Speckyboy Design Magazine

JUNE 23, 2020

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Noupe

JUNE 25, 2020

Some brands become so popular that their name becomes associated with the product itself. Photoshop is one of them. Even if people aren’t using Photoshop, they call editing photos as photoshopping. It’s only natural that Photoshop became so popular as it was the first comprehensive “photoshopping tool”. However, the industry is far from stale. There are dozens if not hundreds of Photoshop alternatives that try to match Photoshop’s quality and beat its steep pricing.

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Spoon Graphics

JUNE 22, 2020

It can be really frustrating for designers and illustrators when you feel like creating something , but you can’t think of anything to make. The popular quote: “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.” is certainly true for the inspiring designs in today’s showcase. These lettering pieces feature all kinds of weird and wonderful messages, but the real value is in the presentation.

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Designer Daily

JUNE 23, 2020

The interesting news of the past week if you are a graphic designer, web designer, product designer, or pretty much anyone that has an interest in design. The complete guide to CSS media queries. Get a deeper understanding of what media queries can do for you. Read on Polypane. You can now use Snapchat’s augmented reality camera to identify dog breeds and plant species.

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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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Just Creative

JUNE 22, 2020

Tune in to episode 8 of the JUST Branding Podcast with Melinda Livsey, a brand strategist & online educator, shares her journey of going from a designer to brand strategist, sharing her definitions of brand & brand strategy, how she “sells” strategy, her onboarding process, life without design, how to conduct a brand strategy workshop, step-by-step, including deliverables.

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Design Roast

JUNE 23, 2020

If you’ve ever looked for free happy birthday graphics, you know it can be challenging to sort through thousands of search engine results. Finding just the right graphic that won’t cost you a cent to use isn’t easy. If you need the image to be royalty-free, you may have an even bigger mountain of research [.]. The post 8 Free Happy Birthday Graphics appeared first on Design Roast.

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Under Consideration / Brand

JUNE 24, 2020

“Where the Sun do Shine”. (Est. 1843) "At Yale , we have the expertise and product range to protect your home and possessions. We pour passion and pride into our products, making sure our locks lead the way in home security. With a vast range of products from digital locks to alarms, cylinders, mortice locks and night latches to replacement PVCu locks, it's no wonder that we have been producing the world's favourite locks since 1843.

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Just Creative

JUNE 21, 2020

This article has been contributed by Ray Slater Berry. Remote work is here to stay. Recent surveys have found that nearly 80% of workers say they are more productive when working remotely. Although we may not be going entirely remote in the way we work, elements and options for it will definitely be found more in our day-to-day. So, what does this mean for the way we work and the tools we use?

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Noupe

JUNE 23, 2020

There is no surprise to know that 44% of B2B clicks are focusing on making a perfect landing page design which could attract their potential customers directly on their home pages instead of dedicated landing pages. Have you ever thought about their impacts and results? That’s the biggest problem of most of the start-ups and people who are looking to become an entrepreneur, but they don’t understand the landing page relevance and accuracy which are the major ingredients of your content & mar

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

JUNE 23, 2020

When the Gutenberg block editor was released as part of WordPress 5.0, a number of web designers were worried about the effect it would have on existing websites. Some vowed to keep using the Classic Editor for the foreseeable future. But the newfangled block editor has settled in nicely. Its features and usability seem to improve with every new release.

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Creative Review

JUNE 23, 2020

“After spending two years in the Chinese People’s Army I came to Birmingham in the UK to study for a masters degree. Before I came, I had never travelled outside of China,” says illustrator Mengxia Liu. “This meant I was really excited about everything I experienced in the UK. I wrote many diaries and did so many doodles to try and record all my experiences.

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Just Creative

JUNE 20, 2020

Whether you’re just starting out, or you have been working as a graphic designer for a while, using the right technology to provide your clients with your best work is essential. Graphic designers naturally want the best computer that helps them design efficiently and in many cases, a desktop computer can provide a more powerful processor, more memory and a larger display than working on a laptop.

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Design Wizard

JUNE 23, 2020

Social media that works for you. With over a billion users and counting, Instagram is definitely a force to be reckoned with. In fact, as the popularity of this particular platform has grown exponentially within the past 5 years especially, an increasing number of people are using Instagram for more than just social interactions. Companies and individuals are intent on discovering how to make money on Instagram. .

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Spine Magazine

JUNE 22, 2020

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on Spinemagazine.co in 2018. We feel it is still very relevant to today’s design industry. When asked to write a piece on representation for Spine , I immediately wondered why I was asked? In my opinion, plenty has been written on the subject. Frankly, I’m often wrangled into similar conversations with my publishing peers.

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Noupe

JUNE 23, 2020

You worked hard for your website and your brand’s social media presence. Now it is time to get the attention of your potential clientele and make an impact. A banner is the first thing your audience sees when they open your website or visit your social media profiles. That’s exactly why creating a kick-ass banner is a must-have and a great way to build a winning first impression, grab your audience’s attention, and deliver your brand image and message.

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Envato Tuts+

JUNE 26, 2020

Whether you’re setting up shop or looking to reach new customers, you’re going to need an eye-catching and stylish business flyer. In this article, we’ll give you ten pro flyer design tips for designing flyers that are the ultimate multi-taskers—functional, direct.and much more creative than you think! Choose from a huge collection of professional flyer design templates , like this one, on Envato Elements.

