Creative Boom
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
A new protest-inspired brand symbol was designed to compliment Mozilla's custom wordmark and typeface family, helping the brand to stand out in a sea of sameness. The free software community Mozilla has set out to reclaim the internet as a global public resource with a new "Grassroots to Government" design system developed by Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR).
Spoon Graphics
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
The retro artwork that used to appear on old VHS tape covers has become an iconic design style that is often mimicked today. Follow along with this tutorial to create your own fun retro style poster based on the artwork of those VHS cassette covers. We’ll use Illustrator to construct the design with text and shape elements, then we’ll quickly send the final artwork over to Photoshop to give it an aged appearance with texture overlays.
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Design Milk
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
In an era where play is becoming less accessible for many families, the LEGO Group has introduced a groundbreaking experience that aims to reignite the joy and creativity of play. Superpower Studios , which recently opened in Paris, challenges traditional notions of art galleries by transforming them into dynamic spaces where children and families can explore, create, and connect through the magic of play.
Graphic Design Junction
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Creative fonts are essential in the ever-evolving world of graphic design, playing a key role in creating eye-catching visual experiences. Choosing the right font can greatly improve your work, making it both more effective and memorable. Whether you want to convey emotion, grab attention, or simply enhance the look of your designs, creative fonts can make a big difference.
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
Creative Boom
SEPTEMBER 22, 2024
Image licensed via Adobe Stock We share insights and strategies from artists and designers on embracing imperfection and finding freedom in the creative process. If you've ever had job interview training, you'll probably have been warned to prepare for the question, "What are your weaknesses?" Some believe the best answer is "I'm a bit of a perfectionist".
BP&O
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
‘Dinner ladies’ doesn’t have the most glamorous connotations in England – depending on your experience at school, it likely conjures up memories of scoops of greying, tepid mash-adjacent slop unceremoniously plopped onto a plate; something to do with turkey dinosaurs; a troop of formidable but visibly jaded people responsible for making every school smell like on-the-turn cottage pie from around The post The Dinner Ladies by Universal Favourite appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packag
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Design Milk
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Located by Green Island Lake in Foshan City, Guangdong, China, the Boundless Residence , designed by c.dd , embodies the philosophy of “Limited yet Boundless.” The design seeks to merge the tranquility of nature with modern living spaces, creating an environment where physical comfort and spiritual rejuvenation coexist. Rather than adhering to the rigid boundaries of traditional homes, c.dd adopted a fluid, open-plan layout that allows for an uninterrupted flow between different spac
Creative Boom
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Nostalgic illustrations, editorial-inspired photography and striped graphic assets make up the craft cocktail brand's new identity designed by Tavern. Back in 2014, while she was bartending at the storied Pequot Inn, Bronya Shillo founded the craft cocktail brand Fishers Island Lemonade. Now, as it celebrates its 10th anniversary, Shillo has collaborated with Brooklyn-based branding agency Tavern to build on these foundations with a refreshed brand experience that provides a fresh yet familiar t
Joe McNally
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Lots of great news and lessons from Kelby Media this week! Sept 24-26th is Photoshop World, as always a world class, jam packed couple of days (and more) of instruction in all manner of state of the art visual storytelling tools. Lessons and info on cutting edge skills, as well as old school, tried and true techniques for shooting, lighting, and post-production.
Graphic Design Junction
SEPTEMBER 22, 2024
Free graphic design tools and assets are crucial in the world of design. However, premium resources can sometimes be expensive, which is where free graphic design resources come into play. With a constantly evolving market, fresh and high-quality tools are always available to help designers elevate their work without breaking the bank. This article curates the latest free graphic design resources that will enhance your projects while being completely free for commercial use.
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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.
FlowingData
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
As Hurricane Helene approached Florida, it grew from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane. What does that mean? Amudalat Ajasa, Aaron Steckelberg, and Julie Hoban, reporting for The Washington Post, illustrate the hurricane categories with an animated model that starts peacefully and then suffers through each level. As a Californian, I’m more familiar with earthquakes and wildfires, so this was helpful.
Creative Boom
SEPTEMBER 22, 2024
Illustration by Mia Angioy for Creative Boom In the third of our special six-part series, we discuss how Epidemic Sound's helpful tools for creatives can elevate your creative process and boost efficiency. Making video content can be creatively rewarding. But boy, is it hard work. And annoyingly, what should be, in theory, the most fun part – finding a soundtrack for your visuals – can, in practice, be a time-consuming and often frustrating activity.
Its Nice That
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
This designer-cum-illustrator and DJ’s work moves to its own visual rhythms.
Graphic Design Junction
SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
In today’s competitive job market, a strong first impression can be the key to landing your dream role. Your resume is often that first introduction to potential employers. By choosing the right design, you can highlight your skills and experiences while standing out visually. If you’re looking for professionally designed resumes without breaking the bank, we’ve curated 15 free PSD resume templates that are easy to customize, aesthetically pleasing, and sure to elevate your job application.
