Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2022

Marguerite & Luna Moth, 2022 © Scott Alario. Textural, colourful and a little childish; there's much to learn about the method behind the Rhode Island-based artist's magical creations. Scott Alario knew from an early age that he wanted to be surrounded by artists, "working, thinking, dreaming, arguing, all of it," he says. As things turned out, Scott – who was born and based in Providence, Rhode Island – went to art college for undergrad and graduate studies, both in photography and contempo

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Inkbot Design

APRIL 27, 2022

Logotype vs Logomark: Which One Should You Choose? What is the difference between logotype and logomark? Both words are related to “logo” (mark or symbol), but they can mean something else depending on the context. Let’s find out which one is better for your business. A logotype is a graphic design of your logo used in print media like business cards , web banners, brochures, signage, etc.

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BP&O

APRIL 28, 2022

Design-savvy duo and father and son team Dylan and Frank worked alongside Gary Todd Architecture and interior design team INDYK Architects to develop Ebb, a contemporary boutique hotel located at the heart of Dunedin, a city on the South Island of New Zealand. Ebb is uniquely situated at the edge of the reclaimed Otago Harbour–a place where Polynesian travellers would.

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We And The Color

APRIL 25, 2022

Check out these beautiful poster designs by Amuki Estudio. Based in Loja, Ecuador, Amuki Estudio specializes in visual communication, typography, and motion graphic projects. As a self-initiated project, Vanessa Zúñiga Tinizaray of Amuki Estudio creates beautiful pattern designs for posters. Below you can see a small selection of prints. Please take a look at Amuki Estudio’s portfolio for more.

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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

APRIL 29, 2022

Image licensed via Adobe Stock. Instagram has been a beloved tool to creatives everywhere since its launch in 2010. But recent algorithm changes and a push for more video content have left many artists and designers struggling to enjoy the same likes and reach. If IG has become too exhausting, what marketing alternatives are there? We explore some options.

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HONGKIAT

APRIL 26, 2022

Developing website is not always about coding. You’d also need a good sense of design to make the site usable, accessible , and actually looking good for the users. So, in this round of the series, we are going to explore more on some of these resources around design category. You’ll find tools for composing animation on the browser, high-quality mockups, animated icon library, a couple of CSS libraries , and a lot more.

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We And The Color

APRIL 24, 2022

Check out our handpicked selection of the top ten best Adobe Photoshop mockups and templates that are very popular among graphic designers in 2022. Without any doubt, Adobe Photoshop is one of the most popular tools among graphic designers and other creative professionals. Ranging from image editing to complex graphic creations, there is almost nothing that cannot be done with this amazing application.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2022

Vintage paper, daily fantasies, and retro-futurism are just some of the many inspirations that fuel illustrator Megan Du. Bright, bold, and impossible to miss, Megan's art also focuses on female perspectives to tell unique stories. Originally from China, Megan Du is a London-based artist studying illustration at the University of the Arts London. Her desire to be an illustrator stretches back to her childhood when her family would praise her drawings and display them all over the living room wal

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SpeckyBoy

APRIL 26, 2022

The hamburger menu has become synonymous with mobile apps and websites. It neatly hides navigation items until users need them. They’re great for saving space when screen real estate is limited. And we’re also seeing them utilized more on desktop devices as well. This makes sense for large, complicated menus and scenarios where content needs to be the main focus.

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Inkbot Design

APRIL 29, 2022

Top 10 Simple Tips For Freelance Design Life. In today’s article, I want to share my Top 10 simple tips for a successful freelance design life, which you can use to stay sane and pay the bills. The design industry is changing rapidly, so the biggest challenge for freelancers isn’t finding work. It’s getting new clients. Freelancing is hard enough when you’re the sole breadwinner for a family, but it’s nearly impossible when you’re trying to pay off stude

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We And The Color

APRIL 25, 2022

Check out this amazing poster collection vol. 1 by Nick Ugre. Nick Ugre is a graphic designer who lives and works in Georgia. He specializes in a wide range of creative work. Below you can see some examples of poster designs. For those who want to see more of Nick Ugre’s creative work, feel free to take a look at his portfolio on Behance. All images © by Nick Ugre.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 26, 2022

© Hannah Lock. The work of West Yorkshire-based illustrator Hannah Lock is hard to miss, thanks to its bold, in your face colours. But rather than layering up these tones digitally, she creates them the old fashioned way by pressing coloured pencils firmly onto the page. As well as describing her artistic style as colourful, Hannah says that her illustrations sit "somewhere between semi-realistic, and not.

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Noupe

APRIL 26, 2022

What is the psychology of fonts? Most people are more engaged in visual content, less writing (a phenomenon that psychologists call the effect of visual imagery), looking like a text (like a font) on a brand font psychology in logo design, advertising, and other products that are important for brand recognition. That brand memory lowers writing content.

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Graphic Design Junction

APRIL 27, 2022

The new fresh collection of modern free fonts , 100% free fonts available for free download and use for any commercial graphic design projects. New high quality free fonts perfect for logotype, branding and any kind of typography artwork. This collection included sans serif fonts , script fonts , handwritten fonts and brush fonts which can make your design more professional.

