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Examples of websites that do web typography properly

Designer Daily

Typography has become fundamental in web design projects. It makes the copy clear, legible, and appealing to readers as it’s considered an art of arranging text and letters. Typography assists in providing an excellent experience for users before they even click a button or read. It tells a story that provides users information about the website and who is behind it.

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10 Vital Elements of Art That Make a Good Design

Graphic Design Junction

Creating a good print design can be quite a challenge. Even if you’re an experienced web designer who creates all kinds of responsive design and is familiar with all CSS tricks, working on a print project might be quite difficult because print production and web design require you to use different skills and pay attention to different aspects of work.

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What Are the Advantages of Branding? (Updated May 2021)

Canny

What are the advantages of branding? It’s a fair question. We’re always talking about branding, but what are the real advantages of branding a business? Away from having a good looking, attractive brand, that sells well to your customers, there are a whole of other advantages to branding your business properly. free ebook. The Branding Brief Template. get for free.

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The Biggest Brush Sets Made Specifically for Affinity Designer

Spoon Graphics

I receive requests for design resources for the Affinity creative software more and more frequently from Spoon Graphics subscribers. While I haven’t found the time to tempt myself to migrate over from the Adobe apps just yet, I have tried to source as many Affinity tools as possible from creative experts who do use this great Adobe-alternative software to share as part of the Access All Areas membership on Spoon Graphics.

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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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Adobe defends itself as Photoshop users berate new update

Creative Bloq

It's all Apple's fault, guys.

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23 Fresh Free Fonts For Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

New fresh free fonts collection for typography lovers. The fresh fonts are perfect for graphic design, print design, logos and t-shirt designs. The following fonts are ideal to create branding and best for logo fonts, business cards, mockups, packaging design and any other web and graphic projects. Take a look at free commercial fonts for professional design, based upon suggestions from designers and web developers all over the world.

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“Non so dare un nome a quell’estate” by Photographer Leandro Colantoni

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Communitea presents 55 awesome graphic design prints about tea

Creative Bloq

Beau-tea-ful.

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31 Incredible Photo Manipulations For Inspiration

Graphic Design Junction

Photo manipulation or Photo editing is just not an art, its passion and only creative photo loves can understand. There are millions of photo manipulation examples, but some photos are really breathtaking and mind blowing. Photo manipulation art getting people’s attention as long as you don’t make them too text heavy and you include an extremely creative photos in look-at-me colors and sharpness.

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You Won’t Believe Your Eyes After Seeing Alain Gilles Designs for YO2 Rugs

Design Milk

If you enjoy tricks of the eye illusions, you’re going to absolutely love these rugs. Designed by Alain Gilles for YO² Rugs , the Hole, Mosaique and Stacked-Up collections are based on geometry, perspective and false impressions that will leave you questioning your own vision. Hole. A gateway to another world? The Hole collection gives the visual impression of an opening, a modern trompe l’oeil.

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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: Guttæ

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How to add fonts in Photoshop

Creative Bloq

Learn how to import downloaded fonts into Photoshop.

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Professional Business Card PSD Templates (26 Print Design)

Graphic Design Junction

An elegant business cards with classy, stylish, beautiful, modern design, perfect for any business. Ideal for personal / professional branding and more. Clean business card templates easy to edit and text layers can be changed with one click. All objects can be resized without any quality loss (shapes). Fully layered Photoshop PSD and Illustrator files with smart objects.

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Emma Scully Gallery Presents: Cast Iron

Design Milk

Cast Iron is a gallery exhibition presented by Emma Scully on view from May 13th – June 25th at Emma Scully Gallery on 16 East 79th Street in New York City. Emma commissioned eight artists from across the world to digitally design exclusive pieces of furniture, lighting or decor, in which Scully would then handle production with the help of O.K Foundry, a fourth generation foundry in Virginia.

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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 little book of accessibility

UX Collective

If I had a TARDIS and could travel back in time to 2005, which is when I founded the BBC’s Digital Accessibility Team, what would I say to myself? What advice would I give me? This is a little book of quips, tips, affirmations, and truths that have helped me shape the BBC’s strategy and embed accessibility into its culture. BTW I have published this as an article, a presentation, a video and a set of posters only.

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Fictional homes reimagined by famous artists will inspire you to make your own

Creative Bloq

From Friends by Frieda Kahlo, to The Simpsons by Bob Ross.

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How to Create Outstanding Prints That Will Last a Lifetime

Graphic Design Junction

The advanced photo editing tools available today let us transform almost any smartphone photo into a gallery-worthy exhibit. Many of us spend a long time editing our digital photos to perfect the fine gradients and color saturation. With that in mind, it’s a shame that we tend to view our photos on computer screens which simply can’t do them justice.

