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5 mistakes to avoid when designing corporate t-shirts

Designer Daily

At some point, every company thinks of creating corporate t-shirts for some reason. The reason may vary, such as spreading the brand with employees, being visible at events, giving it out as freebies or selling the t-shirts, it can be for all types of purposes. However, there are mistakes to avoid when designing t-shirts, especially if your brand will be on it and the t-shirt will be worn frequently by many people.

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Instagram Design Tips for Creating Stunning Visuals Worth Thousands of Views

Designer Daily

You’ve probably heard of the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Nowhere is that more true than on Instagram! With tons of content on this platform, you want to create and design visuals that get people to stop scrolling and stare at your amazing pictures and videos. Once you’ve done this, you need a strong marketing strategy to drive traffic to your posts.

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30 Best Script Fonts For 2022

Graphic Design Junction

Year 2022 is almost here! We gathered best hand-picked Script Fonts, Signature Fonts and Handwritten fonts that looks natural and pleasant. There fonts are perfect for Logo design, greeting cards, quotes, posters, branding, postcards, stationary design, art quote, typography, or fashion look book design and DIY project to make your art/design project look pretty and trendy.

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How to Create a Retro Logo Design with Texturing Effects

Spoon Graphics

I recently came across the website Junk Type , which is a compilation of nostalgic labels and packaging designs from various antique household products. Seeing all those old brand logos gave me the inspiration to make my own, so in this tutorial I’ll take you through the process of creating a retro logo design for the fictional brand ‘Hard Graft Elbow Grease’.

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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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This mind-bending optical illusion is hiding two animals

Creative Bloq

But we can only see one.

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Pantone Color of the Year 2022: PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri

Design Milk

Here we are, the end of another year and that means one thing in the design world – the Pantone Color of the Year announcement! Are you ready? The Pantone Color of the Year 2022 is… PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri ! The global color authority announced a new blue-ish color that’s a “dynamic periwinkle blue hue with a vivifying violet-red undertone,” and further explains “this happiest and warmest of all the blue hues introduces an empowering mix of newness.” For the

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28 Hand-Drawn Burst Elements for Access All Areas Members

Spoon Graphics

Access All Areas members have a brilliant set of vector graphics to download this week, courtesy of Simon from The Shop. These hand-drawn burst illustrations have been carefully traced with a Pentel Sign Pen and digitised into vector graphics. There’s a variety of elements, including circular lines, geometric shapes, and stars. They are useful assets to add to your artwork, perhaps as backgrounds to a vintage-style logo, or abstract elements as part of a wider illustration piece.

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Lightroom vs Photoshop: which is best?

Creative Bloq

We compare Adobe Photoshop vs Lightroom to help you pick.

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Kohler and Daniel Arsham Design a 3D-Printed Ceramic Sink Inspired by Rocks

Design Milk

Global kitchen and bath brand Kohler and artist Daniel Arsham have come together in a unique collaboration that merges installation art and sink design. Equipped with Kohler’s technology to 3D print with clay, Kohler designed the innovative Rock.01 , a ceramic vessel with an organic form similar to river rocks. The 3D-printed sink rests on top of a cast-iron “rock” in a brushed patina to create a dynamic interplay that’s often seen in Arsham’s work.

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Amazing Digital Art and Illustrations By Alessandro Pautasso

Graphic Design Junction

Today we are featuring Creative Digital Illustrator Artist and Graphic Designer “ Alessandro Pautasso “, with his amazing illustration artwork showcase. Alessandro Pautasso aka Kaneda was born in 1982 at Turin, Italy. He is a Art director and Illustrator, his specialty lies in digital art and mixed media. In childhood, after falling in love with a Beatles’s illustration book by Alan Aldridge, he began drawing almost daily.

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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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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Erotique

I Love Typography

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. In the latest edition of Font of the Month, Steven Heller waxes lyrical about a new font family from Zetafonts. Erotique stimulates the senses, craves for attention, and — well, read on to find out! The post Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Erotique appeared first on I Love Typography.

