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25 Japanese Graphic Design Examples for Your Brand

Creative Market

Japanese art and design are widely used and celebrated all around the world. From anime and origami to lolita fashion and minimalist interior designs, even in a small way, Japanese culture has become a part of our everyday lives. Today, Japanese graphic design can be seen integrated into logos, advertisements, digital artworks, and even Japanese fonts.

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The Best Fonts of 2021, As Chosen By Type Designers

Eye on Design

Ruthless as asking a parent to disclose which child they love most, we pressed a dozen typeface designers around the globe to name their favorite fonts released over the past year. What emerged was an energetic mix: entirely modern scripts that hearken back to the days of calligraphy, brush lettering, and copperplate penmanship; fonts that hover dramatically between serif and sans serif; high-contrast alphabets with tons of unique personality; some quirky typefaces that march to their own beats;

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30 Stylish Modern Fonts For Designers

Graphic Design Junction

A Beautiful stylish and modern fonts that looks incredible in both capital and small caps. Stylish fonts works great in layout design, display for headings and logos. We are publishing fresh and free fonts on every week, and you just found the right place to download fonts. Typography is the essential element of any graphic design and fonts are just like a treasure for designers.

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A Guide To Social Media Banner Sizes In 2021

Designer Daily

When setting up social media accounts, one of the first things you will need to design will be the banners that serve as your identity on the platforms. For these, you will need to work with a consistent color scheme and branding, as you would for any other corporate design, but also with the right banner sizes, as they vary from platform to platform and can be a bit burdensome to find.

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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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Spoon Graphics Greatest Hits: My Most Popular Posts of 2021

Spoon Graphics

To finish off every year I enjoy taking a moment to look back at my content from the past 12 months to compare how all my freebies, videos, articles and tutorials performed in terms of view counts. This is my greatest hits collection for 2021, broken down into individual roundups for each category. Did you miss any of these most popular posts? Which one from the list was your favourite?

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Best Style + Fashion Posts of 2021

Design Milk

10. CARIUMA Releases Pantone Color of the Year 2021 Sneakers. With the announcement of the 2021 Pantone Color of the Year, Brazilian shoe company CARIUMA expanded their Pantone sneaker offerings to include the new color, or in 2021’s pick, two colors: PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray and PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating. After the turmoil of 2020, Pantone selected two colors, a cheery yellow and a neutral gray, in hopes of offering hope and stability. 9.

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Create better animation characters with the new ImagineFX

Creative Bloq

Design animation characters, sets, and more with issue 209 of ImagineFX.

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70s Graphic Design Trends With Today’s Tastes

Creative Market

The 1970s was a time for revolutionary typography that influenced graphic design in such an irreversible way. Modern projects that emulate a retro touch are now synonymous to this decade. But what exactly makes a design retro and very specifically the ’70s? Graphic Design History: the ’70s. If the 1960s relied on dripping psychedelic imagery and self-expression, the 1970s was a time for further experimentation, collective movement and deviations from the decade that came before it.

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Carret Design Makes Eco-Conscious Rugs for Modern Homes

Design Milk

When eco-conscious designers Mehdi and Amandine joined forces to create Carret Design , they set out to create modern rugs that were as sustainable as they are stylish, and to disrupt their industry’s status quo, encouraging more eco-friendly innovation. “We have worked hard to create the most ecologically relevant rugs possible. Instead of using polluting or animal-derived materials, we reuse plastic waste abandoned in our oceans.” says the duo.

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35 Creative Digital Illustrations By Kerem Beyit

Graphic Design Junction

Today we again feature creative, professional freelancer and illustrator “ Kerem Beyit “ with his magnificent digital illustration artwork. Drawing and illustration is his passion. He works very hard to inspire others with his amazing drawing and illustration work. He is from Ankara, Turkey. He is hard-working guy, love challenges, love being a freelancer, an avid comic reader, gamer, movie buff and 1/6 collector.

