Creative Boom
JULY 14, 2024
Image licensed via Adobe Stock The creative industry is changing fast under the onslaught of AI. We share the community's best advice on how to not just survive but thrive over the next decade and a half. This month, Creative Boom is celebrating our 15th anniversary. It's a great opportunity to reflect on how much has changed for creatives since we launched in 2007.
Designer Daily
JULY 16, 2024
99designs by Vista has given some of today’s most influential brands a surrealist makeover in tribute to 100 years of Surrealism. Collaborating with its global community of professional freelance designers, the platform has reimagined renowned brands in a style inspired by iconic twentieth-century Surrealist artists like Salvador Dali, René Magritte, and Edward James.
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BP&O
JULY 18, 2024
As well as being a coastal city in south west Italy (formed in 1923 by none other than Benito Mussolini), Imperia is a pasta machine company that was formed from a ‘little artisan workshop’ in 1932. Imperia soon began to distribute pasta machines around the world; mainly catering to the US’ large Italian community. From its plant in Sant’Ambrogio, Turin, The post Imperia by Landor appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.
Graphic Design Junction
JULY 14, 2024
In today’s fast-paced digital world, capturing attention and driving conversions on your website is more crucial than ever. Landing pages, designed specifically to achieve a single goal like a sign-up or a purchase, play a vital role in this process. When crafting a landing page , a clean and modern aesthetic can significantly enhance user experience and engagement.
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
JULY 15, 2024
Designer, writer, and academic Michael John Goodman has launched three online archives of Victorian illustrations covering works by Shakespeare, Dickens, and Chaucer. We talked to Michael about what these collections have to offer today's creatives. It's fascinating to compare how illustrators have depicted great works of literature through the ages.
SpeckyBoy
JULY 15, 2024
As a platform, the web caters to creators. It’s a place to publish and share whatever we want. We’ve used it to fuel the rise of everything from blogs to influencer videos. The results are impressive. Think of all the careers kickstarted by online publishing. I am living proof. Writing and web design have provided me with income and a platform.
Graphic Arts Today brings together the best content for graphic arts professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Graphic Design Junction
JULY 16, 2024
Kerem Beyit is a freelance illustrator who has carved a niche for himself in the world of fantasy art. With a keen eye for detail and a talent for bringing fantastical creatures and landscapes to life, Beyit’s illustrations have captured the imagination of audiences worldwide. Education and Early Influences While details about Kerem Beyit’s formal education are not publicly available, his work speaks volumes about his artistic foundation.
Creative Boom
JULY 18, 2024
Multidisciplinary creative Deji Ajetomobi is launching a new magazine focusing on African design talent and partnerships. We chatted with him about its founding principles, its vision for the continent's creative industry, and the kind of work it's planning to feature. At Creative Boom, we aim to bring you the best of new creative work from around the world.
Design Milk
JULY 19, 2024
Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, visual artist Paul Sende caught the creative bug early, with jazz and instrumental music often being played in his childhood home. It helped pave the way to the exploration of geometric shapes as a kid before moving on to disassembling old electronics he found at his grandparents’ house. Motors, lights, and anything with a battery were fair game.
Its Nice That
JULY 18, 2024
The designer is playing with paper, packaging, publishing and stop-motion to reimagine our design interactions into playful and immersive new forms.
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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.
Graphic Design Junction
JULY 19, 2024
In the world of digital design, typography plays a crucial role in creating interfaces that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also functional and user-friendly. Among the various font styles available, condensed fonts have garnered attention for their unique properties. This article explores the usefulness and attractiveness of condensed fonts and examines their impact on user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design.
Creative Boom
JULY 16, 2024
Photography and video captured by Jay Dawson, Ben Hughes and Thomas Lennox Pearson Artist Andy Welland is behind what's thought to be the UK's largest piece of temporary pavement art. If you're not familiar with Newcastle and get the opportunity to visit, the best place to start is to head down the Quayside. This vibrant area along the River Tyne, which flanks both Newcastle and Gateshead, has undergone a transformation in recent years, evolving from an industrial dockside to a popular spot for
Design Milk
JULY 16, 2024
Science fiction has had an immense influence on the arts, including literature, cinema, graphic arts, and design. This impact is so significant that Swiss furniture company Vitra has dedicated a year-long exhibition titled Science Fiction Design: From Space Age to Metaverse to explore this intersection of design and science fiction. To understand the relationship between these two realms means revisiting the history books.
Creative Bloq
JULY 14, 2024
Anthropics PortraitPro offers photography editing tools that are easy to use and surprisingly effective.
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Colossal
JULY 18, 2024
All images © Kamwei Fong, shared with permission Kamwei Fong ( previously ) is drawn to the nature of cats. Whether extroverted and playful or curious and timid, the clawed companions truly relish living their lives as they please, embodying a charming spirit that inspires the artist time and again. Appreciative of the calm that follows working in solitude, Fong has often prioritized creative autonomy and introspection.
