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Behind the scenes with De La Foye, a Chicago studio inspiring businesses to thrive

Creative Boom

To create great websites, you need to have a passion. And Denise Foy, owner of De La Foye Design Studio , is quite clear about where her passion lies. It all began when she helped a chef turn an ailing restaurant around by getting it online. As a result, a failing business became a roaring success. Denise thought to herself, "If I can help another business owner succeed, I'd be incredibly honoured.

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How to Create the Best Logo for your Business

Inkbot Design

How to Create the Best Logo for your Business. In this digital era, we are bombarded by logos from every angle; every page opened, website, literally everywhere. Stepping out of the technological zone, almost everything from your breakfast cereal to your desk at work has been branded with a logo design. As a designer, I bet most of you have been asked to design a logo at least once in your professional career.

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How To Make Eye-catching Brochure Templates For Products

Designer Daily

Creating a business brochure is important to promote your company and its products. A well-designed brochure can help you get more customers and a lot of sales. The main purpose of a brochure is to educate potential customers about your company, the services you offer and also about the product or products that you sell. A business owner will have an advantage over other business owners if he has a powerful promotional tool such as a great-looking, eye-catching professional brochure for his comp

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Spoon Graphics Turns 15 Years Old — The End is Nigh! (or is it?)

Spoon Graphics

It’s that time of year when Spoon Graphics gets a little older, with 2022 marking 15 years of tutorial creating, freebie sharing and article writing on what started as a blog that was attached to my design portfolio website in 2007. Every April I take some time to reflect on the past 12 months and talk about how things have changed. Last year I talked about how it was nice to see traffic levels plateau somewhat after the massive declines over recent years, so let’s take a look at the latest stat

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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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Angela Kirkwood's animated music video is a funny look at the perils of obsession

Creative Boom

As the old saying goes: 'Be yourself, everyone else is taken'. It's a lesson the characters in Angela Kirkwood's animated music video would do well to learn, as it follows the life of a cat who has become completely obsessed with a dog and pays the price along the way. Created for Toronto-based band No Frills' new single 'Copy Cat', the animation is Angela's first and longest animation commercial project.

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16 Fresh Free Fonts Download

Graphic Design Junction

Fresh free fonts perfect for many of your projects like logos & branding, photography, invitations, watermarks, advertisements, product designs, stationery, wedding designs, labels, product packaging, special events and much more. Futuristic and modern fresh free fonts , 100% free download for commercial and personal use. This collection included sans serif fonts , script fonts , handwritten fonts and brush fonts which can make your design more professional.

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The Art Gallery of New South Wales by Mucho

BP&O

The Art Gallery of New South Wales, founded in 1872 as the New South Wales Academy of Art, suffered from a fragmented brand architecture. Addressing this through a rationalised and simplified system, and reinforcing the master brand across all Gallery collateral became a central part of developing of a new brand identity which would support a repositioning strategy that moved.

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Pentagram's heartwarming identity for a charity that helps pets and their people

Creative Boom

Marina Willer and her team at Pentagram are behind a super cute new identity for leading pet charity Woodgreen that has been designed to reflect the charity's special mission: "to help pets and their people". Established in North London in 1924, Woodgreen provides a safe haven for vulnerable pets in need of urgent care or a loving new home and offers expert advice and hands-on support to owners of pets, not only dogs and cats but also a range of domestic animals including rodents and chickens.

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15 Best Mockup Bundles For Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

The best mockup bundles from Creative market. Includes everything you’ll ever need for your design mockup needs! Each bundle constantly updated with new products! The mockup bundles are available in discounted prices, you can save upto 70% to 50% off the regular price. Every designers must have it! Every bundle have high-quality, professional mockups and perspective scenes to make your design work so much easier!

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Jamie Norris Green Turns Scallop and Oyster Shells Into Lighting

Design Milk

With a background in lighting design consultancy, Jamie Norris Green is an award-winning designer who makes contemporary lighting, art, and furniture. Drawing on his experience working with architects and designers all over the world, he has created a small collection of products that are “digitally handmade.” This may sound like a contradiction in terms but by combining traditional handcrafting with digital technology and machinery, Jamie creates one-off or small runs of unique piec

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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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Autex Acoustics by Marx Design

BP&O

With manufacturing and sales teams throughout Australia, UK and the USA, Autex has grown to become the market leader in interior acoustic products in New Zealand, and the go to choice for leading architects aspiring to reduce the amount of atmospheric noise within cutting-edge residential and commercial spaces. Their products are innovative, produced in a variety of forms and colours, The post Autex Acoustics by Marx Design appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.

