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Graphic Design: Your Ultimate List of Tools and Resources

Noupe

We can’t do what we want to do without the aid of tools. Chefs employ fire to conjure up gastronomic wonders in the kitchen. Playing an instrument is an essential part of the music. A bridge that allows people to travel between two points in suspended space must be built using the correct tools and materials. Visual art designers, such as graphic artists, require more than natural aptitude and skill to produce their work.

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40+ Websites with Modern Design Trends For Inspiration

Graphic Design Junction

New modern websites design with amazing concepts and modern design trends. List of 40+ Websites design and created by professional web designers and webdesign agencies from all over the world. Each website design have unique story with amazing UIUX design. In this website gallery we showcased newly created award winning websites. We hope that this article was able to help you understand some new web design trends of mid year 2022.

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We Are Queer Britain: M&C Saatchi and Queer Britain launch the UK's first LGBTQ+ museum

Creative Boom

M&C Saatchi London has collaborated with Queer Britain to help launch the UK's first LGBTQ+ museum at Granary Square, Kings Cross. Running with the title The Place To Be Seen, the campaign leans into the importance of visibility for LGBTQ+ people, culture and history. Opening today with the inaugural exhibition 'We Are Queer Britain', the show includes artefacts such as Oscar Wilde's prison cell door, the stage outfit that Years and Years' Olly Alexander came out in, and a rainbow Hijab.

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Photoshop Gold Text Effect Tutorial

Spoon Graphics

In today’s Adobe Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a lovely gold text effect. It’s made using a combination of Photoshop layer styles, plus a couple of my own secret ingredients that really brings the effect to life with a nice shiny finish. What really makes this gold effect look so realistic compared to some other basic gold text effects is the layering of Photoshop’s layer styles.

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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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Pursue Hard Seltzer by OlssønBarbieri

BP&O

New products, new markets and new consumer groups generate new aesthetics – or, at least, you would hope so. Too often, style migrates from one category to another, or the identity of a sub-culture (visually speaking), is exploited in a commercial context. This is where ‘authenticity’ emerges, to support genuine origin credentials, or to mask the appropriation with narrative context.

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The winners of the 2022 V&A Illustration Awards have been revealed

Creative Boom

Book Illustration Winner 2022 – Gérard DuBois. The judges have had their say. The votes have been counted. And the winners of the 2022 V&A Illustration Awards have been revealed. Find out who has come out on top. The V&A Illustration Awards made a triumphant return in 2022 after taking two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, and nearly 1,500 applicants submitted their work to be considered for this year's award.

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23 Best Handwritten Fonts For Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

Beautiful hand-picked collection of best handwritten fonts. Modern calligraphy makes it appear wonderfully, readable, and incredibly versatile. The handwritten fonts will look outstanding in any context, whether it’s being used on busy backgrounds or as a standalone headline! Fonts are suitable for use in title design. Such as apparel, invitations, books tittle, stationery design, quotes, branding, logos, greeting card, t-shirt, packaging design, poster and more.

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Download These Graphic Poster Design Templates as Vector Graphics

We And The Color

Choose from a wide range of fully customizable graphic poster designs based on abstract geometric shapes, various colors, organic ornaments, and stylish typography. All created by graphic designer and Adobe Stock contributor @Molibdenis , this amazing collection of poster design templates is simply outstanding. Using a great variety of abstract geometric shapes in various colors along with organic ornaments and stylish typography, these posters are true eye-catchers.

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Vector animations with Figma and SVG-Animate

UX Collective

Have you ever gotten frustrated because you couldn’t describe complex animations to your developers? Finding references, polishing details… Continue reading on UX Collective ».

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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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Find and take home a beautiful piece of art in Manchester to remember 'you are not alone'

Creative Boom

Throughout July, ceramicist Rachel Ho and artist and designer Micah Purnell are leaving 240 beautiful gifts dotted around Manchester for people to find and keep. Called Gift to the City , the massive art trail by Passion Art hopes to remind us to embrace our stories of loss and self-worth. The two local artists will leave over £4,500 worth of free art dotted around Manchester city centre from today until the end of July.

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18 Amazing Procreate Brushes For Procreate Designers

Graphic Design Junction

Your are a Procreate lover and you need an Amazing Procreate Brushes for illustration, drawing and painting artwork. In this article you can explore Best Procreate Brushes for Procreate iPad app. The Procreate has everything you need to create awesome sketches, drawing paintings , remarkable illustrations and beautiful animations. Procreate app have tons of features but the most important and attractive feature is brushes.

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Sinc & Magoz—A Journey of Discovery Into the World of NFTs

We And The Color

Over the past few months, Amsterdam-based creative agency Sinc teamed up with renowned digital artist Magoz to create a series of NFTs focusing on the relationship between humans and the organizations they work for. Magoz is a digital artist based in Malmö, Sweden. Using bold colors, metaphors, and simplicity, he specializes in illustration, animation, and coding.

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When to Say “No” to Clients For Freelancers

HONGKIAT

We’ve all heard it before. The inevitable request from a client to revise a design to make it more… something. The client isn’t sure what exactly, but they know that whatever they’re looking at on the screen isn’t quite "there" yet. Sometimes they’ll even utterly confuse you with a vague or nonsensical request, like " make the black blacker, " or " it’s just not poppy enough. ".

