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40+ Creative Logo Templates Design For Inspiration

Graphic Design Junction

? Beautifully designed logos and creative logo templates , unique and modern logo concepts and ideas that you can use for branding projects, labels, apparel design, typography and any business. Photoshop PSD logo templates are fully editable with well organized Photoshop and Illustrated files. All are designed using creative methods so that you can easily make a guess about the brand by looking at the logo only.

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Don’t rely only on tools to pick an accessible color combination

UX Collective

How can we make sure to design with accessible colors? I was recently asked through a report to adapt some colors to be compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines ( WCAG21) 1.4.6 Contrast (Minimum). At first look, I found the guidance provided in this report to be very comprehensive and helpful. It gave some solutions and a link to a contrast ratio analysis tool.

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Big Type: Counterprint's new book explores graphic design where type plays the leading role

Creative Boom

If you think about the typography trends of recent years, one, in particular, stands out. Big, bold type can be seen everywhere, from billboards to websites, motion design to motion pictures. So it's great to see a new book from Counterprint devoted to this very subject. As you'd expect from its title, Big Type explores graphic design and identity work where the emphasis is on, well, big type.

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5 Ways to Create the Duotone Effect in Photoshop

Spoon Graphics

In today’s Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you 5 ways to create the trendy Duotone look, the colourful photo effect where the shadows and highlights of an image are replaced with vibrant contrasting hues. This effect was popularised by the music app Spotify when it used the duotone effect in its promotional imagery of artists and bands.

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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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32 Best WordPress Themes 2022

Graphic Design Junction

Best WordPress themes with modern and professional look. Business WordPress themes are fully responsive design and great for any type of website, blog magazine for personal or business use. All themes are very easy to use and highly customizable. Designed with user friendliness UI and UX. The themes have its own super powerful theme control panel with lots of useful options and tools to manage your site: Page Builder, slider sliderlayer, etc. and the themes apply the latest web technologies: Boo

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The Modern Magic of the Gradient Trend – Our Top Psychedelic Finds

Design Milk

Fun fact: I’m obsessed with gradients. I love them so much that I regularly have to ask myself if I really love something or if clicking “add to cart” is just a Pavlovian response to a gradient object’s mesmerizing microcosm of colors. The design world has gradient fever too – the psychedelic patterns are showing up everywhere from wall art and puzzles to rugs and glassware.

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Think Packaging by Seachange

BP&O

Cutting and creasing since 2010, Think is a design-driven structural packaging agency with an over-arching emphasis on form: ‘the neat bevels, the tight creases, the perfect fit’. The team of cardboard engineers has an international reputation thanks to its portfolio of award-winning work for global studios and brands, from startups to industry leaders, including Marx and Supply (New Zealand), OMSE.

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Amazing Digital Vector Illustrations by Ricardo Polo

Graphic Design Junction

Today we are featuring highly professional and creative vector illustrations artist and graphic designer “ Ricardo Polo “ He was born in Madrid, Spain in 1979. He studied advertising graphic design and have dedicated most of his life to the design and layout of magazines, although in recent years vector illustrations has occupied a large part of his professional projects.

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One-of-a-Kind Lumi Poufs Give Back to the Future of Design

Design Milk

During Stockholm Design Week 2022, Lisa Hilland’s Lumi Pouf launched at NK Interiors. Lumi means ‘snow’ or ‘light’ in Finnish, and the pouf’s inspiration was drawn from ice and snow formations. The core of the Lumi Pouf is made of wood, and the padding is based on recycled PET bottles. A smart construction process keeps padding at a minimum, with small pockets sewn into the fabric, making the pouf firm and comfortable.

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Linn Fritz illustrates moments of everyday beauty with a playful, design-led style

Creative Boom

London-based illustrator Linn Fritz uses her background as a motion designer to create bold and stylised illustrations of everyday scenes and enigmatic characters. And as the co-founder of multi-platform community Panimation , she's creating a safe space for underrepresented people looking to progress into senior creative positions. Originally from the north of Sweden, Linn studied Motion Graphics at creative business school Hyper Island.

