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Davies White Ltd are a DOUBLE RHS Gold Medal, BBC People's Choice Award and RHS Best in Show award winning Chartered Landscape Architects practice. We have extensive experience of delivering public realm projects from inception to completion, specialising for ten years in children's playful landscapes and gardens. We offer award winning hands on community engagement services which includes a full Design & Build service when required.

Our mission is to create gardens and public spaces that help reconnect children and their families with nature. Why? because we believe Nature makes us all happier, healthier, and more creative.

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Learn how to make graphic props for filmmaking
My Domestika course is now live: 18 lessons in researching, designing, and crafting graphic props for high-budget movie design. You can take the course at home, online, in your own time. Link here:

DESIGNING GRAPHIC PROPS FOR FILMMaking
{Occasionally Asked Questions} How did you start working in graphic design for film?
My first job after I graduated was on the third series of The Tudors and no job since then has been as exhilarating as that first season I spent on a set, surrounded by beautiful princesses in corsets drinking coffee out of styrofoam cups. At first, it didn't make sense to me that they'd be looking for a full-time graphic designer on a series that was set in a time before graphic designers existed. But just because there were no graphic designers in the court of Henry VIII didn't mean there wasn't any graphic design: it was just that, at that time, craftsmen produced the graphics. So, if the king wanted to chop his wife's head off, for example, he would need a death warrant, and if he needed a death warrant, he would need a calligrapher. Today, in filmmaking, it's the graphic designer's job to imitate what that calligrapher might have created-or, at least, to hire a real calligrapher to help us out.

Yes! Anyone who works in film and tells you it's not exciting is just pretending to be jaded, don't worry. We're all here for the thrill of it: nobody is here for the health benefits. You do get a little more used to it as time goes by, but seeing your work on a cinema screen, even fleetingly, even in the blurry background, never stops being exciting.
How much of your work is seen by the cinema audience?
I would say hardly any of it. Maybe 90% of what we make for a film belongs firmly in the background. If the audience is focussing on the props then "we're doing our job wrong", as the prop master Robin Miller said here. It's just that these things need to be finely detailed in order to disappear. And sometimes what we create isn't actually for the cinema audience at all. Film sets don't look like the beautifully composed pictures we see on the cinema screen: the reality is that they're full of cables, floodlights, and crew members standing around in North Face jackets-so, dressing this weirdly artificial environment with some small authentic details can help create a more fully realised world for the actors to work in.

What is your favourite period to work to?
I love all period filmmaking and prefer it to anything contemporary-and I definitely don't like science fiction (it took me a long time and one failed attempt at futurism to realise that). What can I say-I just really like antique documents and old shopfront signage. My speciality is in creating lettering that looks like it was painted up by a layperson rather than a professional designer. It's tricky designing something that doesn't look like it was made by an art department when you're in the art department: you really have to shake off your digital instincts and step in to the shoes of the character-or the time or place-that you're designing for. I love that challenge. If something was made by hand at the time, then I try to make it by hand now.

Should I move to Hollywood?
Oh no, I've never set foot in Hollywood. We made Penny Dreadful in a little seaside town in County Wicklow, so you never know what's going on right around the corner. I think you have a better chance of employment starting local than you do hopping off a bus on Sunset Boulevard with your CV and your backpack, which is how I'm imagining you now, wistfully. Part of me is wishing you a wonderful adventure and the other part of me is thinking look, come on, you should really be at home categorising your serifs, no?
But I only want to work on big box-office movies...
Er, you might want to reconsider why you want to be a graphic designer for film. Is it down to your love of old-fashioned prop-making using a variety of tangible and traditional graphic materials, or is it because you want to stalk Bill Murray? The thing is, it doesn't really matter if you're on a small TV show or a cinema blockbuster, learning how to make this stuff is what's important. My most fun job was on a show called Camelot which you will have no recollection of whatsoever, but I got to make some rather convincing ancient tombstones by carving Roman lettering in to soft, wet clay.

What was it like working with Wes Anderson?
Wes Anderson is the most experimental and hands-on director I've ever worked with, and I worked closely with him and his production designer, Adam Stockhausen every day. The Grand Budapest Hotel was my move from TV to film, and it was an incredible rollercoaster from the moment I got the first call from the producers, to the winter I spent with the cast and crew in the fictional Empire of Zubrowka, to the day I sat down in the cinema to watch the movie for the first time. I doubt I'll work on a more beloved film that pays so much attention to graphic design again in my lifetime, so not a day goes by when I don't thank my lucky stars (and Wes and Adam!) for that opportunity.

Where can I read more about graphic design in film?
My first book, Fake Love Letters, Forged Telegrams, and Prison Escape Maps: Designing Graphic Props for Filmmaking is now available! Published by Phaidon, it's a look at the process behind designing graphic props, with some of my favourite personal stories from working on the sets of films like Grand Budapest. You can order a copy or ask your local bookseller about it.

If you're looking for interviews about film design then this conversation with It's Nice That is a good place to start, as well as Roman Mars' 99% Invisible podcast. My page has some other interesting links, too, or you can sign up for my newsletter , which goes out roughly every seventh week.

My Domestika course is an in-depth tour in creating graphic props for film and is available to buy .
(I'm really sorry that I can't give any student interviews at the moment, but the links above should answer all of your questions and you are welcome to quote anything you see fit in your essays. Good luck!)

I'm starting my first film job tomorrow, any tips?
Huzzah! Wear old clothes, be in bed by 10pm every night, and never, ever use glue on a cutting mat.

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A First Nations led illustration agency fuelled by a constant connection to identity, culture and country.

Solid Lines is an independent creative agency, currently supported by The Jacky Winter Group. We exist to represent and nurture First Nations illustrators producing art upon unceded Ancestral lands.

