Just Creative

MAY 13, 2020

This article has been contributed by Vartika Kashyap. The coronavirus pandemic shows us how something microscopic can have such a humongous impact on the world. The ripples have reached us all, and it’s time to adapt your teams to the telecommuting or remote work regime. Managing a remote team isn’t easy and the transition can take a while. This feat is even harder for marketing teams, who need constant communication and work primarily on feedback.

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Graphic Design Junction

MAY 4, 2020

A successful website or app must have user interface design at its core. To do this, developers and designers must put themselves into the minds of the people they are designing for. The following are some user design tips every designer should know. 1. Be Familiar with Your Audience. You cannot design something to meet the needs of your audience if you do not understand what those needs are.

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Graphic Mama

MAY 15, 2020

Web Design and Web Development Agencies often get confused and regularly are lumped together. Understandably given the fact that many Design Agencies also are Development Agencies and occasionally throw web marketing into the mix. It can all get a little confusing but there is a clear and obvious difference. Web design typically concentrates on the look of the site, the visuals, and the feeling they create.

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Just Creative

MAY 19, 2020

This article has been contributed by Ivio Agency. Any successful business starts with an effective branding strategy. A brand strategy is a long-term plan that affects all facets of your business. This can be overwhelming to put together when you are new to the game. But have no fear, if you are starting your brand from scratch, use the help of a brand strategy workshop to get the job done!

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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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Spoon Graphics

MAY 20, 2020

I’ve been admiring the lettering work on vintage insurance maps lately. These old documents were originally drawn up by hand by master penmen, who illustrated the title page with ornate lettering and detailed embellishments. Painstakingly illustrating artwork like this by hand is a dying art form that would have taken years of training to become a master of penmanship, but we can create similar text styles with the help of digital fonts and modifications in Adobe Illustrator.

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I Love Typography

MAY 3, 2020

When books began to be printed in the fifteenth century, scribes were not immediately made redundant. The rich still commissioned them to produce deluxe manuscripts, governments and local authorities still required secretaries and copyists for administrative documents, and even printed books left spaces for decorated initials and other elements to be added in by hand. […].

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Creative Market

MAY 29, 2020

Ever bought something to eat simply because the packaging looked stunning? Welcome to the club. Unique fonts, edgy graphics, and bold layouts can truly bring out the best in food products. To make such compelling designs easier to create, independent artists around the world have made some of their best work available for Commercial and Extended Commercial use.

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Booooooom

MAY 22, 2020

New color in the times of slow coffee. Terrence Caviar & Kristin Texeira. We’re crazy about the paintings of our friend Kristin Texeira, so we had the idea to make photos inspired by the elemental shapes and soothing color palettes that make up Kristin’s beautiful abstract compositions. Everyone under stay-in-place mandates (Kristin in upstate New York, myself in San Francisco, and Michelle in Columbus, Ohio), we collaborated remotely and were reliant on using items we already had in our pos

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Just Creative

MAY 31, 2020

Earlier in 2020, I posted an article on the latest logo design & branding trends and now 6 months on, the official 2020 logo trends report has just been released by Bill Gardner of LogoLounge. This report has been put together by carefully analyzing over 350k logos from the past 18 years, handpicking those that contribute to emerging trends for the year.

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Spoon Graphics

MAY 11, 2020

Branding and signage from the 1800s are the quintessential ‘vintage’ designs. More generally known as the Victorian era, visual traits that are associated with this style include ornate typography and decorative flourishes. Unlike modern logo designs that are designed to be simple and versatile icons, vintage logos are extremely detailed lettering pieces often accompanied by intricate embellishments.

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I Love Typography

MAY 25, 2020

Today I launched two short multiple choice quizzes. The first starts at the beginning with Gutenberg, with questions about his life and his famous Bible. Some of the questions are pretty easy; others you might find rather difficult. The second game, Glorious Glyphs, tests your font identification chops by having you identify individual characters or […].

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BP&O

MAY 12, 2020

Words by Richard Baird Tangent GC began as a Scandinavian organic garment and shoe care company developing products that intended to increase the life of clothing and footwear, and entered the organic skincare market in 2016. The longevity of skin being an understandable extension of that original intention. The company’s graphic identity, a typographical system designed by Essen International […].

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Creative Market

MAY 21, 2020

This article was created in collaboration with our friends at MURAL , an online tool for visual collaboration, inspiration and innovation anytime, anywhere, on any device. Remote design projects allow talented creators to work with the companies and individuals that need their support, no matter where either party is located. Remote work, however, comes with unique challenges that our industry as a whole is learning to navigate.

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Booooooom

MAY 15, 2020

Giorgiko (pronounced jee-OR-jee-koh) is the product of a collaborative experiment between Darren and Trisha Inouye melding minimal, expressive character illustration with large-scale classical painting. Giorgiko. Giorgiko’s Website. Giorgiko on Instagram.

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Just Creative

MAY 13, 2020

This post has been contributed by Nick Kanter. The history of the old cliche “a picture is worth a thousand words” is a murky and, honestly, boring one. However, this does not make it any less true. Journalists know it. Politicians know it. Comic book artists know it. Marketers definitely know it. When we are talking about landing pages , most of us still believe that copy almost exclusively drives conversions.

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Spoon Graphics

MAY 25, 2020

Download my new pack of textures to add detailed wood grain effects to your designs. After processing each photograph of wooden paneling to straighten and equalize the texture, the wood grain pattern was then extracted and exported as PNG files with transparent backgrounds. These PNG files preserve the details of the grain and make it easy to place the textures over your artwork.

