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How to Become a Successful Web Designer in 2023?

Graphic Design Junction

In the digital age, every company and organization has its own website. It has become the main platform for communicating with customers and making the brand more accessible to consumers. According to research , 42% of respondents said they would leave a website that has poor functionality. This not only proves the necessity of having a website but also of having a well-designed website.

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How Variable Fonts are Revolutionizing Digital Design

We And The Color

There’s no question that variable fonts are revolutionizing digital design. By allowing designers to create a single font file that can be modified to produce an infinite number of different variations, they offer a level of flexibility and control that was previously impossible. This means that designers can now create custom typography for their projects without having to rely on pre-made fonts, and they can even animate their typefaces to create dynamic, eye-catching effects.

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How to Create a Brand Message That Resonates With Your Audience

Inkbot Design

How to Create a Brand Message That Resonates With Your Audience. A brand message is a specific set of words that identifies the brand as different from other brands in the same market. These words are used on packaging, signs, billboards, website and marketing materials. To create a message that resonates with your audience, start by asking yourself three questions: What do I want my brand to communicate?

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36 Hand-Drawn Burst Elements (Vol. Two)

Spoon Graphics

Access All Areas members have a brilliant set of vector graphics to download this week, courtesy of Simon from The Shop. These hand-drawn burst illustrations have been carefully traced with a Pentel Sign Pen and digitised into vector graphics. There’s a variety of geometric elements, including circles, triangles and pentagons. They are useful assets to add to your artwork, perhaps as backgrounds to a vintage-style logo, or abstract elements as part of a wider illustration piece.

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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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8 Tasty CSS & JavaScript Snippets for Recreating Sweet Treats

SpeckyBoy

The great thing about a sweet treat is that we don’t need a reason to have one. It doesn’t have to be a birthday or holiday to indulge in candy, baked goods, or even a soft drink. Not that any of us would go overboard, mind you. Kidding aside, these tasty concoctions are often associated with good times. They bring back childhood memories and moments shared with loved ones.

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50 Creative Negative Space Logos

Graphic Design Junction

Fresh trendy negative space logos design by creative agency and professional designers with clever ideas and hidden message. Negative space is not just an artistic effect it can make your brand unique and multi-concept. In this logo design gallery I just gathered some similar negative space logos. The all logos are creative and cleverly used negative space.

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All YouTube Thumbnails Secrets: How to Create the Heart of a Video

Designer Daily

Today, thanks to advancement in technology, the use of social media has become extremely widespread. It is possible to come across videos with useful information or entertaining moments every day. You can find such videos on the YouTube platform. There are lots of videos available on YouTube. How do you find the video you’re looking for? How will you know if the content is quality?

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What is WebP? Google’s Groundbreaking Image Format

We And The Color

Everything you need to know about Google’s revolutionary image format, WebP. The WebP image format was developed by Google in 2010. It’s an image format that offers significantly smaller file sizes than other popular image formats like JPEG and PNG. WebP images are often used on the web due to their smaller file size, which can speed up page loading times.

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10 Websites to Have Fun With Your Photos

HONGKIAT

Getting a little bored with how your photos are presented online? How about injecting some fun and humor into it? You don’t really need to be Photoshop literate to edit and add effects to your photos. There’re some really great sites out there that allow you to add effects to your photo by using their existing effect templates. The best part is – they are free, output is shown immediately on the fly,, and no installation of apps is required.

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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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Big C Charters by Mucho

BP&O

Big C Charters is a premier charter service located in the San Francisco Bay Area, offering hands-on fishing trips and excursions. The company gets its name from Christian Cavanaugh, captain, founder and former professional basketball player. With a growing fanbase and fleet, Mucho was commissioned to create a new logo, colour palette and custom typeface for the brand, as well.

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Graphic Design Trends 2023 Are Shaping the New Reality

Graphic Mama

Dive into the hottest current graphic design trends in 2023! Read a thorough review of what awaits on the stage of graphic design – well-known or completely revolutionary approaches that are about to shape our new reality. Remember the times when the world was all about flat, subtle design? “The plainer, the better” was the norm. Well, things have changed.

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The Best Photoshop Halloween Poster Template in 2022

We And The Color

This is probably the best Photoshop poster template you can get for Halloween 2022. With only two weeks left, Halloween is right around the corner. Some of you are probably still tinkering with suitable designs such as creepy flyers or eye-catching posters. If you’re running out of time, check out this awesome Halloween poster template for use in Adobe Photoshop.

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50 Best Halloween Fonts 2022

Graphic Design Junction

The 2022 best Halloween fonts come with an amazing horror style to create bloody party flyers, creepy, spooky invitations and slowly dripping blood Halloween projects. Take a look at this collection if you dare! Top Halloween fonts inspired by horror, scary and gothic style fonts. Halloween fonts are perfect for quotes, logotypes, badges, labels, packaging, t-shirts, or simply use it in your next Halloweeen related designs.

