Creative Bloq

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Plugins for adding analytics, pricing tables and more to your site

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

When motion standards (principles, timing, duration, and easing) align to your brand, they serve to bring tangible personality into micro-interaction and video. Picture of an analog clock transitioning hours and minutes. Credit: Djim Loic via Unsplash Motion + Brand ? Motion connects the digital to the real world.

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I Love Typography

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. In this second episode of our new monthly column, the legendary Steven Heller takes a closer look at one of his favorite fonts. Oposta , designed by Pedro Leal for DSType , with swashes aplenty, is an unabashed and oversized slab serif that seamlessly melds flamboyance and finesse. The post Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Oposta appeared first on I Love Typography.

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Spoon Graphics

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial I’m going to share some tips and techniques for creating vintage badge logos. This popular design style is based on the way brand identities were created in previous centuries, with hand-lettered layouts that clearly described the company, unlike modern logo designs of today that are condensed into a simple icon graphic.

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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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Canny

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Content marketing. Is this a strategy that your business is already using or are you still contemplating whether it’s worthwhile? This type of marketing involves creating, publishing, and distributing content to either engage, inspire, or educate your audience. It’s designed to trigger a response that encourages your ideal consumer to buy. In terms of what it can do for your business, the potential is huge.

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Creative Market

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Note-taking in 2021 is easier and more powerful than ever. There are plenty of feature-packed apps that give you some smart ways to make and keep track of your important and not-so-important notes, but which note-taking apps stand out above the rest and have those extra features that make them perfect for creatives to use? Let’s take a look at 10 beautifully designed note-taking apps that have some unique, visual note-taking features that are ideal for creatives.

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Spoon Graphics

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Access All Areas members have a wonderful new design resource product for Procreate to download this week, courtesy of Nicole from iPad Calligraphy. The Pencils and Paint Texture Kit for Procreate contains over 100 vibrant textures to bring colour and energy to your designs. Authentically sourced from real art materials, these textures will save you hours of changing colours for each stroke or searching for that perfect brush to achieve a realistic result.

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Logo Design Love

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Born on May 3rd, 1931, in Çorum, Turkey, Sait Maden started writing poetry at the age of 13 and began learning French and Ottoman at the age of 16. He learned Spanish to be able to translate Lorca from his mother tongue. From 1949–55 he studied at IDGSA Painting Department in Istanbul, graduating from Bedri Rahmi Eyübo?lu Workshop. As a side job between 1955 and 1960 Maden designed logos, billboard displays, theatre decors, and cinema posters.

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We And The Color

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Graphic designer Charline Groën created a beautiful brand identity for Andréa Peronne. Charline Groën is an art director and graphic designer based in Paris. She is passionate about typography and lettering. Charline loves to combine letters, graphics, and illustrations to create unique and colorful visuals. For Andréa Peronne, Charline Groën has created a unique brand identity.

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HONGKIAT

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There is lot happening this month in the tech industry; from Docker updating their business and plans , prominent WordPress businesses being acquired, Web3, NFT , as well as new resources and updates keep coming in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This is why we’ve put a few of these to keep you updated. First, we have some cool JavaScript libraries to create animations, a CLI tool to help you manage and deploy your WordPress site on DigitalOcean, there are also a couple of resources on CSS cate

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Why I joined Brilliant.org. Learning something new takes trial and error. You make a hypothesis, then you discover if you were right or if your thinking was off. Learning is a give-and-take process, and it can be messy?—?you’re muddling through something new and often challenging. To learn, you need space to explore freely, you need to experiment, you need to be free to make mistakes, and you need to enjoy the journey.

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Creative Market

OCTOBER 1, 2021

We recently asked designers in our community to share their favorite time-saving Photoshop tricks. These are the kinds of game-changing little tweaks that accelerate your workflow and you wish you knew about sooner. If Photoshop is home to you, read on and start saving time today. 1. Shortcuts. Designer Lu Amaral swears by keyboard shortcuts, saying they “are everything when you use Photoshop all day long, every day.” To define your own shortcuts, go to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts.

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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Today we are featuring remarkable graphic artist, art director and digital illustrator artist “ Samy Halim “ He was born in Algeria and trained at the Fine Arts School of Algiers. After school he moved to Bordeaux, France in 1994 and refined my graphic arts skills on digital tools such as Photoshop & Illustrator. He worked as graphic designer and art director in Paris based studios and agencies for 15 years, before starting his own studio in 2011, specializing in illustration , l

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We And The Color

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Use this amazing Photoshop mockup by Pixelbuddha to create cut-out text portrait effects in no time. Created by the skilled team of @Pixelbuddha , this amazing mockup allows you to produce decorative cut-out text effects on portraits and other photos in no time. Optimized for the size of 4500 x 3000 px, the mockup comes with five design options. All sample texts or photos are for display only and may not be included in the end-use.

