Mon.Jan 29, 2024

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'The profession found me': Sol Cotti on how a dinner launched her illustration career

Creative Boom

The work of Buenos Aires-based illustrator Sol Cotti is instantly recognisable thanks to her bold use of colour, composition and characters. We caught up with her to learn how a dinner helped launch her career and why women are a recurrent subject in her work. Like most artists, editorial and commercial illustrator Sol Cotti grew up loving to draw. All through her life, she took art workshops and continued to enjoy art and design while studying communications and advertising at university.

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6 Tips for Selling Your Design Products

Designer Daily

You’ve been working tirelessly on creating your design products, and now you’re ready to share them with the world. But how do you ensure that your products don’t just sit on your digital shelf gathering virtual dust? Selling design products is not just about having a great product; it’s also about how you present it to potential buyers.

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Koto crafts a Mediterranean culinary story for Gustini

Creative Boom

A taste of 'the good life' at the heart of revitalisation brief for growing Italian food brand. Global brand and digital studio Koto has completed a new identity and built a new e-shop for the Italian food marketplace Gustini. Founded in Leipzig, the company focuses on sourcing and selling food from small Italian producers to a predominantly German audience.

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Thermal Heat Map Effect LUTs for Photo and Video

Spoon Graphics

Access All Areas members have a great collection of photo effects to download this week, courtesy of Sickboat. These Thermal LUTs can be applied to photos or video to create a surreal heat map effect with vibrant colours. There are 31 LUT presets included to provide a variety of thermal colour schemes to choose from. Being LUT files means they are compatible with all kinds of software, the effects can be easily applied to photos and images in Photoshop using the Color Lookup adjustment layer, an

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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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Illustrator Georgia Salisbury captures the delight of museum and gallery gift shops

Creative Boom

London-based illustrator Georgia Salisbury pays tribute to museum and gallery gift shops in her latest series titled Enter Through the Gift Shop. Charming, colourful and detailed, they're bound to make you see gift shops in a new light. Who doesn't love a little shop? Specially designed and stocked with a range of souvenirs, gift shops can be the perfect way to bring art to the masses; plus, they also provide a memento of a day out spent browsing masterpieces.

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15 Simple, Clean Minimal CV Resume Templates

Graphic Design Junction

Experience the excellence of our premium cv resume templates — skillfully formatted and effortlessly editable. Crafted with your success in mind, these templates are tailored to ensure you leave a lasting and impactful first impression when pursuing your dream job! Well structured CV resume templates has the power to unlock opportunities with prospective employers.

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Your Website: Your Cornerstone to Online Success

We And The Color

When it comes to digital marketing, a strong online presence is no longer a luxury but a necessity. Whether you’re a budding entrepreneur, a creative artist, or an established business, having a compelling website is the key to unlocking your online potential. And amidst the plethora of website builders available, Squarespace stands out as a beacon of simplicity, elegance, and versatility.

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Logo Design and Branding: Build an Identity

Inkbot Design

Logo Design and Branding: Build an Identity A company's logo is often the first impression people get of a brand. It's an iconic representation meant to communicate the essence of what a company stands for in a simple, memorable way. However, creating an effective logo involves more than just drawing an image. Psychology, emotion, and strategic thinking go into making logo design and branding that genuinely resonates with target audiences.

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Fall for Design With These 12 Contemporary Valentine’s Day Gifts

Design Milk

Depending on whom you ask, Valentine’s Day is a consumer holiday, nothing but a vehicle to facilitate the sales of chocolate, jewelry, and flowers – for those wondering, I prefer dark, diamonds, and dried roses. But to others, it’s an opportunity to let Roman mythology’s winged cherub and god of love inspire passion or romance in the victims of his celestial bow.

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The loss of the process in the name of progress

UX Collective

“Making it” or “making” in the creative world. “Life is about the journey. Not the outcome.” A somewhat cliché but also true statement that can be applied to both life and the work we do as creatives. “Creativity is about the journey. Not the outcome.” But in a world that tells us to produce MORE, and produce faster, the journey is taking a backseat to endless production in order to stay relevant.

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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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These Artist-Designed Umbrellas Will Brighten Dreary Days

Design Milk

Cold, dreary days are nice to enjoy if you’re planning on cozying up inside but not as much fun if you have to leave the house. Enter: the SHED RAIN Artist Series. The Portland-based company is brightening up those damp days with their capsule collection of umbrellas designed by three favorite artists: Lisa Congdon , Studio Proba , and Katie Merz. The umbrella shades reflect each artist and their unique signature style.

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Framed by Frozen Lakes, Richard Johnson’s ‘Ice Huts’ Capture Wintertime Communities in Canada

Colossal

“Ice Hut GRID #6” From the Series ‘Ice Huts’ (2007-2019). All images © Richard Johnson Photography, Inc., shared with permission Starting in late December and January when the temperatures stay consistently below freezing, bodies of water in the northern United States and Canada begin to freeze. As the ice reaches thicknesses over four inches, it becomes safe to walk on, and at more than five inches, it is usually safe for snowmobiles.

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How to Run the Ultimate Branding Workshop with Branding Exercises

Canny

Running a branding workshop is key for any business, and if you haven’t already run one before, then you definitely should. Remember: Your brand is a lot more than just your logo. Essentially it’s how customers think, feel, and act whenever they come into contact with your brand,and it should drive them to take action. However, achieving this is a different story.