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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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Celebrating the fantastical theatre of Polish design and illustration

Creative Review

Andrzej Klimowski and Danusia Schejbal might not be familiar names, but their distinctive illustration style – especially across their gorgeous book cover designs for Everyman Library’s PG Wodehouse collection – is instantly recognisable. The married couple and creative collaborators are now the stars of a new show dedicated to their work across graphic design, portraits, linocuts and more.

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Artist Spotlight: Kees Holterman

Booooooom

I’ve developed a body of paintings for my exhibition ‘Copper Snakes’ It’s currently on view at Artspace at Untitled. Kees Holterman (previously featured here ). In 2022 Holterman was confronted with a congenital heart defect diagnosis, limiting his ability to meet the physical demands of his printmaking practice. This limitation created the space for reflection, contemplation, and appreciation – during his residency, he looked deeper into his Social Realist and Amer

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10 Logo Design Tips for Small Businesses

We And The Color

As a small business owner, you know that having a logo is essential for marketing your company. But what exactly is logo design and why is it so important? In this post, we’ll discuss the basics of logo design and provide 10 tips for creating an effective logo for your business. 1. What is logo design and why do you need one for your business.

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Where to find free vibrant background wallpaper videos

Graphic Design Junction

Videvo is a go-to destination for free and Premium stock assets, including videos, motion graphics, video editing templates, and audio. As this article title indicates, among the thousands of videos you will find, there are dozens that can be used as animated wallpaper videos for your digital projects. The fact that many of these assets are royalty free means that you will be able to add a touch of life and animation to your content without worrying about licenses, and also without breaking the

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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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Guille Carmona’s vibrant illustrations are a queer fever dream

Creative Review

Despite their otherworldly aesthetic, there is a distinct vulnerability to Guille Carmona’s illustrations. The Spanish-born illustrator’s digital artworks typically depict bristling-muscled characters engaging in activities such as weeping and hanging out with cute fluffy animals.

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Ask the Right Questions if You Want to Avoid Undesirable Projects

SpeckyBoy

Every web designer can envision their ideal client and project. Whether it’s a project that will utilize a specific content management system (CMS) or working with a client in a particular industry, we all have our comfort zone. But many of us are faced with opportunities that aren’t necessarily a great fit. It might be that their timeline is too tight, their budget too low or their project isn’t within our niche.

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Hanko Brewing — Vintage Illustrations by Mads Berg

We And The Color

Illustrator Mads Berg created some vintage-inspired visuals for Hanko Brewing. Mads Berg was commissioned to create a series of vintage-inspired visuals for the Finnish beer company Hanko Brewing. The illustrations have been used for labels, coasters, postcards, and posters. Feel free to see more of Mads Berg’s creative work on his website or follow him on Behance and Instagram.

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User Experience Design: The Ultimate UX Guide

Inkbot Design

User Experience Design: The Ultimate UX Guide. User experience design is creating a user-friendly and effective user interface. This means creating a site that is easy to navigate and use. User experience designers also pay attention to the small details and features that make the user experience unique and memorable. This guide will teach you the essential skills to build user-friendly websites and applications.

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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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Refrigerators as Literal Works of Art: Lowes x Samsung Bespoke Artists Series

Design Milk

Samsung’s efforts to bring color into the most popular room of the modern home hasn’t been limited to palettes of color adorning their refrigerator and appliance panels. Earlier in 2022 their collaboration with chromatophiliac and multidisciplinary artist, Alex Proba, produced one of the most visually arresting examples of how a kitchen can be liberated from the confines of conformity that dominate the room today.

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Radio Juxtapoz, ep 07: The Mr. Doodle Podcast

Juxapoz Magazine

It was supposed to be a hailed and more open return to London art week and the Frieze Art Fair in Regent's Park. Sure, it was open last year, but 2022 saw a chance to revive the London art world after the pandemic and recent shock to the pound. But a few weeks ago, an outsider (albeit a much followed one) known as Mr. Doodle sent the message in the form of a massive 12-room Kent-mansion doodle out into the world and every newspaper, blog, social media account had something to say.

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The Glass Cabin by Mjölk architekti

We And The Color

Mjölk architekti have transformed a 130-year-old country house into a modern glass cabin without losing its old charm. In the course of a major restoration of the original cabin, a new sparkling glass extension has emerged, expanding the living space and reflecting the changing nature of the interior. The contrast and harmony between the classic cottage space and the new light transparent structure is an architectural game where you go through a century in a second.

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New York through its storefronts: Joel Holland draws the city’s independent businesses

Its Nice That

The illustrator hopes the project – now available in a book published by Prestel – will push New York’s community to continue to support the local institutions that make the city so unique.

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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.