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F5: Giulio Barresi on an Underwater Restaurant, a Dyson Vacuum + More

Design Milk

Growing up in Geneva, Switzerland with a Norwegian mother and Sicilian father, Giulio Barresi was convinced he would follow a more traditional route, with an emphasis on biology. As he looked into more artistic fields he became intrigued, and decided to study media interaction design at university. Photography was a starting point, but soon his work evolved to blend coding, electronics, and visuals.

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7 Ways to Transform Your Site for a Holiday Shopping Experience

Inkbot Design

7 Ways to Transform Your Site for a Holiday Shopping Experience The lead-up to Christmas is retailers' busiest the year, catering to the rush of shoppers searching to buy the perfect gift. With US households spending an average of $1,387 during Christmas, it is a prime opportunity to create the ultimate holiday shopping experience. With Christmas being when many shoppers are ready to splurge, creating seasonal excitement means you are more likely to capture their custom.

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"This rebrand was a real high-wire act": How we Made the RSPCA's new visual identity

Creative Bloq

I speak to JKR and the RSPCA about the rebrand that won big at this year's Brand Impact Awards.

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Top 10 of 2024: Our Favourite Public Spaces

Azure Magazine

At the end of every year, Azure’s editorial team gathers to observe an annual tradition; deciding — and debating — the year’s best in design, from interiors and products to residential and commercial architecture. In 2024, our lists kick off with a look at inspiring and inclusive civic spaces, which run the gamut from climate-adaptive parks to welcoming plazas, public architecture, and even municipal infrastructure.

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Let's Talk Trends: Designing for Maximum Impact

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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Rethink how you create digital art with the TourBox Elite editing controller - now with 25% off

Creative Bloq

This clever custom controller can be used for digital art, video editing, graphic design and more.

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Alizee Font: A Classy Hybrid Serif Typeface by Harmonais Visual

We And The Color

Designed and published by Harmonais Visual, the Alizée typeface is an elegant blend of calligraphy and serif design. This elegant hybrid typeface channels vintage aesthetics with a modern twist, making it an outstanding choice for designers seeking sophistication and versatility. With its striking fusion of classic and contemporary elements, Alizée brings a distinctive charm to branding, editorial layouts, and social media content.

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Embracing Festive Creativity with Pixelbuddha’s Christmas Vector Graphics Pattern Set

We And The Color

The holiday season is a time of joy, warmth, and creativity. For designers, it is the perfect opportunity to bring festive cheer into their work. Pixelbuddha’s Christmas Gift Vector Graphics Pattern Set is a delightful toolkit designed to capture the essence of Christmas. With its retro charm and versatile applications, this collection is ideal for a wide range of projects.

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This skincare brand has won Black Friday with these candid billboards

Creative Bloq

The Ordinary encourages us to shop slowly.

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Photographer Spotlight: Barbara Rossi

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Start clearing a space – this powerful pro laser cutter has $950 off

Creative Bloq

There's $950 off the xTool P2 at Amazon this Black. Saturday?

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The Democratization of Design: Giving Creators & Marketers the Tools to Succeed

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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From concept to design: why it pays to go offline

Moo

We’ve created some pretty iconic products over the years. But products like the MOO Twist Pen and Hardcover Notebook don’t just appear overnight. Behind every bestseller there are thousands (and thousands…) of hours spent designing, creating and iterating. And you might be surprised just how much of that process happens not on expensive computers, but on good old-fashioned paper.

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The most surprising Christmas ad of 2024? Here's Jason Statham as Santa

Creative Bloq

What could be more festive than a tank-based war game?

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The ultimate end-of-year checklist for your brand

Moo

The holidays can’t roll around fast enough when it comes to having a well-deserved break. However, before you put your feet up to watch festive re-runs whilst eating copious amounts of chocolate. Let us help you by bringing you the checklist of checklists to round off your year and look to the next with print and product ideas for your brand. Take the time to say thank you If you haven’t already, now is the perfect time to say thank you to the people who have been with you on your journey.

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Participatory Pavilions by Hou de Sousa Emerge from Colorful Lights and Facets

Colossal

For Nancy Hou and Josh de Sousa, founders of design studio Hou de Sousa , urban thoroughfares and public squares are a blank canvas. The award-winning, New York-based team focuses on architectural installations and large-scale sculptures that invite visitors to experience their surroundings in new ways. Often employing vibrant color and glowing lighting effects to be enjoyed day or night, pieces like “Bubble” and “Star Light Star Bright” invite passersby to wander through

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From Visualization to Execution: Exploring Our Strengths as Designers

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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How to make a (beautiful, bespoke) Notepad with MOO

Moo

Notepads are the workhorse of your stationery cupboard. They’re affordable, flexible, and not very exciting. Scratch that last one. Notepads are now officially exciting. With premium paper, a fancy tearing pad and beautiful customization, our brand-new Notepads are the perfect way to keep your brand front and center. Let’s take a closer look at how to make a Notepad, and how they’ll fit into your business.