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A Renovated House Gives Nod to 1970s Polish Modernism

Design Milk

In Katowice, Poland, a house from the 1970s has undergone quite a renovation, thanks to architect Grzegorz Layer. Spread across 225 square meters (approximately 2,422 square feet), this terraced house has been meticulously redesigned to embrace a contemporary, open-plan layout while paying homage to the classic aesthetics of 1970s Polish modernism. The comprehensive renovation involved a myriad of changes to the structure.

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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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'Hail Mary' Gets a Whole New Meaning with This Design Agency’s Shiny Votive Candles

The Die Line

Dieline is a global package design community and showcase of package design inspiration. We cover industry news, sustainable packaging news, design trends, and host our own packaging conferences, package design events, and Dieline packaging design awards.

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Day Job Helps SummerFall Make Sake an Anywhere, Anytime Beverage

The Dieline

Dieline is a global package design community and showcase of package design inspiration. We cover industry news, sustainable packaging news, design trends, and host our own packaging conferences, package design events, and Dieline packaging design awards.

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14 Culinary Gems from the 2024 Winter Fancy Food Show

The Die Line

Dieline is a global package design community and showcase of package design inspiration. We cover industry news, sustainable packaging news, design trends, and host our own packaging conferences, package design events, and Dieline packaging design awards.

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Design without process, or the form factor trap

UX Collective

Visuals are a core part of the design process, but they can also conceal incomplete thinking. Without establishing conceptual fidelity through tools like the primary user benefit, designers risk creating negative value for their teams. This is part of an article series (starting here ) exploring how every participant in the software design process can apply design decision-making methods to the way we organize teams, plan work, and build products, rather than just to the products themselves.

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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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Selected works by Richard Misrach

This is Paper

Richard Misrach, an artist profoundly engaged with the ever-evolving narrative of human interaction with the landscape, stands as a pivotal figure in contemporary photography.

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Tal Uliel blends analogue and digital techniques in his new animation for instrumental artist Soul Supreme

Its Nice That

Drawing on the colours and textures of risograph printing, the Jerusalem-based artist creates a heady journey through time and space.

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Switchboard’s rebrand masters modern LGBTQIA+ branding

Creative Bloq

The support line has heritage at its heart.

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A Mammoth Book Catalogs a Vibrant Spectrum of Color Charts Spanning 600 Years

Colossal

Detail of Astrolin Color Card, Établissement Georget Fils Peintures Laquées et Vernis, Chantenay-Lès-Nantes (c. 1906). Image courtesy of Bibliothèque Forney, Paris. All images courtesy of Princeton University Press, shared with permission From chemists’ plant-derived dyes to consumer paint swatches displayed at the hardware store, the history of color charts reflects a varied relationship between pigments, science, culture, and commerce.

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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 Warmth of Imperfection

Communication Arts

Illustrator, character designer and stop-motion animator Taili Wu discusses the advantages that stop-motion’s tactility has for connecting brands with their audience.

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A Portfolio: Sam3

Juxapoz Magazine

On today's A Portfolio, we take a look at the career-spanning output of Spanish street artist, Sam3. We recently posted a video edit that Sam3 made, and it got us thinking about his great murals, street pieces, illustrations and installations. He has always kept it simple in terms of colors choices, but there is a huge and dramatic concept behind the simplicity.

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DuPlay Font Family by Dutype Foundry

We And The Color

Unveiling the Power of DuPlay: A Revolution in Typeface Design. In the dynamic realm of font design, where creativity meets functionality, one name has been making waves since its inception in late 2023 – the DuPlay font family by Dutype Foundry. Crafted by the visionary Darman Kadir, DuPlay stands as a serifless marvel influenced by iconic Swiss typefaces such as Helvetica, yet forging its path to redefine the landscape of contemporary design.

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Quil Lemons, Shane Fu and more: Tickets now available for February’s Nicer Tuesdays in New York!

Its Nice That

Our third event in New York is rapidly approaching! Grab tickets to hear talks from some of the most exciting creatives across photography, motion design and more.

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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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Duncan Jones' new Rogue Trooper movie will use Unreal Engine 5

Creative Bloq

The 2000AD strip gets Epic.

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Marc Jacobs is Back at It Again with the Limited-Edition Daisy Flanker Pop

The Dieline

Dieline is a global package design community and showcase of package design inspiration. We cover industry news, sustainable packaging news, design trends, and host our own packaging conferences, package design events, and Dieline packaging design awards.

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I can see why Sony decided not to use these radical logo redesigns

Creative Bloq

The brand could have looked very different.

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Spectacular Nature Drone-Winning Photos From The 2023 Fine Art Photography Awards

Design You Trust

Mallards Facing Winter by Omar Ghrayeb These are the gorgeous images that won in the Fine Art Photography Awards 2023 Professional Nature Drone/Aerial category. Leading a new wave of trends in the field of photography, the Fine Art Photography Awards are one of the most prestigious awards given to artists. This competition, which was founded in 2014, is a hub where enthusiasm, inquisitiveness, an appreciation for artistic beauty, and a cosmic acceptance of photographic diversity come together.

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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.