February, 2022

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Animated Corporate Video Examples to Inspire Your Next Campaign

Canny

Are you in need of some animated corporate video examples to inspire your next project? Well, look no further because that’s what we’re covering in this blog post. If you haven’t started experimenting with animated video yet then it’s time to take the plunge. And if you’re stuck in the mindset of thinking these are silly, cartoon type videos that no one is really going to watch, then you couldn’t be more wrong.

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Creative Business Card PSD Templates: 35 New Design

Graphic Design Junction

New creative business cards collection of 35 professionally designed business card templates. Each business card is fully customizable and comeup with well organized Photoshop PSD files. All business card templates are perfect for corporate business, agencies or even personal use. You can easily change the color of the element itself in just one click.

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Franck Bohbot's photographs of Los Angeles are like stills from a non-existent film

Creative Boom

Internationally renowned photographer Franck Bohbot has revisited his Angels project, which sees him photographing the city of Los Angeles in original and surprising ways. Having previously released photos from 2017, the update contains photographs taken between 2017 and 2021 and includes striking images of the city taken during the pandemic. Released on his Behance page , the updated Angels photographs continue Franck's documentation of a city with conflicting and sometimes polarising preconcep

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How to Create a Colourful Stacked Text Effect

Spoon Graphics

In today’s tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a colourful text effect with several stacked text elements that are progressively spaced further apart and transition through the colour spectrum to produce a rainbow effect. It reminds me of the kind of retro design you might see on an old VHS tape box or an ad for an 80s technology brand.

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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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How to create any design you like in 5 minutes!

Designer Daily

Creating a professional design and doing so in a time efficient manner have been two contradicting goals ever since. But don’t worry, we have just discovered a solution! The Heritage Group (the guys behind Heritage Type) have developed a banging design tool that’ll enable everyone to create pro-like designs in 5 minutes. It will change the way designing is done forever.

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F5: Leyden Lewis Loves the Internet, Pork Belly Buns + More

Design Milk

With global influences from his Caribbean heritage in Trinidad and Tobago, Founder and Creative Director Leyden Lewis leads his practice with the ability to design timeless environments with a universal aesthetic. Leyden Lewis Design Studio is a full-service interior design firm based in Brooklyn, New York. They specialize in creating poetic, culturally sensitive spaces that emphasize the importance of fine arts, design, and structure.

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25 Corporate Brochure Templates For Brand Guidelines

Graphic Design Junction

Creative and modern Business Brochure Templates ready to use for corporate, designing agency, graphic designer, corporate annual reports or personal portfolio. These Brochure Templates can save your time and money in creating a professional corporate informant. All brochure templates are fully editable, easy to change photos, print ready (CMYK/3mm Bleeds/300 dpi).

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Verve's new identity for Flutterwave is a celebration of African entrepreneurial spirit

Creative Boom

Dutch agency Verve has launched its new brand identity for African fintech Flutterwave , which has just been valued at over $3 billion, currently making it the highest valued African startup on the continent. The fresh visual system is based on 'LabaLaba', meaning 'butterfly' in Yoruba, one of the main languages spoken in Nigeria. "Flutterwave is such a powerful and dynamic brand that exudes the spirit of African entrepreneurship and so our collaborative approach was critical to this, ensuring t

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Adobe Alternatives – 24 Apps to Rival Adobe Creative Cloud (Free & Paid)

Just Creative

Looking for a affordable Adobe Creative Cloud alternative? We’ve compiled the best Adobe alternatives into one post, including free Adobe CC alternatives. Get 65% Off Adobe Creative Cloud — See our Adobe Creative Cloud discount guide. Get 10 Free Stock Images from Adobe Stock — Royalty-free photos, illustrations and videos. As a well-known creative developer, Adobe’s suite of innovative, industry-standard apps is often preferred by creatives and professionals across the globe.

