Creative Boom

AUGUST 11, 2024

This inventive restaurant branding reimagines the idea of a vegan eatery in a refreshing and enticing way. Across the course of the 21st century, the image of veganism has quickly gone from 'cranky and weird' to 'mainstream and cool'. Nowadays, you can find vegan options in most bars and restaurants. And that's all to the good, whether you're a vegan or just appreciate more healthy options on the menu that are kinder to the planet.

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BP&O

AUGUST 27, 2024

Suburban pool party culture is rather alien to us in the UK, where only the exceptionally wealthy have pools, and we muddle along in a climate that defaults to ‘grey, fair to middling’ most of the year. But we’re becoming a little more attuned to the joys of an open air funsplash: over the past few years we’ve seen the The post Public Pool by Perky Bros appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.

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Graphic Design Junction

AUGUST 29, 2024

When it comes to creative design, typography plays a pivotal role in conveying the message, setting the tone, and making a lasting impression. One of the most impactful choices you can make in your design projects is to use big bold fonts. These typefaces are not just about being large and in charge; they bring a sense of confidence, clarity, and creativity to your work.

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HONGKIAT

AUGUST 30, 2024

August 2024 brings us a collection of new tools, libraries, and resources to help you build better websites and applications, and improve your productivity as designers and developers. We’ve got everything from design inspiration to development tools, and everything in between. Let’s explore and see what’s new this month. e18e e18e is a community-driven initiative focused on improving the JavaScript ecosystem.

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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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Design Milk

AUGUST 12, 2024

On the 15th floor with sweeping views of Kyiv, the 452-square-foot Suprematism Apartment is now home to a young couple. Designed by Yevheniia Sytnyk of Dihome , the project draws inspiration from the Ukrainian avant-garde style, particularly the works of Kazimir Malevich, who is considered the founder of the Suprematism Movement. The vision for the apartment was clear from the beginning: create a vibrant and efficient space for a young couple. “I wanted to “dress” the interior

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Creative Bloq

AUGUST 26, 2024

Here's my approach to image creation, demonstrating techniques in Blender and Photoshop to fast track you to a finished scene.

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Its Nice That

AUGUST 14, 2024

The illustrations and animations celebrate sports culture, content and creators on YouTube.

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Graphic Design Junction

AUGUST 22, 2024

In today’s competitive market, establishing a unique and recognizable brand is essential for businesses of all sizes. Branding and visual identity design play a crucial role in defining how a company is perceived by its audience. A well-crafted brand identity not only differentiates a business from its competitors but also builds trust and loyalty among customers.

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HONGKIAT

AUGUST 29, 2024

Want to create a successful eCommerce app that generates high conversion rates and satisfies your customers? Well, your search ends here. Take a look at this detailed article. In this comprehensive guide, we will share valuable tips, tricks, and best practices to help you build an outstanding eCommerce app. Get ready to elevate your eCommerce app to new heights with our ultimate guide.

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Design Milk

AUGUST 1, 2024

While not uncommon for buildings to receive a gut renovation when being rehabilitated, buildings in Portugal tend to try and maintain as much of the original structure as possible. More than likely you will see remnants of a building’s historical past when examining renovation projects within the seaside nation. This is a result of properties located within designated Urban Rehabilitation Areas aiming to encourage preservation and rehabilitation rather than new construction.

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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.

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Abduzeedo

AUGUST 5, 2024

Immersy: Crafting a Brand Identity for an English School abduzeedo 0805—24 Discover how Revelatio Studio crafted a vibrant brand identity for Immersy, an innovative English school in Brazil. Explore the design process, from logo creation to brand strategy development. When Brazilian English teacher Giovanna decided to expand her freelance work into a full-fledged language school, she knew branding would be key.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 4, 2024

Monjajaja's editorial work. The Chinese illustrator uses a mix of traditional media to express herself and communicate her clients' messages, celebrating the slips and spills along the way. While AI has its uses (cough), nothing compares to looking at a work that fully expresses the hand of the artist and what they were feeling as they composed it. To engage with real, living, breathing people, many clients prefer to work with a real, living, breathing illustrator, and that's where artists like

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Its Nice That

AUGUST 21, 2024

The graphic designers 8-bit retro-style font Hardanger neatly ties together digital and physical crafts to construct rich and complex modular letterforms.

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Graphic Design Junction

AUGUST 27, 2024

In the ever-evolving digital age, where the virtual and physical worlds merge seamlessly, building brands has become a multidimensional challenge. The traditional methods of establishing a brand’s presence are no longer sufficient. Today, visual identity design plays a crucial role in defining a brand’s uniqueness, communicating its values, and ensuring its message resonates across various platforms.

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HONGKIAT

AUGUST 9, 2024

The Generative Fill AI feature recently introduced in Adobe Photoshop is one of the best features added. By entering prompts like any other image-generative AI tool , it lets you do all sorts of fun and creative things like filling blank areas in your image, removing unwanted elements, and more. But if you’ve encountered errors like the Generative Fill feature being grayed out, as shown in the screenshot below, it might be disappointing.

