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Revealed! The three most impactful web design trends of 2022 so far

Creative Boom

The web is a constant source of inspiration with past and future influences forever clashing with modern culture to bring us a constant-evolving digital landscape. To keep up with what's happening out there, we share three impactful web design trends from Editor X's latest report that are changing everything for designers right now. And there are four more trends to discover, too.

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Best Graphic Design Software: What The Professionals Use

Inkbot Design

Best Graphic Design Software: What The Professionals Use. The graphic design software industry is changing as designers go mobile and create content for all platforms. And with that shift comes a shift in the workflow—but what tools are best suited for every type of designer? You've probably heard about the power of graphic design—and for a good reason.

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6 unmissable Photoshop hacks to save you time

Creative Bloq

Plus: a fruity bonus.

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30 New Fresh Free Fonts Download

Graphic Design Junction

2022 mid year fresh free fonts are here. List of new fonts perfect for logo design, tshirt mockup, web templates and all type of graphic design projects. In this collection we are included script fonts, handwritten fonts, brush fonts, and modern sans serif fonts which can give more professional look to your design. The following fonts are ideal to make an creative design and perfect for any artwork.

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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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Jeffery C. Becton on liminal spaces, creating emotional connections, and the power of ambiguity

Creative Boom

© Jeffery C. Becton. Fine art photographer Jeffery C. Becton has enthralled audiences for decades with his digital montages that explore the ambiguities of his mediums and subject matter. Based in Maine, he is currently exhibiting in London for the first time alongside conceptual artist and photographer Andrea Hamilton at AH Studios. Running until 31 August 2022, Between Two Worlds is an evocative showcase of two photographic artists who have a strong connection to the poetics of coastal spaces.

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Lush Tropical Logo and Business Card Branding Kit

Spoon Graphics

Access All Areas members have a great collection of assets to download this week, courtesy of Hannah Bacon. The Lush Tropical Branding Kit provides all the elements you need to create a complete brand identity, including illustrations, logos, patterns, colour palettes and business card templates, all with a modern tropical style. Hannah Bacon shares professionally designed brand templates and resources for Canva and the Adobe suite.

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15+ Best Procreate Brushes For Pro Designers

Graphic Design Junction

The Procreate is best for drawing, illustration and painting and realistic artwork. The best Procreate brushes are the main ingredient of this amazing app. You don’t need to customize anything, everything is already set. Just open the file in your Procreate app and start illustration, drawing and painting. You don’t need hundreds of brushes, their brushes are just awesome and will help you to make realistic illustrations and paintings.

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Whether she's sad, happy, excited or mad, Katrina Romulo uses design to express her emotions

Creative Boom

100 Days of Branding, an ongoing side project © Katrina Romulo. Katrina Romulo didn't always know she'd become a designer. Born in the Philippines, she's been based around the Bay Area for the past 18 years; here, she studied at university and attended a student-run class called Intro to Illustrator and Photoshop. Sparking inspiration, Katrina went to UC Berkeley and majored in Sustainable Environment Design.

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An Image from the Inside — Posters by Democràcia Estudi

We And The Color

When imagination emerges as an alternative to fiction and images that govern us. Created in 2021 by Democràcia Estudi for Cielo Drive, ‘An Image from the Inside’ plays the idea of reality. The posters function as metamessages because each main poster includes another wrinkled poster. Below you can see a few images representing three pieces.

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F5: Kelly DeWitt Shares Her Favorite Time of Day, a Love of Light + More

Design Milk

Kelly DeWitt believes in the inherent beauty of a shared space. As Founder and Creative Director of KKDW , her work revolves around designing and building environments meant to be experienced by many people. She’s worked on restaurants, bars, offices, storefronts, and retail spaces over more than ten years in the interiors industry. Kelly’s sharp sense of aesthetics paired with her creative approach to technique and materials produces spaces with longevity.