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Being part of the design industry since 2011 (gosh, I feel old), I experienced many empty moments when my mind was too tired to start a new task, reading a book, or simply have a chat with someone. What I really needed was something casual to entertain me and refill my fun tank. During the years and exploring the internet, I collected all the websites offering games and fun experiences for UX and UI Designers: now it is time to share!

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SpyreStudios

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Frontend web developers have been paving a path for clearer standards. Over the years, web browsers have slowly been conditioning themselves to render web pages in this fashion. And after the release of an HTML5 standard, things began moving faster than ever. It’s no surprise that jQuery has taken a jump into the spotlight as the premier animations/effects library.

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Graphic Design Junction

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Round fonts with an elegant and smooth rounded edge style. Best rounded fonts for corporate branding, visual identity, t-shirt design, and business cards. Each font includes extended language support, ligatures and more. Perfectly suited for graphic design and any display use. It could easily work for web, signage, Software Interfaces, corporate as well as for editorial design.

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Eye on Design

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

After living through 18 months of an ongoing pandemic, our social and professional interactions have significantly changed since “The Before Times.” For many of us it’s been a period of isolation that has forced us to learn how to find social connection within virtual spaces or shift to remote work through distributed teams for the first time in our careers.

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

How to prototype, test and build a typeface that embraces uncertainty and human expression. Even before we started work on Culture Amp’s custom typeface, I was nervous about making a handwritten font. Disastrous images of a marginally improved Comic Sans or Chalkboard circled ominously. The graveyard of student projects that is DaFont haunted my dreams.

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Envato Tuts+

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Typography is one of the most important elements of graphic design. In this article, we'll take a look at typographic terms that will help you get started in the world of design. Typographic terms are innumerable, and some you might never have heard of before. Some of these terms can also be widely confused and misused. In this A to Z of Typography, I've gathered some terms that are essential for every designer to know.

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Graphic Design Junction

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

How to keep your resume clean and well-structured?? Only the best and professionally designed resume templates have a clean structure that will help you get your dream job. This is a list of modern resume templates, that full-fill your are requirements to present your complete bio-data , portfolio, education, skills, job experiences and much more. Resume designs have everything about your lifestyle, expertise, and thoughts about your future.

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Creative Bloq

OCTOBER 1, 2021

All you need to know about the pioneers of modern design.

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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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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

It’s ‘normal’ to be ‘disabled’ Almost by chance some weeks ago I noticed that there is an annual event here in Europe that is called Inclusion Week. This event takes place from 27th September to 3rd October and is designed to celebrate everyday inclusion in all its forms. This unexpected event inspired me to ask myself what inclusion means to me and more specifically what inclusive design means.

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We And The Color

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Architecture studio Prodesi Domesi designed a cottage inspired by a ship cabin. Covered with sun-burned larch boards, the small house offers a surprising amount of space inside. In every corner of the house, there are inconspicuous storage spaces and everything has its place like in a ship’s cabin. The interior space acts as a cozy retreat, while large panes of glass provide breathtaking views over the lake.

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Graphic Design Junction

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Professional Photoshop actions transforms your text, vector shape, pixel layer, smart object, layer group into amazing text style with a lot of text effect options to customise and improve. You can set your own colors in seconds! One click Photoshop actions. Highly detailed result, a lot of possibilities. Text effect actions checked on Photoshop ver.

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Design Week

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The identity for Greater Lyon’s new cycling system, Les Voies Lyonnaises, has been revealed with a logo that speaks to the “fluidity” of transport. The branding – which includes a logo, icons and signage – has been designed by Paris studio Spintank in partnership with industrial designers Yellow Window (based in Paris and Antwerp).

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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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SpeckyBoy

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Microcopy – A collection of click-to-copy short text for use on your website. Theatre.js – A GUI-based JavaScript animation library. Dot HQ – Concerned about online privacy? Give this new web browser a try. Motion One – This animation library promises “huge” performance while keeping a tiny file size. Navigating Harsh Judgements and Self-Worth in Web Design – Some advice for tuning out the darkest parts of the web design community.

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We And The Color

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Chinese graphic designer Han Gao created this modern and minimalist packaging design for Yours Truly. Han Gao is a Shanghai, China-based graphic design specializing in a wide range of branding and packaging projects for a great variety of clients. Just recently, the skilled designer came up with this modern and minimalist packaging design for Yours Truly.

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Lisa Maltby

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Photo by Dima Pechurin. Getting your foot into the creative industry has always been a challenge, but with the added difficulties of the pandemic this has left many feeling isolated and lacking support. It can also be hard to find exactly the right help, especially as creative work is so variable and there is no one set path to success (sigh!). Though times may feel a little uncertain, there is help available – you just have to know where to look.

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Creative Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Biodesign company Geltor creates animal-free ‘designer proteins’ for brands across various consumer packaged goods, including beauty, food and drink, and nutraceuticals (products derived from food considered to have physiological benefits). Among its developments is the world’s first vegan collagen – which typically comes from pigs – for the food and beverage market.

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