Its Nice That

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

At February’s Nicer Tuesdays, we explored the role of humour in the industry with illustrator Min Heo and Blink Industries’ head of comedy, Charlie Perkins.

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Brown Paper Bag

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This article is brought to you by Brown Paper Stitch , my business that makes your wardrobe pawesome by embroidering your pets on clothing. Over the many years that I’ve written on Brown Paper Bag, I’ve seen a ton of stitching. It’s inspiring but it can also make me feel a bit lackluster—there are so many talented people out there! If you’re someone who scrolls through Instagram and feels totally envious of all of the beautiful stitching you see, you might be wishing you could harness even a lit

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Spoon Graphics

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

When it comes to abstract art, anything goes! However, there is one particular combination of styles that has become surprisingly popular. The elegance of classic Renaissance sculptures and the psychedelic digital explosion of the Vaporwave aesthetic are two contrasting styles you wouldn’t expect to see together, but as you will discover from today’s inspiration showcase, it actually works!

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Just Creative

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

With the widespread growth of digital devices being used for everything personal and business-related, UX design has become a very important part of business today, regardless of the niche they serve. UX design has never been more critical to a company looking to create an app or website than now. UX design is one of the most in-demand skills today and companies are always looking for skilled employees with the right qualifications.

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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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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

On a late afternoon in fall, my visit to Barcelona’s Parc de l’Estació del Nord unfolds in a symphony of sights and sounds. Kids zip around on bikes and scooters and clamber over play equipment. While the din of car traffic doesn’t quite fade away, it gently blends in with the murmur of one-sided cell phone conversations, coffee cups clinking against saucers and table tennis paddles slicing through the air.

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Booooooom

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

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Just Creative

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Having the right scanner can help make your workday easier and certainly more productive. Working in graphic design, you may need to scan hand-drawn sketches or doodles and make them digital so you can edit them to fit your needs. Choosing the right one though can be a difficult process with all of the options that are out there. That’s why we’re here.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Montreal’s vibrant and world-renowned arts programming, including festivals like Just for Laughs, Osheaga and Franco-Folies, was put on hold. Months later, with most of the city working from home and a new curfew instated on January 9th, the city was far from its usual, lively self. “We had a choice to make,” says Monique Simard, Chair of the Quartiers des Spectacles Partnership: “we could either stand by and watch the decline of our downtown core, or w

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Creative Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Designer and art director Helen Rabbitte creates designs that blend fluid forms with structured layouts, drawing on aesthetics and motifs from the 80s and 90s. Her work features soothing colour schemes, with palettes akin to calming blue skies that transition into warm sunset tones. Working under the moniker Hello Rabbit, her clients include music labels such as Universal Music, Warner Music Group and Columbia Records, and artists including Peggy Gou and Nadia Rose.

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Envato Tuts+

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

What You'll Be Creating. In the following steps, you'll learn how to create a mountain rescue unit vector badge in Adobe Illustrator. For starters, you'll learn how to set up a simple grid and how to create the main badge shape. Using basic vector shape-building techniques and some warp effects, you'll learn how to create the rest of the shapes. Moving on, you'll learn how to add some subtle shading and a flat background.

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Just Creative

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This article has been contributed by Karl Kangur. There’s no question that content is vital to attaining your business goals nowadays. Whether you’re writing blog posts, recording podcasts, creating courses, or developing TikTok lenses, you’re moving in the right direction. After all, people don’t want to hear sales pitches. They want to connect, receive value, and enjoy an experience.

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BP&O

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Text by Richard Baird Time. This is central premise of Collin’s work for American stationery brand Crane, and more specifically, the bookmarking of the past and the present, and further, a meditation on the “concrete” as a time machine to the future. What it is to put something down on paper, and what makes something last? […].

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Last Spring, the City of Toronto announced a plan to build over 200 new affordable supportive housing apartments in just a matter of months. “We know helping people with supportive housing is good for everyone and modular housing is a way to make that happen faster,” Mayor John Tory said in an April 29 announcement. “The pandemic has heightened the need for supportive housing.

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Creative Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

It’s been an extremely tough year for the UK’s restaurant scene, with recent figures from the Office for National Statistics suggesting that hospitality has been the worst hit industry across the country. As an industry filled with problem solvers, many restaurant owners have been finding creative ways to reach hungry punters at home , but for small and family-owned businesses in particular, the pandemic poses a threat to their very survival.

