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fromItsnicethat
2 days ago
Graphic design

Nao Lee's posters are digital terrains that hide small and unruly treasures for you to find

Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
2 days ago

Nao Lee's posters are digital terrains that hide small and unruly treasures for you to find

Nao Lee's design philosophy embraces juxtaposition, using everyday vernacular influences to create layered, interpretive compositions that inspire debate and curiosity.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
3 days ago

Graphic design schools are teaching tech, but are they teaching taste?

Graphic design education should prioritize creativity and knowledge over job placement, treating it as a liberal art rather than a trade school.
Graphic design
fromPRINT Magazine
1 week ago

James Junk is the Voice Design Needs Now - PRINT Magazine

Andrei James Dominiq, a graphic designer, found his creative voice during COVID, transforming personal reflections into impactful visual designs.
#typeface
Typography
fromFast Company
2 days ago

Meet Kyoto: the typeface that bleeds (on purpose)

Kyoto blends Japanese calligraphy with classic Latin forms, reflecting a handmade, human feel in design.
Typography
fromFast Company
2 days ago

Meet Kyoto: the typeface that bleeds (on purpose)

Kyoto blends Japanese calligraphy with classic Latin forms, reflecting a handmade, human feel in design.
Photography
fromBOOOOOOOM!
3 days ago

Illustrator Spotlight: Nicholas Moegly

Nicholas Moegly creates moody, dark, and nostalgic imagery reflecting his experiences in small-town America.
#illustration
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
4 days ago

"Nothing is new" to Dave Bowers, so he illustrates the familiar in his own style

Dave Bowers creates simple, whimsical illustrations inspired by his daughter, focusing on spontaneity and personal enjoyment rather than a specific message.
Graphic design
fromBOOOOOOOM!
1 month ago

Illustrator Spotlight: Starrenco

Italian illustrator Starrenco creates distorted, imaginative worlds grounded in reality, using drawing as a method of personal investigation to explore inner landscapes and reveal hidden meanings through intuitive creative processes.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
4 days ago

"Nothing is new" to Dave Bowers, so he illustrates the familiar in his own style

Dave Bowers creates simple, whimsical illustrations inspired by his daughter, focusing on spontaneity and personal enjoyment rather than a specific message.
Graphic design
fromBOOOOOOOM!
1 month ago

Illustrator Spotlight: Starrenco

Italian illustrator Starrenco creates distorted, imaginative worlds grounded in reality, using drawing as a method of personal investigation to explore inner landscapes and reveal hidden meanings through intuitive creative processes.
UX design
fromWE AND THE COLOR
1 week ago

Can AI Search Read Your Design? The New Invisible SEO

AI search engines cannot interpret visual design, making brands with only aesthetic appeal effectively invisible online.
Web design
fromLukew
1 week ago

LukeW | Should Designers

Designers should code, and AI coding agents are bridging the gap between design and development.
#typography
Typography
fromI Love Typography Ltd
4 days ago

Steven Heller's Font of the Month: Gilway Paradox - I Love Typography Ltd

Gilway Paradox evokes nostalgia through its unique design, reminiscent of carnival signage and personal childhood memories of summer beach attractions.
Typography
fromI Love Typography Ltd
4 days ago

Steven Heller's Font of the Month: Gilway Paradox - I Love Typography Ltd

Gilway Paradox evokes nostalgia through its unique design, reminiscent of carnival signage and personal childhood memories of summer beach attractions.
Writing
fromItsnicethat
2 weeks ago

Elizabeth Goodspeed on why design writing needs designers writing

Writing and design stem from a shared love of history and complex ideas, with personal expression being key to the author's creative process.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
5 days ago

Steve DiBenedetto's Cosmic Sense of the Absurd

Steve DiBenedetto's paintings serve as a functional structure to help viewers navigate collective trauma.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
5 days ago

This collaged architect's identity from Alexis Mark drew from departure boards and timetables

Collage serves as a central identity for Cobe, blending playful design with systematic organization inspired by transit communication systems.
#design-principles
UX design
fromSmashing Magazine
2 weeks ago

A Practical Guide To Design Principles - Smashing Magazine

Design principles align teams, inform decisions, and embody organizational values, serving as essential tools in the design process.
UX design
fromSmashing Magazine
2 weeks ago

A Practical Guide To Design Principles - Smashing Magazine

Design principles align teams, inform decisions, and embody organizational values, serving as essential tools in the design process.
UX design
fromSmashing Magazine
2 weeks ago

A Practical Guide To Design Principles - Smashing Magazine

Design principles align teams, inform decisions, and embody organizational values, serving as essential tools in the design process.
UX design
fromSmashing Magazine
2 weeks ago

