Creative Boom
JANUARY 7, 2024
Image licensed via Adobe Stock Feeling a little sluggish post-Christmas? Rekindle your creativity with these art challenges, purpose-built to jumpstart your artistic journey. On the one hand, Christmas can be stressful, and we're glad it's all over. But on the other hand, January can feel very quiet and anti-climatic, so it's natural to feel sluggish.
Graphic Design Junction
JANUARY 7, 2024
Mastering the Art of Photography, unveiling the best Photoshop actions for transforming your images into viral masterpieces. In the current era, everyone aspires to achieve viral status on social media , particularly on platforms like TikTok. However, the challenge lies in the potential hindrance caused by poor-quality images or subpar photography. Fear not!
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Creative Boom
JANUARY 7, 2024
Image licensed via Adobe Stock We reveal the best audio equipment for music-loving creatives to invest in, focusing on quality, design and functionality. If you're looking for creative inspiration, then your favourite music can be just what you need. Whether it's upbeat and energetic drum and bass to drive you through to the deadline or ambient chill to help new ideas flow, the right tunes can make the difference between motivation and innovation or slump and frustration.
We And The Color
JANUARY 7, 2024
The turn of the millennium, a time of unprecedented technological advancements, cultural shifts, and fashion experimentation, is now experiencing a resurgence, captivating the hearts and wardrobes of Gen Z and Millennial fashion enthusiasts. Y2K nostalgia, a term widely used to describe this revival, is characterized by its bold, playful, and sometimes irreverent aesthetics, drawing inspiration from the early 2000s.
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
Creative Boom
JANUARY 7, 2024
Image licensed via Adobe Stock We reveal the best audio equipment for music-loving creatives to invest in, focusing on quality, design and functionality. If you're looking for creative inspiration, then your favourite music can be just what you need. Whether it's upbeat and energetic drum and bass to drive you through to the deadline or ambient chill to help new ideas flow, the right tunes can make the difference between motivation and innovation or slump and frustration.
Inkbot Design
JANUARY 7, 2024
The Branding Pyramid: A Strategic Framework Building a strong brand that resonates with target consumers takes careful planning and execution across multiple fronts. Enter the branding pyramid – a conceptual framework identifying the critical elements required to create a memorable, meaningful brand in the marketplace. Understanding and applying this strategic approach can help companies develop brands that inspire customer trust, preference, and loyalty.
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HONGKIAT
JANUARY 7, 2024
Wordance is a free online tool that transforms your plain text into captivating, music-synced promotional videos in just minutes. It’s completely free to use. All you need to do is provide the text, choose a theme, and let Wordance work its magic. On the editor screen, you have the freedom to further customize your video by altering the background, adjusting font styles and sizes, and more, all before exporting your final masterpiece.
Design You Trust
JANUARY 7, 2024
Photographer of the Year: Wild love by Pedro Jarque Krebs These are the amazing winning images from the wildlife category of the 2023 reFocus World Photo Awards. The reFocus Awards provide a forum for identifying today’s most notable visual professionals, artists, and business titans. The reFocus Awards, in their second year, cover a wide range of categories, including people, film/analog, abstract, and aerial.
Creative Bloq
JANUARY 7, 2024
The process of creating the epic concept art for groundbreaking historical documentary Ancient Powers.
Abduzeedo
JANUARY 7, 2024
Mastering Web Design Aesthetics for Personal Portfolio abduzeedo 0107—24 Explore Igor Sokoltsov's innovative approach to web design and UI/UX in his latest portfolio website template, blending aesthetics with functionality. Igor Sokoltsov's portfolio website template, exemplifies excellence in web design and UI/UX. As a seasoned Senior Product Designer and Front-End Developer, Sokoltsov has spent over a decade perfecting his craft, collaborating with top clients and innovative startups.
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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.
Creative Bloq
JANUARY 7, 2024
It’s been called a “Microsoft Paint job”
Design You Trust
JANUARY 7, 2024
Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia, SFR Yugoslavia in 1985, Boris Pelcer is a visual artist residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He does art to investigate the ethereal complexity of life on Earth. “In the tapestry of time, a fleeting dance, whispers of mortality, life’s brief chance. A delicate waltz with the cosmic breath, we yearn to cradle beauty until our last breath.
Designspiration
JANUARY 7, 2024
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Design You Trust
JANUARY 7, 2024
Travel. 1st Place Winner: In The Fishing Maze by Hilda Champion These are the remarkable winning images from the Fine Art Photography Awards 2023’s Professional Travel and Nature 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 photo
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.
Designspiration
JANUARY 7, 2024
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Design You Trust
JANUARY 7, 2024
Peter Parker, a medical missionary and diplomat, was born in 1804 in Framingham, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College in 1831, earned an M.D. from Yale, and became the first Protestant medical missionary to China. Parker specialized in treating eye diseases and introduced anesthesia to China. He commissioned Western-style portraits by Lam Qua of patients with tumors or deformities at the Canton Hospital.
Designspiration
JANUARY 7, 2024
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Communication Arts
JANUARY 7, 2024
Led by creative director and type designer Fatih Hardal, this Istanbul-based type foundry explores minimal, emotive type and graphic design.
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Designspiration
JANUARY 7, 2024
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Enviromeant
JANUARY 7, 2024
Marina Capdevila designed this new mural at Sungrow Power Supply Co. headquarters in Hefei city. The mural incorporates elements of Sungrow’s culture and values. Marina’s use of abstract illustrations beautifully complements the existing elements to create a balanced and visually stunning composition. The bright and bold colors bring the wall to life, adding a new level of energy and vibrancy to the building.
Designspiration
JANUARY 7, 2024
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Creative Nerds
JANUARY 7, 2024
In this post, we explore Google Chrome extensions, additional tools that enhance Google Chrome’s functionality and improve your workflow as a designer or developer. We focus on the best Chrome extensions for designers and developers, featuring a variety of tools from rulers to color droppers. This post is worth bookmarking, and we highly recommend trying […] The post 10 best chrome extensions for designers and developers first appeared on Creative Nerds.
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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.
UX Collective
JANUARY 7, 2024
A guide through the most common violations in WebAIM’s Million Report for 2023 Continue reading on UX Collective »
Designspiration
JANUARY 7, 2024
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UX Collective
JANUARY 7, 2024
Rediscovering authenticity and unconventional thinking in a world obsessed with sameness and scalability Continue reading on UX Collective »
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onextrapixel
JANUARY 7, 2024
Art Deco and Art Nouveau are two of the most influential art movements of the 20th century, each with its own distinct characteristics. Art Nouveau is all about curves, The post 28 Best Art Deco And Art Nouveau Fonts (2024) appeared first on Onextrapixel.
Designspiration
JANUARY 7, 2024
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Design You Trust
JANUARY 7, 2024
In June 1972, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney established Atari. After five months, Atari’s debut product, Pong, revolutionized the gaming industry. Other arcade games were swiftly released by the company. Over a 15-year period, millions of game cartridges were sold when the Atari Video Computer System (VCS) was debuted in 1977. h/t: vintag.es Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari, sold the business to Warner Communications in 1976.
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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