Spoon Graphics

JUNE 8, 2020

Making geometric patterns in Adobe Illustrator is always a fun creative project. You can follow the same basic technique each time but experiment with different shapes and colours to create endless pattern styles. Follow along with today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a colourful geometric pattern based on a series of triangle shapes. I’ll show you how developing a simple rule to follow can transform a basic pattern into a much more complex layout with less repetition.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

JUNE 8, 2020

It seems like every day new tools aimed at web designers are released. And they tend to generate some buzz, as design blogs are always in search of something new to talk about (guilty as charged). But, should you actually be using these items? Knowing that they exist is one thing, but trusting them in your projects is quite another. To be clear, we’re not necessarily talking about design-only tools like code generators or layout apps.

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Noupe

JUNE 10, 2020

If a website wants to be visible on Google, it needs a good SEO strategy. The same story goes for mobile apps , only this time it needs an ASO strategy – basically, how to get your app visible in the app store. It doesn’t matter how awesome, how user-friendly or how useful your app is. If no one can see it, no one will download it. While this can be a source of great frustration, it doesn’t have to be.

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Designer Daily

JUNE 9, 2020

Every week, we’ll give you an overview of the best deals for designers, make sure you don’t miss any by subscribing to our deals feed. You can also follow the recently launched website Type Deals if you are looking for free fonts or font deals. Artifex Forge’s Finest Vintage Set of Affinity Brushes. With the Artifex Forge’s Finest Vintage Cross-Hatch Pen and Ink Brushes Set you can now easily create your own authentic looking vintage works of art!

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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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Just Creative

JUNE 7, 2020

Affinity Designer is a program that many graphic designers prefer over Adobe Illustrator because of the different options that it offers as well as the ease of use it comes with. For any designer doing Lettering artwork, easier is better because that means creating amazing artwork doesn’t seem like work but a passion project. With this in mind, we wanted to take a look at the lettering brushes that are available for Affinity and decided to create a list of the Top 15 Affinity Lettering Brushes s

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Spoon Graphics

JUNE 12, 2020

Access All Areas members have a really unique collection of Photoshop mockup templates to download this week, courtesy of New Tropical Design Studio. These Pantone Colour Swatch Mockups help you quickly and easily create trendy photographs, style guides, and cool social media content. Choose from 5 templates to create endless layouts that incorporate colour schemes in the style of Pantone swatch books.

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Creative Market

JUNE 12, 2020

One of the biggest concerns for designers is how to find clients during this time of worldwide lockdowns. With many businesses still shut, regular customers disappearing, and no short-term end to this uncertainty, what are designers supposed to do? Though this pandemic and lockdown are unprecedented challenges for graphic designers, it’s still possible to find good clients during this hardship.

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Just Creative

JUNE 11, 2020

This article has been contributed by Victor Blasco. Whiteboard videos are one of the most popular and esthetically inspired types of videos to add to your marketing campaign. Providers of all sorts – from small businesses to educational organizations and well-established brand – rely on this style to get their message across. By most measures, whiteboard animation shows that it can deliver the goods.

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Spoon Graphics

JUNE 10, 2020

Is your font library in need of an upgrade? If so, you won’t find a better deal than this bundle of professional level font families. This collection is discounted by 99% for a limited time, giving you the opportunity to acquire $2485 worth of top quality fonts for just $29. It contains some exceptional typeface designs that are ideal for logos, headings, and producing top class typography for your graphic design projects.

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Graphic Design USA

JUNE 10, 2020

Kevin Kernan of GDLOFT on the power of print, especially now, to cut through the digital clutter and appeal to the senses. People, he writes, want their humanity back.

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Creative Market

JUNE 8, 2020

Infographics can help you spread important ideas. They can simplify information that would otherwise be difficult to consume, attracting visual learners in seconds. Throughout this tutorial, I'll show you how to create and animate infographics using PowerPoint. In doing so, we will be recreating an animated pyramid graphic that is included in this bundle: 2200 Infographics Templates Bundle. by Abert in Templates.

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Just Creative

JUNE 7, 2020

I’m a big believer of online education, but I have to be honest, the market is saturated and it’s hard to find a robust course, put together someone you can actually trust, with real-world experience behind them. So when my friend, Michael Janda , announced the launch of his suite of comprehensive courses for creatives, aptly named “ Freelance with Janda “, I knew it was going to be good.

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Noupe

JUNE 11, 2020

After the recent pandemic challenge, the planet is entering a new age. During a lockdown, we have faced many technology disruptions that reminded us once again about the importance of massive digital transformation. The post-Coronavirus world is now challenging the status quo and rethinking different industries. The design is not an exception. That period has let all of us feel a slight touch of the undeniable future that is fastly rushing to us.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

JUNE 8, 2020

You can make some pretty dazzling text effects with basic CSS and a few lines of JavaScript. These effects range from text display animations to 3D rotations or anything else you can imagine. And in this post I’ve cataloged 10 of the coolest examples from around the web showcasing what you can do with just a little bit of stylized text and CSS code.

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Spine Magazine

JUNE 9, 2020

We welcome you to another in our ongoing feature in which notable book cover designer Jordan Wannemacher periodically highlights a selection of recent university press cover designs. Please enjoy this celebration of amazing work. This list is in no particular order. Credits are listed below. If you are a book cover creative and want your work or the work of your department reviewed by Jordan be sure to get in touch with us!

