Creative Market

DECEMBER 20, 2019

This post is part of the Decoding Creativity series from Creative Market. Follow me on Medium or subscribe to the Creative Market blog , and join the discussion by commenting with your questions and thoughts. Imagine, if you will, two hypothetical people. Let’s call them Charlie and Pat. Both are in their mid-20s, fresh out of college, and both work for an organization that values clear communication, personal responsibility, and hard work.

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Just Creative

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This is a guest article contributed by Loius Martin. Are you so fond of a particular company that it’s hard for you to buy from other brands? You just ‘connect’ with the company more than others. Every time you catch sight of their logo, a wave of emotion runs inside you, reminding you how much you enjoy their products or services. What is it that drives you towards those brands?

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Brand identity is one of the essential elements of a successful business. Whether you are running a local one-person law firm or you are building a huge empire on the digital expanses, it is your face that speaks volumes. Every representative office should proudly bear elements of brand identity, and the website is no exception. As a rule, when it comes to online branches, the logo fulfils the role of a company’s uniqueness that visually separates it from the others in consumers’ minds.

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Canva

DECEMBER 15, 2019

When it comes to crafting a visual identity for a brand, the color scheme is often the first decision a designer makes. This lays the foundation for the overall mood and personality of the branding, and guides the rest of their design choices. Sure, the exact hues may end up changing as the design evolves. But making that first decision on color helps build the momentum needed to avoid designer’s block and just get started!

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2019

In today’s Photoshop tutorial I show you a few simple steps to create a surreal glass sphere floating within a photograph. This cool effect is perfect for creating interesting album covers, or just to transform your landscape photos into abstract art pieces. All it takes is a few relatively simple Photoshop tools, a couple of filters, and a touch of shading, making it a pretty easy effect you can create in minutes. ?

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Just Creative

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This article is from guest author, Ilya Lobanov. It’s harsh, but your customers don’t care about your business. Beyond how it can help them make their lives better or solve a problem they have. But it’s not all bad news. You can use that knowledge to your advantage by using the power of storytelling. The buzzword that’s making the biggest impact right now isn’t “ chatbots “ Or “ IoT “, or even “ machine-learning “, despite a truck-load of headlines

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The Logo Smith

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The post Tokyo Olympics 1964 Logo Design Guide Sheet Design by Yusaku Kamekura appeared first on The Logo Smith. Tokyo Olympics 1964 Logo Design Guide Sheet Designed by Yusaku Kamekura The Tokyo Olympics 1964 Logo Design Guide Sheet, by Yusaku Kamekura, isn’t something I believe I can ever recall seeing, so it was cool to see it in my tumblr feed today.

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Shillington

DECEMBER 19, 2019

It’s around this time of year at Shillington that we love to take a closer look at our students’ work and the wider design community to see if we can predict the fonts that will be popular in future. From brand identities and packaging to editorial pieces and website designs, we’ve scoured through all of this year’s projects from our six campuses across the globe to pick out 20 typefaces that look set to be big in 2020.

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Just Creative

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This article is from guest author, Tom Welbourne. Looking for an SEO blog post that covers all the fundamentals so you don’t have to read a bunch of other blog posts? We have one right here for you. This blog post covers all the basics and a few extras that will help you get your blog off the ground without having to constantly update your knowledge every few days to keep up to date with the latest SEO trends from Google.

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Creative Market

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Your product description and the images that go along with it can be potent selling tools that showcase all the important features of your product. Create product screenshots that help to sell your products. Be Customer-focused. Your product’s cover needs to grab attention and clearly communicate the main benefit of the asset. One way to do that is to show the results achieved with the product.

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The Logo Smith

DECEMBER 15, 2019

The post Erich Dieckmann: Design Development of a Metal Tube Chair appeared first on The Logo Smith. Erich Dieckmann: Design Development of a Metal Tube Chair The Erich Dieckmann vintage metal tube chair development illustration has been doing-the-rounds of late, and it’s quite a interesting—at least to me—look into the design process way-back-then.

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 20, 2019

A great collection for New Year 2020, 100 greatest free fonts gift for you. Fonts are used to add an appeal to your design and to your brand in order to attract potential customers. For our ease, there are numerous fonts available to download for free on the internet. The ideal font will make reading easy when used for a paragraph, even when it is read from a certain distance.

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SpeckyBoy

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Perhaps no movie franchise has more fans than Star Wars. For over 40 years, each new episode has generated great anticipation – not to mention monster profits. Both the movies and their long list of unforgettable characters have also served as a great inspiration to popular culture. Web design is no exception, as it seemed like the minute people started building websites, online tributes to the franchise began popping up.

