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65 Best Condensed Fonts for Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

Best condensed & narrow fonts for graphic designers offer a perfect way to create stunning, professional designs with limited space. Whether you are working on branding, advertising, or sleek UI designs, condensed fonts provide versatility and style. Their compact nature allows for impactful visuals, even in tight layouts, making them a must-have for every designer’s toolkit.

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A Tribute To Nature: Standards Manual Releases Parks 2

Design Milk

The National Parks Service has always inspired a vision of wonder for nature. Publisher Standards Manual returns with a brilliant green second edition of their first book, Parks , an anthem to graphic design in collaboration with photographer Brian Kelley , now in its fifth reprint. Parks 2 includes over 300 passages, interviews, pictures, and pamphlets, a comprehensive assortment of the often overlooked literature and structure of a storied part of American graphic design history.

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This 2024 film illustration is the ultimate test for movie buffs

Creative Bloq

Can you identify them all?

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Nicholas Galanin Hews Visions of the Present From Indigenous Knowledge, Land, and Memory

Colossal

Between 1869 and the 1960s in the U.S., thousands of Indigenous children attended at least 523 boarding schools, supported by the government and church groups that were fueled by the grim motto, “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.” Children were sent hundreds, if not thousands, of miles from their families and tribal communities, suffering horrific abuse, and in many cases, dying as a result.

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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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Superb 3D Prehistoric and Fantasy Bestiarium Creations of Florent Desailly

Design You Trust

Florent Desailly is a French freelance creature concept artist and digital sculptor based in Paris. Specializing in intricate and imaginative creature designs, his work often embodies a dark fantasy aesthetic. Desailly is self-taught, honing a distinctive style that has gained significant recognition in the digital art world. His portfolio is rich with a variety of fantastical beings, such as dragons, hydras, and other mythical creatures.

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Bletro Font by Roomspace

We And The Color

Bletro: The Cool Kid on the Block So, Bletro, huh? Its a sans-serif display font. Do you know those fonts that are meant to grab attention? This one does. You see a lot of those, right? But Bletro, it’s something else. It’s from Roomspace. Ever heard of them? They make some pretty nice stuff. Bletro has this cool combo thing going on. Its modern, but it also has a retro feel.

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This Venn diagram-inspired AI image generator is strangely satisfying

Creative Bloq

Great UI design.shame about the 'art'.

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Another Year, Another Weird Victorian New Year Greeting Cards

Design You Trust

In Victorian England, New Years cards emerged as a playful extension of the Christmas card tradition, blending creativity and humor with heartfelt wishes. Unlike Christmas cards, they were less tied to religious themes, allowing for whimsical and unusual designs that often featured symbolic imagery. Many cards included bizarre illustrations, such as anthropomorphic animals or objects, which reflected Victorian superstitions about luck and prosperity.

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Designspiration - Untitled Article

Designspiration

Saved by Dan Sim (@djs).

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Liba Spirits packaging

Communication Arts

Chad Michael rebranded Liba Spirits with a travel-inspired design that embodies adventure and place-driven storytelling.

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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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What Can Gingerbread Houses Teach Us About Architecture?

Azure Magazine

For a day or two in December, the architectural imagination migrates its medium, and the workaday tribulations of CAD, Revit and Grasshopper give way to the tactile, aromatic pleasures of cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon. From Toronto’s KPMB to the Rockwell Group, Morris Adjmi and Robert A.M. Stern, designers across North America have embraced the romance of the season, bringing an exacting eye to the gingerbread architecture of gumdrops, frosting and candy canes.

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AI can help Designers build confidence to tackle imposter syndrome

UX Collective

Imposter syndrome is a luxury UX can’t afford in a rough market Continue reading on UX Collective

Marketing 101
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Weird "biblically accurate" angels are the viral Christmas design trend of 2024

Creative Bloq

Some of these are terrifying.

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Sexy healthcare: how the most popular intimacy coach app is designed?

UX Collective

What we don’t talk about but use anyway.

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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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Is Tesla's levitating Cybertruck a sign of things to come?

Creative Bloq

The levitating Cybertruck seems to be a hit.

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Striking Forms and Inky Hues Define This Vancouver Residence

Design Milk

Some of Canadas most darling design vernacular is recorded within the historic walls of urban dwellings that continue to endear audiences. Architect Biran OBrian of WORKS OFFICE , in collaboration with interior designer Gillian Segal , adds to the countrys rich architectural accomplishments with a charming residential renovation project in Vancouvers enviable Annex neighborhood.

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The 5 best VFX movies of 2024

Creative Bloq

From Dune to Alien Romulus and Wicked, it was great year for CGI in movies.

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Yellowbird by Gander

BP&O

Sauces, oils, seasonings and condiments are consistently thriving categories in direct-to-consumer packaged goods. These high-margin, shelf-stable products can be easily differentiated with unique flavours and ingredients, and have high branding potential that can quickly adapt to trends. Right now, hot sauce its having its moment, with celebrities from Ed Sheeran to Brooklyn Beckham jumping on the band wagon, following trailblazers The post Yellowbird by Gander appeared first on BP&O - Bran

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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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Never forget when Sega released the best Christmas art of all time

Creative Bloq

Ah, what a beautiful family portrait.

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Top 10 Style and Fashion Posts of 2024

Design Milk

10. SIAN Design Generates Modern Fine Jewelry Using Algorithms Digitized algorithms and 3D modeling help fine jewelry brand SIAN design precisely crafted sculpture, featuring delicate lattices forming bands, bracelets, and pendants. These exquisitely interlocking forms are crafted using 3D prints to create wax molds, which will then be used for production.

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"I was able to create this portrait much faster than I usually do," says character artist of his piece 'Stop right there, criminal scum!’

Creative Bloq

This character artist used ZBrush to craft a tough guy that strikes a pleasing balance between cartoony and realistic

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Beautiful Vintage Ad Posters of Toiletries in the Early 20th Century

Design You Trust

Early 20th-century toiletries advertising combined ornate Art Nouveau designs and evolving consumer culture to promote purity, luxury, and hygiene through elegant visuals and catchy slogans. By the 1910s and 1920s, the focus shifted to health and personal care, emphasizing hygiene as essential for well-being. h/t: vintag.

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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.

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HP Envy x360 15 review: affordable 2-in-1 laptop covers (most of) the creative basics

Creative Bloq

This convertible laptop is a good, if bulky, option for creatives on the go.

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The 6 Most Intriguing Sculptures at Art Basel Miami 2024

Design Milk

Art Basel Miami Beach didn’t disappoint this year, with 286 galleries from 38 countries presenting thousands of beautiful, shocking, confounding, and famous contemporary artworks. Six sculptures made me pause longer than my planned schedule (with so much to see, I keep a timer on my watch for every aisle to make sure I can see it all in a 7-hour day).

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More time on the plane, but more flights arriving early

FlowingData

By just about every metric, flights are slower now than they were 30 years ago. However, the percentage of flights that arrive early is higher, based on an analysis by Ben Blatt for NYT’s Upshot. Why do todays flights arrive early more often, even though theyre slower? Airlines have extended their scheduled flight durations even more than the flights have lengthened in actual duration.

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Happy Holidays from Azure!

Azure Magazine

Another year of design has come to a close. Azure marked some exciting milestones this year: Along with publishing special issues dedicated to community , culture and climate change , we also led the inaugural edition of our Human/Nature conference on sustainability and design in November. A 2025 edition of the conference is set to return to Toronto next fall, and our call for proposals to present is currently open until January 24.

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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.