UX Collective

OCTOBER 22, 2021

If you’ve been in the web design industry as long as I have, you know one thing is imminent, the only constant is change. Just about every 10 years or so, there’s a fundamental shift in how we do things that are paramount to leapfrogging what we’ve done before… and we are about to leap in to the next phase once again. How it started?—?Fixed Screens At the turn of the millennium we first started crafting interfaces in single view screens that made up the popular screen sizes at the time?

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SpeckyBoy

OCTOBER 13, 2021

If you are working on a new website, service, or app, you should consider getting a jump start on your marketing campaigns by having a presence online that you can show to potential users or buyers, so that when you do launch, you can hit the ground running. Coming soon pages are the first step in that process. You certainly aren’t showing the finished product – but it’s enough to start building up a social media following, gauge product interest, or even to get users to register for

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Spoon Graphics

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In today’s tutorial I share my process of designing a business card and highlight some important considerations when designing for print. It’s super important that you get things like bleed, color mode and resolution right when you’re creating your artwork, otherwise you might end up having your files rejected by the printer, having to start again from scratch or even worse, receiving hundreds of prints back that look nothing like your design!

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We And The Color

OCTOBER 13, 2021

UK-based graphic design studio Lundqvist & Dallyn created a beautiful brand identity for Julia Johnson. Julia Johnson is a Los Angeles-based photographer and creative director. Her work is characterized by distinctive aesthetics along with vibrant colors. Studio Lundqvist & Dallyn was asked to work on a unique visual identity including a new website and branding materials.

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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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Eye on Design

OCTOBER 14, 2021

During a quick scene in The French Dispatch , Hermès Jones, a magazine illustrator played by Jason Schwartzman, gets an earful from Arthur Howitzer, Jr., the editor-in-chief played by Bill Murray. Pasted on the wall next to Jones’ desk are 12 past covers of The French Dispatch , showing an assortment of imagined stories; in one, the Statue of Liberty in Paris waves to the one in New York, and in another, a group of men in suits break into a dance.

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Creative Review

OCTOBER 12, 2021

New York-based photographer Rochelle Brock describes her work as “all over the place but not in a bad way” With an interest in fashion, editorial, beauty, documentary and fine art photography, Brock has encapsulated elements from all of these approaches to create a style that is bold and inviting. “ My style is inspired by my environment, the people I’m surrounded by, and heavily influenced by all the things I kind of wanted to create but never thought that I could becaus

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Envato Tuts+

OCTOBER 19, 2021

On the hunt for some fresh graphic design ideas? Looking ahead to 2022, there are plenty of graphic design trends to stimulate your creative juices. For devoted minimalists, the Japandi design trend balances sleek, calligraphic typography with clean, understated layouts, while brand enthusiasts will be delighted by a new wave of logos brimming with movement, colour, and symbology.

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Spoon Graphics

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The key to creating authentic looking vintage artwork–whether it’s logos, packaging, or T-shirt designs–is selecting the perfect font combinations that represent the lettering style from previous centuries. The typeface featured in this collection aren’t just individual fonts, they are collections of several font styles that perfectly complement each other.

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We And The Color

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Polish designer Jaros?aw Dziubek created a unique brand identity for agency 5A Format. Jaros?aw Dziubek is a Polish graphic designer specializing in a wide array of projects ranging from branding to packaging. For agency 5A Format, he produced a stunning brand identity based on simple graphic shapes and unique typography. Below you can see a few images of the successful result.

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Eye on Design

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Herbert Bayer’s name is perhaps most closely associated with the Bauhaus—he was a student at the school and later a teacher of advertising and typography until it closed in 1928—but he had a prolific and diverse career up until he died. He worked as a commercial advertising designer in Berlin for nearly ten years, where applications of Bauhaus theory are apparent in his work through the use of sans serif fonts, primary colors and photomontage.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Recently I was given the task to “Modernize” my current companies app UI on Android. The terms modern, young, cool, etc., are all quite vague. What makes a design modern or old? The meaning changes from person to person. But I couldn’t just say that and leave it ??. So I spent an entire day looking at various examples of apps that we commonly perceive as modern, young, and cool.

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Creative Review

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Described as the ‘hug’ logo, the new wraparound appearance of the identity was inspired by its positioning on packaging including cans and bottles. The new campaign was created by Wieden + Kennedy London with KnownUnknown, a global network of independent talent, brought in by Coke to craft the visual look, including all photography, animations and illustrations.

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Smashing Magazine Graphics

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Smart CSS Solutions For Common UI Challenges. Smart CSS Solutions For Common UI Challenges. Cosima Mielke. 2021-10-14T12:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-14T16:11:06+00:00. It’s incredible to see what we can do with CSS today, especially if you still remember how difficult it once was to figure out stacking contexts or why margins collapsed and why top: float didn’t work.

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SpeckyBoy

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Mobile devices have taken over the web. Thus, so much designer attention has (rightly) gone towards ensuring that the websites we build are compatible. We are constantly refining how we implement responsive features so that they work flawlessly on small screens. While this is a worthwhile endeavor, there are other screens to think about. Large viewports are also a pretty important consideration.