Solid Lines is re-imaging the future of representation for First Nations creatives. Cultural safety is at our core.

We invite collaboration ignited by cultural integrity and respect, and seek to create spaces for meaningful learning.

Solid Lines is grounded by community. We are forging strong and supportive pathways within Australia's commercial art and design industry, for First Nations creatives to thrive.

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Solid Lines acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People as Traditional Custodians of Country and First Nations of Australia. We honour Elders, past and present, whose knowledge and wisdom has ensured the continuation of culture and traditional practices.

Solid Lines accept the invitation of the Uluru Statement from the Heart and support a First Nations Voice to Parliament enshrined in the Australian Constitution.

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Good UX design can make or break your business's product and customer relationships. Because of this, products are more people-focused than they've ever been. Today, best practices include answering JTBD (jobs-to-be-done) or customer needs, accommodating diverse people, offering easy-to-use interfaces, and delighting users at every step of the journey.

In this article, we'll take our hat off for some of the most delightful user experience examples we've seen in recent years, whether it's new tech, innovative visuals, or smart-JTBD-focused-experiences. Here are the products that leave users coming back for more, and can inspire best practices to apply in your own UX design strategy.

Grab a cup of something hot, sit back, and enjoy some of the top UX examples at the moment.

Top B2B & B2C UX design examples

UX matters. A PwC survey of 15,000 consumers found that one in three consumers will leave a brand they love after one bad experience. That same survey study found that almost 80% of American consumers say convenience and speed are among the most important factors to a good customer experience.

There's no denying the wonders good UX design can do for your brand, so let's take a look at what it looks like in this article.

Airbnb's booking experience

A UX design example most are familiar with, Airbnb is leading the charge when it comes to creating a booking experience that gets the job done for websites. Airbnb has clearly done their research. The homepage design addresses typical pain points travelers have when trying to find accommodation.

The homepage also inspires travelers who are unsure where to go by offering popular destinations nearby. It gives a mix of what people love: entire homes, pet-friendly homes, or unique stays. The action of booking is simple and at the top of the fold. Quick, clear, and user-friendly.

Lesson learned? Research users' needs and problems in your design process and use the data to determine what matters most to them. Once you know, offer it up on a plate.

Netflix's autoplay features

The autoplay features from Netflix are quite possibly some of the most intrusive and heavily debated UX features to grace the planet.

There are two autoplay features that people have a love/hate relationship with.

The Netflix 'play next episode' feature has made our minds up for us on more than one occasion. It's a fantastic example of doing a job the user wants to do without even needing to ask.

Netflix also introduced an autoplay trailer feature as you scroll through their media library-giving users quick insights into the movies and series they hover over. This particular autoplay feature was met with a great deal of controversy and debate.

After a general uproar, the time came for Netflix to enable users to switch off this autoplay feature.

You win some; you lose some. Lesson learned? Test new features with your users before you mass-release. Stay customer-centric, not product-centric, and integrate data-driven user experiences.

Miro's user onboarding

Miro does a fantastic job of nudging their user base towards an Aha! moment by focusing on a user's job to be done.

Miro enables users to build the board they need and learn as they go with modal popups as they navigate their way through building a board. The popups are unobtrusive and tailored to the user's in-app actions.

Lesson learned? Helping a user get value from your app and reach their Aha! Moment faster is a key principle of a great user experience. Find small ways to support your users by providing them the information they need upfront to complete their tasks. You can do this in-app, or with email and visit a user's inbox with product tips, and onboarding bumpers.

Headspace's inspiring UX retention strategy

With a 4.8 star rating on the app store and over 13k reviews, Headspace is a leader in the online meditation market. Dealing with users looking to overcome stress and anxiety, sleep better, and live a mentally healthier life, it's critical that the app experience is as smooth as any meditation they practice.

We particularly love the Headspace app's focus on gamification to build user retention. Much like Duolingo, Headspace manages to bring a competitive edge to the educational world. It offers goals and keeps users active daily on the app with an ongoing streak-pushing people to meditate every day and keep a regular practice.

Lesson learned? Good UX can help toward critical product success metrics. 90% of users have stopped using an app due to poor performance. A great experience can not only deter someone from leaving, but it can encourage them to use your app even more.

Todoist's recurring tasks feature

Todoist have a wealth of features to help people manage their personal or team tasks. The app is easy to navigate, drag and drop-friendly and gives you that ingrained sense of gratification when you cross a task off a to-do list.

However, the UX design example we particularly want to call out is Todoist's recurring due dates. It's a simple feature that showcases Todoist has really done their user research and identified one of their users' key tasks.

Lesson learned? Identify your users' needs by researching their recurring tasks. If there's a way to simplify or automate a key task, design accordingly.

Mailchimp's password guidance

Mailchimp is often championed when it comes to its brand. They sit at the top of the food chain and for good reason. However, it's not their branding alone that's doing them favors; it's the way they deliver it-through innovative UX design and copy.

Their password guidance in their welcome form is a fantastic example of this. No one likes to be told they need their go-to password to be stronger and fulfil criteria it's never had to before. However, Mailchimp guides users in a friendly way to generate a stronger password. Plus, at the end of it, you get this gratifying checkbox popup. You're all set!

Lesson learned? Good UX design can make routine tasks that people typically don't enjoy more pleasant. Sign-up forms or profile creation can become a great experience with the right UX guidance and design principles.

Revolut's customizable app

Who said we couldn't enjoy banking? Revolut is leading the charge with its user-friendly banking app that allows users to customize their own experience as they like. For this, they get pride of place in this UX design examples list. Customers can switch out backgrounds, icons, and chop and change the home screen as they see fit.

Lesson learned? Empower users to make a product theirs by allowing them to tweak the design to fit their preferences.

