UX Collective
OCTOBER 11, 2021
Nielsen’s law from 2000 stands as the first law of online UX. We should now acknowledge a second equally impactful truth about users. Photo by James Sutton on Unsplash Tool soup is a term I first heard when designing for developer experience. The phrase describes an extensive and disparate toolset relied on to get a range of work done. It also implies a sense of struggle and competing priorities.
Canny
OCTOBER 12, 2021
There’s an abundance of branding agencies out there – all claiming to do the same thing. It can be a bit of a headache when trying to decide which agency is right you. It’s important that you choose a branding agency that understands you, and understands what you’re trying to achieve. Download now. The Branding Brief Template. The Branding Brief Template.
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Eye on Design
OCTOBER 11, 2021
One fine morning, a king and a queen arrive for a tour of Dalhousie—a quaint Himalayan hill town located in the Chamba region in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The royal couple’s charioteer, locally known as the saarthi, doubles as their tour guide and takes them through the narrow winding roads of the town. Each turn opens to breathtaking Deodar-dotted valleys as the snow-capped peaks glisten in the distance.
Spoon Graphics
OCTOBER 11, 2021
It’s the Design Cuts birthday event this week, and to celebrate they’re running a spectacular discount on all their top design resource products. Over 230 of the greatest fonts, brushes, illustrations, mockups, patterns, and toolkits are half-price for a limited time. This is a fantastic opportunity to effectively build your own bundle of all the specific items you want, fill your cart with as many incredible resources as you can while the offer lasts!
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
I Love Typography
OCTOBER 14, 2021
Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Calligrapher, designer, educator, and artist, Seb Lester has attracted a huge and devoted following — both for his talent and wit. On Instagram, a million followers get to see Seb at work, penning everything from famous logos to exquisite copperplate and formal gothic scripts. Undoubtedly, part of his broad appeal is a combination of his […].
We And The Color
OCTOBER 13, 2021
UK-based graphic design studio Lundqvist & Dallyn created a beautiful brand identity for Julia Johnson. Julia Johnson is a Los Angeles-based photographer and creative director. Her work is characterized by distinctive aesthetics along with vibrant colors. Studio Lundqvist & Dallyn was asked to work on a unique visual identity including a new website and branding materials.
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Spoon Graphics
OCTOBER 13, 2021
In today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial I’m going to share some useful techniques for creating a vintage style engraved text effect just like the illustrations you see on paper money or banknotes. By applying transformations and effects using Illustrator’s Appearance panel we can preserve the live text, rather than have to first outline the text into shapes, which means it can’t then be edited.
Creative Review
OCTOBER 12, 2021
New York-based photographer Rochelle Brock describes her work as “all over the place but not in a bad way” With an interest in fashion, editorial, beauty, documentary and fine art photography, Brock has encapsulated elements from all of these approaches to create a style that is bold and inviting. “ My style is inspired by my environment, the people I’m surrounded by, and heavily influenced by all the things I kind of wanted to create but never thought that I could becaus
SpeckyBoy
OCTOBER 13, 2021
If you are working on a new website, service, or app, you should consider getting a jump start on your marketing campaigns by having a presence online that you can show to potential users or buyers, so that when you do launch, you can hit the ground running. Coming soon pages are the first step in that process. You certainly aren’t showing the finished product – but it’s enough to start building up a social media following, gauge product interest, or even to get users to register for
We And The Color
OCTOBER 13, 2021
Create highly professional marketing plans with this easy-to-use Adobe InDesign template. Designed by Adobe Stock contributor @PixWork , this marketing plan template consists of 20 individual pages. Based on a uniform style, the pages include customizable text sections and infographics. You can use this template to create marketing plan presentations for both screen and print media.
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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.
Envato Tuts+
OCTOBER 15, 2021
If you're a big fan of 1960s design and are always looking for opportunities to incorporate its aesthetic into your own projects, then you're in luck. . Today, we're highlighting 1960s graphic design and showcasing some terrific resources from Envato Elements and GraphicRiver that you can use to give your projects that wonderful retro 60s look. Major Design Influences of the 1960s.
Smashing Magazine Graphics
OCTOBER 14, 2021
Smart CSS Solutions For Common UI Challenges. Smart CSS Solutions For Common UI Challenges. Cosima Mielke. 2021-10-14T12:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-14T16:11:06+00:00. It’s incredible to see what we can do with CSS today, especially if you still remember how difficult it once was to figure out stacking contexts or why margins collapsed and why top: float didn’t work.
SpeckyBoy
OCTOBER 13, 2021
When you’re just getting started with your business, you might not have a lot of information for a full-featured, multi-page business website. If that’s the case, a one-page WordPress theme is exactly what you need. A one-page website will make it easy to share important information about your business and even provide your visitors with a better experience as they won’t have to click through multiple pages.
We And The Color
OCTOBER 9, 2021
Available for download on Adobe Stock, this minimalist flyer template is fully customizable in Adobe InDesign. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @GrkiCreative in the standard size of A4, this minimalist flyer template is based on a modern look. It consists of four individual pages that share a uniform layout. Every single detail is fully customizable.
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Envato Tuts+
OCTOBER 14, 2021
Looking for some inspiration for a new project? The 1950s are a great period to draw from. If you like vintage graphic design, get this 50s retro design pack of Illustrator brushes from Envato Elements. Today, we'll take a look at the major design influences of the era and share some terrific 1950s graphic design resources from Envato Elements that you can use to incorporate a bit of the 50s retro design aesthetic into any project.
