Creative Boom

JUNE 26, 2024

The winners of Penguin's 2024 Cover Design Award Competition was once again fierce for this year's prestigious awards by Penguin Books. We reveal the winners of its annual prize where creatives get a remarkable opportunity to showcase their talents. Today, Penguin Books has announced the winners of its popular Cover Design Award , which sees aspiring designers and illustrators reimagine the covers of bestselling Penguin titles.

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Designer Daily

JUNE 27, 2024

Dutch designer Chungkong ‘s passion for movies spills over into his nights. After crafting brand identities by day, he unwinds by creating minimalist movie posters. With over 1,400 in his collection, Chungkong’s talent lies in capturing a film’s essence through clever visuals. His secret? Working magic with metaphors. He boils down key moments to simple, yet impactful, images.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 28, 2024

I would totally wear Franklin Gothic.

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Booooooom

JUNE 24, 2024

An introspective photo essay exploring themes of childhood, religion, lesbian sexuality, and learning how to grow into a woman by photographer Megan Reilly.

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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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Creative Boom

JUNE 25, 2024

Blending magical moments, science, storytelling and a hint of nostalgia, Almighty's designs position Joonbyrd at the forefront of the beauty and wellness industry. Headquartered in London, Joonbyrd is a company focused on creating skincare, wellness, and lifestyle products that promote emotional wellbeing alongside physical benefits. Founded by dermatologist Dr Alexis Granite, it aims to create a new category called "Affective Wellness", which combines beauty and skincare with emotional and ment

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Azure Magazine

JUNE 28, 2024

This spring, I found myself kneeling in the centre of a busy four-lane intersection in Baltimore as trucks and honking traffic roared past. Sheltered by a tight circle of road cones and a diligent traffic control crew, I carefully cut and placed sinuous blue segments onto the pavement. With the help of two team members from Equus Striping, we melted these materials to the asphalt, completing a wavering blue line meandering diagonally across the wide intersection.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 24, 2024

Craig Burston on why designers, not pop stars, should create typefaces.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 25, 2024

Working in collaboration with Stuart Gough, Pentagram, JKR, and Impero, the charity launches its refreshed brand and positioning today. Its focus is on being "more accessible, inclusive, and digitally enabled." Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH) has unveiled a new identity to build on its mission to transform the lives of seriously ill children and "protect their childhoods from the impact of serious illness".

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Design Milk

JUNE 27, 2024

Nestled in the bustling Jinjiang District in Chengdu, China, the NI HAO Hotel is set to open as a boutique yet budget-minded alternative catering to a younger generation of international travelers attuned to contemporary design while prioritizing convenience. With its cinematic-styled decor, the hotel’s name says it all – the Mandarin greeting for “Hello” – setting the tone for a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere that permeates throughout the interior.

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Inkbot Design

JUNE 25, 2024

Creative Logo Design: Crafting Visual Identity in the Digital Age In this world full of speed and visuals, logos are usually the first point of interaction between a designer and their target audience. It is the face of your business; it is that image representing who you are and what you do. However, how can one create an effective logo? Let’s look at creative logo design ideas to help you develop an outstanding visual identity in this crowded digital era.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 23, 2024

Umeshu Lovers walk us through creating their Akira Toriyama-inspired April Fools’ demo.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 24, 2024

All My Friends Reprise: Looking For Owls blends vibrant imagery with detailed band lore. London illustrator Sam Taylor explains what he learned from this unusual project. We're big fans of London-based illustrator Sam Taylor , whom we last covered in 2023 when he was experimenting with hand-made techniques. Now he's behind a new children's book titled All My Friends Reprise: Looking For Owls.

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Its Nice That

JUNE 24, 2024

Designer Shira Inbar and illustrator Julia Dufossé join for Dream Theater, exploring the loudness and “liminal stillness” of the multiplex.

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Design Milk

JUNE 24, 2024

In the art of furniture design, mastery involves developing a deep and intimate knowledge of the materials used to turn sketches into prototypes before fully realizing final products. That’s exactly what Japanese furniture brand Ariake facilitated in October 2023 when it led a cohort of notable designers and brands – including Gabriel Tan , Anderssen&Voll , Keiji Ashizawa , Norm Architects , Monica Förster , Naoki Terada , and Christian Haas – through a week-long design workshop in Saga, Jap

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 27, 2024

Disney, Pixar and Sony Animation love his brushes, now you can too.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 24, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Feeling like a fraud? We share the community's best tips to help you embrace your unique voice, trust your process, and view challenges as opportunities. As a creative professional, your work is an extension of your very self. Your ideas, your vision and your unique perspective, are the tools of your trade. Yet this means that to succeed, you have to have a lot of confidence in yourself.

