5 Must-Watch Videos to Kickstart Your Creativity
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[responsive][/responsive] We all reach that point now and then in which we feel like our creativity is on hold or bottled up. Shaking ourselves out of those doldrums can be a challenge. If your creative urges need a kick in...
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Principles of Design You Can Hang on the Wall
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[responsive][/responsive]Every designer must know and use the basic principles of good design, that’s a given. And now a Turkish Designer, Efil Turk, has made a gorgeous series of posters that illustrate these designs in living color. “It’s important for every...
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Why Overdesigning is a Cardinal Sin of Design
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[responsive][/responsive]According to the latest Adobe New Creatives Report,  over-designing or not knowing when to quit was considered the “cardinal sin” of design, writes Gian Bautista in Youth Designer blog. “This is based on an online survey of more than 1,000 U.S....
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Pioneering Women of Graphic Design
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Tired of the frivolous way in which female readers were portrayed, Cipe Pineles (1908-1991) sought to change the fashion magazine industry from the inside by assuming her audience wanted and deserved much more than they were getting. “By commissioning fine...
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3 Things to Consider about Your Most Important Page
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We aren't breaking any new ground telling you this, but your magazine cover is the most important page you’ll create. So why does it so often come down to the last minute, as we cram in these critical elements under...
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12 Awesome (and FREE) Headline Fonts
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Designers, get ready to up your game with some new fonts for your headlines. “Choosing the right font for your headlines and titles is imperative to attracting your viewers’ attention,” note the folks behind Creative Bloq. “There's hundreds and thousands out...
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Designers are a Happy Bunch
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Creative types are the happy ones in the workplace, or so says a new study conducted by Adobe. The online report surveyed more than 1,000 U.S. creative professionals including graphic and web designers, photographers, illustrators and other artsy types. The...
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10 Rules for Better Editorial Design
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Want to improve your game in publication layout? This article from Luke O'Neill offers 10 suggestions that will help you build up your editorial design skills. The first, and probably the most important, is to identify your audience and design for...
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Photoshop CC Features Go Live
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Design geeks, this one is for you. According to Sandy Hubbard at Print Media Center, the new Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) updates are going to make it easier to work with fonts, among other things.“Many of our PMC readers are...
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Inside the National Journal Redesign
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When the National Journal decided it was time for a redesign, the editorial team knew there were some things they had to let go. With their successful website platform now handling some of the more immediate and timely pieces, the...
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