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Graphic Design: Your Ultimate List of Tools and Resources

Noupe

We can’t do what we want to do without the aid of tools. Chefs employ fire to conjure up gastronomic wonders in the kitchen. Playing an instrument is an essential part of the music. A bridge that allows people to travel between two points in suspended space must be built using the correct tools and materials. Visual art designers, such as graphic artists, require more than natural aptitude and skill to produce their work.

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40+ Websites with Modern Design Trends For Inspiration

Graphic Design Junction

New modern websites design with amazing concepts and modern design trends. List of 40+ Websites design and created by professional web designers and webdesign agencies from all over the world. Each website design have unique story with amazing UIUX design. In this website gallery we showcased newly created award winning websites. We hope that this article was able to help you understand some new web design trends of mid year 2022.

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Be at the top of your game: 13 lessons on creative progress from artists and designers

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock. Happy birthday to us! It's Creative Boom's 13th anniversary this weekend, and to celebrate, we're sharing 13 brilliant tips from our community on creative progress. Where has the time gone? It's now an astonishing 13 years since Creative Boom first launched, back in the heady days of 2009. And we'll be honest; it's been a bumpy ride.

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Microsoft's new clothing line is gloriously 90s

Creative Bloq

But will anyone pay this price for MS Paint-inspired threads?

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Let's Talk Trends: Designing for Maximum Impact

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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The Modern Back to School Finds You Need This School Year

Design Milk

No matter how you feel about the impending return to the classroom, I think we can all agree that nothing beats the sweet smell of new school supplies. Fresh planners, notebooks, backpacks, pens, pencil cases – these are things that get me up in the morning. Not to mention that they tend to dull the sting of looming assignments and deadlines. If you’re heading back to college, high school, are shopping for someone who is, or (like me) just want an excuse to treat yourself to new supplies youR

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23 Best Handwritten Fonts For Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

Beautiful hand-picked collection of best handwritten fonts. Modern calligraphy makes it appear wonderfully, readable, and incredibly versatile. The handwritten fonts will look outstanding in any context, whether it’s being used on busy backgrounds or as a standalone headline! Fonts are suitable for use in title design. Such as apparel, invitations, books tittle, stationery design, quotes, branding, logos, greeting card, t-shirt, packaging design, poster and more.

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Photoshop Gold Text Effect Tutorial

Spoon Graphics

In today’s Adobe Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a lovely gold text effect. It’s made using a combination of Photoshop layer styles, plus a couple of my own secret ingredients that really brings the effect to life with a nice shiny finish. What really makes this gold effect look so realistic compared to some other basic gold text effects is the layering of Photoshop’s layer styles.

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These Modern Clocks Are Inspired by Jewelry + Furniture Design

Design Milk

In the age of smart phones, some might argue that wall clocks have (sadly) lost a bit of their luster. But what if we considered clocks as more than purely mechanisms for telling time – what if clocks were as central to home decor, as say, furniture to a room or a necklace to an outfit? Then you’d get a Nomon clock. Space Lighting’s Nomon clock brand is giving indoor wall clocks a well-deserved rebrand.

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18 Amazing Procreate Brushes For Procreate Designers

Graphic Design Junction

Your are a Procreate lover and you need an Amazing Procreate Brushes for illustration, drawing and painting artwork. In this article you can explore Best Procreate Brushes for Procreate iPad app. The Procreate has everything you need to create awesome sketches, drawing paintings , remarkable illustrations and beautiful animations. Procreate app have tons of features but the most important and attractive feature is brushes.

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The winners of the 2022 V&A Illustration Awards have been revealed

Creative Boom

Book Illustration Winner 2022 – Gérard DuBois. The judges have had their say. The votes have been counted. And the winners of the 2022 V&A Illustration Awards have been revealed. Find out who has come out on top. The V&A Illustration Awards made a triumphant return in 2022 after taking two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, and nearly 1,500 applicants submitted their work to be considered for this year's award.

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The Democratization of Design: Giving Creators & Marketers the Tools to Succeed

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.

