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Hera’s Milky Way & the Origins of the Multiverse

I Love Typography

To the Egyptians, it was a reflection of the Nile; for the Babylonians, a giant serpent or length of rope. In Greek mythology, the infant Heracles was brought to suckle at the breast of a sleeping Hera, the goddess of childbirth. When she wakes, she pushes the child away and her milk splashes against the […]. The post Hera’s Milky Way & the Origins of the Multiverse appeared first on I Love Typography.

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Video Tutorial: How To Create a Grime Art Portrait in Photoshop

Spoon Graphics

In today’s Photoshop tutorial we’re going to have some fun creating a surreal art style known as Grime Art, which is a weird trend where portrait photos are doodled upon with drooping, cartoonish drips of slimy flesh in vibrant colours to produce weird and wonderful zombie-like images with a gross, but somehow cool effect. I’ll show you a handy technique within Photoshop that allows you to easily illustrate and colour your artwork with the help of a pen tablet. ?

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What Does a Graphic Designer Do?

Creative Market

Graphic design is all around us. It’s showcased as visuals across multiple different mediums to express a message or tell a story. Liz Meyer , Senior Brand Designer at Creative Market, explains that she likes “to think of Graphic Design as art that analyzes and solves a problem. The first question you ask yourself when being handed a brief or project should always be—what problem am I trying to solve?”.

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One Wellington St Kilda by Fabio Ongarato

BP&O

Opinion by Richard Baird One Wellington, a partnership between LAS Group and Qualitas, is a new property development located in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda, not far from eclectic Fitzroy Street. Designed by KPDO, the building’s architecture, comprised of 181 apartments spread across two buildings of 26 and 10 floors, features flowing curves inspired by its […].

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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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8 ideas you can borrow from famous logos

Canva

Ever wondered how brands create iconic logos that are instantly recognizable across the world? Did it happen by chance, or, was it the outcome of a strategic design choice? We like to think it’s the second option. Below, we share some ideas you can borrow from some of the most famous logos ever designed. When designing a logo for your business or personal brand, it’s helpful to think of it as the welcome mat to your home: the first thing guests see.

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50 Creative Packaging Design Ideas to Inspire Your Work

Creative Market

When people think of packaging, they usually think of something that’s meant to be thrown away. After all, what you want is inside it. However, good packaging design is not just about protecting the actual product – it’s also about form and function. The best packaging designs are those that complement the products inside them. They’re beautiful, practical, and even quirky.

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Daniel Jensen: Current Events by Bedow

BP&O

Opinion by Richard Baird Daniel Jensen is a Swedish artist whose work moves between paintings, sculptures and drawings and explores themes such as society and pop-culture, film, literature and nature. His latest book, designed by Bedow, features artworks that are figurative and abstract, unrelated and absent a narrative. With such compelling and intense imagery of colour […].

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The Basic Elements of Design

Envato Tuts+

Understanding the fundamentals of design is the first step to creating cohesive and harmonious visuals. When we look at a design piece, our eyes are looking at a composition. By carefully and thoughtfully arranging elements on a page, you are able to portray more than just visuals. . Design is made up of basic elements built into a structure that communicates a message.

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Exit by George Stoyanov

Trendland

Digital artist from Bulgaria, George Stoyanov has recently introduced us his latest 3D illustrations series of random stacked objects & forms. His work is focused on CGI, 3D illustration and design. He’s using various colors, forms and conceptions to achieve more intensive emotions, closeness and sense of detail. Constantly aiming at improving his skills and developing a style of his own. www.georgestoyanov.com.

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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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Adobe Fresco: Everything Illustrators & Designers Need to Know

Creative Market

Made especially for touch devices, Adobe Fresco is a dream come true for anyone who wants to indulge in the thrills of painting and drawing right from their digital devices. Released on September 24, Fresco gives free rein to illustrators and designers who want to let loose with their creativity. The app’s user experience was designed to be simple and straightforward, making this program an accessible illustration and design tool for even beginners.

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Napier Street by Studio Hi Ho

BP&O

Opinion by Richard Baird 231 Napier Street is an eleven apartment building, now sold out, created by property developer Milieu, set with the culturally rich part of Fitzroy, Melbourne. It is their first collaboration with architect Edition Office—an innovative practice with a strong conceptual focus—and part of the developer’s ongoing enquiry into and interrogation of the […].

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How to Get Quality Photos for Your Designs: Tips, Resources, and Tools

Noupe

Photos in design can kill it or breathe life into it. You can spend days and weeks on creating a fantastic design but use too generic hero image , and people won’t notice your work at all; they will see a stock-looking picture and leave. In this article, you will find tips on getting quality photos, not an obvious choice of photo stocks, and some handy tools to ease up your work.

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The Paris 2024 Olympics logo depicts Marianne, the Olympic flame and a gold medal, all in one

Its Nice That

The Olympic and Paralympic Games committee has revealed the Paris 2024 identity, with an emblem that combines the national personified symbol of France with two other recognisable Olympic icons, while the art deco and art nouveau-inspired typography is designed to vary for every outlet. Read more.

