Graphic Design USA
AUGUST 18, 2023
Ageism in the graphic design industry is a perennial problem. Dan Crowder of Craft argues that mixing up ages in a firm, agency or business isn't just about fairness, it’s about being genuinely creative.
Inkbot Design
AUGUST 15, 2023
Ultimate Guide to Designing Logos with a Grid System Creating an impactful logo is no small feat. The mark must encapsulate a brand's identity and values in a single artistic expression that resonates with target audiences. This delicate balance of art and strategy is achieved through the harmonious marriage of design principles, creative vision, and strategic planning.
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Creative Boom
AUGUST 30, 2023
Kathryn Ashill. Photo: Anna Arca Unique to UK festivals, Green Man not only exhibits artwork out in the wild, but commissions original pieces from working artists. Check out what they created this year. Art galleries are fantastic places to get creative inspiration, and most of us probably don't take advantage of them enough. But here at Creative Boom, we also love the idea of occasionally taking art out of the gallery and exhibiting it in a different kind of environment altogether.
Inkbot Design
AUGUST 11, 2023
8 Growing Areas of Innovations in UX & UI Design User experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design constantly evolve as new technologies emerge. In the past few years, we have seen immense growth and innovation in the tools and techniques available to UX/UI designers. This rapid pace of change is welcomed, as delivering an intuitive, seamless user experience is more critical than ever.
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
Graphic Design Junction
AUGUST 30, 2023
The business card mockups are invaluable tools for designers and professionals alike. In the modern and fast growing artificial intelligence business, a brand’s identity and image play a pivotal role in shaping its success. One of the most tangible representations of this identity is the business card. It’s not merely a piece of paper with contact details; it’s a powerful tool that communicates professionalism, creativity, and the essence of your brand.
Designer Daily
AUGUST 25, 2023
In the age of information, it is paradoxically harder to get your message across, as the advertising “targets” are totally overwhelmed by images thrown at them everywhere: smartphones, billboards, TV, radio,… The world has become a constant stream of information, carefully mixing genuine information with advertising. With that context in mind, it becomes crucial to be creative and impactful in your advertising campaigns.
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Creative Bloq
AUGUST 31, 2023
Paul Kwon shows you how to use Procreate to draw anime characters, with a little help from Evangelion's Asuka.
Creative Boom
AUGUST 30, 2023
The Belfast-based branding specialists have pulled off another winning identity for Little Sister: a takeaway hatch on the northern Irish coast. The owners of Lost & Found, a brew bar and eatery on the north coast of Ireland, have a long relationship with Belfast-based studio Angel and Anchor. They first partnered with them in their rebrand, which we covered in our news story.
I Love Typography
AUGUST 24, 2023
Read the book, Typographic Firsts Web fonts are more than just a way to make your text look nice. They’re a powerful tool to communicate your brand’s personality, message, and values to your audience. Web fonts also affect the readability, usability, and accessibility of your website — factors which have a direct impact on your conversions and revenue.
Graphic Design Junction
AUGUST 31, 2023
Secrets of digital marketing is the process of using digital channels to reach and engage with your target audience. It includes a wide range of activities, such as search engine optimization (SEO), social media marketing, email marketing , and paid advertising. These strategies have the power to connect brands with their target audiences, drive engagement, and ultimately lead to tangible results.
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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.
Designer Daily
AUGUST 22, 2023
Laser cutting machines require a special file known as a laser-cut file to cut the desired design or pattern. The file is uploaded to the software, and the machine does everything on its own. But the problem is that not every laser enthusiast or laser machine owner knows how to design a laser-cut file. Even if they know, designing takes too much time.
Design Milk
AUGUST 16, 2023
Interactive outdoor art installations are some of our favorites! Now, Melbourne-based art and technology studio ENESS has launched A Solar-Powered Bench That Spins Ever So Slowly. The name of the permanent installation is exactly as it says – the whimsical benches store sunlight from custom solar panels and rotate, giving users a slow paced perspective of their surroundings.
Creative Bloq
AUGUST 30, 2023
Illustrator Fatemeh Haghnejad reveals how she uses Procreate to create a detailed illustration.
Creative Boom
AUGUST 28, 2023
The Bristol design consultancy helps to reposition Freja Natural Norwegian Bone Broth as a natural, healthy and fulfilling choice. One of the world's oldest culinary confections, bone broth, is a liquid made from boiling animal bones and connective tissue. The UK's best-selling bone broth, previously known as Take Stock, has now been rebranded by Bristol-based brand design consultancy The Collaborators , with the new name of Freja Natural Norwegian Bone Broth.
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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.
Creative Boom
AUGUST 30, 2023
Japan is full of great bakeries with amazing cakes and pastries, so how do you make a new business stand out from the crowd? Jin Fujiwara's fun, lively and colourful branding shows the way. In bustling Kurashiki, a city in Okayama, Japan, sisters Yumi and Hito had grown tired of their mundane jobs. One day, they shared a daring idea: starting a bakery.
Creative Boom
AUGUST 29, 2023
© Luke Dyson The head of Vision Factory reveals how he helped make Sam Fender's Reading set the stuff of legend. Your favourite band is playing at a major festival. Yay! But you're on the fence about getting a ticket. Why? Well, you've been to massive gigs where you were stuck at the back, and there was zero atmosphere. You squinted at the tiny stick figures on stage in the distance, trying to feel something, but overall, it turned out to be a pretty crummy night.