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'I make what I enjoy and what I'm feeling': Joshua Thelwell on his detailed and vibrant 2D artworks

Creative Boom

© Joshua Thelwell. Based in London, Joshua currently has his finger in many pies as a fashion designer, graphic designer and digital artist. Below, he tells us more about his 2D creations and who he strives to represent in his imagery. Spanning digital, photography and graphic design, Joshua Thelwell is a creative polymath of sorts. In his 2D works specifically, he replicates people, models or musicians with utmost accuracy and precision – from FKA Twigs to the lesser-known.

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The Importance of Using Professional Fonts Design in Branding

Graphic Design Junction

Any brand needs to stand out from the competition while maintaining its identity. Therefore, design is based on integrity and recognizability as part of branding. Integrity here is the harmonious compatibility of the meanings embedded in the brand and its visual incarnations – logo, colors, composition, and fonts. This article will tell why fonts are so important and how to choose fonts for your brand.

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Notabag’s New Launch With We Are Out of Office Blooms With Spring Spirit

Design Milk

If you’ve been with us a while you know that we’re big fans of Notabag. The original tote bag and backpack hybrid, Notabag’s revolutionary convertible design conveniently switches from tote bag to backpack with just a simple tug on the straps, virtually eliminating the need for disposable bags. Not only are the eco-friendly totes incredibly practical, but they look the part too – they’re made using durable, high-quality materials and come in an endless range of modern shades and fashionable prin

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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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Create Adorable Designs for Children with This Toolbox of Cute Creative Resources

Spoon Graphics

Using the cute and cuddly hand-crafted resources in this new bundle, you can create wonderful artwork for children’s books, greeting cards, kids’ clothing and more! You’ll find graphics, fonts, brushes and patterns that will help you easily create soft, fluffy, joyful and whimsical artwork for endless creative designs. You’ll have access to the tools from some of the most talented illustrators, including Lisa Glanz, Pretty Little Lines and Julia Dreams, to name a few.

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It Must Be Nice: new picture book dives into the world of human emotions

Creative Boom

It Must Be Nice is a new picture book from freelance illustrator Ri?ards Znuti?š-Znut?ns. Delving into the world of human emotions, this beautifully illustrated tome examines the 27 feelings people encounter throughout their lives. Partly inspired by Ri?ards' interest in psychology, It Must Be Nice evolved from his Erasmus+ studies. While studying in Portugal, he collaborated with the publishing house Stolen Books to put together an illustrated book that details the 27 emotions scientists have i

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Free Mockups: 30 New Photoshop Mockup Templates

Graphic Design Junction

Now a days mockup design s are one of the important needs in conveying information. Free mockups with smart object are spearhead of design presentations. Mockups are not only called visual media design concept, can also be referred to as a realistic picture of a product design, or a preview of an idea that looks like its original form. There mockups are perfect for present your product design in the right way using these mockup!

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Calma Floral’s Modern + Tropical-ish Arrangements Are a Spring Dream

Design Milk

During this time of year, the desire to fill my apartment with fresh flower arrangements becomes too strong to ignore (though, who would want to?). But I often find conventional springtime bouquets – you know the ones – a little uninspired. So imagine my delight when I came across Calma Floral on my Instagram feed ( @calma_floral ). The Miami-based floral design studio creates modern, tropical-ish arrangements that bring unique shapes, colors, and whimsy to your space.

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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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Reallusion releases its ActorCore Library for NVIDIA Omniverse

Creative Bloq

Integrating 3D character and mocap animation collection with NVIDIA’s collaboration platform and asset store to simplify crowd generation for business visualisation.

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Mixing watercolour with hand-cut illustrations, the unique work of Marcel George

Creative Boom

© Marcel George. Freelance illustrator and artist Marcel George has a unique style, combining watercolour and hand-cut illustrations. Currently living and working in London, clients include Financial Times, Esquire, Stella Artois, Vanity Fair, and Penguin Random House. "I spent a lot of time in lockdown working on new styles and directions for my work," says Marcel.

