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50 web design tools to help you work smarter in 2022

Creative Bloq

Streamline your workflow with these web design tools.

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Why Some Web Designers Are Feeling Forced into Change

Graphic Arts Today Submitted Articles

In my thoroughly unscientific observation, web designers appear to be frustrated with the state of things. We take a look at why that is.

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How to Enhance Brand Trust Online

Inkbot Design

How to Enhance Brand Trust Online. Brand trust is the feeling of assurance that customers have when buying a product. The reputation and history create what a company has. When people buy a product, they look for brands with a positive history with the products they sell and a good reputation for quality. As marketers, we all know the importance of brand trust online and that people choose to read and use online content over digital media.

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The best web design software in 2022

Creative Bloq

Be more productive with the best web design software.

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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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Branding by Julieta Bernstein for Pedro Sánchez

We And The Color

Pedro Sánchez: brand identity development by Julieta Bernstein. Julieta Bernstein is a graphic designer and art director who works and lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For Pedro Sánchez, a Lima, Peru-based professor and independent architect, she was commissioned to work on a unique brand identity. Below you can see a few images of the project. For more, please take a look at her portfolio on Behance.

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13 Sites to Create Cartoon Characters of Yourself

HONGKIAT

If you are not comfortable using real photos to represent yourself in any online profiles and avatars, why not create a cartoon character of yourself? It’ll be fun and unique to others when you are representing yourself in a cartoonized way in your online profiles. Thanks to many free web services, you don’t have to pay an artist for your cartoon illustrations.

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21 Fresh Adobe Photoshop Brushes Set

Graphic Design Junction

New Photoshop Brushes with tons of realistic effects that can transform your artwork, grahics and photos into watercolor portrait, abstract and digital design quickly and easily. The brushes are very high quality, super detailed set of brushes for Photoshop. Simply brush over your subject with a color and just play the action. It’s really that simple!

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A Wooden Holiday Cabin by Les Archinautes

We And The Color

Les Archinautes designed a wooden holiday cabin in the heart of the Bohemian Forest. Located in the heart of the Bohemian Forest, the creative team of Les Archinautes designed a wooden holiday cottage surrounded by lush greenery. The view of Lipno Lake with two large mountain peaks in the background is the main focus of the living space, which is centered around a dominant square pedimented window.

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Instagram Marketing Guide for Next-Gen Marketers

Inkbot Design

Instagram Marketing Guide for Next-Gen Marketers. Let us understand how Instagram works before moving on to marketing. As we all know, Instagram has outgrown itself since its creation and has become the most popular social media photo-sharing platform. Users are comfortable with its interface, and influencers constantly keep up with the algorithm. The Instagram algorithm is highly complex and impossible to understand, but one clear thing is that the more people interact with your posts, the bett

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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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10+ Cool Tools Professional Designers Are Using

HONGKIAT

You think doctors have a tough job, well you haven’t met a designer yet. No matter which design field a designer belongs to, one has to juggle project pitches, invoicing, client service, personal organization, and real design work. So when life throws multiple projects, overlapping deadlines, and sharp time management at you, you need to take help from some useful tools that make your life easy.

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12 Tips to Make You a Better Web Designer

Graphic Design Junction

Whether you went to college to study web design or you simply have a passion for this profession and learned everything on your own, the desire of wanting to enhance your skills is always great to have. In this post, we want to make things easier for you and share the top tips for making you a better web designer that has a lot of opportunities to land their dream client. 1.

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The designer’s guide of eating weird food

UX Collective

How eating frogs, dog-food, cat-food and raw monkey meat makes us better designers We frowned upon any weird food, and our sub-conscious mind filters out what we do not perceive as “design-ish.” As the saying goes, “You are what you eat!” While the saying suggests healthy eating in the modern age, the French author, Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, actually said these words with an entirely different meaning: the human culture between food and identity.

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The Brand Story Formula: How To Build a Great One

Inkbot Design

The Brand Story Formula: How To Build a Great One. A brand story is a narrative that tells a brand's story, starting from its history and leading up to its current state. It is essential for brands because it provides them an emotional connection with consumers and strengthens the bond between a brand and its audience. When you're trying to get your audience's attention—don't just tell them your story—show it to them instead!

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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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25 More Stunning Free Keynote Templates for Creatives

SpeckyBoy

Hot on the heels of our previous free Keynote template article, we’re back with another easy-to-edit collection that will allow you to make your next presentation even more memorable and design it with even more beauty than before. Keynote, the free presentation software for Mac and iOS, is highly intuitive, making it easy for new users to learn and create.

