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What is typographical contrast?

Creative Bloq

Learn how to make contrast and influence people with a look at Carl Dair's 7 rules for typographical contrast.

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Create a Professional Portfolio in A4 Using This Adobe InDesign Template

We And The Color

Creating a professional portfolio is crucial for designers, photographers, and creatives who want to showcase their work in the best possible light. Using the right tools, such as Adobe InDesign, and a high-quality template can make this task efficient and effective. This article will guide you through using an A4-sized InDesign template designed by Adobe Stock contributor GraphicArtist , to craft a visually stunning and professional portfolio.

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How to choose a drawing tablet

Creative Bloq

Our expert guide to how to choose a drawing tablet for digital art and illustration, whether you want a beginner pen tablet or a pro pen display.

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Darkly Humorous and Thought-Provoking Artworks of Mars Black

Design You Trust

Mars Black (real name is Steve Smith) is a contemporary artist known for his surreal, whimsical, and sometimes darkly humorous artwork. He creates vivid illustrations that often blend pop culture references with surreal elements, producing quirky and thought-provoking pieces. His work is available through various platforms such as Instagram and his own website, where he offers art prints featuring unique and offbeat designs.

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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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Even Robin Hood hates Nottingham Building Society's new logo

Creative Bloq

We're still not sure what it's supposed to be.

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Inspiring Winners of the 2024 Architecture Master Prize Photography Awards

Design You Trust

Interior Architecture Photography of the Year: “In Orbit – K21” by Franco Casaccia The 2024 Architecture Master Prize (AMP) Photography Awards celebrated exceptional architectural photography, highlighting creativity and innovation in the field. Franco Casaccia won Interior Architecture Photographer of the Year for his captivating series “In Orbit – K21,” while Albrecht Voss received Exterior Architecture Photographer of the Year for his dramatic image of Cabane du Glacie

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Ask smarter questions to level up your user interviews

UX Collective

… or do you think you’re already a master at gathering product insights from your users?

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How a long-lost painting became an iconic vodka bottle design in 2024

Creative Bloq

Absolut turns Andy Warhol’s rediscovered work into an art piece of its own.

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Typewolf

Typewolf Site of the Day for October 20, 2024.

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Be afraid – Meta's testing its AI Movie Gen tool with the makers of Paranormal Activity and Five Nights at Freddy's

Creative Bloq

Public access might be coming sooner than we thought.

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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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Amazing Winning Photos from the 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Design You Trust

The 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has announced its winners from 59,228 submissions across 117 countries, showcasing the beauty and fragility of nature. Shane Gross, a Canadian marine conservation photojournalist, won the top prize for his stunning image “The Swarm of Life,” featuring a mesmerizing scene of western toad tadpoles underwater.

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How to assign a texture to an Alembic file in Cinema 4D

Creative Bloq

Learn to assign textures to Alembic in Cinema 4D to vastly improve your scene’s efficiency.

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Spectacular Winners of the 2024 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition

Design You Trust

1st Place: “Differentiated mouse brain tumor cells (actin, microtubules, and nuclei)” by Dr. Bruno Cisterna and Dr. Eric Vitriol The 2024 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition has once again unveiled the stunning beauty of the microscopic world, showcasing remarkable detail through cutting-edge microscopy. This year’s winners captured a range of awe-inspiring images, blending scientific precision with artistic expression, offering a unique window into the hidden wonder

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Amazon has a pre-Black Friday lightning deal on a great iPad alternative for digital art

Creative Bloq

You'll need to be quick to grab the Huion Kamvas Slate 10 for just $199.

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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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In Quebec, a Design Competition Yields a New Kind of Primary School

Azure Magazine

Pelletier de Fonteney are no strangers to competition. Over the course of the emerging firm’s 14-year history, the Montreal-based architects have amassed an impressive record in global design competitions, from winning a contest for a public school in the Czech Republic, to a successful joint bid for the recently completed Montreal Insectarium , and a recent second place prize for their vision for the Swiss Pavilion at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, to name just a few.