Mindsparkle Mag

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Another Tuesday, another Top 10 featured in Mindsparkle Mag. Aurora’s celebrating theme made us look for vivid and strident colors for this week. We’re excited about some new sections we’re preparing for the coming months, as we want to celebrate the end of 2021 big! So, here to you, Top 10: Colorful Branding series. As every week, we’ve carefully curated a selection of top-tier projects which we came across and created this brand new collection never featured before on Mindsparkle.

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Creative Bloq

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Designs that use negative space to make an impact

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SpeckyBoy

OCTOBER 18, 2021

One of the great aspects of starting your own web design business is that you can tailor it to fit your vision. Work with who you want, when you want, and set your own pricing. Sounds pretty ideal, right? But what if you don’t have a clear vision of what your business should be? If that sounds like your situation, you’re not alone. Figuring out what you want often takes time.

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Canny

OCTOBER 21, 2021

You’re here because you want us to answer “how much does rebranding cost?”. It’s a question on many business owners’ minds as they consider whether or not this process is worthwhile. Businesses rebrand for a whole host of reasons. Maybe your logo is causing you a headache or your current branding is no longer reflecting your business message. Whatever the reason, we’re going to explain how much rebranding costs.

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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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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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Creative Market

OCTOBER 18, 2021

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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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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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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Creative Market

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Is there any better way to create a throwback feel on a design project than with a vintage, old-school font? This collection of rounded serif fonts have a distinctly retro feel—so you can start infusing nostalgia into your work with a typeface choice. Check out some of our favorite rounded serif fonts on Creative Market below. Featured below: Mayonez Black Italic Hornbill Ranille Recoleta Moranga Black Cream Gentle Dillan Heirloom: A Good-Natured Font Pockota Andromeda Glamour Absolute Modern/Vi

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Fonts Fashion Advertising Advertising 146

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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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Best Halloween fonts for creepy, spooky and slowly dripping blood Halloween projects. Top Halloween fonts inspired by horror, scary and ghotic style fonts. These Halloween fonts are perfect for graphic designs, such as logos, banners, posters, products, advertising, or other designs. Halloween fonts can make your design more attractive. Add this font to your creative Halloween themed ideas and notice how it will make them stand out!

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FlowingData

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The New York Times used radar data to create a 3-D model of the Dixie fire smoke clouds : The raw data was collected every 10 minutes in radial sweeps around the radar stations, each at a higher altitude. The Times combined and reformatted the data using Py-ART, a collection of algorithms and utilities used regularly in radar analysis. We then filtered it to reduce noise.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 18, 2021

I work as a full-time UX/UI designer and currently manage six different projects. One would think I am constantly training my creative skills, while in reality most of these hours are spent finding doable solutions within time and budget restraints, writing documentation, working with numbers, convincing the clients, and communicating with the team.

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We And The Color

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Available for download on Adobe Stock, this customizable vintage-inspired Christmas greeting card is particularly suitable for companies and small businesses. Created by illustrator, graphic designer, and Adobe Stock contributor @Roverto Castillo , this beautifully designed Christmas greeting card template comes with lovely vintage-inspired ornaments and illustrations.

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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Free Mockups created for UI/UX designers, which can help them to present their design in a realistic-way. The high resolution mockups created with Adobe Photoshop SmartObject, easy to use even for a beginner in photoshop. These mockup templates collection included branding , iPhone 13 Mockups, logo mockup , t-shirt mockups , smartphones, packaging mock-ups, stationery mockup , flyer, brochure, magazine cover and hoodies mockups in different perspective angles and styles.

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Eye on Design

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Name: Compact Black. Designer: Yevgeniy Anfalov. Foundry: Kyiv Type Foundry (KTF). Release Date: July 2021 . Back Story: KTF, a new foundry based in Kyiv and Hannover, was envisioned by founders Yevgeniy Anfalov and Ole? Gergun as a typographic playground at the intersection of Latin and Cyrillic scripts. Their design mission ranges from hunting ghost fonts from the behind-the-Iron-Curtain-past to collaborations with older masters to bridge the generation gap and preserve knowledge.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Goal setting and performance reviews have been around for a while and despite its many limitations, are a hard to live without, especially for large companies. This article explores the OKR-based model for goal setting and reviews, specifically for UX teams, and provides both guidance for and limitations of using this approach. Introduction OKRs are the most commonly used performance review framework around the world.

