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Winners of Indigo Design Awards 2022 announced at special event in Istanbul

Creative Boom

Graphic Design of the Year 2022: Festival FILMAR en América Latina 2020 by WePlayDesign. The Indigo Design Awards celebrate "trail-blazers, risk-takers and all those on the cutting edge of the visual design world" across the fields of graphic, digital, mobile design, design for social change, branding and freelance. And they've just announced their 2022 winners at a special in-person event in Istanbul.

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Complete Guide To Create and Promote A Photography Website

Graphic Design Junction

Having a well-developed, creative, engaging, and conversion-driving website is a must for any photographer to advertise their services online. But how to set up a photography website to get as many orders as possible? How to get started with a photographer promotion? While providing photography services is a highly competitive sphere, you have to use the whole mix of promotion methods to get the desired results.

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Download the 10 Best Free Vector Graphics on Adobe Stock in 2022

We And The Color

All available for free download on Adobe Stock, this is our selection of the very best free vector graphics you can find in 2022 on Adobe Stock. As we did last year , we want to show you once again the ten best free vector graphics available for download on Adobe Stock. Adobe’s popular marketplace for stock images and graphics is just huge and finding the right vector graphic (especially if you want it to be free) can be quite time-consuming.

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8 Websites and Page Builders to Try

HONGKIAT

Finding the “best” of anything is not always an easy task, and when you do, it’s only natural to expect to pay a hefty price. This is also true with respect to website and page-building tools. There’s plenty of good ones and finding one or more that will best serve your purposes can take time. Well, I’m going to make it a little easier for you!

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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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Photographs of abandoned shacks in California's ungoverned community of Wonder Valley

Creative Boom

From the series ARID © Helin Bereket. In the sparsely populated, ungoverned community of Wonder Valley, California, lies a range of shacks known locally as Jackrabbit Homesteads. Sat abandoned against a dusty landscape, the worn cabins inspired a series by Berlin-based photographer Helin Bereket. "I knew little about this place but was drawn to it by the sheer aesthetic of abandonment and isolation, alienation and wreckage, uncanniness and history unknown," says Helin.

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50 Best Photography Business Cards For Photographers

Graphic Design Junction

Best photography business cards for photo studio, photographers and photo designers. The highly-creative business cards are fully customizable and come in a well organized Photoshop.PSD and Ai vector format. All texts are editable and colors can be easily change to whatever you may want. You can use the sample logo included or replace it with yours.

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Tips for Handing off Your Website Mockup to a Developer

SpeckyBoy

If you’re a web designer who works primarily on the front-end, there may be times when you need to hand your work off to a developer. Their job is to take your mockup and turn it into a working website. This is a big step in the process. To reach a positive outcome, both designers and developers need to be on the same page, so to speak. But that’s easier said than done.

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'A tall logo for a tall captain': Mucho takes an elongated approach to its 'hooked' identity for Big C Charters

Creative Boom

When you're given a chance to rebrand a company founded by and named after a former professional basketball player, you'd definitely take your design skills to new heights. Creative studio Mucho literally ran with the name Big C Charters to craft an identity that features an iconic logo with a tall hooked 'C'. Big C Charters is the premier charter service in the San Francisco Bay Area that offers hands-on fishing trips and excursions.

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Business Cards Design: 25+ Clean Print Templates

Graphic Design Junction

Clean print ready business cards design , perfect for any kind of business or personal use. The beautiful and clean business cards have been designed by true professional graphic designers and design agencies. Fully editable templates, very easy to use and customize in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign & MS Word. You can use the sample logo included or replace it with your design.

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Neptune Fish: Fictional Branding by Bart De Keyzer

We And The Color

Check out this beautifully illustrated branding concept by Bart De Keyzer. Bart De Keyzer is a Dutch graphic designer and illustrator. For this fictional brand of frozen fish products, he has created a series of stylized illustrations that have been used on a range of packaging designs and marketing materials. Using illustrations instead of photographs helps to set the brand apart from the competition and supports the concept of a healthy, sustainable product.

