Speckyboy Design Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The overall quality of a website’s design is often in the details. Those seemingly-small elements such as microinteractions , typographic spacing and color accents can be real difference makers. They have the potential to transform the mundane into something that stands out. In these cases, being picky about design is a good thing. Whether that trait comes from you or your client, the goal is the same.

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Designer Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Cheng Peng is a creative designer who works for Heizi, a branding agency that belongs to Tencent. She recently created a series of posters that hope to help autistic children to feel more welcome in the city of Shenzen, where the designer is based. Peng’s work cleverly combines colorful flat surfaces with abstract geometry in a perpetual quest for new combinations.

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Spoon Graphics

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Follow along with today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a simple but effective text effect with somewhat of a retro vibe, featuring stacks of text elements that are progressively spaced further apart. It reminds me of the kind of design you might see on an old VHS tape box or an ad for an 80s technology brand. Illustrator’s Blend Tool will be used to create the basic effect, but I will also show you a trick to alter the spacing of the text with a cool easing effect and show ho

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Just Creative

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

This article has been contributed by Nick Voorhees. It’s no secret that social media is over-saturated with competing interests ruthlessly seeking attention. An unfathomable amount of new posts are uploaded every second and most of us mindlessly scroll while our minds are elsewhere. Like any other business owner, musicians, music producers, DJs and other music creators are forced to navigate these oversaturated waters that are essentially a popularity contest.

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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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SpeckyBoy

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Scene creators are a great way to present your designs exactly the way you want them. A great scene creator will have different elements as separate files or objects that you can place and arrange as you please. You can then use them for design presentations but also as website hero images or section backgrounds. Check out the collection below with the best free hero and scene mockup creators for Photoshop.

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Creative Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Founded in 1911, for the last century the Royal National Institute for Deaf People’s mission has been to make life inclusive for deaf people and those with hearing loss, whether through pioneering new treatments for tinnitus or promoting access to sign language. The charity, which has been known as Action on Hearing Loss since 2011, decided to rebrand and rethink its mission in a bid to reach a wider community of people.

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Just Creative

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Streamlining business operations remotely has been one of the biggest challenges in 2020. The moment the pandemic shocked the world, people started adapting to remote work environments. Around 88% of organizations encouraged their employees to work remotely and 91% of companies in the Asia Pacific region implemented compulsory work from home policies.

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Noupe

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

You must have heard the saying ‘the first impression is the last’ quite a few times in your life. People don’t just say it for the sake of saying it; it holds some truth. All it takes is just a few seconds for your target audience to decide whether to buy products from your website or not. Here the need and importance of color psychology come into the picture in order to attract the attention of your potential audience and compel them to buy your products.

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Graphic Design USA

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The participants in GDUSA's Socially Responsible Designers editorial feature – an annual look at creative and thought leaders who are designing for good – choose to see a silver lining to the annus horribilis that is 2020.

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Creative Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In James Molle’s animation Black Sheep Boy, the audience is treated to a retro video game aesthetic and a questioning of life, death and happiness in one 8-bit package. The film follows a young boy on an adventure towards happiness through a strange world inhabited by anthropomorphic creatures, and is crammed full of old gaming tropes and jangly sound effects.

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Just Creative

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

This article has been contributed by Vincent Sevilla. If you have ever been involved in social media marketing, you know that one of its biggest challenges is the amount of time that it takes. You need to continuously conceptualize content ideas that your audience will find relevant and useful. You have to research and produce the content and feed it to them frequently enough that they remain interested and engaged.

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Noupe

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

You’re up for the biggest interview of your life. You’re determined to make a killer first impression. Would you wear sweatpants? Of course, you wouldn’t. Why? Because presentation is everything. Just like you wouldn’t wrap a diamond in toilet paper, don’t wrap high-quality blog content in bad graphic design. You’re only asking people to abandon your blog before they’ve even given it a shot.

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Booooooom

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A lovely series from Vancouver-based photographer Grant Harder. See more images from “It Looks Like Jame But It’s Actually Blood” below! Grant Harder’s Website. Grant Harder on Instagram.

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Graphic Design USA

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Annie Yang of Conran Design Group says that young audiences want a real connection with a brand, one that has 'an authentic integration into our lives.’.

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Shillington

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Inspiration can come from anywhere. So, on the first Friday of each month, we’re sharing some of our Shillington team’s favourite things from the past four weeks. This month, Shillington New York Teacher Deepa Shanbhag shares what was on her radar in October. 1. To Follow: Lili Hayes. Lili Hayes is a woman seemingly living her life to the fullest, with her son by her side.

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Noupe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A business logo is so much more than just a random design. It can show your customers what your brand means, what it is all about, and is also the answer to how you want to portray yourself. Let us take NBC’ s logo for example. The image is obviously a peacock but the reason they picked a peacock is because at that time there were very few colored channels on the television.