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25+ Modern Print Ready Brochure Designs

Graphic Design Junction

Professional and high quality brochure designs, booklets, fashion book, catalog and annual report 2023 templates with modern and unique layout. Brochure designs are very easy to use just drop in your own pictures and texts, and it’s ready for print. The layouts are also use it as a professional online PDF or email attachment. The brochures can serve multiple purposes.

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Figma, the story thus far and thoughts on the future

UX Collective

Source: Figma Everyone loves a good underdog story. Underdogs are appealing not because they simply beat the odds but overcome an injustice that explains those odds — such as the game being unfairly rigged due to privilege and power. However, in the case of Figma vs Adobe, designers were led to a rather anti-climatic, and maybe even dejected place. If you follow any kind of design news, you would have heard about the 20 billion dollar acquisition of Figma by Adobe.

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“ABQ” by Photographer Lewis Kahn

Booooooom

A selection of images from “ABQ,” the latest series by London-based photographer Lewis Kahn. Drawn from a series of meaningful encounters with strangers and place in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Khan’s images capture the perspective of an outsider looking in. With a fascination for the desert, and the ways in which human intervention interacts with the terrain, he took an interest in the city of Albuquerque.

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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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Download Abstract Geometric Retro Patterns

We And The Color

Available for download as fully editable vector graphics, this amazing collection of abstract retro patterns includes countless illustrations for stylish backgrounds. Graphic designer and Adobe Stock contributor @Radoman Durkovic created a huge collection of abstract geometric retro patterns. Inspired by good old Swiss graphic design and the simplicity of the Bauhaus movement, these graphics will help you to create amazing patterns for a wide range of design projects.

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50 Creative Logo Design Inspiration #108

Graphic Design Junction

Get yourself inspired with creative logo designs. This is the 108th round up of Creative Logo Design at GraphicDesignJunction.com. Logos can catch human attention via their design and concept and logo designers can have the ability to make attention-bragging visual identity brand logo! Here are some really amazing and inspiring logo designs. These logos are not only for inspiration, you will get new concepts and ideas for your next logo.

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The Masterful Performance Artist, Kim Jung Gi, Has Passed Away

Juxapoz Magazine

One of the great talents of our time, both a performance artist and masterful if not surreal storyteller, Kim Jung Gi, has passed away suddenly, as reported on his Instagram account yesterday. We had a personal relationship with the artist, as he was one of the highlights of our Juxtapoz x Superflat exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2017, and have followed his evolution as one of the great illustrators we have ever seen.

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Weekly News for Designers ? 663

SpeckyBoy

How I Made an Icon System Out of CSS Custom Properties – Discover a handy Sass function that creates an SVG icon library directly in your CSS. Randomness in CSS – Learn how to generate random numbers using CSS. Design Mode Free WordPress Theme – Check out this stylish new WordPress block theme. Palette – Colorize your vintage photos with this AI-powered app.

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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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Easy Fresh Branding by Untitled Macao

We And The Color

Take a look at this rebranding by Untitled Macao for Easy Fresh. Au Chon Hin is the founder and director of Untitled Macao , a studio specializing in visual identity, branding, wayfinding, websites, and signage design. For Easy Fresh, Au Chon Hin and his studio created this fresh new visual identity that reflects a refreshingly and deliciously healthy diet to the urban community, with fresh and nutritious ingredients in a quick and casual culinary concept.

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October 2022 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Colossal

Yayoi Kusama , “Pumpkins Screaming About Love Beyond Infinity” (2017), mirrors, acrylic, glass, LEDs, and wood panels, 59 x 59 x 83 ½ inches. Collection of the artist, courtesy of Ota Fine Arts. Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you’d like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at hello@colossal.art.

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Why every designer should be a systems thinker

UX Collective

What is systems thinking and how does it add value to a designer’s thinking, methods and practice? These are learnings from my own experience as both a systems thinking practitioner and from up-skilling leadership and teams around the world. Original illustration by Jackie Nam on Freepik.com 1. What is a system? A system is a a group of interrelated elements organized towards a shared outcome. e.g. a breakfast table with dishes, utensils and food stuffs is not a system.

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Joel Holland’s book of NYC stores is a visual homage to the city

Creative Review

Like many a great project, NYC Storefronts was born from the creative limitations that lockdown presented. Authored by New York-based illustrator Joel Holland, and recently published as a book by Prestel, the series of over 200 drawings features the façades of shops all over the Big Apple. From record stores and bookshops to florists and salons, the city’s dizzying array of independent businesses.

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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.