Creative Boom

MAY 1, 2024

Quebec-based audio studio DOKI DOKI specialises in creating original music and sound design for video games. With the help of advertising agency No Fixed Address, it's launched with a visual identity built around sound. Sound is the unsung hero of video games. While characters, story and gameplay draw players in, effective sound design helps to bring these virtual worlds to life and make them feel rounded and more enjoyable.

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Graphic Design Junction

MAY 1, 2024

Mother’s Day, a day bathed in sunshine and the warmth of appreciation, is upon us. It’s a time to celebrate the woman who nurtured us, championed our dreams, and held our hand through life’s triumphs and tribulations. While a grand gesture is always cherished, a heartfelt card, adorned with beautiful illustrations and brimming with your love, can be the most precious token.

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Design Milk

MAY 1, 2024

We’re big (HUGE!) fans of Andrew Footit , an award-winning independent artist and designer based in the United Kingdom who focuses on modern and illustrative typography in both 2D and 3D formats. His work has reached worldwide acclaim, garnering the eyes of (and in some cases securing collaborations with) Fortune 500 companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Hyundai, Nike, and more.

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Its Nice That

MAY 1, 2024

Graphic design and illustration inspired by natural forms are on the rise. But this isn’t always a good thing, particularly when this aesthetic is being used to mask murkier environmental practices. The founders of creative studio Companion—Platform explain what it takes to approach design in a more thoughtful way.

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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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UX Collective

MAY 1, 2024

The promise of AI as a workflow accelerator for the UX process is a given. As I pointed out in a recent article is the great promise of AI is that “AI will reduce our “busy work” load by automating processes, aiding research, and so on. ” What has frustrated me is finding solid examples of AI doing just that. In a course I am developing for LinkedIn Learning I found one when I encountered the updated version of Stark’s Sidekick tool for Figma.

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Its Nice That

MAY 1, 2024

Sculpture, web design, typography – whatever Kartik turns his hand to, there is an urge to let real world influences mess with standardisation.

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Creative Bloq

MAY 1, 2024

How&How's design showcases "humanity's spiritual connection to nature"

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Design Milk

MAY 1, 2024

The team at Arcadis settled into their new home right at The Plaza Coral Gables, a new city development sprawling across 6.7 acres in the heart of Coral Gables, Florida, just outside of Miami. The company specializes in sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy services for natural and built assets globally, and needed a space for their Miami employees.

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Inkbot Design

MAY 1, 2024

Top 7 Web Design Trends in 2024 Would you believe that technology has taken over every aspect of our lives? As it’s the era of artificial intelligence, this statement is believable! The world has slowly become a technology hub, and the best design trends are here to prove it. Any savvy web design agency knows that making beautiful web pages isn’t the only way to get your website noticed.

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Design Milk

MAY 1, 2024

This year, Equiparc is celebrating 40 years of making public spaces better with their high-quality, sturdy, versatile site furniture. To mark the occasion, they’ve debuted Collection 40 , an inclusive line of utilitarian modular tables and benches whose aesthetic appeal will stand the test of time. Inspired by the success of the Urbaniti Collection released in 2021, the new series was thoughtfully designed in-house to depict fluidity and freedom of movement.

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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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Graphic Design Junction

MAY 1, 2024

A handmade Mother’s Day card is a thoughtful and unique way to show mothers how much you care. According to the article “Mother’s Day is May 8th,” a young child named Addie Harlow made the oldest Mother’s Day card about 1880, which is currently on display at the British Museum in London. Inside the card, there is a message that says, “For a Good Mama on Mothering Sunday.” This small, simple message demonstrates how much meaning a heartfelt card can have.

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SpeckyBoy

MAY 1, 2024

A web designer’s schedule can be challenging. We try to plan so that projects don’t overlap. Scrambling to launch multiple websites simultaneously isn’t ideal. But it seems like something always disrupts our carefully crafted agenda. A stalled project is often to blame. Everything is moving along – until it isn’t. Suddenly, your eager client has gone quiet.

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Creative Bloq

MAY 1, 2024

15 new pixel paintings will enter testing soon.