Duolingo's gamified experience

We briefly mentioned Duolingo earlier and likened its gamification to that of Headspace, however, Duolingo takes gamification to a whole new level in their UX design.

The platform is fun and friendly while challenging users to keep learning. They manage to make the experience of learning a new language more interesting by combining animations, a light-hearted tone of voice, and gamified UX such as levels, streaks, and more.

Lesson learned? Gamification still works wonders and it's expected to be a $30.7 billion market by 2025. Think about ways you can gamify your brand experience. Badges, levels, unlocking new content-all of these features will encourage users to stick around.

Take it a step further and gamify brand communications via email, chat responses, or other communication channels.

Medium's "clap" feature

This one's an oldie but a goldie. Medium's clap your appreciation feature was fantastically innovative when it first aired, and it still is. It's a simple yet unique way of showing appreciation as opposed to hitting a like button. We've seen it tweaked and adapted over the years-most recently by TikTok.

Lesson learned? If it's not broken, don't fix it. Good UX design doesn't need to be about reinventing the wheel. If you like a UX design idea and think it will work well with your product or website and audience-then make it your own and try it out.

If it's simple, joyful, and serves its purpose, you're on to a winner.

Spotify's Year Wrapped

You're most likely familiar with Spotify's end-of-year wrapped stories that flood your social feeds. Spotify makes the list as a top UX design example for the power of data and what it can do for your content.

They share this piece of content in a story format, one that most are familiar with thanks to Instagram and give users one-click options to share their story with friends.

Lesson learned? Leverage user data stories in your designs and deliver users content that's entirely unique to them. Spotify gets pride of place on this list of UX design examples for their innovative use of data, sticking to formats people know, and creating an experience that has the potential and ease to go viral.

Last but not least on our UX design list is Glovo. The app has a tricky job. There's a high chance people are coming to it hungry, which means they want their need to be met in the quickest way possible.

Glovo not only set up great navigation to find a food source but the UX of their app makes each button clear, and perfectly pairs visuals with copy.

As you click through to find your restaurant, you're given fewer options and eventually, a list of restaurants broken down by user needs: something fast, something cheap, something rated well.

The entire experience is rapid, done in a few clicks, and fills bellies as quickly as possible. Keeping everyone happy.

Lesson learned? Remember what your users are here for, and get them to it as quickly as possible.

UX Design FAQs

To help us answer these UX design FAQs, we spoke to Adriano Trenahi, Product Design Manager at Eventbrite (previously eDreams & Mango).

What is considered good UX design? What is considered bad UX?

Personally, I say good UX is when a user can achieve a certain objective in the easiest, fastest, and most pleasurable way possible; considering the situation, environment, and UX tools available.

For example, imagine a person that wants to share a photo on their phone with friends. There are plenty of ways in which you could do that, good UX designers would aim to reduce effort and avoid unnecessary taps by predicting and prompting suggestions on the phone interface. It would also consider more aspects such as voice commands or proximity sensors.

Good UX is unnoticeable most of the time, although a feeling of relief and easiness when completing a task or using a service are positive indicators.

That feeling of relief and easiness when completing a task or using a service are also indicators of good UX.

Bad UX, on the other hand, is very noticeable as it generates frustration, annoyance, and anxiety, whether in a user's app or inbox. It can make a user feel stupid when that's not the case.

An excellent example of that? Norman Doors. A Norman door is a door whose design tells the person to do the opposite of what they're supposed to do. Watch this video from VOX, and to better understand how bad UX is embedded in our world."- Adriano Trenahi, Product Design Manager at Eventbrite

Is it possible to have good UX with bad UI?

"In my opinion, no. They go hand in hand. UX is only good when its aesthetics follows. Imagine creating a great product or service but displaying them with hard-to-read typography, a small or super big button, a color palette that is perceived as untrustful, or images that are disrespectful to a particular culture. Those are essential aspects that you need to consider, and your product or service won't thrive if you don't nail them all." - Adriano Trenahi, Product Design Manager at Eventbrite

What does a UX designer do?

A UX designer (user experience designer) focuses on building a positive experience for someone and a business's product. UX designers are typically responsible for user research, creating design solutions, and user testing. UX designers are the in-house voice of the customer.

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Wayfinding is the process of using spatial and environmental information to navigate to a destination.
The Image of the City. K. Lynch, MIT Press, 1960

Wayfinding can be defined as spatial problem solving. It is knowing where you are in a building or environment, knowing where your desired destination is, and knowing how to get there from your present location.

For full definition, visit The Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) website.

Wayfinding can include physical elements such as urban design, architecture, landmarks, lighting, footpaths, landscaping and signage. These elements work together to define paths and identify key decision points, while aiming to improve and enhance people's experiences as they move from place to place.

Why is good wayfinding important?

Investment in city-wide map-based wayfinding systems has enhanced the brands and reputations of the cities in which they have been established, encouraging exploration and contributing to the sense of welcome experienced by visitors.

Wayfinding Signage in Melbourne Business case workshop outcomes and Business case scoping report , SGS Economics and Planning, 2015.

Benefits of wayfinding
Benefits for users of the wayfinding systems include:

Improved legibility and accessibility, journey time savings and more positive experiences

Increased walking and cycling, leading to wider health benefits and improved feelings of safety and security.

Benefits for government authorities and businesses include:

More tourists, local visitors and business travellers benefitting local economies

Reduced car use and associated externalities, and more efficient use of road space

Less visual clutter and improvements to the public realm

Positive Benefit Cost Ratios (BCRs).*

* The BCR for the Toronto 360 system, for example, shows that for every dollar invested, $3.7 would be generated for the city. Toronto wayfinding Benefit/Cost Analysis, T. Pearce, 2018. https://citywayfinding.com/toronto-wayfinding-benefitcost-analysis/

This guide is a free resource to improve the
consistency of wayfinding signage across Victoria.

