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Bauhaus Graphic Design: Past, Present, and Future

Inkbot Design

From 1919 to 1933, the Bauhaus united fine arts and crafts to create practical yet beautiful designs for the machine age. Bauhaus graphic designers embraced mixed-media collages, vibrant colours, and inventive typography to create posters, advertisements, magazines, and more that broke past conventions.

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Asia Orlando wants you to stop and take a closer look at her colourful, detailed illustrations

Creative Boom

In parallel with that, I started creating content on social media, talking about everything related to the illustration career, sharing and teaching as much as possible, and slowly built a personal brand that I'm proud of." The technical skills, the understanding of layout, composition, and even a bit of theory all come in handy.

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39 Must-Have Creative Assets in this Month’s Drop

Creative Market

The perfect balance of visual attraction and subtlety is achieved here. Canva Social Media Templates It’s not easy being green, but it is easy to get your Instagram in line with 30 square post templates by GLDN Studio. This Paris Mood Board creates realistic layouts with natural light, shadows, and textures.

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An In-Depth Look at Material Design

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Tactile and Tangible Surfaces Material Design draws inspiration from the physical world – ink and paper textures, shadows, edges and shapes. Surfaces recreate textures like paper. They identified three critical elements of interface layouts that could incorporate the foundational principles: surfaces, space and movement.

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11 Modern Logo Design Trends: The Future of Visual Branding

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Some benefits of simple, minimalist logo design include: Easy to recognise and remember Flexibility across different media and sizes A timeless aesthetic that withstands shifting design trends Allows the brand personality to shine through. Dimensionality adds depth and layers to a logo’s layout using principles of mathematical perspective.

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12 Psychedelic Designs and 70s Art For Posters

Creative Market

Of course, the psychedelic design movement has a long and illustrious history: it spread throughout the globe and dominated the visual arts for several years in the 1960s and 1970s. The hippie movement brought psychedelic art into life through posters, wall graffiti, and even mainstream social media.

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The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

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To help, I've compiled this list of the 37 best design books covering various specialities – from typography and layout to UX and web design. Perfect for beginners, it introduces universally applicable design concepts like proximity, alignment, contrast, scale, visual hierarchy and more across four concise chapters.