Available as fully editable Adobe InDesign file, this well-designed minimalist portfolio brochure template will help you to showcase your creative work the right way.

This minimalist portfolio brochure template has been created by the graphic designer and Adobe Stock contributor @More Profesh. The download package includes two standard sizes A4 and US Letter. Both sizes are equipped with 22 fully editable pages. You only need basic InDesign skills to work with this template. All text and image sections can be customized with just a few simple clicks.

Please note, this portfolio brochure template requires Adobe InDesign. You can get the latest version from the Adobe Creative Cloud website, just have a look here. Feel free to learn more about this well-designed template by clicking on the following link or have a look at the images below.

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This is the ultimate selection of the top twenty graphic design blogs for your daily dose of creative inspiration in 2021.

As in previous years, we would like to show you our selection of the best graphic design blogs for the year 2021. We have increased the selection again to introduce you to the 20 very best graphic design blogs for creative inspiration in 2021.

It’s no secret that even the best graphic designers look for inspiration, and well-curated blogs can deliver exactly what they need. The following list of the top twenty graphic design blogs will help you to stay up to date with the latest design trends. Most of these blogs are run by graphic designers and editors from the creative industry who know exactly what they are writing about. The selection for 2021 is once again about quality instead of quantity or the level of awareness a website has.

20. WE AND THE COLOR

Well, this is actually outside the ranking, but we would like to start this list by introducing you to our own publication. For those of you who are new to our website, WE AND THE COLOR is an award-winning online magazine featuring the very best from various creative fields ranging from design to modern art and photography. Founded in 2010, our aim is to showcase outstanding work to provide you with a daily dose of creative inspiration.

19. Inspiration Grid

Inspiration Grid has been launched in February 2011 as a graphic design blog celebrating outstanding talent from all over the world. They offer daily features including topics such as design, art, illustration, typography, photography, architecture, fashion, and more.

18. Creative Bloq

Creative Bloq is a well known online publication with millions of monthly page visits. They mostly specialize in tutorials, product reviews, buying guides, latest news, and some design inspiration. Creative Bloq shares a broad range of informative content for web designers, graphic designers, illustrators, or 3D and VFX artists.

17. Smashing Magazine

Founded by Vitaly Friedman and Sven Lennartz in 2006, Smashing Magazine offers quality content for the design community. With a particular focus on web design, they feature many topics ranging from graphics to coding.

16. Mindsparkle Mag

Mindsparkle Mag is a graphic design blog and source of creative inspiration for like-minded people and creatives from all over the world. They mostly showcase outstanding projects from the fields of graphic design, branding, web design, and motion graphics. In addition, they provide you with information on the latest job offerings from the creative industry.

15. Design Week

Design Week has been founded in 1986 originally as a printed publication from the UK. In 2011, it became an online publication featuring well-written design news with a main focus on graphics, product design, and branding projects.

14. Visual Journal

Curated by Alessandro Scarpellini, Visual Journal is a blog from Italy. The page features images of graphic design, branding, and visual communication projects from all over the world.

13. Typeroom

This is the perfect site for the typography geeks among you. Typeroom is showcasing trending typography and masterful font designs. Furthermore, they talk to type designers and explain specific typographic designs.

12. Abduzeedo

As I explained last year in our feature of the 15 best graphic design blogs for 2020, Abduzeedo is one of the first graphic design blogs I knew and a daily source of inspiration, when I worked as a freelance graphic designer. The blog was founded in 2006 by Brazilian designer Fabio Sasso. Today it’s a collective of several editors who share inspiring articles about all forms of design, illustration, and photography.

11. Creative Review

Unfortunately, most of their content is only available with a paid membership. Creative Review has started in 1980 as a print magazine. Today it’s an online platform with multiple channels. For their subscribers, they offer high-quality news and reviews.

10. Visuelle

Curated by David Bennett, Visuelle is an online showcase for outstanding projects from international freelance graphic designers and leading branding studios. The featured work includes modern typography and minimalist graphic design solutions.

