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How to Launch Your Blog or Portfolio in 2020 (3,500+ Word Start to Finish Guide)

Inspiration Feed

The graphic design industry is tough. No matter where you go, you’ll see amazing talent through the work of other designers in the field.

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10 Success Tips for Young & Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Just Creative

Entrepreneurship remains to be a growing trend for young adults of this generation. With more and more small businesses being established from different parts of the globe, the idea of establishing a business might seem easy for some people. But the fact is, a lot of things must be taken into consideration before an aspiring entrepreneur finds success.

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Amazing Black-and-White Illustrations that Don’t Need Color to Impress

Graphic Mama

Get inspired by a beautiful collection of black-and-white illustrations: fantasy and abstract, posters of people and portraits, animal artwork, and simplified illustrations. Less is more and when it comes to such amazingly creative black-and-white artwork, the lack of color only means a bigger field for creativity and imagination. In this collection, we’ve picked beautiful black-and-white art that will certainly leave you more inspired in the end.

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A Look at the Proper Usage of the alt Attribute

Speckyboy Design Magazine

By now, most of the web design industry knows the importance of accessibility. We talk about it incessantly and implore our clients to take it seriously. There is no denying the impact it has on the web and those who use it. But sometimes the finer points get lost in the shuffle. For instance, we often hear screams from the virtual mountaintop of “Use alternative text on your images!”.

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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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How To Create an Illustrated Cartoon Effect from a Photo in Adobe Photoshop

Spoon Graphics

It takes some real skill to draw realistic characters and portraits, but there’s a shortcut you can take by processing a photograph with various filters in Photoshop to give it a cartoon-like illustrated effect. In today’s tutorial I’ll show you a cocktail of adjustments that mimic the outlines, colours, and shading of a digitally painted image automatically, without the need to trace, paint or draw by hand.

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2020 Graphic Design Trends

Just Creative

When looking back at 2019, there were a few trends to get exciting about. From 3D design and typography, Art Deco, and Isometric design to minimalism and open compositions, trends in this industry are rather unpredictable. Some trends like minimalism, color gradients, and heavy fonts seem to be here to stay for at least another year. But what will 2020 bring in matters of graphic design trends?

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10 tips for presenting a persuasive pitch deck

Canva

There are plenty of tools you need to succeed as an entrepreneur, from a can-do attitude to the right team to an innovative approach to business, research, and development. If you’re at the stage of your business where you’re thinking about bringing in outside investors, there’s one more indispensable tool you’re going to need: An impactful pitch deck.

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10 Vintage Travel Posters for Access All Areas Members

Spoon Graphics

Access All Areas members have a collection of beautifully illustrated travel poster designs to download this week, courtesy of Freepik. These 10 vintage travel posters feature a range of scenic illustrations of tourist destinations around the world, each drawn in a colourful, flat vector style. Based on traditional Art Deco inspired travel posters, these modern designs provide a ready-made template for you to create posters or advertisements.

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Design Conferences 2020: The Ultimate List

Just Creative

Looking to attend a design conference in 2020? Welcome to the ultimate 2020 Design Conference Guide which lists 140+ conferences & events for Graphic Design, Web Design, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Tech, Usability, User Research, Product Development and Branding, from around the world, including Europe, USA, UK, Australia and more.

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Christmas Color Palettes: 8 Designers Share their Go-to Hues

Creative Market

Looking for color inspiration to spruce up your holiday-themed designs? Whether you're working on new designs for a client's holiday campaign, designing your family's Christmas cards, or planning a beautiful tablescape – these 8 Christmas color palettes are sure to inspire your next festive project. Save Color palette by Yulia, Yuliya Derbisheva. Palette HEX codes: #efdfd7, #c84d4e, #869987, #c0ced7, #717d8a.

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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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Photographer Spotlight: Izzy de Wattripont

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20 public speaking tips even the experts use

Canva

There’s an old saying “there’s nothing to fear but fear itself.” But if you’re like most people, you probably need to amend that statement to “there’s nothing to fear but fear itself…and public speaking.”. Public speaking is one of the most common fears in the world, affecting more than 25 percent of people ; for some reason, the thought of getting up and presenting in front of a crowd gives a lot of people serious anxiety.

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Best Christmas Gifts for Photographers

Just Creative

Buying Christmas gifts for the photographer in your life, whether they are a professional or an amateur can be a daunting task. While novelty gifts are always fun, giving something that can help them grow in their business or hobby can be a gift they treasure for years. To help, we made our list of the Best Christmas Gifts for Photographers and made sure to check it twice to offer some ideas for you to consider.

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The Most Popular Script Fonts of 2019

Creative Market

Did you ever look across the aisle at school and wish you could master the impossibly gorgeous handwriting of that one kid? You know the one: the kid who always got to write the announcements on the board because their script held everyone spellbound. Well, now you can -- because that handwriting wizard may have grown up and joined Creative Market! Amazing artists around the world are offering their personal handwriting to you, to download and use for anything you want.

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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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Overlooked Black Rescue Dogs Shine in Emotional Portraits

Feature Shoot

Ollie. Ex stock broker. Made his millions in the Dotcom boom and now spends 6 months of the year on his yacht in Monaco. Henry. Enormous introvert. Loves football, has no idea about the rules he simply cheers for the winning team. DOGG. Pronounced ‘D’ ‘O’ “double G’ as in Snoop. Impossibly cool. Fan of hip hop. “‘Dog’ was found on the side of the road,” the photographer and rescue advocate Emma O’Brien tells us.

