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Revealed! The three most impactful web design trends of 2022 so far

Creative Boom

The web is a constant source of inspiration with past and future influences forever clashing with modern culture to bring us a constant-evolving digital landscape. To keep up with what's happening out there, we share three impactful web design trends from Editor X's latest report that are changing everything for designers right now. And there are four more trends to discover, too.

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Best Graphic Design Software: What The Professionals Use

Inkbot Design

Best Graphic Design Software: What The Professionals Use. The graphic design software industry is changing as designers go mobile and create content for all platforms. And with that shift comes a shift in the workflow—but what tools are best suited for every type of designer? You've probably heard about the power of graphic design—and for a good reason.

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6 unmissable Photoshop hacks to save you time

Creative Bloq

Plus: a fruity bonus.

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The State of Branding Florida: Florida Flags and Florida Brands

Canny

Our branding-focused tour of America continues, only this time we’re turning our attention to the countless Florida brands that make this state so, so special. The state might have a tough job matching up to the various Texas branding examples covered in the previous ‘State of Branding’ post, but we have faith that the Sunshine State will deliver. If this is your first time reading one of our ‘State of’ blog posts – first of all, welcome – secondly, there are a few things you should really know

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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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Jeffery C. Becton on liminal spaces, creating emotional connections, and the power of ambiguity

Creative Boom

© Jeffery C. Becton. Fine art photographer Jeffery C. Becton has enthralled audiences for decades with his digital montages that explore the ambiguities of his mediums and subject matter. Based in Maine, he is currently exhibiting in London for the first time alongside conceptual artist and photographer Andrea Hamilton at AH Studios. Running until 31 August 2022, Between Two Worlds is an evocative showcase of two photographic artists who have a strong connection to the poetics of coastal spaces.

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An Image from the Inside — Posters by Democràcia Estudi

We And The Color

When imagination emerges as an alternative to fiction and images that govern us. Created in 2021 by Democràcia Estudi for Cielo Drive, ‘An Image from the Inside’ plays the idea of reality. The posters function as metamessages because each main poster includes another wrinkled poster. Below you can see a few images representing three pieces.

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RD Scudellari: Iconic Book Jacket Designer In Golden Age Of Books

Graphic Design USA

Graphic designer Bob Scudellari died on June 3, 2022. He was best known for bold, typographic book jackets during a 26-year tenure as Vice President and Corporate Art Director at Random House.

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Six ways artists can set up a successful stall at an art fair

Creative Boom

Glasgow Print Fair. Photography by Peter Byrne. As more of us get back to live events, in-person markets are returning as another brilliant place to meet people and showcase and sell your work. If you're participating in art fairs for the first time or just feel a bit rusty, we've put together a guide on how to set up a stall with the help of Glasgow Print Fair and some of the printmakers it works with.

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Erre. Brand Design by Anatoliy Terentyev

We And The Color

Anatoliy Terentyev created a sophisticated brand identity for Erre, a design studio specializing in modern furniture and interiors. Anatoliy Terentyev is an experienced graphic designer with a strong focus on brand design and communication. His aim is to create a conscious design that makes a product or brand clearer and closer. The skilled designer was recently commissioned to work on a sophisticated brand identity and visual communication for Erre, a design studio specializing in modern furnit

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15+ Best Procreate Brushes For Pro Designers

Graphic Design Junction

The Procreate is best for drawing, illustration and painting and realistic artwork. The best Procreate brushes are the main ingredient of this amazing app. You don’t need to customize anything, everything is already set. Just open the file in your Procreate app and start illustration, drawing and painting. You don’t need hundreds of brushes, their brushes are just awesome and will help you to make realistic illustrations and paintings.

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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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The 7 Most Popular Websites for Every Need & How To Create Them

Inkbot Design

The 7 Most Popular Websites for Every Need & How To Create Them. Creating or redesigning a website for your business poses many questions, and the first is probably – what type of website do you need? To determine this, you must ask yourself and your business partners what purpose the website will serve. Who will use it? And how will it assist your business?

