Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Feeling grim about your prospects? We help lift your mood by sharing positive stories from creatives about the moments that make life worth living. On a bit of a downer? Well, that's not surprising. The global economy is currently on a downturn, and people are feeling the strain across the world. And even if you're still managing to keep on top of the rent, there's no shame in feeling a little down about your prospects for continuing success as a freelancer.

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HONGKIAT

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Welcome to our February collection in the Fresh Resources series! As the new year unfolds, what better moment to explore new tools and resources? This edition is packed with exciting finds for both designers and developers. We’ve got everything from a site that guides you on creating components across different frameworks, to a brand new JavaScript package repository, a tool for diving deep into color spaces, and insights on CSS specificity.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Netherlands-based freelance illustrator Michelle Wagenaar taps into social media-induced angst to create bright, playful posters that acknowledge the sad sides of life. But far from being all doom and gloom, they are a fun and honest reaction to struggles that everybody in the online world deals with. It's all too easy to feel overwhelmed when scrolling through social media.

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Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

20 Weird and Wacky Websites To Inspire Creative UX Strategies A website is built every three seconds. With more online users, tricks, and tools than ever, any brand can create a website with just a few clicks. As we welcome AI-powered website builders , formatted WIX and WordPress templates and a digitally native generation to the mix, it is becoming more challenging than ever to create a website experience that is well remembered.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Graham Nolan by Billie Charity We explore coach Helen Jane Campbell's excellent new book and what it can teach independent creatives. Whether you're a founder or freelancer, creative entrepreneurship is hard. Not only do you have to constantly battle with self-doubt, but you also feel the need to show a face to the world that's the exact opposite. Consequently, many independent creative founders and freelancers share a longing for connection, reassurance and motivation.

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HONGKIAT

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Welcome to our February collection in the Fresh Resources series! As the new year unfolds, what better moment to explore new tools and resources? This edition is packed with exciting finds for both designers and developers. We’ve got everything from a site that guides you on creating components across different frameworks, to a brand new JavaScript package repository, a tool for diving deep into color spaces, and insights on CSS specificity.

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Design Milk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Gone are the days of boring beige offices with headache-inducing fluorescent lights and claustrophobic cubicles. The modern office embraces color, comfort, and connection – something exemplified by the new Relaxound office in Berlin, Germany, designed by Ester Bruzkus Architekten. “We love spaces within spaces, the blurring of inside and outside, unconventional color combinations, and material contrasts,” says Ester Bruzkus, Partner at Ester Bruzkus Architekten.

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The Die Line

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Dieline is a global package design community and showcase of package design inspiration. We cover industry news, sustainable packaging news, design trends, and host our own packaging conferences, package design events, and Dieline packaging design awards.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Upstream digital transformation: A practical approach to defining digital capabilities in government Digital transformation is about strategy, not technology. As you lounge by the riverside with a friend, a sudden shriek fills the air — a child is drowning. Reacting instinctively, you both plunge into the water, rescue the child, and get back to shore.

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The Dieline

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Dieline is a global package design community and showcase of package design inspiration. We cover industry news, sustainable packaging news, design trends, and host our own packaging conferences, package design events, and Dieline packaging design awards.

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We And The Color

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Esther Rou Jiao’s project, “The New Typeface,” is a fascinating exploration of the intersection between human creativity and artificial intelligence. Using Midjourney, an AI platform known for generating intricate patterns, Jiao embarked on a journey that challenged traditional notions of typeface creation. Please read more below. The New Typeface – An Experimental Work With Midjourney by Esther Rou Jiao What sets Jiao’s approach apart is the decision to not merely

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The Dieline

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Dieline is a global package design community and showcase of package design inspiration. We cover industry news, sustainable packaging news, design trends, and host our own packaging conferences, package design events, and Dieline packaging design awards.

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Design Milk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The next time you’re in North Brookfield, New York, take a detour from your destination and stop by Klings Mill. The general store, which also used to be a one-time feed mill, not only serves up a hearty breakfast but also some design inspiration. Such was the case for Lisa Sacco , who shares that most of her work seems to circle back to things that have long fascinated her.

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The Dieline

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Dieline is a global package design community and showcase of package design inspiration. We cover industry news, sustainable packaging news, design trends, and host our own packaging conferences, package design events, and Dieline packaging design awards.

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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.

Graphic Design

Its Nice That

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Previously well known for her clean-cut architectural pieces, the illustrator is finding new freedom in anthropomorphic abstraction.

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Graphic Design Junction

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In today’s era of learning, Learning Management Systems (LMS) have become a part of education and training. Whether you’re an educator seeking tools to enhance your classroom experience or a business in search of a platform to train your employees, it is crucial to choose the LMS. This article aims to delve into the LMS options in the market and guide you in finding the ideal fit for your needs. [ Hide ] Table Of Content The Advantages of Choosing a Free LMS Assessing Your Requiremen

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Colossal

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

All images © Alex Trice, shared with permission Prismatic pools, strings of pearls, seashells, and elemental interactions characterize the work of Alexis Trice , whose oil paintings illuminate both the beauty and the brutality of nature. Sly predators take the form a spirits or totems in a dreamlike world, their tears gushing into oyster shells or glowing bodies of water. “(This series) is about energy: emotional and molecular.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

3 strategies to escape narrow framing, in work and in life. There are many options to consider beyond “Yes” and “No.” Image generated with Google Gemini. UX research is about informing product decisions, from what problems to solve, to how to solve them. To be effective at informing decisions, UX researchers need strategies that address barriers to good decision-making.

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Its Nice That

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To make her fun artworks, Livia De Magistris non-stop hops between analogue and digital methods.

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The Dieline

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Dieline is a global package design community and showcase of package design inspiration. We cover industry news, sustainable packaging news, design trends, and host our own packaging conferences, package design events, and Dieline packaging design awards.

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We And The Color

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

There are fonts that whisper and fonts that shout. And then there’s Sequoia – a typeface that doesn’t just speak but sings with the nostalgia of a bygone era, echoing the spirited strokes of the W.P.A. National Park posters from the 1930s. Crafted by the talented Rachel Kick, the Sequoia Display font family is a delightful ode to the golden age of poster artistry.

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Creative Bloq

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

How Unreal Engine 5 is enhancing a game design classic.

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The Dieline

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Dieline is a global package design community and showcase of package design inspiration. We cover industry news, sustainable packaging news, design trends, and host our own packaging conferences, package design events, and Dieline packaging design awards.

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Creative Bloq

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Glenlivet has found a strange selling point.

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The Die Line

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Dieline is a global package design community and showcase of package design inspiration. We cover industry news, sustainable packaging news, design trends, and host our own packaging conferences, package design events, and Dieline packaging design awards.

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Creative Bloq

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A helping hand for navigating big PDFs.

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The Dieline

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Dieline is a global package design community and showcase of package design inspiration. We cover industry news, sustainable packaging news, design trends, and host our own packaging conferences, package design events, and Dieline packaging design awards.

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Creative Bloq

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Seems like everyone misses the dead lion.

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Moo

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Here’s the situation, you need flyers or business leaflets. But it’s expensive. You want to save money and do your bit for the environment because of course you do. But the world just doesn’t make it easy. More often than not these days ‘eco’ means more ecologically friendly, less economically forgiving. Not so with MOO’s new, affordable bulk print paper, Eco.

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Creative Bloq

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

"We have an urgent issue.

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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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