SpeckyBoy

JANUARY 2, 2022

All released in the past year or so year, each of these free web-based apps offers a time-saving solution to many of the web design tasks you will need to perform from time to time. Without ever having to install anything, all you have to do is bookmark and save them for that day when they will be called upon. Some of these tiny time-savers will help you to better manage your SVG icon collections, organize code snippets, randomly create profile pictures, generate CSS animations, or even translat

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I Love Typography

JANUARY 19, 2022

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. The year 2021 was mostly memorable for all the wrong reasons. And it feels like I published last year’s favorite fonts list about ten years ago! However, 2021 wasn’t a bad year for type design. In my determination to keep the list capped at ten, I’ve undoubtedly left out many releases that merit inclusion.

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Spoon Graphics

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a geometric pattern using tessellating triangle shapes with a randomised colour scheme. This detailed mosaic effect is ideal for adding colourful backgrounds to your designs, or even as interesting abstract poster art. I’ll share a secret that helps to dramatically speed up the process by randomly adding colour fills to each shape automatically, and keep watching to see how this pattern can be processed to seamlessly

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We And The Color

JANUARY 18, 2022

All available for free download, this is our selection of the top 10 of the very best royalty-free stock images you can find in 2022 on Adobe Stock. For many creative professionals, Adobe Stock is the number one online marketplace to both offer and acquire stock images, illustrations, vector graphics, 3D objects, videos, audio files, or a wide range of templates for design tools such as Adobe Photoshop , Illustrator , and InDesign.

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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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Creative Review

JANUARY 4, 2022

The legacy of the Bauhaus school’s graphic design has been vast, informing the likes of Kamekura Yusaku’s iconic Tokyo 1964 Olympics identity, with its condensed sans serif font; Malcolm Garrett’s 1977 Orgasm Addict design for Buzzcocks , bearing an upside-down photomontage image by Linder Sterling and type that snakes itself round a sharp corner; and Neville Brody’s art direction of The Face magazine in the early-mid-1980s, delighting in sharp primary colours and geometr

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UX Collective

JANUARY 19, 2022

Simple rules guide you towards appropriate design decisions and help you make a more compelling case for decision-makers. Design Principles are an assortment of considerations that form the foundation of any good product design. You can find many articles online listing various principles, but often they lack concrete examples from products we encounter daily.

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I Love Typography

JANUARY 26, 2022

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Apparently, it’s now the year 2022 AD! I hope that you were able to decompress over the holidays and New Year, and that you’re now in good health and good spirits. If you missed last month’s edition, be sure to check it out. We named it The Year in Type. Oh, and be sure to take a […]. The post The Month in Type: January 2022 appeared first on I Love Typography.

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Design Milk

JANUARY 4, 2022

Deeply enriched with the conceptual fusion of nature, architecture, and ecology, Casa Organica , designed by Mexican architect Javier Senosiain , is intimately tucked away in its own microclimate just northwest of Mexico City in Nuacalpan. Its bio-architectural components create a harmonious + multi-sensory experience, enticing visitors to discover, interact with, and unlock new depths about the parallels between nature and architecture.

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We And The Color

JANUARY 13, 2022

Ransom Note PNG Letters, a quick and easy graphic resource that you can use to create cool typography designs. The Indieground team created this huge selection of more than 600 letters and numbers, all carefully hand-cut, scanned at 2400 dpi, and then individually isolated and exported as 300 dpi PNG files with transparent backgrounds. You can use these graphics in a wide range of design projects including print and web.

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Creative Review

JANUARY 5, 2022

The UK seaside resort of Blackpool has a reputation for a number of things: its famous illuminations, its hen dos , its rock , plus a particularly compelling episode of Four in a Bed. Until now, it’s not exactly been known for its graphic design. But that could be set to change thanks to a gorgeous new book from Sarah Horn titled En-Suites Available that presents the Lancashire town’s many hotel signs, holding them up as beautiful examples of seaside vernacular signage.

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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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Eye on Design

JANUARY 24, 2022

In the vast, ever-expanding canon of graphic design publishing, one title stands in a league of its own. Forget All the Rules You Ever Learned About Graphic Design—Including the Ones in This Book is essentially a sparsely worded how-to design book. Published in 1981, the unpretentious message on the jacket announces the author’s unequivocal declaration of intent.

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SpeckyBoy

JANUARY 12, 2022

If you’re not sure how long you’ve been in the web design industry, take a look at your data. It says a lot about who you are and the things you’ve done. For someone who started in the mid-1990s, my data archive has volumes to say. From sloppily hand-coded HTML documents to complex (and still sloppy) PHP, the files run the gamut of design fads and of-the-moment technology.

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I Love Typography

JANUARY 12, 2022

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Evoking past, present and future, the geometrically glorious Valvolina with 'its bizarre yet engaging assemblage of contrapuntal shapes' is the topic of this fifth episode of everyone's favorite type column. The post Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Valvolina appeared first on I Love Typography.

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HONGKIAT

JANUARY 10, 2022

Setting a basic color theme for your web design project might be an easy task, however, deciding upon the right combinations or coming up with a color scheme may get tricky, especially when you don’t know which color tool would work best for you. So to help determine the best color schemes for your projects, here are some of the best color tools for webs designers.

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We And The Color

JANUARY 8, 2022

Create a stunning website with this easy-to-use Photoshop template. Adobe Stock contributor @Grkic Creative designed this high-quality website template. The Photoshop template consists of six uniform layouts that help you to create individual pages for your personal website in no time. All sample texts and images are for display only. You can add your own text, images, and graphics with just a few simple clicks.

