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Ultimate List of Web Design Tips

Canny

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!

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Rosa Sawyers’ calming animations are safe spaces to get lost in

Its Nice That

Having picked up animation during the pandemic, Rosa found the practice offered her a chance to experiment after graduation.

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20+ Creative Brochure Templates Design

Graphic Design Junction

Creative, clean and modern Corporate Brochure Templates ready to use for any business, designing agency, graphic designer, corporate annual reports or portfolio. Clean visual structure and professional typography. These brochure templates can save your time and money in creating a professional corporate informant. All brochure templates are fully editable, easy to change photos, print ready (CMYK/3mm Bleeds/300 dpi).

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Photoshop, Affinity, or Procreate? Take Your Pick of These Three Discounted Brush Bundles!

Spoon Graphics

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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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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Sculptor Dan Lam Blends the Outside World into Her Genesis G70 Art Car

Design Milk

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.

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Fonts in the Twilight Zone

I Love Typography

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 […].

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How vintage graphics inspired Vivo - Netflix's stunning new animated musical

Creative Bloq

Coming soon to Netflix!

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Oliver Vitry’s Rainbow Lighting Is a Reflection on Philosophy + Perspective

Design Milk

Inspired by the stained glass windows in a church he began visiting after the start of the pandemic, designer Oliver Vitry, architect and associate director at CLAISSE ARCHITECTURES , created his Rainbow Lighting project as a physical representation of his perspective on life at that time. A rainbow is experienced by observing how sunlight is refracted through suspended drops of water and can be perceived differently depending on how we look at it.

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An Interview with Ulrike Rausch

I Love Typography

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Ulrike Rausch is an author and award-winning type designer based in Berlin. She’s also the designer of one of my all-time favorite handwriting typefaces, the beautiful and authentic, LiebeHeide. The post An Interview with Ulrike Rausch appeared first on I Love Typography.

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Free Mockups: 40+ Fresh Presentation Mockup Templates

Graphic Design Junction

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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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 best animation software in 2021

Creative Bloq

The best animation software for beginners, hobbyists and professionals.

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F5: Architect Rudabeh Pakravan Shares Her Love of White Paper Models + More

Design Milk

Photo: Taghi Naderzad. Rudabeh Pakravan is an architect, educator and a founding partner of the architecture firm Sidell Pakravan Architects. She’s interested in how architecture shapes everyday experience, how people and buildings affect each other and how architecture is a physical exploration of space and a practice of social engagement. Designing with bold and straightforward forms, Rudabeh’s firm strives to make spaces that create opportunities for interaction, reflection and delight,

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90s Graphic Design: A Trip Back in Time to Millennial Land

Creative Market

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.

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16 Fresh Free Fonts For Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

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

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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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17 digital artists you need to know about

Creative Bloq

These astonishing digital artists will inspire you.

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5 New Jigsaw Puzzles for Summertime Fun

Design Milk

Are the temps walking-on-the-sun hot where you are or still trying to keep yourself and your family entertained this summer? Whatever the reason, indoor activities are always needed, especially in the form of jigsaw puzzles. To keep your summer fun up and your family busy, check out these new modern jigsaw puzzles that just landed in the Design Milk Shop !

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The Ultimate List of Web Design Tips and Ideas

Canny

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!

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Procreate Tutorials: 27 Best Tutorials To Learn Drawing Illustrations

Graphic Design Junction

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.

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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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36 incredible famous buildings to inspire you

Creative Bloq

Take a tour of the world's most famous buildings.

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Take Note: Our New Design Milk Stationery Collection Has Arrived!

Design Milk

We’ve been having an absolute blast celebrating Design Milk’s 15th anniversary with you this summer! Traveling down memory lane and revisiting some of our best adventures and highlights has been really rewarding, but the fun is nowhere near over. Ready for the news? We’ve created an exciting limited edition collection of products in collaboration with some of our favorite manufacturers!!!

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“The Imaginary Birds” by Photographer Yota Yoshida

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8 Easy Ways to Improve Your Web Architecture

Graphic Design Junction

If you’re looking at your website and wondering why people aren’t visiting it or clicking on your ads, it might be time to take a step back and assess the information architecture of your website. One of the most important aspects of a website is its architecture. The focus of this article is on eight easy ways to improve how your website looks and feels to visitors.

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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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Best laptop for animation 2021

Creative Bloq

Looking for the best laptops for animation? We have you covered.

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Jean-Michel Othoniel: Wild Rosebuds Is a Garden of Glass

Design Milk

Legendary French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel is presenting two series of work at Perrotin Gallery in New York this month. Showcasing colorful mirrored glass sculptures and gritty paintings on gold leaf, Wild Rosebuds is a must see. Installation view of Jean-Michel Othoniel: Wild Rosebuds at Perrotin New York, 2021. Kiku – Ayameiro (Iris color) 2020.

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10 Creatives with Amazing Handwriting to Follow on Instagram

Creative Market

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.

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Best Web-Design Tools and Websites for Students

Graphic Design Junction

There are thousands of different career options for students, but one of the most popular and fastest-growing is in web design. By mastering technical coding and design skills , students can develop their creativity by making aesthetically pleasing and functional websites. While still in their freshman year of college, students can begin honing their graphic design skills.

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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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Transform your 2D characters and VFX into stunning animated videos

Creative Bloq

Cartoon Animator 4 makes it easy to combine your 2D animations and effects with shot footage, for amazing results.

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Are we really that different?: An Exhibition You Can Eat

Design Milk

Chef Bob and I have always prided ourselves in rooting Pinch Food Design in Chelsea, the heart of New York’s art gallery scene. We find the neighborhood inspiring and ever changing. Walking by the gallery windows day after day inevitably influences our work…and we love that. Recently we stumbled upon an installation presented by Gagosian as part of Social Works , a group exhibition curated by the newly appointed director/curator Antwaun Sargent, whose focus is on the relationship between art, de

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Photographer Spotlight: Boe Marion

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15 Font Pairings and How to Use Them in Your Designs

Design Wizard

Explore our font pairings and find out about best practices that you can apply to your designs. Get inspired to experiment with various combinations and discover pairings that work well for your projects. Finding two complementary fonts that can be your go-to fonts for heading and body copy for branded designs can be tricky. When it comes to branding a strategically chosen pairing helps you with consistency and ensures visual hierarchy and readability.

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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.