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The true cost of a redesign

UX Collective

I have spent a vast portion of my UX design career working agency-side. That gives one an opportunity to learn about many different business models, organisational cultures and approaches to change management. I work mostly with start-ups and scale-ups, who rely on digital products in their businesses. That makes them exposed to the ever-changing demands of a global market and global trends.

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7 Apple designs that were way ahead of their time

Creative Bloq

The most innovative, forward-thinking designs from the Cupertino giant.

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Amazing Digital Art Illustrations By Zack Anderson

Graphic Design Junction

Today we are featuring Creative Art Director and Digital Illustration Designer Zack Anderson , with his amazing science fiction, video games, cartoons, illustration artwork. He is from Boca Raton, FL, USA. He is an average dude with a passion for science fiction, video games, cartoons, illustration, mid-century design, and a penchant for writing in the third person.

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Video Tutorial: Vivid Neon Chrome Text Effect in Photoshop

Spoon Graphics

In today’s Photoshop tutorial I’m going to take you through the process of creating a vivid 80s style neon chrome text effect. This ultra rad style uses the most intense RGB colours available to create the brightest, most fluorescent effect possible that smoothly transitions through a variety of hues. We’ll use Photoshop layer styles to create the foundation of the effect, then add the vibrant colours with a combination of gradient tools.

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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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F5: Architect Eddie Maestri’s Dream Car + His Favorite Role

Design Milk

Eddie Maestri , AIA, started designing homes in Dallas in 2004 before officially founding Maestri Studio in 2008. A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, he’s a registered architect in Texas and Oklahoma. Certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), Eddie holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design, as well as a Master of Architecture, from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, with a certificate in Health Systems & Design.

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How to get a career in graphic design: 13 pro tips

Creative Bloq

Expert advice to help you forge a design career.

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“Snow Desert” by Photographer Mikhail Lebedev

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DM 15th Anniversary: Tanya Aguiñiga Spills the Milk

Design Milk

Happy birthday to us! Our 15th anniversary celebration is underway! Stay tuned for more special 15th anniversary content and fun surprises as our celebration continues! The second designer we’re spotlighting for Design Milk’s 15th Anniversary is Tanya Aguiñiga , a triple threat artist, designer and craftsperson whose work we’ve been covering since 2010. “I actually started as a community activist,” Tanya reminisced, “focusing on migrant rights and border iss

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These are the best website designs of 2021 so far

Creative Bloq

Find inspiration in these forward-thinking designs.

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40+ Creative Logo Design Inspiration #93

Graphic Design Junction

Beautifully designed logo design and logo concepts for your inspiration. Here is the collection of Logos from Dribble’s best logo designers. This is the 89th roundup of logos, featuring unique modern design logo templates created by professional graphic designers. In this Business Logo Design collection you can feel how important is sketching and story-boarding.

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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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Branding Packages Suck! Here’s Why (Updated June 2021)

Canny

We often get asked what our branding packages look like, and how much they cost. But, we don’t offer branding packages at Canny. We never have, and we never will. Choosing your branding agency based on what is essentially a “branding menu” is a horrendous way to choose who you want to work on one of the most crucial elements of your business with. Whether it’s a branding package, a brand identity package, a logo design package, or website package, design packages as a rule, tend to suck.

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The Village Depicts Home Through Miniature Stone Sculptures

Design Milk

“Over the past year, we have all had to come to terms with the space we call home, living in it with an intensity like never before. We have looked around our home with fresh eyes, thinking how we would like to change it. And we realized that our home is a haven and as such, it has to reflect who we are and how we live. During this period, there was an incredible sense of global solidarity that united us around the world.

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The 14 best colour tools for web designers in 2021

Creative Bloq

The top tools to help you create the ideal colour palette.

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21+ Simple Clean Resume Templates and Cover Letter Designs

Graphic Design Junction

Simple, clean resume templates and simple cv/resumes , professional print ready design to make an impression. Simplest designed, easy-to-edit and customize resume templates, clean and elegant resume designs are fully 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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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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14 Creative Poster Ideas | Design Tips & Templates

Design Wizard

Browse our creative poster ideas to find inspiration, design tips, and downloadable templates. Learn how to redesign our editable templates in Design Wizard and create stunning posters. . A poster campaign can be a powerful way to create brand awareness and advertise new products or services. They’re used for event promotion and in the film industry.

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10 Smoking Good Designs for a Relaxing Good Time

Design Milk

Today’s modern smokewares have come a long way since those early head shop years when smoking paraphernalia sold behind the counter steered toward the whimsical and sometimes downright strange. These days it’s not uncommon to discover the talents behind all variety of contemporary pipes, accessories, and merchandise are the same designers or artists responsible for your favorite homewares or furnishings – aesthetic objects worthy of leaving out in the open.