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HONGKIAT

APRIL 29, 2022

In our work as web designers, we’re always looking for ways to streamline our workflows to allow us to finish projects faster without compromising on the quality of our design work and even improving it. That’s a good habit to have, but if we’re not careful, we can spend so much effort looking for ways to become more productive and then backfire, causing our productivity to decrease.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2022

Today we've launched the fourth season of The Creative Boom Podcast with guests including Pentagram's Marina Willer, Bulletproof founder Gush Mundae and graphic designer and type researcher Sarah Hyndman amongst the exciting lineup. Every Monday, our show will bring you the inside scoop from other artists, designers, illustrators and photographers about the highs and lows of being a creative professional.

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Inkbot Design

APRIL 26, 2022

22 Ways To Fix a Website’s High Bounce Rate. Bounce rate is the percentage of people who visit one web page and leave immediately. You want to keep this as low as possible. You can do this by making sure that your content is interesting. For example, you can use images, animation, and video. These things help you to stand out from the competition.

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Graphic Design Junction

APRIL 26, 2022

The web is full of premium logo design ideas, but before getting to work on your next great logo, we thought we’d give you a few pointers to make the process smoother. We put together a list of 8 great tips to create a truly unforgettable logo. 1. Learn Why Your Brand Needs One. A professionally designed logo gives a lot of advantages, but the three main ones are: Validation of your expertise.

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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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UX Collective

APRIL 24, 2022

Extended Atomic Design (Yeo, 2022) As designers, we stand on the shoulders of giants, looking down at the marvelous works they have created. One giant of our times is Brad Frost, who pioneered the atomic design revolution and aided the acceleration of design systems. Celebrating close to a decade since it was first published, a wave of design advocates continues to provide further commentary and adaptation.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2022

As a founding partner and CCO of creative agency Area17 in New York, Kemp Attwood is someone who could probably share a lot of wisdom about a satisfying career in design. To pick his brains a little, we wanted to know which five books are important to him and why, so we can perhaps learn a little more from his success. After graduating in Creative Writing and Literature from York University in Toronto and earning a Post-Diploma Certificate in New Media Design from the Bell Center for Creative Co

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Graphic Design USA

APRIL 26, 2022

Parsons’ Core Creative Agency is celebrating its 50th anniversary. This in-house design department looks back and looks forward as it contineus to express and protect the essence of the brand, product, and mission.

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Graphic Design Junction

APRIL 28, 2022

? Creative business cards design modern look with unique concepts make a great first impression when you create your own business cards with one of our business card design templates. Our business card design templates make it easy to get professional quality business cards without hiring a graphic designer. The visiting cards templates are perfect for personal branding, identity, corporate business cards or any marketing purposes.

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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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Noupe

APRIL 29, 2022

Without an established online presence, it can be incredibly challenging to grow your small business. That is exactly why digital branding is so important for your company. It enables you to connect with your consumers easily, stay relevant to your audience, and even stand out from your competition without much effort. But even though it might seem simple at first, establishing your business as a brand online can be a difficult process if you don’t have the right tools and resources at your disp

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Creative Boom

APRIL 29, 2022

From the series, Lifeguard Towers: Miami © Tommy Kwak. Although Miami might be best known for its Art Deco buildings, did you know its famous beach is now home to 30 unique lifeguard towers dotted along the sand, designed by architect William Lane? New York photographer Tommy Kwak has been on a mission to document each one, and now he's bringing his 'tropical deco' series together for a new book.

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Canny

APRIL 28, 2022

If you’re a business professional who is tired of working from home, a coffee shop , or your local library, then there’s an abundance of coworking space in San Antonio. From open workspaces, to private meeting rooms, to large conference rooms, coworking space has it all. This offers businesses the chance to work in a professional environment at an affordable price.

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Graphic Design Junction

APRIL 26, 2022

Vintage badges logo design which can be used as logos, labels, school badges, watermark and other identity and branding materials. Brand your creative projects with unique and creative retro style logos and bring out a strong branding presence and vintage handcrafted impression. Corporate identity or Branding is all about creating a logo design and in building up the brand value is essentially best done by a graphic designer who is adept in creating images keeping the color schemes, and the ar

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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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We And The Color

APRIL 27, 2022

Check out this stunning brand identity created by cheeer Studio for TAL Education Group. Based in Beijing, China, cheeer Studio specializes in graphic design solutions for both print and web. In 2020, they have been asked to work on a brand identity for TAL Education Group. The result looks simply amazing. Just take a look below to see it for yourself.

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Inkbot Design

APRIL 27, 2022

How to Create a Graphic Design Resume for Maximum Impact. If you want a job in graphic design, you need to demonstrate your skill in this particular art form. So if you want to stand out from the crowd, don’t go for a generic resume template, but instead, create a custom one to highlight your specific experience and expertise. In today’s digital world, employers expect resumes to stand out—they want to know who you are and why you’re great for the job.

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Canny

APRIL 26, 2022

Are you looking for networking events in San Antonio? Whether you’re new in town, or a local, there’s lots of networking opportunities in the city for you to take advantage of. San Antonio is a thriving business district with lots of entrepreneurs choosing to expand their business here. Resources. The Ultimate Small Business Branding Guide. The Ultimate Small Business Branding Guide. download now. download now.

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Graphic Design Junction

APRIL 23, 2022

Professional high-quality, Simple Resume Templates with cover letter, portfolio and resume reference pages. All resumes are very easy to edit by Microsoft Word. All details are fully customizable and usable forever. You can make any kind of adjustments on these templates with or without knowing of MS-Word. We aim to provide simple, professional, and high-quality products.

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