Tuts Plus

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

So, your creative juices have stopped flowing. Try as you might, you just can't seem to come up with a concept that inspires you. How do you get rid of art block, and how did it get here in the first place? Let's take a look at ten creative pitfalls that can start up art block, and how we might be able to kick them to the curb. Fatigue When Burnout Takes Over Sometimes, I love to fool myself into thinking I can work forever —super long hours, without any real need to recharge.

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Design Roast

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In this article, we will talk about making digital products more user-friendly. Reviewing your interface and adjusting visual feedback can not only influence user’s comfort positively while interacting with your product but in some cases, it can also increase the sales or help you to win a new customer. Illustration from Ouch What is [.]. The post How to Improve Visual Feedback of Digital Products [Guest Post] appeared first on Design Roast.

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Graphic Mama

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Is it necessary to invest in getting a degree in order to have a successful career in graphic design? This is probably a question wandering in the mind of every enthusiast headed to a career in graphic design. Well, today I’ll go deeper into the subject from the perspective of a person working in the niche and from the personal experience of our graphic designers here in the studio who are successfully practicing the profession with or without an actual professional degree in the field.

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Just Creative

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

This is a guest article contributed by Tom Buckland. Branding is key for any business. Any successful company will tell you that strong branding is an essential element of attracting and maintaining the right audience. In our modern digital age, your business’ website is one of the main pillars of your communications strategy. As such, it is critical that you get the branding right across your website.

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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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Speckyboy Design Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Distortion effects are incredibly popular among web artists these days. Throughout the year, we saw their dominance. However, one particular effect separates itself from the others and stands on its own. And it is the glitch effect. Once considered undesirable, this short-lived fault in a system has skillfully transformed into a modern feature that everyone wants to have in his or her project.

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Under Consideration / Brand

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

“From Egypt with Love”. Established in 2012, Zooba is a small chain of fast-casual restaurants in Cairo, Egypt, where it has six locations that offer a modern twist on traditional Egyptian street food. Earlier this year, Zooba opened its first location in the United States in New York, NY, with the goal of expanding not just to the other boroughs but to other cities or, as they say, "spreading across the US like bessara on baladi bread".

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Graphic Mama

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Want to become a master of social media design? Well, we’ve prepared a collection of tutorials and tips that will help you get there quickly! You will find insightful videos that will teach you the essentials of social media design, step-by-step video tutorials that will lead you through the actual process of how to design graphics for social media, as well as ideas for social media content that will help you keep your feed fresh and your audience engaged.

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Designer Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Every week, we’ll give you an overview of the best deals for designers, make sure you don’t miss any by subscribing to our deals feed. You can also follow the recently launched website Type Deals if you are looking for free fonts or font deals. 100+ Christmas and New Year’s Vector Designs. It’s that time of year again! The holidays are upon us, so break out the Christmas cheer with this premium bundle of high-quality Christmas and New Year vectors!

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Just Creative

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Welcome to my massive compilation of the best 2019 Black Friday Deals and Cyber Monday Sales for graphic designers, web professionals, creatives, freelancers and more. I will be updating this page frequently until all sales are over. If you have your own deal, email me and I’ll update the post with your deal. Keep in mind, many of these deals will only go live around Black Friday.

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Spoon Graphics

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Easily add ink stamp texture effects to your logos, lettering and illustrations with the help of my new FREE Ink Stamp Texturizer. This Smart PSD for Adobe Photoshop automatically applies all the adjustments and effects. All you have to do is edit the Smart Object layer and paste in your own artwork, then hit Save. You can then choose from 10 ink stamp textures to customise the amount of distressed texturing that is applied to the design.

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Advertiser: Issuu

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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Canva

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The face of design is always changing. What looks cutting-edge and on-trend one day could look dated and out-of-touch the next. So, as a designer, if you want your designs to feel timely and relevant, you need to keep your finger on the pulse of what’s going on in the design world—and, in particular, the most up-to-date design trends. But what exactly are those design trends going to be in 2020?

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Creative Market

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

During the busy holiday time, it’s easy to get caught up in the rush. To cultivate the spirit of gratitude, we encouraged designers to take a step back, reflect, and tell us: What is the moment in your design career that you’re most grateful for? We're sharing their responses below. Meaningful Jobs & Experiences. Some designers expressed gratitude for the experience of joining a certain company or working with a team they admired.

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BP&O

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

LogoArchive in print was conceived, designed and sent to print in a day. It was inspired by a panel discussion at Somerset House as part of the exhibition Print! Now on to its seventh release, LogoArchive continues to reconfigure itself with each new issue with the intention of surprising, graphically and materially, within the context […]. The post LogoArchive ExtraIssue – Letters As Symbols appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.

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Designer Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

We are happy to release this great set of FREE vector icons of drinks. To download it, just subscribe to our blog using the form below or in the sidebar, then confirm your subscription. The download link will then be available in every blog update, until we change for another one, so this one will not be available for free anymore. This set includes all kinds of drinks, designed with a line-based icon style and a subtle color-scheme.

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Just Creative

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

This article was contributed by Ashley Wilson. Does your office space relay the same message as your branding? It should! The most successful brands bring their branding message, values and goals to life right in their offices, and here’s why you should do it too. Branding is one of the most important aspects of any successful business. Whether you’re a large multinational, or just starting out, your brand is the first thing potential clients see.

