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Design Deals for the Week

Designer Daily

Every week, we’ll give you an overview of the best deals for designers, make sure you don’t miss any by subscribing to our deals feed. You can also follow the recently launched website Type Deals if you are looking for free fonts or font deals. 750+ High-Quality UI Sound Effects. Packed with over 750 high-quality recordings, the Useful Interface sound library delivers a diverse collection of tastefully crafted user interface sound effects for your UI needs.

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50 amazingly talented graphic designers to follow on Instagram

Canva

In its early days, Instagram used to be all about filtered pictures of your lunch and your pets, but since then it has grown into an immeasurably useful creative tool. Nowadays Instagram can be used for just about anything, and a lot of creatives have opted to use it as a cataloged portfolio of their work and a platform to network with others in their field.

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Easily Create Vintage Logos With This All-In-One Toolkit

Spoon Graphics

If you love the vintage design style you need to get your hands on this brilliant toolkit of fonts, textures, logo templates and graphics from Heritage Type Co. The Milkstore Collection contains everything you need to create vintage style logos, badges, labels, packaging or title designs with a hand-crafted vibe. The newly updated pack is currently on sale, and I’ve teamed up with Heritage Type Co. to offer Spoon Graphics readers an extra 10% off, making the final price $25 with a total di

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A Collection of 15 Modern Food Label Templates to Personalize Your Brand

Creative Market

Sometimes, the first impression customers receive of your brand is your logo or labels. Especially in the food industry, it is essential to have labels that give your brand a unique, recognizable character. One of the biggest ways you can do this is with specialized label fonts and logos, like the ones from these modern food label templates. Wolf Logo/Label Template.

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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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Old Bulgarian Lottery Tickets Were Winning at Design

Designer Daily

I couldn’t find much information about these lottery tickets from communist Bulgaria, but the design alone makes it worth sharing here. Heavily inspired by Russian constructivism, these tickets are an amazing display of great layouts produced with abstract shapes only. Images via Delcampe.net. Thanks for being a subscriber, here is your FREE house vector icons set.

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Video: How To Create Custom Camouflage Patterns in Photoshop

Spoon Graphics

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial I’ll show you some clever techniques for creating military style camo patterns, using nothing but Photoshop filters. The result is completely randomised, which is perfect for producing abstract shapes and disruptive patterns. I’ll also present a range of optional steps you can take to customise the appearance of your camouflage design, then prepare to have your mind blown when you see how Photoshop can completely automate the creation of your pattern

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Marcea Decker: Educator To Watch 2019

Graphic Design USA

Marcea Decker of Shillington Education kicks off our 2019 Educator To Watch series. Marcea sees design as a way to improve quality of life through problem-solving and education as fundamental to it.

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Type Design Coming to Netflix

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

I’m delighted to announce that I’m one of the six designers profiled in season two of Abstract: The Art of Design, the Emmy-nominated Netflix original documentary series that returns on September 25. The creation of Scott Dadich , Morgan Neville , and Dave O’Connor , Abstract explores design as a way of thinking, through the work of designers in different disciplines.

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Emily Osborne on Designing The Swallows

Spine Magazine

Emily Osborne is a graphic designer and illustrator, and Art Director at Penguin Random House, NY. Here she takes us through her process for designing The Swallows. The cover design for Lisa Kutz’s The Swallows , was one of those special experiences where my first round ended up including the final cover, every last detail was on that initial comp. When does that happen?

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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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How to Design a Logo

Design Roast

Whether you’re just getting started in design or you want to create a symbol for your business, there are several things you should keep in mind when considering how to design a logo. Have you ever seen one that didn’t really reflect the personality of the company? There is more to creating a logo than [.]. The post How to Design a Logo appeared first on Design Roast.

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9 Resume Design Tips to Make Your Resume Stand out

Fotor

Is anyone really up for job hunting? I know it takes quite a bit of effort to secure a job in this cut-throat environment. The quality of your resume will be the very first threshold to determine your chances of getting an interview. You may get passed on even if you have plenty of relevant […].

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A Multi-Faceted Portrait of the Genius of Photographer Jim Marshall

Feature Shoot

Man outside a liquor store in Oakland, California, 1962. Black musicians still had to fight to perform in venues in non-black neighborhoods, even though the black and white locals of the American Federation of Musicians had merged. North Beach, San Francisco, 1960. John Coltrane listening to playback at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio for Impulse Records, New York City, 1963.

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Ana Galvañ Discusses the Imagery of Press Enter to Continue

Spine Magazine

Courtesy Photo. Press Enter to Continue is Spanish illustrator Ana Galvañ’s English-language debut. Translated by Jamie Richards and published by Fantagraphics, the book offers readers a series of surreal short stories exploring the negative effects of technology on society. Several reviews tout the book as “Black Mirror-eque” because of Galvañ’s use of psychedelic colors, abstract themes, and technological representations.