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Colossal

AUGUST 26, 2024

“Startsi,” Voynyagovo Village, Karlovo Municipality, Plovdiv Province, Bulgaria. All images © Ashley Suszczynski, shared with permission As a child, Ashley Suszczynski used to draw copiously in her school notebooks and escape into the chimerical worlds of books. “I loved the imaginative illustrations,” she tells Colossal. “Each story sent me into a new world, and I kind of dissociated from my own… Every page was full of magic and mystery—an immersive adventur

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2024

A home is so much more than a house. Even before its transformation by local firm SHEEEP, the humble property of Nick and Chris in Toronto’s Little Portugal has long served as a cultural hub with a tacit mi casa es su casa open-door policy. It’s the favourite hangout for a group of friends that gather regularly to watch movies projected onto the home’s back wall on summer nights, to share meals and just to “crash.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 20, 2024

Images used here are copyrighted to Reel Art Press Bringing popular culture together with graphic design, photography, illustration and typography, movie posters enjoy huge popularity with creatives and fans alike, and this new book selects 1001 of the very best examples. We're not sure when the last survey was taken, but it's pretty safe to say that 99% of creatives love pouring over well-designed movie posters.

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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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Its Nice That

AUGUST 13, 2024

The artist and illustrator has crafted proud ponies and stallions with images sourced from eBay, hand-cut lettering and a deep dive into queer terminology.

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Graphic Design Junction

AUGUST 13, 2024

Negative space logos are a unique and compelling design technique that uses the empty spaces within and around a logo to create a secondary image or visual effect. This approach not only adds depth and complexity to the design but also engages the viewer, encouraging them to look closer and discover hidden meanings. These logos are a testament to the power of simplicity and creativity in graphic design.

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Booooooom

AUGUST 26, 2024

A selection of work by Amsterdam-based illustrator and artist Andrew Tseng.

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Design Milk

AUGUST 21, 2024

We’ve all heard the phrase, “business in the front, party in the back,” a description typically appointed to a certain questionable hairstyle associated with a certain degree of surprise only visible from a different perspective. But in the case of the Monogram GX , a one-of-a-kind 2024 Lexus GX modified into the ultimate tailgating vehicle, the results are impressively tasteful (and tasty).

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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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Joe McNally

AUGUST 2, 2024

In 1996, I photographed the US Olympic team–in the nude. It was controversial back then. Now, not so much. But I ended up on the Today Show, Good Morning America and all sorts of news outlets, with commentators and pundits breathlessly exclaiming to me about the audacity of it. Some loved it, others were offended. Which was ok by me, ’cause it meant somebody actually looked at the pictures.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 13, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Want to use the professional network to boost your freelance career? These tips from fellow creatives will help you leverage LinkedIn authentically and effectively. Social media isn't what it used to be, especially for creative freelancers wishing to grow their careers. Instagram is dead to us , thanks to frustrating algorithm changes that seem to have decimated everybody's engagement levels.

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Its Nice That

AUGUST 5, 2024

Inspired by retro ephemera and media from yesteryear, the illustrator’s work evokes the nostalgia of a children’s book from the 70s whilst supplying us with some funny, reassuring one-liners.

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HONGKIAT

AUGUST 13, 2024

Have you wondered why, even after doing everything “right” – having a website, circulating through all the social media channels – you’re just not getting as much notice as a designer as you feel you should? It probably has something to do with the approach you’ve been using to market yourself and your work. Today, we’re examining the ineffective ways designers often try to market themselves and exploring alternatives that have a much higher success rate.

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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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Creative Applications

AUGUST 1, 2024

Created by Christine Brovkina at the University of Bremen, I!&3_OCR is a typography project exploring human-only legibility. It comprises a series of typographic experiments with OpenType and Variable Fonts technologies, which are only readable by humans, and any attempt to recognise a text set in this typeface using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tools will produce incorrect results.

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Colossal

AUGUST 26, 2024

Beth Moon, “Heart of the Dragon” (2010), archival pigment inks on cotton paper, 32 × 48 inches. Image © Beth Moon, courtesy of the artist, shared with permission Spanning 3,500 years of art, science, culture, and history, Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World surveys the awe-inspiring beauty and romance of trees. Forthcoming from Phaidon, the volume includes more than 300 illustrations ranging from ancient wall paintings and botanical illustrations to captivating photography and multim

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Design Milk

AUGUST 21, 2024

Fungus is all around us, silently and diligently keeping the world clean. The fungus’ root-like structure called mycelium operates mostly out of view, threading though soil and organic waste like leaves and tree stumps, breaking down matter to return nutrients back into the soil. Brazilian sustainable products brand Mush envisions applying this same process to our own last chapter with a mycelium-based urn shaped like a sailing vessel.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 27, 2024

The New York designer explains how she's blending artistic expression with functional design to create the kind of typefaces agencies will love to use in their work. Renowned designer Jessica Walsh has long been known for her passion for type. And now she's taken that to the next level by launching Type Of Feeling. It's a type foundry with a difference, one that's dedicated to creating unique typefaces that convey "distinct and rarely spoken emotions".

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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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