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Brutalist Graphic Design: Why It’s Ugly, Bold, and Trending in 2025!

Spoon Graphics

Brutalism: its raw, its messy, and its unapologetically bold. Whether you love it or hate it, theres no denying its impact on design today. From clunky websites to avant-garde posters, Brutalist design is everywhereand its making a comeback. But why? And how can you use it in your own work?Stick around as we break it all down in this deep dive into Brutalist graphic design.

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Graphic design among most at-risk jobs from AI – report

Design Week

A major report has warned that graphic design is one of the jobs most threatened by AI. Every two years, the World Economic Forum (WEF) produces its Future of Jobs report. The 2025 version was just released, based on interviews with 1,000 employers, who represent more than 14 million workers in 55 countries.

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Fighting fire from the sky

FlowingData

For Reuters, Simon Scarr, Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa, and Sudev Kiyada use flight data to show how firefighters are extinguishing the Los Angeles fires. They visualized and illustrated the planes, cargo capacity, flight patterns, and timing between aircraft. It’s a very good breakdown.

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2024 Booooooom Illustration Awards Winner: Ugnė Becker

Booooooom

We had the opportunity to ask Ugn Becker some questions about his workenjoy the interview below!

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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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6 lessons in branding from reality TV

Creative Bloq

From Love is Blind to Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares, what can we learn from the way reality TV uses music?

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Faina Design Reimagines a Mythical Forest Dweller Into Furniture

Design Milk

Deep in the untouched, mossy forests and ancient swamps of Polesia, a mystical spirit named Grun comes alive not through folklore, but through the imaginative designs of Victoria Yakusha. As the founder of Faina Design , the Ukrainian designer unveiled her latest collection at Design Miami 2024 , seamlessly weaving her connection to nature, Ukrainian roots, and love for animistic design.

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Five graphic trends to keep in your sights in 2025

Its Nice That

Art deco typography, monk-approved logos and the ruling mood of toad: these are the trends we have been quietly bookmarking for the year ahead.

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Lifelike Canines Lounge in Emily O’Leary Uncanny Hooked Rugs

Colossal

Most dogs spend at least half of their day asleepsome getting z’s for upwards of 18 hours. Whether curled up on the floor or enjoying a long-legged stretch, the subjects of Emily O’Leary s rugs evoke our beloved pets. Based on photographs of actual dogs, she focuses mostly on animals the artist doesn’t know. “I like to hook dogs that are pretty ‘mutty’ looking, that dont look like yard-bound Golden Retrievers or Doodles,” she tells Colossal. “Im at

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9 Best WordPress Themes for 2025 (Free and Paid)

HONGKIAT

When it comes to building a WordPress website that doesnt just look good today but can also hold its own tomorrow, staying power becomes paramount. For Hongkiat.com readers -web designers, developers, and creatives who value innovation-this is especially true. If a WordPress theme doesnt look 2025-ready , doesnt offer built-in flexibility, or hasnt been actively maintained, its bound to cause headaches down the road.

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7 Tips to Revolutionise Your Packaging Designs

Inkbot Design

7 Tips to Revolutionise Your Packaging Designs Packaging is not simply a container but a marketing tool. It is the first contact between the customer and your item. Often, they make or break the decision to choose a product. Well-executed packaging designs can: Raise your brand identity. Defend and maintain the item. Improve the overall consumer experience.

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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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'It may be woo woo, but it might just work': Branding enters the season of the witch

Creative Boom

All images via Adobe Stock As the world faces existential crises and the codes of success falter, witchcraft offers more than a nostalgic aestheticit's a call to rethink brands, creativity, and connection. Holly Kielty explores how. Witchcraft. It's a word that's had a visible, powerful rebrand throughout the ages, going from a byword for healing in ancient times to being branded as evil during the witch hunts and now representing positive spirituality and feminine energy.

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Design Everywhere

Design Everywhere is a blog focused on showcasing carefully selected graphic design works and beyond around the world. These daily dose of visual inspirations are collected by Preston Tham. All works displayed here are rightfully credited to their respective owners.

