Just Creative

MAY 28, 2020

This article has been contributed by Nico Prins. When developing a brand strategy , you must recognize that there are many different types of branding. Your brand strategy is based on an understanding of your target audience, the type of marketing campaigns you want to run, and the end goal. Each of these variables will define your approach. In this guide, we’ll look at seven of the most common types of branding.

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Noupe

MAY 27, 2020

Want to learn how to increase your content marketing ROI? Are you looking for content marketing tips that will boost your return on investments? This article will show you how in a moment. Content marketing is a profitable business undertaking. But you need to produce insightful materials that connect with your ideal reader frequently. However, you may also use existing blog content to boost your ROI.

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Spoon Graphics

MAY 25, 2020

Download my new pack of textures to add detailed wood grain effects to your designs. After processing each photograph of wooden paneling to straighten and equalize the texture, the wood grain pattern was then extracted and exported as PNG files with transparent backgrounds. These PNG files preserve the details of the grain and make it easy to place the textures over your artwork.

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I Love Typography

MAY 25, 2020

Today I launched two short multiple choice quizzes. The first starts at the beginning with Gutenberg, with questions about his life and his famous Bible. Some of the questions are pretty easy; others you might find rather difficult. The second game, Glorious Glyphs, tests your font identification chops by having you identify individual characters or […].

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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

MAY 28, 2020

This article has been contributed by Andrew Simon. It is impossible to ignore the significance of a brand’s logo. You will see their logo everywhere, from their website and printed collateral to advertising and staff clothing. It’s the most salient part of a brand’s promotional activity both online and offline. A well-designed logo can give a company a unique identity and allows the target audience to quickly recognise a brand.

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Creative Market

MAY 29, 2020

Ever bought something to eat simply because the packaging looked stunning? Welcome to the club. Unique fonts, edgy graphics, and bold layouts can truly bring out the best in food products. To make such compelling designs easier to create, independent artists around the world have made some of their best work available for Commercial and Extended Commercial use.

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onextrapixel

MAY 23, 2020

These days it is quite difficult to imagine a modern website without any dynamic elements. Small, big, medium-sized they — will be there on many websites. Web user interfaces. The post 7 Examples of Scroll-Triggered Animations in Web Design appeared first on Onextrapixel.

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Just Creative

MAY 26, 2020

Michael Jordan is what many consider to be “the greatest basketball player of all time”. After watching The Last Dance on Netflix , there is no denying his greatness or the legacy that he has left behind. My trainer, Ben Handley, was inspired by this greatness and wrote up 40 lessons he learned from watching this incredible documentary. Enjoy. Have a vision.

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The Logo Smith

MAY 29, 2020

The post An on-going Lettering Series Project of Famous Logos Designed by Rafael Serra aka FAEL appeared first on The Logo Smith All Content © 2020 TheLogoSmith.co |. Lettering Series Designed by Rafael Serra aka FAEL. Came across these wonderfully alternative takes of various famous logo and icon designs, by Rafael Serra aka FAEL. Rafael is a Portugal-based type designer and this is his ongoing series where he creates these unique letterforms for various words and logos.

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Creative Market

MAY 27, 2020

Working in a creative field is a dream come true for me and many others, but at times the artistic freedom that comes with my role as a designer can be the biggest hurdle to getting a job done. When you are working on tasks that require your imagination and artistry to be at the forefront, it puts a lot of focus and stress on your own ability to invent creative solutions.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

MAY 26, 2020

When you think about it, buttons are the drivers of online interaction. We use them to add products to our shopping carts, learn more about a service, confirm our decisions and submit contact forms. In that way, a button click is sort of like the successful conclusion designers are trying to draw us to. That’s why it’s so important to choose buttons that both look great and provide obvious visual cues.

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Just Creative

MAY 28, 2020

This article has been contributed by Olga Mykhoparkina. The most successful businesses all have strong brands. Companies like Google and Coca-Cola have such strong brand recognition that their names have become synonymous with their industries. When you look for something online, you don’t “search” for it — you “Google it.”. This high profile brand recognition didn’t happen by chance.

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Creative Review

MAY 26, 2020

Berlin-based illustrator Hagen Schönfeld has been working for around six years and his style adopts a fairly graphic approach with a dose of surreality added in. “I get inspired by a lot of things. I look for things around the streets and nature, sketch them or take photos,” Schönfeld explains. “Also, I’m of course inspired by other artists from different times and medias.

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Shillington

MAY 28, 2020

The creative industries are ever-changing, and it can be challenging to keep up which developments demand your attention and which can be safely ignored. Creative podcasts can be a great way to filter out the noise and help you focus on what’s important. Featuring key voices from design, illustration and other disciplines from all over the world, creative podcasts are full of inspiration and advice, and it’s just generally lovely to hear people chatting about the things that matter t

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Noupe

MAY 27, 2020

Drawing is a great way to express yourself. It’s therapy for your mind, and it’s relaxing for your soul. . You don’t need to spend all your money on different tools for drawing either, all you need is a digital sketchbook. You can even use your Android or iPad tablets for drawing and creating real art. . iPad and an Apple Pencil is a great combo for drawing, if you have these two you won’t be needing any other tools other than iPad drawing apps.

