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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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2024

If you’ve ever attended an architectural talk, walking tour, film screening or panel discussion in Toronto, odds are you already know Joël León and Kurtis Chen. At the very least, you’ve seen them around. As leaders within the volunteer-led Toronto Society of Architects (TSA) — where León was recently named executive director — the pair are part of a nimble organization that punches leagues above its weight as a locus of civic advocacy.

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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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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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Booooooom

AUGUST 26, 2024

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

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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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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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Creative Bloq

AUGUST 18, 2024

Sculpt and render a Fallout-inspired creature using ZBrush, KeyShot and Photoshop.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 7, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Want to make cash from your personal work? These insider tips will help boost sales, engage customers, and stand out in the bustling creative scene. Who doesn't love an art fair or creative market? They're a great way to find cool, quirky, and unique pieces: everything from limited edition prints, postcards, greeting cards, handmade jewellery, candles, or even full paintings and sculptures.

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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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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

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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This is Paper

AUGUST 14, 2024

In the realm of contemporary photography, Grade Solomon emerges as a unique voice, one that skillfully transports viewers into a world where the ordinary is imbued with profound meaning.

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Creative Bloq

AUGUST 23, 2024

XPPen caught up with Clinton Jones, a prominent artist in the field of 3D art, and Vivian Ho, an illustrator renowned for her urban surrealism, to talk about the core element of human art and their anticipation of the Future Me 2024 XPPen Global Drawing Contest.

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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 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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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2024

There’s housing, and then there’s student housing. While the build quality of new homes varies massively across the board, apartment buildings intended for Canada’s growing post-secondary population often feel notably cheaper or more haphazardly assembled than their market-rate counterparts. Not so at Montreal’s Technopôle Angus, where local architects ADHOC have added a sensitive, sustainable and affordable new residential complex to a fast-growing neighbourhood.

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Design Milk

AUGUST 5, 2024

An expertly curated selection, an easy, enjoyable shopping experience and continuous innovation make TileBar the Leaders in Tile. The company’s mission is to not only bring customers the best tiles in every category but to provide them with the tools, products and assistance that set TileBar apart from the rest. From Free Design Services to an unparalleled sample program, TileBar has a deep understanding of what shoppers need.

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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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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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Colossal

AUGUST 5, 2024

All images © Jay Lichter, shared with permission For years, New Zealand-based mycophile Jay Lichter didn’t think of mushrooms as much more than produce one buys in the supermarket. But he began to notice how much variety exists in the fungi world as he learned to identify different species and appreciate their important ecological role. It wasn’t long before he started paying more attention to slime molds , which often emerge in similar habitats as fungi.

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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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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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Creative Bloq

AUGUST 29, 2024

Teams working on Inside Out 2, Godzilla x Kong and more used Maxon’s visual effects, 3D animation and rendering tools.

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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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Design Milk

AUGUST 23, 2024

What if furniture wasn’t bound by traditional perceptions of placement, calling into question your relationship to the architectural plane? Imagine the untapped potential of banal staircases, thresholds, and edges as they turn the corner. Paddy Pike Studio has pioneered contemporary home furnishings that celebrate and recontextualize these oft ignored liminal spaces as places with the power to pull focus.

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Communication Arts

AUGUST 6, 2024

Big News! Communication Arts proudly presents the launch of our eagerly awaited 2025 Typography Competition! Show off your extraordinary typographic skills in type-centric design, advertising, stunning typefaces, and captivating hand lettering. Save the date and submit your entries by Friday, September 13th!

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Colossal

AUGUST 28, 2024

All images courtesy of tapedeck As a graphic designer and graffitist who has been making work since 1989, German artist neck , who also goes by Oliver, is a big fan of the “beauty and (sometimes) weirdness” of common audiotape design. His ambitious archive project, tapedeck , aims to document the wide range of cassettes produced throughout the latter half of the 20th century.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 19, 2024

The German agency explains how it crafted a new name, identity, and website for the creative recruitment agency Undiscovered. Based in Berlin, Undiscovered is a recruitment agency specialising in creative roles. Specifically, it matches talent in design, product, engineering, and marketing with startups, agencies, and corporations across Europe. They recently changed their name and began expanding into new regions.

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