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BACKING AWAY FROM THE FASTIDIOUS

Illustration Art

Illustrator Chris Payne sometimes roughs up his drawing surface with a brayer. He combines ultra matte medium and thinned acrylics, rolling out a textured foundation for his pencil drawings. This rough surface not only leads to ragged, uneven edges around the drawing, but adds unpredictable fault lines, sometimes at the most sensitive parts of the image: Payne is admired for his tight, realistic drawings but if he was after mere accuracy there would be no point in using a brayer to create an une

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After 5 years searching for Black Friday MacBook deals, these are some of the best deals for creatives I've seen: LIVE

Creative Bloq

From record-low MacBook Air M3 deals, to decent dents in the MacBook Pro prices, Black Friday is shaping up nicely.

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Black Friday 2024: Get 1 Year of Azure at Exceptional Prices!

Azure Magazine

Black Friday can easily come and go without a major score. Rushing through crowded shopping malls or feverishly browsing lists of online deals, a great sale on a beloved product may slip through the cracks. This year, there’s one purchase you won’t want to miss. For one week only, save on both digital and print AZURE subscriptions for up to 40% off!

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Rethinking Creative Workflows: Increasing Efficiency in the Design Process

As the design industry evolves, teams are facing new challenges and a need to produce more outstanding creative work than ever. Leaders must learn how to adapt their processes to solve today’s—and tomorrow’s—unique design challenges. In this e-book, you’ll learn how to establish your creative workflow and leverage the power of CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite to streamline the entire design process, from start to finish.

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I've spent hundreds of hours Nintendo Switch deal hunting – and these are the best prices in 5 years of Black Friday

Creative Bloq

Home of the original Nintendo Switch Black Friday blog. We put our expertise into finding you the best deals on consoles, games and accessories.

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Material requirements from EV batteries

FlowingData

To make batteries for electric vehicles, manufacturers require materials from all over the world. It’s not always clear how these materials are obtained. The Washington Post provides insights into the where and how with a set of maps and charts.

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iPad Black Friday deals have arrived, as low as $199 – these are the only ones you should be interested in: LIVE

Creative Bloq

I've been covering this event for 5 years and these are some of the best discounts I've seen.

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Artificial Intelligence in Fraud Prevention: What Online Businesses Need to Know 

Noupe

Online businesses must deal with fraud at one point or another, which is an unfortunate but inevitable event. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an additional and helpful tool to help online companies detect, prevent, and respond to fraudulent activities before they become a notable issue; this is a relief in the face of the overwhelming task of fraud prevention.

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Creative Insights: Data-Backed Trends to Help You Design Successful Content

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.

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After a price rollercoaster, the peerless Sihoo M18 office chair has settled at an all-time low of $127 for Black Friday

Creative Bloq

It's my favourite budget chair that offers quality, style and ultimate value.

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Freelance designer 101: design process & Figma file organization

UX Collective

A peek into my design workflow and file structure Continue reading on UX Collective »

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This fun 3D pen with 30% off has sorted Christmas for my kids – part toy, part creative tool

Creative Bloq

Thanks to Black Friday for sorting Christmas in my house. This is perfect creative gifting.

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design/leader: Wolff Olins ECD Emma Barratt

Design Week

Emma Barratt is global executive creative director at Wolff Olins, whose clients include Lloyds, Decathlon, LG Electronics and TikTok. Design 1. What would your monograph be called? Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless.

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How to Create Stunning Typography With the Corel Type Tool Kit

Download this free eBook to learn how you can create stunning typography, using the basics, such as placing text, to advanced controls like ligatures, variable fonts, effects, tracking, range kerning, and everything in between. Learn how to: Use Character Control to add variety to your font styles. Use Paragraph Control to manage spacing, alignment, justification and more.

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I grew up on SNK games, so this Neo Geo mini arcade is too good to miss at this reduced price

Creative Bloq

The UNICO Mini MVS, one of my favourite retro game consoles, costs less on Black Friday.

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Redbrick Coffee

Typewolf

Typewolf Site of the Day for November 30, 2024.

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Bambu Lab has some seriously impressive Black Friday dealsTake your 3D printing to new levels

Creative Bloq

I've always been loyal to Anycubic, but these Bambu Lab Black Friday deals with $110 off the A1 Combo are seriously swaying me

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Figma & the cost of collaboration: revisited 3 months later

UX Collective

Have Figma won back user trust?

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Web Design for All: Accessibility, Inclusivity and Beyond

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.