Canva

JUNE 1, 2020

Blurred images: a photography mistake? In some cases, yes, but also a useful design tool. Now, we’re not talking about salvaging a bad photo by slapping a blur effect on it and calling it good enough. Instead, we’re going to look at intentionally choosing or creating different types of blurred images to enhance our designs in specific ways. If you pay attention to web and graphic design styles, you may have noticed that this has been something of a trend in recent years.

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Just Creative

MAY 31, 2020

Earlier in 2020, I posted an article on the latest logo design & branding trends and now 6 months on, the official 2020 logo trends report has just been released by Bill Gardner of LogoLounge. This report has been put together by carefully analyzing over 350k logos from the past 18 years, handpicking those that contribute to emerging trends for the year.

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Richard Bernabe

JUNE 4, 2020

These insightful photography tips for beginners will give a solid foundation as you start your journey. No esoteric jargon here, just good, solid advice. The post 6 Insightful Photography Tips for Beginners appeared first on Richard Bernabe.

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Designer Daily

JUNE 3, 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. Exclusive Font Bundle of 50+ Fonts, 30 Logos. This Exclusive Font Bundle is chock full of 50+ different fonts in a wide range of styles from playful to elegant.

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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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Spoon Graphics

JUNE 3, 2020

Follow along with today’s Photoshop tutorial to create a topographic map effect. I’ll show you how you can quickly create a detailed pattern with a combination of Photoshop Filters, then show you how the parameters of those filters can be adjusted to customise the effect. This new technique provides some really useful advantages over my previous Contour Map tutorial, such as infinite scalability and a super-fast way to process unique pattern styles. ?

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Just Creative

JUNE 3, 2020

This article has been contributed by Tegan Tedd. Whether you’re a seasoned or aspiring web developer, a business owner or are just someone’s nephew who’s been dumped with doing the website designing; there’s a web design builder software option out there that will cater to your needs and abilities so you’ll be able to create the perfect website.

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Creative Market

JUNE 2, 2020

Given the circumstances brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, many creators have abandoned the routine of heading into the office or working from a cafe, to working from the comfort of their homes instead. While working from home has its perks, such as skipping the morning commute or spending more time with your furry friends, this “new normal” may also pose a challenge as you build a home office that invokes your creativity.

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Design Wizard

JUNE 3, 2020

Introduction. You may think graphic design is a whole new world but in reality, it’s been around for years. It even has developed a language of its own. If you’re not in the industry don’t worry, I know these terms may be confusing. For instance, terms like kerning, bowl, creep, and many more might make no sense to you while talking to a designer, but these are the widely used graphic design terms. .

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Just Creative

JUNE 4, 2020

One of the great things about using Photoshop and Illustrator ( get 40% off here ) is the number of different add-ons that you can download. Made by other designers all over the world, you can easily find that one piece that can take your work to the next level. These addons can include overlays, effects, and styles that can help you get the most out of your artwork.

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Under Consideration / Brand

JUNE 1, 2020

“Eyes on the Prize”. Established in 1927, Popeyes is a quick service restaurant offering a unique New Orleans style menu featuring spicy chicken, chicken tenders, fried shrimp, and other regional items. From a single location in the New Orleans suburb of Arabi, Popeyes has grown into one of the world's largest chicken quick service restaurants with over 3,300 locations in the U.S. and around the world and last year's launch of its Chicken Sandwich brought unprecedented sales growth and popularit

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Creative Market

JUNE 4, 2020

If you're interested in creating infographics, it's helpful to look at work from the design industry's standout performers. Linked below are ten stunning examples: data visualization rendered so creatively that it achieves the status of pure art. 1. The Many Moons of Jupiter. It's easy to see why James Round is one of the UK's leading graphic designers.

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Creative Review

JUNE 2, 2020

Café Royal Books is an independent publishing house that specialises in limited edition photographic books that focus on British documentary photography. Started in 2005 by Craig Atkinson, it began as an antidote to the work he’d been creating himself as an artist. “[My] paintings took a long time, they were big, heavy, and expensive, so I could only really exhibit them in the UK, which I did.

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Just Creative

JUNE 4, 2020

Adobe Lightroom is an amazing tool for photographers of all skill levels. Part of the Creative Cloud ( get 40% off here ), you can easily import, organize, manage, and find your images. Many will choose Photoshop over Lightroom, while Photoshop is like using a digital darkroom, Lightroom is like having a photography studio with the features that it offers.

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Azure Magazine

JUNE 2, 2020

There is a stain on your masterpiece. Martin Luther King Jr, the revolutionist – not the watered down, palatable, let’s all get along version that white people love – once said, “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.” The silence of the architecture community in authentically addressing the blatant injustice that has begrudged African American people in the United States layers that stain.