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Craig & Karl’s inflatable Cosmos welcomes Melbourne’s commuters with smiles, shapes and surprises

Its Nice That

A transatlantic duo, Craig Redman and Karl Maier of Craig & Karl have been professionally working at great distances for quite some years now. Now, their latest project, Cosmos, takes them down under. Destination: Melbourne Central.

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How to draw a female figure

Creative Bloq

A step-by-step guide to drawing the female form from reference.

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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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The fastest gun in UX: Why your team is telling the wrong story

UX Collective

Designers are skipping steps of the process in a rush for faster outputs. But the contest that really matters is the race towards stakeholder alignment. Designers are both uniquely vulnerable to losing this race and uniquely positioned to winit. For several years, Design has been in survival mode. In a post-ZIRP economy where investment is driven by fear , the question of the ROI of design has returned from the grave with slightly different wording.

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Meta has absolutely no clue what to do with AI

Creative Bloq

But it really wants in.

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Why TikTok “refugees” are flocking to Xiaohongshu

UX Collective

This decision is partly UX, partly political in the wake of the proposed TikTok ban.

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Behold the horror of Donkey Kong’s skeleton inside iconic Nintendo characters

Creative Bloq

Mario Party will never be the same.

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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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Turn on the water works: why emotion fuels creative brilliance

Its Nice That

Increasingly, creative work is based on research, data and analysis, but raw emotion is the key to true audience connection. We speak to creatives (including one famously emotional potter) about the importance of feeling in design.

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Why CES is getting predictable, and the 3 products that managed to stand out

Creative Bloq

With a focus on AI, the narrative felt all too familiar this year.

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Studio Luddite Stacks Leather Discs to Form the Pell Chandelier

Design Milk

Leather is inextricable from the human experience, early manipulations dating back 400,000 years. Full grain leather is prized throughout the world as the premium surface in any hide, revered for its strength, durability, and beauty. New York City-based Studio Luddite elegantly subverts this notion with their newest release, the Pell Chandelier. Choosing instead to celebrate another aspect, this piece utilizes the raw edge of the hide, stacked in concentric circles to display the natural variati

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Meet Ufficio – the studio building bold, unique brands out of Buenos Aires

Its Nice That

This small team is turning to history, popular culture and science for obscure and unexpected references that steer them away from established styles.

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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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Feldspar

Typewolf

Typewolf Site of the Day for January 14, 2025.

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Inside Mildew magazine, the publication revelling in the “decay” of fashion

Its Nice That

The annual magazines latest issue continues its quest to uplift a more sustainable fashion landscape alongside the characters and clothes behind it.

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Nosheen Iqbal Translates Pakistani Craft Traditions into Vivid Sculptural Embroideries

Colossal

Equipped with vibrant cotton thread and wooden panels, Nosheen Iqbal stitches sculptural embroideries that draw on her Pakistani and Islamic heritage. Architectural arabesques and Punjabi craft traditions influence her mixed-media motifs, including phulkari , or floral folk embroideries, and woodblock printed reliefs known as bagh. Iqbal utilizes half-circles and semi-precious beads to add depth and visual intrigue to the works.

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“A longer wish list could narrow down your job search”

Its Nice That

Finding yourself constantly in crisis management mode instead of pushing your knowledge and skills? Alex Bec offers guidance on finding the next challenge in global agencies, consultancies, or in-house roles in this weeks Creative Career Conundrums.

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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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A Continually Evolving Story

Communication Arts

Vikkal Parikh, founder of Ataboy, blends his architectural background and passion for storytelling to lead a diverse team in creating innovative visual narratives across mediums.

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Art as a public playground: Jeremy Deller on letting go of control and inviting others into his creative process

Its Nice That

The Turner-prize winning artist sat down with our associate editor Liz Gorny to wrap up our final Nicer Tuesdays event of 2024. The pair talked about everything from the magic and mess of participatory artworks to Depeche Mode superfans and the power of simple, positive political messages.

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Transforming Noise into Narrative

Graphis

At the School of Visual Arts, Chuanyuan Lin (or Chloe, as her friends call her) took the. The post Transforming Noise into Narrative appeared first on Graphis Blog.

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Work better this year (or don’t, it’s your life)

Its Nice That

Tiffany Ng goes on a journey of work-self-improvement, only to find an inner duel must be fought first

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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.