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Pursue Hard Seltzer by OlssønBarbieri

BP&O

New products, new markets and new consumer groups generate new aesthetics – or, at least, you would hope so. Too often, style migrates from one category to another, or the identity of a sub-culture (visually speaking), is exploited in a commercial context. This is where ‘authenticity’ emerges, to support genuine origin credentials, or to mask the appropriation with narrative context.

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A Modern Bookstand + Books Our Editors Would Display on It

Design Milk

If you’re a visual person, chances are you love to peruse and display coffee tables books around your space for when you need a quick moment of inspiration. On top of inspiration, they add so much to any table or shelf when they’re on view – they’re pieces of art you can appreciate just by gazing at the covers. I tend to rotate mine around to keep things fresh and so each one can be enjoyed for spans of time at front and center.

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50+ Best Modern Living Room Design & Decor Ideas

Graphic Design Junction

Decorating a happy home, specially living room design is probably the most exciting yet challenging space you’ll have to design and decorate in your home. Decor a livingroom it’s an art and peoples always been dreaming about good, comfort and eye-catching decorated homes. Decorating a living room without any inspiration it’s just a waste of time.

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A new sculpture of rainbow-coloured ribbons is amazingly made of steel

Creative Boom

Photo credit: Tim Jobling. London artist Hanna Benihoud has unveiled Rainbow Ribbons in the newly-opened Claremont Park today. Incredibly, the dynamic flowing sculpture is fashioned from steel and powder-coated in an array of vivid colours. But to look at it, you wouldn't think it was made of metal. The "ribbons" float down in continuous wavy lines in front of the Brent Cross Town park's new locally-run ice cream kiosk, creating quite the centrepiece for the area.

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Rethinking Creative Workflows: Increasing Efficiency in the Design Process

As the design industry evolves, teams are facing new challenges and a need to produce more outstanding creative work than ever. Leaders must learn how to adapt their processes to solve today’s—and tomorrow’s—unique design challenges. In this e-book, you’ll learn how to establish your creative workflow and leverage the power of CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite to streamline the entire design process, from start to finish.

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11 Examples of Candy Packaging That Hits the Sweet Spot

Canny

Candy packaging is one of the most exciting categories of food packaging design. The rules are, there are no rules! The more fun, colourful, and engaging the better, as these brands need to appeal to such a vast audience, and packaging is the way to catch the attention of consumers. Resources. The Packaging Design Brief Template. The Packaging Design Brief Template. download now. download now.

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A White Cottage Expands Into a Black + White, Asymmetrical Modern Home

Design Milk

Originally a white cottage in Northern Melbourne, the Host House underwent a massive renovation and expansion to work for a growing family. Splinter Society first extended the pitched roof volume running front to the back behind the original facade. To top off the new, dramatic design, the cottage is the base to black structures seen from the outside and inside as the penetrate through to create new interior divisions.

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“The Rooted Heart Began to Change” by Photographer Allan Salas

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Find and take home a beautiful piece of art in Manchester to remember 'you are not alone'

Creative Boom

Throughout July, ceramicist Rachel Ho and artist and designer Micah Purnell are leaving 240 beautiful gifts dotted around Manchester for people to find and keep. Called Gift to the City , the massive art trail by Passion Art hopes to remind us to embrace our stories of loss and self-worth. The two local artists will leave over £4,500 worth of free art dotted around Manchester city centre from today until the end of July.

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Creative Insights: Data-Backed Trends to Help You Design Successful Content

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.

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How to Minimize Wasted Time during a Web Design Project

SpeckyBoy

Time is such a precious thing – and yet it’s so easy to waste. To illustrate, a friend of mine who served in the military once remarked that much of their day was spent standing around, awaiting orders. It sounds a lot like a typical web design project – albeit on a smaller scale. Most projects have grand objectives when it comes to what they’ll accomplish and how quickly it’ll happen.

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The CORALIA Collection Is Inspired by the Magical Island of Capri

Design Milk

There’s something special about the combination of concrete and resin, the juxtaposition of hard and opaque paired with light and translucent is difficult to match. Draga & Aurel , a multidisciplinary design studio, together with the Rossana Orlandi Gallery , give proof as to why the materials work so well together in CORALIA. Making its debut earlier in July 2022 at NOMAD Capri, the collection is inspired by the magical island itself – specifically the sea.