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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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Photographer Spotlight: Kurt Bauer

Booooooom

Kurt Bauer. Kurt Bauer’s Website. Kurt Bauer on Instagram.

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Clever forms meet function in the graphic design work of Sumangla Bishnoi

Creative Boom

Sumangla Bishnoi. For Sumangla Bishnoi , one particular moment in her past made her realise that graphic design was for her. Just 14 at the time, Sumangla – born in a historical Indian town named Meerut – received the creativity award at school for the fourth year running. "That was the first time I envisioned what it would be like to pursue creativity for the rest of my life," she explains.

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Erre. Brand Design by Anatoliy Terentyev

We And The Color

Anatoliy Terentyev created a sophisticated brand identity for Erre, a design studio specializing in modern furniture and interiors. Anatoliy Terentyev is an experienced graphic designer with a strong focus on brand design and communication. His aim is to create a conscious design that makes a product or brand clearer and closer. The skilled designer was recently commissioned to work on a sophisticated brand identity and visual communication for Erre, a design studio specializing in modern furnit

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Color Therapy: Get Glowing with Neons + Brights

Design Milk

From 80s fashion and roller rinks to glow sticks and the iconic blinking signage that started it all, neon hues have always been the life of the party. Today, neon is new again – the electric lime greens, hot pinks, fluorescent yellows, and ultra-bright blue shades are popping up all over the design world in everything from lighting and decor to candles and furniture.

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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 7 Most Popular Websites for Every Need & How To Create Them

Inkbot Design

The 7 Most Popular Websites for Every Need & How To Create Them. Creating or redesigning a website for your business poses many questions, and the first is probably – what type of website do you need? To determine this, you must ask yourself and your business partners what purpose the website will serve. Who will use it? And how will it assist your business?

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Six ways artists can set up a successful stall at an art fair

Creative Boom

Glasgow Print Fair. Photography by Peter Byrne. As more of us get back to live events, in-person markets are returning as another brilliant place to meet people and showcase and sell your work. If you're participating in art fairs for the first time or just feel a bit rusty, we've put together a guide on how to set up a stall with the help of Glasgow Print Fair and some of the printmakers it works with.

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Supa Mega Fantastic Font Duo by Nicky Laatz

We And The Color

Let’s take a closer look at Supa Mega Fantastic, a lovely hand-lettered font duo that works pretty well with quirky illustrations and graphics. Created in 2021 by Nicky Laatz, the Supa Mega Fantastic font duo! consists of a playful monoline script and a chunky all caps sans serif font. Both styles are characterized by an authentic hand-lettered sign-painter style.

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The Glyph Collection Is a Typographic Textile Masterpiece

Design Milk

A personal favorite of mine at NeoCon 2022 was the Glyph Collection. A collaboration between Arc-Com design studio and design studio and font foundry House Industries , it’s a celebration of typographic forms. Six unique textile patterns were created based off of the pound sign, tilde, parentheses, a lowercase i, and an x. Each has a strong personality on its own, and can either work individually or be paired with other textiles in the same color palette.

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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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Soft Services by Decade

BP&O

Skin is the human body’s largest organ while skincare is the fastest growing segment of the beauty industry. Yet with all their promises of ‘dewy’, ‘glowing’ and ‘blemish free’, most products on the market, are focused on the face. Soft Services creates skincare products for specific body skin problems, such as acne, ingrown hairs, stretch marks and fungal issues.

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Pentagram finds a joyful new spin on yoga branding for Love Supreme Projects

Creative Boom

The world's largest design consultancy has collaborated with yoga studio Love Supreme Projects to create an identity that finds a new spin on the familiar practice. Made up of bold colours and inky splotches, the brand turns the concepts of yoga into a visual language in a way that contrasts stereotypical aesthetics. What do you think of when you think of yoga?

