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Top 20 Best Graphic Design Blogs for Creative Inspiration in 2022

We And The Color

Check out our hand-picked selection of the very best graphic design blogs for your daily dose of creative inspiration in 2022! We wish you all a particularly creative year 2022. To stay motivated and inspired, we are happy to show you our selection of the twenty best graphic design blogs. The handpicked selection of well-curated graphic design blogs will help you to stay up to date with today’s design trends.

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From Mad magazine to B-Movies: An Oral History of Beastie Boys’ Artwork

Eye on Design

In the latest of our Under the Covers series looking at records and their design, we celebrated the weird, wild world of Liars’ designs. Here, we track down some of those behind Beastie Boys’ record sleeves, spanning two decades. During the ’80s and ’90s, Beastie Boys were unrivalled when it came to their visual identity, which was cool, surreal, artistic, and hilarious all at the same time.

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5 Top Tips to Realistically Animating MetaHumans

Creative Bloq

Reallusion contest winners reveal secrets to animating facial lip syncs with iClone.

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The Month in Type: Nov. 2021

I Love Typography

Read the book, Typographic Firsts. Jony Ive’s name will forever be associated with Apple and the iPhone. But what’s he been up to since leaving Apple? Would you believe this is the work of Ives? A beautiful departure: Type designer Craig Ward applies his typographic talents to LEGO: Grab some paper, scissors, and glue, and you’re ready to go! Thanks to Spacetype.

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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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Zinebi Film Festival Campaign Design by Arce Studio

We And The Color

The Non-Places Flags. “A “non-place” is a term coined by the anthropologist Marc Augé to describe those places of transience that are not important enough to be considered as ‘places’ such as a hotel room, an airport, or a supermarket. The person does not live there and does not appropriate those spaces, with which there is rather a consumer relationship.

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Collection of 40+ Useful Web Tools and Services

HONGKIAT

In this day and age, time is of the essence. This is especially true for the design and development industry as they have to deal with multiple projects mostly with stringent deadlines. So for these folks, it is imperative to have a repository of tools and resources at hand that enables them to save time and help them in their career. This post gives you a comprehensive list of useful web tools and services that can help in adding a lot to your productivity.

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Thirty hypotheses on interface aesthetics

UX Collective

Describing the aesthetic phenomenon?—?the appearance of a sensory or intellectual attraction in the experience?—?of user interfaces and proposing hypothetical explanations. The consequences of the care given to aesthetics in interface design are well known: halo effect (Nikolov), aesthetic-usability effect (Kurosu and Kashimura), positive affect and its influence on cognition (Ashby and Isen), etc.

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Merchant Coffee Roasters Branding by Ryan Romanes Studio

We And The Color

Ryan Romanes Studio created a unique brand and packaging system for Merchant Coffee Roasters. Merchant Coffee Roasters offers premium roasts for hospitality venues and coffee connoisseurs. The family-owned business approached Ryan Romanes Studio to revitalize their branding and packaging as the company expanded into the Melbourne market. Using traditional design elements that resonated with existing buyers along with a cosmopolitan edge that would appeal to inner-city cafes, the studio created a

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What Is the Difference Between Cursive, Script, Italic, and Oblique?

Creative Market

Angled letterforms can be powerful devices to emphasize text. Carefully used, they can create a sense of movement and draw the eye to specific ideas. But how do you go about searching for the perfect typeface to add that subtle tilt? Precision is key. Knowing what the style you’re after is called will help you sort through the vast amount of typefaces available.

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Fresh Resources for Web Designers and Developers (November 2021)

HONGKIAT

One thing that I love with Web development industry is that we, as developers keep innovating to make the web better. This is why we’ve always found new exciting tools and resources to feature on our list. In this round of the series, we have a tool to create nice realistic shadows using CSS3 , several new frameworks and libraries for React.js , and PHP.

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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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21 New Fresh Free Fonts for Graphic Designers

Graphic Design Junction

Newest and futuristic fonts free download for commercial and personal use. There are twenty one fresh free fonts designed with powerful OpenType features in mind. Fonts are perfect for big heading, bold typography, branding projects, Logo design, Clothing Branding, product packaging, magazine headers, or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image.

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Define the default: good design is about impact and responsibility

UX Collective

Reckoning with our responsibility not just to our clients but to everyone and to the planet. What is “good” design and who decides what it looks like? Perhaps the issue is in the wording of the question itself; “looks like”—is what makes a design good based only on its appearance? The answer is obviously that aesthetics alone do not determine the quality of a design.

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Best of the web for Design and Web Development November 2021

Creative Nerds

Welcome back to another edition of our monthly roundup post where rounding up the best design tutorials and web development articles published through out the month the November. These posts are always a great one stop shop for catching up on the month. The post includes a range of tutorials for photoshop and illustrator from […]. The post Best of the web for Design and Web Development November 2021 first appeared on Creative Nerds.

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Create Professionally-looking YouTube Videos With These Free Tools

HONGKIAT

YouTube is a content creator’s heaven. It is one of the biggest and most popular platforms to showcase your creativity and even earn from it. But for those who have never dealt with video content creation before, it may look too technical and frankly somewhat intimidating. But trust me, it really isn’t. If you’ve been having that creative itch for making videos for YouTube , you should know that there are so many free apps and resources with which you can create professional lo

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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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Download a Photography Portfolio InDesign Template with 25 Pages

We And The Color

This portfolio template is perfect for photographers and all kinds of high-quality imagery. Created by Adobe Stock contributor @GrkiCreative , this A4 InDesign portfolio template is equipped with 25 fully editable pages. It’s the perfect choice to showcase stunning photography projects and all kinds of high-quality imagery including art and design.