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The Logo Smith

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The post Type Hero #11: Braille Institute Atkinson Hyperlegible Typeface – Free Font Download appeared first on The Logo Smith All Content © 2020 The Logo Smith.™ |. Atkinson Hyperlegible, designed for Braille Institute, is a free typeface created specifically to increase legibility for readers with low vision, and to improve comprehension. Named for the founder of Braille Institute, Atkinson Hyperlegible is a traditional grotesque sans-serif at its core.

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Envato Tuts+

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

What You'll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Bitmap mode in Photoshop. We'll look at a couple of different patterns you can use on a photo to create a screen-printed effect. . What You Will Need. You'll need access to Adobe Photoshop—if you don't have the software, you can download a trial from the Adobe website. We'll also be using the following resources: DJ Vintage Disco Lady.

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Design Week

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Pentagram partner Eddie Opara has designed a new identity for The New Republic (TNR) magazine, which aims to “reflect its robust brand of liberal inquiry”, the studio says. The work includes a new brand identity, editorial work for the print magazine as well as a new look for the magazine’s digital platform and its sub brands. [link].

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Noupe

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

With many schools quarantined and a winter-wave of COVID-19 likely ahead, teaching is shifting online once again. Now more than ever, it’s crucial for teachers to embrace online learning to sustain their students’ attention. While online classes used to be exotic and fun when they first started, Zoom fatigue soon set in for most students.

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Shillington

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Since launching our Online Course in September, Slack has become an essential medium for students and teachers to interact in, learn, share and deliver feedback, collaborate and catch up. Not only is it great for the online classroom, slack is also a great networking tool. With the ability to follow as many channels are you like, Slack offers a great space to connect with people you work with and now even more than ever, make new connections in your community that previously would have happened

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Envato Tuts+

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The real estate industry is one of the most competitive industries, which is why it’s important to stand out. A great place to start is by having an effective real estate logo design. Your real estate agent logo helps build brand recognition and it differentiates you from every other real estate agent. Eye-catching Real Estate company logo on Envato Elements In this article, we'll share the best of Envato Element's ready to use real estate agency logo designs and the best templates to create

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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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Graphic Design USA

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Academy of Art University is currently accepting applications for online, virtual onsite and on-campus education.

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SpeckyBoy

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

You probably know that putting too much food on your plate is usually a bad idea. Since research indicates that you’re more likely to overeat if you fill your plate, it’s not a good thing for your waistline. It’s also not a good thing for your eyes. If there’s no focal point, the food can overwhelm you, and you’ll find yourself lost in a vortex of scary, calorie-filled nightmares.

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Creative Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In 2016 Marcos Florentino and Kelvin Yule met at a fashion event where they were both working. “Marcos was photographing a campaign and I was participating in the final of a fashion film contest,” says Yule. “In the beginning it was more about helping each other in our respective work, but in December of that same year in a very organic way we decided to unite our two visions into one and we photographed our first editorial signing as a duo.” The pair now go by the name o

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Shillington

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Making the jump to working freelance is a big deal for any designer so we love to see our graduates taking the leap. Shillington London graduate Tom Noon did just that—he graduated and dived head first in the world of freelance, taking on any clients or jobs that came his way. With a background in advertising and working in the music industry, Tom worked his way round his friends and contacts and has been creating amazing work for three years now.

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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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Noupe

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

What Causes Failed Payments? Formally known as churn, payment failure primarily stems from the attempting purchaser having insufficient funds, outdated credit card information, or exceeding their credit card limit. However, matters regarding churn can also stem from business technicalities, such as server errors: another instance in which payments may fail.

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The Branding Journal

OCTOBER 31, 2020

MasterClass is an online platform that offers access to virtual classes with famous experts in several domains. These include Christina Aguilera, Serena Williams, Martin Scorsese, Carlos Santana, Natalie Portman, and many more. This year, the platform partnered with branding studio Gretel to work on a new visual identity that considers both its famous instructors’ individual brands and MasterClass’ own identity.

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Design Week

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) has rebranded with a new visual identity from London-based design studio Someone, which incorporates a smile device. The studio worked with the charity’s in-house design team and brand consultant Dan Dufour on the project which comprises a new logo, wordmark, bespoke illustrations and photography.

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Colossal

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

All images © Diana Sudyka, shared with permission. Twenty-seven years ago while studying at the University of Illinois, illustrator Diana Sudyka ( previously ) retrieved a bundle of postcards from a dumpster. The ephemeral correspondence revealed a relationship between farmers and workers from the Harvard area and a man named John Dwyer, either their accountant or investor who lived throughout Chicago, Cicero, and Berwyn.

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