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Just Creative

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The best part of being a photographer is being able to take pictures everywhere you go, no matter what. The problem with that is there are times when you want to wait for just the perfect in-focus shot and standing there holding your camera can become tedious after a while, plus lead to less focused shots. That’s why tripods were invented. However, your regular tripod can be bulky, heavy, and inconvenient, especially if you need to set one up in the woods for a beautiful nature shot.

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SpeckyBoy

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

If you’re a business, your brand identity is your personality. Just like with people, we can’t really connect with those who hide their personality. But if they show us what they are like, they can become our friends. The same goes for businesses and their brands. Now, if faces are the first thing we see in people, then logos are the first thing we see in businesses.

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Booooooom

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

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Creative Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The illustrator, animator and designer talks about personal style, the benefits of working digitally and the ways he’s ensured his creative independence. The post Saiman Chow on maintaining freedom in your work appeared first on Creative Review.

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Designs.Ai

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

2020 was everything but a comfort zone. Most of us are cooped up at home and designers have less to work with. Designs that speak to comfort, nostalgia, positivity, and knowledge will be big this year. We know how important it is to stay on trend and not fall back. Here are 7 design trends […]. The post 7 Design Trends That Will Takeover The Internet in 2021 appeared first on Designs.ai.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The continued growth of WordPress is something to behold. It seems like just yesterday that we were watching it surpass 30% market share (it was at 29.2% on January 1, 2018), according to the W3Techs survey. Now, the versatile content management system (CMS) has reached a whopping 40%. While there is a wide array of CMS options on the market, WordPress continues to outshine the competition.

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Booooooom

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

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Design Week

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Peugeot has revealed a new logo to mark the brand’s “upmarket” growth following a decade of transformation. The new design, which recalls its logos from the 1960s, has been created by the Peugeot Design Lab in collaboration with the company’s global brand design studio. Since 1850, the French marque has had ten logos, all of which featured the lion emblem.

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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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Colossal

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

All images © Yves Adams/Kennedy News, shared with permission. On a trip to a small island in South Georgia in December 2019, Yves Adams spotted an unusually bright creature bobbing through a sea of 120,000 king penguins. Whereas most of the flightless birds sported the typical tuxedo-like suit, one paraded around with yellow feathers and cream-colored feet.

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SpeckyBoy

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A business brochure is an important marketing asset that can help get your business noticed. You can hand them out during networking events as well as leave them in local cafes’ to raise awareness about your products and services. In this post, we’ve rounded up the best business brochure templates that are easy to edit and customize. You can use them as a starting point, add your information, and customize the colors and fonts or you can use them as an inspiration to create a unique business bro

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Vectips

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In this tutorial we’ll create a delicious fruit vector design from basic shapes and create a dynamic composition perfect for print and web media alike! Tutorial Details: How to Create a Simple Shape Composition Design. Program : Adobe Illustrator CS6. Difficulty : Intermediate. Topics Covered : Design Theory, Shape Building, Compositional Skills.

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Design Week

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Brighton design studio Baxter & Bailey has designed the new identity for Australian sunglasses company Sunglass Fix, featuring an ‘OO’ visual to represent the accessories. As well as an identity overhaul, Baxter & Bailey has set new strategy guidelines, redesigned the packaging and created a social media campaign. Sunglass Fix was established in 2006 as a way to provide a sustainable solution for scratched sunglasses.

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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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Colossal

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

All images © Studio Lernert & Sander. Exuding elegance and obscurity, Foggy Flowers is a two-photograph series by Sander Plug and Lernert Engelberts that centers on our collective outlook for the future through a blur of frosted glass. The duo, who work under Studio Lernert & Sander , unearthed the delicate shots from their archive—the images were taken in 2018 during a week-long period when they worked continuously on various projects—in May 2020 for Volkskrant Magazine , which asked

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Creative Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The Princess and the Clock is London-based band Kero Kero Bonito’s new single and animator and director Dan W Jacobs has created a charming video for its release. “I’ve been working with KKB’s management, Verdigris MGMT, on a few animation projects for their roster over the years,” says Jacobs. “They were looking for something with a handmade and traditional feel which was in line with some other things I was working on at the time so it turned out to be a fit

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The Die Line

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

With a focus and emphasis on the fact that each jar of honey originates from controlled pollination in the dense forests of Greece, natural elements are illustrated and nestled snugly behind the typeface.

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Noupe

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Dark Mode compatibility in emails is transcending from its definition as a “trend” and growing to be a best practice. Owing to its immense popularity, you can conveniently name it as the fastest-growing trend that has cast a magic spell on apps, browsers, and of course email inboxes. It has enhanced the subscriber experience and taken it to the next level. .

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