Creative Boom

JANUARY 21, 2024

Photography by Georgina Hopwood Tired of your three-hour train journeys to a connection event? Bored of rail replacement buses? If you're nearer Lancaster than London, here's a new design event you'll want to check out. We all know about the London Design Festival. But in these days of remote working and regional powerhouses, the days when everything in the design industry necessarily centred around the capital are long behind us.

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Graphic Design Junction

JANUARY 21, 2024

In the design world, every part matters—colors, shapes, and typography all add up to the overall look and feel. One essential but sometimes overlooked tool for designers is negative space, also called white space. Negative space is the area around and between the main elements in an image. In this article, we will explore the captivating role of negative space in illustrations, with a particular emphasis on its impact in logo design.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 21, 2024

Brooklyn-based brand studio Athletics has collaborated with content collaboration platform ShareFile to create a personable new brand identity that revolves around its users and play. Founded in 2005, ShareFile is a secure cloud collaboration tool that allows people to sign and share digital documents. Since then, it's grown and transformed, with cloud computing company Citrix acquiring it in 2011.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 21, 2024

Consistency in Branding: Why It Matters and How to Achieve It Building a strong, recognisable brand is critical for any business looking to stand out in a crowded marketplace. But crafting a solid brand goes far beyond just designing an eye-catching logo. While visual identity is essential, consistency is equally vital when establishing your company's reputation.

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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 21, 2024

Montreal-based artist Hanna Barczyk has unpacked the idea of femininity in her new series of zodiac illustrations for German women's magazine Freundin. We caught up with her to learn more about how they portray women as both powerful yet gentle. Instantly recognisable thanks to her bold yet minimalist style, German-Hungarian artist Hanna Barczyk has previously created illustrations for the likes of The MoMA, The New York Times and the United Nations.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 21, 2024

How to Choose the Correct Logo Placement A company's logo is one of its most valuable brand assets. Proper logo placement reinforces brand recognition and maintains a consistent brand image across all consumer touchpoints. However, choosing the ideal logo placement can be challenging, with countless options across mediums ranging from business cards to billboards.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 21, 2024

Luxury Brand Marketing & High-End Branding Luxury brands exist in a rarefied world of high prices, exceptional quality, heritage and pedigree, exclusivity, and aspirational identities. Marketing luxury products and services require a specialised approach that balances these brand attributes while understanding luxury consumers and trends. This comprehensive guide explores the fundamental principles, strategies, and examples of luxury brand marketing and high-end branding.

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Creative Bloq

JANUARY 21, 2024

ZBrush has been the industry standard for a couple of decades. But where do you start with such a formidable package? Our pro 3D artist breaks down what ZBrush can do.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 21, 2024

15 Lead Generation Strategies & Tactics That Work Lead generation is a vital part of any business. Without leads, you don’t have customers. And without customers, you don’t have revenue. So, how do you go about generating more leads? You can leverage countless lead generation strategies and tactics, but I’ll cover 15 of the most effective in this article.

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Creative Bloq

JANUARY 21, 2024

Top techniques for creating standout lighting and shadows in your illustrations.

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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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We And The Color

JANUARY 21, 2024

Unleash Your Brand’s Potential with PixWork’s ProBrand Brochure – A Stylish Symphony of Consistency in Design. Hey there, design maestros! If you’re navigating the captivating world of graphic design, you know that building a brand is akin to orchestrating a symphony of colors, shapes, and fonts. The key to making sure every note resonates harmoniously across all channels?

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UX Collective

JANUARY 21, 2024

Tech’s not-so-perfect outcomes: Let’s design a brighter tomorrow. Have you ever asked yourself about the deep-rooted relationships we are designing and have with our smart devices? Lately, I’ve been enquiring into this subject, and from what I have found, I am compelled to establish a conversation about the elephants in the room in the design and tech world.

