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How to beat the menace of perfectionism in your creative work

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock We share insights and strategies from artists and designers on embracing imperfection and finding freedom in the creative process. If you've ever had job interview training, you'll probably have been warned to prepare for the question, "What are your weaknesses?" Some believe the best answer is "I'm a bit of a perfectionist".

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Illustrator Tutorial: Design a Retro VHS Cover Inspired Poster

Spoon Graphics

The retro artwork that used to appear on old VHS tape covers has become an iconic design style that is often mimicked today. Follow along with this tutorial to create your own fun retro style poster based on the artwork of those VHS cassette covers. We’ll use Illustrator to construct the design with text and shape elements, then we’ll quickly send the final artwork over to Photoshop to give it an aged appearance with texture overlays.

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LEGO Unveils Immersive Superpowers Studios Exhibition in Paris

Design Milk

In an era where play is becoming less accessible for many families, the LEGO Group has introduced a groundbreaking experience that aims to reignite the joy and creativity of play. Superpower Studios , which recently opened in Paris, challenges traditional notions of art galleries by transforming them into dynamic spaces where children and families can explore, create, and connect through the magic of play.

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The Dinner Ladies by Universal Favourite

BP&O

‘Dinner ladies’ doesn’t have the most glamorous connotations in England – depending on your experience at school, it likely conjures up memories of scoops of greying, tepid mash-adjacent slop unceremoniously plopped onto a plate; something to do with turkey dinosaurs; a troop of formidable but visibly jaded people responsible for making every school smell like on-the-turn cottage pie from around The post The Dinner Ladies by Universal Favourite appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packag

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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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Thisaway rebrands London kids' sports provider to unify its offerings

Creative Boom

The Bath-based design agency's work for The Foxes Club sets the stage for the expansion of this popular franchise. The Foxes Club is one of London's leading providers of sports classes, camps and academies for kids. It began in 2007 by organising games and activities in a local park and was previously known as The Little Foxes Club. Today, the organisation is a market leader in delivering community-based children's play programmes, holiday camps and football academies.

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“This Alabaster Grave” by Photographer Cengiz Yar

Booooooom

A collection of images exploring the destruction and pain faced by the Iraqi city of Mosul by documentary photographer and editor Cengiz Yar.

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Photoshop World, and, The Complete Photographer

Joe McNally

Lots of great news and lessons from Kelby Media this week! Sept 24-26th is Photoshop World, as always a world class, jam packed couple of days (and more) of instruction in all manner of state of the art visual storytelling tools. Lessons and info on cutting edge skills, as well as old school, tried and true techniques for shooting, lighting, and post-production.

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Fishers Island Lemonade leans into its casual-coastal island aesthetic

Creative Boom

Nostalgic illustrations, editorial-inspired photography and striped graphic assets make up the craft cocktail brand's new identity designed by Tavern. Back in 2014, while she was bartending at the storied Pequot Inn, Bronya Shillo founded the craft cocktail brand Fishers Island Lemonade. Now, as it celebrates its 10th anniversary, Shillo has collaborated with Brooklyn-based branding agency Tavern to build on these foundations with a refreshed brand experience that provides a fresh yet familiar t

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Fresh Collection of Free Graphic Design Resources

Graphic Design Junction

Free graphic design tools and assets are crucial in the world of design. However, premium resources can sometimes be expensive, which is where free graphic design resources come into play. With a constantly evolving market, fresh and high-quality tools are always available to help designers elevate their work without breaking the bank. This article curates the latest free graphic design resources that will enhance your projects while being completely free for commercial use.

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“Odyssey” by Photographer Pauline Köhlen

Booooooom

A visual exploration of time, space, and self by Rotterdam-based photographer Pauline Köhlen.

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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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“The more, the weirder, the better”: Csenge Csató on unlearning everything she was taught about typography

Its Nice That

This designer-cum-illustrator and DJ’s work moves to its own visual rhythms.

