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Laura Stein on the Five Books that shaped her approach to design, branding, and sustainability

Creative Boom

From groundbreaking ideas on sustainability to the art of personal and systemic change, these are the reads that continue to shape her creative journey. It's been quite a while since we last explored the inspiring world of book recommendations from leading creatives across the globe, but we're excited to bring the series back with a fresh perspective.

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The 3D-Printed Haibu Lamps Get an Assist From Gravity

Design Milk

In the world of ceramics, 3D printing has revolutionized design and production, offering levels of precision that are difficult to achieve by hand. Whether one prefers the traditional craftsmanship of ceramics or embraces the modern advancements of 3D printing, the results are undeniably impressive. Among these innovations are the Haibu suspension lamps, designed by Vittorio Paradiso for Paolo Castelli , one of Italy’s leading furniture manufacturers.

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Bala crafts a radical label for category-first grasshopper beer

Creative Boom

GOSE required an identity as unique as its product, which Bala delivered through semi-abstract illustrations and an acidic colour palette that reflects the beer's salty flavour. Designing a product that consumers haven't seen before is challenging enough, but when the main ingredient is an insect, it becomes even more important to make the identity appealing and desirable.

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30+ Essential Wedding Stationery Templates for Photoshop

SpeckyBoy

Weddings are joyous occasions that create fond memories. It’s one reason why we love to hang on to keepsakes from the day. Each memento is a reminder of good times. Perhaps there’s no better keepsake than wedding stationery. The feel of the paper, the elegant fonts , and the carefully selected color scheme tell a story. It’s no wonder we put so much effort into making them perfect.

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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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Blond develops sustainable and luxurious packaging for Daisyface

Creative Boom

Innovation is at the heart of this packaging solution, with an outer vessel designed to be on show in your home and inner packaging made from daisy seed paper that can be composted or watered to grow daisies. Industrial design studio Blond has designed a series of striking yet minimalistic refillable packaging pieces for skincare brand Daisyface, creating a product that consumers are proud to have on their beauty shelves.

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Calico Wallpaper Makes Gold With Alchemy and Enchantment

Design Milk

Since 2013, Calico Wallpaper has presented the finest, most immersive wall murals on the market. Their new collection is in collaboration with Kindergarten teacher and Early Childhood Educator Janene Ping. Ping, who maintains a prolific natural dyeing practice, aims to highlight the balance and beauty of nature. Teaching at the Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School for thirty years has given her the insight and sensitivity needed to foster a love for the great outdoors in our little ones.

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I just saw an Adobe MAX demo of Illustrator's new AI tool, and now I want to get back into vector art

Creative Bloq

You can now easily convert images to vectors, including 3D models.

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Bella Figura Real Wedding: Bilingual Gatefold Invitations with Floral Accents

Press'd

We had the absolute pleasure of working with Shannon and Cesar through our NYC studio to create their beautiful invitation and program. We’ll let Shannon take it from here to share more about their wedding details! CAN YOU SHARE WITH US A BIT ABOUT YOUR WEDDING AND YOUR INSPIRATION FOR THE EVENT? Our wedding took place this past August in San Francisco, CA.

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Lloyds Bank Rebrand: A New Era of Mobile Banking Excellence

We And The Color

Lloyds Bank , the UK’s largest retail and commercial financial services provider, has embarked on a new creative direction with the launch of its most extensive multi-channel campaign to date. This marks a significant shift under its new brand positioning, “Lloyds Moves Everyone Forward.” The campaign highlights the refreshed and rebranded mobile banking app, created in collaboration with global creative agency adam&eveDDB and brand consultancy Wolff Olins.

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Adobe announces over 100 new features across Creative Cloud, including text-to-video

Creative Bloq

More AI expansion in Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and more.

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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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Hillcrest House Offers an Affordable, Solar-Powered Escape in the West Catskills

Design Milk

Edifice Upstate is redefining sustainable living in the Western Catskills with its latest architectural venture, Hillcrest House. Specializing in the design and development of eco-conscious, solar-powered homes, Edifice Upstate merges modern design with cutting-edge green technology, offering residents a unique opportunity to live in harmony with nature.

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Choice is not the enemy

UX Collective

When “don’t make users choose” is a lie — a crazy housing experience case from New York. Interface by author Why do we think that users don’t want to think? Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think was published 24 years ago and became a must-read for anyone in UX. The idea of creating interfaces that require minimal effort from users was groundbreaking at the time.

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Branding: How Traditional Japanese Aesthetics Breathe New Life

Abduzeedo

Branding: How Traditional Japanese Aesthetics Breathe New Life abduzeedo 1014—24 Discover how Studio.Design branding project with traditional Japanese aesthetics to connect with a global audience. Explore the concepts of "ma", "tatami", and "iki" in branding. Studio.Design teamed up with Nuevo.Tokyo to rebrand Japan’s largest no-code website builder, with over 500k global users and backed by IDEO/D4V.