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Canva

JUNE 1, 2020

Creating great designs just got a little easier! We’ve created an infographic of Canva shortcuts for you to enjoy and use as a design resource. We hope these tricks will help you design some amazing graphics for your blog, small business, classroom, or wherever you need a little bling. We know that you don’t have a lot of time – who does? So working smarter with keyboard shortcuts will help you get more done and maybe help improve your graphic design skills a little as well.

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Booooooom

JUNE 3, 2020

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Just Creative

MAY 31, 2020

This article has been contributed by Jack Paxton. Social media engagement is the new currency for business success. Brands that are looking to perform well on social media measure their performance on the amount of engagement they receive on their social media accounts. The more engaged you are with your audience, the more opportunities will arise for your brand.

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Graphic Design USA

JUNE 1, 2020

Though it may seem difficult, this pandemic may be the right time to establish or pivot to re-establish a distinctive position in a potential customer’s mind.

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Canva

JUNE 1, 2020

These days, patterns are everywhere. You’ll commonly find them on great pieces of packaging, inside the covers of several awesome publications, and printed on beautiful rolls of fabric. If you’ve been poking around online lately, chances are you’ve seen patterns being used in web design as well. While they’re used in many different sections of websites, they’ve become an especially popular choice for backgrounds.

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Richard Bernabe

JUNE 2, 2020

America's Best Idea offers landscape and nature photographers some the best locations in the world. Here are my five favorite American National Parks for photography. The post My Favorite American National Parks For Photography appeared first on Richard Bernabe.

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Just Creative

JUNE 1, 2020

As designers, it’s always difficult to design for one’s self. “You can’t read the label from inside the bottle”. For this reason, Primitive (formally Primitive Social), a large digital solutions agency based in Texas, commissioned me for the rebranding of their agency. The brief in short, was to create an identity that conveyed “old school character, dependability, durability, grit and endurance but with a modern mid-west vibe”.

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Trendland

JUNE 2, 2020

The Dutch photographer Tim van der Most has used his time during lockdown to revisit his botanical photography. His series includes images inspired by botanic illustrations showing the anatomic research of flowers. I got in touch with Tim to get to know more about his fascination and where it all started. Dissecting Flowers by Tim van der Most.

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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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Canva

JUNE 1, 2020

Real estate marketing is complex. You have your CRM, the hub of the marketing machine, which feeds the email marketing efforts, the production of physical collateral to be printed as billboards and window cards, and the bulk uploading of listings to the portals. It’s hard enough just getting the machine to work, let alone optimizing all the aspects of it to actually improve the visual aspects of the property marketing.

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Creative Review

JUNE 2, 2020

The death of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis last week has caused an immediate response of grief and anger, as well as the examination by individuals and organisations across the world about how we respond to such deaths and the racism that they expose in Western society. Across the creative industries urgent questions have been asked about the slow response to calls for diversity and change, and what needs to happen now.

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The Logo Smith

JUNE 2, 2020

The post Colour of Currency – Pantone Colour Guide to Banknotes around the World appeared first on The Logo Smith All Content © 2020 TheLogoSmith.co |. Colour of Currency – Pantone Colour Guide to Banknotes around the World. Present & Correct are always sharing amazing stuff , like this, first shared by It’s Nice That : ‘ Colour of Currency : Pantone Colour Guide to Banknotes around the World’ Money.co.uk have put together a detailed visual guide to all the bank

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onextrapixel

MAY 31, 2020

The use of custom illustrations has been a big trend recently that is not likely going anywhere soon. The deal is that artistic approaches, like old habits, always die. The post Custom Illustrations – A Quirky and Human Design Trend appeared first on Onextrapixel.

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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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Canva

MAY 31, 2020

Humans are visual creatures. In fact, when it comes to the absorption of information, studies by 3M revealed that images and visuals are processed 60,000 times faster than text, somewhat confirming the old saying that a picture paints a thousand words. Because we remember and retain things more easily when they’re visual, it’s clear that the selection of imagery when working on a project—from an invitation to a work presentation —is of the utmost importance.

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Design Week

JUNE 3, 2020

On 25 May, George Floyd, an African-American man was killed in Minnesota, US. A police officer kept his knee on the side of Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes while three other police officers restrained him. Floyd had been accused of using a counterfeit note at a nearby market. The killing, the latest in a long line of African-American deaths involving police officers, sparked widespread protests the next day, which soon turned from peaceful to violent.

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The Logo Smith

JUNE 5, 2020

The post The KLM House Mark – Logo Construction Grid Designed by FHK Henrion 1961 appeared first on The Logo Smith.™ All Content © 2020 TheLogoSmith.co |. The KLM House Mark – Logo Construction Grid Designed by FHK Henrion, 1961. Interesting for me as a logo designer to see a reference to KLM House Mark ( FHK Henrion ) , rather than KLM Logo Mark or KLM Brand Mark, or of course, KLM Logo Design.

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Booooooom

JUNE 4, 2020

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