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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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Swiss-Style Poster Template for Adobe Illustrator

We And The Color

This Swiss-style poster template for Adobe Illustrator is characterized by creative typography in two styles. Adobe Stock contributor @Blackcatstudio has created this Adobe Illustrator poster template. It is inspired by good old Swiss graphic design. Thanks to the use of vector graphics, the poster template is fully editable. Equipped with two color styles, you are free to change every shape or color just the way you want.

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20 Collage Graphic Design Ideas and Creative Tips

Creative Market

Collage making is one of the simplest yet most creative forms of contemporary design. It may be defined as merely putting a bunch of images together to create one artwork, but it actually requires more skill and discipline than that. It involves combining different things that all connect in some way and in a way that makes sense, which is why collages are still widely used up to this date and have evolved from their humble arts and crafts roots to a form of cutting-edge graphic design.

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Best Technology Posts of 2021

Design Milk

10. Trone Toilets Might Be the Coolest Toilets on the Planet. French brand Trone’s sleek, rimless toilets look nothing like traditional cistern-style loos and that explains their popularity. Available in a variety of solid colors, two tone, metallic, or speckled finishes – or a truly unique asymmetrical Callipyge design with a tiered silhouette – these toilets rate as statement pieces for the smallest room of the home.

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Best Adobe Lightroom Presets For 2022

Graphic Design Junction

Adobe Lightroom presets and mobile presets collection for 2022, you can easily create an amazing look just in 1-click. Lightroom Presets are perfect for photographers who aim to create a consistent & warm feed on Instagram. Lightroom presets has been tested on different photos and work very well. 50 Best professional Lightroom presets for photographers , photography retouch and designers.

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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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10 Free Portfolio & Lookbook Templates for Adobe InDesign

SpeckyBoy

Thinking of putting together a portfolio of your best work? Or perhaps you want to compile a fashion lookbook? If either of these scenarios describes your situation, read on. This collection of free portfolio and lookbook templates for Adobe InDesign are certain to appeal to a wide audience, all while offering a convenient way to present your latest fashions or photos.

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19 Book Cover Design Ideas and Tips for Your Next Best Seller

Creative Market

Admit it or not, the first thing that attracts us to a book is the cover. There’s something about book covers that gets the reader’s imagination running wild and makes them want to know more. If you’re in the process of publishing a novel, children’s book, art book, or any other fiction or nonfiction book, then designing a great cover should be at the top of your list.

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2021 Year in Review: Unframed

Design Milk

Tara Donovan: Seeing Through Sculptures. Employing thousands of black stir straws, a room-sized stack of clear dividers, and “drawings” made from meticulously manipulated metal screens, Tara Donovan’s unfathomable work came together for an exhibition titled “Intermediaries” at Pace Gallery in New York. Her obsessive transformation of familiar material is difficult to believe and impossible to exit.

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Modern Business Card Examples – 25 Design

Graphic Design Junction

Beautiful modern business card examples very simple, clean and minimal designs. Easy to use and customize. An elegant business cards, perfect for your next brand or personal identity. All texts are fully editable and colors can be easily change to whatever you may want. You can use the sample logo included or replace it with yours. All fonts used are free in all template are free fonts download links can be found inside the help file.

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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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Christmas Templates Collection by Irina Anashkevich

We And The Color

Graphic designer and illustrator Irina Anashkevich just published this huge collection of lovely illustrated Christmas-themed design templates. This huge collection of Christmas templates by Irina Anashkevich includes various customizable Christmas cards, posters, seamless patterns, and social media templates. Just take a look at all the different graphics and illustrations.

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Fun Christmas Apps for Your iPhone and iPad

HONGKIAT

Christmas merrymaking is just around the corner! What better way to usher in the festive spirit than to equip your iOS devices with Christmas apps themselves? Sure, it’s highly unlikely that we need countdown apps to remind us when Christmas is, precisely, but it would be fun to countdown and anticipate for the much awaited holiday season, right?

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2021 Year in Review: Taste

Design Milk

Drink Up! Radiant Red Pepper Cooler Cocktail Recipe. Pinch Food Design’s radiant Red Pepper Cooler is a simple four-ingredient recipe that is far from a basic cocktail – especially in a faceted glass. Gin is the foundation, with its unique botanical characteristics, tempered with sweet simple syrup and tart fresh lemon juice. But decidedly, the star ingredient of this drink is red pepper.