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A Clean White Paper Template by GraphicArtist for Adobe InDesign

We And The Color

The white paper template designed by GraphicArtist for Adobe InDesign offers a perfect balance between professionalism and minimalism. Its clean and modern layout comprises 16 pre-designed pages, all formatted in the versatile A4 size. Each page showcases a thoughtful blend of typography, grid-based layouts, and whitespace, allowing the content to breathe without overwhelming the reader.

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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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Typography for the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts draws from its distinctive architecture

Its Nice That

The visual identity by local design studio Block is highly adaptable and site-specific, to transfigure according to each exhibition as well as the institution’s evolution.

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Powerful animal charity ads illuminate the healing power of pets

Creative Bloq

TheraPaws provides a light at the end of the tunnel.

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Pebble's Branding: A Visual Identity for the Future

Abduzeedo

Pebble's Branding: A Visual Identity for the Future abduzeedo 1014—24 Discover how Ashfall Studio crafted a captivating branding and visual identity for Pebble, a California-based electric travel trailer startup. Ashfall Studio has recently partnered with Pebble, a California-based startup founded by pioneers from Apple, Tesla, and Zoox, to develop a captivating branding and visual identity for their innovative electric travel trailer.

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A Leap in the Sun with the Nikon Z 9!

Joe McNally

The desert is unforgiving in many ways. Dust, heat shimmer, and a sun strength that takes no prisoners. Applying flash lighting, you know, the average kind of flash power we would generally deem “enough” for a regular job, well, that can feel like spitting in the wind. Unless you can access the Profoto Pro-11 pack , which is 2400ws of a slam-dunk Pop!

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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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Us By Night’s return is a raucous and rousing success

Its Nice That

Antwerp’s riverside saw three days of inspiring creative talks, combined with a healthy dose of ping pong and pole dancing. Us By Night festival is officially back – with a resounding bang.

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This candle features an unfortunate design oversight

Creative Bloq

Bath and Body Works is in hot water.

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Cutler’s Black and White World of A Dog, Two Hands, and a Lot of Meaning

Graphis

Craig Cutler is no stranger to creating striking, high-contrast black-and-white images that carry a deeper meaning. In. The post Cutler’s Black and White World of A Dog, Two Hands, and a Lot of Meaning appeared first on Graphis Blog.

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'Caspian' by Khashayar Javanmardi — Thisispaper

This is Paper

In his photobook 'Caspian', Khashayar Javanmardi captures the profound transformation of the Caspian Sea, illustrating how environmental changes have become intertwined with the lives and stories of those who rely on its dwindling beauty.

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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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The Blimp

Communication Arts

Isabel Moranta and Yannis Yannakopoulos discuss their redesign of "The Blimp," a personal music catalog, focusing on user-friendly navigation and a post-rock-inspired visual style.

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I tried Photoshop's new Distraction Removal AI tool, with mixed results

Creative Bloq

Designed for photo editing, definitely not for art (yet).

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MacDonald Photography Brochure #spread #layout

Designspiration

Saved by Chia Schmitz (@chiaschmitz).

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Why creating advertising for the modern world feels impossible

Creative Bloq

How can we succeed in such a disconnected mediascape?

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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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“Nostalgia is designing with neon-tinted glasses”

Design Week

There’s nothing more ageing than realising that me liking the 1960s in the 1990s, is the mirror of youth liking the 1990s in the 2020s. How the hell did that happen? It got me thinking about nostalgia. In our fast-moving times, it’s become a hot topic of political and cultural debate.

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the_drums-logo2 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! #drums #design #the #vintage #bensky

Designspiration

Saved by zuzyb (@zuzyb).

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The Nothing Ear (open) Earbuds Aren’t Just See-Through

Design Milk

Smartphone and accessory brand Nothing is bringing its iconic transparent tech design to a new pair of earbuds. While the company already offers the Nothing Ear and the Nothing Ear (a) wireless earbuds, it’s now bringing the same formula to the new Nothing Ear (open) earbuds, which, as the name suggests, offer an open-ear design that allows you to hear your surroundings while jamming out to your favorite tunes.

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Design systems: simplifying documentation writing

UX Collective

Where to start and how to approach it One of the toughest parts of creating a design system might not be what you expect. Getting a design or development team to use it is generally straightforward; after all, who doesn’t want to make their job easier in the long run? Sure, the upfront cost might be high, but that’s an easy sell. No, the toughest part is the documentation.

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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.