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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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The Top Broadway Show Logos

Design Roast

Broadway has been the epicenter of live theater for quite some time. The best of the best take the stage every night. While it’s worth experiencing a Broadway show, tickets are always expensive and hard to acquire. So how do Broadway shows entice people to see their performance? Look around Times Square. You’ll see billboard [.]. The post The Top Broadway Show Logos appeared first on Design Roast.

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Graphis Master Paul Rand Leaves a Legacy of Timeless Work

Graphis

This week’s Graphis Master is Paul Rand, an American graphic designer who created a multitude of logos for corporate businesses. He had a lengthy and successful career making a name for himself as one of the most creative thinkers in the design industry. Many of his logos are inspired by the Swiss style of graphic […].

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5 Tips for Setting Art & Life Goals for Artists and Illustrators

Ohn Mar Win

Last weeks post were the WHYS for setting goals - this post will deal with the HOWS of goal setting. There has been a lot of research showing that having challenging goals work by improving performance and results. I can tell you from personal experience that I certainly seem to accomplish more when I take the time to set goals and actively take steps to see them through.

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New Age Fabulist: A Conversation with Jesse Fillingham

Juxapoz Magazine

Fantasy and mythology have the distinct capacity to captivate and connect, to reveal aspects of our humanity, good and bad, through imaginative ways of storytelling. Some of the most compelling tales over the past two decades, like Game of Thrones, Lord Of The Rings and Harry Potter have all used fantasy to share and find common ground in wild inventions that uncover larger truths can be uncovered, truths about ourselves and the culture we live in.

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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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Here’s Why ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2020 Is the Only Editing Software You’ll Ever Need (Sponsored)

Feature Shoot

ACD Systems International has been a world leader in photo management software since the early 1990s, when the company forecasted—and helped facilitate—the rise of digital photography. But within the last ten years, they’ve revolutionized the way photographers around the globe manage their daily workflow. The Ultimate product line, for example, is the first ever digital asset manager and RAW editor with layers.

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Erin Williams, Drawing on Experience for Commute

Spine Magazine

Courtesy Photo. Erin Williams’ graphic novel Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame (Abrams ComicArts, October 8, 2019) gives an inside look at her past sexual experiences while offering an analysis of the way society looks at, and interacts with, women. Her cover, which features a woman wearing only a t-shirt and underwear standing on a platform in front of a crowded train, invites readers to explore the content within and holds meaning to Williams.

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Hair Solutions by Paul Belford Ltd.

BP&O

Opinion by Richard Baird Hair Solutions is an enhancer, made from botanical concentrates, that can be added to any brand of shampoo, personalising it to meet 66 different haircare scenarios through a combination of formulations directed at 6 categories (normal, dry, wavy, flaky and colour-treated and fine) and 11 concerns (brittle, dry, oily, thin, wavy or colour-treated, split-ends, […].

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The ultimate guide to productivity

Canva

Before the omnipotent smartphone and the advent of ever-present email, work used to be something you left at your desk office in the form of a pile of papers. However, the modern workplace doesn’t stop when you do. Constant connectivity has allowed us to do our job at any time, from anywhere, for better or for worse. With so much more to do and so much less time to do it in, productivity has become the buzzword du jour when it comes to business.

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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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25 Business Flyer Templates (Creative Layout Designs & Industry-Specific Templates)

Tuts Plus

Do you need an impactful and effective way to promote your small or medium-sized business in 2019? It's tough to find advertising that balances high-value information and promotion. Traditional forms of advertising, like business flyers, are still effective. Tried, tested, and true promotional methods can still get the word out about your business. Pro-Biz - Business Corporate Flyer.

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How to Choose a Font: A Science-backed Guide

Creative Market

As any graphic designer will tell you, choosing the perfect font for a project can be a love/hate process. The more prevalent and permanent you expect the font choice to be, the more involved you become in the decision. It usually starts with a font family's overall look and feel, but you can quickly find yourself in the depths of the type designer's most detailed choices.

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LogoArchive Issue 5 by BP&O (Preview)

BP&O

LogoArchive returns with Issue 5 – Technique. The technical limitations of the mid-century—the need for a steady hand and a precise mind for mechanical reproduction—demanded that an exceptional level of care and creativity be given over to shape and space, association and perception. These considerations created a rich corporate and consumer form language and range […].

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6 Tips to Help You Bring Out the Interior Designer in You

Inspiration Feed

Designing is a skill that only a few people possess while bringing out their inner creativity into work. Interior decoration is something wide and fun which seems easy but requires a lot more than ever imagined.

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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.