October, 2021

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The start of a new era for Responsive Web Design

UX Collective

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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20 Beautifully Designed Coming Soon Pages for Inspiration

SpeckyBoy

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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How To Prepare a Business Card Design for Print

Spoon Graphics

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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Expert Lists: Seb Lester

I Love Typography

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Calligrapher, designer, educator, and artist, Seb Lester has attracted a huge and devoted following — both for his talent and wit. On Instagram, a million followers get to see Seb at work, penning everything from famous logos to exquisite copperplate and formal gothic scripts. Undoubtedly, part of his broad appeal is a combination of his […].

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Let's Talk Trends: Designing for Maximum Impact

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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9 Years Building the World’s Marketplace for Design

Creative Market

It’s hard to believe that Creative Market is almost a decade old. While so much has changed in this marketplace and the design industry over the last 9 years, this community has remained passionate, creative, and ever-inspiring. Since October 18, 2012, more than 25,000 shop owners have uploaded over 6 million design assets that have sold to 2.4 million customers — and the best is yet to come.

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How Wes Anderson’s Creative Team Designed the The French Dispatch Magazine for His Latest Film

Eye on Design

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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Rochelle Brock on the importance of being a “size inclusive photographer”

Creative Review

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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How to Create a ‘Speed Lines’ Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Spoon Graphics

In today’s Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a ‘speed lines’ text effect. This tutorial is an alternative to my original Speed Lines Type Effect tutorial for Adobe Illustrator from back in 2017. In that video, I showed how Illustrator’s shape building tools helped to add the fast movement lines, but I actually found this method for Adobe Photoshop to be much easier.

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The Ultimate List of Rebranding Tips and Ideas

Canny

Is your brand starting to look a little stale? Is your brand no longer connecting with your ideal consumer? Is your brand not working across multiple touchpoints ? Then perhaps it’s time for a REBRANDING. Download now. The Rebranding Brief Template. The Rebranding Brief Template. Get It. This is such an exciting process as it’s your opportunity to reevaluate every single aspect of your branding.

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10 Creators Share the Most Important Career Lesson They Have Learned

Creative Market

What is something you wish you had learned earlier in your career? There’s a point in every creator’s journey where learnings become crystal clear. You’ve been around long enough to recognize pitfalls, red flags, and the seemingly small decisions that will make a project successful. Emphasis on seemingly small. When it comes to leading a successful creative career, details matter.

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The Democratization of Design: Giving Creators & Marketers the Tools to Succeed

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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Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas Anticipated the Age of Infographics

Eye on Design

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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5A Format Brand Design by Jaros?aw Dziubek

We And The Color

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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Meet Anuja Shukla, Shillington Graduate and Creative Strategist at Twitter

Shillington

After a degree in Business Administration and Marketing, Shillington New York graduate Anuja Shukla harnessed the power of empathy spurned through travel and employment abroad to shape a meaningful career in graphic design. Anuja forages for vintage goods, advocates for diversifying the outdoor adventure scene—all while building her photography portfolio!

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50% off 230 Top Fonts, Brushes, Mockups, and More. Grab as Many as You Can!

Spoon Graphics

It’s the Design Cuts birthday event this week, and to celebrate they’re running a spectacular discount on all their top design resource products. Over 230 of the greatest fonts, brushes, illustrations, mockups, patterns, and toolkits are half-price for a limited time. This is a fantastic opportunity to effectively build your own bundle of all the specific items you want, fill your cart with as many incredible resources as you can while the offer lasts!

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Rethinking Creative Workflows: Increasing Efficiency in the Design Process

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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21 Engaging Corporate Video Ideas That You Can Use Today

Canny

Corporate video ideas are ten a penny, but some are better than others! From company overview videos and customer testimonial videos, to service explainer videos and team member videos, we’ve been covering a lot of ground at Canny recently. One thing we hear too often is: “I don’t know what type of videos my business should be making!”. Well, today we’re looking to change that.

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Social Media Video Backgrounds for Scroll-Stopping Stories

Creative Market

With everyone creating stories these days, how do you get followers to notice you and not just scroll on by? Animated video can easily catch the eye and help get your messages across. Here are some awesome background options crafted by Creative Market designers to give your social stories just that boost they need. Pink Animated Vertical Videos. Content Factory created Pink Animated Vertical Videos to help you create more content that will stop people mid-scroll.

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The History Books Often Overlook Women in Design. A New One Seeks to Finally Give Them Their Due

Eye on Design

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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Halftone Rasters Set for Adobe Photoshop

We And The Color

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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Creative Insights: Data-Backed Trends to Help You Design Successful Content

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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Photoshop & Illustrator in the Web is the most exciting reveal of Adobe MAX

Creative Bloq

A game-changer for creative collaboration.

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The Best Fonts For Creating Vintage Logos and Designs

Spoon Graphics

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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What Are the Graphic Design Trends for 2022?

Envato Tuts+

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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Let’s Get Physical: How to Get Your Creative Work Seen with Print

Creative Market

We asked our friends at Newspaper Club to share some of the most inspiring newspapers their customers are using to showcase creative work. From a pattern designer’s portfolio to a playful project from Mailchimp’s design team, the 8 examples below show you how to put your best foot forward in print. When much of what you create is experienced on a screen, getting to share your work in print is a rare thrill.

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Web Design for All: Accessibility, Inclusivity and Beyond

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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How Designing and Writing Are More Alike Than You Think

Eye on Design

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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Cuba Photography by Helene Havard

We And The Color

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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The 10 Best Free One-Page Themes for WordPress in 2021

SpeckyBoy

When you’re just getting started with your business, you might not have a lot of information for a full-featured, multi-page business website. If that’s the case, a one-page WordPress theme is exactly what you need. A one-page website will make it easy to share important information about your business and even provide your visitors with a better experience as they won’t have to click through multiple pages.

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10 Wood Grit Distortion Textures for Access All Areas Members

Spoon Graphics

Access All Areas members have a great collection of vector textures to download this week, courtesy of GhostlyPixels. These 10 Wood Grit Distortions feature a variety of finely detailed textures, isolated with transparent backgrounds. Each texture is supplied as infinitely scalable AI & EPS files, as well as huge 8000x6000px PNG images, making them extremely versatile assets you can use as backgrounds or within layer masks to create all kinds of bold texturing effects.

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What in the World is a Force Majeure?

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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Striking poster campaign introduces Coca-Cola Real Magic tagline

Creative Review

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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5 Time-Saving Tricks for Adobe Photoshop

Creative Market

We recently asked designers in our community to share their favorite time-saving Photoshop tricks. These are the kinds of game-changing little tweaks that accelerate your workflow and you wish you knew about sooner. If Photoshop is home to you, read on and start saving time today. 1. Shortcuts. Designer Lu Amaral swears by keyboard shortcuts, saying they “are everything when you use Photoshop all day long, every day.” To define your own shortcuts, go to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts.

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Smart CSS Solutions For Common UI Challenges

Smashing Magazine Graphics

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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Minimal Flyer InDesign Template

We And The Color

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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From Visualization to Execution: Exploring Our Strengths as Designers

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.