Just Creative

JANUARY 3, 2021

This article has been contributed by Tracy Sparks. Sometimes finding the right road to travel down can feel like standing in front of a spaghetti junction. With so many paths twisting and turning up ahead, which one do you choose? Where do they all lead? When it comes to choosing a career, it’s important to find one in which you can thrive. You don’t need something that simply pays the bills, but something that challenges you to solve problems in new ways, where no two days are ever the same.

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Six Leaf Design

JANUARY 20, 2021

So, you’ve taken the plunge and invested in a shiny new website for your business to take things to the next level. But what good is even having a website if no one can find it? That’s where SEO comes into play. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and it essentially means making your site visible for search engines like Google and Bing so people can find you when they search.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

It seems like every designer has a horror story or two (or seventeen) about getting ripped off by a client who refuses to pay. Once it happens, there’s not too much you can do. It sucks, but it’s the simple truth. If you didn’t get a contract or a clear payment process established in the beginning, a lot of the time you’re just going to have to eat the loss.

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Spoon Graphics

JANUARY 25, 2021

Follow along with today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a colourful text effect, which comprises of a stack of text elements that transition through the colour spectrum to produce a rainbow effect. This text style has somewhat of a retro vibe, with it being the kind of effect you might see on an old VHS tape box or brand identity for a 70-80s tech or media company.

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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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I Love Typography

JANUARY 13, 2021

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. After a decade, ILT's annual Favorite Fonts list is back. In addition to a ten top favorite typefaces, there are now 50 typefaces in the Honorable Mentions list; and a section devoted to my favorite glyphs or characters of 2020, and a few words about my magical selection process. Oh, and there's even a typographic Space Invaders Easter egg!

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Designer Daily

JANUARY 5, 2021

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. The Old Harbour Vintage Font Collection. The Old Harbour is a font collection inspired by the vintage hand lettered signage, old bottles’ labels and the aesthetic of old school tattoos.

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Booooooom

JANUARY 4, 2021

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SpeckyBoy

JANUARY 8, 2021

Are you struggling to find that particular font that matches your creative vision? Well, you have come to the right place. We have collected fifty beautifully clean and stunningly crisp free fonts that will hopefully make your search that little bit easier. All of the free fonts in this collection can be used in both your personal and commercial projects.

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Spoon Graphics

JANUARY 11, 2021

I love adding dirty textures to my designs to eliminate the clean digital appearance of computer-generated artwork. My new set of Dirty Surface Textures has been created from layers and layers of real surface grime to help you add authentic dirt effects with intricate details to your work, which just can’t be replicated with built-in Photoshop filters alone.

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Creative Review

JANUARY 28, 2021

Reimagining one of Penguin’s classic titles would be a dream commission for most designers, let alone being let loose on the work of arguably England’s most celebrated writer, George Orwell. The author and social commentator’s most famous work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, has been reimagined by everyone from designer David Pearson to illustrator Noma Bar in recent years.

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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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Designer Daily

JANUARY 7, 2021

The interesting news of the past week if you are a graphic designer, web designer, product designer, or pretty much anyone that has an interest in design. The CIA has a trendy new logo. Critics are not impressed. As a general rule, the CIA tries to stay out of the news. But its new website didn’t arrive on the scene very quietly. Read article on Fast Company.

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Just Creative

JANUARY 3, 2021

This article has been contributed by Nicholas Rubright. If you’re running a business, you can’t just hope for leads to come to you. You need an inbound marketing strategy to attract potential clients. That’s where a blog can help you. But setting up and writing a blog is only one part of the equation. To succeed in business, you need a blog that turns leads into paying customers and offers something unique to potential clients.

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Booooooom

JANUARY 26, 2021

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SpeckyBoy

JANUARY 2, 2021

Instagram stories are a great way to connect with your followers and give them a glimpse into your personal life as well as exclusive behind the scene updates. However, creating an Instagram story from scratch can be time-consuming. That’s where Instagram Story templates come in handy. In this roundup, we’re featuring the best Instagram Story templates that will allow you to create and share your stories in a consistent manner and get them published quickly.

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Spoon Graphics

JANUARY 29, 2021

A free online Adobe event kicked off earlier this week at Design Cuts featuring live sessions with top designers and discounts of up 50% off various products for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and more. This is your chance to own some of the best Photoshop Brushes, Templates, Graphics, Fonts, and Toolkits at a huge discount. Throughout this week there has also been several FREE Live Sessions with some of the biggest names in the design community, so you can learn new tips and techniques and us

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Creative Review

JANUARY 8, 2021

While 2020 was generally pretty miserable for a lot of brands, Burger King managed to buck the trend with a wealth of brilliant creative work, most significantly in its Moldy Whopper campaign , which swept the awards circuit. The fast food giant is showing no signs of slowing down as we enter a new year, however, having just unveiled its first major rebrand in over two decades.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2021

Technically, there’s no limit to the amount of design and content elements you can place onto a website. But the reality is that the space for getting a user’s attention is finite. That’s because a visitor typically reacts to what they see in the first few seconds after page load. Anything not visible within that timeframe will likely be missed. Designers and content creators alike have to carefully consider what is included.

