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F5: Misha Milovanovich on Her Serbian Roots, Psychology + Film

Design Milk

Growing up in the country meadows of Belgrade, Serbia, while cultivating greenhouses on her family’s farm laid a solid foundation for artist Misha Milovanovich’s enduring connection with plants, animals, and nature. Her grandmother, the village shaman, shared her knowledge of plant medicine, healing, and connecting with the land through old Slavic mythology and beliefs.

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40 Best Minimalistic WordPress Themes for 2024 (Free and Paid)

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Not everyone appreciates complexity in design. Extravagant banners, sliders , and various elements can detract from your content. A minimalistic, uncluttered site design lets your work take center stage, unencumbered by unnecessary embellishments. These streamlined themes are ideal for presenting your work neatly and clearly. That’s precisely why this compilation highlights 40 sleek and minimalistic WordPress Themes suitable for a range of purposes including blogging, portfolios, photography sit

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How to Know You Are Hiring the Right Graphic Designer

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How to Know You Are Hiring the Right Graphic Designer Hiring a graphic designer can be a challenging process. With so many options, how do you know which fits your project and needs? This comprehensive guide will walk you through the key things to look for when evaluating the right graphic designer to ensure you find someone reliable, skilled, and aligned with your goals.

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Last chance to claim a free Figma Pro subscription with our UX design course

Creative Bloq

This limited-time offer for new students on our online UX Design Foundations course ends soon.

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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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Logo Design Guide: Crafting an Impactful Brand Identity

Inkbot Design

Logo Design Guide: Crafting an Impactful Brand Identity A logo is often the first impression your brand makes on potential customers. An effective logo conveys what your company stands for and creates an emotional connection with your audience. However, designing an iconic logo takes skill and strategic thinking. This comprehensive logo design guide covers everything you need to know about creating logos that build brand recognition. 15-Step Professional Logo Design Guide 1.

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Emmanuelle Moureaux Honors the Bulgari Serpenti With “100 Colors”

Design Milk

Tokyo-based French architect, artist, and designer Emmanuelle Moureaux is known for her 100 Colors installations that take visitors on a sensorial visual journey. After her first project in 2013, Moureaux went on to design 49 more iterations for the series (including The National Art Center in Tokyo ), with her latest installation created for Italian luxury brand Bulgari.

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Onward Coffee's Lively Packaging Blend of Energy, Vibrancy, and Quality

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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How to Calibrate a Monitor: Guide for Designers

Inkbot Design

How to Calibrate a Monitor: Guide for Designers If you're a designer, calibrating your monitor is crucial for ensuring colour accuracy and consistency across devices. An uncalibrated monitor can lead to all sorts of issues down the road that end up costing you time and money. It can sound intimidating to calibrate a monitor if you've never done it, so I put this guide together to walk you through the entire process step-by-step.

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Protecting Your Designs: How VPNs Safeguard Your Creative Work

Graphic Design Junction

If you are an artist or designer, your work is how you make a living. It’s the product of your creativity, talent, and hard work. Naturally, you would want to protect it from being stolen, pirated, and accessed illegally by others. Fortunately, there are tools that can help you safeguard your designs, and one of the most effective ones is a VPN (Virtual Private Network).

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The Hagstones: A Modern-Meets-Industrial Family of Tables

Design Milk

Established in North East England in 2014, the NOVOCASTRIAN brand is reknown for its metal work and craftsmanship, as well as an immense pride in their shipbuilder and coal miner ancestors of the industrial revolution. Founders and brothers, Richy and Paul Almond, seek to reimagine the age-old craft in today’s modern world through the use of raw, honest materials that are handmade into lighting and furniture suited for everyday life.

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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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9 Worst Nightmares for Web Developers

HONGKIAT

Many believe that being a web developer is a breeze, envisioning us merely tapping away at the keyboard in the comfort of our homes, a steaming cup of coffee or tea within reach. Yet, they don’t see the complex and often chaotic world inside the computer screen. Almost every developer will attest to encountering similar challenges: the worst-case scenarios, the stuff of nightmares; those moments that feel like cruel jokes – sometimes, the thought of escaping it all is temptingly easier.