This guide is a free resource to improve the
consistency of wayfinding signage across Victoria.

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Furniture items for outdoor public spaces include a wide range of products: seating, sunscreens, different compartments, ashtrays, trash bins, planters, Information mediums, bicycle stands and many others. The popularity of different chargers for IT devices nowadays increasing. Among furniture elements, the most numerous are seating items. Their design solution depends on the purposes so one type of seating will be suitable for the sports facilities and for the restaurant terrace the other one. Also, size and type of outdoor public seating depend on the age of the users: in the kindergarten, they will be adjusted to the age of the children and in parks will be adjusted to the ergonomic requirements of the adult users.

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These innovative public seats are hand-sculpted into sinuous interlocking shapes, such that they resemble the intricate articulations of the human spine.

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The outdoor public seating furniture

Designers have created numerous types of public seating items such as individual seating: chairs, stools shez-long... or benches as the group seating. This type of furniture may be mobile or fixed when they are tied to the floor or walls.

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Banch made of white granite or glossy concrete. Finishing: varnished with acrylic polyurethane paint anti UV.

The benches are produced in different materials, colours and styles, for different purposes: green areas, parks, town squares...

Benches are most often made up of modular elements which allow various forms of the groups: linear or circular seating. Their configuration affects social connections of the users: so that circular, semi-circular forms enable the links and direct face-to-face contact with the users, and linear configuration enabling the isolation and privacy. Benches have a social role in space. They allow a gathering of people, provide a place for comfortable seating and relaxation, or place for the first meeting of the young couple, for children to play ...

Materials

The basic condition that the material for the bench must fulfil is to be durable and resistant to atmospheric influences they are exposed.

Modern materials like polypropylene, polyethene etc. are suitable to produce outdoor seating. This material is grateful for the design and enables the realization of the complex forms.

Benches produced of concrete often have the interesting forms. Although taken from a robust material final result is organic, soft, even gentle form. Concrete benches are suitable for streets and bus stops, either linear or curved, maybe with different finishes. The richness of colours facilitates the integration of the environment with appropriate finishing and surface protection.

Metal is ideal to produce the public furniture not only for construction items but also for all other components. The metal sheet (aluminium) can be decoratively perforated, often with a decorative lighting that accomplishes site-specific effects in the evening. Special attention is given to the quality of the edges to avoid injury to the users.

Garden Benches made of wood are closest to the traditional product and today are with a special charm in appearance. To achieve the quality of the details some producers combine handmade craftsmanship with technological processes.

Benches are produced from oak, walnut, teak. The final finish and protection of the wood benches is an important issue. Protection with materials similar to the ones used for protection of yachts gives positive results.

Wood, concrete or metal can be used for the entire product, or only as a detail. The wide range of material combination is available.

Today, special attention is paid to the ecological characteristics of applied materials.

Therefore, except quality, durability, the priority to the producers are the materials that do not pollute the environment in any phase of production, installation, and operation.

Functionality

The benches often have some add functional value, for example, planters, lighting or the bicycle holder.

Today, work becomes an integral part of every moment of ours. The benches with solar USB charger, protection and access to wireless internet become the place for alternative work/small workstation or entertainment.

This causes the new approach to the design of public seating furniture to provide the proper response to the need of the contemporary user.

Stylistic features

The architect or landscape designer scope of works is to incorporate outdoor furniture in environments, whether the old urban space, modern city square, park or sports facilities are in question. The task is always to create environment user-friendly.

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In this resource, students will investigate the product design process used to develop Great Wrap’s Nudie Roll, a home-compostable stretch wrap, and the Great Mate dispenser that accompanies it.

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In this resource, students will investigate the product design process used to develop Great Wrap 's Nudie Roll , a home- compostable stretch wrap, and the Great Mate dispenser that accompanies it.

Both products are featured on the Design Wall in the special exhibition Melbourne Now . This series of six videos and classroom discussion questions help prompt student learning and engagement with the de s igners' creative process, from inspiration to product evaluation .

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Identify key steps in the design process that led to the development, production, evaluation and refinement of Great Wrap's stretch wrap and dispenser.

Outline Great Wrap's end users and discuss how the company's products meet the needs and values of this audience.

Discuss the environmental and social considerations that influenced the development of the Nudie Roll and the Great Mate stretch wrap dispensers.

INTRODUCTION TO GREAT WRAP AND MELBOURNE NOW

Great Wrap was founded in 2019 by couple Julia and Jordy Kay, a former architect and winemaker respectively. With the help of bio-designers, engineers and scientists, Julia and Jordy developed a compostable stretch wrap derived from potato waste. When composted, the stretch wrap breaks down in 180 days and leaves no microplastics behind. Designed for domestic use, Great Wrap's Nudie Rolls are dispensed from the Great Mate , a refillable container designed in 2021 in collaboration with industrial designers Bayly Group. Great Wrap also produce compostable pallet wrap for commercial business use.

The exhibition Melbourne Now celebrates new and ambitious local art and design and highlights the extraordinary work of more than 200 Victorian-based artists, designers, studios and firms. It includes a range of disciplines, from fashion and jewellery to painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, video, performance, printmaking and publishing.

INTRODUCTION TO GREAT WRAP VIDEOS

In the following six videos, Julia and Jordy discuss what inspired them to establish Great Wrap and develop their s tretch wrap . The y describe the steps involved in creating the potato waste-based material used to produce the wrap and discuss key steps in the design process that informed the development and refinement of this ground-breaking product. They explain the importance of the end user in the design process and highlight the significance of their collaboration with Bayly Group designers . They also share their thoughts on what makes Melbourne a great city for designing and engineering and describe the tools, materials and partnerships that make their operation possible. These videos and accompanying discussion questions can be viewed sequentially or individually and can be used in the classroom or by students for independent study.

