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Collaborate and Create: Top 10 Summer and Fall Design Conferences

Creative Live

Whether you spend days designing in a home office with no one to talk to but your cat, or continually rework ideas alongside a team, design shouldn’t be a lonely endeavor. Bouncing ideas off other designers, taking tips from industry leaders and socializing with like-minded creatives can create serious kindle to bring that creative spark into a roaring flame. .

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The Best Alternatives to the 10 Most Popular Fonts

Envato Tuts+

We see them on a daily basis—these popular fonts are everywhere! Check out this article to find hand-picked alternatives to some popular fonts. Alternatives to the 10 Most Popular Fonts. If you're into fonts, you’ll know that the most popular ones can become ubiquitous. Thankfully, Envato Elements and GraphicRiver have some great alternatives. We looked at the characteristics of these popular fonts and found their matches.

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Worker Coffee Branding

Lisa Maltby

Worker coffee is a company that is rooted in traditional industry, with the founder’s background in engineering. The company prides itself in good honest coffee that is crafted with care and has impeccable taste – premium coffee that has a nod back to the past. Originally named ’Yorkshire Coffee Company’, we changed this to a name that was more reflective of the company’s ethos and ’story’.

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ART, TRUTH AND ACCURACY

Illustration Art

Not accurately drawn, but true: That phase of a relationship where nothing fits and everything gets in the way and your feet are just too darn big. On the other hand, accurately drawn but not true: Artist Jon McNaught on uses realism to portray lies Water, drawn as accurately as anyone could: William Motta Yet, Monet's treatment of water required the artist to look beyond accuracy, and seems even more true: Two illustrations of foreboding houses.

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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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Discovery on a Budget: Part III

A List Apart

Sometimes we have the luxury of large budgets and deluxe research facilities, and sometimes we’ve got nothing but a research question and the determination to answer it. Throughout the “Discovery on a Budget” series we have discussed strategies for conducting discovery research with very few resources but lots of creativity. In part 1 we discussed the importance of a clearly defined problem hypothesis and started our affordable research with user interviews.

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Chatsworth Farmyard & Adventure Playground

Lisa Maltby

The Chatsworth House estate is not only a great place to visit because of its culture and heritage, but because it appeals to people of all ages. The Farmyard and Adventure Playground is obvioulsy a huge attraction for children and so I was asked to design and illustrate a map and leaflet to appeal to a younger audience, whilst retaining a sophisicated feel.

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Light Waves Trailer

Anna Raff Illustration

I know, it's no secret—I love making trailers. Here's my latest for LIGHT WAVES, the next science picture by David A. Adler and me, to be published by Holiday House July 17th. If you know a kid scientist, or if you'd like a copy of your own, you can pre-order it here. And if you'd like a sneak peek at some of the art, click here. Thanks for watching!

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Birmingham Design Festival: My talk on empathy & design (and why soft skills aren't soft!)

Lisa Maltby

I was deslighted to be asked to take part in Birmingham Design Festival this month and deliver a talk about the power of empathy for having greater impact with creative work. I wanted to challenge the notion that soft skills are soft and give practical ways to implement empathy when taking on design projects. Click on the video below to listen to the full talk (minus the audience!).

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