Tue.Aug 12, 2025

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An InDesign Moodboard Presentation Template for Visual Storytelling

We And The Color

An InDesign moodboard presentation template can transform your creative vision into a compelling narrative. It bridges the gap between abstract ideas and concrete design. This specific template, designed by Adobe Stock contributor RedGiant , offers a sophisticated framework for this crucial process. It provides a structured yet flexible canvas to articulate your brand’s essence.

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Bito reimagines FOCASA circus with a tech-driven identity for its 15th anniversary

Abduzeedo

Bito reimagines FOCASA circus with a tech-driven identity for its 15th anniversary ibby 08/12 — 2025 Bito reimagines FOCASA circus branding with a tech-driven, dynamic identity—blending motion design, branding, and whimsy for its 15th anniversary. Step right up! Taiwan’s FOCASA circus has a brand-new look, and it’s one worth a standing ovation. For its 15th anniversary, the creative acrobats at Bito have reimagined the brand’s identity, blending technology and performance in a dynamic system tha

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Wild Tale Display Font Duo by Stable

We And The Color

Crafting Authentic Charm in a Digital Age with the Wild Tale Fonts In a design landscape increasingly focused on authenticity, the Wild Tale font duo by Stable emerges as a compelling solution. This pair of hand-drawn fonts directly answers the growing demand for personality and a human touch in branding. As digital interfaces become more uniform, creative typography offers a way to stand out.

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Fold7Design brands the inaugural Freedom Games to rally global action against modern slavery

Creative Boom

Working with STOP THE TRAFFIK and Justice & Care, Fold7Design has created a captivating identity for the first Freedom Games, which aims to unite businesses and individuals to take a stand against human trafficking. Fold7Design has unveiled the branding for the first-ever Freedom Games, a new movement designed to unite people across sectors in the fight against modern slavery, which affects millions of people across the globe.

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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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Resume Templates: 32 Modern Design Resumes

Graphic Design Junction

Download high-quality modern resume templates available in multiple formats, ready to customize for your professional needs. These templates save time, maintain a clean structure, and present your skills in a clear, well-organized way. The post Resume Templates: 32 Modern Design Resumes first appeared on Graphic Design Junction.

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Does the creative industry have an ageism problem?

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock We canvased creatives from around the world about ageism… and their responses reveal a pattern that's impossible to ignore. Ageism in the creative industry is one of those things you know exists, but is rarely acknowledged. While you won't find "must be under 40" written in a job spec, ageism is hidden in plain sight; within pay bands, within image-conscious branding, and within who gets called back for a second interview.

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Nabiha Syed on how Mozilla Foundation's rebrand signals a spirit of 'defiant optimism'

Creative Boom

The executive director explains how this Pentagram-led identity avoids tech design cliches, leading to something quite different and original. After writing about design for some decades now, it sometimes feels like I've seen it all. But here's a rebrand that really made me go 'Wow!'. So I was keen to chat to Nabiha Syed, executive director of Mozilla Foundation, about how it came into being.

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2026 Typography Competition Now Open!

Communication Arts

Big News! Communication Arts proudly presents the launch of our eagerly awaited 2026 Typography Competition! Show off your extraordinary typographic skills in type-centric design, advertising, stunning typefaces, and captivating hand lettering. Save the date and submit your entries by Friday, September 12th!

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The brutal reasons why clients stop hiring you (and how to fix it)

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock We've been on both sides of the freelancing fence, and we've seen the same mistakes over and over. The good news? Once you understand the reasons, it's a lot easier to keep clients sticking around. Freelancing is never the breezy, carefree path we once imagined. It can be bloody hard work. But it's also incredibly satisfying.

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Archetypes by Stine Mikkelsen Is a Collection Born From a Single Seat

Design Milk

In 2024, Stine Mikkelsen debuted the Semble bench as part of The Mindcraft Project. Sculpted from white ash, the conceptual piece turned heads with its bold reinterpretation of the wooden dowel, scaled up and brought to center stage. What began as a singular, sculptural moment has now evolved into Archetypes , a full-fledged furniture collection that explores what happens when a gallery piece steps out of the exhibition space and into the home.

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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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Lantern rebrands 'sustainable travel' for Europe turning duty into desire

Creative Boom

The European Travel Commission and Visit Europe have unveiled a strategic repositioning by Lantern, swapping "sustainable" for "responsible" travel and flipping the script from guilt to upgrade. It's no secret that the word "sustainable" has become one of those slippery words that's full of good intentions but often becomes muddied by confusion, greenwashing, and a vague sense that it probably means paying more for less.

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Whimsical and Wild, ‘Weird Buildings’ Celebrates Architects Who Think Outside the Box

Colossal

From the now-defunct Longaberger basket company’s iconic Ohio headquarters to the distinctive Casa de Penedo — Portuguese for “boulder house” — the world has no shortage of quirky, fanciful, and just plain strange structures. Forthcoming from Hoxton Mini Press with text by Imogen Fortes, Weird Buildings celebrates more than 100 norm-busting buildings ranging from the whimsical to the wildly engineered.

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Hooptical Mirrors Created Optical Illusions With Glass Rings

Design Milk

What do you see when you look in the mirror? English designer Bethan Laura Wood explores the complexities that surround reflection and mirroring in our society, and how we can better understand who’s looking back. Hooptical for Cassina is interactive, illusory, and not what it seems at first – a poetic connection between product and idea. Featuring colorful rings that extend from the surface of the mirrors, ornamentation is on display here, a comment on how we dress up our appearances to b

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The New Old: How Sustainability and Nostalgia Are Redefining Interior Design in 2025

We And The Color

A fascinating shift is taking place within interior design. We are collectively looking to the past to thoughtfully design our future. This movement isn’t about creating sterile period-piece rooms. Instead, it is a sophisticated blend of memory and mindfulness that is fundamentally reshaping our living spaces. The result is a home that feels both deeply personal and refreshingly purposeful.

