Noupe

APRIL 12, 2021

Making $100,000 as a freelancer is not difficult. Making $100,000 and staying sane is the real challenge. If you have been freelancing for a while, there’s a good chance that you find the above statement relatable. If, on the other hand, you are new, here’s news: You have to wear many hats as a freelance business owner. I use “freelance business owner” instead of “freelancer” because in order to put food on the table, a freelancer has to do almost everything a small business owner does.

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Typographica

APRIL 15, 2021

Craig Eliason explores how the peculiarities inherent to type design shed light on the purpose and practices of the design museum in the contemporary world.

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Just Creative

APRIL 11, 2021

Graphic design is a challenging job that requires serious hardware and software. In the current digital nomad haze, laptop characteristics such as mobility and weight have also become extremely important. As with every profession, the laptop choice is always a subtle game of balance between performance and weight, large screen and portability, maximum features, and affordable price.

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Spoon Graphics

APRIL 14, 2021

In today’s Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a vibrant visual effect by adding neon lights to a photo. This popular art style often incorporates simple shapes or text for the neon lights, which are illuminated in bright colours. I’ll explain how to use Photoshop to draw a custom shape and give it a vibrant glow with the help of Photoshop’s Layer Style options, then we’ll use a clever technique to apply a colourful ambience to the original photo

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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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Six Leaf Design

APRIL 15, 2021

Everyone needs a website at this point. If you don't have one for your business, chances are that you're missing out on a good number of opportunities. But if you don't have the time or resources to devote to building a big, strategic website with lots of bells and whistles, at the very least you'll want to make sure you have these 3 important pieces of information on your site and they are front and center where people can find them. 1.

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SpeckyBoy

APRIL 10, 2021

Time to go old-school! Including retro fonts on your website can evoke a feeling of nostalgia. That old “eighties poster” look is very distinctive and easy to replicate with the right font. If you’re ready to send your visitors on a blast from the past (or back to the future), try out one of these ten awesome retro fonts! If you’re looking for more fonts, take a look at our 100 Best Free Fonts for Designers.

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Spoon Graphics

APRIL 16, 2021

Access All Areas members have a wonderful collection of illustrations to download this week, courtesy of Pretty Little Lines. This handcrafted pack of illustrated graphics features the most adorable drawings of cat characters, along with complementary birds, flowers, and wreaths to compose sweet designs for greetings cards, invitations, wedding stationery, and much more!

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Creative Review

APRIL 15, 2021

As part of the rebrand, independent consultancy Zag and Zoopla’s in-house design team worked on the creation of a new logo, colour palette and overall design language. The new visual identity system is joined by updates to the products and services across both the Zoopla website and app, including the launch of a new homeowners hub called My Home.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

APRIL 16, 2021

We travel to feel alive. But as soon as we come back home, we want to share our experiences with the people we care about. Unfortunately, not even our cameras can really capture the atmosphere of a special moment; the vibrant sights, colors, smells, and the wind blowing in from the east that makes us feel like this is it – this is the moment we have been waiting for.

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Just Creative

APRIL 15, 2021

When it comes to UI Design, two of the most basic components that are important aspects of any web project are free icons and resources. While you could always create your icons and symbols for your projects, let’s be honest – none of us have the time for that. You could always scour the internet to search and pick icons from the numerous websites out there cause if you don’t have time to create, you must have time to search.

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Booooooom

APRIL 14, 2021

Peter Gehrman (previously featured here ). Peter Gehrman’s Website. Peter Gehrman on Instagram.

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Creative Review

APRIL 14, 2021

We don’t tend to think of chewing gum as coming under the bracket of single-use plastic, but according to startup brand Nuud, millions of tons of polymer are contained in conventional, synthetic chewing gums. In response to this, Nuud’s mission is to make chewing traditional gum as unacceptable as using plastic straws, and to offer a natural, sustainable alternative. “Most people don’t know that regular chewing gum is made of single-use plastic and isn’t compostable

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Graphic Design USA

APRIL 14, 2021

Simon Berg of Ceros on how the pandemic set fire to the leadership playbook and how leaders can embrace a new approach that is honest and authentic.

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Just Creative

APRIL 11, 2021

The introduction sequence of your creative is perhaps the most essential part of your project. This is the point where you will attract the audience and keep them interested in your project. If not done correctly, the audience may not continue watching the remaining part of your project. So how will you design an engaging introduction with minimal time from scratch?

