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Advice for Beginners That Are Starting Out in Web Design

SpeckyBoy

The web design community is great at sharing knowledge. But quite often what we share has some prerequisites attached. You’d likely need to already be a web designer or developer to get something out of it. But what about beginners? If you’re just starting your journey in web design, you may feel left out. With all of the expert tutorials out there, it can be hard to know where to begin.

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How to Use Swash Fonts in Photoshop

Tuts Plus

Knowing how to use glyphs in Photoshop can help you use all sorts of different characters, ornaments, and swashes. Let's find where these are hiding! Word glyphs and swashes are individual characters that aren't standard to every font. We can say they are an extension of the basic characters we normally find in a set of typefaces. For instance, single characters with different accents are part of glyphs.

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[Podcast] Working With Leaders – JUST Branding Podcast EP 11 with Motto

Just Creative

Sunny Bonnell and Ashleigh Hansberger of Motto , a strategic branding agency in NYC, reveal what it takes to work with “rare breeds” – the leaders, rebels & entrepreneurs who do things differently. You’ll find out how to build more purposeful brands by better connecting with your clients, plus exactly how you can use your “vices” as superpowers, backed up by personal stories of failure and courage.

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Showcase of Brush Lettering with Fast, Aggressive Strokes

Spoon Graphics

The style of a pen stroke can completely change the perception of a lettering piece. Smooth, flowing calligraphy comes across as elegant and ceremonial, whereas faster and more direct strokes generate more of a raw and energetic mood. In today’s showcase I present 45 great examples of brush lettering with attitude! These lettering pieces are drawn with quick, aggressive strokes that in some cases don’t even give the ink time to transfer from the brush or marker to the paper.

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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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Oji by Seachange

BP&O

Text by Richard Baird. Oji is a sushi brand of firsts. It is the first in New Zealand to use fully recyclable and biodegradable packaging and the first to use all free-range products. This is a significant move forward and marks the brand out from well-established competitors. Oji opened in New Zealand with two locations in […]. The post Oji by Seachange appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.

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12 Tools To Track and Increase Website Conversions

Just Creative

This article has been contributed by Georgie Peru. So you have a stunningly designed website that’s generating a lot of traffic, now what? Time to generate conversions! Admittedly, you’ve done a lot of the legwork by driving traffic to your website in the first place, but unfortunately, that’s not going to be enough to sustain your business or push sales.

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The Type Designer’s Luxury Font Library Can Be Yours for $29

Spoon Graphics

Every designer needs a variety of typeface styles that they can rely upon for every project. Usually a collection is built slowly as new fonts are purchased on an individual basis, but on rare occasions an opportunity arises to acquire a comprehensive library of top quality font families with huge savings. The Type Designer’s Luxury Font Library contains all the font styles you might need for your graphic design projects, including geometric sans-serifs, classy serifs, cool-looking display fonts

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Justine

ID Identity Design

Justin Devillier is one of New Orleans’ most celebrated young chefs, recently winning the James Beard award. Justine is the highly-anticipated new restaurant from he and partner Mia Freiberger-Devillier (the husband-wife team behind La Petite Grocery and Balise). We partnered with architecture and interior design studio Farouki Farouki to create this new Vieux Carré gem.

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Should a Web Designer Ever Provide Discounts?

SpeckyBoy

Among the first things you learn as a freelance web designer is that everybody wants a deal. Whether it’s a new client or an existing one, you’ll receive plenty of requests for discounted pricing. It’s almost as if they mistake a web design firm for a used car lot. While haggling over price is as old as commerce itself, we still need to make a living.

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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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[Logo Award Winner] 10 Consecutive Years, 10 Books, 58 Awards

Just Creative

Logo Lounge is the most respected and best-selling logo design book series in the world and I’m happy to share that 5 logos of mine were selected to be published in the upcoming Logo Lounge Volume 12, which is my 10th consecutive Logo Lounge book feature. The 42,000 logo submissions were juried by an international panel of design superstars and only 2000 of the world’s top logos made the cut.

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Weekly News for Designers ? 552

Speckyboy Design Magazine

A Lightweight Masonry Solution A nice lightweight solution from Ana Tudor. The minified JavaScript is under 800 bytes, while the strictly masonry-related styles are under 300 bytes. What is the difference between this & that? Learn the the differences between and in front-end development. Deep Dive into CSS Grid Dive deep into the CSS Grid Layout and explore almost all related properties and features.

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Logo Process: RosyBee Plants for Bees Logo & Identity Designed by The Logo Smith

The Logo Smith

The post Logo Process: RosyBee Plants for Bees Logo & Identity Designed by The Logo Smith appeared first on The Logo Smith All Content © 2020 The Logo Smith.™ |. The Logo Smith designed a new Logo and Identity for RosyBee Plants for Bees, who sell : flowering plants, packaged bee plots, containing a variety of perennial flowering plants to provide bees with a continuous mixed supply of pollen and nectar all season long.

