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UX and UI Logo Trends

Graphic Design Junction

With the advent of online and mobile working culture, UX/UI trends have experienced a significant transformation over the years. Yet 2021 is just no exception. As a UX/UI professional , it is vital to keep updated about these continuously shifting trends and follow and recreate good UX design examples. The COVID-19 issue has transformed how consumers engage with products and services and intensified towards a digital-first strategy.

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How Aesthetics Matter in Sustainable Design According to Skagerak

Design Milk

At this year’s 3 Days of Design festival, Skagerak unveiled the Pelago outdoor collection, the most extensive collection it has ever launched. Designed in collaboration with multi-disciplinary studio Note Design Studio , Pelago is a series of elegant dining and lounge furniture designed to transcend time and place through its materiality. The restrained combination of solid teak, powder-coated aluminum, and Sling fabric allows the strong designs to speak for themselves when they are placed in d

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Applying Marie Kondo’s (KonMari) decluttering method to design processes

Noupe

Doing a quick Google search on ‘UX design methods’ will yield hundreds of hits. If you’ve just mastered your design resume , and are new to UX design, or in a rush, wading through all that info is guaranteed to give you a headache. How about this instead—before adding something, ask yourself “ will it spark joy? ”. Invented by Netflix star Marie Kondo, the KonMari method of decluttering is a full-on embrace of minimalism.

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The Best Fonts For Creating Vintage Logos and Designs

Spoon Graphics

The key to creating authentic looking vintage artwork–whether it’s logos, packaging, or T-shirt designs–is selecting the perfect font combinations that represent the lettering style from previous centuries. The typeface featured in this collection aren’t just individual fonts, they are collections of several font styles that perfectly complement each other.

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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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27 Best Free Script Fonts OF 2021

Graphic Design Junction

Best of 2021, Free Script Fonts for Graphic Designers are here. A lovely script fonts will work perfectly for fashion, e-commerce brands, trend blogs, wedding boutiques or any business that wants to appear upscale and chic. This is the best fee script fonts collection of 2021 and perfect for 2022. Great list of casual script fonts and regular script fonts for graphic designers.

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Subscribe to ImagineFX magazine and get 3 issues for just $3/£3!

Creative Bloq

You'll never be short of inspiration or digital art advice with an ImagineFX subscription.

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10 Creators Share the Most Important Career Lesson They Have Learned

Creative Market

What is something you wish you had learned earlier in your career? There’s a point in every creator’s journey where learnings become crystal clear. You’ve been around long enough to recognize pitfalls, red flags, and the seemingly small decisions that will make a project successful. Emphasis on seemingly small. When it comes to leading a successful creative career, details matter.

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Free iPhone 13 Pro Mockup PSD

Graphic Design Junction

Apple has launched its newest iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max with powerful features 5G speed, A15 Bionic world’s fastest smartphone chip, with All-new 5?core GPU and the best battery life ever on iPhone. After lunching everyone looking for iPhone 13 Pro Mockups and one of our designer crafted beautiful iPhone 13 Pro Mockup free for personal and commercial use.

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Portrait photography: How to capture perfect portraits

Creative Bloq

Portrait photography tips from an award-winning snapper.

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AXOR Icons: Lasting Faucet Designs for All Expressions

Design Milk

The following post is brought to you by AXOR. Our partners are hand-picked by the Design Milk team because they represent the best in design. We speak about design icons with reverence and awe for their talents and creations. But how does that shift when it comes to functional products of the same caliber? AXOR has been conceiving and manufacturing luxury objects for bathrooms and kitchens, and collaborating with world-renowned iconic designers since 1993.

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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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5A Format Brand Design by Jaros?aw Dziubek

We And The Color

Polish designer Jaros?aw Dziubek created a unique brand identity for agency 5A Format. Jaros?aw Dziubek is a Polish graphic designer specializing in a wide array of projects ranging from branding to packaging. For agency 5A Format, he produced a stunning brand identity based on simple graphic shapes and unique typography. Below you can see a few images of the successful result.

