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How to Brand a Small Business

Inkbot Design

How to Brand a Small Business. Small business branding is a lot like small business marketing. You have to be careful about how you present yourself to attract customers. Most small businesses rely on a single product or service, making it hard to define a brand. However, there's no need to settle for a generic, boring name when you can give your business a distinctive identity by developing a solid brand.

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The story behind the iconic Jaws movie poster

Creative Bloq

Sink your teeth into this.

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Gretel's Dylan Mulvaney on city life, serendipity, and why graphic designers never get famous

Creative Boom

Dylan Mulvaney. As head of design at Gretel NY , Dylan Mulvaney is the creative force behind brand identities for Apple, Netflix and Vice. In our exclusive interview, Dylan chats about the process that leads to world-class results and how he got here in the first place. Described by Gretel as "a low profile dude who has been behind some of our highest-profile work", Dylan's expertise lies in translating a brand's core values, strategy, and voice into striking visual executions.

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Business Collateral Merchandise Photoshop Mockup Set

We And The Color

Available for download on Adobe Stock, this business collateral merchandise mockup set for Adobe Photoshop includes a range of digitized branding materials and office supplies. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @PerigTemplate , this business collateral merchandise mockup set is based on a high resolution of 8500 x 5100 px. All individual items are fully isolated from the background and fully customizable.

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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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Discounted WordPress Themes – Save Up To 50% Off

Graphic Design Junction

Best sale on professional WordPress themes, an eCommerce themes, HTML5 templates , best landing page and WordPress plugins – Save Up to 50% OFF on selected items. Stop wasting your time go and grab your favorite WordPress theme on discounted price. Best WordPress Themes are perfect for Creative Portfolio, Corporate Businesses, Blogs and Personal websites.

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Patrick Nelson's breathtaking collages bring a graphic design sensibility to the world of art

Creative Boom

© Patrick Nelson. Patrick Nelson uses paper like a paintbrush to create incredible collage art. He explains how he transitioned from graphic designer to full-time artist and what inspires his work today. Coming from a graphic design background, Patrick Nelson has been a full-time collage artist now for a number of years. He sells his work online, in galleries and through curated shops.

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Drive Safe Series by Kento IIDA

We And The Color

Check out this lovely illustration series by Kento IIDA. Kento IIDA is a Tokyo, Japan-based freelance illustrator. He creates illustrations for magazines, books, websites, etc. Just recently, he has finished this beautiful Drive Safe series. Below you can see the images. For more, please take a look at Kento IIDA’s portfolio on Behance or follow him on Instagram.

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Download 50+ Best Resume Templates 2022

Graphic Design Junction

Download the best clean, modern and professional CV / Resume Templates and Letterhead design. The best resume templates are high-quality design to help you make a great impression when applying for a job. All designs are clean, modern, attention to detail and fully customizable. You can use these templates for many years over and over. When you download, you will get 1, 2 page resume template (that could be easily extended to more pages) + matching cover letter & references.

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There’s a Clever Strategy Behind the Flash of Fireworks Packaging

Eye on Design

The packaging design of fireworks is at once easy and hard to ignore. As a category, it’s just loud enough to catch your eye, then dismiss as undeserving of analysis, or even a second look. The defining traits of the genre — bright colors, cartoonish illustrations, evocative names — can melt into one campy swath. But focus for a moment, and you’ll see something else: a reflection of pop culture, a barometer for the interests of the cis male population, and a surprisingly sophisticated design.

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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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Inspired by memories of Taipei, David Huang's illustrations are a colourful, expressive delight

Creative Boom

Beijing Promenade (Mural Illustration commissioned for 798 District, Beijing). The vibrant and joyous illustrations of David Huang have won him accolades across the world. But, he reveals to Creative Boom that getting here has been quite a challenge. David Huang is a Taiwanese American illustrator based in New York City. With clients including The New Yorker and Quartz, his work is typically colourful, expressive, vibrant, and loud.

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Clean Magazine Template with Big Image Placeholders

We And The Color

This Adobe InDesign magazine template offers a clean but friendly look. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @PixWork , this high-quality magazine template consists of 18 customizable pages. Equipped with lots of space for large images, the Adobe InDesign file is also well suited for lookbooks or portfolios. Editing these pages is quite simple. With just a few clicks, you can add your text or images to the layout.

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The Perfect Alternative Careers For Designers

Graphic Design Junction

Those with a penchant for design often find themselves in jobs that make use of that skill. Among those are graphic design positions or design jobs that focus on the visual arts. But design is about more than just an eye for detail and an understanding of form and function; it’s a way of looking at the world, and solving problems in order to make life easier for people.

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A new recipe format for cooking

UX Collective

Cooking from recipes is painful. RecipeBlocks is a new visual recipe format that aims to make recipes easier to follow and cooking more enjoyable. A RecipeBlock for marinara sauce (adapted from Marcella Hazan) For something that can both teach and reward you, I think that recipes are highly undervalued. Maybe it’s because they’re so abundant. Google a recipe for anything and you’ll likely come across dozens of results.