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Inkbot Design

MAY 1, 2024

How Branding Works: The Keys to Captivating Customers We’re surrounded by brands every day. But have you ever stopped to think about how branding works? From fancy logos to those jingles that get stuck in our heads, branding is inescapable. A good brand is like glue for your brain. It makes you feel things, creates connections, and might even make you irrationally loyal (hey there, Apple fanatics!).

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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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Colossal

MAY 1, 2024

Lisa Ericson, “ Chariot “ Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you’d like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at hello@colossal.art. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. $3,500 Artist Grants | The Hopper Prize Featured The Hopper Prize is accepting entries for Spring 2024 artist grants.

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Its Nice That

MAY 1, 2024

With a logo inspired by the museum’s site plans, a colourway that reflects Benin City’s landscape and an identity that boasts its far-reaching collection – this branding helps to connect West Africa’s budding cultural hub to the world.

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Graphic Design Junction

MAY 1, 2024

Juggling design concepts, tight deadlines, and the inevitable creative slump is not easy. For us creatives, it can seem as though our energy reserves are perpetually flirting with the red zone. But it doesn’t have to be this way. You just need to know a few tricks and methods to stay energized throughout the day. After a thorough analysis of the behavior of high performers, we learned that it all boils down to three foundational blocks – nutrition, physical activity, and time managem

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Abduzeedo

MAY 1, 2024

Branding & Visual Identity in Mood’s Café Design abduzeedo 0501—24 Explore how Mood café-bakery’s branding and visual identity break the mold with organic logos and playful patterns, enhancing customer engagement. At the intersection of creativity and culinary art, Mood café-bakery emerges with a branding and visual identity that captures both the essence of comfort food and the vibrancy of modern café culture.

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Creative Bloq

MAY 1, 2024

The new branding is a big improvement.

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Design You Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Artist, author, and animator are just some of the numerous hats that Christoph Niemann wears. There is a good chance that you have seen his art featured on the covers of prestigious publications like as The New Yorker, National Geographic, and The New York Times Magazine. Instagram, on the other hand, serves as his playground, particularly with his ‘Sunday Sketches.’ It is there that he performs his magic, transforming ordinary things into captivating images that connect with people

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Creative Bloq

MAY 1, 2024

McDonald's, Old Spice and Corona prove the best branding is multi-sensory.

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Its Nice That

MAY 1, 2024

“This project wasn’t just about creating design; it was about telling a story and inspiring the next generation of female athletes.

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Creative Bloq

MAY 1, 2024

Creating lifelike 3D clothes just became even easier.

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Abduzeedo

MAY 1, 2024

Effective Packaging Design for Fitamin’s Health Products abduzeedo 0501—24 Explore how Fitamin’s packaging design uses a Habit Tracker Grid and symbolic graphics to enhance user engagement and convey a journey of health. In the bustling market of health and wellness, Fitamin stands out with its innovative approach to packaging design, crafted by the creative minds at ORDINARY PEOPLE Studio.

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Creative Bloq

MAY 1, 2024

The people yearn for hand drawn animation.

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Design You Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Remember Ronald McDonald? That clown who used to be the star of McDonald’s before clowns got the reputation of being the nightmarish creatures from a horror flick. Well, we got curious about what he’s been up to these days. So, someone asked an AI for an update. Turns out, Ronald is chilling in the basement of a secret McDonald’s location, gradually transforming into something out of a sci-fi movie—a massive cockroach-spider hybrid.

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Creative Nerds

MAY 1, 2024

In this video tutorial, we will show you step by step how you can utilize the generative AI tool available in Photoshop to expand photos. Tutorial details Getting Started To begin, we will start by expanding a photo. Follow these steps: The process is quick and can be done across a range of different photos. […] The post How you can expand an image using generative AI in Photoshop first appeared on Creative Nerds.

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Designspiration

MAY 1, 2024

Saved by Jordan Halvorsen (@thehalvo).

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Design You Trust

MAY 1, 2024

François Chartier, a Montreal-based artist, excels in crafting stunning hyperrealistic paintings characterized by meticulous precision, detailed attention, and profound emotional resonance. His work transcends simple photographic replication or static still life scenes, delving deep into the nuances of light, texture, and emotion. More: François Chartier Unlike many hyperrealists who specialize in a particular niche, François’ portfolio displays a broad spectrum of subjects.

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Designspiration

MAY 1, 2024

Saved by Rickard Arvius (@rickardarvius).

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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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