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Concepting a Career: How Awards Can Get You Design Studio Attention

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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A Professional Magazine Template with Orange Accents

We And The Color

Dive into the Vibrant World of Grkic Creative’s Orange-Accented Magazine Template! In the dynamic realm of design, a well-crafted magazine template can be a game-changer, bringing life and vibrancy to your content. Enter Grkic Creative’s latest creation, a stunning magazine template adorned with captivating orange accents, meticulously designed using Adobe InDesign.

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Heads Up, Designers: Late Registration Ends NEXT WEEK

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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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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Pabean Market Font by Nasir Udin

We And The Color

Unveiling the Pabean Market Font: A Fusion of History, Futurism, and Festivity In typography, where every curve and line tells a story, Nasir Udin’s Pabean Market font emerges as a captivating narrative of Surabaya’s rich history. Established in 1849, the Pabean Market in Indonesia stands as a testament to the city’s enduring spirit, and Nasir Udin’s font pays homage to this iconic market’s timeless inscription.

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The new Tenet poster has restored my faith in poster design

Creative Bloq

Finally they’re beautiful again.

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Weekly News for Designers ? 727

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Happy Birthday, Macintosh Forty years ago, Apple introduced the world to the Macintosh computer. Free Instagram Story Templates A collection of Instagram Story templates for Photoshop, Figma, Sketch, After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Final Cut Pro. 12 Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades Learn about the CSS properties to enhance your projects, reduce technical debt, eliminate JavaScript, and improve the UX.

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These Project Snorlax illustrations have won my heart

Creative Bloq

It’s everyone’s favourite sleepy guy.

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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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The Curvilinear Nomvdic Projector Wants to Be Noticed

Design Milk

The Nomvdic P2000UST-RGB is both a mouthful of a name and a bit of an outlier in the realm of home theater. Most ultra short throw projectors – like the LG CineBeam or the recent Benjamin Hubert designed XGIMI Mira – aspire toward a tastefully modern presence intended to blend into the home. But the California-based Nomvdic offers a boldly conspicuous design paired with an array of top tier features optimized to deliver a 100-inch 4K home theater experience from less than 7-inches away.

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Enormous Animals with Divine Powers Populate Kanako Abe’s Dreamy Papercuts

Colossal

All images © Kanako Abe, shared with permission “My intention is to invite the viewers to feel like they’re in a little story theater when they look at my art,” says Kanako Abe about her latest series. The Seattle-based artist is known for her elegant Kirie works , which feature intricate compositions of flora and fauna carved from single sheets of paper.

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IND Architects' Sleek Minimalist Web Design Unveiled

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IND Architects' Sleek Minimalist Web Design Unveiled abduzeedo 0126—24 Explore IND Architects' minimalist web design, a masterful blend of simplicity and elegance, enhancing user experience and showcasing their architectural prowess. IND Architects, a Moscow-based architectural bureau founded in 2008, has recently made waves in the design community with their latest minimalist web design.

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Primary Colors and Dappled Textures Give Muhammad Fatchurofi’s Illustrations a Trippy, Nostalgic Feel

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“Leap.” All images © Muhammad Fatchurofi, shared with permission Semarang, Indonesia-based artist Muhammad Fatchurofi translates the dappled, grainy textures of the printing press into his vivid illustrations. Whether sketching on paper or digitally, Fatchurofi gravitates toward surreal, mind-bending scenes tinged with nostalgia that he renders in bright, bold shades of primary colors.

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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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JDO's Vibrant Visual Identity for Cucina Moderna Pasta Sauces

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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Studio Linear's Florette Design Highlights Cannabis Brand's Multi-Generational History and Appeal

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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Graphic ExchanGE a selection of graphic projects #layout #magazine #typography

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Saved by Tamas Velociraptor Horvath (@notwo).

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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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Unlocking YouTube Success: Marija Dzemionaite’s Ultimate Channel Growth Strategy Course

We And The Color

When talking about digital content, YouTube stands out as a powerhouse for brand expansion and audience engagement. Aspiring content creators and established brands alike are constantly seeking ways to crack the code to YouTube success. Enter Marija Dzemionaite, a social media maestro with a proven track record across diverse industries, including collaborations with giants like Spotify, Tom Ford Beauty, MAC, and Jr NBA.

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Loud_Coffee Branding #coffee #branding #typography

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Saved by Emily Weigel (@emilyweigel).

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Artist Spotlight: Junwoo Park

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A selection of work by South Korean artist Junwoo Park.

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Cozmo Cafe #menu #design

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Saved by Jennifer Yung (@jenniyung).

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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.