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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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Omaka by Stockholm Design Lab

BP&O

According to Sweden’s travel and tourism website, craft beer enthusiasts will discover a ‘smorgasbord’ of artisanal, eco-friendly and organic things to drink there, with more microbreweries per capita than any other country (apart from the UK). Omaka joined the scene in September 2020, at the height of the pandemic, and with a slogan to match its fearless attitude: ‘taste before.

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Business Cards Design: 32 Ready to Print Templates

Graphic Design Junction

New creative business card templates elegant and professionally designed business cards / visiting cards can impress your clients and effectively promote your business. Branding cards are perfect any kind of businesses and personal identity. All these business card templates are easy to edit and customizable, suitable templates for any kind of business like Corporate Business, Agency, Creative, Blog, Magazine, Retail, Photographer, Artist, Designer, Freelancers and much more.

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F5: David Mocarski Loves All Forms of Creating, From Cars to Cooking

Design Milk

For more than 35 years, David Mocarski has explored the boundaries of the creative process. He’s Chair of the Spatial Experience Design Department (undergraduate) and Furniture, Lighting, and Fixtures (graduate) program at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California. David is also principal of Arkkit forms , an interdisciplinary design studio founded in 1982.

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Navigating our way back to 'normal' after two years of a global pandemic

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock. Back in the early days of the pandemic, one phrase you heard a lot was: "When this is all over…" But what exactly does "over" mean? Lockdown restrictions were never going to stay in place forever. But anyone who imagined Covid-19 would magically disappear and be as irrelevant the Millenium Bug had become in 2001 indulged in an understandable but naive form of wishful thinking.

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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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8 CSS & JavaScript Snippets for Creating Modern Blog Layouts

SpeckyBoy

The beauty of blogging is that it provides a way to express ourselves. We can do so not only through words, but design as well. The look and layout of a blog can say a lot about both the author and the contents within. And thanks to modern CSS layout techniques such as CSS Grid and Flexbox , we’ve never had more design possibilities. Whether you’re interested in something complex or minimalistic – there are plenty of ways to accomplish a given layout.

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How to Use Video in a Marketing Campaign

Graphic Design Junction

When developing a modern marketing campaign, incorporating video content is a must. Some of the biggest social media networks are 100% video-based (YouTube and TikTok, to name a few), and that’s not the only reason. Consumers prefer video-based content whether it’s on their TV, computer, or phone. Even if you create excellent visual and text-based content, consumers will seek out video that corresponds to your brand.

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Desktop Wallpaper: April 2022

Design Milk

For this month’s Designer Desktop , we’re bringing on a monochromatic wallpaper by Brett Design , a brand by Brett Beldock who’s a former fashion designer turned product designer. For more than 15 years, Brett has gained national acclaim for her one-of-a-kind furniture and wallpaper designs, including recognition and publication in The New YorkTimes, The Wall Street Journal, Elle Decor, New York Post , and more.

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Illustrator Ida Henrich on smarter working and why there is no 'wrong' in our creativity

Creative Boom

RSPB Glasgow to Globe Greenspace © Ida Henrich. A freelance illustrator, mural artist and designer based in Glasgow, Ida Henrich creates colourful and energetic work, often exploring social and economic issues that are close to her heart. Originally from Germany, Ida studied Communication Design at the Glasgow School of Art before throwing herself into illustration, working for publishers, newspapers and magazines such as Global Citizen, Strident and The Skinny.

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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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Instagram Reels for Designer — How I Grew 4X in One Month

HONGKIAT

(Contributed by: Valery Alexeev). Instagram Reels — infinite feed with short vertical videos — were initially introduced in the middle of 2020 but got viral and spread worldwide only by the end of 2021. This good-quality copy of TikTok from Mark Zuckerberg is becoming a real game-changer nowadays. And here is the reason why you should start shooting your Reels: The previous prominent Instagram feature — Stories — became popular quickly because it shows your personality in

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The 45th Annual Artexpo New York

We And The Color

The 45th annual Artexpo New York just announced its programming schedule for April 7-10, 2022. This year’s program of the 45th annual Artexpo New York features an amazing series of daily activities for attendees, that includes the Spotlight Program , a closer look at several outstanding art galleries and artists chosen by the Redwood Art Group selection committee; Art Labs, a series of mind-blowing projects by leading galleries, art institutions, and art collectives within the fair; Meet T

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Women’s History Month: March Roundup + Music Playlist

Design Milk

March marks Women’s History Month , an important time to celebrate in general, and for us an important time to celebrate and share female designers and artists. Historically, the design industry has been a male-dominated field but the tide continues to turn, finally acknowledging the invaluable contributions women have been making in design since the beginning.