Creative Practice: Great Wrap

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Describe Great Wrap's product range. What problems does each product address, and how do they solve them?

Consider the steps in the design process. How did Julia and Jordy Kay follow this process when developing their compostable stretch wrap and dispenser? How did each step inform the next?

Describe the role of sustainability in Great Wrap's practice. Consider the ideas that prompted the development of the Nudie Rolls and the Great Mate dispenser, and the materials and processes involved in their development and production.

Describe the appearance of the Great Mate stretch wrap dispenser. How have aesthetic considerations informed the design of this product? Think about the design elements and principles when generating your answer.

In the video 'Design Process, Development and Evaluation', Julia explains the importance of customer feedback in the design process. What feedback did Great Wrap receive from customers about the functionality of their stretch wrap, and how did this feedback influence their practice?

In the video 'Collaboration', Jordy and Julia describe the factors that make Melbourne a world-class city for product design and technological development. What are these factors, and how have they contributed to Great Wrap's success? What role does each factor play in maintaining Melbourne's reputation as a creative and innovative city?

How does Great Wrap's practice make you feel about how you approach product design? What have you learned that you might apply to your own design practice?

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While the events of 2020-21 have reminded us that money isn't everything, they have certainly sent the economy into a tailspin. As a result, creative budgets have tightened, agencies have pulled back on recruitment, and even many experienced freelancers have experienced a drop in income.

But if money is tight, there is one silver lining. There's a seemingly endless supply of free resources out there, from apps to assets, that can save you cash and make you more productive.

That said, it's hard to sort the wheat from the chaff, so in this post, we at Shillington have brought together the best of the best. Read on to discover 50 fabulous design resources you can download for free (at time of writing).

Free Stock Images

As far as free stock photo sites go, we think Pexels is one of the best. With a community of photographers and videographers generously donating their work for everyone to download and use, royalty-free, it's also the first to respond to current affairs, providing the images we might need to illustrate our timely projects.

Known for its high-quality offering of free stock imagery, StockSnap has a whole host of different categories you can browse through, so you'll never struggle to find what you need. No credit is required but always welcome.

Landing Stock is a niche site providing free stock photos that are suitable for your website landing page. Created by London-based product designer Craig Barber, it features only high-quality, clean and minimalistic photos, that crop well and provide space for copy.

As creators, it's our duty to ensure our work is diverse and inclusive, representing the whole of society. Nappy is a relative newcomer to the free stock photo sites out there, bringing "beautiful, high-res photos of black and brown people, for free".

Want a photo for your site that no one else has? Photo Creator from Icons8 allows you to combine different stock photos to create your own unique image. Combine objects, people, backgrounds and even images of your own using a browser-based drag-and-drop interface that's very quick and easy to use. We especially love the way you can add filters to your search.

Free Illustrations

Created by three recently graduated architecture students, Pimp My Drawing is a free source of people silhouettes for architects and designers. You can download free CAD blocks, illustrations and drawings in dwg and ai formats, and you don't even need to register.

In Humaaans, Pablo Stanley has created something quite special: modular, vector illustrations of humans that you can mix, match, rotate and position to create your own designs. Whatever you make is free for both commercial and personal use.

Describing itself as "open-source illustration for any idea you can imagine and create", unDraw is a constantly updated design project by Katerina Limpitsouni featuring beautiful SVG images that you can use completely free and without attribution. We particularly love the ability to quickly add your own hex code to tailor the illustrations to your own projects.

Need something a little more hand-drawn? Open Peeps is the illustration library for you. Created by Pablo Stanley, the open-source flat SVG and PNG assets are available for Sketch, Figma, Studio and XD. You can even make a donation if you're able to support Pablo. A little goes a long way.

Storytale is a subscription-based stock illustration site. But if you don't want to pay, you can find a number of free illustrations here too, gathered together under the 'Freebies' tab. We particularly like their selection of vector illustrations for use on a 404 error page.

Free Icons

Co-founded by Sofya Polyakov, Edward Boatman and Scott Thomas, The Noun Project brings together over two million curated icons, created by a global community and available for use by designers for free.

Ionicons are premium icons for use by designers in web, iOS, Android and desktop apps. Built by the Ionic Framework team, they're all free and open source.

Started by Dan Leech, Simple Icons makes free SVG icons for popular brands available to download for free.

This fabulous resource courtesy of icons8.com gives you a whole library of free icons in PNG and SVG. They're on the ball, too, as they've just released a "coronavirus related searches" section for those of you requiring something very current.

Animaticons is a set of high-resolution animated GIFs that you can customise. They are small in file size, compatible with all major browsers, emails and smartphones and don't require any special plugins or libraries.

Free fonts

An intuitive and robust directory of open source web fonts for designers to use how they wish. All created to the high standards you'd expect from a web giant like Google.

Fontfabric is a digital type foundry that creates retail fonts and custom typography for various brands. Rather generously, they also provide a selection of free fonts for anyone to download and use. We love Nexa and Intro, but there are lots more to browse and sample on its nicely designed website.

Dafont is an enormous archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by alphabetical listing, by style, by author or by popularity.

Another extensive archive of free fonts, all free for commercial use.

A personal selection of "classy, punk, professional, incomplete, and weird typefaces", Use & Modify provides open-source fonts that are free to use and...you guessed it, modify.

Free Stock Videos

Coverr is a source of beautifully shot stock videos that are free to download for commercial and non-commercial use, no attribution required.

Brought to you by Envato, Mixkit is a curated gallery of high-quality videos and animation, made by some of the world's most talented creators, with all content licensed for free.