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Meet Anuja Shukla, Shillington Graduate and Creative Strategist at Twitter

Shillington

After a degree in Business Administration and Marketing, Shillington New York graduate Anuja Shukla harnessed the power of empathy spurned through travel and employment abroad to shape a meaningful career in graphic design. Anuja forages for vintage goods, advocates for diversifying the outdoor adventure scene—all while building her photography portfolio!

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The Challenge of Designing Websites for Large Screens

SpeckyBoy

Mobile devices have taken over the web. Thus, so much designer attention has (rightly) gone towards ensuring that the websites we build are compatible. We are constantly refining how we implement responsive features so that they work flawlessly on small screens. While this is a worthwhile endeavor, there are other screens to think about. Large viewports are also a pretty important consideration.

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Wilkinson & Rivera Is Creating Classic Furniture With Extra Charm

Design Milk

Founded by the emerging British-American design duo of Grant Wilkinson and Teresa Rivera, Wilkinson & Rivera specialize in reimagined handmade wood furniture with a twist. Their contemporary signature collection takes classical forms that have become iconic and reworks them to include even more personality. Grant is the lead woodworker, while Teresa is a hound for inspiration, but all phases of design and production are spent in collaboration with one another.

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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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Graphic Design Portfolio Template for Adobe InDesign

We And The Color

Available for free download with an Adobe Stock trial subscription, this graphic design portfolio template is fully customizable in Adobe InDesign. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @GrkiCreative , this A4 graphic design portfolio template comes with 24 fully customizable pages. The cover design is characterized by simple geometric shapes in various colors.

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How Designing and Writing Are More Alike Than You Think

Eye on Design

A couple weeks ago, we hosted a workshop at the AIGA Design Conference called Design Writing 101: How Writing Is a Lot More Like Designing Than You Think. When we started planning for the event, we had lots of ideas around what that statement meant. At their core, both writing and design are about storytelling — they are about forming ideas and giving ideas form, though those forms often take very different shapes.

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Want UX Inspiration? Look To Classic Video Games

SpeckyBoy

Web designers are always looking for inspiration. Something that will jumpstart our creativity and lead us to reach new heights. Quite often, we find what we’re looking for by studying other websites. And there’s certainly nothing wrong with that. Design communities such as Awwwards and Behance offer plenty of worthy examples. The very best of these websites is something we can learn from and aspire to.

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The TT-90 System Turntable Will Drive You up the Wall

Design Milk

While turntables like the Pro-Ject VT-E offers a striking silhouette for enjoying favorite songs etched into vinyl, vertical turntables are still an uncommon sight for sound within the still growing turntable category. That’s because engineering for stability and vibration reduction in a vertical configuration introduces a greater level of complications than any traditional turntable may have to consider.

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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: Space Age Design

Creative Market

The Space Age kicked off in 1957 with the launch of Sputnik (the world’s first satellite) by the Soviet Union. This led to what is referred to as the ‘space race,’ where the US faced up against the Soviets to see who could create the better space-flight technology and ultimately to see who could be the first to send a person to the moon. Politics aside, this age of competition around space travel ultimately led to many great technological advances for both sides.

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Striking poster campaign introduces Coca-Cola Real Magic tagline

Creative Review

Described as the ‘hug’ logo, the new wraparound appearance of the identity was inspired by its positioning on packaging including cans and bottles. The new campaign was created by Wieden + Kennedy London with KnownUnknown, a global network of independent talent, brought in by Coke to craft the visual look, including all photography, animations and illustrations.

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Manager by day, Designer by night

UX Collective

Let’s find out together how the product design discipline has evolved and how managing design is more of a coaching and mentoring exercise. Figure 01: Image of Day /Night It’s late at night. Staring at the latest piece of the design system in Figma, I start seeing the pattern that I have not recognised before. I got it; this is it! It will save my team and me a significant amount of time.