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GDUSA’s Holiday Gift Guide For Creatives

Graphic Design USA

We've pulled together some inspirational suggestions for Holiday gifts for your favorite creative.

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A Dreamy Shop in Los Angeles That Blurs the Lines Between Real and Unreal

Design Milk

DREAMS is a new store located in Atwater Village, Los Angeles, designed by Monica Navarro and spatial designer Adi Goodrich. Inspired by surrealist art, DREAMS aims to tap into the unconscious mind through their experiential shopping space, unlocking memories and experiences that blur the line between real and unreal. Upon viewing surrealist imagery from reference images shared by Navarro, Goodrich was inspired by the notion of daydreams and what it feels like to doze off into a golden oblivion.

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23 Latest New Free Fonts for Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

Wait if over! Fresh free fonts are here. Simple and elegant latest collection of free fonts for best for big, bold and stylish heading and headlines. The text fonts are avaialble for commercial and personal use. There are twenty three fresh free fonts designed with powerful True Type and OpenType face. All fonts are perfect for branding projects, Logo design, Clothing Branding, product packaging, magazine headers, or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image.

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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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How to Turn a Design into a Stunning Product with Print-on-Demand

Creative Market

We asked our friends at Printful to share their best advice for aspiring print-on-demand entrepreneurs. Read their straightforward tips and get started with your own shop right away. Have you ever wondered what your design would look like on a physical product, like a poster or a t-shirt? If the answer is yes , then you’re in the right place. In this blog article, I’ll walk you through the main steps of turning a design into a tangible product with print-on-demand (POD).

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7 Tips To Improve Your Office Branding (with Ideas and Examples!)

Canny

Looking at office branding has become a part of my regular routine at Canny. With Canny moving from office to office, and recently moving into our newest space, and clients requiring help with their office branding and signage, I’m becoming a bit of an office branding, and signage planning expert. I used to work as a signmaker too – so it’s no surprise that I find myself gravitating towards shop fit outs, signage, and office branding projects.

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Patcraft Designer Amanda Hopkins Turns Artwork Into Flooring Designs

Design Milk

Patcraft has launched two new collections inspired by the artwork of Amanda Hopkins , a product designer at the company. With the Gel Print collection , carpet tiles were created through the artistic exploration of gel plate printing. For harder surfaces, Hopkins’s original artwork was used to design the Create In Place collection. The Gel Print collection features abstract patterns that were made from the method of applying paint on a plate and creating textures using various tools before pulli

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WordPress Themes: 30 New WordPress Themes For Blog / Magazine Websites

Graphic Design Junction

New trendy WordPress Themes for Corporate Business, Blog, Magazine or eCommerce websites. Responsive multi-purpose Best WordPress Themes with modern design single page or multi pages easy to use, lightweight and fast loading, WordPress themes for building website. Highly customizable, simple, feature rich, SEO friendly, fast loading, functional and modern WordPress themes will make your web design look more impressive and attractive to visitors.

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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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Top 10 Best Fonts for 2022

We And The Color

Take a look at our selection of the top ten best fonts that will be very popular among graphic designers in 2022. Trends come and go and some seem to stay forever. The world of typography and type design is no exception. Based on current and ongoing trends, we have put together a handpicked selection of the top ten best fonts for use in 2022. Our daily readers may know some of the fonts from our reviews.

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20 Pattern Tutorials For Seamless Repeating Background

HONGKIAT

Different graphic and web design projects require different design elements and patterns are just one of them. They can be used as a background or foreground in various situations, depending on your needs. You can even use a pattern that you’ve created yourself to add a personal touch to your work. Today, I’d like to share 20 pattern tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator that you can use in your future designs.