Free HD stock footage and 4K videos courtesy of Videezy. Calling itself one of the largest video communities in the world, its collection is provided by its members - most is free to download and use, but there are some paid options, too, should you wish to extend your search.

Life of Vids offers free videos for web designers, filmmakers, advertisers, agencies, or anyone else who can make use of them. You can create infinite loops with most of them, and they're all available to download for both personal and commercial use.

Videvo offers a ton of free stock videos which can be used free of charge, in both personal and commercial productions. Video clips that carry the Creative Commons 3.0 license must be attributed to the original author.

Free Graphic Design Tools

It's easy to stick to the same old typeface combinations, time after time. But if your design work is starting to look stale as a result, here's a great way to change things up. Fontjoy draws on deep learning to generate new and original font pairings for you. The text is editable, so you can try replacing it with your client's name, or any other copy, to see how it works in practice.

Simple to use in the browser, with no downloads required, Canva is a surprisingly powerful and flexible graphic design tool. It's no InDesign, but it can do a lot of basic design tasks quite efficiently using drag and drop.

Gravit Designer is a full-featured vector graphic design app that works on all platforms. The free version comes with 500MB of cloud storage.

Created by a non-profit organisation, Inkscape is a professional quality vector graphics software that runs on Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. It's open-source and free to download.

Brandpad is a free tool that helps designers to create strong, conceptual and functional brand guidelines. This cloud-based platform enables you to do everything from asset creation to sharing and usage in one place. And we love how the site's own branding is totally neutral, so it doesn't get in the way of your own visual work.

Free Mockup Tools

Screely enables you to instantly turn a screenshot into a mockup, without the need for Sketch or Photoshop templates. Just upload your image and the app will do the rest.

LovelyMockups.com was founded in 2016 by two designers and start-up enthusiasts from Slovenia, and provides you with ready to use premium mockup templates, made with high-res photos, absolutely free. These templates are perfect for website banners, online portfolio, ppt presentations, social media, catalogs and billboards.

Want to show clients how your designs will look on a real-life device? Shooting your own photography is a lot of work, so MockDrop saves the bother by providing you with free stock photos of people holding devices with blank screens. Upload your screenshot, and it automatically gets added to the photo, ready for you to download. Genius!

Copy and paste a URL into Screenpeek and it will generate an attractive mockup in just 10 seconds. Created by Hans Pagel and Philipp Kuhn, this app is free for iPhone mockups only.

Founded by Shillington's Global Managing Director Anthony Wood, House of Mockups strives to provide the highest quality, realistic mockups and resources for Graphic Designers. The collection is just getting started, but bookmark this one for the place to go for free and premium mockups with outstanding art direction.

Free Image Editing Tools

Need to remove the background from a photo? This free tool can do it surprisingly quickly, and it just takes one click.

Created by Peter Assentorp, Social Sizes provides designers with the best sizes to use for image and video content on social media. Templates for Sketch, Adobe XD and Photoshop, are all included, and downloadable for free.

fotor isn't just a "design maker", it's a photo editor where you can crop, rotate, fine-tune, colour, resize or add effects to any image - all within your browser window. You can also create photo collages.

Pixel Editor has a long track record as a basic but reliable photo editor that's free to use within the browser. They've just released a new version, Pixel Editor X, which is faster, has more editing tools and integrates with Dropbox.

Free Screenshot Tools

This free Mac app makes it easy to capture parts of your screen and export them as Gifs or MP4 files. Capture GIFs up to 30 seconds long with just a couple of clicks.

This web and desktop application enables you to quickly grab screenshots and share the URLs with colleagues, as well as live, multi-person drawing and sketching.

This free and open-source application for Windows combines a screen, webcam and sketch board recorder with an integrated editor.

A lightweight, free and open-source tool for screen capture and file sharing, ShareX has benefited from over 11 years of active development by its community.

If you need to take a screenshot of an entire web page, here's a free app for that. This browser extension allows you to screengrab everything on the page, including both the part on your screen and the part below it, in a single click. Created by independent software developer Peter Coles, it's currently available for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

Snappy is a workmanlike app for taking and collaborating on snapshots for iPhone, iPad and Mac. (A Windows version is "coming soon".)

Design Inspiration

Behance, part of the Adobe network, is a popular online platform to showcase and discover creative work, including art, illustration, graphic design, UI design and animation.

A beautifully designed website that shares some of the best creativity out there. It's a veritable curated feast of branding projects, packaging designs, and editorial features, offering support to those they feature and inspiration to the rest of the creative community.

Httpster is an inspiration resource showcasing website designs from all over the world. The emphasis is not on flashy features but a "less is more" approach to design.

Another popular and lively online community for showcasing creative work. While Behance is mainly completed work, Dribbble specialises in smaller snapshots (aka 'shots') of in-progress work.

When you see a typeface on a font foundry's website, it's often tricky to imagine how it will work in practice. So head to Fonts in Use, a public archive of typography indexed by typeface, format, industry, and period. Search for the font in question, and you'll be served up a selection of examples of how it's been used in practice, from graphic design to film and TV.
Good luck using these free resources on your future graphic design projects! Want to take your design career to the next level? Study design 3 months full-time or 9 months part-time at Shillington Online or On Campus in New York, London, Manchester, Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane -> www.shillingtoneducation.com.

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Once upon a time, graphic design blogs were all about eye candy. But while there's nothing wrong with that, recent years have seen more and more blogs that delve a little deeper.

Nowadays, if you want to see the latest design work, find out who created it, what the challenges were and how they overcame them, there's a blog for that. Consequently, if you just want a quick blast of eye candy to inspire you visually, you're well catered for as well. Indeed, there are so many graphic design blogs out there right now; it's difficult to know which ones to pay the most attention to.