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We And The Color

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Inspired by modernist Swiss graphic design, this event poster template is fully customizable and a real eye-catcher. Adobe Stock contributor @Blackcatstudio has created this super-stylish event poster template. Using stripes and circles in combination, the talented graphic designer produced an eye-catching look inspired by the principles of modernist Swiss graphic design.

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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The high quality and realistic Winter Mockups to showcase your apparel designs with ease. Winter mockups included hoodies mockups, winter sweater, jacket mockups, knitted scarf mockups, winter gloves and more useful warm winter and christmas mockups. Fully editable Photoshop mockup, just drag and drop your design using the smart layer. Real photo t-shirt mockups will help you present your apparel design on a high resolution mockups.

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HONGKIAT

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The freelancer-to-client relationship is a tricky thing to deal with. Your ability to work with the various types of clients can make or break your freelancing career. To help you deal with this problematic area, here is a breakdown of the most common client characteristics that may curse your creative career. Every client is different. Although we can find faults with each client we work with, we as freelancers need to overlook their strange tendencies and learn how to interact effectively with

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Its Nice That

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Fresh off co-directing and animating Between There And Here ft. Yo-Yo ma by Hrishikesh Hirway, we speak to Prashanti on her dazzling animation craft.

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We And The Color

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Available on Adobe Stock as fully editable vector graphics, these retro Bauhaus poster and cover templates provide an authentic vintage look. Created by graphic designer, illustrator, photographer, microstock artist, and Adobe Stock contributor @Blackcatstudio , this beautifully designed Bauhaus poster and cover template is a real eye-catcher. The template comes with two design options.

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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.

Graphic Design

Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Men’s and Women’s Hoodie Mockups are the photo-realistic hoodies mockups will help you preview how your apparel design will look like printed on a Hoodie. All mockups are available in a high-resolution PSD file with a built-in smart layer. Fully customizable mockups with front and back side of the hoodies. Insert designs on the hoodie, change the colors of metal rings and string, also separately adjust the light and dark areas.

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Vandelay Design

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Working in an industry that allows us to produce new and thrilling designs everyday is something most people would be envious of. But, just like any other career, graphic and web designers still need a little inspiration every once in a while. Lucky for us, there have been many talented artists, designers, businesspeople and dreamers who have encouraged us with their words of wisdom.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Design Provocation Gaming behavior influenced by avatars and content “Hadoken!” “Tatsiumaki senpuktaku!” I grew up playing the Street Fighter series, the legendary games produced by Capcom. I fantasized that one day I, too, would be able to do the Hadoken like Ryu, my favorite character in the game. Gaming has come a long way since the days of Nintendo Super Famicom, and now I see interesting trends in both the entertainment and tech industries that make the gaming experience more personalized a

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Canny

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Jargon and technical terms can be a real barrier to entry into the world of branding and rebranding. As a creative agency , it’s actually in our best interests to make sure you understand 100% what we’re talking about. We want to partner with clients, so it helps if communication is as clear as it can possibly be. Especially with branding projects, where the deliverables are clear cut and defined from the get go, it’s vital to be clear on what you’re doing and how youR

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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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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Vincent Chu a Digital artist, Youtuber, tutor and great teacher from Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong SAR of China. He is passionate iPad Procreate App lover. He thoughts procreate tutorials are very easy to understand and helpful for digital artist and graphic designers. He is also making procreate brushes , the perfect brushes to start with when you are making digital art.

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We And The Color

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The team of Kerimov Architects designed this beautiful home on a cliff in Portugal. This well-designed one-storey house is located on a cliff in the Algarve, the southern part of Portugal. With a total area of 250 square meters, the architectural solution is based on two cuboids embedded in one another, directly at the intersection of which the vertical of the chimney appears.

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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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UX Collective

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Is your design project stuck? What if you don’t know where to start solving a problem? My rule of thumb: start designing. Sketch out ideas and early solutions. In this post I will discuss why letting out your inner designer is always a good idea, and why most projects should start with some design. Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash The story about the industrial designers I used to work at Nokia with brilliant industrial designers who created the dominant form factors of mobile phones and ther

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