Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Feeling grim about your prospects? We help lift your mood by sharing positive stories from creatives about the moments that make life worth living. On a bit of a downer? Well, that's not surprising. The global economy is currently on a downturn, and people are feeling the strain across the world. And even if you're still managing to keep on top of the rent, there's no shame in feeling a little down about your prospects for continuing success as a freelancer.

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BP&O

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It must be something of a dream project when an agency gets commissioned to work on those big-name cultural clients – museums, art galleries, orchestras, theatre companies, et al. You’d expect such projects to be a departure from the constraints and stakeholder-limitations of corporate clients; and perhaps a chance to be more creative than usual, thanks to the nature of The post New York Botanical Garden by Wolff Olins appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.

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Spoon Graphics

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Do you fancy a new collection of fonts but with 90% off the price tag? There’s a new deal over at Design Cuts that will bag you 16 incredible fonts from a variety of talented typography artists, all for just $29 with the best licensing terms you can get. The fonts in this collection are expertly made with a multitude of weights and styles, so this is a great chance to level up the typography and lettering in your design work.

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Design Milk

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The Oceana Retreat is a minimal residence located in Bal Harbour, Florida, designed by Hino Studio. The clients, avid art collectors, wanted to showcase their love for both Latin-American flair and European mid-century aesthetics. The design direction is made right from the beginning with the selection of a Gio Ponti style entry foyer floor, which set the tone for the rest of the apartment.

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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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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock We asked the Creative Boom community what tools save them the most time and effort, and here's what they had to say. It doesn't matter how talented you are in your chosen creative discipline; that's only half of the work of being a successful freelancer. The other half is about staying organised and productive so you can deliver everything on time and get paid promptly.

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HONGKIAT

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Welcome to our February collection in the Fresh Resources series! As the new year unfolds, what better moment to explore new tools and resources? This edition is packed with exciting finds for both designers and developers. We’ve got everything from a site that guides you on creating components across different frameworks, to a brand new JavaScript package repository, a tool for diving deep into color spaces, and insights on CSS specificity.

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Design Milk

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Every pet owner dreads the day when their 4-legged friend begins to show the signs of slowing down. Dogs in particular are apt to suffer from hip dysplasia, a condition associated with a steady debilitating trajectory toward immobility, affecting various breeds large and small. Fortunately for the modern canine there are dog-loving designers looking to keep senior dogs happy and moving.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Rhode Island School of Design student Cara Ziruo Wang has translated China's rich cultural history into a series of elegant and inspiring illustrations for the country's children's literary magazine October Kids. We caught up with her to learn more about how they were made and how they inspire different children worldwide. For Western readers, the course of the year is broken down into the familiar rhythm of twelve months and four seasons.

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Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

20 Weird and Wacky Websites To Inspire Creative UX Strategies A website is built every three seconds. With more online users, tricks, and tools than ever, any brand can create a website with just a few clicks. As we welcome AI-powered website builders , formatted WIX and WordPress templates and a digitally native generation to the mix, it is becoming more challenging than ever to create a website experience that is well remembered.

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Graphic Design Junction

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Elevate your career with clean professional CV resume templates. In today’s competitive job market, a standout resume is essential to catching the attention of hiring managers and securing your dream job. Clean professional CV resume templates offer a sleek and polished design that not only showcases your qualifications and experience but also leaves a lasting impression.

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Design Milk

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Raised in Nice, France, where she trained at the Villa Arson, ceramic artist Olivia Cognet spent six years in Los Angeles learning to model clay. Now, she’s returned to her native South of France to push her work further. “Here, I feel more inspired than ever. I hope to be able to make the monumental pieces that I dream of,” Cognet says of her move to Vallauris on the Côte d’Azur.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Last year, Bedfordshire-based artist Marta Plizga struggled with her creative practice. So, to get herself out of her rut, she embarked on an ambitious challenge: where she would draw a portrait every single day for twelve months. Here, she explains how it improved her art and lifted her confidence. Marta Plizga has always dreamed of being an artist.

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Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

How to Pitch Your Designs to Clients Like a Pro So, you've spent countless hours crafting the perfect design. You've considered every tiny detail and are confident your creation will knock your client's socks off. But now comes the nerve-wracking part – pitching it. Presenting your designs can be daunting, but it's a crucial skill for any designer.

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Graphic Design Junction

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In the modern typography lettering world, fonts are a big part of design, and having lots of different ones that are up-to-date can really improve your creative work. With 2024 upon us, it’s time to refresh your font collection with the latest free offerings. In this article, we’ll explore a curated selection of new and fresh free fonts that graphic designers can download to keep their font library up to date and their designs cutting-edge.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Welcome to our February collection in the Fresh Resources series! As the new year unfolds, what better moment to explore new tools and resources? This edition is packed with exciting finds for both designers and developers. We’ve got everything from a site that guides you on creating components across different frameworks, to a brand new JavaScript package repository, a tool for diving deep into color spaces, and insights on CSS specificity.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

For the last two years, the volunteer-run charity art project Behind Blue Eyes has shown the value of creativity to Ukrainian children by asking them to capture their lives with disposable film cameras. The resulting photos create a remarkably hopeful portrait of a country ravaged by war and even make dreams come true in the process. The last two years have seen Ukraine change beyond recognition.