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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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The Five Inconvenient Truths of Web Design

Speckyboy Design Magazine

Being a web designer isn’t easy. Depending on your niche, it requires a combination of finely-tuned technical and visual skills. And it takes a major commitment in order to keep those skills relevant in an ever-changing industry. What’s more, the proverbial rug can be pulled out from under us at any moment. Tried-and-true methods can turn to dust and great tools can disappear without a trace.

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Lagotto by Studio Hi Ho

BP&O

Opinion by Richard Baird Lagotto is a new all-day café, wine bar and food store situated inside Nth Fitzroy, a residential property development project from Milieu located at the heart of Melbourne’s, inner north. Named after the truffle-hunting Italian dog breed, the café offers a relaxed European surrounding in which to enjoy an Italian menu with a “joyful vibrancy […].

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How to Make Instagram Stories in Seconds Without Photoshop

Tuts Plus

What You'll Be Creating Need to create beautiful looking Instagram stories , but don’t have the required tools to start doing so? Well, what if I told you that there’s an easy way you can change that, using Placeit ’s online Instagram Story Templates. Believe it or not, you can actually use templates for Instagram stories, such as an Instagram caption template, an Instagram story highlight template, an Instagram story cover template, or maybe an Instagram question template, which you can customi

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Vincent Fournier: Brasília, Modernist Utopias at Atelier Jespers

Trendland

We’ve been covering some of the work of French photographer Vincent Fournier for more than 10 years now, always loved his eye and compositions – For his stunning Brasília, Modernist Utopias series, Vincent and Spazio Nobile carefully selected 10 photographs to be presented at Photo Brussels Festival in close dialogue with Atelier Jespers’s Modernist House.

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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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11 YouTube Thumbnail Design Ideas to Catch More Attention

Fotor

We have talked about how to start a youtube channel and make money. Now, we are going to talk about YouTube thumbnails. Thumbnails are the most crucial aspect to leverage potential viewers and make them click to enjoy. Undoubtedly, this is one of the biggest deciding factors whether or not to click to watch […].

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Your chance to work with María Medem on an illustrated calendar for 2020

Its Nice That

For this month’s edition of our partnership Call for Collaboration with Dropbox Paper, graphic designers are being offered the rare chance to work with Spanish illustrator, María Medem. Read more.

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Urban Tetris by Mariyan Atanasov Imagines Bulgarian Architecture as the Classic Video Game

Colossal

The urban architecture of Sofia, Bulgaria becomes an oversized Tetris game in a series by Mariyan Atanasov. To create the visual allusion, Atanasov abstracted the Eastern European city’s geometric buildings into minimal images, editing out distractions like phone wires and trees. In each photo sections of architecture seem to float down, ready to slot into the stack in the same mode as the classic 80’s video game created by Soviet Russian software engineer Alexey Pajitnov.

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Photoshop Tutorials: 30 New Tutorials to Learn Amazing Manipulation Tricks

Graphic Design Junction

Latest Adobe Photoshop tutorials, video tutorials and amazing photo manipulation tutorials for beginners to expert Photoshop designers. There are 30 Fresh tutorials to learn tips and tricks on how to create Photoshop Actions , how to convert boring photos into dashing portraits, photo editing and much more. As we know Adobe Photoshop is the one of the best tools for photo editing, manipulation and graphic design.

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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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Running In The Night: The Superb ’80s Cyberpunk Artworks By Daniele Gasparini

Design You Trust

Daniele Gasparini is an Italian freelance artist who loves art, graphism and web. He created The Skie Graphic Studio project in Rome in 2007. Graduated in graphic design from a school in Rome, he is currently working as webmaster and graphic designer in Adobe Authorized Training Center (AATC). His influences are large: video games, films, art, books, 90’s and also apocalyptic and retro vibes….

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Reviewed: Friday Likes 305: From Glasfurd & Walker, Marka Collective, and Buddy-Buddy

Under Consideration / Brand

“From Glasfurd & Walker, Marka Collective, and Buddy-Buddy”. Some more ornate and elaborate identities this week, with work from Vancouver, Varna, and Minneapolis. Caffe La Tana by Glasfurd & Walker. Caffe La Tana is a triple-threat Italian food establishment in Vancouver, Canada, functioning as a cafe, restaurant, and grocery store offering very nice Italian food, pastries, and goods.

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All 435 Illustrations from John J Audubon’s ‘Birds of America’ Are Available for Free Download

Colossal

Pinnated Grouse, plate 186. If you’ve been looking for an opportunity to download free high resolution images of 435 bird illustrations, you’re finally in the right place. The National Audubon Society has recently made John James Audubon’s seminal Birds of America available to the public in a downloadable digital library (signing up for their email list is a prerequisite).

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“I began to question the honesty of it”: Stacy Kranitz on the flaws of documentary photography

Its Nice That

Over the course of a decade, this Tennessee-based photographer has turned her lens to Appalachia – a region devastated by the coal industry, and one that has suffered ongoing stereotypes and myths throughout the years. Driven by a desire to address the flaws of the documentary tradition, Stacy tells us of her experiences working on this impactful ongoing project.

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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.