Creative Boom

MARCH 7, 2022

Image licensed via Adobe Stock. Happy International Women's Day ! And what better time could there be to celebrate some of the most amazing women in the creative sector? So in this article, we've gathered together a mix of emerging and established women working in their profession, all doing wonderful things to inspire your own career. The industry as a whole may still be struggling to achieve gender equality, but that doesn't mean we're short of heroes to emulate and point the way forward for u

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Eye on Design

MARCH 7, 2022

Design does not exist in a vacuum. We are constantly and simultaneously surrounded by textures, contours, smells, sights, and sounds. As designers, we should consider all of the senses when we design—not only so we can more fully connect to our audience, but also so we can be more inclusive. Every person brings their individual history with them when experiencing a design.

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Spoon Graphics

MARCH 7, 2022

Access All Areas members have a vibrant photo effect to download this week, courtesy of The Designest. The Hypnotic Oil Paint Effect gives images an amazing acid-washed oil paint look with neon colours and grainy textures. It’s all contained with a Photoshop Smart PSD that provides 3 effects, plus 10 colour filters and 3 grain texture options. The Designest is a design blog that delivers fresh news & trends from the industry, along with freebies and how-to guides for professional designers

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Canny

MARCH 10, 2022

Video-based marketing campaigns were forever changed with the introduction of drone footage. And it’s easy to see why. Outside of looking incredibly cool, aerial footage is a confirmation of quality, allowing brands to approach video content from a truly unique perspective. Drone marketing — as some have started referring to it as — can be found just about everywhere, either to offer a unique visual, or to actually feature within the video in some way or another.

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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

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Creative Boom

MARCH 10, 2022

From Mami Wata to Lakshmi, belief systems through the millennia have been influenced by powerful female figures and deities. To shine a light on these often-overlooked figures, illustrator Sarah Walsh has brought them to life in Goddess: 50 Female Figures Who Have Shaped Belief. Published by Nosy Crow and written by Dr Janina Ramirez, Goddess is a children's book containing a biography of 50 deities and an accompanying illustration for each by Sarah.

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Graphic Design Junction

MARCH 8, 2022

Amazing Adobe Lightroom Presents for mobile & desktop. Best Lightroom Presets perfect for photographers and designers that will help you bring your photos to life with rich, vivid color and perfect exposure to make it look realistic within a few clicks! Moreover, you will also get the perception changed by applying these effects like boosting saturation, high-clarity and contrast to attain a professional look.

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SpeckyBoy

MARCH 6, 2022

Give your regular graphics an extra oomph with incredible typography! No matter if you’re designing a logo or branding materials, prepping a new marketing campaign, or want to create some art in Photoshop, typography can help you send the right message. However, finding the perfect text effect is often tedious. You might even find yourself giving up and saying: “ Eh, I did my best. ” But before you give up, make sure you check out Photoshop actions.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 7, 2022

© Olga Shtonda. Olga Shtonda is an award-winning illustrator from Kharkiv, Ukraine, who loves to combine different graphic techniques with printmaking, ink, pencils, collages and digital. Right now, she's in Mexico visiting a friend. She went there two weeks before Russia invaded her country. She's now wondering if she'll ever be able to go home. "I have a return ticket for April, but now I'm not sure if I'll be able to see my studio in Kharkiv again," Olga tells Creative Boom.

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We And The Color

MARCH 9, 2022

Create stunning vintage-inspired poster designs using this fully customizable poster template with two color options. Adobe Stock contributor @blackcatstudio created this easy-to-use vintage poster design template. Equipped with two design options, the template is characterized by circular graphic shapes. Thanks to the use of vector graphics, everything is fully editable in no time.

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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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Noupe

MARCH 9, 2022

There are millions of Apps available in the Apple store and google play store so are the multiple options available for the users. It is more important than ever to create marketing systematic plans for your mobile app. Marketing a mobile app efficiently involves determining a target audience, learning how to reach them, how to communicate with them and analyzing their in-app behavior to make updates and improvements.

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SpeckyBoy

MARCH 6, 2022

Block themes have ushered in a new era for WordPress. Through the use of full site editing (FSE), they put every facet of a website’s design within reach. There’s no need to open up your code editor, as you can point-and-click your way to a fully custom design. But before we get too far into the weeds, it’s worth noting that block themes are fundamentally different than the classic WordPress themes you’re used to.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 11, 2022

Just like any part of language, internet lingo never stops evolving. In 2014, the FBI commissioned a study of the jargon, creating an 83-page document to help it translate and monitor chat on social media. Now Pentagram has paid homage to this glossary by designing its own book, complete with custom typefaces inspired by FBI agent jackets. If 'DFTB' and 'BTDTGTTSAWIO' has you completely stumped, then Pentagram's latest annual greeting mailer will be just what you need to see today.