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We And The Color

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Available for download on Adobe Stock, this halftone raster set will help you to create stylish retro effects in Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Stock contributor @Marcel created this easy-to-use halftone raster set for Adobe Photoshop. Optimized for an extremely high resolution of 10211 x 4497 px, the set contains six design options. Please note, photos or design elements shown in the preview are for display only and are not included in the downloaded file.

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Eye on Design

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The following is an adapted excerpt from Briar Levit’s new book, Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History. The story of graphic design is not tidy and linear, as it is often presented. Our dominant narratives of one art and design movement leading seamlessly to the next can make conceiving the passage of ideas and events more palatable, but can keep us from understanding what is true.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Let’s find out together how the product design discipline has evolved and how managing design is more of a coaching and mentoring exercise. Figure 01: Image of Day /Night It’s late at night. Staring at the latest piece of the design system in Figma, I start seeing the pattern that I have not recognised before. I got it; this is it! It will save my team and me a significant amount of time.

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Creative Review

OCTOBER 13, 2021

One of the biggest benefits of NFTs is the financial freedom they provide to artists. Take a scroll through ‘NFT Twitter’ and you’ll see a myriad of posts celebrating the ability to earn a living from art that hadn’t existed pre-NFTs entering the mainstream. It may sound like the market has provided a silver bullet to the longtime issue of artists being fairly compensated for their work, and in a way it has.

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SpyreStudios

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The season’s web design theme would not be complete without spooky Halloween typography. Typography is a trendy way to use text and fonts to convey creativity. Some designers use witty lines to create a dramatic effect, while others simply use fonts to create an aesthetic. In doing Halloween-themed designs, designers could do both. Primarily, the point of using spooky Halloween typography is to grab the readers’ attention.

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Designmodo

OCTOBER 18, 2021

This post is originally published on Designmodo: Best Landing Page Examples You Need for Inspiration. The landing page has become a surefire way to reach out to customers these days. According to recent studies, distributing a brand message through search engines, social media, email, and websites makes it possible to market directly to people. In … For more information please contact Designmodo.

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We And The Color

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Photographer Helene Havard created a series of images in the streets of La Habana in Cuba. In 2016, Helene Havard created a series of photographs in the streets of La Habana in Cuba. She strolled through streets at random places and took dreamy images of buildings and used pastel color to depict this city. Below you can see a selection of photographs.

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Eye on Design

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A couple weeks ago, we hosted a workshop at the AIGA Design Conference called Design Writing 101: How Writing Is a Lot More Like Designing Than You Think. When we started planning for the event, we had lots of ideas around what that statement meant. At their core, both writing and design are about storytelling — they are about forming ideas and giving ideas form, though those forms often take very different shapes.

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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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UX Collective

OCTOBER 15, 2021

(Illustration by Francesca Valentini , yours truly) One of the biggest truths is that good design is not only about applying best practices or following a good thinking framework. Good design comes most of the time from a great understanding of your users, which are, in the end, human beings. Here’s a selection of 10 of the best podcasts of 2021 I found compelling and capable of completing my knowledge of humanity and how our brains work.

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Creative Review

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Based in Accra, Ghana Sianeh A Kpukuyou (known as ASKphotos on Instagram) was first introduced to photography through her mother. “During my senior year at American International School, I was asked by my friends to take their senior pictures,” Kpukuyou tells CR. “When I shared those images with my mother she got extremely excited and told me she saw a future in photography for me.” Kpukuyou’s own interest in the medium grew when she realised she could have an impac

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Colossal

OCTOBER 28, 2021

All images © Vorja Sánchez, shared with permission. In Vorja Sánchez ’s ghostly dreamworld, spectral creatures plunge from the sky with long, wispy appendages that grasp onto the landscape. The Barcelona-based artist and illustrator ( previously ) disrupts otherwise peaceful photos with the massive forms that haunt unsuspecting hikers and farm animals as they peek out from behind a hill or congregate in airborne groups.

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Its Nice That

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Inspired by Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s displacement during the second world war, and the new arc in her career this evoked, we explore how isolation and remote experiences may have a blossoming effect on creativity.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Available for download on Adobe Stock, this minimalist flyer template is fully customizable in Adobe InDesign. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @GrkiCreative in the standard size of A4, this minimalist flyer template is based on a modern look. It consists of four individual pages that share a uniform layout. Every single detail is fully customizable.

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Eye on Design

OCTOBER 28, 2021

This is part I of the Processing oral history. Part II will publish next week. Computers and design have long been intertwined. This relationship dates back to the 1960s, when computational pioneers used code to create novel forms. Since then, programming’s grip on designers has only tightened, even as it’s been obscured by the user-friendly interfaces of modern creativity software.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A few days ago the BBC announced and presented it’s new branding system , and with tired predictability there was a backlash from anyone who doesn’t like change, people that are amateur designers and those who do not realise why change is needed for any organisation to become more inclusive. Both the BBC Blocks and Accessibility have been part of the BBC since the 1950s I had the honour of being part of the evolution of this project and I will explain why a project like this makes sense if an or

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Smashing Magazine Graphics

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A Guide To CSS Debugging. A Guide To CSS Debugging. Stephanie Eckles. 2021-10-06T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-06T10:38:09+00:00. We’ve all been there, at the end of completing CSS for a layout and — what’s that? Ah! An extra scrollbar! Or maybe an element is an unexpected color. And on some browsers, that new feature just doesn’t seem to be working.

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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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