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The 8 Types of Brands (Definitions & Examples)

Inkbot Design

The 8 Types of Brands (Definitions & Examples) Brands are ubiquitous in our lives, shaping our decisions and influencing how we perceive products and services. But did you know that there's more to them than just their name? Different types of brands exist, each with its specific approach tailored to various consumer needs and market demands. Dive into this fantastic brand-building world as we explore the different kinds!

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Ultimate Gift Guide For Digital Artists

HONGKIAT

If you’ve ever explored the world of digital artists, you’ll know that calling them ‘hardworking’ hardly does justice to their dedication. Not only must they constantly hone their skills to succeed, but the cost of essential tools can be daunting, leaving some teetering on the brink of financial strain (and that’s only a slight exaggeration). Art can be a pricey pursuit.

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Best Android Tablet for Graphic Design

Inkbot Design

Best Android Tablet for Graphic Design If you're a graphic designer looking for an Android tablet that can handle your workflow, you have several options to consider. The best Android tablet for graphic design should have a sharp, colour-accurate display, a sensitive and precise stylus, plenty of processing power, and enough storage. Fortunately, Android tablets have come a long way in recent years to meet the needs of digital artists and designers.

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17 High Quality Fresh Free Fonts For Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

In the vibrant and visually-centric landscape of graphic and web design, fonts emerge as pivotal elements for imparting messages, forging brand identities, and crafting indelible user experiences. Although premium fonts proffer a diverse array of choices, an expanding reservoir of high quality free fonts caters to the creative requirements of designers operating within budget constraints.

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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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Reddit gets a new identity featuring a refined 3D Snoo that celebrates conversation

Creative Boom

It's the social community where you often find the funniest cat videos or epic fails. This week, Reddit saw the launch of its new visual identity courtesy of Pentagram. Still featuring its "loveable, genderless" mascot, Snoo, it shows how the platform has grown up since 2005. Reddit is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website (just in case you need the Wikipedia description).

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Format Architecture Infuses Café Mars With Bright, Bold Visual Flavor

Design Milk

Bucking the idiom “too many cooks in the kitchen,” Café Mars represents the richness achieved when architecture marinates in collaborative effort across distinct disciplines. The founders and co-chefs, Jorge Olarte and Paul D’Avino, enlisted New York-based Format Architecture to help them deliver an experience in service to their culinary narrative, Italian-American heritage, and the Gowanus neighborhood – with a dash of Format’s signature geometry.

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Etsy Print on Demand for Illustrators: Showcasing Your Talent to the World

Graphic Design Junction

In today’s era, artists and illustrators have more chances than ever to showcase their talent and connect with people worldwide. Etsy’s print on demand services have played a role in this, allowing artists to effortlessly transform their illustrations into products and sell them to customers around the globe. This blog post will delve into the advantages and possibilities that Etsy’s print on demand platform offers to illustrators. [ Hide ] Table Of Content What is Etsy Print on Demand?

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National Landscapes' new identity is a simple concept, beautifully executed

Creative Boom

Often, the key to a visual identity is a clear concept developed thoughtfully. And the new designs for National Landscapes by Nice and Serious fall straight into that category. Never heard of National Landscape? Don't feel dumb: neither had we. That's because it's the new name for what used to be called Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). These are some of the UK's most special landscapes, with huge importance and potential in the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss.

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The Academic Architecture of The Hotel Seiryu Kyoto Kiyomizu

Design Milk

Ninety years ago in 1922, the Kiyomizu Elementary School first opened its doors to welcome a new generation of Kyoto school children into an era of modernity. The reinforced concrete construction stood representative of Japan’s breakneck efforts to modernize and integrate hallmarks of European design on a national scale, a minor monument in stark contrast to the traditional architecture that still paints Kyoto with an enduring historical climate.

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"If you've got a logo that people recognise, never change it," Pentagram's Paula Scher shares how she designed some of the world's most famous logos

Creative Bloq

We chat to the legendary designer about painting Porsches, the Public Theater and the value of making mistakes.

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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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Erbert by AUGE

BP&O

Few countries on Earth take their food as seriously as Italy. It’s not difficult to justify the enormous pride Italians take in their spectacular culinary heritage, with their cuisine considered the ‘most exported’ on the planet. But while the wider world is undeniably in thrall, Italians’ patriotic palettes create and necessitate a notoriously conservative domestic cooking culture.

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Hardcore: The Cinematic World of Pulp is a beautiful book every designer will love

Creative Boom

Jarvis Cocker’s shoes – ‘This Is Hardcore’ video shoot – Pinewood Studios – Feb 1998. Photograph by Paul Burgess. You don't have to be a fan of Pulp to enjoy this gorgeously designed book: if you're nostalgic for the '90s or just a fan of great design, you'll love it, too. We sat down with authors Paul Burgess and Louise Colbourne to learn how they put it together.

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Cosentino’s Ukiyo Surface Collection Introduces Fluted Texture in a New Light

Design Milk

Cosentino’s new Dekton® Ukiyo collection features textured, linear fluting that brings a fresh, tactile quality and a distinctive depth and dimension to any space, be it residential or commercial. The Spanish global leader in the production and distribution of innovative and sustainable surfaces worked in collaboration with high-end interior and product designer, Claudia Afshar , to create the collection and bring it to life.

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Blender 4.0 review: still free to all, and still incredible

Creative Bloq

Our pro 3D artist reviews Blender 4.0, testing its improved rendering capabilities and more; as ever it's free to all.

