Creative Boom

MARCH 7, 2022

Image licensed via Adobe Stock. Happy International Women's Day ! And what better time could there be to celebrate some of the most amazing women in the creative sector? So in this article, we've gathered together a mix of emerging and established women working in their profession, all doing wonderful things to inspire your own career. The industry as a whole may still be struggling to achieve gender equality, but that doesn't mean we're short of heroes to emulate and point the way forward for u

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Eye on Design

MARCH 7, 2022

Design does not exist in a vacuum. We are constantly and simultaneously surrounded by textures, contours, smells, sights, and sounds. As designers, we should consider all of the senses when we design—not only so we can more fully connect to our audience, but also so we can be more inclusive. Every person brings their individual history with them when experiencing a design.

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Spoon Graphics

MARCH 7, 2022

Access All Areas members have a vibrant photo effect to download this week, courtesy of The Designest. The Hypnotic Oil Paint Effect gives images an amazing acid-washed oil paint look with neon colours and grainy textures. It’s all contained with a Photoshop Smart PSD that provides 3 effects, plus 10 colour filters and 3 grain texture options. The Designest is a design blog that delivers fresh news & trends from the industry, along with freebies and how-to guides for professional designers

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Canny

MARCH 10, 2022

Video-based marketing campaigns were forever changed with the introduction of drone footage. And it’s easy to see why. Outside of looking incredibly cool, aerial footage is a confirmation of quality, allowing brands to approach video content from a truly unique perspective. Drone marketing — as some have started referring to it as — can be found just about everywhere, either to offer a unique visual, or to actually feature within the video in some way or another.

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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

MARCH 10, 2022

From Mami Wata to Lakshmi, belief systems through the millennia have been influenced by powerful female figures and deities. To shine a light on these often-overlooked figures, illustrator Sarah Walsh has brought them to life in Goddess: 50 Female Figures Who Have Shaped Belief. Published by Nosy Crow and written by Dr Janina Ramirez, Goddess is a children's book containing a biography of 50 deities and an accompanying illustration for each by Sarah.

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We And The Color

MARCH 9, 2022

Create stunning vintage-inspired poster designs using this fully customizable poster template with two color options. Adobe Stock contributor @blackcatstudio created this easy-to-use vintage poster design template. Equipped with two design options, the template is characterized by circular graphic shapes. Thanks to the use of vector graphics, everything is fully editable in no time.

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Canny

MARCH 9, 2022

When you think of a logo for a royal ballet company, what comes to mind? Is it soft, fluid shapes? Or swirly, joined-up typography perhaps? If so, then you might be surprised when you see the latest rebrand for the Birmingham Royal Ballet Company. Moving away from it’s regal roots, the brand has opted for a much more strong, dominant logo which is sure to catch the eye – even if ballet isn’t really your thing.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 7, 2022

© Olga Shtonda. Olga Shtonda is an award-winning illustrator from Kharkiv, Ukraine, who loves to combine different graphic techniques with printmaking, ink, pencils, collages and digital. Right now, she's in Mexico visiting a friend. She went there two weeks before Russia invaded her country. She's now wondering if she'll ever be able to go home. "I have a return ticket for April, but now I'm not sure if I'll be able to see my studio in Kharkiv again," Olga tells Creative Boom.

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We And The Color

MARCH 8, 2022

With this online course by Julian Montague, you will learn to design bold but minimalist graphic elements that communicate creative ideas by exploring stunning visuals that experiment with the basic tools in Adobe Illustrator. Julian Montague is a well-known artist, graphic designer, illustrator, and photographer who lives and works in Buffalo, New York.

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Graphic Design Junction

MARCH 8, 2022

Amazing Adobe Lightroom Presents for mobile & desktop. Best Lightroom Presets perfect for photographers and designers that will help you bring your photos to life with rich, vivid color and perfect exposure to make it look realistic within a few clicks! Moreover, you will also get the perception changed by applying these effects like boosting saturation, high-clarity and contrast to attain a professional look.

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Advertiser: Issuu

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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SpeckyBoy

MARCH 6, 2022

Block themes have ushered in a new era for WordPress. Through the use of full site editing (FSE), they put every facet of a website’s design within reach. There’s no need to open up your code editor, as you can point-and-click your way to a fully custom design. But before we get too far into the weeds, it’s worth noting that block themes are fundamentally different than the classic WordPress themes you’re used to.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 11, 2022

Just like any part of language, internet lingo never stops evolving. In 2014, the FBI commissioned a study of the jargon, creating an 83-page document to help it translate and monitor chat on social media. Now Pentagram has paid homage to this glossary by designing its own book, complete with custom typefaces inspired by FBI agent jackets. If 'DFTB' and 'BTDTGTTSAWIO' has you completely stumped, then Pentagram's latest annual greeting mailer will be just what you need to see today.

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We And The Color

MARCH 11, 2022

Available on Adobe Stock, these Bauhaus-inspired Instagram post templates are fully editable as vector files. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @orangeberry , this set of Bauhaus Instagram post templates is equipped with six individual design options. You can use them to create striking Instagram posts or any other social media content. All six designs are based on the standard size of 1080 x 1080 px.

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Booooooom

MARCH 11, 2022

Paris, France-based photographer Edouard Jacquinet explores the visual vernacular of office environments in his series, “Marguerites.” Published as a photobook by Art Paper Editions, “Marguerites” is as much an exercise in observation as it is a documentary project. “Rather than undertaking an unveiling, explanatory, or compassionate mission, I aim at creating a kind of ideal readiness, both mental and physical, for the act of perception,” explains Jacquinet.

