains Gray. “Their iconography really struck me; their bold red uniform with the recognisable Royal Mail logo emblazoned on the c

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How to Create Engaging Images for Social Media – 5 Proven Methods

Just Creative

This article has been contributed by Ashley Lipman. In the 1800s, playwright Henrik Ibsen coined the phrase that would evolve into the adage, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. While the way we consume imagery has evolved dramatically over the past two hundred years, that phrase still rings true — especially in social media and marketing. Strong visuals are often the driving force behind audience engagement on social media.

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Patricia Urquiola’s Refined Cafeteria Brings Spanish Flair to Frankfurt

Azure Magazine

As Germany’s economic capital, Frankfurt has a reputation as a business town, one better known internationally for its soaring (by European standards) skyscrapers than its hospitality culture. Enter Patricia Urquiola. In the heart of the city’s financial district, the acclaimed designer has introduced a vital dose of warmth and vibrancy to the public-facing spaces at the foot of a soaring new office complex.

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Build Your Own Inexpensive Food Photography Studio

Pixlr

Food photography is an exciting field not only because you get to work with appetizing food every day but also because it demands creativity. This guide details how to build a food photography setup. In addition, you will learn some techniques to use once that setup is complete. Let there be Light It is pretty [.].

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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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Hollie Fernando’s dreamlike imagery pays homage to classical paintings

Creative Review

There is a distinctly dreamlike quality that imbues Hollie Fernando’s photography. Inspired by the rich colour palettes, lighting styles and symbolic features traditionally seen in classical paintings, her images of people and places feel both delicate and powerful at the same time. The Brighton-based photographer discovered her creative streak from a young age, whether making fairy houses in her garden or cooking mud pies with her siblings, but her first introduction to photography came f

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10 Best Charcoal Brushes for Procreate

Just Creative

Charcoal is a great medium to create life-like portraits. It equips an artist with the perfect option to highlight the effects of light and shadow with shading. Charcoal sketches also work great to distinctively elaborate the gradients on a hand-drawn surface. Apart from creating portraits, charcoal also plays a crucial role in rough sketching and under-drawing for paintings.

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Mysterious Marine Ecosystems Populate Rich Paintings by Robert Steven Connett

Colossal

“Devouring Star Jelly.” All images © Robert Steven Connett, shared with permission probes the ocean depths for. Whether rendered as a snapshot of the ocean floor or a few drops of water under a microscope, the densely inhabited paintings by Robert Steven Connett ( previously ) are brimming with vitality. The Los Angeles-based artist probes the planet’s bodies of water, unveiling a range of flora and fauna that populate the mysterious and sometimes psychedelic ecosystems with ex

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Star Wars Characters as Classical Japanese Art

Design You Trust

“Kenobi-shogun! daitan-na otokoyo!” – Grievous. Digital artist Scadarts ( previously ) uses Photoshop to put Star Wars characters into classic artworks. His latest series uses the classical Japanese style to portray Boba Fett, Ahsoka Tano, Darth Maul, and Leia Organa. Click to the right in the image above to see each work on its own. But that’s just his latest series.

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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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Meatable’s new branding pitches cultivated meat as ‘the new natural’

Creative Review

Cultivated meat might ordinarily bring to mind sterile lab environments and the idea that a scientist has been poking around with your food. However, Studio Koto’s new branding for cultivated meat brand Meatable – which uses samples from an unharmed cow or pig to produce meat – aims to show that this is simply ‘the new natural’ The visual identity puts animals and nature front and centre, from the idyllic photography right down to the natural colour palette inspired

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Weekly News for Designers ? 577

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Video Tutorial: How to Create a Stained Glass Window Effect – Craft a stunning effect in Adobe Illustrator with this tutorial. The State of Design in 2021 – A survey of over 1,000 designers, asking them how they work, what they value, and what kinds of challenges they’re facing. 8 Examples of Icon-Based Navigation, Enhanced with CSS and JavaScript – Some interesting examples of how icons can improve website navigation.

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Channel 4 animation series Rap Therapy sees Krept & Konan and D Double E offer mental health advice

Its Nice That

The films by Toad London aim to resonate with teenagers, and feature work by illustrators such as Mason London, Elena Gumeniuk and Kris Andrew Small.

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Thousands of Colored LEDs Turn Dutch Farmland Into Nighttime Wonderland

Design You Trust

Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde’s latest artwork GROW is an homage to the beauty of agriculture. In the world film premiere GROW appears as a luminous dreamscape of red and blue waves of light over an enormous field. GROW is inspired by scientific light recipes which improve plants’ growth and resilience. More: Studio Roosegaarde , Instagram , Facebook.

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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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Musa Okwonga’s latest book comes with 1,000 rainbow covers

Creative Review

The artist worked on the covers at his Leeds studio Prints of Thieves, which has made work for bands and musicians as well as designers and illustrators. Craig Oldham designed the jackets, and Davidson-Hawley blended coloured ink across sheets of paper before cutting them to size and then printing the text – meaning no two copies are the same.

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Home is Where the High-Design Gym Equipment Is

Azure Magazine

Over the past year, shelter-in-place orders and intermittent gym closures have prompted many fitness buffs to beef up their in-house workouts. In turn, many at-home fitness brands have hit the ground running, amping up both the technical capabilities and the design quotient of their products to distinguish them from the pack. Think super-sophisticated stationary bikes , inspiring interactive mirrors, even dumbbells made of marble.

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Fred Heinsohn’s playful designs are shaped by queer and feminist theory

Its Nice That

The Berlin-based graphic designer talks us through his key inspirations which revolve around perspective, research and visibility.

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Fascinating Nostalgic Color Photos Show What the World Looked Like in the 1950s

Design You Trust

A 1950s Ford with a ‘Welcome to Colorful Colorado’. The 1950s were a decade marked by the post-World War II boom, the dawn of the Cold War and the Civil Rights movement in the United States. “America at this moment,” said the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1945, “stands at the summit of the world.”. During the 1950s, it was easy to see what Churchill meant.

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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.