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“Healing” by Artist Evan M. Cohen

Booooooom

Another lovely comic from New York-based artist and illustrator Evan M. Cohen (previously featured here ). I can see the forest. In the distance, I can hear my name. From above, I am alive, I am magnetic, The Earth pulls at my love. She wakes me. With her electric skies, She shows me. How to live. With graceful eyes. She is the wind. Through the trees, Moving silent sounds, I am the rain.

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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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Influencer Marketing Ultimate Guide [+ Campaign Brief Template]

Just Creative

This article has been contributed by Anna Medina. Everyone’s talking about influencer marketing these days. But only a few really know how to benefit from it. The strategy seems like such a simple idea. I mean you partner with someone, sign an agreement, and have them promote your products. How hard could it be, right? Unfortunately, it’s more complicated than that.

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8 Must-Read Architecture and Design Books This Summer

Azure Magazine

To say that this has been a summer for the (record) books is to put it mildly. But as the season comes to a close, there’s still time to enjoy the warmer weather and soak up some last-minute rays with a good read. From dense monographs to insightful takes on equitable space, here are the page-turners keeping Azure ‘s editors enthralled: 1.

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David Wardle on Designing The Miseducation of Evie Epworth

Spine Magazine

David Wardle is a designer, illustrator and typographer who, along with his wife, founded Bold & Noble , a company creating and hand printing wall art and homewares. Here he explains his process for creating the vibrant cover for The Miseducation of Evie Epworth. I was commissioned to produce the cover for The Miseducation of Evie Epworth by Matt Johnson, the art director at Simon and Schuster.

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Once Upon a Time: Old Nokia Phones That Ruled the Roost

Noupe

Technology always moves forward. That is why today we hardly see those old school phones we had in the 90s. Going way back in time, you will remember that our phones were not always this smart. There was a time when Nokia was the biggest company in the market and Nokia phones had a glorious reputation. Not to mention the brand was one of the first to launch a commercialized consumer handset, with the Nokia 1011 in 1992.

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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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Best Left-Handed Mouse for Graphic Designers

Just Creative

If you go online or even in a local electronics store and walk down the computer peripheral aisle, you’re bound to come across a selection of computer mice you can choose from. However, one type of mouse might not be on display. Left-handed mice are not very common as only 10% of the world is left-handed. We thought that if you’re a left-handed graphic designer, you should be able to use tools suited for how you work.

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10 Free Professional Intro Video Templates for After Effects

SpeckyBoy

A great and effective intro for your video will help draw your audience in and encourage them to watch the rest. Creating a video intro from scratch can be time-consuming but you can easily save time with a premade, professional intro template. In this post, we’ve gathered the best free professional video intros for Adobe After Effects that you can use as a starting point in your project.

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Say goodbye to useless brand guidelines

Creative Review

Designers will know that brand guidelines are only as useful as the client on the receiving end is prepared to make them. Months of work developing rigorous specifications and fine-tuning details can all be flushed away the moment they’re handed over. For clients, however, following – or indeed finding – guidelines can be an unwieldly, time-consuming chore, a never-ending trawl through a convoluted PDF that has likely been lost in a wormhole of computer files.

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All About the Futura Font and Its History

Tuts Plus

The Futura font is one of the most famous geometric fonts, and it's still popular to this day. In this article, we tell you all about the Futura font history and its impact on the design world. What Is Futura? Designed in 1927, Futura is still considered a modern font that conveys progress. We’ve seen it everywhere from cars to furniture stores to the Moon.

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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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A Furry Utopia is Overrun with Delicately Rendered Cats in Kamwei Fong’s New Illustration

Colossal

“Wonderfurryland” (2020), 25 x 37 inches. All images © Kamwei Fong, shared with permission. According to long-held superstitions, a horde of black cats certainly indicates impending misfortune, but for Kamwei Fong , a mass of the furry creatures is actually a fluffy utopia. Containing felines in various emotional and physical states—drowsy, peeved, and deep in slumber— “Wonderfurryland” features a diverse kitty population defined by their rotund bodies, splayed limbs, and puffed tail

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Black and White Drawings by Moebius

Juxapoz Magazine

We don't need to remind you: we lost a legend in Jean Giraud, aka Moebius. The French illustrator was famous and widely known for his work on the comics Blueberry and Silver Surfer, as well as his work with Heavy Metal, but we came across some stunning black and white illustrations this morning that we thought were beautiful in their simplicity.

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Should more graphic designers design buildings?

Creative Review

Fresh from designing their own building in Amsterdam, Thonik’s Nikki Gonnissen and Thomas Widdershoven discuss what sets graphic designers apart from architects and what that could mean for a more collaborative future. The post Should more graphic designers design buildings? appeared first on Creative Review.

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The Incredible Psychedelic Paintings Of Yoko d’Holbachie From The Other Side Of The Rainbow

Design You Trust

Yoko d’Holbachie was born in 1971 in Yokohama, Japan. She studied Art and design at Tama Art University in Tokyo. She has worked as a freelance designer for advertisements, books, magazines, and video games. d’Holbachie currently teaches art in Tokyo in addition to spending time in her studio creating paintings and sculpture. Her work has been exhibited throughout Asia and in London, Rome.

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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.