This is where we step in to help. We at Shillington reached out to all our Design Teachers, students and graduates to find out their favourite design blogs to bring you our top 50 recommendations to follow.

1. Abduzeedo

Abduzeedo is a collective of individual writers sharing articles about architecture, design, photography and UX. Founded by Brazilian designer Fabio Sasso in 2006, it's particularly strong on 3D work, which doesn't get much attention from most design blogs.

2. Design Week

Founded in 1986, Design Week was the UK's leading design magazine until 2011, when it became online-only. It continues to bring you high quality, well-written news and inspiration across graphics, branding, interiors, digital, product, furniture and more.

3. Creative Boom

Creative Boom celebrates, inspires and supports the creative community and has an excellent section on graphic design to give you loads of inspiration. The magazine also features insightful interviews with some of the world's leading designers- Paula Scher being a recent example.

4. Mirador

Mirador is the image-based blog curated by Say What Studio, a graphic design duo based in Paris, France. It draws together many inspirational works out there and pulls them together in a beautifully designed, Tumblr-style feed of visual inspiration.

5. Telepathy

Telepathy has spent nearly 20 years helping startups and brands craft meaningful experiences for their customers. It shares the lessons it's learned on its UX-focused blog, with intriguing articles such as 'How to handle inspiration overload' and 'Using the Internet of Things to extend your brand essence'.

6. Creative Review

Founded in 1980, Creative Review is the world's leading monthly magazine for advertising, design and visual culture. And the same high-quality journalism that informs it carries through to its website, which features a range of news, reviews and features from the creative world.

7. The Dieline

For anyone working in packaging design, The Dieline has it all wrapped up. It's basically the Bible of the sector: a place where the community can review, critique and stay informed of the latest industry trends, and check out design projects being created in the field.

8. Made by Folk

Founded in 2007 by a group of young designers and vagabonds eager to collect and share the best design work they came across, FormFiftyFive soon became an international showcase of creative work. They have since been renamed Made by Folk and added more interactive elements to exchange and store ideas more easily, extending it from design blog to collaborative platform.

9. Eye Magazine

Eye Magazine, the international review of graphic design, is a quarterly print magazine on graphic design and visual culture. Its associated blog features a range of critical, informed writing about design and visual culture.

10. I Love Typography

I Love Typography covers everything from typography and type history to making fonts, and everything in between, including printmaking to book history and occasionally calligraphy. The work of John Boardley, author of "Typographic Firsts: Adventures in Early Printing", it's all carefully crafted, authoritative stuff.

11. Identity Designed

This clean and elegant blog, Identity Designed, by David Airey is a showcase of the best brand identities worldwide. It's just one of the many successful design blogs that he runs. Also see number 37 on our list.

12. Shillington Design Blog

Shillington is a college network offering an innovative approach to design education based on short, intensive courses and practical, industry-focused learning. And it has its own blog too, Shillington Design Blog features a range of inspiring design work and insightful articles. You should know that, though-you're already here!

13. Under Consideration: Brand New

Under Consideration is a graphic design firm generating its own projects, initiatives and content, while taking on a limited amount of client work. Its Brand New blog is well-known for chronicling and providing opinions on, corporate and brand identity work. It's edited and written by Armin Vit.

14. Browser London

Browser London is a digital agency that not only does impressive work for clients but has also successfully developed and taken to market its own digital tools and web apps. This blog is full of ideas and insights taken from these experiences, with topics including 'The rise of dark mode in UI design' and 'What dependency hell looks like, and how to avoid it'.

15. Print.pm

The brainchild of Parisian art director Martin Joubert, Print.pm provides a daily burst of inspiration for lovers of editorial print design, mainly based around the latest arty-looking books and magazines.

16. UX Collective

Medium-based blog UX Collective pulls together various insightful articles from designers working at the coalface of user experience. There's some excellent advice on offer here, about everything from empathy mapping to icon design principles.

17. The Dsgn Blog

The Dsgn Blog is all about visual inspiration. Founded, designed and curated by Ena Baćanović, a designer based in Zagreb, Croatia, it features the work of designers and design studios from all over the world, putting the main focus on young designers and students.

18. Google Design

This design-focused blog is full of interesting articles and news updates from the world of design. Yes, there's a lot about Google's products and services, and you'll also find fascinating posts such as 'Lessons From the Scariest Design Disaster in American History' and 'How to make ambient computing work-for people'.

19. BP&O

BP&O stands for Branding, Packaging and Opinion, and it delivers on all of these things, with a combination of inspiring imagery and in-depth analysis. It's the brainchild of Richard Baird, a British freelance designer and writer who specialises in brand identities and packaging.

20. Design Clever

Design Clever is a collaboration started by Jonathan Ring and Bethany Baker, two aspiring graphic designers with a passion for everything design-related. This blog was created to showcase talented designers worldwide and they encourage creatives everywhere to submit their work to it.

21. This Too Shall Grow

This Too Shall Grow is a French UX studio focusing on protecting users' mental health and privacy, pushing for transparency and avoiding dark patterns. Its blog looks at tech in general, UX in particular, and their impact on psychology, mental health and society.

22. Fonts In Use

Fonts In Use is a public archive of typography indexed by typeface, format, and industry. An independent project led by Sam Berlow, Stephen Coles and Nick Sherman, it documents and examines graphic design intending to improve typographic literacy and appreciation.

23. Masterpicks

Are you looking for inspiration from real-world projects? Masterpicks has you covered. This image-led blog presents you with a new, hand-picked design project every day, across UX and UI design, illustration, animation, 3D art, graphic design, branding, industrial design and photography.