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Noupe

MARCH 9, 2022

There are millions of Apps available in the Apple store and google play store so are the multiple options available for the users. It is more important than ever to create marketing systematic plans for your mobile app. Marketing a mobile app efficiently involves determining a target audience, learning how to reach them, how to communicate with them and analyzing their in-app behavior to make updates and improvements.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 10, 2022

A multidisciplinary artist living in Germany, originally from Belarus, Veronika Bolotina is behind a book that hopes to show the dangers of propaganda and how it can lead to misinformation and hate. Created during her final year at Berlin University of the Arts, she is now revisiting the project to support the people of Ukraine. "I am sure you are aware of the political situation in Ukraine right now and how lies and propaganda are influencing the people in Belarus and Russia," Veronika tells Cr

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We And The Color

MARCH 8, 2022

Design studio Too Gallus created the brand identity for Wax London. Too Gallus is an award-winning Branding and Web Design studio based in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2020, their creative team was commissioned by Justified Studio to work on a unique brand identity for Wax London. They opted for a material-focused approach, using a beautifully punchy GF smith orange and grey as well as a heavy blind emboss.

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Eye on Design

MARCH 10, 2022

In 2010, I curated a selection of Ed Fella’s famous flyers, created “after the fact”—as he put it—for his own lectures, in an exhibition about Surrealism and graphic design at the Moravian Gallery in the Czech Republic. I wanted to propose a different way of looking at Fella’s work, which had been, at that point, mostly discussed in relation to postmodernism in graphic design.

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SpeckyBoy

MARCH 11, 2022

Markdown Badges – This collection of badges features a variety of social networks, frameworks, and libraries. 10 Free WordPress Block Themes That Utilize Full Site Editing – Experience the future of WordPress with this collection of free block themes. Creating Native Web Components – Learn how to create and use native web components with the Minze JavaScript framework.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 8, 2022

Annabel Wright. According to the Publishers Association, most senior roles in publishing are held by women. But there's still gender disparity amongst authors and even more across genres. In a world where business books are predominantly written by men, Annabel Wright of Whitefox Publishing explores how joining the dots with independent self-publishing could provide the perfect platform for female-identifying entrepreneurs who want to share their professional voice.

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We And The Color

MARCH 11, 2022

With this highly recommended online course, you will learn how to transform information into art. Sonja Kuijpers is a renowned data illustrator and design teacher based in Eindhoven, Netherlands. In her online course, she will teach you how to effectively bring data to life with graphic shapes, colors, and creative layouts. In 14 lessons, she gives you all the tools you need to transform data into captivating infographics using colors, shapes, and images.

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Creative Review

MARCH 8, 2022

The British Culture Archive is staging a free exhibition in Manchester that examines 50 years of documentary photography by women, starting with two photographers whose perspectives are rooted in parts of northern England. It features work by the late Newcastle-born social documentary photographer Tish Murtha, who began documenting everyday life in Elswick – a district on the west side of the city.

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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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HONGKIAT

MARCH 7, 2022

GitHub is a fantastic platform for developers to share open-source projects with the rest of the world. There are several repositories available that may assist you as a developer, however, finding valuable repositories among the 45 million public Github repositories is a tough challenge. Therefore, to make it easier for you to find the best and most useful resources, this article presents some of the best GitHub repositories with high popularity, usability, and demand.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 7, 2022

Coralie Carré. In 2022, the design industry likes to think of itself as an enlightened, liberal, open-minded place where everyone is equal and judged purely on their abilities. But on International Women's Day , it's time to call BS. While the profession may have come a long way from the crass sexism of the Mad Men era, we're still a long way from true gender equality.

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We And The Color

MARCH 5, 2022

Available for download on Adobe Stock, this set of Instagram post templates is ideal for social media ads and other business promotions. Ranging from online yoga classes to product promotions, this set of clean Instagram post templates is well suited for a wide range of topics. Created by graphic designer and Adobe Stock contributor @Phillip , the set contains nine fully customizable layouts all in the size of 1080 x 1080px.

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UX Collective

MARCH 9, 2022

Cognitive biases are systematic errors in thinking that can lead UX professionals to make wrong design decisions. Here, we will learn to identify and manage three cognitive biases to improve data-driven design outcomes and user delight Illustration by the author Highlights: Cognitive biases are subconscious errors in thinking that impact individuals and teams in all levels of seniority.

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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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HONGKIAT

MARCH 7, 2022

Writing CSS code is one of the most important responsibilities a web developer regularly does. However, CSS is a fantastic stylesheet language that allows us to style web pages and interactive on all user devices. Consider a website without CSS coding. We can do so much with this fantastic stylesheet language. Writing solid CSS code from scratch, on the other hand, might take a long time, especially if you’re working on a big project.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 8, 2022

From the series Neighbourhood Watch © Alexander Coggin and Alice Ray. Two image-makers have come together in producing a flash-lit series of recognisable objects placed in weird scenarios. The pair tell us more about their project below. It's been a tough few years, to say the least. But creativity, with all its remedial and therapeutic powers, has been a lifeline, with many turning towards a new or existing medium to make sense of the world around them – or to simply enjoy the process.

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We And The Color

MARCH 7, 2022

Love for coffee, fear of small places. These are illustrations created by An?ela Jankovi? as part of an ongoing personal project. She tried to track how she feels and expresses that by putting some characters in peculiar situations. All images © by An?ela Jankovi?. Do not hesitate to find more creative work in the Illustration category. Subscribe to our newsletter!

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UX Collective

MARCH 6, 2022

Analyzing Apple Music’s UX Illustration by Jan Marin Why Apple Music? As a convert to the Apple Club, I’ve spent the last 10 years using Apple products and appreciating the philosophy of good design Jobs ushered in way back when. Over those years I got hooked into Apple’s ecosystem because for me “It just worked.” One such adoption was iTunes. Spending my fair share of time carefully curating my music library and faithfully syncing it to my trusty iPod.

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