Creative Boom

MAY 8, 2022

Teddy bears working on new AI research underwater with 1990s technology © DALL-E 2. You may have thought your jobs were safe from robots as an artist or creator. Think again. DALL-E 2, a new artificial intelligence application developed by OpenAI is expanding the world's perspective on how creative a machine can be. Have you ever wanted to paint a portrait of your cat in the style of Rembrandt Van Rijn but just didn't have the time?

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Spoon Graphics

MAY 25, 2022

Over the years I’ve shared several tutorials showing how to create retro text effects mostly using Adobe Illustrator, so today I thought I’d mix things up and show some techniques for creating retro striped text effects with a 70s vibe using tools in Photoshop. Photoshop’s Layer Style tools are the natural place to start, but as we’ll discover they don’t quite cut it.

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BP&O

MAY 5, 2022

In 1984, the death of the wrestler Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta – commonly known as El Santo – sent shockwaves through Mexico. Over the course of five decades and 15,000 matches, the legendary fighter had captivated audiences, helping to fuel the growth of Lucha Libre around the world. Through his appearances in film, comic books and cartoons, he established himself as.

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A Beautiful Mess

MAY 19, 2022

While it can be so easy to let all our photos live in our phones, actually printing them out is not just a great way to add some personal touches to your living space, but it’s also a fun decor element as well! Family photo displays don’t have to be a cheesy thing that only grandmas do, and to prove it, here’s a bunch of tips and different ways to create family photo displays in your home!

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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

Graphic Design

We And The Color

MAY 26, 2022

Xavier Esclusa Trias created this beautiful poster collection for Matoke Experience. Commissioned by the travel agency Matoke Experience, Xavier Esclusa Trias, a Barcelona-based art director and freelance graphic designer created this beautiful poster collection. The posters are based on Matoke’s M+ an illustration of each animal. Three pieces can be found below.

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UX Collective

MAY 10, 2022

The product design playbook I use to break down and execute on design projects. At the start of 2021, Dialpad’s core product was a business phone platform. We supported several use cases, but making and receiving phone calls over the internet was our bread and butter. By the end of the year, however, we acquired two companies and pledged to add email, chat, and social to our product.

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Spoon Graphics

MAY 18, 2022

In today’s tutorial I’m going to show you how to create detailed pixel effects just using Photoshop’s Bitmap conversion tool. By configuring a few simple settings, you can easily create retro-style artwork just like old 8-Bit game screens. I’ll first show you how this effect can be applied to photographs, but stick around until the end to also see how this effect helps to create some really cool digital text effects.

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BP&O

MAY 2, 2022

Marx Design worked with drinks company Lion to develop a brand identity for Berg, an alcoholic seltzer free from artificial colours and preservatives aimed at “discerning drinkers who’ve been yearning for a more refined alternative.” Berg is available in three flavours, Berg Watermelon, Berg Lemon & Yuzu and berg Blackberry. While delivering a clarity and crispness of flavour, Berg is produced using a complex.

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Graphic Design Junction

MAY 22, 2022

Highest quality packaging product mockups to present your work in a realistic and professional style. These mockups can make your design presentation stand out from other mockups and give it truly photorealistic look. Photoshop mockup templates can save your time and make your brand product look amazing with eye-catching effects. In this article we are gathered most useful mockup templates, which are very easy to use with smart objects , simply double-click the Smart Layer, copy & paste

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We And The Color

MAY 10, 2022

Learn to create stylish patterns for diverse graphic design projects. This is an online course by Italian graphic designer Giorgia Smiraglia. Her striking designs have been used for a diverse range of international brands. With her help, you will learn to design a collection of patterns and apply them to a set of five different items. An intermediate level of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop skills are recommended for those who want to take this course.

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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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HONGKIAT

MAY 26, 2022

Web builders are basically a magic toolbox for non-web designers. What was once out of people’s reach can now be grasped with just little effort. But there are things that web builders can’t do that web designers can. The question now is, should you hire a web designer to make your website for you or just use a web builder and build it yourself?

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Creative Boom

MAY 2, 2022

Breakfast © Chang Chih. Taichung-based illustrator creates homely works Inspired by her family, the food her mother used to make, and even the daily weather. Chang Chih has only been illustrating for less than a year, but her finely refined style proves otherwise. Mature and consistent, Chang has developed an aesthetic that gives off the allusion that she's been working in the medium for decades.

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Inkbot Design

MAY 18, 2022

10 New Branding Trends You Need to Know About Now. According to a recent study by the branding agency KRC Research, millennials (those born between 1980 and 2000) are more likely to identify with the word “brand” than any other generation before them. For many years, brand identity has been associated solely with visual design. But now, the rise of content marketing and social media has made it clear that creating an effective brand is about much more than design.

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BP&O

MAY 17, 2022

The pandemic catalysed the at-home market for a whole host of products. Paired with social isolation, it’s no wonder that one of the markets to benefit would be alcohol. Just like coffee, dried flowers and cleaning products, alcohol was packed down into letterbox-sized parcels and sent through the post. Mail-order cocktails have been a somewhat surprising development.

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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.

