Canny
JULY 27, 2021
Designing your website can be a bit of a slog at times, but we’re here to make it that much easier with our ultimate list of web design tips. If you’ve been following the blog for a while, you’ll have probably came across our popular post The Ultimate list of Branding Tips , and this is a follow up to that. Once you’ve got your branding and visual identity locked down, you’ll definitely need somewhere to put it- your website!
Spoon Graphics
JULY 28, 2021
Brushes are a staple of any design resources library, they are important tools required for drawing, illustrating, and creating interesting effects. These fantastic bundles provide you with endless brush options for shading, lettering and texturing at a discounted price of 97-98%. No matter whether you’re a Photoshop, Affinity, or Procreate user, there’s a collection for you!
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I Love Typography
JULY 28, 2021
Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Among my favorite kinds of typefaces are those that don’t fit neatly into predefined or existing categories; those that dip their toes into more than one genre, or take their cues from disparate historical periods. These twilight zone hybrids aren’t always easy to pull off. Today, I’m featuring an in-between typeface that pulls it off […].
Creative Market
JULY 27, 2021
Let’s go back in time to 90s graphic design for an aesthetic inspired by Nirvana, Beverly Hills, 90210 , Britney Spears, and Saved by the Bell. This was a moment in time when the millennial generation was just starting out their young lives as children or teenagers. Baggy, comfortable, casual clothing was in, along with zany typography and vivid color palettes.
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
Canny
JULY 27, 2021
Designing your website can be a bit of a slog at times, but we’re here to make it that much easier with our ultimate list of web design tips. If you’ve been following the blog for a while, you’ll have probably came across our popular post The Ultimate list of Branding Tips , and this is a follow up to that. Once you’ve got your branding and visual identity locked down, you’ll definitely need somewhere to put it- your website!
Graphic Design Junction
JULY 28, 2021
Great product presentation solution for designers, content-makers, bloggers and photographers, both pro and amateur, to showcase their works (logos, branding, signs) in a professional, interesting and visual way. The adjustments are very smart, clean and easy to work with. Highest quality presentation mockups with smart object. You can make a presentation with your design very quickly and easily even with little or no experiences with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
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Creative Market
JULY 30, 2021
Instagram is an incredible resource for design and artistic inspiration. Handwriting is one particularly cool niche on Instagram, where tons of amazing artists showcase their beautiful handwritten creations or handmade lettering, which they’ve turned into typefaces. People who share their handwriting on Instagram sometimes just want to show off their ability to create beautiful letters.
Logo Smith
JULY 30, 2021
The post Why Freelancers Need Professional Indemnity Insurance – My Experience of With Jack appeared first on The Logo Smith All Content © 2020 The Logo Smith.™ |. Thought I’d share a relatively recent experience as a logo designer, that took a big toll on me. It would have been significantly worse had I not had Professional Indemnity Insurance.
Graphic Design Junction
JULY 29, 2021
Creative trendy examples of Web design that follow the 2021 trends. In this web design gallery we only selected best award winning websites for your inspiration. We hope that this article was able to help you understand some new web design trends 2021. Check out the beautiful designs of websites with amazing UI and UX. Award-winning websites created by professional web designers and web design agencies from all over the web.
UX Collective
JULY 28, 2021
Strategies to help find creative inner discipline, seek perfection, push beyond and demystify. When it comes to the idea of “performance” as it relates to graphic design and creativity there are many dimensions. Performance is not just about doing good work. It’s about the totality of what performance really means across creation, behavior, and dialogue; your skills, your aesthetic, your role, and your interactions with others.
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SpeckyBoy
JULY 30, 2021
Web Features That May Not Work As You’d Expect – A look at web elements that require a little more effort than meets the eye. How To Migrate From WordPress To A Headless CMS – This guide will help you migrate your website from WordPress to Storyblok Headless CMS. The performance effects of too much lazy-loading – Lazy loading can improve performance.
Creative Review
JULY 29, 2021
“I think the attraction of illustration is that telling different stories makes you grow and empathise with other realities,” says Barcelona-based illustrator Gastón Mendieta. With an interest in drawing from an early age, after art school Mendieta experimented for a while before he landed on illustration as a career. Since then, he’s been building a portfolio of monochromatic works that feel almost cinematic in their composition.
Graphic Design Junction
JULY 26, 2021
New fresh free fonts are looking elegant, classy, easy to read, stylish, easy to remember, and easy to use. These free fonts are the best choice for logo design, quotes, album covers, posters, business cards, and many other design projects. Fresh fonts are 100% free to download and used in commercial work. The fonts collection included handwritten brush fonts , script fonts and typefaces perfect for logotypes , badge, packaging, headline, poster, t-shirt/apparel , greeting card, and wedding in
HONGKIAT
JULY 29, 2021
(Guest writer: Marvin Espino). If there’s anything that could make a freelancer more marketable, it’s the power and allure of their website portfolios. And among freelancers, there’s none other than designers who feel the need to make their websites more visually appealing. Because what could be a better way to showcase a designer’s experience than to present their work through beautifully crafted websites?
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Vandelay Design
JULY 27, 2021
A great summer feels like sunshine on the back of your neck, sand between your toes, and waves crashing in the distance as you sit on the shoreline. These fonts will help you capture all those feelings in one design! Whether you’re designing a logo, website, or poster for an event at the beach, these […]. The post 45 Beach Fonts for Your Summer-Themed Designs appeared first on Vandelay Design.