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Whether she's sad, happy, excited or mad, Katrina Romulo uses design to express her emotions

Creative Boom

100 Days of Branding, an ongoing side project © Katrina Romulo. Katrina Romulo didn't always know she'd become a designer. Born in the Philippines, she's been based around the Bay Area for the past 18 years; here, she studied at university and attended a student-run class called Intro to Illustrator and Photoshop. Sparking inspiration, Katrina went to UC Berkeley and majored in Sustainable Environment Design.

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Supa Mega Fantastic Font Duo by Nicky Laatz

We And The Color

Let’s take a closer look at Supa Mega Fantastic, a lovely hand-lettered font duo that works pretty well with quirky illustrations and graphics. Created in 2021 by Nicky Laatz, the Supa Mega Fantastic font duo! consists of a playful monoline script and a chunky all caps sans serif font. Both styles are characterized by an authentic hand-lettered sign-painter style.

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Soft Services by Decade

BP&O

Skin is the human body’s largest organ while skincare is the fastest growing segment of the beauty industry. Yet with all their promises of ‘dewy’, ‘glowing’ and ‘blemish free’, most products on the market, are focused on the face. Soft Services creates skincare products for specific body skin problems, such as acne, ingrown hairs, stretch marks and fungal issues.

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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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Business Cards worth their weight in gold

Moo

There’s nothing quite like a bit of Gold (or Silver ) Foil to brighten up your Business Cards. While it’s crucial for them to contain key information, they don’t have to have that ‘businessy’ feel about them. Network with confidence and add that ‘wow’ moment by adding a sleek and shiny finish. And while you consider just how to brighten up your cards, we’ve selected a couple of gold-medal winners from our MOO community to inspire you.

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Clever forms meet function in the graphic design work of Sumangla Bishnoi

Creative Boom

Sumangla Bishnoi. For Sumangla Bishnoi , one particular moment in her past made her realise that graphic design was for her. Just 14 at the time, Sumangla – born in a historical Indian town named Meerut – received the creativity award at school for the fourth year running. "That was the first time I envisioned what it would be like to pursue creativity for the rest of my life," she explains.

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Learn to Create Animations for Social Media with After Effects

We And The Color

Take this online course by Yimbo Escárrega and start creating stunning animations for Social Media using After Effects. Yimbo Escárrega is a renowned graphic artist and motion designer. In this online course, he will show you how to create stunning animations for social media in no time. In 24 lessons, you will discover an effective workflow that will allow you to create animations easily and quickly with both video and 2D graphics.

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Understanding Web Design – What is Gestalt Law of Continuity?

Template Monster

Recently we initiated a series of posts covering the theme of theoretical application of Gestalt psychology in web design. We’ve already described four principles: Symmetry , Similarity , Proximity and Common Fate. This article is dedicated to the Law of Continuity , the fifth principle of Gestalt classification. The Gestalt Continuity Law explains how our brain experiences visual line of elements that are grouped together.

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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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UI evolution: from laptops to virtual reality headsets

UX Collective

Mockup of a person using viewing UI floating while using AR glasses In this article we’ll learn a bit of the history of UI, how it was born and how it has become what it is today. Then we’ll learn a little about how UI has been adapted to other digital products such as smart watches. Finally, we’ll take a look at the state of UI in VR today and how it is evolving in terms of technology and Design Systems.

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Pentagram finds a joyful new spin on yoga branding for Love Supreme Projects

Creative Boom

The world's largest design consultancy has collaborated with yoga studio Love Supreme Projects to create an identity that finds a new spin on the familiar practice. Made up of bold colours and inky splotches, the brand turns the concepts of yoga into a visual language in a way that contrasts stereotypical aesthetics. What do you think of when you think of yoga?