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Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Top 10 Worst Logo Design Clichés to Avoid Hey there, fellow designers and branding enthusiasts! Today, we're diving deep into the world of logo design and, more specifically, the clichés that can bog down even the most promising logos. You know what I mean – those overused, tired concepts that make your eyes roll harder than a RuPaul's Drag Race contestant.

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Graphic Design Junction

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Arunas Kacinskas is an freelance Portrait illustrator artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Whose work transcends the boundaries of conventional illustration, weaving a narrative tapestry that captures the imagination with its vivid imagery and emotive storytelling. At the heart of Kacinskas’ artistic vision lies a deep understanding of human nature, coupled with a keen eye for detail and a penchant for the surreal.

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Design Milk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Gone are the days of boring beige offices with headache-inducing fluorescent lights and claustrophobic cubicles. The modern office embraces color, comfort, and connection – something exemplified by the new Relaxound office in Berlin, Germany, designed by Ester Bruzkus Architekten. “We love spaces within spaces, the blurring of inside and outside, unconventional color combinations, and material contrasts,” says Ester Bruzkus, Partner at Ester Bruzkus Architekten.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Love logos? Love music and all-things band culture? Love design books? Then, we have a Kickstarter project for you. In his day job, Jamie Ellul is the creative director at Supple Studio in Bath. But in his spare time, he's been working on an intriguing project with design writer Jim K Davies. It's a book with the self-explanatory title of Logo Rhythm – Band Logos That Rocked The World.

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Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Graphic Design Internships: Kickstart Your Creative Career Are you a budding graphic designer looking to kickstart your career? Or are you a seasoned pro seeking a fresh perspective? Whichever camp you fall into, a graphic design internship might be the ticket to unlocking your true potential. Graphic design is all about visual communication, translating ideas and messages into captivating visuals that grab attention and leave a lasting impression.

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Graphic Design Junction

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Do you wake up in the middle of the night because you want more website design templates? However, you don’t know where to find them? Fortunately, the Internet is full of web design subscription services where you can download all the necessary design materials. Anyway, not each of them is worth your attention. Today, we would like to talk about MonsterONE.

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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 Bloq

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

London-based creative Zhanjiang Liu switched to illustration after ten years of working in the design industry. Despite being a relatively new illustrator, his drawings explode off the page with a chaotic intensity as they capture the highs and lows of everyday life. Having previously worked as an art director for commercials at advertising agencies, Zhanjiang Liu felt it was time for something new.

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Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

12 Ways to Find Potential Clients on Instagram Instagram is home to over 2 billion monthly active users. With such a massive user base, it's unsurprising that many businesses and entrepreneurs leverage Instagram to find potential clients. But with so many users, how do you cut through the noise to identify and connect with those most likely to become paying customers?

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Building an advanced design system for true white-label products with full control over colours, typography and visual styles Same design system, different brands TLDR This is my journey to build a single design system for multiple brands, platforms or products. It’s less about the system itself, but more about tools and workflows to make it work. In this article, I am going to go very technical and methodical about delivering such a system.

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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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Design Milk

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Iittala’s refresh, nay reassertion as an auteur of artistry in glass can only be described as an opus for the heritage glassmaker hailing from Finland, circa 1881. The occasion – a year in the making – is marked by a tantalizing audio-visual exhibition celebrating new creative direction, the release of an updated logo, and two new collections with a surprising collaboration that showcases only a sliver of the enchantment to come.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A British institution, The Hay Festival has transformed over the years from a local books event to a global celebration of multifaceted culture. Now, a fresh identity, designed by EDIT Brand Studio , has been launched to better convey what Hay is about today. If you haven't been to the Hay Festival Global, you're probably still vaguely aware of it because this long-running and much-loved British institution is at the heart of what might be 'Radio 4 culture'.

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Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

How Graphic Design Impacts Consumer's Perception of a Brand The way your target audience perceives your company has a significant impact on your business. Not only its image but, more importantly, brand perception directly influences your potential clients' willingness to invest in your solutions. According to several scientific studies, the brand image directly affects perceived product quality and value.

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Abduzeedo

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Branding and Visual Identity: Coordinape's Journey by &Walsh abduzeedo 0220—24 Explore Coordinape's branding and visual identity journey, showcasing how web3 DAOs innovate collaboration through design. In the evolving digital landscape, Coordinape stands out as a beacon for web3 DAOs, redefining resource distribution among contributors. Crafted by the visionary team at &Walsh, Coordinape's branding and visual identity encapsulate the essence of symbiotic collaboration and innovation.

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