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Abduzeedo

JANUARY 21, 2024

Elevating the Norsk Orgel Festival: A Study in Branding Excellence abduzeedo 0121—24 Discover how the Norsk Orgel Festival's branding and visual identity merges tradition with modernity, enhancing its cultural impact. The Norsk Orgel Festival, held in Stavanger, Norway, stands as a beacon of cultural celebration, particularly in the realm of organ music.

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Design You Trust

JANUARY 21, 2024

1st Place: Austfonna Ice Cap by Thomas Vijayan See the stunning collection of 20 Drone Photo Awards winners, all of which fall under the fascinating category of “Nature Photography.” First-place winner Thomas Vijayan is praised for his captivating photo “Austfonna Ice Cap,” while Raj Mohan takes second place with his powerful shot “Boon to Bane!

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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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Abduzeedo

JANUARY 21, 2024

Exploring Design Dynamics with SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose abduzeedo 0121—24 Explore the blend of design and coding in our latest project using SwiftUI for iOS and Jetpack Compose for Android. I grew up immersed in the world of graphic design, surrounded by magazines, posters, and flyers. During that era, digital devices were scarce, and access to computers was limited.

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Design You Trust

JANUARY 21, 2024

Best in Show: “Aquatic Primate” by Suliman Alatiqi The 12th annual Ocean Art competition, hosted by The Underwater Photography Guide, showcases top underwater photography from over 90 countries. Ocean Art 2023 reflects the ongoing advancement of photographic art and technology. Suliman Alatiqi’s photo of a crab-eating macaque in Thailand’s Phi Phi Islands, resulting from two weeks of observation, won “the world’s best underwater image.” The contest awarded prizes wo

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Abduzeedo

JANUARY 21, 2024

Belmonte Raw: A Case Study in Branding and Packaging Design abduzeedo 0121—24 Explore how Belmonte Raw's branding, packaging design, and visual identity transformation captivated audiences and set new standards in the organic market. Belmonte Raw’s ascent in the organic food market is a tale of innovative branding and design. Years ago, Carol Belmonte identified a gap in the organic sector and launched Belmonte Raw, initially offering salads to office workers.

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Design You Trust

JANUARY 21, 2024

Marco Segovia, an artist based in Barcelona, is expanding the creative horizons with his “Adaptable” series. These distorted vehicles in this collection of digital artworks are flexible and contorted so they blend in perfectly with their surroundings. “In the sway of creation, arises a charming project, where wheels dance to the rhythm of nature, a sincere pact with the surroundings is woven, through means of transportation that transform in their essence.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

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JANUARY 21, 2024

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JANUARY 21, 2024

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JANUARY 21, 2024

Data is king in today’s world where information is overloaded. Modern marketing feeds on it, and data analysis is the crowning achievement. Learn how it unlocks customer information, powers marketing, and propels brands to success in this article. Key Takeaways Data analysis fuels customer understanding, revealing motivations, preferences, and behavior patterns.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 21, 2024

Best Practices for Engaging a Multigenerational Workforce Workplaces today consist of employees from several different generations—Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z. With such a wide range of ages and life experiences on one team, managers need to understand how to foster an inclusive environment where all employees feel valued and able to collaborate effectively.

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Designspiration

JANUARY 21, 2024

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Colossal

JANUARY 21, 2024

All photos © FAUM Melding traditional techniques with an appreciation for beeswax as a sculptural material, FAUM released an elegant chess set to serve as a new addition to cozy, candle-lit game nights. The entire board takes on a neutral color palette with naturally pigmented wax in sage and ivory tones, and 32 iconic game pieces are transformed into pleasing, abstracted forms topped with a wick.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

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JANUARY 21, 2024

The Customer-Focused Business Model: Is It Sustainable? There are many misconceptions about businesses that describe themselves as “customer-focused” and about the term in general. Some people consider this a negative term, although it isn't a bad thing at all. Let's examine what a customer-focused business model means and whether your business should consider it.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

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UX Collective

JANUARY 21, 2024

The scope, benefits and pitfalls of using chat technology for talk therapy Continue reading on UX Collective »

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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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