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Under Consideration / Brand

JUNE 8, 2020

“A Change of Heart”. Established in 2006, Badoo is the largest social discovery network in the world with the mission to "provide the best technology for people to meet, because happiness is better shared". More colloquially, it's one of the most popular dating apps in the world. Headquartered in London, UK, it counts with over 476 million users across 190 countries and is available in 47 languages.

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Creative Review

JUNE 8, 2020

Seoul-based illustrator Stella Park says she has been documenting life with coloured pencils since she was a child. She was drawn to illustration in particular because of the different ways the same moment can be drawn and interpreted and this can be seen in the unique way she captures the world. Park has been a full-time freelance illustrator for just over a year now, having previously been a children’s art teacher.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

JUNE 9, 2020

Dispersion effects create a really cool look in your finished photos. This effect basically works by taking an image and then breaking up on one edge so that it appears as though it’s been broken up into tiny pieces. As you might imagine, trying to create this image manually would be quite tedious. However, this can be easily remedied by the use of a Photoshop action.

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Trendland

JUNE 9, 2020

Words TL Team. Belgium-based duo artists Katarzyna & Marcin Owczarek submitted us these wonderful surreal Animal Collages. Telling stories is a part of their photography project based on surrealistic imagery. The ongoing mixed-media series of collages, titled " My Hearth is An Animal ".

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Spine Magazine

JUNE 12, 2020

Josh Durham is a multi award-winning designer who worked in the magazine industry before setting up his company Design by Committee in sunny Australia. Here he talks us through his process for creating the vibrant cover for Throat. The author Ellen Van Neerven describes their poetry collection Throat as ‘a fierce cry: a collection of poems about whiteness, climate change, extinctions; about types of shame lodged squarely in the throat; about culpability and protection.

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Graphic Design USA

JUNE 10, 2020

While technology has streamlined the design process, co-founder of Dead Horse Branding, Rick Caballo, believes that overdependence on technology leads to inauthentic solutions.

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Shillington

JUNE 7, 2020

Got a young family and want to study design? We’ve got you! At Shillington , we don’t want there to be any barriers between you and a career in graphic design—and believe that having kids absolutely does not exclude you from this. We’ve had parents study on both our 3 month full-time and 9 month part-time course and managed to change their lives, for both themselves and their families.

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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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A List Apart

JUNE 11, 2020

So, what is it like to be color blind and also work in the web design and development industry? I'll answer that question throughout this article, but it's something that's always factored into my thoughts, given my passion for design and now my career. I wonder if having “normal” vision would have made me a better artist growing up. Would it make me better at my job now?

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SpeckyBoy

JUNE 6, 2020

If you want to appeal to a wider audience, putting together a brochure can really help. And what better way to create a brochure than by using free brochure templates for Adobe InDesign? These templates make it so easy to promote your business, services, or products — or even just spread valuable information — without having to go through the hassle of creating a template or brochure from scratch.

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The Logo Smith

JUNE 10, 2020

The post Formula 1 reveals 70th Anniversary Season with 3 new Formula 1 70th Anniversary Logo Designs appeared first on The Logo Smith ™ All Content © 2020 The Logo Smith.™ |. Back in January 2020, Formula 1 announced the 70th Anniversary Season with 3 New F1 Logo Designs, and somehow I missed this until June. I love these 3 new 70th Anniversary logos, and had to put out a quick Tweet, but full well expected to be laughed at, given how late I was to the party.

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Creative Review

JUNE 10, 2020

From frontline workers turned cover stars in British Vogue’s latest issue to David Hockney’s powerful iPad painting of ‘a new dawn’ for the Telegraph, the current crop of magazine covers are unlike anything we’re used to seeing in normal times. Vogue Italia is one of the titles that has been using coronavirus as an opportunity to rethink its creative approach.

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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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Interaction Design Foundation

JUNE 11, 2020

Learn to design with consistency and standards in mind and understand the reasons why they’re important to incorporate them into your work. Derived from Jakob Nielsen and Rolf Molich’s Ten User Interface (UI) Guidelines, ‘Consistency and Standards’ are evident in many of the widely-used products created by some of the most successful companies. Products like Adobe Photoshop, originally released in the 1990s, and Google Gmail, released in the mid-2000s, are just a few of the widely popular produc

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Design Week

JUNE 9, 2020

“We deserve more than black squares today,” Vanessa Newman wrote in the caption for an Instagram post announcing the launch of Design to Divest. The initiative is a “task force of designers” who create material for black organisers who are “building towards the divestment of capitalism and white supremacist structures” It was started as a lockdown initiative by the designer for other designers to come together, create, and share work.

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Colossal

JUNE 11, 2020

“Dakota.” All images © Oye Diran, shared with permission. Oye Diran describes his distinctly elegant photographs as “conceptual with a degree of minimalism and fantasy.” The New York City-based photographer captures refined images of women dressed in pastel gowns of billowing tulle and surrounded by wide swathes of blush fabric—like in “Maktub,” an arresting photograph (shown below) that recently won a first-place LensCulture Exposure Award.

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Graphic Mama

JUNE 10, 2020

American computer software company Adobe has been widely known as specialists in Creativity software products for years with a host of top-ranked household name products like Photoshop, Acrobat, Flash, Lightroom, and Illustrator among many, many others. It’s a brand that carries the mark of quality be it with Web or Graphic Design software, Digital Marketing, Visual Editing, or just about anything they put their name to.

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