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Interaction Design Foundation

MAY 2, 2022

Hospital emergency rooms have been inspired by F1 pit stop crews. Henry Ford's assembly line was inspired by observing systems within slaughterhouses and grain warehouses. Executives, artists, writers and all kinds of other creative professionals have relied on creating analogies as a powerful tool for empathizing with audiences and communicating and sparking ideas.

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We And The Color

MAY 13, 2022

Available for use as fully editable poster templates in Adobe Illustrator, these retro art-inspired designs are characterized by wavy lines in striking colors. This eye-catching retro art-inspired poster template was made by Adobe Stock contributor @Denys Koltovskyi. Designed as fully editable vector files, the templates include two design options. The design concept is based on abstract retro graphics in stylish colors.

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SpeckyBoy

MAY 5, 2022

When it comes to design, some styles come and go. On the other hand, others remain popular for years, if not decades. The watercolor effect is one of the most popular design styles in both web and graphic design. Using combinations of pastel and neutral colors, this subtle technique gives designers the ability to give a natural, fresh, and spring-like feel to their designs.

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Creative Boom

MAY 10, 2022

Rotterdam-based illustrator Melcher Oosterman has an expert eye for colour, which he uses to create intricate illustrations brimming with wit, character and tragedy. But another important skill in his creative toolkit is an aversion to planning. A self-confessed late bloomer when it came to reading and writing, Melcher was originally drawn to illustrations as a child because they offered him an alternative way to express himself and communicate.

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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.

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Web Design Ledger

MAY 5, 2022

When it comes to building websites there is probably some truth to the saying that you are only as good as the tools you have. Design experience and an ability to write code can make up for some shortcomings. But what you really want is a WordPress theme that can not only enable you to do excellent work but enable you to build websites quickly and easily as well.

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Its Nice That

MAY 23, 2022

Since the pandemic the collective have been meeting every fortnight to create innovative web-based experiments inspired by their random word selector.

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Design Milk

MAY 31, 2022

Artist Josh Sperling’s current exhibition of shaped paintings is on view at Perrotin in New York. Open through June 11 th , “Daydream” pushes the possibilities of precision, color, and curiosity through multiple series of joyful works. Josh Sperling paintings on canvas combine an obsession for color selection with the precision of a CNC router. Each painting feels too perfect to be human but too human to be a computer.

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We And The Color

MAY 22, 2022

With this online course by Dara Scully, you will learn the resources to tell a story through photography. Dara Scully is a renowned photographer and writer specializing in narrative photography. In this online course, she will show you how to create a photo series in which the photographs have the power to tell a certain story. She will tell you about her professional working methods, ranging from the initial idea to the final development of the photoshoot as well as the image editing and retouc

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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

MAY 22, 2022

When it comes to products and services geared towards web designers, the “hustle” is unique. The classic methods of marketing in-person or on a printed page aren’t as relevant. That means the real legwork has to be done online. It’s a monumental challenge. The chaotic noise of social media , the bidding wars of advertising networks.

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Creative Boom

MAY 2, 2022

Office of Tom Muller. Image courtesy of the designer. We've spent 13 happy years supporting the creative industry through Creative Boom. One of the things we enjoy most is visiting people in their studios, seeing where and how they work. What might surprise you is how often these spaces share similar decor, as though without them, they simply couldn't call themselves graphic designers.

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UX Collective

MAY 19, 2022

Seemingly outmoded technologies sometimes hold the key to better user experiences. I started my career as a user interface designer and human factors engineer 20 years ago. As a designer who focused on medical devices, most of the user interfaces I worked on back then were relatively “low tech”; user interfaces that convey information via LED lights or simple displays, like dot matrix or segmented LCD displays, and enable user interaction via physical controls such as push buttons, snap domes, a

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Its Nice That

MAY 24, 2022

With a recent open call, the Icelandic Graphic Design Association and Central Bank of Iceland try to solve a taxing design challenge: inventing a country’s first monetary symbol.

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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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Inkbot Design

MAY 20, 2022

9 Social Video Branding Tips That Will Make Your Content Go Viral. The world is moving quickly. We're all bombarded by content at such an unprecedented rate that we've got to keep up! We need to learn how to break through the noise. In a world where Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are places for brands and businesses, social video marketing is gaining popularity.

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We And The Color

MAY 10, 2022

BRAND.S.G. Studio created this beautiful brand identity for Gusztav.architecture. BRAND.S.G. Studio is a Budapest, Hungary-based design firm offering all-in-one solutions for branding, web development, content creation, strategy, and performance marketing. The studio has created this branding concept for architecture and interior designer Gusztav Veres.

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SpeckyBoy

MAY 24, 2022

Adding 3D features to your website has never been easier. Thanks to advancements in CSS and JavaScript, there are now built-in methods and frameworks for doing so. What’s more, these powerful tools open up the door to some serious creativity. And while 3D animation is widely-used, a third dimension can be utilized in other ways. Content containers such as card UIs , buttons, or typography , can benefit from the effect, as can product demos and infographics.

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Creative Boom

MAY 23, 2022

© JeeYoung Lee. South Korean visual artist and designer JeeYoung Lee is returning to London's NOW Gallery with her upcoming exhibition, Maiden Voyage. Make sure you see it while you can, though, because once it's gone, it's gone for good. JeeYoung Lee has been touted as one of the rising stars in the Korean artistic world, and with her new installation coming to London, there's never been a better time to see her work in person.

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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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