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Risograph Double-Exposure Print Effect Photoshop Mockup

We And The Color

Download this stunning PSD mockup of risograph double-exposure print effects. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @Marcel , using this amazing Photoshop mockup, you can create eye-catching double-exposure print effects. The Photoshop mockup consists of three design options. It is optimized for a high resolution of 3000 x 3000 px. All sample texts are for display only and may not be included in the end-use.

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Levi: A Hybrid Restaurant Featuring Italian + Japanese Food + Design

Design Milk

Levi is an atmospheric restaurant located in Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Johannes Torpe. The restaurant features a hybrid of Italian and Japanese culinary traditions that is matched by the aesthetics of the space. Named after artisan Romano Levi for his mastery in grappa art, the restaurant wanted a space that represented the spirit of his universe.

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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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The role of empathy in user research and interaction design

UX Collective

When designing with empathy in mind, we increase our chances of meeting user needs and expectations by uncovering deeper insights. But what is empathy, really?—?and where does it fit into our research? In the 1990s, companies started to realise that incorporating customer feedback merely from questionnaires was falling short and not quite enough for success anymore.

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Grime photographer Simon Wheatley on how to capture street scenes in just 24 hours

Creative Boom

© Simon Wheatley. Best known for chronicling the grime scene, London photographer Simon Wheatley recently spent 24 hours shooting across the capital. He walks us through what happened and shares some key lessons he learned about street photography along the way. Each year, Photography News puts on a unique photography challenge that takes place in London.

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Learn to Create Animations for Social Media with After Effects

We And The Color

Take this online course by Yimbo Escárrega and start creating stunning animations for Social Media using After Effects. Yimbo Escárrega is a renowned graphic artist and motion designer. In this online course, he will show you how to create stunning animations for social media in no time. In 24 lessons, you will discover an effective workflow that will allow you to create animations easily and quickly with both video and 2D graphics.

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The Stick Lighting Family Tackles an Ancient Symbol

Design Milk

A minimal, triangle-shaped lamp with a form that symbolizes ancient cultures – a graphic that represents the four elements. This is a special edition of Studiopepe’s Stick , presented by Contardi exclusively for Mohd at Milan Design Week 2022. The lamps that make up the Stick collection use the same base module in different configurations, all highlighting their sharp triangular shapes.

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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.

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“Recent Past” by Photographer Reka Reisinger

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Guess the hip-hop album with Dorothy's stamp on the most iconic releases of all time

Creative Boom

Could you guess the legendary hip-hop album from just a simple graphic? That's the challenge thrown down by Dorothy , the Liverpool-based studio and shop that has released a new print celebrating classic releases from the last four decades. Continuing its usual theme of imagined collectable postage stamps, displayed together in a fictional tapestry that makes up an entire sheet, this latest offering by Dorothy tips its hat to everyone from Grandmaster Flash and Run DMC to Kendrick Lamar and Run

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Minimalist Movie Posters by Bruno Carvalho

We And The Color

Check out this amazing selection of minimalist posters based on movies and TV shows. Bruno Carvalho, aka bruno illustra, is a Brazilian designer, illustrator, and creative leader at B.I.R.D Marketing Makers. He has more than six years of experience in the design industry. In his free time, he loves to create minimalist posters of his favorite movies and TV shows.

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The Futo Collection: A Sustainable Workplace Solution

Design Milk

With human-centric design at the forefront, Dymitr Malcew created the Futo Collection for DYD. This flexible approach to the workplace took home a Silver Award at NeoCon 2022 in the Lounge Furniture category. Futo continues to blur the line between workplace and hospitality spaces, providing users with the flexibility today’s offices look for.

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How to Create Stunning Typography With the Corel Type Tool Kit

Download this free eBook to learn how you can create stunning typography, using the basics, such as placing text, to advanced controls like ligatures, variable fonts, effects, tracking, range kerning, and everything in between. Learn how to: Use Character Control to add variety to your font styles. Use Paragraph Control to manage spacing, alignment, justification and more.