Creative Boom

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Illustration by Mia Angioy for Creative Boom In the fifth of our special six-part series, we look at the cutting-edge developments shaping the future of audiovisual design and how they're set to transform brand experiences by 2025. As we approach 2025, the landscape of audiovisual design is changing rapidly. New tech, changing consumer behaviours, and the rising demand for immersive, engaging content are reshaping how brands communicate, how consumers interact with media, and how stories are tol

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Spoon Graphics

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Follow along with this Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a colourful gradient logo design. I’ll show you how Illustrator’s shape builder tool makes it easy to construct the basic vector logo design, then we’ll apply a vibrant colour scheme using gradients. Subscribe to the Spoon Graphics YouTube Channel Source File Download with membership The post Design a Modern Gradient Logo Using Adobe Illustrator’s Shape Builder Tool appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

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I Love Typography

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Read the book, Typographic Firsts This month, Steven Heller takes a closer look at the Exentrica font family. The post Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Exentrica appeared first on I Love Typography.

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 10, 2024

At the confluence of the Aegean and wider Mediterranean seas – but also ancient and contemporary times – Bodrum is a coastal city in southwestern Turkey that serves as a first point of entry for an ever-expanding riviera dotted with trendy resorts, many of which have been designed in the almost antiseptic white cube architectural style now found everywhere else in the tropics and subtropics.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Onsra by Type of Feeling Expand your typographical horizons with our curated list of the most popular independent foundries today, as chosen by the Creative Boom community. When it comes to shaping the visual language of brands and narratives, typography is absolutely crucial. And while the best-known fonts and the major foundries have a lot to offer, it's often a good idea to shake things up by looking further afield.

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Spoon Graphics

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Unwrap a hamper full of fresh art and design tools with this festive-themed bundle! The Winter Wonderbox has everything you need—from frosty watercolor cliparts and shimmering textures to heartfelt greeting cards and fun ugly sweater effects. This collection is perfect for the holidays and will keep you inspired for Christmases yet to come. Don’t miss out on the 94% discount, treat yourself to an early gift… You deserve it!

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Kicking off the launch of their debut furniture line, architecture and design studio IMCOLLECTIVE , founded by Inês Moreira and Miguel Moreira, embraces modernist principles of design. The debut COLLECTIVE COLLECTION (©COLLECTION) is stripped of any decorative embellishments, focusing instead on the intricacy and strength of wood joinery and the natural beauty of hardwood.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock / Hamdi Bendali Are you struggling to get things done? Do you feel like work is taking over your life? These books can explain how to approach everything differently and achieve all your goals while still having time to rest and relax. Work-life balance often feels like a far-off, unachievable goal if you work in the creative industries.

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Colossal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Clingy bear cubs, a lion-hearted discussion, and a gecko grin are just a few of the giggle-worthy finalists in this year’s Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. From nearly 9,000 submissions from photographers in 98 countries, jurors selected 40 entries for the final round, illuminating a wide range of mammals, amphibians, fish, and fowl around the world.

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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Have you ever wondered what you’d look like with piercing blue eyes instead of your natural brown? Or perhaps you’ve imagined how a subtle shift in eye hue could completely transform the mood of your portrait? Welcome to the fascinating realm of digital eye color alteration – a playground for creativity, self-expression, and visual storytelling.

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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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Design Milk

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The Vibrant Group India , a leading real estate development company in Mumbai, specializes in apartments and commercial properties with an emphasis on today’s eco-friendly living. The design by Sanjay Puri Architects reflects the organization’s own portfolio and commitment to environmental stewardship. “We wanted to convey their message of building green,” says Sanjay Puri, founder and principal of his eponymous firm.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock It's getting tougher and tougher to find work these days. So it's more important than ever to carve out your unique voice as a creative. Follow our tips to learn how. In today's creative industry, standing out is more crucial than ever. Because let's get real: lots of designers, illustrators, and other creatives are having a tough time right now.

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Its Nice That

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The Polish graphic designer’s multifaceted practice spans everything from big branding gigs to pin badges, with “no project too small” to take some joy from.

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SpeckyBoy

OCTOBER 6, 2024

To a prospective client, you, as a freelance designer, are often perceived only to be as good as your portfolio. They’re checking you out for the first time, and if you don’t make a positive first impression, you may not get their work. And if you don’t get work, you don’t get paid. And if you don’t get paid, then you… aw, you get it.

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Windmill has previously impressed with its well-designed home tech, and its latest offering, The Windmill Air Purifier , is no exception. This air purifier not only enhances indoor air quality but also seamlessly blends into any space no matter where it’s placed with its design-forward aesthetic. Inspired by Japanese and Scandinavian minimalism, The Windmill Air Purifier stands out with its clean lines and modern appeal.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The digital-first studio draws the human narrative out of a highly technical story to better sell it to the public. Let's face it: data analysis hardly sounds like the sexiest of subjects. But often, it actually is. Take Sonder, formerly Consumer Insight, a company that transforms complex data into meaningful insights through human-centred research.