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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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9 Common Resume Mistakes and How to Fix Them

Graphic Design Junction

Many job seekers rely on resume templates to structure their applications, but even a polished layout cannot hide common mistakes. Recruiters often spend less than a minute reviewing a resume, so small errors can quickly cost you an interview. The post 9 Common Resume Mistakes and How to Fix Them first appeared on Graphic Design Junction.

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The most common living room layout mistakes, according to an interior design expert

Creative Bloq

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The CM G1 House Makes a Case for Corporeal Architecture

Design Milk

Tucked into the wooded folds of Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, somewhere between legacy and living, is the newly renovated CM G1 House by interior design and development studio Ome Dezin in partnership with L.A. based furniture and spatial designer Willett. To step inside is to join a playful dialogue nuanced in history where modernity and memory engage.

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Apparently the OnlyFans logo is too raunchy for the cricket pitch

Creative Bloq

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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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Cash & Carry’s animated wordmark for Other matches the flow and pour of a bottle of wine

Its Nice That

To coincide with the brand update for the wine supplier, Cash & Carry has crafted a Risograph zine featuring anecdotes, recipes and stories connected to sharing a bottle.

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"It’s time all men paid attention”: raunchy ad exposes the literal meaning of ‘toxic masculinity’

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5 Luxury Bathroom Products That Elevate the Everyday

Azure Magazine

If the kitchen is now the heart of the modern home, the bathroom is becoming something like the soul. In 2025, the range of aesthetic and functional possibilities has never been greater. From a full-on at home wellness retreat to exceptionally well-resolved hardware and elegantly eye-catching (pun intended) mirrors, today’s best bathroom products bring a new level of sophistication and personal identity to our most intimate spaces. 1 Kohler x Remedy Place Ice Bath If the rise of cult-favou

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Eminem just proved why the popcorn bucket trend needs to die

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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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Bowers & Wilkins Introduces the Pi8 Earbuds in Collaboration With McLaren

Design Milk

McLaren is the second-oldest active team in racing, first setting the stage for greatness at the 1966 Monaco Grand Prix. The team had no transporter or van, so they loaded the precious chassis onto a trailer attached to an American Ford Fairlane station wagon. After decades of experimentation, refinement, and engineering, McLaren is now the name synonymous with F1 racing, and with that, speed.

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Layer's industrial design elevates digital art

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Layer's industrial design elevates digital art abduzeedo 08/12 — 2025 Layer redefines digital art display with museum-grade hardware and a unique industrial design, offering a new canvas for modern artists. It's rare to see a product truly challenge the status quo, especially in the art world. For decades, digital art has lived primarily on screens never designed for it—our phones, our laptops, our TVs.

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Designing time: How digital products shape the way we live it

UX Collective

A reflection on how digital architecture shapes attention, perception of time, and the stories we carry from our lives. Photo by Murray Campbell on Unsplash about time I recently came across Gurwinder’s How Social Media Shortens Your Life , which makes a compelling case that technology isn’t just stealing our minutes, it’s reshaping our perception of time itself.

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Blind Emboss & Foil Invitation

Press'd

This invitation seamlessly blends tradition with a contemporary flair, crafting a finished piece that is both elegant and modern. This blind emboss & foil invitation came to us from our dear friend Susie of Pink House Productions. This customization is an excellent example of just how much you can alter one of our designs to fit your vision. This invitation is based on our Province design.

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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.

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Why it’s so hard to talk about preventing loss of trust with design

UX Collective

Sitemap Open in app Sign up Sign in Medium Logo Write Sign up Sign in UX Collective · Follow publication We believe designers are thinkers as much as they are makers. [link] Follow publication Member-only story Why it’s so hard to talk about preventing loss of trust with design Preventing issues is never as sexy as a miracle cure Kai Wong 5 min read · 2 hours ago -- Share Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Anna Shvets: [link] “So this is really a story about trust erosion,”

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Layers: The Art of Erik Jones

Hi-Fructose

With their color palettes like rare, tropical birds, Erik Jones’ paintings present beauty as it might exist in a vacuum. Or at least that’s the illusion. Read the entire article by Nastia Voynovskaya by clicking above. The post Layers: The Art of Erik Jones first appeared on Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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Donald Wasswa’s Delicate Wooden Creatures Emerge from a Speculative Future

Colossal

Using the wood of silk trees, ebony, and embedded copper details, Donald Wasswa conjures bold forms evocative of imagined living beings. Based in Kampala, Uganda, Wasswa explores the relationships between—and evolution of—science, technology, society, and environmental transformation. Loosely resembling tentacled jellyfish yet somewhat unsettlingly dark and sharp, his sculptures evoke a distinctive tension between familiarity and the unknown; sentient creatures and the stuff of science fiction.

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What the stopwatch missed

UX Collective

Lillian Gilbreth and the two definitions of “Better” In 1912, at a manufacturing plant in Providence, Rhode Island, two people were watching the same workers but seeing two different things. Frank Gilbreth stood with a stopwatch, tracking every movement for speed. A turn of the wrist. A step to the left. Every fraction of a second captured in a notebook.

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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.