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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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6 Free Starter & Barebone Themes for WordPress Development

SpeckyBoy

If you’re interested in developing WordPress themes, you could start by building from scratch. While a noble pursuit, it can also be quite inefficient. That’s especially so if you plan on creating multiple themes over time. The repetitive nature of a theme’s structure means that you’ll be doing a lot of the same things over and over.

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The mechanics of non-human personas

UX Collective

How designers can capture the voices that represent non-human living beings. Image by cgterminal via Adobe Stock This is the second part of a series of articles based on a recently published academic paper Non-Human Personas: Including Nature in the Participatory Design of Smart Cities , which I co-wrote with Joel Fredericks, Dan Vo and Jessica Frawley from the Sydney Design Lab and Marcus Foth from the More-than-Human Futures group.

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Marketing for Small Businesses – How to Get the Most Out of It?

Inkbot Design

Marketing for Small Businesses – How to Get the Most Out of It? Marketing is an integral part of any business, whether a big company or a small one. Marketing helps businesses reach out to potential customers, promote their products and services and create brand awareness among the target audiences. If you're looking for ways to grow your small business online , you may be overwhelmed by all the choices.

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Geometric Calendar Posters for 2022

We And The Color

Check out these unique calendar posters by Nick Barclay. Nick Barclay is a Sydney, Australia-based graphic designer and art director. For 2022, he came up with a quite unique calendar idea. Nick created this calendar based on only geometric shapes. No type or numbers were used. You can check out all individual calendar poster designs below. For those who want to see more of Nick Barclay’s creative work, feel free to take a look at his website or follow him on Behance.

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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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Weekly News for Designers ? 647

SpeckyBoy

Why most design systems implode – According to one survey, only 40% of design systems were successful. Why is that? AutoAnimate – This drop-in JavaScript utility adds smooth animated transitions to your projects. Scroll Animation Ideas for Image Grids – This tutorial explores animating images in a grid while scrolling. Payload is now completely free and open source – The headless CMS moves to an open-source model.

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What Can Metaverse Planners Learn from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities

UX Collective

What can metaverse planners learn from Italo Calvino’s Invisible cities A poetic and mathematical approach to urban planning in virtual worlds. City in the sky, Courtesy of Eda Akaltun We are still at the dawn of the Metaverse, the next wave of the Internet. The current “mainstream” Metaverse platforms serve as experimental containers to host the wildest dreams of virtual worlds where we are supposed to unleash the imagination.

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Phoebe McCaughley animates the rollercoaster ride that is the brain

Creative Review

McCaughley, who’s a former CR Gradwatch pick, spent eight months working on the film, making every single element – except the clothes – herself, as well as handling the animation and edit. She drew direct inspiration from the lyrics for Feel Joy, alongside her own experience of the anxiety of lockdown. As she says: “Sometimes your brain just has the control to take you on the ride it’s decided.” Source.

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Netflix’s Movies Secret Codes You Probably Don’t Know

HONGKIAT

What makes Netflix one of the most popular streaming services in the world? Well, there are dozens of reasons for that, but one of the top reasons is that users can access a huge variety of TV shows and movies categorized into different genres, making it easy to find something to watch according to your mood. But did you know that Netflix has a special series of codes that you can use to access even more specific genres of movies?

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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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20 Stunning Lightroom Presets for Wedding Photography

SpeckyBoy

A wedding has to be two things: emotional and memorable. Now, your clients will likely take care of the first item on the list. They’re the people who can’t wait to spend the rest of their lives together. But to make those special moments memorable, a photographer has to produce photos that will remind the happy couple of the most important day of their lives.

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OUTLAB Branding by Dmytro Khrunevych and Andriy Konstantynov

We And The Color

Check out the new brand identity of architecture studio OUTLAB. These are very difficult times for the Ukrainian people since the Russian invasion. Therefore it’s a special pleasure for us to receive those design submissions from Ukraine. Dmytro Khrunevych , a Kyiv-based graphic designer has created this modern and minimalist brand identity for architecture studio OUTLAB in collaboration with Andriy Konstantynov of Mint Type.