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Creative Line Art Logo Examples – 37 Great Logos

Graphic Design Junction

A clean and modern hand drawn detailed vector design Line Art Logo examples are very cute. Vector graphics of various sizes without losing quality. Inspiring Line logos created with simple lines with modern art. Minimalist logo designs are best logos for business or events. Today we are gathered creative line art logo examples for your inspiration. This collection consists of different designs that use thin line techniques to create minimal and clean line art logos that many will appreciate.

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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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GenArts Design Experiments by Antlii

We And The Color

Check out some experimental generative images created by Antlii. Anatolii Babii, aka Antlii, just published a collection of experimental generative images that he posts every day on Cryptoforma’s social accounts. Below you can see only a small selection of images that were created using a custom-designed generator which relies on the interaction between artist and algorithm, using SVG elements created by the artist as base elements, while the algorithm generates the output using a range of

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What’s Past is Prologue: Inside the Redesign of The Paris Review

Eye on Design

I remember the first time I bought a hard copy of The Paris Review. I was at a sleek coffee shop in Brooklyn; the kind that has polished oak chairs and sells vegan doughnuts. The magazine cost me more than $20 after tax, but it seemed like a worthwhile purchase. It was physically full, packed with the bylines of writers whose work I admired, and thoughtfully designed.

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Best At The Office Posts of 2021

Design Milk

10. ROOM + Industrious Are Advancing the Future of Offices With Workspace Galleries. ROOM, known for its modern and modular booth solutions, and Industrious, the highest-rated workplace provider in the US, partnered together to provide flexible and adaptable workspaces across the nation, further advancing the future of offices for our new reality. These “Workspace Galleries” from ROOM have launched at Industrious workplace locations nationwide, giving Industrious members new ways to accommodate

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12 Psychedelic Designs and 70s Art For Posters

Creative Market

Psychedelic art is one of the most prevalent visual trends in design, advertising, and popular culture, especially in this digital age. Even though their artistic expressions are often considered cheesy or mundane, if we go back to the period when psychedelic art originally appeared, we could learn some intriguing facts about the movement that might give us inspiration.

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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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Spector Press Branding by Yura Park

We And The Color

Freelance designer Yura Park has created this award-winning brand identity for Spector Press. Instructed by Brad Bartlett, freelance graphic designer Yura Park was commissioned to work on a new visual identity for Spector, a Leipzig, Germany-based publishing company specializing in art, theory, and design. Yura Park came up with a brand identity inspired by spectators.

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Weekly News for Designers ? 624

SpeckyBoy

Doodle CSS – This HTML/CSS theme will give your site a hand drawn look. The State of CSS 2021 – The annual look at CSS trends that made news in 2021. 12 Days of Web – Check out this year-end celebration of fundamental web technologies. Guess CSS! – A CSS game where you guess which code snippet matches a layout. The 2021 WordPress Year in Review – The biggest developments for the world’s most popular CMS.

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Best Product Roundup Posts of 2021

Design Milk

10. 8 Modern Wall Clocks to Help You Keep Track of Time. Wall clocks have the ability to make a functional statement as wall art or objet d’art, whether you have batteries in it or not (guilty!). And while keeping track of the hour and minute might be the last thing you feel like doing, sometimes it’s a must – so it may as well look good doing it. Here are 8 favorites from our clock collection that will ease the pain of it already being 2022, if even just a little bit. 9. 10 Garden Accessories T

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Nature-inspired innovations: Applying design thinking to biomimicry

UX Collective

Nature-inspired innovations: Applying design thinking to biomimicry Source: Science 101, GI This paper aims to discuss the Design Thinking approach to solving problems for humans, and how it is being used to build a framework called Biomimicry Thinking, which guides the process of nature-inspired innovations. It further goes on to understand the Design Lens, a tool which helps in the merger of Design Thinking and Biomimicry, and highlights some of the most fascinating man-made inventions, built

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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.