Creative Boom
JULY 14, 2024
Barcelona-based graphic designer Ilia Tuma has refreshed the school's decade-old identity with a new logotype and vibrant colour palette, as well as bespoke illustrations by Anastasia Sheremeteva. Renowned Barcelona-based language school Freeda has a new identity created by graphic designer Ilia Tuma. The work emphasises humanity and friendliness alongside an engaging learning experience.
Abduzeedo
JULY 18, 2024
Elegant Branding and Web Design for a Modern Hair Stylist abduzeedo 0718—24 Discover the elegant branding and visual identity for JULI JU, designed by Daria Lym, emphasizing modern style for a New York hair stylist. Daria Lym, a talented designer, has crafted a refined branding and web design project for JULI JU, a hair stylist based in New York. The project focused on creating a discreet yet modern aesthetic that aligns with the stylist's sophisticated work.
Design Milk
JULY 19, 2024
With only one crease, a smooth textile surface folds back over itself for a layered effect juxtaposing round edges against the opposing, which are rectilinear. Akin to bespoke garment construction, the Narinari chair – designed by Tiziano Guardini and Luigi Ciuffreda of Guardini Ciuffreda Studio for B&B Italia – is reminiscent of the double rounded French cuff creating what can only be described as a sartorial, sensory experience.
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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.
Its Nice That
JULY 16, 2024
The Copenhagen-based clothing brand’s new look is inspired by “kiosk aesthetics, blueprints, archives, semi-transparent plastic bags, hand-poked tattoos, copier machines… and receipts”.
Creative Boom
JULY 14, 2024
Creative Boom turns 15 We celebrate 15 amazing years of Creative Boom with some key highlights and thoughts from our community. If you've been reading Creative Boom since the start, then get ready to feel old… On July 24, 2024, we will be celebrating our 15th anniversary! So, it seems like a good moment to reflect on our platform's journey, what we stand for, and how we aim to help the creative community.
Creative Bloq
JULY 13, 2024
From tired tropes to Photoshop fails and AI, these poster designs failed to impress.
Design Milk
JULY 18, 2024
Traveling light is often touted as an ideal, one prioritizing bringing only the daily essentials, and in turn allowing us to enjoy experiences unencumbered by the clutter of our possessions. What if we were to adopt that same philosophy of less-is-more when it comes to arguably the most overpacked and cluttered part of our lives… our mobile devices?
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.
Graphic Design Junction
JULY 14, 2024
In today’s digital age, the business card remains a powerful networking tool, a physical touchpoint that cuts through the digital clutter. It’s a tangible representation of your brand identity, offering a chance to make a lasting first impression. But with a sea of business cards floating around, how do you create one that truly stands out?
Creative Boom
JULY 16, 2024
Energetic shades of pink, green and blue are blended and carved into forms that begin rooted in daily life but quickly lead to strange realms of dreamlike surrealism as envisaged by the talented young illustrator Wenjing Yang. It's the colour that hits you first when Wenjing Yang 's portfolio is laid out before you. Just how she manages to balance loud hits of pink, blue and green without overpowering the viewer will leave you scratching your head.
Azure Magazine
JULY 17, 2024
Often the centrepiece of the living room, a well-designed modern sofa can easily elevate everything from quiet movie nights to boisterous social gatherings. Here, we’ve rounded up five distinct sofa systems that stand out while sharing one thing in common – they are all supremely comfortable. 1 Insula sofa by Kettal Inspired by Arab majlis, the low-slung form of Patricia Urquiol a ’s Insula sofa for Ketta l encourages socializing on a relaxed and inviting level.
Design Milk
JULY 18, 2024
Birmingham, Alabama has often been referred to as the “Magic City” due to its rapid growth and industrial development in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The burgeoning metropolis became a major industrial center, particularly known for its metal production, epitomized by Sloss Furnace – a historic iron-producing blast furnace that operated from 1882 to 1971 and is now a National Historic Landmark.
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.
Inkbot Design
JULY 18, 2024
Guide to Hiring a Virtual Assistant: Boost Your Productivity Are you submerged in emails? Your to-do list is longer than ever, and those flights for next week’s conference aren’t booked. Does this sound familiar? We’ve all been there — juggling tasks and wondering if there’s a secret hour in the day that everyone else seems to have discovered. But what if I told you there is another way?
Creative Boom
JULY 15, 2024
The new identity by Team was devised to bring the fair into a new era, reflect its significant growth, and stay true to its roots and values. New York-based studio Team has created a new brand identity for Independent, an organisation known for showcasing amazing art. It features typefaces inspired by classic New York infrastructural signage. Team's Stephanie Zabala was the associate design director on the project and worked alongside senior designers Hua Chen and Derek Koch and creative directo
Pixel 77
JULY 15, 2024
One of the most important aspects of modern business is graphic design. By itself, graphic design is somewhat of an umbrella term. It covers many different topics and areas that all work together to give character to a business’s identity.
Design Milk
JULY 18, 2024
Nestled within lush greenery, block-wall house is a unique private residence in Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan designed by nendo , a Tokyo-based design studio led by Oki Sato. The property, characterized by its unusual triangular shape stretching 110 meters along the road, posed a significant design challenge: how to ensure privacy from nearby traffic and pedestrians while fully embracing the natural beauty of the surroundings.
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