Creative Boom
AUGUST 29, 2023
At Creative Boom, we always like to keep an eye out for emerging illustration talent, and here's an artist everyone should know about. Based in Indianapolis, Shelley Hanmo is a self-taught illustrator specialising in paper collage illustration. She's worked with clients throughout the US, creating children's book illustrations, editorial designs, promotional illustrations, puzzles, seed packets, and more.
Creative Boom
AUGUST 25, 2023
Two of the world's best-known creatives are sharing their skills online with the BBC. Read on to get all the juicy details of what's been launched today. The BBC is known worldwide for its excellent educational content, which many parents took advantage of during the home-schooling period of the pandemic. But did you know they also produce paid-for courses in creative subjects?
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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.
Creative Boom
AUGUST 22, 2023
Freelance illustrator Tasia Graham specialises in creating artwork that explores womanhood, cultural identity and imagination. We caught up with her to learn about her creative approach and how she uses elements of real life to dramatic effect. Describing herself as an imaginative storytelling artist, Tasia Graham has found success by working with the likes of the BBC, the Financial Times, and the University of Arts London.
Creative Boom
AUGUST 22, 2023
You can't miss the Italian tissue brand on the shelves, thanks to eye-opening new packaging designs by global branding agency WMH&I. Packaging for tissues is usually pretty functional: you don't expect to see works of art or deep philosophical meaning. It's unsurprising that WMH&I's new packaging for Italian tissue brand Tempo caught our eyes.
Creative Boom
AUGUST 23, 2023
New York-based illustrator Carlos Miranda specialises in creating vibrant, trippy artworks that tap into the imagery from his subconscious. We caught up with him to learn more about his work and how a background in engineering set him up for a career in illustration. Carlos Miranda's career as an illustrator has hit the ground running. Last year, while still in his junior year of college at the New York Fashion Institute, he received a request to illustrate several murals for Klondike's centenni
Creative Boom
AUGUST 15, 2023
Design agency Robot Food has collaborated with Badger Brewery to create an illustration-led rebrand that balances tradition and character. Paired with bold colours and updated typography, the new look aims to help Badger appeal to a wider demographic. Founded in 1777, Badger is a fiercely independent, Dorset-based brewery best known for its refreshing beers like Fursty Ferret and Hopping Hare.
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.
Creative Boom
AUGUST 24, 2023
We loved the visual identity for this year's Green Man so much that we had to interview the artist behind it. Murugiah explains how he got the gig, developed his branding ideas, and what it's like to be surrounded by your own work at a festival. The summer of 2023 has been an amazing year for UK festivals. With memories of the pandemic fading into the background, everything from giant gigs like Glastonbury to small and intimate local events has returned with a vengeance.
Creative Boom
AUGUST 21, 2023
Graphic design isn't just for companies, products and individuals. Nature needs our help too, and in the case of a community-owned Scottish nature reserve, Studio Walden was happy to supply it. When we think of branding, we usually think of companies and consumer products: we don't usually think about wild spaces like moorland. But protecting our dwindling natural resources is a major operation in today's world, and places like the Tarras Valley Nature Reserve in Langholm, Scotland, can benefit
Creative Boom
AUGUST 6, 2023
Award-winning fine artist and conservationist Sophie Green has built a reputation for her hyper-realistic paintings. Her new collection, Commodities, sees a change in approach and style – and brings new challenges. We sat down to discuss the creative process and overcoming self-sabotage. After graduating from the University of Brighton with a first-class bachelor of Arts, Sophie initially pursued a career in film and television before returning to art in 2018.
Creative Boom
AUGUST 6, 2023
Baltimore-based illustrator Sudesna Samanta specialises in creating work based on themes of nostalgia, children's stories and travel. And thanks to her exquisite eye for colour, she can channel a sense of joy into every piece she makes. Sudesna Samanta's work ranges from book design to branding, social communication, and caricatures. As a graphic design graduate from the Unitedworld Institute of Design near Ahmedabad, she has cultivated striking techniques and short hands, allowing her drawings
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?
Creative Boom
AUGUST 7, 2023
Johannesburg-based illustrator and motion designer Ndumiso Nyoni was tired of seeing Africa misrepresented on the world stage, so he has made it his mission to capture the true diverse glory of the continent in his artwork. Africa is many things to many people. The continent, with its sheer size and cultural diversity, is home to resilient, community-minded people who are all too often represented artistically through an inaccurate, Western lens.
Creative Boom
AUGUST 10, 2023
Bournemouth-based freelance illustrator Julia Jin combines oriental art styles with Western graphics to create unique artworks that tackle topics of nature and womanhood. We caught up with her to learn more about her creative process. Originally from Shenzen, China, Julia Jin moved to England to study illustration at Arts University Bournemouth. Following on from her undergraduate studies at Jingdezhen Ceramic University, the decision to travel and learn at a Western institute has profoundly aff
Creative Boom
AUGUST 1, 2023
Here Design has reimagined the identity of a 400-year-old English country garden, bringing it into the 21st century to reflect its progressive vision for growth. Taking inspiration from Borde Hill itself, the logo mimics the form of leaves and stems. The family-run English country garden Borde Hill has seen its fair share of history over the last 400 years.
Creative Boom
AUGUST 1, 2023
Japanese illustrator Shotaro Kitada uses humble rolls of copy paper to create three-dimensional handmade sculptures that inhabit their own peculiar reality. We caught up with him to learn more about his uncanny artworks and animations. Having studied graphics at university, Shotaro Kitada started his artistic career in 2018 as an illustrator. His client projects typically saw him working on magazines, adverts and apparel, but it wasn't long until he transitioned into making three-dimensional obj
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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