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Under Consideration / Brand

MAY 4, 2020

“Multiple Choice”. Established in 2006, OLX (short for On Line eXchange) is a leading classifieds platform that allows users to buy, sell, or exchange used goods and services. Owned by OLX Group -- which owns another 18 similar platforms across the globe and across industries -- OLX is available in 25 countries around the world, from Brazil to India to South Africa and every month, hundreds of millions of people use OLX to find and sell everything from furniture to musical instruments, cars, hou

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BP&O

MAY 13, 2020

Words by Richard Baird Both Sides Now, a title borrowed from Joni Mitchell’s famous song, is a solo exhibition of Argentinian contemporary artist Leandro Erlich’s work that took place at the Seoul Museum of Art between December 2019 and March 2020. Erlich’s installations, often receiving international acclaim, mirrors, reflective surfaces, water and other various materials to create optical […].

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Creative Review

MAY 13, 2020

From donation initiatives thriving on social media to a wealth of eye-catching posters from leading designers, the Covid-19 pandemic has seen a great number of charitable efforts and creative responses. Graphic designer Raissa Pardini – known for her energetic designs seen across the music industry – is bringing the two together in a new project that puts the fun in fundraising.

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Graphic Design Junction

MAY 14, 2020

Download Adobe illustrator brushes for vector illustrations and effects. If you’r are designer and looking for high quality brushes for Illustrator , this is the best place to download vector illustrator brushes. This list contains thirty brushes packs with tons of different style of illustrator brushes. These brushes are very high-resolution and included brushes are Hand Drawn Brushes, Watercolor Brushes , Paint Brushes, Ink Brushes and Vintage Brushes.

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Just Creative

MAY 21, 2020

The days of fonts being created by hand are long gone. These days fonts tend to be created through the use of design programs and one of the most recent formats to reach the stage is OpenType-SVG which is a font format that has some or all of the components that it consists of presented as scalable vector graphics. These SVG fonts feature gradients, patterns, or colors which are embedded in the characters themselves.

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Spoon Graphics

MAY 18, 2020

There are many vintage fonts out there, but not many have been expertly crafted by a talented lettering artist who lives and breathes the vintage aesthetic. The Vintage Font Bundle from Heritage Type Co. contains 6 typefaces designed by Tobias Saul, whose inspirational vintage logos and type designs have been featured many times in showcases on Spoon Graphics.

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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

MAY 17, 2020

Emoji seems to have invaded every part of our culture. What started out as a niche feature for mobile phone users and computer geeks has become its own phenomenon. Now, we see these little characters on t-shirts, marketing campaigns and even not-so-funny feature films. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that emoji have become a sort-of common language.

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BP&O

MAY 15, 2020

Text by Richard Baird. Atop of Croatia’s Istria peninsula, just where the land slips into the Adriatic sea sits the tiny small-batch gin distillery of Monachus. Stone shores, botanical covered hillsides, the smell of pine and scattered pin cones characterises the landscape. Drawing on this, the natural history of Istria and the name Monachus, borrowed from Monachus Monachus an endangered Mediterranean […].

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Tuts Plus

MAY 22, 2020

A restaurant's menu holds a lot of responsibility. A good one will ignite hunger cravings and give customers a rundown of what to expect. So make the design count! Now you can create enticing restaurant scenes with high-quality menu mockups. Great for websites, profile banners, and more, these visuals help designers and restaurateurs make compelling imagery fast.

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Graphic Design Junction

MAY 12, 2020

Today we are featuring professional Graphic Designer and Illustrator artist Richard Davies , with his amazing digital illustration artwork. He is from Carmarthenshire, Wales. He has worked as a graphic designer and illustrator for almost fifteen years. Inspired by the movie poster and commercial art of his youth. He’s working is predominantly used in the entertainment and publishing industries.

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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

MAY 28, 2020

This article has been contributed by Andrew Simon. It is impossible to ignore the significance of a brand’s logo. You will see their logo everywhere, from their website and printed collateral to advertising and staff clothing. It’s the most salient part of a brand’s promotional activity both online and offline. A well-designed logo can give a company a unique identity and allows the target audience to quickly recognise a brand.

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Spoon Graphics

MAY 6, 2020

In today’s Adobe Photoshop video tutorial I’m going to take you through my process of creating a vintage style advertisement poster with letterpress print effects. We’ll start by laying out the design with a selection of fonts inspired by the era of wood type, along with some hand-drawn graphic elements using a limited 3-colour palette.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

MAY 15, 2020

A Complete Guide to CSS Functions – Yes, CSS has functions! Learn how they can benefit your projects with this in-depth guide. A case study of complex table design – A look at redesigning a feature for better usability. What to Do When a Web Design Client Leaves – Tips for making the best of an awkward situation and lost revenue. Creating an Accessible Range Slider with CSS – Use this tutorial to learn the finer points of form accessibility.

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BP&O

MAY 18, 2020

Text by Richard Baird. Inside Lottozero was an exhibition of international artists that covered a wide-range of artistic disciplines. It was conceived by Arianna and Tessa Moroder and curated by Alessandra Tempesti. The exhibition took place at Lottozero / textile laboratories in Toscana, Italy and ran until November 20th, 2016. Under the concept of “Non-stop Fruition”, the exhibition […].

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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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