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How to integrate music into your design workflow

Creative Boom

Illustration by Mia Angioy for Creative Boom In the third of our special six-part series, we discuss how Epidemic Sound's helpful tools for creatives can elevate your creative process and boost efficiency. Making video content can be creatively rewarding. But boy, is it hard work. And annoyingly, what should be, in theory, the most fun part – finding a soundtrack for your visuals – can, in practice, be a time-consuming and often frustrating activity.

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Become a Top YouTuber Effortlessly with AI – Faceless YouTube Channel

Graphic Design Junction

Faceless YouTube Channel and Faceless AI YouTube Channel are revolutionizing the content creation landscape, making it possible to become a successful YouTuber without even showing your face. This guide explores how you can leverage AI tools to create engaging videos for YouTube , gain a massive following, and even cross-promote your content on platforms like TikTok—all while maintaining your privacy.

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Love Wellness: Branding Design That's Fun and Functional

Abduzeedo

Love Wellness: Branding Design That's Fun and Functional abduzeedo 0925—24 Love Wellness, the women's health brand by Lo Bosworth, needed branding and packaging that were as playful as they were informative. Discover how custom typography and illustrations made this brand a hit. Love Wellness isn't your average women's health brand. It's bubbly, vibrant, and oh-so-relatable.

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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 best magazine covers of all time: Our experts decide

Creative Bloq

With the help of experts in the field, we pick the most outstanding and effective magazine covers ever published.

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Pentagram designs identity for Pienso, a tech firm seeking to democratise AI

Creative Boom

Pienso is seeking to make AI more accessible for ordinary companies. Now a new visual identity crafted by Pentagram is helping them pursue this mission. Say the word AI to creatives, and for many of us, the impulse is to stick our fingers in our ears, go "lalalalala" and hope it all goes away. But whatever your views of artificial intelligence, the idea that this is just some short-lived fad we can safely ignore is becoming increasingly untenable.

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Chihuly Creates Layered Landscapes With Yarn for The Rug Company

Design Milk

Glasswork is an art that is at least 3,600 years old, with nearly all early civilizations discovering this marvel through the metalsmithing process. For more than half a century, Dale Chihuly has pioneered a movement in glassblowing, pushing the material to its limits while also celebrating its innate qualities. In his second collaboration with The Rug Company , Masterpieces II , Chihuly explores a multitude of fibers and colors to create a bold line of unique rugs.

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How to Fix the Thin Line Issue During Cricut Print and Cut Process

HONGKIAT

Here’s an unbelievably annoying problem that occurs during the Cricut Print and Cut process – a thin line or border appears around the design you create, even when you’re certain there’s no border in the design. When you send the design to print in Cricut, this thin line magically appears during the Print Setup stage. If you go ahead with the print and cut, this unwanted thin line remains, which looks like this: Despite multiple checks to ensure no lines exist in my design, the issue persists.

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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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Free Font Of The Day – Unique

Design Beep

Here on Designbeep,we also aim to help designers to find free yet high quality resources whether for your web design projects or graphic design projects.Who doesn’t like freebies? Well, although we bring together free font collections time to time we decided to share a free font everyday and today’s free font Unique is designed by Rajesh Rajput Unique has seven weights, from Thin to Bold, supporting multiple Latin languages.

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Parker crafts modern new identity for historic mattress brand Ostermoor

Creative Boom

Consumers like the idea of established brands, but "old" and "mattress" aren't words that go together well. Ostermoor teamed up with Parker to help square that circle. In general, we like companies with decades of experience and expertise. They're far more likely to know what they're doing and provide good value. However, when we think about mattresses, we tend to gravitate to new, flashy brands with access to the latest supportive technologies.

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The best typography of the 2000s, chosen by experts

Creative Bloq

Designers and industry pros channel Y2K in this nostalgic list of top type.