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Graphic Design Junction

JUNE 22, 2024

In today’s digital landscape, a user-friendly experience (UX) is no longer a luxury, it’s a necessity. Web and mobile applications that prioritize aesthetics over usability are destined to watch users click away in frustration. To help you steer clear of common pitfalls, here’s a breakdown of the 10 most frequent UX mistakes designers make , along with real-world examples to illustrate them: Unlimited Downloads Over 1,500,000+ Fonts, Mockups, Freebies & Design Assets Mockup

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Inkbot Design

JUNE 24, 2024

Improving Your Web Design: A Comprehensive Guide Are you prepared to follow a path towards bettering your web design skills? Then, this is the correct place for you. In this guide that covers it all, we will go deep into the world of web design and learn everything from basic methods to those advanced tricks which make sites outstanding. The Significance of Web Design Let us talk about why web design matters before we get into details.

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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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Design Milk

JUNE 28, 2024

Jamie Davis , along with his brother Casey, founded Portola Paints in 1998. Born and raised in Los Angeles, the duo were mentored by their father, a high-end custom home builder. “My brother and I have been working side-by-side for 25 years, supporting each other,” Davis shares. “My father, Jim, is the person who had the original idea of starting this company when I was still in high school.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 23, 2024

A Visible Distance interrogates the last three decades of design and creativity, from the commercialisation of the internet to the advanced technologies and practices of today. The creative industries are not short on autobiographies, monographs, and more of the like written by established figures, many of whom started their careers in the 1970s and 80s.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 23, 2024

Distinguish your PPMs from your PCAs with this visual advertising dictionary.

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Its Nice That

JUNE 27, 2024

The French graphic design duo are applying an experimental approach to the design of their vivid cultural identity projects

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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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Design Milk

JUNE 27, 2024

Architecture is to building as the soul is to the body, and the same goes for the esoteric sculptures by Brooklyn-based welder and designer, Micah Rosenblatt , who presents a 16-piece body of work entitled City Block recently on view at The Front in his debut solo exhibition. The objects – an amalgam of steel, illuminated glass block, and upholstery – are a means to explore modernity and myth as the contemporary phases into antiquity.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 24, 2024

Little Big Brands sought to respect the history of the garden's namesake, Mildred Mathias while bringing it into the modern day with a new brand identity. The UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden has launched its new identity, coinciding with the renaissance and modernisation of the garden itself, which includes enhanced entry points and common areas as well as a new central stream and water feature.

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Graphic Design Junction

JUNE 23, 2024

For graphic designers, fonts are the building blocks of visual communication. Choosing the right typeface can elevate a design or make it fall flat. But with countless fonts available, navigating the options can be overwhelming. This curated list introduces 25 essential free fonts from Google Fonts, a fantastic resource for designers of all levels. Google Fonts offers a treasure trove of free, high-quality fonts to elevate your web design projects.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 23, 2024

Brands are falling over themselves to attract younger people, here's how they can do it.

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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

JUNE 24, 2024

Who wouldn’t enjoy the convenience of preparing full meals in the backyard or out on a balcony if given the space and accommodations? Introduced at ICFF with plans to hit the market in 2025, CUBE is Brown Jordan Outdoor Kitchens’ latest collection and first collaboration with Luca Nichetto of Nichetto Studio. CUBE is about modularity for outdoor living at its core, inspired by architectural shapes and clean lines that allow for adaptation at any size.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 24, 2024

Four new commissions have come through the festival's Art in Manufacturing programme, positioning Lancashire as a hub of creativity and craft. This year's National Festival of Making in Blackburn, Lancashire, will host four new commissions for which artists have paired with industrial sector factories to reinforce Lancashire as a centre for making in the UK.

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BP&O

JUNE 27, 2024

We’ve covered no shortage of work by Pentagram in the past, most recently Cohere but spanning projects for London Fashion Week, NYC Parks, National History Museum and more. This is the first time, however, that we’ve looked at a project by new-ish New York office partner Andrea Trabucco-Campos and his team – and it’s safe to say, we’re impressed. Graphic The post Bacàn by Pentagram appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.

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Colossal

JUNE 24, 2024

All images © Matt Wilson, shared with permission Matt Wilson ( previously ) has transformed found utensils into recycled metal sculptures for the last 15 years. Bending, welding, and mounting segments of cutlery upon one another, spoon bowls evoke plumage and fork prongs resemble sprawling quills. Encompassing the distinctive crown variations of birds’ heads, Wilson utilizes the unique decorative details that adorn handles of silverware.

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