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Photographer Spotlight: Tony Westman

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Tony Westman. Tony Westman’s Website.

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Lettering artist and stroke survivor Danielle Davis on her road to recovery and creativity

Creative Boom

Lucky Fools © Danielle Davis. Danielle Davis is an established lettering artist and illustrator based in Oklahoma who loves retro schtick and large bold type. But she had to start over after a stroke and brain surgery in 2021 and seven long months of recovery. We found out more about how she recovered and began creating again. Danielle started her career by attending a smaller university in Oklahoma and then going to grad school at Maryland Institute College of Art.

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From Visualization to Execution: Exploring Our Strengths as Designers

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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Weekly News for Designers ? 653

SpeckyBoy

How I Experience the Web Today – Cookie consent banners, annoying push notification requests, and distracting ads – they’re all here! The History of User Interfaces – Take a tour through various UIs that have marked the past five decades. After Internet Explorer, Who Will Be the Web’s Next Nemesis? – It just so happens that the modern web has several potential candidates.

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A Colorful Bao Restaurant in Valencia Inspired by Surfing + Sunsets

Design Milk

Last year, Clap Studio was contacted to design the first bao restaurant in their hometown of Valencia, Spain. The restaurant partners have traveled throughout Asia, America, and Africa and dreamed up creating the first home-delivered, artisanal bao company. After launching, they wanted to open an actual restaurant and Baovan was born. The colorful, light-hearted design references all of the partners’ love of surfing and exploration.

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Vector animations with Figma and SVG-Animate

UX Collective

Have you ever gotten frustrated because you couldn’t describe complex animations to your developers? Finding references, polishing details… Continue reading on UX Collective ».

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Creative Boom and Micah Purnell collaborate on a new billboard campaign that calls for calm during uncertain times

Creative Boom

Sleep by Murugiah. Photography by Adrian Lambert. This week, Creative Boom is launching a billboard campaign across Manchester to remind us to look after our mental health. Collaborating with artist, designer and curator Micah Purnell as part of his Add-Art scheme, the giant posters feature artworks by leading illustrators Fuchsia MacAree and Murugiah.

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Web Design for All: Accessibility, Inclusivity and Beyond

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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Download These Graphic Poster Design Templates as Vector Graphics

We And The Color

Choose from a wide range of fully customizable graphic poster designs based on abstract geometric shapes, various colors, organic ornaments, and stylish typography. All created by graphic designer and Adobe Stock contributor @Molibdenis , this amazing collection of poster design templates is simply outstanding. Using a great variety of abstract geometric shapes in various colors along with organic ornaments and stylish typography, these posters are true eye-catchers.

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The Objects Collection by Ethnicraft Brings a Layer of Intrigue to Interiors

Design Milk

Ethnicraft , known for its timeless wood furniture, is bringing a different kind of design into interior spaces with its latest collection, Objects. The series of small items, all made by Indonesian craftsmen in one of Ethnicraft’s specialized woodworking ateliers, adds layers of intrigue to interior spaces. Some fulfill a utilitarian purpose while others simply stand on their own as decorative objects.

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Calibri: the font that avoided cult status

UX Collective

Despite being once a Microsoft default, how did it avoid fame or infamy? Continue reading on UX Collective ».

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30 of the funniest pics of animals revealed in this year's shortlist for Comedy Pet Photo Awards

Creative Boom

Smokin' Alpaca © Stefan Brusius / Animal Friends Comedy Pets. Today, the Comedy Pet Photo Awards has revealed the images and videos shortlisted for its much-anticipated annual competition. If you're after some light relief today, check out the 30 funniest entries, including a couple of headless cats and a dog that looks like it's hitting the Drive Thru.

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How to Create Stunning Typography With the Corel Type Tool Kit

Download this free eBook to learn how you can create stunning typography, using the basics, such as placing text, to advanced controls like ligatures, variable fonts, effects, tracking, range kerning, and everything in between. Learn how to: Use Character Control to add variety to your font styles. Use Paragraph Control to manage spacing, alignment, justification and more.