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Top 20 Fonts That Will Be Popular with Designers in 2022

Shillington

It’s that time of year again! As the new year approaches, it’s become somewhat of a tradition for us to look back at our students’ work, plus that of the design community in general, to highlight the fonts that are currently in vogue and likely to be big in the coming year. We’ve delved into the biggest Shillington projects, from our six physical campuses and our global body of online students, to predict the typefaces that will matter most in 2022.

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Bees use social distancing

FlowingData

Research by M. Pusceddu et al. shows that honeybees use social distancing when a parasite is introduced to the hive. In a parasite-free hive, activities are spread throughout the hive, whereas clusters form when parasites are detected. The Economist illustrated the difference with a grids of dot densities. Tags: bees , Economist , social distancing.

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Morteza Niknahad’s photo series combines myth and mental health

Creative Review

All photos from The Big Fish by Morteza Niknahad In his photography practice, Iranian visual artist Morteza Niknahad often comes back to themes affecting humanity and says he has always been drawn to “lonely, distant and suffering personalities”, a reflection, he believes, of his “inner self” His photo series The Big Fish, which won at this year’s Wellcome Photography Prize , is by far the most personal work he has created, focusing on his mother and her experiences

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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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Modern Villa by Portuguese Architect Maria Fradinho of FRARI Atelier

We And The Color

Discover an architecture project where the pool enters the house where fun and connectivity to the outside is part of the living experience. This modern villa, which is located in the vicinity of the city of Aveiro, is part of a residential area with a low occupancy rate. The proposed building is an inhomogeneous piece made up of different volumes that form a single body.

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LEGO Rolls Out a Collection of Wooden Home Accessories

Design Milk

Step back in time to your childhood with the help of LEGO Group’s first ever collection of wooden home accessories. Created in partnership with Room Copenhagen , they’ve been designed to elevate your home interior space with a range of picture frames, wall hangers, book racks, and desk drawers. Each piece is manufactured from FSC-certified Red Oak, and available in a soap oak and dark stained oak finish.

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Stop thinking about flows, start thinking about objects

UX Collective

Why an object-oriented UX approach helps build scalable and consistent systems Task-based user flows are the golden standard of UX design. First, you examine the user’s goal. Next, you identify the tasks required to achieve them. Finally, you put those tasks into a logical sequence, et voila, a user-based flow. This approach is one of the main staples of UX design.

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Marie Lenclos finds beauty in the “unloved and unseen” architecture of southeast London with her serene cityscape paintings

Its Nice That

Parisian artist, Marie Lenclos, discusses the methods and inspiration behind her recent work which explores the urban landscape surrounding her studio in southeast London.

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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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Photoshop 2022 review

Creative Bloq

Photoshop is perfect for photography and design work, catering to artists as well as image editors.

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Design Shenzhen’s Inaugural Show Will Bring Visionary Solutions to Future Living

Design Milk

Next week from December 9-12, 2021, Design Shenzhen will open the doors to its first ever show following the success of Design Shanghai. The new trade show will celebrate the thriving, creative spirit of the city of Shenzhen, already recognized as the city of the future. Over 150 industry-leading brands and installations will be participating in the inaugural show which has been set up in a way to clearly showcase the highlights of the event.

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Best of 2021: Our Top 10 Interiors of the Year

Azure Magazine

This year, the path to opening a new restaurant, hotel, or retail shop proved anything but straightforward, with the unpredictability of the ongoing pandemic introducing plenty of twists and turns. Perhaps that’s why, when it came to interiors, hard-edged geometry became particularly passé. Eager to turn a corner into a more open era, designers began a wholehearted embrace of rounded shapes.

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20+ Best Sweatshirt MockUps

Graphic Design Junction

Styling an oversized sweatshirt can be both comfortable and chic. Sweatshirts used for their original purpose as comfortable athletic wear and apparel brands used high quality realistic sweatshirt mockups on their websites to show fashionable and warm sweatshirt designs to attract customers. Mockup templates are the best way to present your apparel design in a realistic-way.

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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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HORT’s Eike König on Collaboration, Teaching, and Having Friends Who Aren’t Designers

Eye on Design

When he was a student, Eike König always dreamed of building a place where people from different backgrounds and disciplines come together, work together, and form a community. It’s this very dream which later led to the foundation of his studio HORT. Collaboration is at the heart of the Berlin-based graphic design studio known for its experimental and free-spirited approach.

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Web Design Trends 2022: Weaponizing Chaos to Deliver Unforgettable UX

Graphic Mama

With the top graphic design trends 2022 out of the way, it gets easier to notice and predict the upcoming trends for other graphic design fields, including what’s coming for websites next year. This is why today we’re going to unveil the web design trends 2022 coming in full force to invade the web with more vibrancy, trippy aesthetics, and an unforgettable experience where the minimalism trend of 2021 takes a step back.

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Sam Twardy uses flat, simple vector illustrations to satisfy the messy, unorganised nature of her mind

Its Nice That

The illustrator tells us how she moved from working for a fashion designer in New York City to becoming a graphic artist for Whole Foods, and has now settled as an in-house graphic designer at a non-profit, for now.

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50 Creative Business Logo Designs For Inspiration #100

Graphic Design Junction

Today this is the “ 100th article of logo designs ” published on GraphicDesignJunction. We always adding new futuriest and modern logos to help you create a truly amazing logo for your business. Here is the collection of Creative Logos from the best logo designers. This is the 100th roundup of inspiring logos, featuring unique modern design logo templates created by professional graphic designers.

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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.