Creative Review
JULY 26, 2021
Running to a hefty 800 pages, and filled with double-page spreads of giant letterforms, The Art of Letters aims to question and explore the relationship between art, function and form when it comes to type design. In the foreword, designer and Formist director Mark Gowing says the idea for the book came from discussion around what turns an “abstract form” into part of a wider language system, as well as “the relative absurdity of these timeless and ubiquitous forms” The A
Graphic Design Junction
JULY 25, 2021
If you are Procreate lover and you want to become a Procreate Pro Designers, illustrators and digital artists, you much check best tutorials that will provider’s a lot of help, step by step draw different illustrations and drawing that made it easy to learn and understand. I hope! these Procreate tutorials can enhance you’re drawing & illustration skills and improve the quality of your works.
HONGKIAT
JULY 28, 2021
As a web developer, there’s always something you can learn every day and grow. You can learn design principles, user experience, user interface design, and user behaviors through analytics data. Or, you can branch yourself into servers such as installing and running a server package yourself. In this round of the series, we’ve put together different resources from tools, podcasts, articles, and a lot more where you can learn multiple disciplines beyond just creating the website itsel
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Azure Magazine
JULY 30, 2021
The summer months mean one thing: more time spent outdoors. From parks to pools and beaches to boardwalks, residents of urban spaces near and far flock to such public amenities as temperatures rise and the days lengthen. To support this increase in use, these areas are often animated by a collection of temporary structures providing additional room to play, convene and connect.
Creative Review
JULY 26, 2021
Housed in London’s recently redeveloped Greenwich Peninsula, Now Gallery’s Young Artist programme works with upcoming artists to provide them with a new platform to showcase their work and create a unique vision for the gallery space. The gallery’s annual Young Artist commission celebrates the best rising talent in the fields of visual arts and illustration, with previous editions of the free display featuring the work of Pakistani visual artist and Instagram sensation Sara Sha
Graphic Design Junction
JULY 30, 2021
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UX Collective
JULY 26, 2021
Reflecting on BY ORDER : a study of the British ‘sink estate’ and what’s changing (or changed) in social housing. Written by Craig Berry Designer & Writer BY ORDER Ephemera Overview Five years ago, in January 2016, David Cameron, the then Prime Minister of the UK, vowed to “ blitz” up to 100 of the UK’s worst “sink estates”. Promising to tackle drug abuse, gang culture and the housing crisis across the UK by removing “brutal high-rise towers” and “bleak” housing, either through redeveloping
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.
Noupe
JULY 29, 2021
Graphic design is integral for enterprises that want to develop a viable online presence. From website design to social media posts and more, the power of good graphics is evident across the World Wide Web. So, unsurprisingly, graphic design is a highly sought-after skill. Interestingly, 71% of companies create ten times more design assets than they used to in order to support the different channels.
SpeckyBoy
JULY 29, 2021
The ability to work from virtually anywhere is one of the true benefits of being a web designer. It affords us the freedom to get out of the office and still remain productive. And it might even be a way to boost creativity. Some freelancers take advantage by hitting the road and setting up shop wherever they happen to be. Location doesn’t matter so much as making time to get things done.
Design Milk
JULY 29, 2021
The following post is brought to you by Genesis. Our partners are handpicked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design. Dripping, drizzling and oozing over, the vibrant sculptures of Dallas-based artist Dan Lam give the illusion that they’re organic materials in motion. In fact, however, they’re hard polyurethane foam imaginings covered in colorful acrylics and resins.
Vandelay Design
JULY 29, 2021
Despite having a bad rep in the world of marketing, stock photographs are a valuable asset that we cannot ignore. Whether it’s for a digital marketing campaign or display advertising, stock images are often utilized when custom photographs are not available or within reach. But in some web design circles, stock photographs are considered infamous […].
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.
Eye on Design
JULY 27, 2021
Name: NaN Jaune. Designer: Jérémy Landes. Foundry: NaN.xyz. Release Date: May 2021. Back Story: Back in 2016, NaN Jaune began as custom lettering for the musician Jaune (though he ended up not using it). Its inspiration comes from midcentury type design legend Roger Excoffon’s Antique Olive, released in 1962. Landes became fixated upon drawing a compact sans serif with the shortest possible ascenders and descenders, tight-as-you-can letter spacing, plus the charming warmth provided by incons
We And The Color
JULY 28, 2021
Branding agency Mucca teamed up with illustrator Jeffrey Fisher to create a unique brand experience for Cafe d’Avignon, the new retail spinoff from NYC culinary legend Pain d’Avignon. The old world becomes new in these designs for a culinary legend. Known for their work reshaping brands across fine dining, beauty, wellness, hospitality, and CPG, Mucca is an award-winning New York branding agency.
Spine Magazine
JULY 26, 2021
Micaela Alcaino is a graphic designer, currently living in London, UK, who spent the last decade working for both Penguin Random House UK and HarperCollins UK, before deciding to go freelance in 2018. Here she takes us through her process for designing Jordan Ifueko’s Raybearer and Redemptor. It was a privilege designing for both of Jordan Ifueko's debut books but I can’t talk about Redemptor (Hot Key Books, 2021) without talking about Raybearer (2020).
Creative Nerds
JULY 25, 2021
Its the last Monday of the month where we roundup the highlights from the past month from the online web and design community, by sharing with fresh new web and design articles published in the month of July. The roundup features a great compilation of photoshop and illustrator tutorials. There’s a range of tutorials from […]. The post Best of the web for Design and Web Development July 2021 first appeared on Creative Nerds.
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