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At What Point Does Obsessing Over Design Become a Liability?

Speckyboy Design Magazine

The overall quality of a website’s design is often in the details. Those seemingly-small elements such as microinteractions , typographic spacing and color accents can be real difference makers. They have the potential to transform the mundane into something that stands out. In these cases, being picky about design is a good thing. Whether that trait comes from you or your client, the goal is the same.

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The Colorful Geometric Illustrations of Cheng Peng

Designer Daily

Cheng Peng is a creative designer who works for Heizi, a branding agency that belongs to Tencent. She recently created a series of posters that hope to help autistic children to feel more welcome in the city of Shenzen, where the designer is based. Peng’s work cleverly combines colorful flat surfaces with abstract geometry in a perpetual quest for new combinations.

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8 Graphic Design & Branding Services for Musicians, Bands & Artists

Just Creative

This article has been contributed by Nick Voorhees. It’s no secret that social media is over-saturated with competing interests ruthlessly seeking attention. An unfathomable amount of new posts are uploaded every second and most of us mindlessly scroll while our minds are elsewhere. Like any other business owner, musicians, music producers, DJs and other music creators are forced to navigate these oversaturated waters that are essentially a popularity contest.

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Video Tutorial: Retro Text Effects with Adobe Illustrator’s Blend Tool

Spoon Graphics

Follow along with today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a simple but effective text effect with somewhat of a retro vibe, featuring stacks of text elements that are progressively spaced further apart. It reminds me of the kind of design you might see on an old VHS tape box or an ad for an 80s technology brand. Illustrator’s Blend Tool will be used to create the basic effect, but I will also show you a trick to alter the spacing of the text with a cool easing effect and show ho

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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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15 Free Hero Scene Creator Mockup Templates for Photoshop

SpeckyBoy

Scene creators are a great way to present your designs exactly the way you want them. A great scene creator will have different elements as separate files or objects that you can place and arrange as you please. You can then use them for design presentations but also as website hero images or section backgrounds. Check out the collection below with the best free hero and scene mockup creators for Photoshop.

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10 Best VPN Services For 2021 + Top Deals

Just Creative

Streamlining business operations remotely has been one of the biggest challenges in 2020. The moment the pandemic shocked the world, people started adapting to remote work environments. Around 88% of organizations encouraged their employees to work remotely and 91% of companies in the Asia Pacific region implemented compulsory work from home policies.

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Save 34% off the Nostalgic Font and Label Collection

Spoon Graphics

My friends at Heritage Type Co. recently launched a magnificent new collection of vintage fonts and ready-made label designs. If you love the detailed design style of vintage branding with ornate embellishments, this extensive set of tools and resources may be just what you’re looking for to create nostalgic logos, packaging designs, posters, wedding invitations, and much more!

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How To Improve Conversions Using Color Psychology

Noupe

You must have heard the saying ‘the first impression is the last’ quite a few times in your life. People don’t just say it for the sake of saying it; it holds some truth. All it takes is just a few seconds for your target audience to decide whether to buy products from your website or not. Here the need and importance of color psychology come into the picture in order to attract the attention of your potential audience and compel them to buy your products.

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Gordon Kaye: We Keep Getting Back Up

Graphic Design USA

The participants in GDUSA's Socially Responsible Designers editorial feature – an annual look at creative and thought leaders who are designing for good – choose to see a silver lining to the annus horribilis that is 2020.

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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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James Molle’s short combines 90s animation with a quest for happiness

Creative Review

In James Molle’s animation Black Sheep Boy, the audience is treated to a retro video game aesthetic and a questioning of life, death and happiness in one 8-bit package. The film follows a young boy on an adventure towards happiness through a strange world inhabited by anthropomorphic creatures, and is crammed full of old gaming tropes and jangly sound effects.

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“It Looks Like Jam But It’s Actually Blood” by Photographer Grant Harder

Booooooom

A lovely series from Vancouver-based photographer Grant Harder. See more images from “It Looks Like Jame But It’s Actually Blood” below! Grant Harder’s Website. Grant Harder on Instagram.

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30 Classic Ideas That Serve as Logo Design Inspirations in 2020

Noupe

A business logo is so much more than just a random design. It can show your customers what your brand means, what it is all about, and is also the answer to how you want to portray yourself. Let us take NBC’ s logo for example. The image is obviously a peacock but the reason they picked a peacock is because at that time there were very few colored channels on the television.

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Annie Yang: Branding For Me, By Me

Graphic Design USA

Annie Yang of Conran Design Group says that young audiences want a real connection with a brand, one that has 'an authentic integration into our lives.’.