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Creative Review

JANUARY 6, 2022

Like many illustrators, Daniel Shaffer’s career path has always seemed inevitable. As a fairly shy child, he says drawing made him feel “more comfortable and safe”, and that expressing himself through art was a way to self-soothe and a “conduit for channeling and releasing built-up emotions” He adds, “I used drawing as a way to attract attention that I wouldn’t have gotten otherwise.

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Eye on Design

JANUARY 3, 2022

As another tough year ends and a new year begins, we wanted to look to the future with an optimism that 2022 could be better than 2021. At Eye on Design, we believe that designers are critical in shaping the future, and we wanted to find out what futures designers are hoping for next year. In that spirit, we asked some of our friends (who also happen to be some of the smartest designers, educators, and writers we know) about what they hope to see in 2022.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 18, 2022

Adobe Stock | 369425293 | Sonulkaster It may surprise some who know me professionally to learn that I identify as an introvert. It similarly almost certainly would surprise most of my neighbors & friends who know me well outside of work to learn that I work in what is often perceived to be a very extroverted profession. Yet, I hope to show today how this is a significant misconception.

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Its Nice That

JANUARY 6, 2022

Thriving off a love of anime, the recently formed, Florianópolis-based studio excels in projects influenced by subculture and music.

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HONGKIAT

JANUARY 21, 2022

The online learning segment has been witnessing significant growth in the last few years. As per market research, the US eLearning segment is expected to grow by $12.81 billion between 2020 and 2024. The expected growth can be credited to the unprecedented emergence of Covid-19 that catapulted the entire world and pushed companies to redefine learning.

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We And The Color

JANUARY 30, 2022

Available for free download with an Adobe Stock trial subscription, this super-stylish event flyer template for Photoshop is a true eye-catcher. This amazing event flyer template was designed by Adobe Stock contributor @Blackcatstudio. Characterized by dynamic shapes and nice color gradients, this A4 flyer is completely customizable in Adobe Photoshop.

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Creative Review

JANUARY 12, 2022

Dubbed ‘Britain’s answer to Roswell’, the Pennines-based market town of Todmorden has become both the spiritual home and physical meeting place for Britain’s ‘ufoists’ Drawn in by Todmorden’s well-above-average incidences of reported UFO sightings and unexplained events that many chalk up to meddlings from extraterrestrial life, these enthusiasts find much to pore over in the West Yorkshire spot.

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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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Eye on Design

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the Taft Hotel in Manhattan, just a block from Radio City Music Hall, a band plays during lunch and dinner in a restaurant lounge named the Grill Room. The menu lists the music, and the roster of rotating house bands is printed on the cover. It’s 1964 and lunch is served at noon. Enoch Light and His Orchestra are playing bossa nova versions of blues standards while guests order dishes of cold Cape Cod oysters; the dulcet tones of trumpet-forward Beatles covers reverberate under plates of sear

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UX Collective

JANUARY 19, 2022

Tips to defy UX complexity in the metaverse. Illustrated by Arthur Petrillo I first read The Laws of Simplicity by Dr. John Maeda 15 years ago. It came as a breath of fresh air at a time when the user experience of most online services was overly complicated and frustrating. I carried the learnings throughout my career, as I found them equally relevant for designing online services, mobile applications, interactive displays, or chatbots.

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Smashing Magazine Graphics

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Deep CSS Dive Into Radial And Conic Gradients. A Deep CSS Dive Into Radial And Conic Gradients. Ahmad Shadeed. 2022-01-10T12:30:00+00:00. 2022-01-10T17:34:35+00:00. CSS gradients are a useful CSS feature that can be used to create interesting UI effects or even help us in drawing something without the need to create HTML elements for it. Two gradients that I would like to focus on in this article are conic-gradient and radial-gradient.

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HONGKIAT

JANUARY 12, 2022

Even though there are many CMSs available, WordPress continues to be the favorite among users. The platform has introduced so many new features that add to its favorability. Owing to its growing popularity, web developers are producing hundreds of amazing WordPress themes. This post lists some of the best WordPress themes in terms of features, versatility, and customization.

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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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We And The Color

JANUARY 23, 2022

Available for free download with an Adobe Stock trial subscription, this template is exactly what you need to create eye-catching infographics for your business. Adobe Stock contributor @Petr has designed this massive collection of business-themed infographics. These vector graphics are fully editable in professional graphic design tools such as Adobe Illustrator.

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Creative Review

JANUARY 18, 2022

Barney Bubbles is a designer who manages to straddle two camps: he’s truly a ‘designers’ designer’, but also one whose work is celebrated by those outside of that, well, bubble. Best known for his work with record label Stiff, his distinctive imagery demonstrates both a rigorous understanding of design’s technicalities in its lines, layouts, grids and colour selections, and a natural desire to reach for wildly original imaginative leaps.

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Eye on Design

JANUARY 13, 2022

For the last few years, it seemed a new article , Twitter thread , or video essay would pop up on the internet every few months analyzing the style that has been called “Corporate Memphis.” This style, heavily used by Big Tech companies and start-ups, has been described as flat, colorful, minimalist, depicting energetic, and gangly-armed characters with long legs and small torsos who are seemingly always on the go.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 13, 2022

State of UX 2022 Illustration by Manoel do Amaral Everything Google does has massive scale and reach and its UX Design Certificate launched on Coursera this year (i.e, Google’s first step towards disrupting the university degree ) is no exception. Since its launch, we at the UX Collective have seen an unbelievable number of designers looking to learn more about UX as a career.

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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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