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Booooooom

APRIL 13, 2021

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Creative Review

APRIL 15, 2021

Since 2013, indie publisher Hoxton Mini Press has been celebrating the stories of its local community via its East London Photo Stories book series. The latest publication in the series comes courtesy of portrait photographer and Hackney resident Jenny Lewis, who has lived in the area for 25 years, the last three of which have been spent documenting the individuals who make up her local community.

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Graphic Design USA

APRIL 13, 2021

Unbounce report shows that, during the pandemic, online traffic was way up but messages associated with negative emotions like fear and sadness depressed conversions.

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Just Creative

APRIL 14, 2021

When we find an incredible piece of technology that we know can help make work easier for you, you know that we do everything we can to share it with you, our loyal reader. While we’ve put the focus on XP-Pen’s best tablets for graphic design in the past, today we wanted to shine the spotlight on two of XP-Pen’s more innovative products, the Artist 22” 2nd Gen Pen Display and the Deco 01 V2 Drawing Tablet.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

APRIL 11, 2021

Did you know that designers can use a tool that mathematicians, philosophers, and other academics have known about for hundreds of years? It’s called Occam’s Razor , and it’s a law that states, essentially, that the simplest solution is usually the best or most correct. For example, if your client is late to a meeting, you would probably assume they got stuck in traffic.

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APRIL 13, 2021

Make Artistic Graphic Designs It is safe to say that you are an understudy of visual communication? In the event that you have required significant investment in additional surveys and put "visual communication" and "drawing" into any web crawlers, you'll get practically a similar outcome = depictions of visual communication programs at many plan schools.

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Booooooom

APRIL 15, 2021

Paul Yem. Paul Yem’s Website. Paul Yem on Instagram.

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Just Creative

APRIL 11, 2021

Marketing is the practice that many businesses put in place to promote their products or services to consumers. Companies can put a ton of money into their marketing campaigns. For example, for Super Bowl 55, the cost of a 30-second commercial was reported to be $5.5 million. That’s a ton of money for a small ad during the biggest sporting event of the year.

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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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Canny

APRIL 13, 2021

What is branding? Because branding is such a misused and misunderstood term, “what is branding?” has become a common question that we answer at Canny. Alongside “how much is logo design?” and “how much is a website?” – I’d actually say it’s one of our most frequently asked questions, in some form or other at least. For example, people ask us: What is branding?

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Creative Review

APRIL 11, 2021

In what she describes as her ‘Neko World’, illustrator Neko Jiang uses her imagination to create vibrant scenes and populate them with an array of colourful characters. Originally from Chengdu in China, the seeds of Jiang’s illustration career were planted at a young age. “When I was a child, my parents were busy with their work and I only had some comic books and cartoon discs to accompany me,” she tells CR. “When I was in primary school, I always drew cartoo

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Booooooom

APRIL 13, 2021

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Just Creative

APRIL 15, 2021

Powerpoint presentations are a huge part of the corporate and creative boardroom. Whether you’re pitching new ideas or closing business deals, how well we present our thoughts, concerns, and proposals is a huge part of the decisions and partnerships that businesses make and create. Not everyone has a creative department that can come up with a template that can be used to wow people at their next conference.

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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

APRIL 16, 2021

Logo designing is no walk in the park; there are a few, in fact, many peculiarities that the designer must be aware of before selecting the final logo for the brand. Your logo is the brand’s identity, do not let an amateur jeopardize your brand identity to save some bucks. You may end up paying a lot more later if your designer messes up your logo.

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The Die Line

APRIL 14, 2021

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Creative Review

APRIL 14, 2021

All images courtesy of Gucci Ahead of this week’s virtual presentation of its new collection, Aria, Gucci has sent out an invitation to guests in the form of a puzzle book containing a range of word and picture games to keep invitees entertained at home while they wait. In keeping with creative director Alessandro Michele’s vision for Gucci , the puzzle book has a retro charm about it, from the name – Gucciquiz!

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

APRIL 13, 2021

A great photography website has to put your photos into main focus and allow visitors to get a glimpse into your photography style. That’s why you need to make sure that you choose the right theme for your website that will let your photos shine. When it comes to WordPress, there is no shortage of quality free themes for photographers and in this post, we’ve compiled the best of them.

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