24. Frank Chimero

Veteran designer Frank Chimero shares his thoughts regularly on his much-visited blog, and they're very much worth reading. Jumping between the internet, design, writing, music, film, self-development and work culture, his posts are beautifully written and always relevant.

25. Creative Bloq

Creative Bloq features advice, interviews and reviews on graphic design, branding, web design, animation, VFX and digital art. It also posts daily news from the creative industry, ranging from fun to serious.

26. Spotify Design

Who knew Spotify had a design blog? Well, it does, and it's a corker. Although it's narrowly focused on the company's operations, posts such as 'How Spotify organises work in Figma to improve collaboration' contains many helpful pointers for designers and design agencies in general.

27. Wix Creative

Wix is a cloud-based platform for creating your website, and its blog offers inspiration, tips and resources for creatives everywhere. It includes professional step-by-step guides to walk you through everything from colour theory to make a mood board.

28. Dribbble

Enabling creatives to share their work long before Instagram was dreamt of, Dribbble is a design industry institution. Its related blog is packed with practical advice to boost your career, such as forming good habits and getting out of a bad design feedback loop.

29. Design Made In Japan

Japanese culture has a vast global influence right now, and Design Made In Japan is the perfect place to stay updated with its design output. There's a wealth of editorial, product and packaging design on show, and even a design jobs board for those wanting to work in Japan.

30. Mindsparkle

Mindsparkle magazine promotes the "most beautiful and inspiring projects" in the fields of graphic design, web design and video. With a clean and satisfying design of its own, it'll become a daily inspiration and you can rely on the founders to only share the very best.

31. Album Colours of the Year 2020

Here's an offbeat source of visual inspiration that might be just the left-field perspective you've been looking for. It's a collection of 150 album covers to celebrate the colours used in record cover art in 2020. A compelling source of eye candy and palette inspiration, whichever year you view it in.

32. It's Nice That

Beautifully designed, industry-led and one of the best resources for keeping abreast of art, illustration and graphic design everywhere, It's Nice That continues to be one of our favourite online publications.

33. Designer News

Describing itself as "where the design community meets", Designer News pulls in the latest exciting posts from around the web, from Behance and Medium to individual designers' websites. The community then upvotes and downvotes them and adds their comments.

34. Codrops

Codrops is a web design and development blog that publishes articles and tutorials about the latest web trends, techniques and new possibilities. If you like what you see, sign up for the excellent newsletter to keep updated regularly.

35. Httpster

Just want to browse delicious web design? Httpster is precisely what you need. It's an inspiration resource showcasing "totally rocking websites" made by designers everywhere. As with all trends, you don't need to copy them, but it's helpful to know what they are.

36. Siteinspire

Siteinspire is another showcase of the latest and greatest web designs. Updated frequently, it's a great place to keep in touch with the most recent interactive design trends and get ideas and inspiration for your creations.

37. Logo Design Love

Another beautifully designed blog by David Airey, Logo Design Love focuses on logo designs from around the world. It's a nicely curated showcase for the latest logos and featuring reviews and commentary around related work, such as logo design books.

38. The Inspiration Grid

The Inspiration Grid is an online magazine celebrating creative talent worldwide, providing a daily fix of art, illustration, typography, photography and, of course, graphic design. It has a clean, appealing design and everything is easy to find-one of our favourites.

39. Visuelle

David Bennett curates inspiring projects from graphic designers worldwide. There's no commentary (the images link through to the original site), but it's compelling visual eye-candy throughout. Add this to your bookmarks for reliable content daily.

40. Onextrapixel

Are you getting into web design? This excellent blog strives to share the best web resources for those of you passionate about pixels. It looks at trends, the best fonts, recommended templates for WordPress and much more.

41. AIGA: Eye on Design

The AIGA, otherwise known as The Professional Association for Design, has a beautiful blog called Eye on Design which is bursting with design inspiration. With contributors from around the world, you'll never be bored with its varied content.

42. Visual Journal

Curated by Alessandro Scarpellini, a designer and art director from Italy, Visual Journal brings together the best branding and graphic design projects worldwide. There's very little in the way text here, but lots and lots of beautiful images to drool over.

43. Webflow Blog

Webflow is a product used to create websites visually without coding. Whether or not you're using Webflow yourself, its blog is packed with excellent articles on broader subjects around web design and UX and is well worth a visit.

44. Ambalaj

Founded by Swedish designer Kristina de Verdier in 2008, Ambalaj is predominantly a packaging design blog, but it also tends to share the latest design innovations.

45. Design by Womxn

Founded by UK-based graphic designer Mary Hemingway, Design by Womxn aims to showcase, champion and support female creatives currently working in the design industry and to inspire women who want to pursue a career in design. One to add to your feed.

46. 8Faces

The official blog of 8 Faces magazine, it features inspirational typography, beautiful lettering, reviews, interviews with leading designers and much more. Curated by Jamie Clarke and Elliot Jay Stocks.

47. Swissmiss

Swissmiss is the work of Tina Roth Eisenberg, a Swiss designer in New York who also founded and today runs Tattly, CreativeMornings and TeuxDeux. It's packed with visual inspiration, some of which can be quite offbeat, but never dull.

48. Design Taxi

With its own section dedicated to graphic design, Design Taxi is a good shout to keep abreast of industry news, trends and updates. Its posts don't go into a lot of depth but cover a wide breadth of topics. So it's great for getting an overview of what's going on in general.

49. SideBar

Want to keep track of everything going on in web design right now, but don't have time to subscribe to a thousand different blogs? SideBar saves you the bother by curating the best posts daily and delivering you five relevant links a day, which is much more manageable.

50. This is Paper

This is Paper is a beautiful blog, and print magazine focused on creativity, with a section devoted to print design. There's also a very popular mixtapes section where you can enjoy listening to some beats while working.
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