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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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Barbara Cole's underwater dancing photos capture the joy of freely moving bodies

Creative Boom

Fine art photographer Barbara Cole has returned to capturing the human figure underwater for the first time since the pandemic began with BEAT, a new series of work that will be shown at Toronto's Bau-Xi Gallery this July. Running from 9 July through to 23 July 2022, BEAT features images that depict human figures engaging in "ethereal conversations" about the movement of bodies and water.

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PS HOUSE in Portugal by Inception Architects Studio

We And The Color

Take a look at this beautiful new home located in a low-density urban parish on the outskirts of Braga, a city in Portugal. Completed in 2001, this modern home was designed by the team of Inception Architects Studio. Photographer Ivo Tavares just sent us some images of the project together with a brief description. The land has an approximately rectangular shape.

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The ECONYL® Brand Urges Us to Design Smart With the End in Mind

Design Milk

It’s no secret that designing and manufacturing with sustainable materials is on the rise – and it couldn’t be happening at a better time. One product that continues to impress and lend itself to a myriad of applications is ECONYL ® nylon. We’ve talked about the benefits of its use before: it’s made from 100% waste, is 100% recyclable, and offers up to a 90% reduction in global warming potential when compared to nylon from fossil sources.

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Brand Identity for Polpo by FaenaEnigmatic and with an excellent.

The Design Blog

Brand Identity for Polpo by Faena Brand Identity for Polpo by Faena Brand Identity for Polpo by Faena Brand Identity for Polpo by Faena Brand Identity for Polpo by Faena Brand Identity for Polpo by Faena Brand Identity for Polpo by Faena Brand Identity for Polpo by Faena Brand Identity for Polpo by Faena Brand Identity for Polpo by Faena Enigmatic and with an excellent selection of dishes.

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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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Grace Helmer on creating tender illustrations, going freelance, and what to look for in an agency

Creative Boom

© Grace Helmer. London-based illustrator Grace Helmer draws viewers into her tender, painterly illustrations with a masterful use of colour and compositions that contain a sense of story. We caught up with her to hear how she's gotten to where she is and what illustrators should look for when seeking an agent. Originally from Brighton, Grace first became interested in illustration when visiting degree shows while at college.

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Peloton: Bicycle Art #51 by 100copies

We And The Color

Inspired by the 109th Tour de France that starts today, Thomas Yang of 100copies just created his bicycle art number 51 named ‘Peloton’ Right in time for the start of the 109th Tour de France, Thomas Yang of 100copies just shared with us his 51st bicycle print edition titled: Peloton. A peloton is a group of cyclists riding together in a race.

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33 Classic and Dreamy Hand Drawn Fonts

Vandelay Design

Here are the best hand drawn fonts that will give your designs a genuine and authentic feel. You'll find everything from signatures to brush strokes and more. The post 33 Classic and Dreamy Hand Drawn Fonts appeared first on Vandelay Design.

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Plug into Ardhira Putra’s immersive, 80s-soaked Super Nintendo simulations

Its Nice That

The Jakarta-based illustrator and motion designer demonstrates what joys can unfurl when a creative receives “full freedom” on a commercial project.

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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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From fuzzy ones to shiny ones, Gabriel Tilbury toys with tactility in a series of graphic posters

Creative Boom

© Gabriel Tilbury. Gabriel Tilbury 's graphic design practice centres around two key and crucial pillars: exploration and experimentation. A recent graduate from Falmouth University – where he's currently based – Gabriel strives to shed light on new perspectives, weaponising his skills in the medium to open up different points of view and ways of seeing the world.

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Electro-Pop Music Festival Poster Template for Adobe Illustrator

We And The Color

Check out these outstanding poster templates created by Denys Koltovskyi for electro-pop music festivals and other events. Adobe Stock contributor @Denys Koltovskyi is known for creating amazing graphic design assets for print and web. These poster templates are ideal for music festivals or other topics that ask for a striking visual experience. Thanks to the use of vector graphics, the A4 posters can be transformed to any size you want.

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Fun with Shapes and Forms: Organic 3D Artworks by Roman Bratschi

Design You Trust

Inspired by natural shapes, forms and patterns, Roman Bratschi is an experienced 3D illustrator and animation director, who kick-started his career as a graphic designer. With 15 years of artistic expertise under his creativity belt, his career path transformed as he began to tamper in alternative illustrative methods. Equipped with an effortless expert eye for complementary colours and an illustrious innovative mind, his appreciation for elements in their organic forms weave through the narrati

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Inès Davodeau’s typography practice expertly revives fonts from over 100 years ago

Its Nice That

Inspired by old references in books and magazines, the Marseille-based designers elegant typeface Holise expertly revives a 130-year-old font.

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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.