A Practical Guide To Design Principles - Smashing Magazine

Design principles align teams, inform decisions, and embody organizational values, serving as essential tools in the design process.
fromAresluna
1 month ago

The curse of the cursor - Unsung

The Parc mouse cursor appearance was done (actually by me) because in a 16x16 grid of one-bit pixels... this gives you a nice arrowhead if you have one side of the arrow vertical and the other angled.
Apple
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

a rich palette of saturated hues meet industrial precision in mara's renewed digital identity

Mara enters 2026 as a global interior design protagonist, expanding from office and hospitality into residential markets while strengthening its digital identity and sustainability commitment.
Web development
fromUna
1 month ago

una.im | contrast-color() beyond black & white

contrast-color() returns black or white for maximum contrast, but workarounds using color-mix() and style queries enable custom color palette selection while maintaining accessibility.
#typeface-design
Typography
fromMass-driver
2 weeks ago

MD UI: a Typeface for Interfacing

Typefaces deserve careful design and consideration, balancing quality and legibility while acknowledging the challenges of achieving perfection.
fromI Love Typography Ltd
1 month ago
Typography

Steven Heller's Font of the Month: Curve Display - I Love Typography Ltd

Curve Display is a Didone-inspired display font that balances classical elegance with experimental, abstract letterforms, making it distinctive yet accessible for contemporary graphic design.
Typography
fromMass-driver
2 weeks ago

MD UI: a Typeface for Interfacing

Typefaces deserve careful design and consideration, balancing quality and legibility while acknowledging the challenges of achieving perfection.
Typography
fromI Love Typography Ltd
1 month ago

Steven Heller's Font of the Month: Curve Display - I Love Typography Ltd

Curve Display is a Didone-inspired display font that balances classical elegance with experimental, abstract letterforms, making it distinctive yet accessible for contemporary graphic design.
Graphic design
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 week ago

This Artist Creates Dark Wood-Burned Illustrations Exploring Identity And The Human Psyche

Robb is an Italian artist known for his intricate pyrography, creating dark, psychological imagery that explores themes of identity and isolation.
Graphic design
fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago

Really, you made this without AI? Prove it

Labeling human-made content is essential as AI-generated works proliferate, creating confusion and skepticism among audiences.
Podcast
fromLennysnewsletter
1 month ago

This week on How I AI: Mastering Midjourney: How to create consistent, beautiful brand imagery without complex prompts

Jamey Gannon demonstrates a systematic workflow for generating consistent, high-quality brand imagery in Midjourney using mood boards, style references, and personalization codes rather than lengthy text prompts.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
2 weeks ago

Oilinwater approaches branding like an investigator, to build visual systems from rigorous research

Oilinwater, founded by Matthieu Gorissen, is a creative studio in Brussels specializing in branding and graphic design, with a unique backstory and projects.
Typography
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Eleanor Yang merges the synthetic and organic to make typography you can touch

Synthetic Nature presents three typefaces—DNA, Mesh, and Data—that metaphorically represent life through biological, network, and computational structures, exploring how biology, computation, and culture merge.
Cars
fromLmnt
1 month ago

Have We Forgotten How to Design?

Waymo's partnership with DoorDash to manually close passenger car doors reveals a fundamental oversight in autonomous vehicle design, despite the availability of proven automated door technology.
Design
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month ago

5 Floating Designs That Look Like Photoshop (But They're Real) - Yanko Design

Floating design lifts architectural elements from the ground to create visual lightness, spatial clarity, and refined interventions that balance engineering precision with aesthetic intent.
fromColossal
1 month ago

Elizabeth Saloka's Vibrant Painted Rocks Adopt the Personalities of Snacks and Pop Culture Icons

Last fall, I bought a ton of marble scraps off a sculptor in Woodstock for like, $10 off Facebook. For sandwiches and cakes, crumbling asphalt parking lots are good. When I lived in Sunset Park, they demolished a building a couple blocks from my apartment, and there was a hole in the fence, so I'd go in there and find tons of cool shapes and textures of rubble.
Arts
Graphic design
fromMedium
3 weeks ago

For Craft Sake: On the laws and principles behind good design

Craft is experiencing a resurgence in product design, emphasizing fundamental skills amidst the rise of generative AI and industry confusion.
Web design
fromRaymondcamden
1 month ago

Dyanimically Adjusting Image Text for Contrast

Color Thief library now includes TypeScript definitions and new contrast detection features, including a textColor property that automatically suggests optimal text color for readability over images.
fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

A first look at the vibrant branding for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics

"The superbloom concept became a framework for this design language, providing a vibrant color scheme as well as the visual form of flower petals to guide the graphic treatment."
Graphic design
fromSubstack
1 month ago

