Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Not to be confused with overconfidence, true self-belief is a foundation that fuels creativity and resilience. Here's why it's so important and how to develop it for yourself. As creatives, we all want to believe that we're talented, hard-working, driven, capable and ready for anything that life throws at us. In short, we want to believe in ourselves.

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Creative Bloq

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Black metal bands watch and weep.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

All photos by Adrianna Glaviano A cultural cornerstone of New York City, the Brooklyn Museum has revealed a striking new brand identity to mark its bicentennial year, spearheaded by Brooklyn-based design studio Other Means. Originally founded in 1823 as the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library, the Brooklyn Museum institution has grown to become the second-largest art museum in New York City, housing an impressive collection of over 500,000 objects.

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

From blank slate to breakthroughs. Whether you’re in UX, an entrepreneur, or a product manager — having a tool that accelerates your research discovery process is vital. Enter Perplexity, a powerful AI tool designed to help you navigate through the initial stages of research with speed and clarity. As a pro user, Perplexity offers a unique set of capabilities that sets it apart from other research tools, making it indispensable for anyone conducting market research, exploring new concepts, or si

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Illustration by Mia Angioy for Creative Boom In the second of our special six-part series, we look at how music can elevate your visual storytelling and enhance its emotional power. In the realm of visual storytelling, the power of sound often goes underappreciated. Yet, as we all know from our favourite movies and Netflix dramas, a well-chosen soundtrack can elevate a narrative, evoke emotions, and create a lasting impact.

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Inkbot Design

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The Hidden Psychology of Successful Brands You make your way through a maze of daily decisions, from the trivial to the profound. Which pair of shoes will get you through the day? Which podcast keeps you company on the commute? What kind of mustard will you use on your sandwich? These inconsequential decisions add up and weave the fabric of your everyday life.

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Creative Bloq

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Flow looks stunningly immersive.

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Feature Shoot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Gregory Crewdson by Walter Moser © 2024 The Albertina Museum, Vienna, and Prestel Verlag, Munich · London · New York Gregory Crewdson’s new “retrospective catalog,” Gregory Crewdson (published by Prestel and edited by Walter Moser), is a spellbinding journey from start to finish. As someone who grew up in the 1980s, encountering his earliest work—which he made as a student at Yale (where he is now a professor and director of Graduate Studies in Photography)

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Creative Bloq

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Pink goes with everything, right? Especially instant cameras.

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Design You Trust

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Honda is gearing up to showcase a piece of automotive history at the 2024 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance with the restored 1984 HP-X Concept. This unveiling is a historic moment, as it marks the first Japanese vehicle entry at the prestigious event in over 50 years. Styled by the legendary Pininfarina, the HP-X (Honda Pininfarina eXperimental) is a retro-futuristic two-seater coupé with a dramatic wedge profile and a cockpit-style entry.

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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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Creative Bloq

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

But I can't stop exploring it.

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Creative Nerds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

A collection of some great free tools allows you to quickly create CSS gradients, as well as resources for gradients you can use in your projects. CSS gradients are excellent for applying backgrounds to your design projects. They offer a smooth and seamless transition between multiple colors, resulting in a strikingly vibrant and dynamic color […] The post Essential resources for creating CSS gradients first appeared on Creative Nerds.

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Creative Bloq

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

(But not everyone can see it).

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Design You Trust

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

From the heart of Saint Petersburg, Russia, Elena has captivated the world with her intricate keycap designs. Her creations, ranging from beloved characters like The Witcher and Grogu (Baby Yoda) to minimalistic animals like the Shiba Inu, are not just keycaps – they are pieces of art. Each keycap is a testimony to her commitment to detail, craftsmanship, and design aesthetics. “I got a Grogu keycap, and it was lovingly packaged and arrived safely.

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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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This is Paper

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Selected works by Yasushi Okano examines the delicate interplay between nature and human intervention, using traditional film photography to reflect the subtle beauty and transformation of everyday landscapes.

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Design You Trust

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Helen Violet, a hyperrealism artist from Canada, creates astonishingly lifelike pet sculptures and pencil drawings that capture the essence of each animal with breathtaking accuracy. Her intricate handmade sculptures look so real that you’d have to look twice to be sure it’s not a living pet. “I was always fascinated with detail in both nature and in art.

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Communication Arts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Montréal-based photographer Lian Benoit blends her design background with a passion for photography, capturing the emotional complexity of youth culture through an empathy-led approach.

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Designspiration

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Saved by Chris Walker (@christoffwalker).

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Inkbot Design

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Logo Design Ethics: How to Avoid Ethical Violations In a world where first impressions are being chiselled in pixels, the logo is the flag we plant. It's not just a sign; it's a promise between the brand and the consumer. But pursuing perfection sometimes closes our eyes to the ethical line in the sand. It can be easy to forget that behind every design, there is a responsibility that comes along.

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Designspiration

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Saved by jniemeyer (@jniemeyer).

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Creative Bloq

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Lance Evans scours the internet to take on the challenge of creating a custom 3D workstation at a reasonable price.

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Designspiration

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Saved by PICDIT (@picdit).

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Emails with misleading subject lines are wreaking havoc on my nerves. Here’s how to avoid writing them.

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Inkbot Design

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Beyond Logos: The Business Case for Branding There's a common misconception among entrepreneurs, business leaders, and even seasoned innovators – the belief that their product is so revolutionary, so inherently groundbreaking, that branding doesn't apply to them. They focus on getting the legal framework right, building their financial safety net, and maybe thinking about branding later.

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This is Paper

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Offline Body by Myungchan Kim invites a meditation on the human experience in a world increasingly detached from digital networks.

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