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Just Creative

MAY 25, 2020

Procreate is an amazing program that helps you create amazing works of art, regardless of whether you’re a professional or an amateur. Watercolor for Procreate is an addon for the program that lets you paint using watercolor just as if you had an easel and paint in the room. Many different creators have designed their watercolor programs that you can add to Procreate to add unique looks and textures and we wanted to highlight some of the best options out there with our list of the Top 15 Best Pr

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SpeckyBoy

MAY 28, 2020

Creating a visually attractive presentation to help you pitch your idea, team, or business to potential business partners, investors, or clients is crucial if you want to ensure a successful outcome. But, creating a presentation and making it look good can be time-consuming, especially if you lack the design skills. In those situations, a high-quality Powerpoint template can save the day.

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Tuts Plus

MAY 25, 2020

If you use Adobe Illustrator, then it's almost certain that you use the Pen Tool when creating your paths. This comprehensive Pen Tool Illustrator guide aims to introduce or remind you of features, shortcuts, and methods for working with what is arguably Adobe's most essential tool. In this Illustrator Pen Tool tutorial, you'll become comfortable using all of its features, from learning how to add anchor points in Illustrator to using bezier curves.

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Noupe

MAY 28, 2020

Working hard on your design portfolio never goes to waste. Having a stellar graphic design portfolio is the first step into your career as a graphic designer. It is the perfect opportunity to showcase your work and introduce potential clients and employers to your vision. Since the best way to represent yourself as a graphic designer is to share the best of your work, you need to curate outstanding examples of your previous successes.

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Under Consideration / Brand

MAY 27, 2020

“I ’ron, You ’ron, We all ’ron for Iron City”. Established in 1861, Iron City Beer is a storied brand of beer in Pittsburgh, PA, brewed by Pittsburgh Brewing Company. Going by different names over the years centuries, it was one of the first breweries to produce a lager in the United States and has since become its flagship product. After two bankruptcies and a series of ownership changes in recent decades, Iron City Beer was purchased in 2018 by coal magnate, Cliff Forrest, CEO of Rosebud Minin

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ID Identity Design

MAY 25, 2020

Design Pasar is a festival that we created and organised in collaboration with Roger&Sons and The General Co. We all moved into a new warehouse building in the industrial part of Singapore Jalan Besar where many of the traditional hardware businesses reside. The festival is about bringing design, craft, and arts to all our neighbours in the community.

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Fotor

MAY 29, 2020

A vintage look creates both a nostalgic and edgy atmosphere that can enhance a photo’s composition along with adding charm character! Its no wonder why old photo effects are the trend that keeps trending, even after all these years! Transform any ordinary image into a work of vintage art with Fotor’s a wide range of […].

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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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Juxapoz Magazine

MAY 25, 2020

If there was ever a Juxtapoz Hall of Fame, James Jean would be a first ballot inductee. Everything this magazine has stood for, whether it be reinventing the comic book form, learning the expertise of illustration, commercial design and projects to channeling all those skills and benchmarks into a fine art career, James Jean has carried the torch like few other artists of his time.

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Booooooom

MAY 27, 2020

Mathieu Teissier. Mathieu Teissier’s Website. Mathieu Teissier on Instagram.

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Creative Review

MAY 26, 2020

Estudio Herreros designed the new building, which is located in Oslo’s Bjørvika harbour area and designed as a replacement for the city’s Munchmuseet – which needed extra space for its collection of Munch artworks, as well as the visitors flooding in. According to the museum, the architects were influenced by a photograph of the artist on the beach, leaning forward as he painted another semi-naked man.

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Under Consideration / Brand

MAY 27, 2020

“Heading in the Polar Opposite Direction”. (Est. 1996) " Northzone is a technology investment partnership. With two decades of experience, we have been chosen by some of the best entrepreneurs as their long-term partner for growth. With offices across the Nordics, London and in New York, we work around the clock to connect our companies with customers, business partners and key talent on a truly international scale.

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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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Tuts Plus

MAY 29, 2020

What You'll Be Creating Flames are particularly hard to render in Photoshop, but in this tutorial, I'll show you how to use a photograph of fire to set the text to the match. We'll render the look on a nice dark background with a gorgeous text effect to complete the image. This is the second of our five-part series on Photoshop Typography. Don't forget to check our previous tutorial: Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect.

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Booooooom

MAY 25, 2020

Jacob Howard. Jacob Howard’s Website. Jacob Howard on Instagram.

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Trendland

MAY 26, 2020

Flowers and Ice Creams are two things we absolutely love, and when graphic designer Claire Boscher decides to mix the two, we can only but appreciate the project.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

MAY 29, 2020

When it comes to creating impressive business cards, we are accustomed to believing that only design can do the trick. As a rule, we bet on an illustrative approach or on some original typography or smart idea that will make our 3.5 x 2-inch piece of paper stand out from the crowd. However, as is always the case, there is a valid alternative. This alternative lies in getting off the beaten track and playing with the material that is used as a base for your business card.

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