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Showcasing illustration work: how to create your best portfolio

Creative Boom

How do you create a successful illustration portfolio? Most importantly, consider who will look at your portfolio and – crucially – how long they're likely to spend on it. So how you put your portfolio together should recognise that essential fact. Also, ensure you've added all the details a portfolio needs to contain.

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Print's not dead: the best magazines for graphic design inspiration

Creative Boom

Spread from the latest Type 01 magazine. Image courtesy of publisher Sit back, relax and reacquaint yourselves with the joys of devouring a beautifully designed print magazine. When was the last time you read a printed magazine? Eye Magazine Eye Magazine delves deep into the world of graphic design and visual culture.

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8 Female Graphic Designers That’ll Rock Your Socks Off

Just Creative

Paula Scher and her portfolio Louise Fili: Elegant Romance Louise Fili has a special way with food packaging and restaurant identity graphic design the world over: the old-fashioned way. Her spam email centerfold for print magazine the Vancouver Review will make you tear your hair out with jealousy.

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12 quality websites featuring mockups for your graphic design projects

Creative Boom

To stay ahead of the portfolio arms race in this social media age, finding high-quality mockups has become essential to make your designs shine. By utilising the resources provided by these 12 websites, you can help your graphic design case studies, and portfolios look even better and give yourself an edge over the competition.

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Ximena Collado on how a series of failures made her a successful fashion illustrator

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But it was a magazine cover for a publication in Peru that propelled Ximena to her first thousand followers. I never saw any representation of bigger bodies or different skin tones when I went shopping or saw a magazine ad. I was surprised by how important networking and public relations are," she says. "No

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10 best artist and illustration agents in New York City

Creative Boom

Their lineup of industry-leading illustration talent includes David Doran , an award-winning illustrator based in Falmouth who works with international brands, magazines, newspapers, festivals and publishers creating illustrations of all shapes and sizes. They are based in New York City, with offices in London, Berlin, Shanghai and Sydney.

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Dot Dot Dot Is the Most Influential Design Magazine You’ve Never Heard Of

Eye on Design

“Why another graphic design magazine?” And so begins this new magazine founded by graphic designers Peter Bil’ak, Stuart Bertollotti-Bailey, and Jürgen X. In 2005, Poynor described Dot Dot Dot as “the most stimulating and original visual culture magazine produced by designers since Emigre’s heyday in the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.”

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