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Just Creative

JANUARY 5, 2021

This article has been contributed by Jyoti Roy. So, you have created a new website and now you want to monetize your blog. Not a problem – it can be a straightforward process. But to make money from your website, you need web traffic – and the key to generating traffic is successful search engine optimisation (SEO). There are plenty of SEO related articles on the internet that will help you get started.

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Noupe

JANUARY 13, 2021

Marketing employs a wide range of design tactics to catch customer’s eyes, resonate, and leave a lasting impression. A marketer’s goal is conversion and they use every means possible to make that happen. Did you know that an incredibly powerful conversion design aspect lies in the art of typography? From serif to sans serif fonts, kerning, and size variations, the way your words appear dramatically changes the power of your message.

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SpeckyBoy

JANUARY 2, 2021

Photoshop actions can take a lot of the guesswork out of editing and finishing your photos. However, but if you don’t have a handy set of resources on hand, it might be a struggle to figure out how to proceed. That’s why we’ve put together this collection of Photoshop actions that make it super easy to add artistic effects to your images.

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Spoon Graphics

JANUARY 20, 2021

Follow along with this tutorial to learn how to create a stylized illustration with the appearance of a stained glass window, where the artwork is segmented into several coloured shapes. I’ll first show you how to create the simplified illustration style by using Illustrator’s shape tools to draw a rose graphic. This vector art alone is a nice, bright, flat illustration style, but I’ll then show you how you can transform your artwork into a realistic stained glass window with t

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Creative Review

JANUARY 27, 2021

When London was placed into tier three restrictions after the first national lockdown, photographer and Kingston University student Cassian Gray decided to shine a light on unrepresented key workers in society. “There had been an extensive amount of coverage for NHS workers … and that’s when I thought of the Royal Mail postal workers,” explains Gray. “Their iconography really struck me; their bold red uniform with the recognisable Royal Mail logo emblazoned on the c

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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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Speckyboy Design Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2021

How to Use Color Fonts on the Web – Get the details behind one of the hottest new trends in typography. The Rise and Fall of Invision – A look at why the design tool suite has plummeted in popularity. SidePage – Check out this simple free tool for quickly creating professional documentation. Houdini.how – Helpful snippets for use with the Houdini low-level CSS API. 50+ Free Awesome Certificates to Earn in 2021 – Up your game with this curated list of free Computer Science & Information Techn

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Just Creative

JANUARY 31, 2021

Halftone refers to a photo or other image that has been reproduced, and dots of ink produce the gray or color tones of the image. Famously, Andy Warhol would use halftones on his photographic prints. Seeing his work and the other creations that artists can come up with using their Procreate app, we thought it was about time we put the focus on the best Halftone Brushes for Procreate.

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Logo Design Love

JANUARY 6, 2021

In the words of Richard Baird, the idea behind the latest issue of his LogoArchive zine is, “to evoke — through materials, processes, form, content and ‘atmosphere and ceremony’ — ‘akogare,’ a deep feeling of respect and admiration for those I look up to, and a feeling of never being able to reach the same level. Japanese publications such as IDEA and ‘Graphic Design,’ and the works of Japanese designers Issey Miyake, Ikko Tanaka, and Kazumasa Nagai were key inspirations for this new issue.

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Booooooom

JANUARY 22, 2021

Photographer Erinn Springer explores her midwestern roots in her recent series, “Dormant Seasons.” Originally from Wisconsin, Springer went to school in New York City and is currently based between both places. Initially started as a way to interact with her family and greater Wisconsin community, the series has blossomed into a reflective exploration of self, home, and the cyclical nature of the land we inhabit. .

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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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Spoon Graphics

JANUARY 15, 2021

Access All Areas members have a useful set of textures to download this week, courtesy of Shapeshift. The Distressed Halftone Textures Pack allows you to mimic the style of classic industrial printing methods by adding halftone patterns to your artwork, as seen on old comic books, newspapers and low-cost prints. This pack of distressed halftone textures contains 40 high resolution images in JPG & PNG format, each with a unique spread of dot patterns with varying density.

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SpeckyBoy

JANUARY 7, 2021

When professionalism matters, it’s time to turn to the experts. But don’t think that means hiring a video producer and breaking the bank. Instead, use a professional intro video template for After Effects to set the stage. You could use professional video templates for many purposes, like: Start off a company town hall or event – give a preview or build energy with a polished intro.

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Graphic Design USA

JANUARY 7, 2021

Design Agency CEO DJ Haddad of Haddad & Partners has taken an unorthodox approach to navigating through the pandemic, bringing a mobile office to the 70+ employees working at home.

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Just Creative

JANUARY 17, 2021

Originating in Northern Europe during the 11th century, the Blackletter Calligraphy style, also also known as Gothic or Black Letter, evolved as it spread throughout Europe. The vertical structure was created to mimic the architecture of gothic cathedrals. That’s enough of a history lesson though, Blackletter Calligraphy can add an Old English feel to your work and that’s why we wanted to focus on the Best Blackletter Calligraphy Brushes for Procreate.

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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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