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

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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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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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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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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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Apparently the OnlyFans logo is too raunchy for the cricket pitch

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Channel 4 celebrates the return of Educating Yorkshire with a schoolchildren-led “takeover”

Its Nice That

This Dougal Wilson-helmed ad for Educating Yorkshire showcases the lawlessness of school children's imagination in a dazzling collaboration that involves everything from science, art, music and dance.

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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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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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DeVito/Verdi Builds a Better Trade School Commercial

Graphis

Forget everything you know about vocational school commercials. For Lincoln Tech, the team at DeVito/Verdi threw out. The post DeVito/Verdi Builds a Better Trade School Commercial appeared first on Graphis Blog.

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An Inflatable Building Recreates the Iconic Mecca Flats at the Heart of Chicago’s Black Renaissance

Colossal

As the World’s Fair loomed on Chicago’s horizon, architects Willoughby J. Edbrooke and Franklin Pierce Burnham built a 98-unit hotel to house visitors. After the exposition was finished, the Romanesque Revival building with a large central courtyard was converted into apartments and became known as Mecca Flats. Chicago adhered to strict segregation codes in the 19th century, and Mecca Flats, located in the Bronzeville neighborhood at 3360 S.

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25 SEO Myths Debunked: What Actually Works

Inkbot Design

📖 Reading Time: 5 minutes 🏷️ Categories: Design, Branding, Marketing 📅 Published: [DATE] 25 SEO Myths Debunked: What Actually Works Most of the SEO advice you read is garbage. It’s a sea of conflicting information, outdated tactics from 2010, and self-proclaimed gurus selling “secrets” that do more harm than good. For a business owner, it’s a nightmare.

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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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An Inflatable Building Recreates the Iconic Mecca Flats at the Heart of Chicago’s Black Renaissance

Colossal

As the World’s Fair loomed on Chicago’s horizon, architects Willoughby J. Edbrooke and Franklin Pierce Burnham built a 98-unit hotel to house visitors. After the exposition was finished, the Romanesque Revival building with a large central courtyard was converted into apartments and became known as Mecca Flats. Chicago adhered to strict segregation codes in the 19th century, and Mecca Flats, located in the Bronzeville neighborhood at 3360 S.

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Piel – Human skin as a living map

Creative Applications

Get full content RSS Feed Piel is a web-art project that treats human skin as a living map. It uses ChatGPT for image generation to create a sequence of portraits depicting aging, and custom WebGL shaders for rendering mouse effects in real-time. Read More CreativeApplications.Net is a community supported website. If you enjoy content on CAN, please become a member.

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This plantable photobook was designed to grow out of the ground

Its Nice That

A material exploration of fading memories and finding belonging, Ewelina Bialonszewska has designed a family photo album that allows her to put down her Polish roots wherever she goes.

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If I were still a student, I'd buy these 4 monitor deals (with up to $450 off)

Creative Bloq

Whether you're a gamer, a design student, or simply need a display for Netflix - these options tick a lot of boxes.

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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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Multi-year itch

FlowingData

The seven-year itch suggests that people grow dissatisfied with marriage and long-term relationships at the seven-year mark. If that’s true, one might expect divorce rates to suddenly go up at that time, too. Results, based on the data, appear mixed.

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

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Raw.Space – An experimental ecosystem for relational futures

Creative Applications

Get full content RSS Feed Raw.Space is a living digital ecosystem exploring relationality, interdependence, and alternative ways of being. Instead of a linear website, it unfolds as an open landscape of interconnected fields. Read More CreativeApplications.Net is a community supported website. If you enjoy content on CAN, please become a member.

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

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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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ACID Café P-Berg by Studio Plantea — Thisispaper

This is Paper

With its second location, Madrid-based specialty coffee brand Acid Café settles into Berlin—this time in the heart of Prenzlauer Berg, in a space designed by Studio Plantea.

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This crazy retro game unleashes an artistic enemy

Creative Bloq

Bullet hell shooters have never looked so artistic.

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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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Eminem just proved why the popcorn bucket trend needs to die

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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.