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How Simple, Classic Design Should Work

SpeckyBoy

Dough. Apples. Sugar. Spices. These are all the ingredients you need to make a classic apple pie. Some recipes will call for extra ingredients to make things extra fancy, but none of those ingredients are necessary to create the delicious, simple, comforting dessert we all know and love. Why am I talking about pie on a design website? Well, because I think that designers, of any kind, can learn a lot from bakers who skip over the fancy trimmings to give people what they want most – an unco

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Talking about type

I Love Typography

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. After more than 50 years, the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) chose to dump the Vox-ATypI font classification system. Why the breakup? And does it really matter? Is there anything to be gained by devising replacement systems? Do we need font classification at all? And what's a typographic dog? Read on to discover the answers to these questions and more!

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Brand Refresh or Full Rebrand? Should You Go Big or Go Home?

Canny

“Should we go for a brand refresh or full rebrand?”. Tell you what, while you decide that, I’ll go for a full face palm a la Captain Picard meme. Rebranding a company is no easy task, but I’m sure you know that already. Still, this question lingers, and lingers, and lingers. free ebook. The Rebranding Brief Template. get for free. “Are we just refreshing it?

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16+ Clean Minimalist Resume Templates

Graphic Design Junction

Simple and minimal resume templates and minimal cv/resumes 100% print ready designs for the job seeker who wants to leave an unforgettable impression. Professionally designed, easy-to-edit resume templates clean and elegant resume design are fully editable and easy to customize and edit the typography, wording, colors and layout. Resume templates are perfect for female teachers, photographers, designers, developers and any kind of job with easy to customize in Microsoft Word.

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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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Showcase of Designs and Illustrations of Witches & Witchcraft

Spoon Graphics

I recently did a search for witch themed graphics for a little project I’m working on and discovered there’s an entire sub-genre of art styles dedicated to witches and witchcraft. Become bewitched by this inspirational showcase of wicked designs and illustrations with a witchy aesthetic. You’ll find a variety of creative pieces in a myriad of art styles, ranging from cartoon character illustrations to digitally painted pinups, along with an assortment of mystic and magic relate

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The best (and worst) web design trends of 2021 so far

Creative Bloq

We look at this year's trends.

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21 Best Modern Fonts For Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

New highest quality modern fonts with unique typefaces that will make your design looks hi-tech and modern. You can use these fonts for any purpose, especially to make logotype and t-shirt design. All fonts are modern, classy serif typeface. These fonts pairs well with modern san serifs, script and handwritten fonts or stand strongly on its own as a heading or editorial font.

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“The road not taken” by Photographer Arnaud Montagard

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17 standout design portfolios to inspire you

Creative Bloq

The best design portfolios come in all shapes and sizes.

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A Los Angeles Home Gets a Dramatic Scandinavian-Inspired Transformation

Design Milk

The before images speak for themselves (see the end). What was once a decrepit, old home built in the 1940s gets a complete gut renovation and transformation by design duo Cynthia and Dino Corella, the homeowners of the new Scandinavian-inspired bungalow. Located in the Baldwin Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, the modern home skews towards a Scandinavian aesthetic with its clean lines and natural material palette.

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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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Business Card Mockups (25+ Design)

Graphic Design Junction

Realistic Photoshop Business card mockups to present your business card design professionally. High resolution professional Business Card Mockup Templates with fully layered with the smart-object feature to help you replace the current designs with your own within seconds. These mockups has multiple angles and variations, so that you can present your designs the best possible way.

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Brand Audit: How to Carry Out a Brand Audit (Updated June 2021)

Canny

Carrying out a Brand Audit is key before your company engage in any sort of rebranding project. When you’re building a new website, you need to understand exactly how you’re currently performing. The same applies for a Brand Audit. free ebook. The Rebranding Brief Template. get for free. It’s especially important to know what’s working and what’s not before making rash and sometimes costly decisions.

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How to get an animation job

Creative Bloq

Struggling to land an animation job? Netflix art director Drew Hartel has some helpful advice.

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The Bowlus Returns as the Ultimate Road Trip and Live/Work Trailer

Design Milk

With an aerodynamic carapace, the Bowlus first captivated the public in 1934 as a futuristic example of form in harmony with function, promising early automobile travelers a way to experience America’s highways from the comforts of their own accommodations – the first aluminum riveted travel trailer that in time would inspire other streamline trailers like the iconic Airstream (more about its history here ).

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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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30+ Realistic Book Cove Mockups

Graphic Design Junction

Present your book design on Photoshop mockups for realistic preview. These photorealistic book cove mockups help you to show your label designs or to sell your products in an easy and professional way. High quality Notebook and Book mockups are suitable to showcase your design with the fresh looking mockups. Just place your design inside the smart-object and save the changes for a flawless result.

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Luca Di Bartolomeo Illustrations

We And The Color

Let’s take a look at the creative work of Luca Di Bartolomeo, a skilled illustrator from Italy. Luca Di Bartolomeo is a 24 years old illustrator from Italy. He grew up in Abruzzo and at the age of 16, he had a huge chance to be an exchange student in the United States. After finishing high school, he attended the European Institute of Design in Rome, graduating in 2019 in Illustration and Animation.