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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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Lettering artist and stroke survivor Danielle Davis on her road to recovery and creativity

Creative Boom

Lucky Fools © Danielle Davis. Danielle Davis is an established lettering artist and illustrator based in Oklahoma who loves retro schtick and large bold type. But she had to start over after a stroke and brain surgery in 2021 and seven long months of recovery. We found out more about how she recovered and began creating again. Danielle started her career by attending a smaller university in Oklahoma and then going to grad school at Maryland Institute College of Art.

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50+ Best Modern Living Room Design & Decor Ideas

Graphic Design Junction

Decorating a happy home, specially living room design is probably the most exciting yet challenging space you’ll have to design and decorate in your home. Decor a livingroom it’s an art and peoples always been dreaming about good, comfort and eye-catching decorated homes. Decorating a living room without any inspiration it’s just a waste of time.

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Janet&Co Branding by Pop & Pac Studio

We And The Color

Pop & Pac Studio created this artsy visual identity for Janet&Co. Janet&Co design and direct human-centric properties of the future. Pop & Pac Studio was commissioned to work on a unique brand identity and web design brand. They came up with a design that captures Janet&Co’s characteristics. Below you can see a few images of the project.

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Weekly News for Designers ? 653

SpeckyBoy

How I Experience the Web Today – Cookie consent banners, annoying push notification requests, and distracting ads – they’re all here! The History of User Interfaces – Take a tour through various UIs that have marked the past five decades. After Internet Explorer, Who Will Be the Web’s Next Nemesis? – It just so happens that the modern web has several potential candidates.

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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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A new sculpture of rainbow-coloured ribbons is amazingly made of steel

Creative Boom

Photo credit: Tim Jobling. London artist Hanna Benihoud has unveiled Rainbow Ribbons in the newly-opened Claremont Park today. Incredibly, the dynamic flowing sculpture is fashioned from steel and powder-coated in an array of vivid colours. But to look at it, you wouldn't think it was made of metal. The "ribbons" float down in continuous wavy lines in front of the Brent Cross Town park's new locally-run ice cream kiosk, creating quite the centrepiece for the area.

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5 more lessons I wish I had learned earlier as a design manager

UX Collective

DESIGN LEADERSHIP From handling user interfaces to handling people: Part II I’m a designer by profession and a cheater in people management. I was lucky enough to know the bitter truth about management in advance but couldn’t believe it was true. My wife, an expert in this area, always told me stories from her work, and I was like, “Why cannot they just…?

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Back to Basics by Retoka

We And The Color

An exercise of shapes, colors, and gradients. Retoka is the creative collective of Toni López and Zara Castellanos, two designers and digital artists based in Barcelona. They love to experiment with colors, light effects, shapes, and movement. Back to Basics is a series of graphic artworks that have been composed of minimalist shapes, colors, and gradients.

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Peter Saville has redrawn the Aston Martin wings

Creative Review

The original Aston Martin wing logo was introduced in 1927 – when it was more of a wing-shaped wordmark – and has undergone various adjustments since then. In 1930 it was adapted to appear more speedy, and tightened into more of a v shape, and in 1932 it was updated again to the scarab beetle-inspired wing shape it’s retained ever since.

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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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Creative Boom and Micah Purnell collaborate on a new billboard campaign that calls for calm during uncertain times

Creative Boom

Sleep by Murugiah. Photography by Adrian Lambert. This week, Creative Boom is launching a billboard campaign across Manchester to remind us to look after our mental health. Collaborating with artist, designer and curator Micah Purnell as part of his Add-Art scheme, the giant posters feature artworks by leading illustrators Fuchsia MacAree and Murugiah.

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Where’s the fun in accessibility?

UX Collective

UX is not only about the way it works, but about delight, whimsy, wit, and beauty. But when it comes to accessibility, we tend to take the term literally. Why? Photo by Nareeta Martin on Unsplash Consider this question posted on the UX community on Stack Exchange: Does including a Konami-code triggered Easter Egg negatively impact keyboard accessibility?

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Cardinal Coffee Liqueur Packaging by CreativeByDefinition Studio

We And The Color

This coffee liqueur packaging unveils the brand’s exotic origin. “Born out of appreciation of the colorful flora & fauna, this product shares the deep flavors of a coffee liqueur. The challenge was to convey the quality & origin of the product with a more refined and at the same time more “vibrant” look. To achieve this, the creative studio worked on combining luxurious elements with a playful & colorful theme.” Graphic design studio CreativeByDefinition

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Plasto Sans Serif Family of 54 Fonts - only $12!Plasto is a.

The Design Blog

Plasto Sans Serif Family of 54 Fonts - only $12! Plasto Sans Serif Family of 54 Fonts - only $12! Plasto Sans Serif Family of 54 Fonts - only $12! Plasto Sans Serif Family of 54 Fonts - only $12! Plasto Sans Serif Family of 54 Fonts - only $12! Plasto is a welcome addition to anyone looking for a highly legible, unique, grotesque sans serif typeface.

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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.