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Illustrator Tutorial: Sketch to Vector Character Illustration

Spoon Graphics

In today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial I’m going to show you my process of converting a rough sketch into a vector illustration by turning one of my old doodles into a cute yeti cartoon character. By tracing the initial sketch with as many basic shapes as possible, we can achieve a simple ‘flat’ illustration style. The addition of colour fills and strokes using a cold palette of pale blue hues really brings the character to life, then I’ll show you an easy shading technique that enhances yo

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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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F5: Travis London Loves Bold Features, Color + His Dogs

Design Milk

Born and raised in the City of Angels, celebrity chef turned interior designer, Travis London , brings together American design sensibilities and European glamour. As the principal of Studio London Co , he began his design journey in New York City, followed by years in Paris and Milan, on a voyage to explore and perfect his strong use of color and pattern.

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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Show

I Love Typography

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. In this sixth episode of Font of the Month, Steven Heller takes us on a geo-historical journey from Modernist manifestos and 19th-century wood type to the brightly painted handcarts of Buenos Aires, Argentina — to trace the origins and inspiration for Huy! Fonts’ layer fonts family, Show. Buckle up! The post Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Show appeared first on I Love Typography.

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Free PSD Mockups: 35 New Product Mockup Templates

Graphic Design Junction

Free PSD mockups download, high quality realistic mockups for commercial use. Eeasy to edit Photoshop PSD Mockups files with smart object. The mockups are best to present your design in a realistic-way! The mockups included branding, iPhone 13 Mockups, logo mockup , free t-shirt mockups , packaging mock-ups, stationery mockup , magazine cover and hoodies mockups in different perspective angles and styles.

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Sofia Pusa's brand refresh for a Finland photography agency is inspired by the crucial F-stop

Creative Boom

In her brand refresh for a photography agency based in Helsinki, Sofia Pusa went back to the basics of photography and the concept of the F-stop, crafting a visual language that considers why light is always needed to capture the perfect picture. The independent creative director, designer and illustrator is a branding specialist with her work winning multiple awards since she graduated in graphic design from the Lahti Institute of Design.

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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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Outlandish ‘90s web design: love it or hate it?

Creative Bloq

Warning: nostalgia incoming.

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Refracted Ray Gradient Textures

Spoon Graphics

Access All Areas members have a fantastic new collection of textures to download this week, courtesy of Illus.trate. These Refracted Ray Gradients are colourful abstract graphics with grainy details. 20 high-resolution 300ppi textures are included, each with a unique spectrum of colours. They are ideal for use as backgrounds to your designs, or for creating bold poster art.

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DMTV Milkshake: Anna Rindos on Finding Joy in Color

Design Milk

Anna Rindos is a self-professed “two-dimensional and three-dimensional oddities maker,” based in Brooklyn – and she’s this week’s guest for DMTV Milkshake. Anna comes to us from her apartment – check out the ultra-colorful pieces behind her and leave her a comment with feedback on her latest piece, a vessel from which she pulls this week’s questions.

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3 More Tools I Use To Run My Business

Six Leaf Design

Last month I wrote a post about the 3 Tools I Use Every Day To Run My Business and I got so many responses letting me know how you were able to start streamlining your processes with these online services. I loved hearing your great feedback so much that today I'm sharing 3 more online tools that I use on a regular basis to help run my business smoothly.

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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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23 Modern Creative Brochure Templates For Branding

Graphic Design Junction

The corporate brochures, clean and creative templates perfect for business branding, annual report, product catalog , fashion booklet, photography portfolio and company profile. Brochures are designed with a strong themes with paragraph and character styles, swatches, styles for your spreadsheet / financial info, block quotes, key figures layout, and much more, multi-functionality and fully editable.

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Illustrated Moments: Andrea Ucini's intimate and emotional works to go on display

Creative Boom

Still Not Worried © Andrea Ucini. You might know Rankin as a leading British photographer, but did you know he also hosts exhibitions at his London studio to support other artists and designers? His latest show is with Andrea Ucini , a conceptual illustrator whose work explores intimacy, emotion and expression. Born in Italy and currently living and working in Denmark, Ucini has a signature sense of humour and a nod to the surreal, alongside a grounded take on expression, gesture and human natur

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This image is not actually 3D

Creative Bloq

And making it is easy with this TikTok/Illustrator hack.

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16 Best-Selling, Versatile Fonts, Just $29 for Them All!