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Risograph Double-Exposure Print Effect Photoshop Mockup

We And The Color

Download this stunning PSD mockup of risograph double-exposure print effects. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @Marcel , using this amazing Photoshop mockup, you can create eye-catching double-exposure print effects. The Photoshop mockup consists of three design options. It is optimized for a high resolution of 3000 x 3000 px. All sample texts are for display only and may not be included in the end-use.

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Long Exposure Photography: Neutral Density Filters

Richard Bernabe

Neutral density filters may not exactly be an essential accessory, but they will allow you longer exposures and help you to get shots you could never have captured otherwise. The post Long Exposure Photography: Neutral Density Filters appeared first on Richard Bernabe.

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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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Zeph: An Eames-Inspired Office Chair From Herman Miller and Studio 7.5

Design Milk

There may be no more of an iconic and accessible designer chair than the once common Eames Shell Chair. Countless of these one-piece shell designs accommodated students in classrooms, served as extra seating in offices, and offered patients a place to sit in waiting rooms across the nation since its 1950’s introduction – a design extraordinary in its prevalence and its adaptive nature.

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Hattie Clark on how recent difficult times have helped her build confidence as a freelance illustrator

Creative Boom

Hattie Clark. Energetic, bold and colourful with a dash of playful style is how Hattie Clark would describe her inspiring work. The Leeds-based illustrator has just launched a new website, marking a fresh chapter in freelancing and a renewed confidence in herself. We chatted with Hattie to find out more. Hattie Clark prefers to opt for handmade methods when it comes to creating her art, mainly using ink and brushes and dreaming up "inky type, wobbly people and playful animals," as she puts it.

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Minimalist Movie Posters by Bruno Carvalho

We And The Color

Check out this amazing selection of minimalist posters based on movies and TV shows. Bruno Carvalho, aka bruno illustra, is a Brazilian designer, illustrator, and creative leader at B.I.R.D Marketing Makers. He has more than six years of experience in the design industry. In his free time, he loves to create minimalist posters of his favorite movies and TV shows.

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Maybe we don’t have to (re)brand everything

UX Collective

and end up being clones of each other. The prevalence of “corporate” (self) branding has created a market of digital mockups. Designers are now quickly envisioning brand guidelines by superimposing corporate design materials onto premade product shots. In continuing this series of Creative Monologue , I’ll be talking about how we designers and businesses brand or rebrand ourselves, and the related pitfalls we should avoid.

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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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Where there is more livestock than people in the United States

FlowingData

The United States Department of Agriculture provides annual inventory data on livestock, crops, and various products. The tool is very ad hoc government-looking, but it seems to work well enough. Erin Davis made some fun maps that use the data at the county level to compare livestock populations to people populations. Davis compared animals individually, but the multivariate one that compares cows, chickens, and pigs is my favorite.

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Grime photographer Simon Wheatley on how to capture street scenes in just 24 hours

Creative Boom

© Simon Wheatley. Best known for chronicling the grime scene, London photographer Simon Wheatley recently spent 24 hours shooting across the capital. He walks us through what happened and shares some key lessons he learned about street photography along the way. Each year, Photography News puts on a unique photography challenge that takes place in London.

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Minimalist Mid-Century Artworks with Abstract Geometric Shapes for Printing

We And The Color

Available for download on Adobe Stock, with this editable and printable collection of minimalist mid-century-inspired artworks, you can visually upgrade your home. Adobe Stock contributor @anya specializes in a range of artsy stuff such as those minimalist mid-century-inspired artworks with abstract geometric shapes. The collection includes a great variety of different artworks that can be downloaded and printed.

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Brand Voice: What It Is & Why It Matters

Inkbot Design

Brand Voice: What It Is & Why It Matters. Every brand has its own voice and unique way of communicating with the world. But if you can't figure out how to express that voice to your audience, you risk being ignored or, worse, confused. As a marketer, you must be able to craft a message that is so powerful that it speaks directly to your potential customers.

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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.