Just Creative

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This article has been contributed by John Ross. The freelance-driven gig economy has taken off like a rocket over the past several years. During the recent pandemic, it’s become even more important. With the government forming new protections for freelancers like the right to collect unemployment benefits, people are looking toward self-employment as a means to cut their ties to traditional corporate work more than ever.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Creating an effective pricing structure for your freelance web design business can be challenging. Ideally, you’ll want to strike a balance between making a decent living and providing value. This is harder than it sounds. Sometimes, we set pricing too low – undervaluing the worth of our expertise. But problems could naturally occur as our business evolves.

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Designer Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The interesting news of the past week if you are a graphic designer, web designer, product designer, or pretty much anyone that has an interest in design. A new home for Ivan Chermayeff’s design archives. 700 collages, paintings, prints, book covers, promotional posters, and drawings of the iconic designer have recently been donated to the School of Visual Arts’s Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives.

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Spoon Graphics

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In today’s video tutorial I’ll show you how to create a vintage movie title text effect with the help of Photoshop’s 3D tools. This style of classic film titles is reminiscent of old black and white movies from the 20s, 30s and 40s. Most of the hard work is done by Photoshop’s 3D functionality. Just some configuration of the settings is all that’s required to produce the three-dimensional effects and the chamfered text face, along with low key lighting and shadows. ?

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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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Just Creative

DECEMBER 2, 2020

This article has been contributed by Jack Leo. A logo is an important mark that represents the story and meaning of your business. Although designing an attractive and effective logo sounds easy, in actuality, it isn’t. Whether you are a designer or not, you can still design your logo. To make an iconic logo , you should possess enough knowledge about the things that matter the most to make a unique logo.

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Designer Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2020

For some reason, craft beer and specialty coffee companies tend to get better and more creative branding than the average company. The identity designed for Hokum by Jamhot , a creative studio from Glasgow, is no exception. Hokum is getting ready to launch in 2021 as a direct-sale company working with a subscription model. It went for an identity that features bold letters, comic strips and a pastel color-scheme for backgrounds.

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Graphic Design USA

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

FunctionFox Systems offers a free demo of its industry leading time tracking and project management software for creative professionals.

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Just Creative

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Looking for information on how to start a design blog and make money from it? Look no further. Here is our step by step guide on the best way to start blogging (and how to make money from your blog). JUST Creative currently makes over five figures a month in passive income, and we want to share our knowledge so you too can have a piece of the pie! According to recent information, there are more than 1.7 billion (yes, billion) websites on the internet and 500 million of those have blogs on them.

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Noupe

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Do you find abandoned locations and buildings fascinating? Then urban exploration photography is for you! Exploring ruins and snapping their pictures is truly an adventure. But what’s so exciting about it? Let’s find out more on urban exploration and photography! A Look Into Urban Exploration And Urbex Photography. Urban exploration is where you explore abandoned structures and ruins.

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Designer Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Every week, we’ll give you an overview of the best deals for designers, make sure you don’t miss any by subscribing to our deals feed. You can also follow the recently launched website Type Deals if you are looking for free fonts or font deals. The Typographer’s Versatile Collection. The Typographer’s Versatile Collection is chock full of 53 different fonts in a wide range of styles from playful to elegant.

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Creative Review

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Jonny Trunk has spent the last three decades digging through his past. His record company Trunk Records specialises in esoteric, strange and lost music, while his infatuation with historic graphic design and packaging has led him to publish books on everything from Sainsbury’s Own Label archives to 20th century sweet wrappers. It was the often overlooked art form of car brochure design, however, that first piqued Trunk’s interest in collecting ephemera as a young boy growing up in th

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Its Nice That

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The Basque country TV writer and comedian tells us why he started collecting hundreds of background images from the American golden age animation series.

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Shillington

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

2020 has definitely, as they say, been a year for the history books. The world—and our lives—has been overwhelmed by the continuing Covid-19 pandemic. While we continue to navigate these remarkably tumultuous times, Shillington graduates around the world continue to produce incredible for their portfolios. Many of these students transitioned into online learning with us when “Stay Home” orders were given in our campus countries.