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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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#FridayFive with Shillington Design Teacher Deepa Shanbhag

Shillington

Inspiration can come from anywhere. So, on the first Friday of each month, we’re sharing some of our Shillington team’s favourite things from the past four weeks. This month, Shillington New York Teacher Deepa Shanbhag shares what was on her radar in October. 1. To Follow: Lili Hayes. Lili Hayes is a woman seemingly living her life to the fullest, with her son by her side.

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Type Hero #11: Braille Institute Atkinson Hyperlegible Typeface – Free Font Download

The Logo Smith

The post Type Hero #11: Braille Institute Atkinson Hyperlegible Typeface – Free Font Download appeared first on The Logo Smith All Content © 2020 The Logo Smith.™ |. Atkinson Hyperlegible, designed for Braille Institute, is a free typeface created specifically to increase legibility for readers with low vision, and to improve comprehension. Named for the founder of Braille Institute, Atkinson Hyperlegible is a traditional grotesque sans-serif at its core.

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Best Tools for Online Teaching

Noupe

With many schools quarantined and a winter-wave of COVID-19 likely ahead, teaching is shifting online once again. Now more than ever, it’s crucial for teachers to embrace online learning to sustain their students’ attention. While online classes used to be exotic and fun when they first started, Zoom fatigue soon set in for most students.

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Applications Open For Virtual Onsite and Online Design Education

Graphic Design USA

Academy of Art University is currently accepting applications for online, virtual onsite and on-campus education.

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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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12 Creative Slack Groups You Should Be Following

Shillington

Since launching our Online Course in September, Slack has become an essential medium for students and teachers to interact in, learn, share and deliver feedback, collaborate and catch up. Not only is it great for the online classroom, slack is also a great networking tool. With the ability to follow as many channels are you like, Slack offers a great space to connect with people you work with and now even more than ever, make new connections in your community that previously would have happened

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Simplifying Your Designs for the Smartest User

SpeckyBoy

You probably know that putting too much food on your plate is usually a bad idea. Since research indicates that you’re more likely to overeat if you fill your plate, it’s not a good thing for your waistline. It’s also not a good thing for your eyes. If there’s no focal point, the food can overwhelm you, and you’ll find yourself lost in a vortex of scary, calorie-filled nightmares.

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Pentagram redesigns The New Republic to match its “forward-thinking content”

Design Week

Pentagram partner Eddie Opara has designed a new identity for The New Republic (TNR) magazine, which aims to “reflect its robust brand of liberal inquiry”, the studio says. The work includes a new brand identity, editorial work for the print magazine as well as a new look for the magazine’s digital platform and its sub brands. [link].

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Photography as Self-Therapy: An Introduction for Beginners

Feature Shoot

© and courtesy Judy Weiser. In 1977, Psychology Today published a short blurb about a growing movement: people who were using photographs to help others. During that decade, consumer cameras became widely accessible and easy to use, and at the same time, psychologists, photography enthusiasts, and more started to explore the potential of taking photographs as a therapeutic tool for helping people of all ages improve their lives.

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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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3 Years Since Shillington London: Tom Noon, Freelance Designer

Shillington

Making the jump to working freelance is a big deal for any designer so we love to see our graduates taking the leap. Shillington London graduate Tom Noon did just that—he graduated and dived head first in the world of freelance, taking on any clients or jobs that came his way. With a background in advertising and working in the music industry, Tom worked his way round his friends and contacts and has been creating amazing work for three years now.

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MasterClass Unveils a New Visual Identity That Underscores Diversity of Thought and Knowledge

The Branding Journal

MasterClass is an online platform that offers access to virtual classes with famous experts in several domains. These include Christina Aguilera, Serena Williams, Martin Scorsese, Carlos Santana, Natalie Portman, and many more. This year, the platform partnered with branding studio Gretel to work on a new visual identity that considers both its famous instructors’ individual brands and MasterClass’ own identity.

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Power of Human Interaction While Remote Working

Noupe

The concept of remote work has been there for quite some time now. Many organizations extended this facility to their employees who either had to travel a lot for business or if they were located in some faraway regions. Earlier the ability to work remotely was considered a sort of luxury and was available only to a few sects of the workforce. However, with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, things changed completely.

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Painted on Vintage Postcards, Flora and Fauna Celebrate Farming Traditions and Wildlife of the Midwest

Colossal

All images © Diana Sudyka, shared with permission. Twenty-seven years ago while studying at the University of Illinois, illustrator Diana Sudyka ( previously ) retrieved a bundle of postcards from a dumpster. The ephemeral correspondence revealed a relationship between farmers and workers from the Harvard area and a man named John Dwyer, either their accountant or investor who lived throughout Chicago, Cicero, and Berwyn.

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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.