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Artisan wine label designs by Fen Acey craft a narrative through collage and typography

Creative Boom

This side project by Fen Acey combines her love of food and drink packaging with collage and elegant typography to create beautiful and original artisan wine label designs. Fen Acey is a freelance graphic designer based in the North East of England with a passion for the food and drinks industry.

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Interview with Michelle Crocker, Shillington Graduate and Freelance Designer for Film and TV

Shillington

Before taking on Shillington’s graphic design course , Manchester graduate Michelle Crocker was already a graphic designer. Though, despite a degree in graphic design, she found herself lacking the real life design skills she needed to land herself a design job. Impressive stuff.

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How Cranbrook’s Design Program Redefined How We Make and Talk About Graphic Design

Eye on Design

I want to add my own hyperbole to the list: For the last 50 years, the students at Cranbrook have continually produced some of the most interesting, unusual, and theoretically rigorous graphic design anywhere in the world. . Graphic design’s history in the academy is hard to trace, but it was clearly there at the outset.

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Is social media for self-promotion over? Creatives reveal their honest thoughts

Creative Boom

I've given up on Instagram," complains freelance book cover designer Alex Kirby. "I I see Instagram and Twitter as a way to connect with and support other artists," says freelance animator and illustrator Rosie Phillpot. I search 'freelance animator' and filter to posts to find shoutouts. I do the same.".

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100 Amazing Graphic Designers to Follow on Instagram

Shillington

Chikako Oguma is a Japanese Art Director and Designer who showcases some of her work on her Instagram—definitely worth a follow for her wonderful minimal aesthetic. Hailing from Rome, Italy, Pápay Fanny is a freelance designer whose feed is an explosion of colour! Wyatt Welles. Kraitip Sivakriskul. Pápay Fanny. Totally Okay.

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50 Best Design Blogs You Have To Read (2023 Update)

Shillington

One of the best things about graphic design is that it never stands still for a moment. That’s where design blogs come in. Some of these are specific to one industry or discipline, some are broad and wide-ranging, and we’ve also included a few company blogs that have useful insights for designers as a whole.

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Women’s History Month–Redefining Their Fields

Thinking Design

S öre Popitz (1896-1993) The Bauhaus’ only known woman graphic designer, Popitz distinguished herself from her male peers, embellishing her designs with blocky characters that depicted a uniquely female experience unseen in commercial advertising at the time.