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We And The Color

MARCH 11, 2022

Available on Adobe Stock, these Bauhaus-inspired Instagram post templates are fully editable as vector files. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @orangeberry , this set of Bauhaus Instagram post templates is equipped with six individual design options. You can use them to create striking Instagram posts or any other social media content. All six designs are based on the standard size of 1080 x 1080 px.

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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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Creative Review

MARCH 8, 2022

The British Culture Archive is staging a free exhibition in Manchester that examines 50 years of documentary photography by women, starting with two photographers whose perspectives are rooted in parts of northern England. It features work by the late Newcastle-born social documentary photographer Tish Murtha, who began documenting everyday life in Elswick – a district on the west side of the city.

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UX Collective

MARCH 9, 2022

Cognitive biases are systematic errors in thinking that can lead UX professionals to make wrong design decisions. Here, we will learn to identify and manage three cognitive biases to improve data-driven design outcomes and user delight Illustration by the author Highlights: Cognitive biases are subconscious errors in thinking that impact individuals and teams in all levels of seniority.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 8, 2022

Annabel Wright. According to the Publishers Association, most senior roles in publishing are held by women. But there's still gender disparity amongst authors and even more across genres. In a world where business books are predominantly written by men, Annabel Wright of Whitefox Publishing explores how joining the dots with independent self-publishing could provide the perfect platform for female-identifying entrepreneurs who want to share their professional voice.

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We And The Color

MARCH 11, 2022

With this highly recommended online course, you will learn how to transform information into art. Sonja Kuijpers is a renowned data illustrator and design teacher based in Eindhoven, Netherlands. In her online course, she will teach you how to effectively bring data to life with graphic shapes, colors, and creative layouts. In 14 lessons, she gives you all the tools you need to transform data into captivating infographics using colors, shapes, and images.

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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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SpeckyBoy

MARCH 11, 2022

Markdown Badges – This collection of badges features a variety of social networks, frameworks, and libraries. 10 Free WordPress Block Themes That Utilize Full Site Editing – Experience the future of WordPress with this collection of free block themes. Creating Native Web Components – Learn how to create and use native web components with the Minze JavaScript framework.

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UX Collective

MARCH 6, 2022

Analyzing Apple Music’s UX Illustration by Jan Marin Why Apple Music? As a convert to the Apple Club, I’ve spent the last 10 years using Apple products and appreciating the philosophy of good design Jobs ushered in way back when. Over those years I got hooked into Apple’s ecosystem because for me “It just worked.” One such adoption was iTunes. Spending my fair share of time carefully curating my music library and faithfully syncing it to my trusty iPod.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 8, 2022

From the series Neighbourhood Watch © Alexander Coggin and Alice Ray. Two image-makers have come together in producing a flash-lit series of recognisable objects placed in weird scenarios. The pair tell us more about their project below. It's been a tough few years, to say the least. But creativity, with all its remedial and therapeutic powers, has been a lifeline, with many turning towards a new or existing medium to make sense of the world around them – or to simply enjoy the process.

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We And The Color

MARCH 8, 2022

Design studio Too Gallus created the brand identity for Wax London. Too Gallus is an award-winning Branding and Web Design studio based in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2020, their creative team was commissioned by Justified Studio to work on a unique brand identity for Wax London. They opted for a material-focused approach, using a beautifully punchy GF smith orange and grey as well as a heavy blind emboss.

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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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The Design Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Brand Identity for Nud by Maniac Studio Nud is an artisanal bakery and coffee shop specialized in sourdough bread and gourmet coffee. It was designed as a place where only good things happen and life stops for a moment. “Bread and coffee” is possibly the best combination that exists, and some of the most enjoyable things in this world. Few things compare to the sensation of the first sip of a good cup of coffee or the first bite of a delicious bun; hence the concept of the brand is born.

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UX Collective

MARCH 10, 2022

The driving force behind my relentless mission to create digital fonts for Afrikan writing systems, one letter at a time. In this case study I’ll walk you through the process of designing a font for the Bassa Vah Alphabet. The name ‘Bassa’ and a Bassa proverb. Background Bassa language is spoken by about 600 000 Bassa people of Liberia and Sierra Leone.

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Its Nice That

MARCH 7, 2022

The incredibly talented illustrator, known online as Cat Mover, is strikingly adept at adapting a variety of cultural references from her childhood into her editorial work.

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We And The Color

MARCH 5, 2022

Available for download on Adobe Stock, this set of Instagram post templates is ideal for social media ads and other business promotions. Ranging from online yoga classes to product promotions, this set of clean Instagram post templates is well suited for a wide range of topics. Created by graphic designer and Adobe Stock contributor @Phillip , the set contains nine fully customizable layouts all in the size of 1080 x 1080px.

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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.

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