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BP&O

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Over the past few decades, high-street menu-scribblers Wagamama has become a rare beacon of actually-very-nice-food among a sea of uninspiring spicy chicken, Giraffes, and Five Guys (arguably, simply too many guys). It turns out Wagamama has some pretty big-name siblings: Mayfair’s Michelin starred, celebrity-beloved Hakkasan; Thai stalwart Busaba; Cantonese eaterie Yauatcha; and Turkish restaurant chain Yamabahce all sit within the The post Chyna Club by Bibliothèque appeared first on BP&O

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Creative Bloq

OCTOBER 8, 2024

While Instagram’s newly launched sonic logo has drawn criticism, there are lessons to be learned from the media company’s choices.

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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 Milk

OCTOBER 10, 2024

In a contemporary tale of East meets West, French designer Jean-Marie Massaud introduces his interpretation of modern Vietnamese design with his latest creation, the Lodge collection. Designed in collaboration with furniture brand District Eight , the series of folding chairs, stools, and bag holders offer a fresh, contemporary perspective on Vietnamese aesthetics, blending diverse cultural influences.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Research has found that 91 per cent of creative professionals seek a reliable way to attach attribution to their art and design. Adobe's soon-to-launch Content Authenticity is a tool that may just offer that solution. Today, Adobe has introduced its Content Authenticity web app, which enables creatives to protect their work by attaching evidence proving it could have only been done by them.

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SpeckyBoy

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The web seems to move at the speed of light. The tools and best practices we use today will soon be outdated. It’s a vicious cycle we repeat again and again. That often leaves us with some form of technical debt. It could be a WordPress theme that isn’t compatible with the latest version of PHP. Or a hacked-together layout that won’t adapt to future needs.

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Colossal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

From individual strips of colorful, methodically folded paper, Yulia Brodskaya ’s vibrant compositions take wing. In a new series of quilled artworks, the artist ( previously ) taps into her love of drawing to emphasize the power of a line. “In my paper art practice, a drawn two-dimensional line is represented by a three-dimensional strip of paper glued on its edge,” Brodskaya says.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Unveiled at Paris Fashion Week, Yves Salomon , in collaboration with Chapo Création , presented a series of reimagined pieces, including the L01 Bed , S31 Ottoman , S11 Chair , S10 Armchair , and the D19 Balance Arm Lamp , each adorned with distinctive shearling designs. Sustainability always at the forefront of design, the furniture requires no hardware, glue, or studs, and all shearling used was reclaimed material.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 7, 2024

How do you explain the cool features of a new range of gaming computers? Personify them as superheroes, of course. You've probably heard a lot of people recently say that the superhero craze is on the wane. And in one sense, they're right. In the 2010s, Marvel utterly dominated cinema with movies like Avengers Assemble and Black Panther. But in recent years, they've seen releases such as Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, The Marvels and Madame Web take a tumble at the box office.

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Abduzeedo

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Match Agency’s New Branding and Web Design Approach abduzeedo 1007—24 Discover Match Agency’s fresh branding and web design strategy, featuring a bold palette and minimalist design. Match Agency, a creative force in branding and web design, has just unveiled a fresh visual identity to celebrate its second anniversary. The agency’s redesign emphasizes simplicity and functionality, perfectly balancing creative flair with clarity.

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Colossal

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Following four days of continuous observation, Darya Kawa Mirza captured the moon and its rugged surface in exceptional detail. The self-taught Kurdish astrophotographer amassed 81,000 images, which he stitched into a 708-gigabyte composite revealing the intricacies of the lunar topography in stunningly high resolution. Each frame zooms in on both individual craters and bruise-colored spots—a combination of asteroid and comet strikes and deposits left by volcanic eruptions —allowing for an up-cl

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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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Design Milk

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Coffee tables are the unsung heroes of living rooms, but let’s be honest: they rarely come without a host of accessories, like trays, coasters, or other decor that we often have to incorporate to make it more useful. What if, though, your coffee table didn’t need extra objects? What if it could meet your needs and be put to use as is? Your wish can be realized with the Taarof Table , created by self-taught multidisciplinary artist and designer Kouros Maghsoudi.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 8, 2024

If you want your art to mean something yet still get paid for it, this Indian designer and illustrator offers an example to follow. Want to work for big brands yet still create game-changing and thought-provoking art? It sounds like a circle that can't be squared, but the work of Noopur Choksi suggests otherwise. A visual designer and illustrator from India, she's currently based in Baltimore, USA.

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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2024

You might not find the legendary lost city of El Dorado on the 24th floor of the NHow Hotel in Amsterdam, but you will find Sonora Bar — a luxury Spanish cocktail bar steeped in the mythology of pre-Columbian design. Designed by Barcelona-based studio El Equipo Creativo , Sonora Bar brings Latin American flavours — including their singnature Azul Margarita — to a European audience.

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This is Paper

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Sayama Forest Chapel in Saitama, Japan by Japanese architect Hiroshi Nakamura has a “V” shape timber structure inspired in traditional Japanese structures called “Gassho-zukuri”.

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Speaker: Michele Berdinis

This session will answer business law questions that people are asking most during the pandemic. If my business can’t pay its bills, can my creditors come after my personal assets? Do I have to pay the rent on my co-working space or office? Can my clients cancel signed contracts? Can I cancel contracts for things I no longer need because my business has slowed down?

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