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Abduzeedo
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Love Wellness: Branding Design That's Fun and Functional abduzeedo 0925—24 Love Wellness, the women's health brand by Lo Bosworth, needed branding and packaging that were as playful as they were informative. Discover how custom typography and illustrations made this brand a hit. Love Wellness isn't your average women's health brand. It's bubbly, vibrant, and oh-so-relatable.
Creative Boom
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
The Bath-based design agency's work for The Foxes Club sets the stage for the expansion of this popular franchise. The Foxes Club is one of London's leading providers of sports classes, camps and academies for kids. It began in 2007 by organising games and activities in a local park and was previously known as The Little Foxes Club. Today, the organisation is a market leader in delivering community-based children's play programmes, holiday camps and football academies.
Booooooom
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
A visual exploration of time, space, and self by Rotterdam-based photographer Pauline Köhlen.
Graphic Design Junction
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Faceless YouTube Channel and Faceless AI YouTube Channel are revolutionizing the content creation landscape, making it possible to become a successful YouTuber without even showing your face. This guide explores how you can leverage AI tools to create engaging videos for YouTube , gain a massive following, and even cross-promote your content on platforms like TikTok—all while maintaining your privacy.
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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.
HONGKIAT
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Here’s an unbelievably annoying problem that occurs during the Cricut Print and Cut process – a thin line or border appears around the design you create, even when you’re certain there’s no border in the design. When you send the design to print in Cricut, this thin line magically appears during the Print Setup stage. If you go ahead with the print and cut, this unwanted thin line remains, which looks like this: Despite multiple checks to ensure no lines exist in my design, the issue persists.
Creative Boom
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Consumers like the idea of established brands, but "old" and "mattress" aren't words that go together well. Ostermoor teamed up with Parker to help square that circle. In general, we like companies with decades of experience and expertise. They're far more likely to know what they're doing and provide good value. However, when we think about mattresses, we tend to gravitate to new, flashy brands with access to the latest supportive technologies.
We And The Color
SEPTEMBER 22, 2024
For many creatives—whether graphic designers, illustrators, or photographers—turning their passion into a sustainable source of income can be a significant challenge. The competitive nature of the creative industry, coupled with fluctuating client demand and inconsistent project opportunities, often makes it difficult to secure a steady stream of work.
Design Milk
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Glasswork is an art that is at least 3,600 years old, with nearly all early civilizations discovering this marvel through the metalsmithing process. For more than half a century, Dale Chihuly has pioneered a movement in glassblowing, pushing the material to its limits while also celebrating its innate qualities. In his second collaboration with The Rug Company , Masterpieces II , Chihuly explores a multitude of fibers and colors to create a bold line of unique rugs.
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.
HONGKIAT
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
It’s September and we’ve got a fresh set of resources for our fellow web developers. This month, we’ve got tools from various categories, including a plugin to check a WordPress plugin, a React component library for WordPress admin applications, a collection of Laravel Blade components, a static site generator written in Rust, and a few more interesting things that you might find useful.
Creative Boom
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Pienso is seeking to make AI more accessible for ordinary companies. Now a new visual identity crafted by Pentagram is helping them pursue this mission. Say the word AI to creatives, and for many of us, the impulse is to stick our fingers in our ears, go "lalalalala" and hope it all goes away. But whatever your views of artificial intelligence, the idea that this is just some short-lived fad we can safely ignore is becoming increasingly untenable.
Design Beep
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Here on Designbeep,we also aim to help designers to find free yet high quality resources whether for your web design projects or graphic design projects.Who doesn’t like freebies? Well, although we bring together free font collections time to time we decided to share a free font everyday and today’s free font Unique is designed by Rajesh Rajput Unique has seven weights, from Thin to Bold, supporting multiple Latin languages.
Creative Bloq
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
With the help of experts in the field, we pick the most outstanding and effective magazine covers ever published.
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.
Its Nice That
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
When it comes to visual identity work, the Paris-based designer and art director never fails to bring her playful, hands-on approach to typography to the table.
Creative Boom
SEPTEMBER 22, 2024
The founder of the three-year-old Brooklyn studio explains how they're blending strategy, language and design and helping redefine brand communication in the AI era. In the competitive world of design and branding, it's rare to find a design studio that truly breaks the mould. Yet Company Policy , a full-service strategy and visual identity design studio based in Brooklyn is aiming to do just that, under the leadership of founder and executive creative director Adam Katz.
Design Milk
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Leading digital invite and social planning company Evite recently moved into their new headquarters designed by IA Interior Architects , a welcoming environment that aligns with the brand’s mission to celebrate life’s meaningful moments. “Our client asked us to create the ultimate inviting space, and we delivered by sprinkling distinctive branding elements and vibrant colors into every corner,” says Nicole Greene, designer at IA Interior Architects.
Creative Bloq
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Designers and industry pros channel Y2K in this nostalgic list of top type.
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