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Creative Market

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One of the most important parts of wedding planning is designing and sending save the date cards to tell your loved ones your special day is coming up. But before you start designing the cards, you need to choose a few romantic fonts that will perfectly complement your wedding style! Fortunately, there are lots of love fonts to choose from, including the following gorgeous save the date fonts that are among our favorites.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2019

As a designer, you spend most of your time doing actual design work. But there are so many other aspects that go into running a business you need to handle. And that includes invoicing. Though you can certainly just fire off an email stating an amount owed, that’s not the most efficient method. You can use automation software to handle invoicing as well, however, that’s not in the budget for every designer.

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The Logo Smith

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The post The Toon Type Alphabet Project Hand Illustrated Lettering by @mvrtn_art appeared first on The Logo Smith. The Toon Type Alphabet Project Hand Illustrated Lettering by @mvrtn_art The Toon Type Alphabet Project Hand Illustrated Lettering by @mvrtn_art, based in Manchester England, is probably the most gorgeously detailed attempt at creating an illustrated alphabet you’re ever going to see.

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Noupe

DECEMBER 19, 2019

If you are launching a new product or a service related to tech, there’s a good chance you will be on Product Hunt. It’s a great platform to show your product and get feedback. It’s also great to discover new tools that are being launched. There are so many new products being launched and sometimes you never hear about the ones that will make your life and job easier.

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Its Nice That

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Collaborating over Dropbox Paper, the founder of Fisk works with Beijing-born, Berlin-based illustrator Ruohan Wang to showcase, not only their talents in illustration and typography, but their love of nature too. Read more.

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Typographica

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, a typeface comes along that turns your expectations upside down. With Faune , commissioned by the Centre National des Art Plastiques, Alice Savoie integrates unlikely visual cues into a type design. Savoie took engraved depictions of animals from two late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century scientific masterworks as points of reference.

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Canva

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Happiness — it’s the one thing we all seek in life, yet it’s tough to define. Of course, that hasn’t stopped plenty of people from trying. Countless poets, philosophers, psychologists and artists have endeavoured to pin down the meaning of — and secret to — happiness throughout history. While there’s no one answer, there are plenty of different approaches we can all use to enrich our lives.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

“People eat with their eyes” is the rule of thumb for every marketing strategy whose goal is to tout and foist goods. Whatever you are planning to do, make it look delicious, and chances are your customers will fall for it. When it comes to restaurants, cafes, food trucks, and other representatives of the food brands segment, it lies at the heart of everything.

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Its Nice That

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Illustration is second nature to Eric: he compares his process to “going for a walk”, one that begins without a destination in mind nor a concrete aim. Because of this, his work is littered with naturalistic elements, including animals, plants, the sea and the mountains. Read more.

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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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Typographica

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Ziza is the second digital font release to emerge from Mark van Wageningen’s ongoing experiments in constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing type, exploring the connections between various type technologies and materials, and — most flamboyantly — revisiting and exploring the possibilities of color type. These experiments began in earnest in 2015 with the Typewood project, in which Van Wageningen translated his display typeface Bixa , originally developed as a set

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Booooooom

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Wenkai Mao (previously featured here). Wenkai Mao’s Website. Wenkai Mao on Instagram.

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Noupe

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In the early days of the internet, it was all about the text. There were not so many options and technology wasn’t as advanced to support crazy designs. But as the world wide web progressed, so did the web design options. The focus slowly shifted towards the visual side. Besides informing the users, the designers aim to entertain, engage, and wow them with creative ideas.

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Its Nice That

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Featuring illustrations by Alice Bowsher and Matthew the Horse, and custom cuts of Grow by Dinamo called Grow Wild, the new visual identity and website celebrates the classes, its patrons and, most importantly, its menagerie of subjects from across the animal kingdom. Read more.

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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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Typographica

DECEMBER 16, 2019

If you’re looking for a blackletter without the baggage , 1 Bradley DJR may be the typeface for you. David Jonathan Ross’ first attempt at producing a blackletter, 2 Bradley DJR is a revival of an 1895 ATF face based on lettering done by the prolific American graphic designer Will Bradley , whose style straddled the gap between arts and crafts and art nouveau.

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Creative Market

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Use this calendar to inspire your production and promotion tactics. We have created it based on a combination of the seasonal interest Creative Market users have displayed over the years as well as general market trends that affect our industry. Note that certain months might be ideal to market certain products, but those products must actually be created in advance in order to be ready for sale when their seasonal rise comes.

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The Die Line

DECEMBER 17, 2019

For all the advances in design software and technology, gaps in the creative professional’s toolkit remain. In particular, one that has been elusive is high-quality textured swatches that accurately represent paper. .

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Its Nice That

DECEMBER 18, 2019

In what will always be the butter to It’s Nice That’s bread, illustration and animation in 2019 has been another eye-opening year of discovering new and exciting talents. Read more.

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