UX Collective
OCTOBER 15, 2021
(Illustration by Francesca Valentini , yours truly) One of the biggest truths is that good design is not only about applying best practices or following a good thinking framework. Good design comes most of the time from a great understanding of your users, which are, in the end, human beings. Here’s a selection of 10 of the best podcasts of 2021 I found compelling and capable of completing my knowledge of humanity and how our brains work.
Graphic Design Junction
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Logo or what we often encounter with the term symbol, is a visual identity that we often encounter in various situations. Visual images that describe many of these things are closely related to branding and marketing activities of a company, which are usually used as markers of business quality and a means to build consumer impressions of the company.
Creative Review
OCTOBER 13, 2021
One of the biggest benefits of NFTs is the financial freedom they provide to artists. Take a scroll through ‘NFT Twitter’ and you’ll see a myriad of posts celebrating the ability to earn a living from art that hadn’t existed pre-NFTs entering the mainstream. It may sound like the market has provided a silver bullet to the longtime issue of artists being fairly compensated for their work, and in a way it has.
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We And The Color
OCTOBER 11, 2021
Fire Dances, a series of personal illustrations by Paulius Petrauskas. Paulius Petrauskas is a graphic designer and illustrator who lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania. Last winter, he has created this series of personal illustrations as an exercise in making more dynamic compositions. Enjoy the following images. For those who want to see more of Paulius Petrauskas’ creative work, please take a look at his portfolio on Behance or follow this outstanding designer and illustrator on Instag
Creative Market
OCTOBER 14, 2021
You may need to pinch yourself to see if you’re dreaming of this avant-garde styled trend. Its mysterious nature leaves space for all our imaginations to soar. Surreal Dreams is all about blurry gradients, duotone textures, and glitchy photo effects that take our dream world into reality. It’s contrasting between our fantasy world of both playful dreamscapes and spooky, horror themes.
Vandelay Design
OCTOBER 12, 2021
When you spend a lot of time in front of your monitor, like web designers do, it's nice to have wallpaper that will provide some inspiration. Since many people use two screens in their workspace we decided to put together this collection of dual monitor wallpapers. Each has a large resolution that is intended to display well on dual screen setups. If you see something that you would like to download, please click on the image and you will be led to the source.
Eye on Design
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Name: Nautila. Designer: Daytona Mess. Foundry: Type Department. Release Date: September 2021. Back Story: French type designer Daytona Mess (Anne-Dauphine to the tax man) started working on the font that was to become Nautila in spring 2019, with two projects in mind: one was her own take on a record cover for Cardi B’s track “ Bodak Yellow;” the other was to use in a zine she designed called Pussy.
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.
SpyreStudios
OCTOBER 13, 2021
The season’s web design theme would not be complete without spooky Halloween typography. Typography is a trendy way to use text and fonts to convey creativity. Some designers use witty lines to create a dramatic effect, while others simply use fonts to create an aesthetic. In doing Halloween-themed designs, designers could do both. Primarily, the point of using spooky Halloween typography is to grab the readers’ attention.
Creative Review
OCTOBER 14, 2021
“I remember anime and comics were my main creative source. I used to make my own comics and remember being torn apart by my mom because studying was the only priority a teenager should have had,” Taiwanese illustrator An Chen says. “It wasn’t until it was time to select my university major that I started to think about my career path.
Graphic Design Junction
OCTOBER 15, 2021
The Procreate brushes ultimate collection for Procreate illustration and drawing. These Procreate brushes are very smooth and textured, very easy to use and best for painting and draw sketches. You don’t need to customize anything, everything is already done. Just open the file in your Procreate app and start illustration, drawing and painting. You don’t need hundreds of brushes there brushes are amazing and will help you to make realistic illustrations and paintings.
HONGKIAT
OCTOBER 11, 2021
Coding for a newsletter or email design manually is not an easy task. To simplify this process, there are now many free open source email templates that you can download, then modify or edit to your heart’s content. So this post features some of the best sites to get email templates all for free. Some can be built on top of a provided basic template while others have ready-made frameworks and components which you can piece together.
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.
SpeckyBoy
OCTOBER 12, 2021
There are a massive number of products and tools aimed at the web design industry. And it seems like something new arrives every day. They may vary widely in scope, but most have one thing in common: the promise of making our job easier. Whether they’re writing superb code, promising can’t-fail functionality, or adding killer special effects, these solutions aim to do the dirty work for us.
Creative Review
OCTOBER 14, 2021
Denmark-based music duo Moon Panda have released their new song Vacationer, complete with an animated music video by London-based animator Simona Mehandzhieva. With the demonic characters and intensely saturated world, the animation sits somewhere in the same universe as Polly Nor and Adventure Time, with a dialled up use of striking graphics throughout.
Graphic Design Junction
OCTOBER 13, 2021
Today we again featuring a digital illustration artist Denis Gonchar , with his amazing digital art collection. Denis is a passionate Digital Artist from Ukraine. He worked on vectors, paintings and illustrations with a unique style. He create beautiful illustrations, blur the lines between digital and hand-drawn techniques. He have 15 years of experience in the digital art and entertainment industry.
Envato Tuts+
OCTOBER 12, 2021
What You'll Be Creating. Explore another letter of the alphabet with this article on the letter J in different fonts. Let's take a look at some creative ways to make graphics with a single letter. In this article, we'll spark some creativity by designing the letter J in different fonts and text effects from Envato Elements. As designers, it's difficult to get out of our comfort zones, so in this article I'm aiming to show you the many options and styles there are to step out of the box. .
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