20 Design Reference Platforms Beyond Dribbble

Static images don't show motion. You can't inspect real product structure. You don't see how interfaces evolve over time. You rarely understand what actually works in production. So I decided to go deep. I reviewed every major design reference platform I could find - not just the popular ones - and analyzed how they actually help in real-world work. The conclusion?
Mobile UX
fromBoard Game Quest
2 months ago

Sand Art Review

Sand Art is a game by Kory Jordan and published by 25th Century Games for two to four players ages 10 and up. It takes about an hour to play, and has you collecting resources and then coloring in a bottle, making art in a bottle out of sand, in case the name didn't give away the plot. Gameplay Overview: Sand Art has you gathering and mixing sand, which is used to fill your bottle.
Board games
fromMedium
2 months ago

Designing useful ads

We've both fought against needless promotional content before and lamented that frontier AI platforms are falling into the same pattern. As designers and users, we've learned that "free" usually means putting up with interruptive, slightly creepy ads that feel more like a tax than a benefit - a frustration tax that now colors how we approach free‑tier services and now AI tools.
Artificial intelligence
Graphic design
fromwww.itsnicethat.com
1 month ago

Jas Bell on crafting a visual solar system for SZA

Iconic album covers become cultural time stamps that resonate by translating artistic vision into physical design through thoughtful execution of silhouette, texture, and graphic language.
#desktop-wallpapers
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Abstracted organica: The design trend taking root in Naarm, and the designers doing it best

The ridges of eucalyptus bark, the geometries of shell formations, moss-covered trees, Indigenous grasslands and the hidden networks of fungi beneath the soil. These landscapes produce organic yet abstract patterns - natural systems that quietly shape the way we see and design the world around us.
Graphic design
fromFast Company
1 month ago

The Getty's new logo is a blocky tribute to its vast collections

We needed a visual identity that was uniquely Getty and distinct enough to unify how we show up globally. This system gives Getty one clear, ownable expression in support of the work we do around the world.
Typography
fromblog.logrocket.com
2 months ago

Linear design vs. minimalism, brutalism, and neumorphism - LogRocket Blog

Linear-style UIs look simple, but the theming system has to do real work. Here's how to meet WCAG 2.2 contrast requirements across light, dark, and high-contrast modes whether you're using a UI library or rolling your own tokens.
UX design
#contemporary-art
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Pedro Stolf is making sci-fi queer again with futuristic graphic design

Massaranduba, the small agricultural town in the south of Brazil that Pedro grew up in is far from sci-fi, but this graphic designer's imagination takes him some place else. From posters, illustration, magazine layouts and typefaces (such as pieces that focus on sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin 's fictional Kesh alphabet), Pedro works digitally with a focus on textures and grit, using dithers and fractals to build upon visual world's textures. His projects are "mood-centred", which begin by assembling references from all over to refine feelings that are conjured up by consuming films, fashion, music and other visual forms.
Design
UX design
fromFreebie Supply
2 months ago

CSS Calendar Ideas - Freebie Supply

User-friendly, well-designed web and app calendars integrated via front-end frameworks and CSS are essential for accurate date selection and strong UX across devices.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Lydia Chodosh probes design rules through archiving and cataloguing

Designer Lydia Chodosh interrogates how knowledge is acquired and transmitted through language, archival systems, and interdisciplinary design practice informed by literature, publishing, and visual communication.
Design
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

Minimalism had its moment: now designers say this aesthetic is dominating 2026 - Silicon Canals

Interior design is shifting from minimalist, sparse aesthetics to a colorful, textured maximalist revival emphasizing personality and lived-in warmth.
UX design
fromMedium
1 month ago

Designers, we should be killing it right now

Excessive prototyping and vague 'taste' undermine designers' authority, failing to convince executives or secure investment despite rapid AI-driven change.
Design
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Visual communication that challenges convention: Phantasia on how graphic design can forge true collaboration

Phantasia, a Barcelona-based design studio founded in 2021, prioritizes meaningful projects that serve communities through intentional collaboration, diversity, and accessible communication.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Strategy comes before style: Take a look at the branding work of creative group NA1

NA1 operates as a multidisciplinary collective prioritizing strategic brand building and authentic visual storytelling over fixed house styles, tailoring each project's approach to the client's core DNA.
Design
fromBusiness Matters
2 months ago

How Visual Consistency Creates Brand Trust in Digital Spaces

Consistent visual presentation across digital platforms builds recognition, reduces cognitive load, and increases perceived trustworthiness and professionalism, supporting long-term business growth.
fromI Love Typography Ltd
5 months ago

ILT Blog Redesign - I Love Typography Ltd

The main problem with the existing homepage was that, besides the most recent posts, other content, once it aged and 'fell off' the front page, was then difficult to discover. The new design makes more use of available screen 'real estate', is visually much richer, and reorganizes 18 years of posts, so that even older long-forgotten posts are more easily found.
Graphic design
fromMedium
1 month ago

Design is not just how it works. Design is how it wins.