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26 Professional Keynote Presentation Templates

Graphic Design Junction

An elegant, clean, modern, minimal and creative Keynote Presentation Templates. Full HD and A4 & US letter printable brand guidelines Keynote templates with awesome layouts gives you many possibilities of creativity. Easy to work, edit and drap & drop Images in shape. All shapes, icons, maps, elements are 100% vector editable and easy to change size, colors without losing quality.

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Wilder Mann by Charles Fréger

This is Paper

13.12.2019 Wilder Mann by Charles FrégerResearch, Photography. ©Charles Fréger Charles Fréger visited 18 European countries in search of the mythological figure of the Wild Man. His strange and beautiful photobook explores human fascination with myth, ritual and tradition. In many festivals, events and traditions across Europe, there is usually a time when a man is dressed up as something wild and fearsome and paraded around a town to signify something or other that happened long ago.

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How to Make a Booklet in InDesign

Envato Tuts+

What You'll Be Creating Ready to take the next step in layout design? In this tutorial, we show you how to create a booklet in InDesign. For this stylish design, we’ll use essential tools for setting up pages that will help you in your future projects. Booklets are a form of brochure containing more than four pages and not more than 48 pages (the page count should be divisible by four).

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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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Design your own Valentine’s day cards: 50 heart-stopping examples

Canva

Soon you’ll be scrambling for ideas to make this February 14th the best Valentine’s Day yet. You can opt for a multiple-course dinner, a giant heart shaped balloon, a serenade, or a classic box of chocolates. But, even the most romantic gesture won’t stand a chance if it doesn’t come with a Valentine’s Day card. Common lore says you get bonus points if instead of buying a generic card, you make it yourself.

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Wildlife Intertwine in Finely Rendered Mythological Worlds by Lauren Marx

Colossal

“Offerings” (2019), Pen, watercolor, ink, gel pen and colored pencil on paper. 26.75 x 42.5 inches. Sinuous, intertwined wildlife bridge worlds of the living and the dead in Lauren Marx ’s intricate multi-media work. Twisting fox heads, disemboweled deer, and lambs bursting with flowers and birds are rendered with watercolor, ink, pen, and colored pencil.

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Illustrator Michael McGregor turns the mundane into something extraordinary

Its Nice That

The LA-based illustrator looks towards his immediate surroundings for inspiration. Whether it’s the market, the cafe, something stumbled upon in his home studio or found on a glorious morning walk, it’s the simple things that he finds most interesting. Read more.

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‘Classic Blue‘ is Pantone Color of the Year 2020

Graphic Mama

Pantone Color of the Year 2020 is officially announced: Classic Blue! In 2020, we’ll be enjoying the classic elegance of the Classic Blue color hue interpreted into beautiful creations and combinations in all design niches. The Color Institute never disappoints as it always matches its annual choice of color with what the world needs. Carrying a deep meaning and symbolism, Classic Blue is the right tone that comes at the right time to convey calmness, stability, and honesty while it marks

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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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Photographer Spotlight: Eric Chakeen

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Christmas Gifts for Graphic Designers

Noupe

Christmas is fun, but choosing gifts might become too overwhelming sometimes. You want to buy the best gift within your budget, and that may require a lot of research. It does not stop there, either. You are not just trying to buy the best item for the buck unless you are shopping for a robot. Even in that case, you might not want to exterminate the whole human race.

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Artist Yuko Shimizu Utilizes Repetition and Primary Colors in Her Idiosyncratic Illustrations

Colossal

All images © Yuko Shimizu, shared with permission. Award-winning artist Yuko Shimizu describes her detailed illustrations in a note to Colossal as “a bit off, weird, and dreamy.” Her work, which is often centered on but not limited to Japanese culture, frequently employs primary colors and repetitive elements. In one illustration, the artist portrays a marcher wearing a red uniform and blowing into a multiple-belled instrument with blue birds and yellow flowers in the mix; another f

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My Inspiring #Mazdate In Montecito

Old Brand New

Sponsored by Mazda. You never really know where inspiration is going to strike — but for me, so much of it comes when I’m traveling: exploring new territories or the hidden nooks and crannies of places I’ve been before. That said, when Mazda invited me and a crew of creatives to Montecito, CA for a few days to check out the new CX-30 , I was pretty excited to get out of town and immerse myself in a different landscape.

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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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Tom Noon on his musical, spontaneous and illustrative approach to graphic design

Its Nice That

Tom sees illustration and design as two media that “aren’t mutually exclusive”. Instead, he combines these elements across the board to build on his spontaneous process for clients such as Adidas, Jadu Heart, Low Island and Khruangbin. We caught up with him to find out more. Read more.

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How to Create eCommerce Photos on a Tight Budget?

Noupe

Creating eCommerce photos professionally requires some skill and expertise that can help you keep your budget frugally organized and within your reach. If you’re going to seek some valuable tips for capturing images for eCommerce business that will captivate customers’ attention, then we’ve gathered some tips that will be helpful for you to shoot products without spending so much.

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The 10 Interior Designs that Defined the Decade

Azure Magazine

The second decade of the 21st Century saw significant cultural shifts that informed interior design across the world. In tandem with the rise of Instagram, a generation of influencers embraced “millennial pink” and brands big and small strove to create increasingly experiential and photogenic retail environments. Terrazzo took over on walls and floors – but dramatically veined marble gave the finish a run for its money.

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Introducing Kristen: Our New Marketing Operations Specialist

Creative Market

The Creative Market team is growing! This week, we would like all of you to meet Kristen Vitale , our new Marketing Operations Specialist. Tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do for Creative Market. I joined Creative Market as a Marketing Operations Specialist back in August. I have an incredibly fun role because I get to contribute to the variety of marketing initiatives we have going on at Creative Market.

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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.