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Ramadan Kareem 2022 Typography & Wallpapers

Graphic Design Junction

Ramadan Kareem 2022 mubarak to all Muslims around the globe. Ramadan is an important holy month for Muslims across the globe. It’s the month when the devils are chained, the gates of hell are closed and those of paradise are opened. It’s the month the holy prophet Muhammad ( Sallallahu alaihi wa alahi wasallam ) used to pray to witness. It’s the Blessed Month of Ramadan.

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Take 5: A Peculiar Blue Tray, Gardening Class, Stoneware Carafe + More

Design Milk

1. I was recently looking for gardening classes and came across Arthur Parksinson’s class on Create Academy. While the name of the class lured me in – “Grow A Spectacular Garden in Pots” – it was the beautifully shot videos, easy to follow lessons, and niche topics that really got me hooked. I love that the style of these educational videos feel like a BBC special; it makes me want to take all the classes, even just to have something to watch while I decompress at the end of the night.

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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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LES BULLES Corporate Identity Design by Studio Marcus Kraft

We And The Color

Studio Marcus Kraft was commissioned to design a unique corporate identity for the new Swiss champagne retailer LES BULLES. LES BULLES offers champagne and other specialties from the Champagne region of uncompromising quality. The newly designed corporate identity by Studio Marcus Kraft is characterized by its simple yet striking typography. “The logo is based on a typeface that was created in the 1920s and 30s, in the heyday of champagne.

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Paintings by Afton Brazzoni of the dramatic landscapes of the Canadian Rockies

Creative Boom

A Mountain of Memories © Afton Brazzoni. It's hard not to be inspired by the breathtaking landscapes of Canada when you've spent most of your life surrounded by them. It's what sparks most of Afton Brazzoni's oil paintings, an artist currently based in Cochrane, Alberta. Originally from the maritime province of Nova Scotia, Afton Brazzoni has a deep connection to water and rugged landscapes.

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Incredible Photo Manipulations By Anil Saxena

Graphic Design Junction

The Photoshop photo manipulation, photo editing and retouching is just not job, its passion and only digital artist and photo editing loves can understand. There are millions of photo manipulations , but some manipulation examples 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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Converse Steps Toward the Avant-Garde With A-COLD-WALL* Aeon Active CX

Design Milk

Never underestimate what a little collaborative input from the outside can do to shake things up. Such is the case of the Converse and A-COLD-WALL*’s Aeon Active CX, a collaboration manifesting in an experimental silhouette utilizing the sports brand’s established material technologies with the future-forward fashion explorations of London-based designer Samuel Ross.

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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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Online Course: Creative Concepts for Branding Projects

We And The Color

With this online course by branding and packaging studio HUMAN, you can learn how to develop a creative concept for branding projects. Alejandro Flores, founder and creative director of studio Human, specializes in developing memorable brand identities and packaging design. In this online course, you’ll learn how to conceptualize and plan a branding project to give it more objectivity and functional values.

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Ben Tallon's 'disturbingly hilarious' short stories get the spooky poster treatment

Creative Boom

Illustrator, author and podcast host Ben Tallon has released his take on suburban horror with Stories for the Apocalypse #1, an anthology collection about coping and capitulation in a rabid consumerist society. And to help bring the tales to life, Ben has been captured by photographer Daniel Allison for a series of spooky posters. Straddling both black comedy and suburban horror, Stories for the Apocalypse #1 lives up to its cheery name by containing seven character-driven stories about medical

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How to Design and Create a Logo in Procreate

Graphic Design Junction

With the growing use of the Procreate application , with is popular and accessible to a lot of people nowadays, people are starting to wonder whether or not it can be used to create logos? And you might have heard people answer yes and no to that question! Well, that really is the case! Yes and no! We are going to tell you why and how you can use procreate to create (see what we did there?

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Vitra’s New Comma System Can Transform Into All Your Office Needs

Design Milk

Throughout the pandemic, the guidelines on social distancing were always changing and evolving with every release of new information on the COVID-19 virus. The office environment would change and adapt but perhaps not quickly enough, and definitely not without stress and anxiety. Vitra’s new Comma office system helps relieve those pain points by allowing users to transform their environment easily and instantly.

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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.