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Autumn watercolours: How to capture fall

Creative Bloq

Learn to create a stunning autumn watercolours environment illustration.

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30+ Best Logo Mockups

Graphic Design Junction

? Premium quality logo mockups. Perfect for represent your artwork, logo design or branding project. Best logo mockups are available in Photoshop PSD mockups with hi-res 2300×1600 pixels with smart objects included to easy replace sample image with your logo. Presentation never looked so perfect. Impress your client with stunning presentation shot with photo-realistic effect logo mockups designed from a real photograph for 100% authentic effect.

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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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Moodboard Series: Bright Beach Life

Creative Market

With the peak of summer arriving and a year and a half of lockdowns behind us, the thought of escaping to a beautiful beach, kicking back with a cold drink, and taking in some sun is something that many of us have been anticipating for longer than we would have hoped. The coast has always had a special place in the hearts of many many people around the world, and while actually visiting a beach this year still might not be a possibility for everyone, we wanted to explore and celebrate some beaut

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The Swissotel Kursaal Bern Offers Modern Hospitality Derived From Its Alpine Heritage

Design Milk

This month, the Swissotel Kursaal in Bern, Switzerland opened its doors to welcome its first guests. An immaculately designed hotel project by award-winning Austrian interior and product designer, Nina Mair, the Kursaal offers a contemporary kind of comfort that’s derived from its alpine heritage, one that champions sustainable design, warm hospitality and a connection to nature.

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11 top animation tools for digital artists

Creative Bloq

Bring your 2D designs to life with these amazing tools.

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4th of July Creative Flyer Templates

Graphic Design Junction

4th of July Flyer Templates for Photoshop & Illustrator. Fully editable and customizable 4th July flyers. Perfect to promote your party with creative flyers design. There are 20+ Independence Day Flyer Templates very modern psd flyers that will give the perfect promotion / invitation for your upcoming 4th of July event and party ! All elements are in separate layers and all text is editable!

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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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WebP Images: A Primer

SpeckyBoy

When it comes to increasing performance, web designers leave no stone unturned. After all, every kilobyte we can shave off of a page’s load time will make for a better user experience. Images are an area of primary concern. Even basic optimization techniques can mean better performance. But with the advent of Google’s Core Web Vitals , designers are scrambling to squeeze out every bit of overhead while trying to maintain quality.

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Take 5: A Battle of Creativity, Futuristic Flowers + More

Design Milk

Every other week we’re inviting one of the Design Milk team to share five personal favorites – an opportunity for each of us to reveal the sort of designs we use and appreciate in our own lives from a more personal perspective. Lifestyle Editor Vy Yang returns this week for our Take 5 series…. 1. I love discovering new accounts on Instagram, especially ones that are full of inspiration or even just fun to see in my feed.

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Become a rockstar Youtuber with animated story-telling

Creative Bloq

Make the tools you know and love work for you, in conjunction with Cartoon Animator 4.

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3 Important Roles For Graphic Designers In Any Business

Graphic Design Junction

Graphic design is an overlooked skill in many big businesses. Any graphic designer worth their salt knows just how catastrophic poorly designed imagery can be for a company’s status. But that does not mean we know what roles are available within a regular business. If you have not found roles that suit you in job postings, or would rather work as a freelancer, you need to know how to sell yourself.

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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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Rebranding Case Studies Spotlight: 17 of the Best Rebrands

Canny

Rebranding is 50% risk and 50% opportunity. When a company gets their rebranding right, it can boost their image for the better, raising brand awareness and increasing sales. Rebranding can provide a great space for a company to reinvent themselves and to revisit the direction the company is going in. free ebook. The Rebranding Brief Template. get for free.

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BRCJ Designs Creates Unique Home Decor That Stands Out

Design Milk

BRCJ Designs uses unique thought and design to create works that straddle the line of following the rules and breaking them. Based in Los Angeles, the design firm uses the term broadly, dipping into architecture, interiors, home decor and more. Founded by Benjamin R. C. Jones, BRCJ Designs combines a contemporary approach with traditional practices.

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Six Great Book Covers and the Stories Behind Them

Eye on Design

A book cover has a challenging job. Not only must it represent the depth of knowledge between its pages, but it must also stand on its own as a form of storytelling. Though a book is certainly more than its cover, the best covers can draw readers in with images and text alone. They can pique interest, hint at what’s to come, and communicate, at a glance, whether a book is worth picking up.

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DIY Hacks to Make Your House Automated

Graphic Design Junction

Have you always been dreaming about an automated home? Until recently, automation was pretty expensive, and the majority of people simply couldn`t afford it. What about nowadays though? Now, you can either purchase any automated item you might need or you can even build one, with the needed actuators. We have collected for you some hacks and ideas to create a perfect home for you.

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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.