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Only Good Things’ Spring Collection Playfully Bends Tradition

Design Milk

The following post is brought to you by Only Good Things. Our partners are hand-picked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design. Only Good Things’ Spring Collection playfully bends tradition – literally. Steam bent wood tables, rounded outdoor chairs and curvy stools effortlessly bring joy to any residential space they’re placed in.

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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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The 20 Best Photoshop Actions for Creating Retro & Vintage Effects

SpeckyBoy

Lace up your boots and let’s travel back in time! We don’t even have to travel far. Vintage and retro are coming back, big time. More and more photographers, designers, and clients are charmed by the appeal of vintage aesthetics. From soft palettes, to gently faded filters, vintage effects are more popular than ever before! So if you’re thinking of editing your photos and graphics to look more vintage, you don’t have to spend hours in Photoshop or Lightroom.

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3D art: 34 incredible examples to inspire you

Creative Bloq

Visit another dimension with this stunning 3D art.

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30 Fresh Free Fonts For Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

High quality fresh free fonts collection specially roundup for professional graphic designers. The free fonts are applicable for any type of graphics, print design, logos and t-shirt designs. The following typefaces and fonts are ideal to make an attractive design and perfect for logo design, business cards, branding, mockups, packaging design and any other web and graphic projects.

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ULTRALEGGERA 1660 Is the World’s Lightest Chair

Design Milk

It’s true, weighing in at a little over 1660 grams, ULTRALEGGERA 1660 is currently the world’s lightest chair. It was designed by Oskar Zi?ta as a response to the lightweight challenge set by Gio Ponti’s design icon, the Superleggera chair from 1957. The minimalist ULTRALEGGERA chair is a mono-object, or a piece of furniture created in response to the challenges of the modern world.

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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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Lipman: How the Internet Ruined Design…

Graphic Design USA

Gregg Lipman of CBX on why design is a process and a craft, not a software-driven deliverable, and is best left to design professionals.

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7 Highlights of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021

Azure Magazine

As a rhetorical question, “How will we live together?” is more pressing than ever. Given the news on various fronts, it takes on the urgency of a plea. For the world’s most important architecture exhibition, the question is a mandate, a broad and all-encompassing challenge. On the occasion of the 17 th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia , architects are responding to curator Hashim Sarkis’s overarching theme in myriad ways and from various vantage points.

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5 Great Landing Page Examples You Can Learn From

Graphic Design Junction

Your landing pages are incredibly important, as they often provide the first experience people will have with your website. They’re typically created with the purpose of converting your website visitors into leads or customers, so they have to be well-designed, attention-grabbing, and compelling enough to convince people to take action. . There are so many types of landing pages and, in this blog post, we are going to dive into 5 great examples to give you inspiration for designing your own.

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The GUNA Outdoor Collection Looks to Multiethnic Inspiration for Its Style

Design Milk

Rugs, charpoys, cushions and coffee tables with multiethnic inspiration make up designer Chiara Andreatti’s Guna outdoor collection for Gervasoni. “Guna” is a Sanskrit term meaning “energy that envelops all things”, from the Indo-European root “gere” to denote a single string used to make a woven rope. The name is the essence of the furniture collection, connections made between materials and techniques as well as cultures and relationships.

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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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One of The Best Customizable Vector Logo Sets on Adobe Stock

We And The Color

Discover one of the best fully customizable vector logo sets on Adobe Stock. Created by graphic designer and Adobe Stock contributor @More Profesh , this amazing set includes nine fully customizable vector logos. These graphics can be edited in any possible way. You can transform them to any size you want or change lines, shapes, and colors—it’s totally up to you.

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City Building: How a Vertical Campus Came to Toronto

Azure Magazine

Ryerson University is unlike any other educational institution in Canada. Its campus doesn’t have precise geographical boundaries but is intricately interwoven with the fabric of Toronto, Canada’s largest city. That means that, when it grows, it has to get crafty, inventing new land-use strategies, partnerships and even building typologies. In the summer of 2013, my colleagues at Perkins&Will and I embarked on what would be a seven-year journey of design and discovery with Ryerson to create

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Realistic Brochure Mockups (20+)

Graphic Design Junction

Best Photoshop brochure mockups for present your design in realistic-way. The collection of professionally designed Brochure Mockups , fully layered and smart objects mockups. These mockups has multiple angles and variations, so that you can present your designs the best possible way. All mockups are available in Photoshop PSD Files , so it’s super easy to upload your designs to the presentation.

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Salon Series Short & Sweet Ep. 2: Breaking the Mold

Design Milk

Hi again, it’s Elena Frampton writing from the Frampton Co studio. In addition to interior design and art advisory services, our gallery spaces are a huge piece of the pie for our creative practice. They offer an opportunity for full creative expression, as well as a platform to engage with our community through initiatives like Salon Series , our in-house conversation program.

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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.