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Light Illuminates the Patterns of These Hand-Carved Meerschaum Clay Pendants

Design Milk

Feyza Kemahlioglu , founder of New York-based multidisciplinary design studio FEYZ Studio , recently unveiled her latest lighting design, Sunset Drive, at the Wexler Gallery during Design Miami/ 2021. Kemahlioglu looked to her native country of Istanbul’s architectural history and culture, an inspiration that can be seen in Sunset Drive’s materiality.

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Free A4 Flyer Mockup PSD Template

Graphic Design Junction

Free A4 Flyer Mockup Photoshop template. High quality realistic free mockup of flyer with overlay shadow effect. This mockup is perfect to present your poster, flyer, resume, invoice, brochure or catalog design professionally in a realistic display. Mockup is available in PSD Photoshop format with smart-object features, and within seconds you can replace the current design with your own.

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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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Robata

ID Identity Design

Robata is an izakaya-style restaurant located in the iconic Herald & Weekly Times Newspaper building in central Melbourne. The name is a common abbreviation of robatayaki , a Japanese charcoal-grilling technique that translates literally to “fireside cooking.” Much like sake, robata is embedded in Japanese culture where it has been a cooking tradition for centuries.

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The Rebrand Trend of 2021? Acting Your Age

Eye on Design

In a year packed with change, a certain shade of nostalgia has taken hold of branding design. A number of legacy brands, from Burger King to Campbell’s Soup to Colt 45 , ABC , Zagat , and Peugeot, drew on their archives to create new looks. The unfussy lettering, crisp lines, and pared-down color palettes of these rebrands look like stylish cartoon versions of the original logos.

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Atra Presents Earth Year 2100 at Design Miami/ 2021

Design Milk

At one time it was nearly impossible to imagine the world in the year 2000. With that landmark more than 20 years in our past, Mexico City-based furniture brand Atra is looking towards the next in Earth Year 2100. A point in time that’s not that far in the future, when our way of living will have evolved further. Atra imagines that we will no longer need to work to survive, thanks to technological advances that have taken over our current mundane tasks.

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Upcoming Trends with Influencer Marketing For Brands

Graphic Design Junction

For almost a decade now, influencer marketing has been on the rise as more and more social media platforms start utilizing it. Influencer marketing consists of social media personalitie s , or ‘ influencers ’ as they call themselves, advertise different products or services on their social media platforms. Basically, this is just a relationship that has been created between a business and an individual who is popular on social media with a significant following and who is able to showcase that b

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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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Introducing Very Peri: Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2022

Creative Market

Shaken, tested, and redefined. These words capture our collective journey over the last two years, as many of the habits and lifestyles we relied on were suddenly questioned by a global pandemic. This period of intense personal and social reconstruction is the backdrop for Pantone’s most recent color forecast for 2022. Very Peri, or PANTONE 17-3938, is a bold periwinkle with a red/violet undertone.

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A Retro Font Inspired by an Atari 2600 Cattle Ranching Game

Eye on Design

Name: Cartridge. Designer: Dan Cederholm. Foundry: SimpleBits. Release Date: November 2021. Back Story: Type designer Dan Cederholm was obsessed with the Atari 2600 console when he was a kid growing up in the ’80s. It seems his interest hasn’t waned, but it has taken a different slant. “Over the summer, I was in a local shop with my son, Jack, and they were selling old video games,” Cederholm explains.

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Where I Work: Tom Dixon

Design Milk

Design Milk and Design Milk Shop favorite Tom Dixon is never not designing, whether it’s a new lighting collection, furniture, objects, candles, restaurants, interiors, you name it, he’s always up to something good. One of the coolest things is that you can almost always recognize his unique aesthetic that’s a mix of polished, quirky, and always covetable.

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The origins of product design

UX Collective

Raymond Loewy and the birth of the design discipline Like many UX designers, I didn’t aspire to be a UX designer when I was young. And like some of you converted UX designers, I did want to design products when I grew up. Physical products, appliances, shiny, rounded edges, ergonomic buttons, clever interfaces. At the time I didn’t know that this discipline was known as industrial design.

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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.