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This animated video for Century Egg takes us into a miniature world

Creative Review

In general, stray hairs on the floor are pretty icky. But not in this video for Halifax, Nova Scotia-based band Century Egg, which tells the story of a little piece of hair that falls off the head of the promo’s protagonist, while also documenting the changing seasons and the passing of time. The stop motion animation is created and directed by Chris and Susie Shapones and is inspired by the album.

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The Complete List of B2B Marketing Services

Canny

Before we begin listing off all the B2B marketing services, do you want to take a note of the number of services you already know of? Do that, and then make a separate list of what services you didn’t know worked in a B2B setting once you get to the end of this post. We can guarantee the results will surprise you. Resources. The Marketing Report Template.

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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.

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25+ Best Branding Visual Identity Examples

Graphic Design Junction

Best branding visual identity and stationery pack with logo designs for your inspiration. The morden brand identity will help you to promote your corporate or personal business all over the globe. Business identity is the most valuable asset for any company or brand. Today we’ve shared another professionally designed collection of branding visual identity and logo design created by professional designers and graphic design agencies from all over the web.

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Graphic Instagram Post Templates with Numbered Carousel Designs

We And The Color

Bring your social media presence to the next level, with this series of graphic Instagram post templates. If you are one of those who doesn’t like these cheesy social media templates used by some of those so-called “influencers”, this graphic Instagram post templates series may be something for you. Created by graphic designer and Adobe Stock contributor @Guuver , this set contains 45 well-fitting design options based on a simple graphic style to give your social media presence

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Why Are Brand Values So Important (And How to Define Them)?

The Branding Journal

In today’s world, we’re almost constantly bombarded with infinite choices of where to spend our hard-earned dollars. What makes a brand exceptional and worthy of our decision? Well, the ongoing success of a brand can very often rest on the values at its heart and how authentically they are expressed and communicated in the marketplace. Brand values play indeed a significant role in building deeper connections that turn one-time customers into loyal ones.

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Whole Shop Bundle (Craft Supply Co) - only $17!How would it feel.

The Design Blog

Whole Shop Bundle (Craft Supply Co) - only $17! Whole Shop Bundle (Craft Supply Co) - only $17! Whole Shop Bundle (Craft Supply Co) - only $17! Whole Shop Bundle (Craft Supply Co) - only $17! Whole Shop Bundle (Craft Supply Co) - only $17! How would it feel to add 395 new fonts to your toolbox right now in just a few clicks for less than the cost of a bad movie?

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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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Medical Website Development and Design: Things to Consider to Create a Jaw-dropping Platform

Noupe

Healthcare services inevitably go online. Therefore, healthcare establishments are looking for a secure and convenient way to deliver medical care to patients. In this light, medical website development is a beneficial option to invest in. This post will guide you through the mainstream medical web design trends, features to implement, and essential regulatory requirements to consider.

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Babe Font by New Tropical Design

We And The Color

Discover Babe, a unique sans serif font from New Tropical Design. Created and published in 2022 by New Tropical Design, the Babe sans serif font is based on a unique style characterized by fun curves, a bold appearance, and a touch of cuteness. The clean, legible sans serif font comes with groovy alternates to give you a lot of typographical freedom.

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How to Build a Consistent Brand Strategy

Inkbot Design

How to Build a Consistent Brand Strategy. You must first understand your customers' needs to build a successful brand strategy. Do they want a functional brand, or do they want a brand that makes them feel good? Once you understand your customers' needs, you can develop a strategy that meets those needs. A brand strategy is more than a plan of attack to achieve business goals.

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Henry Swanzy Makes Acoustic Wall Tiles From Wood + Chocolate Waste

Design Milk

Henry Swanzy is the founder of Less is Better and an award-winning British designer with a passion for creating beautiful, functional alternatives to mass-produced products. He has recently started investigating his own waste streams as well as those of local businesses as a source of raw materials for new products. We caught up with him to find out more.

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How to Create Stunning Typography With the Corel Type Tool Kit

Download this free eBook to learn how you can create stunning typography, using the basics, such as placing text, to advanced controls like ligatures, variable fonts, effects, tracking, range kerning, and everything in between. Learn how to: Use Character Control to add variety to your font styles. Use Paragraph Control to manage spacing, alignment, justification and more.