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Spoon Graphics

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In today’s Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to create the popular floral typography effect, where type is combined with images of flowers to create pretty artwork. We’ll begin by producing a composition of floral illustrations, then add the type and erase specific portions of the artwork to make it seem like the flowers surround the text, with some petals and stems appearing on top and others underneath.

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Booooooom

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

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Creative Market

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This is a guest post by our friends at Webflow , an all-in-one web design tool that allows users to design, build, and launch responsive websites visually. Typography is an important part of any web design. E-commerce, especially, needs to use fonts that are both readable and reflect a brand's identity. Get inspired by the stunning typography used in these 20 stores, and get a new, free UI kit from Webflow to get your own store up and running.

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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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BP&O

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Opinion by Richard Baird Lookbooks is an online bookstore that specialisises in fun and quirky publications of the past. Recent acquisitions include Old Bohemian and Moravian Jewish Cemeteries by Petr Ehl, Arno Parik & Jiri Fiedler, 1991 and 101 Cake Design by Mary Ford, 1987. There is a culturual value to many of these, reflecting a […]. The post Lookbooks by Studio Lowrie appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.

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Designer Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

If you are a Figma user, you already enjoy the simplicity of use of the collaborative design tool for regular design tasks. Using plugins, it’s possible to even take Figma a step further and add cool features. The color search plugin programmed by Joel Califa is one of these nifty additions that make the experience awesome. It allows you to search for colors more intuitively by entering any name and suggesting five colors.

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Just Creative

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Laptops come in many different screen sizes and choosing the right one can help you get your work done without struggling to see everything on the screen. Knowing which one is best suited for the type of work that you need to do can get tricky at times if you don’t know what you’re looking for, which is where we come in. Choosing a great 17-inch laptop shouldn’t be a life or death struggle and to help we wanted to share our choices for the best 17-inch laptops for creatives.

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Spoon Graphics

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Access All Areas members have a great bundle of 5 premium typefaces to download this week, courtesy of James Dene of Dene Studios. Included in this collection is the Ancient Languages Typeface Bundle, which contains 3 fonts based on the first systems of writing in human civilisation (Cuneiform, Norse Elder Futhark and Egyptian Hieroglyphs), plus 2 additional display fonts with a futuristic style named Equinox and Perehilion.

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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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Booooooom

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Synchrodogs. Synchrodogs is a duo of photographers from Ukraine – Tania Shcheglova (30 y.o.) and Roman Noven (35 y.o.) shooting together since 2008. Working on ‘Slightly Altered’ project artistic duo Synchrodogs went into a one-month trip across Carpathian Mountains to discover how far people managed to intrude into the territories that were meant to be wild. “Slightly Altered” is a reflection on how much we are intertwined with nature – changing the environment, we chang

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SpeckyBoy

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

With UI design continually changing and moving forward, it can be an arduous task keeping up with the latest changes in icon design. Even though trend changes have not been as drastic this year as we”ve seen in previous years, the icons have clearly become more refined, more specialized, and they have fully embraced the beauty of simplicity by blending all of the minimal features from previously popular icon styles.

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Creative Market

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Have you ever wondered how successful creative people do what they do? What is their secret? How do they generate work that resonates so well with their audiences? Where do their groundbreaking ideas come from? Have you ever gotten a straight answer to any of these questions? I haven’t. Looking in from the outside, it feels a bit like magic, doesn’t it?

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Designer Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Every week, we’ll give you an overview of the best deals for designers, make sure you don’t miss any by subscribing to our deals feed. You can also follow the recently launched website Type Deals if you are looking for free fonts or font deals. Instantly Create Realistic Chalk Effects with Chalkboard Automator. With Adobe Photoshop and the Chalkboard Automator tool, you can quickly and easily create professional looking chalk effects.

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Speaker: Michele Berdinis

This session will answer business law questions that people are asking most during the pandemic. If my business can’t pay its bills, can my creditors come after my personal assets? Do I have to pay the rent on my co-working space or office? Can my clients cancel signed contracts? Can I cancel contracts for things I no longer need because my business has slowed down?

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Just Creative

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

This is a guest article contributed by Bilal Uddin. If someone gives you $500, what would you do? . Buy a new phone. A domestic flight. Start a business. What? Start a business, seriously. Well, it may sound absurd, and it should be. According to research, it takes around $3000 to start a small business. But, there is a million-dollar business that you can start at just $500 – Dropshipping !

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Spoon Graphics

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

I stumbled across some packaging designs for old cap gun toys recently, which gave me the inspiration to reproduce the style myself. Follow along with today’s tutorial to create a vintage toy packaging design using both Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. We’ll begin in Illustrator to draw the main product illustration, lay out the type, and compose the design.

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BP&O

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Opinion by Richard Baird. Inn Situ is part of the cultural programme of BTV Bank and series of three events; a exhibition, a concert and panel discussion. This takes place two to three times a year in the Austrian city of Innsbruck. The events are distinctive in their approach, a Russian doll of nested narratives, with […]. The post Inn Situ by Studio Mut appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.

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SpeckyBoy

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Whether you want to impress potential clients and investors or simply need to design a presentation for your client, there is no doubt that a template can save you hours of time. Luckily, there is no shortage of free templates that not only look good but can be used for business presentations, investor pitches, proposals, portfolios, and more. In this post, we’ll share the 25 best Keynote templates that are completely free and you can use them not only for your clients’ presentations

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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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