AI commodifies work, shifting design's mandate from functional excellence to competitive winning as the primary objective.
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

An Artist Layers Synthwave Glow And Surreal Dreams Into Vibrant Worlds Celebrating Neurodivergence And Inner Strength

A diverse collection of provocative visual works spans dark mortality themes, surreal and conceptual art, tattoos, social commentary, and popular-culture phenomena like NFTs.
Design
fromDesign Milk
2 months ago

Desktop Wallpaper: February 2026 with Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa

Buoyant, geometric wallpapers by Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa are available free in multiple desktop resolutions to brighten February screens and lift moods.
Arts
fromColossal
2 months ago

Surreal Dreams Reign in Hieu Chau's Digital Illustrations

Hieu Chau creates dense, surreal digital paintings that blend flora, fauna, altered scale, and painterly textures into dreamlike, layered compositions.
Design
fromDesign Milk
2 months ago

Foscarini's Lava Lamps Go From Molten Earth to Modern Glow

Foscarini's lava lamps transform recycled volcanic rock into lightweight, sculptural suspension lights highlighting lava's texture and sustainable material innovation.
Typography
fromI Love Typography Ltd
5 months ago

Fonts in Focus: Gieo Text - I Love Typography Ltd

Gieo Text reinvigorates the classic humanist serif with calligraphic stroke modulation, asymmetrical serifs, rightward motion, modern italics, and Vietnamese language support.
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Matt Midgley Paints Razorsharp Geometric Acrylics So Precise They Barely Look Handmad

Death Anxiety Comics Inspired By Our Fears "Sunkissed": Beautiful Feminine Illustrations by Emilija Savic Artist Creates Honest Illustrations About Relationships And Everyday Life Artist Yana Tarakanova Creates Superb Explicit and Bizarre Comics About The Society The Dark, Incredibly F*cked Up Comics Of Joan Cornella Chris Keegan by Cosmic Creatures 6 Feet Covers: Duo Artists Re-Designed Iconic Album Covers To Promote Social Distancing Artist Spent Three Years Painting Her Readings Mom Prepares Healthy Meals As Cartoon Characters For Her Son How To Teach Yoga Like Slav: Top 10 Drunk Yoga Positions
Arts
#type-design
Design
fromBored Panda
2 months ago

24 Signs That Turned Out To Be So Hilariously Absurd, People Had To Share Them

Humorously odd signs around the world provide lighthearted relief while effective sign design considers audience, message, environment, function, fabrication, and installation.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

"A poster is a bit like a song": Jakub Zasada's geometric works are a thing of beauty

Jakub Zasada creates midcentury-inspired digital posters using minimal software functions and scanned materials, prioritizing functional design for public spaces with universal accessibility.
Typography
fromI Love Typography Ltd
2 months ago

Velocity: Fast & Beautifully Furious - I Love Typography Ltd

Velocity is a compact, forward-leaning all-caps sans serif with rounded curves, multiple stylistic sets, and duplexed weights optimized for bold branding and large display use.
Design
fromWE AND THE COLOR
2 months ago

Design Portfolio Visibility: Website vs. Behance & Dribbble

Algorithmic dependency undermines creative independence; designers must own a proprietary website and publish deep case studies to build authority, SEO, and long-term business equity.
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

The experimental graphic design work of Ward Goes sits at the intersection of type and materiality

A graphic designer that isn't limited to working in 2D, Ward Goes has been working in aluminium of late. His recent solo show in Rotterdam, Literally Anything, was full of things that moved beyond the screen or printed page, including some wonderful metal signage and archival storage. The exhibition at Alley Space was the result of the designer's decision to pursue more tactical investigations alongside his commissioned work at the start of 2025.
Typography
fromI Love Typography Ltd
2 months ago

Steven Heller's Font of the Month: Cattivo - I Love Typography Ltd

Infused with history, the slab cannot help but suggest the old West's frontier clichés, for such ephemera as classic wanted posters, political broadsides, cautionary warning signs, and more generic commercial applications. Cattivo is a brand-new 18-font family that, when used in any weight and size, cuts through nostalgic predictability and provides a welcome alternative to such popular Egyptian-style slab serifs as Stymie and Memphis.
Typography
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

BBH's rebrand, typeface and "zag" glyphs convey its ethos through design

From day one, this felt like a true collaboration. Together we set out to build a contemporary British grotesque that respected BBH's heritage while giving it room to push forward.
Typography
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