Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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Designer Daily

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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Spoon Graphics

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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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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Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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HONGKIAT

JANUARY 29, 2024

Boost your creativity with our guide to the best sites for free Photoshop brush sets. Photoshop, a powerhouse graphics editing tool , becomes even more versatile with brushes, allowing you to add texture, depth, and an artistic touch to your work. These brush sets are essential for anyone looking to enhance their photos, create stunning graphics, or add that perfect artistic stroke.

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We And The Color

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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Design Milk

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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UX Collective

JANUARY 29, 2024

“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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Advertiser: Issuu

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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Colossal

JANUARY 29, 2024

“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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Canny

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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Design Milk

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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The Die Line

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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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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Design Milk

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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The Die Line

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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This is Paper

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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The Dieline

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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UX Collective

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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Creative Bloq

JANUARY 29, 2024

The support line has heritage at its heart.

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Its Nice That

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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Colossal

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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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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Communication Arts

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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Juxapoz Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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We And The Color

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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Its Nice That

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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Creative Bloq

JANUARY 29, 2024

The 2000AD strip gets Epic.

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The Dieline

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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Creative Bloq

JANUARY 29, 2024

The brand could have looked very different.

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Design You Trust

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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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.

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