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STUDIOTWENTYSEVEN’s Inaugural Exhibition Introduces Francesco Balzano

Design Milk

The allure of discovering a new restaurant, hotel, or café often lies in the promise of being transported by its space and environment. In the realm of art, founders Nacho Polo and Robert Onuska of STUDIOTWENTYSEVEN have applied this transformative principle to gallery spaces. Departing from the conventional stark white walls and sterile atmospheres that dominate most exhibitions, they have unveiled their inaugural solo showcase of Paris-based Francesco Balzano’s refined artistry.

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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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Founder mode, deceptive copy, too much confetti, Figsigners

UX Collective

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “That doesn’t strike as shockingly new, right? (…) It’s clear that the CEO is the top manager of a company, therefore “founder mode” is simply a style of management. Not only that, but it’s also the most trivial form of management: as a founder, you oversee everything personally, and people are mere executors of your ideas.

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Company Policy founder Adam Katz on breaking down barriers with clients

Creative Boom

The founder of the three-year-old Brooklyn studio explains how they're blending strategy, language and design and helping redefine brand communication in the AI era. In the competitive world of design and branding, it's rare to find a design studio that truly breaks the mould. Yet Company Policy , a full-service strategy and visual identity design studio based in Brooklyn is aiming to do just that, under the leadership of founder and executive creative director Adam Katz.

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5 Modern Table Lamps with Stand-Out Personalities

Azure Magazine

As the daylight hours start to wane, it’s time to cozy up our interiors — and these five modern table lamps cast rooms in just the right light. With expressive materials and compelling forms, each one is crafted to make a statement. 1 Reverse table lamp by Audo With a background in engineering, Danish designer Aleksandar Lazi c brings precision, balance and thoughtful material selection to his body of work – which focuses on creating timeless objects that nod to the past while expressing a

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Evite Moves Into New California Headquarters by IA Interior Architects

Design Milk

Leading digital invite and social planning company Evite recently moved into their new headquarters designed by IA Interior Architects , a welcoming environment that aligns with the brand’s mission to celebrate life’s meaningful moments. “Our client asked us to create the ultimate inviting space, and we delivered by sprinkling distinctive branding elements and vibrant colors into every corner,” says Nicole Greene, designer at IA Interior Architects.

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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.

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How Can You Make Your Website Dyslexia-Friendly? 

Noupe

Websites open a world of opportunities for information and services in today’s digital world. However, for users with dyslexia—a learning difference that affects reading and understanding of text—web navigation is quite different. Dyslexia users are almost 10-20% of the population, so millions of users are likely to struggle when accessing content that others might breeze through.

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Film director Alberto Rojas on why Reallusion's tools are the future of cinema

Creative Boom

Rising star director Alberto Méndez Rojas explains how Reallusion's innovative tools are revolutionising independent filmmaking and shaping the future of digital cinema. It might not be immediately obvious to the viewer. But in the ever-evolving landscape of digital filmmaking, innovative tools and technologies are constantly reshaping the way stories are brought to life on screen.

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Wavy retro type and designs inspired by vintage signs: Meet graphic designer Louna Humbert

Its Nice That

When it comes to visual identity work, the Paris-based designer and art director never fails to bring her playful, hands-on approach to typography to the table.

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The Luxury of Time and Pristine Natural Beauty Cohere at the Gundari Resort

Design Milk

Holidaying in the Greek islands has long been popular among European and American tourists. But while iconic destinations including Santorini and Mykonos get overrun during the high season, others remain relatively quiet and unadulterated. Case in point: Folegandros. Defined by tall cliffs anchoring quaint villages, rocky hills giving way to large caves, and the low vegetation indicative of the Mediterranean region, this small and secluded Cycladic island offers the more discerning vacationer wi

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How to Create Stunning Typography With the Corel Type Tool Kit

Download this free eBook to learn how you can create stunning typography, using the basics, such as placing text, to advanced controls like ligatures, variable fonts, effects, tracking, range kerning, and everything in between. Learn how to: Use Character Control to add variety to your font styles. Use Paragraph Control to manage spacing, alignment, justification and more.