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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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7 Tips for Creating the Perfect Mockup

Graphic Design Junction

Mockup creation is typically a standard step in the product design and marketing process. So, almost everybody out there today trying to market one product or another knows how to use a 2D or 3D mockup. However, some tips can help ensure your mockup designs stand out from the pack. These few key elements can make all the difference in creating the perfect mockup.

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Bjoern Altmann's new book celebrates the overlooked beauty of manhole covers

Creative Boom

London-based illustrator and type designer Bjoern Altmann has turned his attention to the hidden wonder of manhole covers in his latest book, which recreates designs from over 80 countries as vector images. Manhole covers are such a familiar part of urban furniture that it's all too easy to take them for granted or be repelled by their hidden charms.

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Desktop Wallpaper: December 2023 With Glenyse Thompson & A Street Prints

Design Milk

Wrapping up another year of Designer Desktops is Glenyse Thompson , a Florida-based contemporary artist known for her vibrant and ethereal paintings. In her recent works, Thompson’s use of liquid inks create organic shapes and flows are scented with a hand-drawn “conversation,” what she calls the sculptural forms that are featured in each of her works.

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Get a Samsung Galaxy S23 for free this Cyber Monday

Creative Bloq

(Or get the S23 Ultra from just $299!

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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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5 Freakishly Ways to Get Done Faster with Work

Graphic Design Junction

Undoubtedly, there will be some days when you have a lot of work to do, but you get overwhelmed as you cannot find the right strategy to manage it. Along with this, you have to complete it on time before meeting the deadline. Thus, you have to be more productive and efficient while dealing with your work faster by eliminating all distractions. For this, you can have effective ways mentioned below that you should consider and get done faster with work at personal and workplace levels.

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Fuzzy Feelings: Apple's stop motion festive spot offers a whole lot of heart

Creative Boom

Whilst most big brands have put products front and centre in their festive ads this year, Apple has gone for our hearts. Its Christmas spot, set to George Harrison's 'Isn't It a Pity' and with tender animation by Anna Mantzaris , hits just the right note for 2023. Kindness is always abundant around Christmas, but why does it feel especially important right now?

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Watch: Richard Poulin on His Extensive Career + the Work of Rudolph de Harak

Design Milk

Design Milk is happy to share the second lecture of the 2023/2024 academic year of the Vignelli Center for Design Studies Design Conversations Lecture Series featuring the multi-hyphenate, Richard Poulin. The Southern California designer, artist, educator, and author discusses his extensive career which has been divided between professional practice and academia.

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How to draw the human body from sight

Creative Bloq

Explores the techniques you can use to look objectively at the human form.

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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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Photographer Spotlight: Karabo Mooki

Booooooom

A project about the Punk Rock movement in Soweto, South Africa by photographer and filmmaker Karabo Mooki from Johannesburg.

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Kieron Lewis updates The Brownies' Book to inspire a new generation of black children

Creative Boom

London-based graphic designer Kieron Lewis has designed a new take on W.E.B. Du Bois' 1920s magazine for black children titled The New Brownies' Book. We caught up with him to hear how he approached the project and why it's one of his proudest pieces of work. Between 1920 and 1921, civil rights activist and sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois released the first-ever magazine for African-American youth.

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A Los Angeles Home Renovation Mixes Neutral Colors + Modern Elements

Design Milk

The Chalon Residence is a minimalist house located in Los Angeles, California, designed by KES Studio. The renovation involved reconfiguring the layout and introducing new spaces to achieve a harmonious mix of traditional and contemporary elements, with a focus on converting an adjacent, partially-renovated property into a guest house. The peaceful atmosphere of the home is largely due to the use of neutral materials such as limestone flooring, linen draperies, mohair upholstery, and wool and si

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6 deals on creative tech that you can still get in Cyber Monday (if you're quick)

Creative Bloq

We've had our eyes on these deals all weekend.

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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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8 CSS & JavaScript Snippets for Creating Complex Gradients

SpeckyBoy

Gradients are a true staple of web design. Their beauty lies in their versatility. Use them to make a big, bold statement. Or use them as an accent piece to create a mood. The possibilities have never been greater. Modern CSS and JavaScript allow us to do more than mimic print design. We can use them to add movement and interactivity to the mix. But it goes deeper.

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Ed Little of Regular Practice on what the next wave of branding design will look like

Creative Boom

We chatted with Ed Little, director of the London studio Regular Practice , about putting design at the heart of strategy, how the nature of branding is (fast) evolving, and what agencies need to do to keep up. Ed Little has come a long way for someone who left university in 2015 with a BA in Politics and Sociology and no idea what he wanted to do. His initial foray into the world of design was through a creative accelerator, where he gained exposure to a diverse range of startups and consultant

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A Delightful Surprise Hides on Top of These Colorful Tables

Design Milk

Barcelona-based French illustrator Malika Favre is known for her punchy and playful art style which has been described as a combination of Pop Art and Op Art. Over in Brussels, French artist Alice Roux uses her background working in set design and fashion, and currently as a visual artist, to create objects and furniture. After the two creatives discovered each other in 2020, they began on a years-long collaboration that started with a one-off table but grew to a four-piece capsule collection na

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There's not long left to get the best Adobe Cyber Monday deal ever

Creative Bloq

Get Creative Cloud with Photoshop, Illustrator and Firefly AI for half price!

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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.