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Infrared photographs reminiscent of the French flag paint a patriotic picture of France

Creative Boom

From the series, Infra: Blue, White, Red © Pierre-Louis Ferrer. With France poised for an election and the polls showing the incumbent president Emmanuel Macron having a comfortable lead, it's likely the country's citizens will be considering its past as well as its future. In a timely display, Pierre-Louis Ferrer 's latest series reveals our neighbours in a patriotic infrared light.

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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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Exciting Design Specialties to Broaden Your Skillset

SpeckyBoy

Designing, whether for print or the web, has never been a more diverse career. Generally speaking, the more you can do for a client, the better and the more work you’ll be able to accept. But what exactly should you focus your attention on when it comes to learning new skills? You probably want to pick skills to learn that have universal appeal and can be applied to many different types of client projects.

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Interaction Design vs. Visual Design: A Detailed Discussion

HONGKIAT

In the digital design world, both interaction design and visual design are significant to maximize user experience. Each of them works on digital platforms, including web and mobile applications. And together, they effectively mix technology with user instincts and aesthetic appeal to engage users on digital platforms. However, they make it possible in different ways.

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Kast Concrete: Channeling the Organic Beauty of Concrete

Design Milk

“Nothing else is quite like concrete,” says Kast Concrete’s founder and managing director Tim Bayes. The word’s been out about concrete’s versatility and modern warmth for some time, having recovered from the period when it was most closely identified with the severe austerity of Brutalist structures like Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse and London’s Barbican Centre & Estate.

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Collages by Carolyn Beehler of the best small town in America during the pandemic

Creative Boom

From the series Unprecedented © Carolyn Beehler. Looking at the works of American paper artist Carolyn Beehler , one would assume they are impressionist oil paintings. But up close, they reveal textures, words, and symbols, all hinting at an alternative medium. Her latest series gives an insight into how small-town America has changed since the pandemic.

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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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Minimalist Vector Graphics — Geometric & Abstract Shapes

We And The Color

Available for download on Adobe Stock, this amazing collection of minimalist vector graphics includes plenty of simple geometric and abstract shapes suitable for both print and web. Graphic designer and Adobe Stock contributor @Vanzyst created this amazing collection of minimalist vector graphics. Consisting of a diverse range of simple geometric and abstract shapes, these graphics are well suited for both print and web projects.

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Weekly News for Designers ? 637

SpeckyBoy

The Line between Custom Websites and DIY is Becoming Blurred – With so many no-code options, how do web designers differentiate themselves from the tools we use? Modern PHP – Some recently added features that you may have missed. Those HTML Attributes You Never Use – Take a look at some powerful, yet little-known HTML features. How to Use CSS Math Functions – Some tips on utilizing math to build responsive websites. 8 WordPress Plugins for Translating Your Website – Make your website available i

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The KNTR Furniture Collection Blends Into the Outdoors

Design Milk

studio HHID’s KNTR outdoor collection pulls double duty, looking just as good indoors as it does out. The three piece family of furniture – a stool, a low chair, and a coffee table – are linear yet soft in design. Each meant to naturally blend in with a residential outdoor space, which is also where studio HHID found inspiration. Both the stool and low chair use steel rods for their construction that have been bent into shape and welded.

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Puppets made from pre-loved clothing strut the catwalk in new campaign for Vestiaire Collective

Creative Boom

Over the last decade, fashion has been under broad attack for its environmentally unsuitable practices. Indeed the very notion of fast fashion is becoming increasingly, well, unfashionable. But much of the industry is evolving to meet this new reality. And Vestiaire Collective is a case in point. The France-based company operates an online marketplace where you can buy pre-owned luxury and fashion items.

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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.