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Latin Letters, Made in Armenia

Typographica

The interaction between cultures has increased to unprecedented levels, thanks largely to the commercial web, and multiscript visual communication has become crucial to many designers’ practices as a result. Although this necessarily presents lots of intricate complexities and challenges, it also offers exciting new design opportunities. Visually translating letterforms from one script into another is one such opportunity.

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The People Who Want Artists To Work For Free

Juxapoz Magazine

Every creative professional has been asked to work “for exposure” instead of pay. Nobody wants to work for free, but, as aspiring artists, it's necessary to work for less than market value. However, they still expect something. Not this.

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The Photography Experience Of The Summer

Creative Live

The most basic requirement of taking a good photo is having a camera and for 100 years Olympus has been dedicated to getting as many people taking pictures as possible. Now they’re going one step further by teaming up with CreativeLive for an immersive online learning workshop streaming live August 14-16, 2019. Enjoy 3 free days of photography classes taught by a variety of outdoor and nature professionals covering topics such as location scouting, lens selection, light control, techniques

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Heritage by Madison

Identity Designed

Heritage by Madison is the latest restaurant from chef Austin Hu. Situated on the banks of the South Bund, Shanghai, this once-neglected area had a former life as a fishing and trading post. These days it’s undergoing serious regeneration, with boutique hotels, fancy cafes, and that perennial sign of gentrification, Starbucks, pouring in. Here, in this intersection between the old and the new China, Austin wanted to open a fusion restaurant that could honour both his roots in China and the influ

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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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How to Boost Your Design Skills with These Actionable Tips

Pixel 77

I hate to say it, but I’m going to anyway. Not all graphic designers can create stunning looking designs. That’s a tough reality for graphic designers but good looking images and nice fonts just don’t cut it anymore. As a matter of fact, with the design world becoming as saturated as it is, it’s becoming.

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Celebrating the Moon (with a New Picture Book)

Diana Toledano Illustration & Education

To celebrate the 50 anniversary of the Moon landing, let me introduce my latest picture book! THE USBORNE BOOK OF THE MOON was written by Laura Cowan, designed by Zoe Wray and illustrated by me. (By the way, Zoe and her team did a fantastic work making the cover look shiny, sparkly and beautiful… Look for the book in your favorite bookstore to truly appreciate the effect!

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An In-Depth Look At The Brand Colors Of 100 Top Companies

Design Wizard

A guide to picking the right brand colors. Brand colors are an essential part of any company’s image. Once chosen, they become part of a company’s identity and help to shape how they are perceived by the public. A company’s logo is often a customer’s first point of contact and this logo will be designed using brand colors. Therefore it’s important to make the right impression.

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9 Best Email Testing Tools to Preview Your Newsletters

One Extra Pixel

An email campaign is a time-proven way to engage your audience, remind them about your brand, keep them updated, sell your products and services, and establish close relationships with. The post 9 Best Email Testing Tools to Preview Your Newsletters appeared first on Onextrapixel.

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HUF Releases A Frazetta Capsule Collection

Juxapoz Magazine

HUF presents an exclusive capsule collection celebrating the work and legacy of the late American fantasy artist Frank Frazetta, in partnership with Frazetta Girls.

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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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How Great Landing Pages Boost Conversion Rate and Aid Customer Retention

Pixel 77

In the digital era, everything starts with having a stunning website that is SEO optimized and user friendly. Digital marketers worldwide know it, and you know it. Starting your first website doesn’t even need to be a challenging process. Creating a website with Wix is free and you will find amazing tools and apps to.

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Isabel

Under Consideration / Menu

Bar in Denver, CO. Designed by Wunderwerkz. A juice bar by day and a cocktail bar by night inside the Source Hotel + Market Hall, Isabel takes its name from the owner, Isabel Nesmith, of Colorado Ironworks, a company started in 1881. The identity takes elements from Nesmith's coat of arms and introduces a slick and contemporary blackletter that is juicily debossed on the tan-colored leathered menu that holds some nicely typeset and well-adorned menus with the offerings of each shift.

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13 Important Branding Lessons from the Top 4 E-Commerce Giants

crowdspring

Online commerce has taken the world by storm and forever altered the way we do business. Today’s consumers can make purchases from virtually anywhere – as long as they can connect to the internet. And they do. But, that doesn’t mean that all online businesses are created equal. Simply showing up online isn’t enough to guarantee success.

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A Week Seen Through My Lens

SEGD Blog

Read Time: 1.5 minutes. Each week is not planned nor defined. I observe and then design…. A visual blog by Lucy Holmes. This collection of things I’ve seen are all about texture and shapes. I’m currently working on a project that challenges how we "see" things. As a collection, there is a richness in color, but more importantly they are visual references for my work.

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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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?? Friends, this Friday will be the tenth anniversary of.

Print PM

?? Friends, this Friday will be the tenth anniversary of [link] To celebrate this special event together, I have prepared a lot of surprises! I’ll be reviewing all 3,524 posts and discover how much editorial design has changed in the last ten years. I really had fun with OBS and After Effect and created loooots of cool scenes. See you on Friday ?? Live on Twitch Friday 26 July at 3PM (UTC+2): [link].

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Instagram: A Healthy Attitude for Creatives

Illustration Age

May I ask what benefits you have seen from Instagram? Speaking for myself, I used it for a couple years and became burned out on trying to keep up a consistent level of output, while dealing with the normal problems of social media (making subconscious comparisons to other accounts, habitually scrolling when I was bored, etc). Furthermore, my work got some decent exposure, but only from people I would call art “enthusiasts” or other artists, not anyone who actually wanted to give me work.

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weareinternetexplorers: Shoplifters 7 Los Angeles Special by.

Print PM

weareinternetexplorers : Shoplifters 7 Los Angeles Special by Actual Source. Available now in EU and in the USA later this week.

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