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Designer Yannis Karlopoulos’s Work is a Celebration of Greek History and Culture

Eye on Design

I write this when I find a typewriter,” explains the influential Greek graphic designer, standing in his basement studio in the central Athens neighborhood of Petralona. Descending from street level, the first room is an assemblage of shops signs, early 2000s Macs, various bricks, and a vitrine full of supermarket product packaging.

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21 Photoshop Tutorials to Brush Up Your Photoshop Skills

HONGKIAT

Continuous skill enhancement is crucial for any seasoned graphic designer. The process is quick and only involves a few steps, making it perfect for graphic designers who need to tidy up their images for different projects. It guides you through the use of Photoshop’s Object Selection Tool and the Content-Aware Fill feature.

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Cultural appropriation: can designers ever responsibly “borrow” from other cultures?

Design Week

It was a combination of “fear and frustration” at just this issue that prompted Indian graphic designer Kawal Oberoi into launching his online Swatch Bharat platform. “I saw a beautifully hand-painted sign for Pepsi, but the next time I was there it had been replaced with just a typical Pepsi advert instead.”

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Emerging UX patterns in Generative AI experiences

UX Collective

Around the same time, Xerox PARC was developing the Graphical User Interface (GUI) , later brought to the masses by Apple in 1984 and Microsoft thereafter. UIs and potential prompts for Stable Diffusion WebUI, Midjourney, and DALL·E 3 show very different approaches to graphically representing a complex image diffusion back end.

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100 Classy Signage Design Ideas for Your Small Business

Inspiration Feed

Designers are often torn when it comes to the subject of designing signage. There’s this level of simplicity to it – at least to someone from outside the project. But for the person in charge of making the signage materialize,… The post 100 Classy Signage Design Ideas for Your Small Business appeared first on Inspirationfeed.

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Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written

Eye on Design

As Julia Born puts it much better in an interview with the Gradient : “ [Ebner] fascinates many graphic designers because she manages to capture and magically bring together typography, poetry, philosophy, politics, language, and aspects of the vernacular.” She’s what I would term a “designer’s artist.”

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How to Make an Effective Business Signage in 6 Steps

Inspiration Feed

Does your business even exist if you don’t have signage? For the vast majority of people and potential clients probably not. Having signage that embodies the philosophy and ideas behind your business is nowadays a must. Whether you exist solely…

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