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The 13 best Photoshop alternatives

Creative Bloq

These Photoshop alternatives are worth discovering.

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F5: What Industrial Designer Shujan Bertrand Dreams About

Design Milk

Based in San Francisco, industrial designer Shujan Bertrand uses the art of origami to create products through zero waste design and manufacturing. Through her culinary design company, Aplat , she hopes to grow awareness for responsible design, as well as create new partnerships with sustainable companies and organizations who care about people and the planet.

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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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Website Design: 32 Modern Websites with Amazing UI/UX

Graphic Design Junction

Check out the Award winning websites for inspiration. These website designs shows the talent and effort of the best developers, designers and web agencies in the web design industry. If you are a web designer or website developer and you are looking for creative website designed, you might want to look into the 2021 web design trends and also in this article we are gathered thirty two modern websites with amazing UI/UX design.

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Congrats on finishing the Google UX course! Here is what’s next for you.

UX Collective

Since Google launched its User Experience Design course on Coursera , we at the UX Collective have seen an exciting influx of recently graduated students who are looking to learn more about our field. Most students are coming in through our group on Linkedin , and they are generally looking to network with other designers and get a bit more guidance when it comes to the next steps in their careers.

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56 free Photoshop actions

Creative Bloq

These awesome free Photoshop actions will save you hours of design time.

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Visit the Inside~Out in the Garden Outdoor Design Show

Design Milk

If nothing else, the past year plus has given us all a newfound appreciation of the outdoors. Inside~Out in the Garden is a newly opened outdoor design show that’s part of NYCxDesign’s Design Days curated by Kin & Company. The show explores the role of outdoor design in human interaction in the post-pandemic world through the works of 22 American designers.

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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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10 Stunning Examples of Text Distortion Effects in Web Design

SpeckyBoy

We all love typography. And when type is set in motion, we love it even more! When used properly, text distortion effects (or, the “ glitch ” effect) can greatly enhance the typography of a web design, especially when used for drawing attention to a particular headline , tagline, or regular block of text. Remember, though, that being highly selective with its use is key to the success of the distortion, as users don’t typically like overly obtrusive effects.

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40+ Tools to Build Premium-looking Website

HONGKIAT

Below, we handpicked 40+ super tools that will help you create and run a premium website in 2021. These tools are covering all the aspects you need for your website, i.e., website creation, logo, invoicing, fonts and icons, optimizations and development. You will find complete info about these solutions and in plus we included a super development team that will help you big time if you have complicated and hard projects.

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Documenting the almighty button

UX Collective

How do we look back in our field? Browsing through several collections available on Harvard Art Museum’s website triggered an interesting thought in my mind. We’re getting better, as humans, at documenting and exposing artwork in all types of formats. One can find out about art in libraries, interactive museums, exhibitions, and even in mundane places as bus stops or airports.

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Meet NOMADE: A Design Milk x hollis+morris Light Inspired by Vintage Petrol Lamps

Design Milk

At Design Milk, we’ve always championed emerging talent, sustainable and ethical production, and innovative design. Today we’re excited to announce a new collaboration with hollis+morris , a Toronto-based furniture + lighting design brand that we’ve admired for years, and Antoine Rouzeau , a category winner in our 2020 LAMP International Lighting Design Competition.

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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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Color Symbolism | How to Use Colors in Your Designs

Design Wizard

Being aware of the power of color symbolism is crucial for designers and businesses. . There have been countless studies on the impact of colors as they influence our moods and emotions. Different colors conjure up various feelings. Know the meanings or psychology behind colors and you can predict what your audience should feel when looking at your design. .

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25 Beautifully Designed Examples of Brand Presentation

SpeckyBoy

Branding is a vital and integral part of any business. In fact, even before trying out your products and services, branding is what helps people recognize and identify your business. No matter how big or small your business or venture is, your marketing strategy will not be successful unless you pay proper attention to branding. “Branding” the term itself does not just mean the logo, it also includes various components like posters, banners, advertisements, envelopes, business cards,

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This Experimental Publisher Is Rethinking How Design Books Get Made

Eye on Design

The idea of crowdfunding books on design is no longer a new concept. Since its inception in 2009, Kickstarter has hosted approximately 3,700 campaigns centered around art books, with an estimated 500 specifically about design. One of the more well-known examples is from 2015 when two graphic designers raised nearly $1 million ($941,966, to be exact, against a now-modest $158,000 goal) in just 34 days for a reissue of NASA Graphics Standard Manual , a spiral-bound guide to the government agency’s

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DMTV Milkshake: Lisa Hunt on Sharing Beauty, and History, in Collage

Design Milk

This week’s DMTV Milkshake guest is visual artist Lisa Hunt. Lisa Hunt makes hugely dramatic works-on-paper – a product of her spectacular use of 24k gold leaf and her ultra-dynamic patterns and shapes. While her screen-printed works have long taken inspiration from the textiles world, this past year she channeled a new and specific source: the famed quilts of the Gee’s Bend community in rural Alabama.

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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.