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10 Great WordPress Plugins for Designers

Creative Bloq

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

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Motion, Branding, and Interaction

UX Collective

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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Amazing Illustations Art By Samy Halim

Graphic Design Junction

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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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Oposta

I Love Typography

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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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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25 names every graphic designer should know

Creative Bloq

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

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DMTV Milkshake: Finding the Power in Pottery With Roberto Lugo

Design Milk

This week’s DMTV Milkshake guest is artist, ceramicist, social activist, poet and educator Roberto Lugo , coming to us from his studio in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. ? ? ? ? ? ?. Place is central to Lugo’s work, which fearlessly mixes classical references with contemporary activism – a pottery parallel to Kehinde Wiley’s defiantly genre-mixing portraiture.

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How to Create a Vintage Badge Logo in Adobe Illustrator

Spoon Graphics

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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How to use grid and guide tools in Photoshop

Creative Bloq

Using the grid and guide tools in Photoshop to paint a landscape illustration.

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F5: Interior Designer Tara Bernerd’s Passion Collections, a Favorite City + More

Design Milk

Photo: Raphael Faux Gstaad Photography. Tara Bernerd is founder Tara Bernerd & Partners , an interior architectural practice covering interior design and interior architecture, based in London’s Belgravia. Since establishing her practice in 2002, Tara and her expert team have specialized in creative direction and interior space planning for restaurants, bars, hotels, yachts and private developments throughout the world.

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27 Professional CV Resume Templates

Graphic Design Junction

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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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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Pencils and Paint Procreate Texture Kit for Access All Areas Members

Spoon Graphics

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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2022's design trends are here, but we're not convinced

Creative Bloq

Are branded memes actually graphic design?

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Designposts Pay Tribute to London’s Neighborhoods + American Red Oak

Design Milk

Designposts is a series of ten wooden sculptures introduced to the streets of the city during this year’s London Design Festival. A collaborative project between LDF, the American Hardwood Export Council. (AHEC) and three British furniture makers – Benchmark Furniture , Sebastian Cox and Jan Hendzel Studio – it paid tribute to the creative diversity of London’s neighborhoods.

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25 Best Text Effect Photoshop Actions

Graphic Design Junction

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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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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Ultimate list of Content Marketing Tips and Ideas

Canny

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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10 Beautifully Designed Notetaking Apps for Creatives

Creative Market

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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Empathic. Discovering a Glass Legacy Explores the Powers of Matter + Shape

Design Milk

Luca Nichetto , curator of the fourth exhibition at InGalleria, the Art Gallery of Punta Conterie a Murano in Venice, chose an adjective as part of the name for the show. Empathic. The ability to share a feeling with others, in this case through the powers of matter and shape. Through April 10, 2022, installations and limited edition pieces by Ini Archibong, Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, GamFratesi, Benjamin Hubert, Richard Hutten, Luca Nichetto, Elena Salmistraro and Marc Thorpe will be on display f

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Best Graphic Designers To Watch On YouTube To Get Inspired

Graphic Design Junction

The current state of informational technologies, including the development of social media platforms, has opened many opportunities for people to get the information they need. YouTube, for example, offers many educational and motivational videos that can encourage you to get a new profession, find reviews that allow you to buy the product you want of the best quality but at a low price, collect the information from YouTube subscribers; or go for channel of your own.

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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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Artist Spotlight: Jiayue Li

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Sait Maden

Logo Design Love

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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The Beep Beep Collection Exposes Its Black Outline for a Reason

Design Milk

Designer Federico Angi recently unveiled his latest collection titled Beep Beep for the SuperSuperfici – The Spirit of Memphis (Reloaded) exhibition. Curated by Giulio Iacchetti and Matteo Ragni and promoted by Abet Laminati , the exhibition celebrates the grand history of the Memphis movement and the legacy left behind by Ettore Sottsass. Beep Beep, which consists of a single product that can function as both a table and a stool, was designed based on the idea of using Abet laminates as a flexi

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Brand Identity by Charline Groën for Andréa Peronne

We And The Color

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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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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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (September 2021)

HONGKIAT

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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5 Time-Saving Tricks for Adobe Photoshop

Creative Market

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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The Rounds: Round Two on Kaaskoekjes Dutch Treats

Design Milk

Even though it may seem like life is somewhat back to normal, it’s not for small businesses. It’s going to take a lot to recover from this devastating blow. The big guys will weather this storm, it’s the small ones we need to give some extra love to. So in an effort to encourage our readers to shop small, shop independent, and keep the economy going… we wanted to highlight a Brooklyn business: The Rounds.

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The key to learning math and science online is interactive play

UX Collective

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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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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Weekly News for Designers ? 612

SpeckyBoy

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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Cut-Out Text Portrait Photo Effect Mockup for Adobe Photoshop

We And The Color

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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Lee Broom Reimagines London Flagship Showroom to Feature Latest Designs

Design Milk

Just in time for London Design Festival, British designer Lee Broom reimagined and expanded his Shoreditch showroom to launch two new collections. The new space takes on a residential feel, much like his recently transformed New York City apartment that doubles as a showroom. Previously more of a lighting showroom, it’s now a lifestyle interior that allows visitors to imagine the designs in their own spaces, or as an aspirational setup they can use to inspire their own redesigns.

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A list of games for bored (and curious) designers

UX Collective

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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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.