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NYCxDESIGN Presents “An Ode to NYC”: A City-Wide Poster Exhibition

Design Milk

In an incredible and extensive effort to pay homage to the strength, creativity and resilience of New York, NYCxDESIGN is presenting the second edition of An Ode to NYC , a city-wide exhibition supported by a host of showrooms, cultural institutions and innovative design businesses to showcase the poster designs created by a talented group of 16 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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Five Lesser-Known Works from Push Pin’s Archives

Eye on Design

There’s little doubt you’ve heard of Push Pin Studio — the legendary collective of designers whose collective work revolutionized the field of commercial illustration. But there’s more to Push Pin than its most famous contributors like Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast. In a new exhibition at Poster House called The Push Pin Legacy , Poster House’s chief curator, Angelina Lippert, explores how the studio’s eclectic style helped to define the counterculture aesthetic

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Weekly News for Designers ? 613

SpeckyBoy

Xplorer – This cross-platform file explorer software works via web technologies. Changing Hands: Should You Worry When a WordPress Plugin Has a New Owner? – Why a change in ownership can be a reason for cautious optimism. Flowrift – Check out this library made of beautifully designed Tailwind CSS UI blocks. Using Modern Image Formats: AVIF And WebP – A compression and performance comparison of old-school and modern image formats.

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What Is Swiss Design and Why You Should Know Its History

Envato Tuts+

For some designers, the Swiss Style design is synonymous with Helvetica—which means "Swiss" in its original language. It's one of the main characteristics of the style, but to really understand Swiss Design, we must look to the precedent of the movement. What is Swiss Style? In this article, we'll take a look at how the Swiss Style graphic design developed.

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Crate & Barrel Drops New Leanne Ford Collection Inspired by Move to the Country

Design Milk

Crate & Barrel just launched a brand-new collection by interior designer and TV favorite Leanne Ford. After renovating a house in Los Angeles, the pandemic hit and Ford decided to move back east with her husband and child to a country house just outside of Pittsburgh. The new laid-back setting inspired her to design a new fall collection of furniture, decor and tabletop designs, while reimagining some of her best-selling favorites from previous Crate & Barrel collaborations.

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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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Oliver Jeffers’ latest book is a twist on the classic ghost story

Creative Review

All images: There’s a Ghost in this House, Oliver Jeffers. Published by HarperCollins Having sold over 14 million copies of his books worldwide, illustrator and author Oliver Jeffers has become celebrated for his imaginative takes on the humble children’s picture book. For his latest adventure, Jeffers has released his most creative title yet with the spookily well-timed, There’s a Ghost in this House.

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How A Logo, Designed 17 Years Ago, Is Having A Second Life

Graphic Design USA

A logo designed by Alessandro/Weber Design 17 years ago for a minor league hockey team is having a second life as a pop icon logo due to a Netflix released documentary and a hockey jersey worn by Drake.

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Illustrations & Packaging Design by Abraham Lule

We And The Color

Take a look at the creative work of Mexican illustrator Abraham Lule. Represented by agency Closer&Closer , Abraham Lule is a Mexican illustrator with amazing skills in the fields of typography and packaging design. His creative work always offers a truly hand-crafted flair. Over the past years, he has worked with clients such as Facebook, Capitol Records, Jose Cuervo, and Diageo.

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The Afternoon Tea Furniture Collection Is Bohinc Studio’s Most Ambitious Yet

Design Milk

At this year’s London Design Festival, Bohinc Studio debuted their Afternoon Tea furniture collection by mixing modern and traditional in a townhome turned showroom. Designed by Lara Bohinc and composed of nine pieces, it’s the studio’s largest, most ambitious collection to date. Playful and feminine, the hallmarks of this series are the spheres and circles used throughout with only a straight line or angle here and there.

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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.