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8 Common Design Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)   - The Shutterstock Blog

Good design will inspire responses and clearly communicate information, while bad design will impede and muddle that communication. Here are 8 pitfalls to avoid.

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Updated for 2015! The best free fonts, from vintage-inspired typefaces to bold slab serifs, for a range of design projects on Windows and Mac. | Page 2

Some great fonts here and they will work on both Windows and Mac.

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Portfolios–UFGD Seniors 2015

Rebecca Agatstein: http://rebagat.com

Alison Entsminger: http://alisonentsminger.com

Christian Allison: http://christianmallison.com

Mallory Frye: http://malloryfrye.com

Jessica Howard: http://jrosehow.com

Jessica Kirkpatrick: http://jenkirkdesigns.com

Madeleine Lachesnez-Heude: http://mlachesnezheude.com

Katie Ladd: http://katieladd.co

Kylie Leuthold: http://www.kylieleuthold.com

Ismael Lopez: http://ismaellopez.co

Alexa Mendez: http://alexamendez.co

Rukmini Poddar: http://rukmini.co

Kelly Porter: http://kellyporterdesign.com

Danny Rutledge: http://dannyrutledge.com

Libby Schinnow: http://libbyschinnow.com

Laura Turanchik:  http://lauraturanchik.com

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The Best and Worst Fonts to Use on Your Résumé

Using Times New Roman is the typeface equivalent of wearing sweatpants to an interview Some good advice for your resume.

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The Plastic Age: A Documentary feat. Pharrell Williams (Full Film)

We all talk about the Stone Age, the Iron Age and the Bronze Age, but what era are we living in right now? People are starting to refer to us as the - far le...

Really great video about plastic, recycling and innovative thinking.

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5 tips on taking design feedback

Last week, we brought you Dennis Field’s tips on how to give designers better feedback. So this week we thought we’d talk a bit about what you can do to keep calm and keep creating when you get fee...

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15 signs you’re a bad designer

http://justcreative.com/2007/12/06/bad-graphic-design/

He doesn’t always use the right terms, but he’s right on, except for maybe #1 ...

Avoid these mistakes at all times.

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2011 Senior Design portfolios

Here are the portfolios for the 2011 seniors. Not all have links to their resumes, but most do. Check out how they created their logotypes, hierarchy in their resumes, and how they’ve designed their web presence.

http://www.racheltannerdesign.com/

http://danny-aguilar.com/

http://myklgormley.com/

http://cargocollective.com/catdunn

http://aliciakorn.com/index.html

http://www.rodolforodriguez.com/about.html

http://wendychandesign.com/

http://melanie-richards.com/portfolio

http://www.catalinarozo.com/

http://www.melissaclinard.com/

http://ryankeightley.com/

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25 Exclusive Designs for Print's 75th Anniversary

In honor of Print’s 75th anniversary, we asked 75 top creatives to design the word “print.” See here 25 exclusive designs & share the ones you love most.

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Stefan Sagmeister: Bring the personal and the human into design

View more inspiring videos like this one at http://www.designindaba.com/video Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian graphic designer living and working in New Yor...

Stefan Sagmeister, an edgier designer who worked with Tibor Kalman. His exhibits and design work usually are interactive and fun.

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Michael Bierut: Use curiosity as a route into work

In an interview at AGI Open 2013 in London, Michael Bierut speaks about his groundbreaking projects and the changing nature of graphic design. At AGI Open Lo...

Some great examples of his and Pentagram’s work.

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Martin Venezky

More Martin Venezky ... his process using the hand and digital processes.

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MARTIN VENEZKY ADOBE WALL COLLAGE

A short video doc about the 30x5ft. wall collage that I completed at the Adobe headquarters in San Francisco. Thanks to Wynn Padula, filming and Eric Alexand...

Love this ... the reason you should never throw anything away!

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Gurafiku

A collection of visual research surveying the history of graphic design in Japan. Conducted by...

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Sketching: the Visual Thinking Power Tool

You don’t have to be a great singer to write a great song, just ask Bob Dylan. Likewise, you needn’t be a Leonardo to draw your way to more and better ideas. Sketching helps you generate concepts quickly, exploring alternatives rapidly and at no cost of resources. The looseness of a sketch removes inhibitions, granting clients and colleagues permission to consider and challenge the ideas it represents. Mike Rohde outlines the practice, surveys the tools, and shares ways to become confident with this method of brainstorming, regardless of your level of artistic ability.

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Check-out this great collage artist!  I hope he inspires you.

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More sketchbook sample pages from Fall 2014.