Spoon Graphics

Premium design resources can be really expensive. Fonts in particular are often the most costly tool a designer needs, so when a massive saving like this comes along it’s hard to let it pass by! This brand new bundle contains 16 hand-picked typefaces, containing loads of individual fonts, chosen specifically for their quality and versatility. These fonts are best-sellers at their regular price, but you can pick them up with a huge saving for a limited time.

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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.

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Pass the SALT: A Vessel Designed to Let You Witness + Experience Salt Harvesting

Design Milk

Today, salt is one of the oldest and most ubiquitous recognizable flavors. Our palates would be lost without it – salt reduces bitterness, boosts flavors and preserves perishable foods. But it’s come a long way. From being a substance so valuable it served as currency, this common household item that shaped civilizations by establishing trade routes, provoking wars, and inspiring revolutions… is now served from a modest shaker on every kitchen table in the world.

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The secret to having confidence as a creative professional with tips from artists and designers

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock. It's a beautiful day when we finally realise the secret to having confidence. It takes a hefty chunk of our adult lives to enjoy this revelation when we understand how to own our careers, conquer inner demons and benefit from believing in ourselves. But it's not an easy lesson to learn or remember, so we'll try to offer some helpful advice.

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Hudson-Powell's Impala rebrand finds the human side to empowering tech

Creative Boom

Pentagram partners Luke Powell and Jody Hudson-Powell have collaborated with tech-driven travel platform Impala to create a new brand identity which finds the engaging, human side to its services. It's all part of an effort to create a fairer and more sustainable ecosystem for Impala and its audience. The phrases "tech-dominated travel" and "business-to-business" aren't the most friendly or accessible you're likely to hear, even if their intentions are good.

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Geoffroy Pithon's explosive mix of art and graphic design for Claptrap's latest music video

Creative Boom

For its new track Out Of, French band Claptrap appointed Geoffroy Pithon and Gérald Fleury to create a stop-motion music video that mixes paint, drawings and paper cut-outs with a little lettering all in Pithon's distinctive style – a pleasing mash-up that treads a fine line between art and graphic design. Geoffroy Pithon was approached by Claptrap earlier last year to come up with an identity for its latest music album, Adulting, under the French record label Un je-ne-sais-quoi.

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What in the World is a Force Majeure?

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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Portrait illustrations by Becki Gill burst with pop culture, music and joyful colour

Creative Boom

Social Anxiety © Becki Gill. It sounds like quite the idyllic setting for Becki Gill , as the freelance illustrator describes her life in the South Lakes, living with her fiancé, a dog and two cats. Specialising in portraits of pop culture icons and musicians, she loves creating vibrant pattern illustrations, including wildlife and animals. Becki has lived in the Lake District her whole life, even choosing to stay local when she studied Illustration at the University of Cumbria in Carlisle, grad

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The Lost Words: artwork from the publishing phenomenon gets its own exhibition

Creative Boom

A special showing of The Lost Words is coming to Bournemouth's Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum next month. Featuring the art of Jackie Morris and the creative talents of writer Robert Macfarlane, the show celebrates nature's power to spark the imagination. Launching on 26 March and running until 18 September, The Lost Words is an enchanting exhibition based on the Sunday Times bestselling book of the same name first published in 2017.

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Money-saving tips for creative freelancers feeling the pinch

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock. Just in case you haven't noticed, inflation is running rampant right now, with prices spiralling in the face of global energy shortages and supply chain problems. Price rises are likely to continue for some time. So you may be wondering, how am I going to afford to live? One solution is to raise your rates, and if you're talented and in-demand, that may be easier than you think: you can find advice on doing so in this article.

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New and expanded Malika Favre monograph is a minimalist marvel

Creative Boom

French illustrator and graphic designer Malika Favre has been impressing audiences for years with her minimalist work for publications such as The New Yorker, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. Now over a decade's worth of her work has been released in a new monograph from Counter-Print, which contains a suitably stripped-back aesthetic. Titled Malika Favre (Expanded Edition) , this monograph builds on a previous edition from Counter-Print, which has enjoyed two successful print runs.

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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.