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Tuts Plus

JUNE 26, 2020

In this article, we'll show you the anatomy of a magazine cover so you can learn to make the best magazine cover designs by yourself. Designing a magazine cover can be tricky as there are many different approaches. An effective cover includes many different elements, and the challenge lies in making all of them work like a fine-tuned orchestra. In this article, we’ll show you how to make the best magazine cover design possible.

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Spine Magazine

JUNE 24, 2020

Lauren Harms is a designer based in New York, primarily focused on visual storytelling. She is currently an Art Director at Little, Brown and Co., an imprint of Hachette Book Group. Here she tells us how she created the cover for How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa. How to Pronounce Knife is a wonderful and sharply written collection of stories about Laotian immigrants and refugees.

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Creative Review

JUNE 25, 2020

Tommy Jeans has been given a branding update by Design Studio that seeks to bring it into the modern marketplace. The new design toolkit is filled with elements that make a clear beeline for younger consumers, from the creation of dynamic, social media-friendly assets to a revised tone of voice that matches its peers in the Gen Z space. At the core of the redesign was the ambition to capture “a fresh approach to ‘Americana’” As part of this, Design Studio helped to develo

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Under Consideration / Brand

JUNE 25, 2020

“For Chocolate’s a Jolly Good Fellow”. Established in 2019, Fellow Creatures is a brand of vegan chocolate based in Scotland with the claim of making the "creamiest, most velvety milk-style vegan chocolate ever". Made with coconut butter, their chocolote is also dairy-free, gluten-free, and palm-oil-free as well as being done with a lot of heart and consideration for the world and its humans -- read their about us page , it's quite charming and uplifting.

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Tuts Plus

JUNE 20, 2020

What You'll Be Creating Do you want to learn how to create a business card using Photoshop? As you know, a business card is arguably the most powerful networking tool you can have in your pocket. It's the very first impression of you and the business you're representing. Although we're in this digital age where social media dominates, a physical business card is still highly relevant as it forms a real human connection between you and your peers, where social media is unfortunately lacking.

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Its Nice That

JUNE 25, 2020

The mural art collective founded by Erin Bradley-Scott, Chelsea Frew, Kat Loudon and Edda Karólína Ævarsdóttir celebrates key workers in this typographic and illustrative campaign.

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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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Creative Review

JUNE 25, 2020

BUY THE ISSUE HERE. Creative Review is officially middle-aged. While for humans, turning 40 doesn’t quite have the potency it once did, it is still undoubtedly a significant age, and one that can sometimes feel hard to truly celebrate. For a magazine, though, particularly within the turbulent media environment we are in, making it into our fifth decade feels like something wonderful.

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Graphic Mama

JUNE 24, 2020

Wondering if a freelancer or a full-time employee would be a better fit for your brand new job opening? With the increasing opportunities for hiring freelancers, the factors that entice employers are many. However, not all work needs can be met by a freelance worker. Some jobs still require having a full-time employee that will be by your side whenever you need them.

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Shillington

JUNE 23, 2020

The life of a freelance designer is a great one in many respects. But it can sometimes be tough to find a steady and reliable flow of work, like at the beginning of your career. Or in the middle of a global pandemic. At Shillington , we know all about preparing designers for the rough and tumble of the freelance world. To help, we’ve collected together a series of tips to help you find new work and new clients when you need to. 1.

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Under Consideration / Brand

JUNE 23, 2020

“NASA, We Have No Problems”. This past May 30, NASA, in partnership with SpaceX, successfully launched the Falcon 9 rocket with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program and the first from U.S. soil in nine years as well as being the first ever to come from a commercial partnership.

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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

JUNE 23, 2020

The following seven tips I have discovered myself over the last two decades in selling website projects. They have really helped me out in my digital marketing agency, and I hope you find value in at least one of them yourself. If you aren’t in the web design business, don’t despair. Whilst it may seem to be very digital or web heavy, these tips can actually be applied in just about any product or service sales situation.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Bootstrap 5 alpha! – Take a look at what’s new with the popular CSS framework. Working With Good and Bad Design Clients – How to determine which clients are worth the trouble and which ones you should just skip over. Making Stagger Reveal Animations for Text – A short tutorial on how to recreate a letter stagger animation with GSAP and Splitting.js.

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Creative Review

JUNE 23, 2020

While there are countless downsides to the current lockdown, for many creatives this self-induced period of isolation has proven to be the perfect time to start a new side hustle or revisit a long-lost personal project. In illustrator Tim Boelaars’ case, he has been using lockdown as an opportunity to work remotely on a new self-initiated animation project, Altered States. “I’ve been interested in animating my illustrations for a while; in the past my work was animated a few ti

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Under Consideration / Brand

JUNE 22, 2020

“Hot Ticket”. Established in 2012, Festik is a ticketing service company based in Toulouse, France, providing tickets to the public and various services for event organizers and producers, including advance online and in-person ticket sales and day of event ticket sales and check-in control. Offering tickets for concerts, conferences, museums, theater, comedy, and sports, Festik places a lot of emphasis for both ticket buyers and event organizers on being an ethical company and adding a touch of

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