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Design You Trust

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

LMPC/Getty Images Tom and Jerry is an American animated franchise and series of comedy short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Best known for its 161 theatrical short films by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the series centers on the rivalry between the titular characters of a cat named Tom and a mouse named Jerry. Many shorts also feature several recurring characters. h/t: vintag.

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Creative Review

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Ian Logan originally became known for producing textiles and prints for British designers Mary Quant and Jeff Banks. However, his new book with Jonathan Glancey looks to the other side of the Atlantic, in particular the graphics seen across the mid-century railroad network in the US. Upon his visit to the US in the late 60s, Logan was inspired by the designs he encountered on freight cars, and made repeat visits throughout the 60s and 70s to gather items such as timetables from antique shops and

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Its Nice That

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Tré Seals, the founder of diversity driven foundry Vocal Type, details how a broader design industry can only lead to a more inclusive field for creativity.

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Feature Shoot

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

From Star Citizen by Mr. Hasgaha. Casey Lee has braved the freezing weather of the Siberian steppe to photograph a lost city. Megan Reims has traveled to Jackson, Wyoming in the aftermath of a deadly pandemic. Yuri Iliaev has explored the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and Mr. Hasgaha has space-walked to Jupiter. And they’ve all done it from the comfort of their own homes.

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The Die Line

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Futura's graphic proposal for Native Seed a California based Cannabis Product is based on the concept that time doesn't exist, taking inspiration from the cannabis distortion effect of time that you experience from its compounds THC and CBD.

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ID Identity Design

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Onefold is a clothing brand in New York that sells recycled cashmere garments for kids. Their approach to fashion challenges the way we think about kid’s clothes and the socialization of gender norms among children. They strongly believe that fashion shouldn’t define a child’s identity or restrict their movement throughout the world. The brand strives to create thoughtful, well-constructed, and long-lasting garments, with timeless and unisex designs that grow with your child.

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Creative Review

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Photos: Emma Rose Milligan, courtesy of Art Production Fund Illustrator and author Oliver Jeffers has been commissioned by the Art Production Fund to put his stamp on the Rockefeller Center’s festive displays for 2020, following in the footsteps of Angelica Hicks and Joana Alvillez in recent years. Jeffers’ charming illustrations blend wintery scenes with nods to Rockefeller Center landmarks, including the Christmas tree and Atlas sculpture.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

One bright side to 2020 : It’s been a year in which we collectively reconsidered the rooms we inhabit, giving much thought to how our intimate surroundings affect our moods and mindsets and embarking on ways to make them better. It’s possible that interior design has never been more important than it is now. In that spirit, we’re tipping our hats to these 10 beautifully designed interiors – the homes that inspire us, the public spaces that raise the bar and the hospitality and

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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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Its Nice That

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Malmö-based photographer discusses her route into photography and why her sister is her biggest inspiration.

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Colossal

DECEMBER 4, 2020

All images © Field Notes, shared with permission. U.K.-based artist Brendan Dawes channels the infinite crystalline shapes of snowflakes in a new collaboration with Field Notes. For its 49th limited-edition series, the Chicago-based notebook manufacturer tasked Dawes with designing an algorithm that mimics the atmospheric process that forms the icy grooves and feathered shoots.

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Creative Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

One good thing to come out of 2020 was the advertising industry’s united effort to help young creatives with loads of online portfolio reviews. As an ardent advertising educator, I did more reviews than usual, gave a portfolio webinar, and created a new Instagram platform called Mission Portfolio. This bumper portfolio year has given me new insights into the current state of creative portfolios and put what works and what doesn’t into sharp relief.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2020

2 Color Combinations – A curated collection of copy and paste color combos for use in your projects. reveal.js – Use this open source HTML presentation framework to create fully-featured online presentations. Graphery SVG – A fast and tiny (3 KB uncompressed) SVG wrapper library. 17 Pro JavaScript tricks you didn’t know – Level up your JavaScript knowledge with these helpful examples.

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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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