9. Dieline

Founded in 2007 by Andrew Gibbs, Dieline is one of the most popular pages for packaging design. They share innovative design solutions and outstanding creativity through original editorials and submitted projects.

8. ID Identity Design

It’s no surprise but here it’s all about branding and identity design. They show inspiring case studies from hundreds of talented graphic designers and creative studios. You should add this blog to your bookmarks for eye-catching content.

7. It’s Nice That

It’s Nice That is a renowned online publication founded in 2007. Their content is characterized by a well-curated mix of illustration and graphic design projects along with information on forthcoming events. In addition, they produce a printed publication called Printed Pages.

6. Adobe Creative Cloud Blog

All professional graphic designers know the Adobe Creative Cloud—it’s where one can get all the magic tools to create amazing designs but the platform also has a discovery section that features plenty of inspiring content as well as usage instructions, training videos, live streams, and free resources.

5. BP&O

BP&O means branding, packaging, and opinion, which describes the basic topics of the blog quite well. The website was founded by Richard Baird, a British graphic designer and writer. Based on his own taste and expertise, this graphic design blog is a well-curated source of highly inspiring projects.

4. Creative Boom

Founded in 2009 by Katy Cowan, Creative Boom is another high-quality online publication from the UK dedicated to the creative industries. They deliver inspiration, insight, and advice to creative professionals from around the globe.

3. SwissMiss

SwissMiss is one of the most authentic and honest graphic design blogs out there. Founded in 2005 by Swiss graphic designer Tina Roth Eisenberg, this visual archive is not about clickbait, no surreptitious advertising, and no content production just for Google and other search engines. SwissMiss only offers high-quality content from creative professionals for creative professionals.

2. Adobe 99U

99U is a creative career resource from Adobe. It’s also an annual conference that helps creatives of all kinds accelerate their work, connect, and implement their ideas. The online publication features various stories behind the careers of leading creatives. In addition, they publish useful guides and tips on everything from entrepreneurship to achieving a successful work-life balance.

1. AIGA Eye on Design

Eye on Design is a digital publication by AIGA, the professional association for design. No matter what you want to see (print, web, branding, packaging, or illustration), AIGA Eye on Design is the perfect website to discover the latest trends and visual candy created by professional designers from all over the world.

That was our comprehensive list of the twenty best graphic design blogs that help you to stay motivated and inspired in 2021. Platforms such as Behance and Dribbble as well as social media channels such as Instagram or Pinterest are also great sources for creative inspiration. If you have any comments or if you think we missed something, just send us a note.

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Stay safe during the Christmas season of 2020 and for those of you who cannot see their loved ones, just send out some lovely designed Christmas postcards.

For most of us, Christmas 2020 will be a little different than we are used to. Nevertheless, it is the time for reflection and a good opportunity to shoot down the damn year of 2020 or send greetings to family and friends. The following Christmas postcard templates have been created by graphic designer and Adobe Stock contributor @GrafVishenka. The set includes three designs as fully editable PSD files. Each sample text is for display only and may not be included in the end-use. You are free to add any text or images you want to the templates.

Please note, these templates are optimized for Adobe Photoshop. You can get the latest version from the Adobe Creative Cloud website—just have a look here. If you want to know more about these Christmas greeting card templates, just click on the following link.

Are you interested to see more design assets? If so, feel free to browse through our recommended Templates category. Our reviews will help you to find amazing digital products from various graphic design resources.

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A production service guide and location look-book with art direction and graphic design by Michał Markiewicz.

Commissioned by Lucky Luciano Pictures, Michał Markiewicz, a Polish graphic designer was responsible for the overall design and art direction of this production service guide and location lookbook. The primary point of this book is to serve as a mood board designed to display the vast diversity of locations for filmmaking in Poland. All photographs have been selected by hand and categorized to provide instant inspiration when looking for a place to shoot.

Below you can see a few images of the publication. For more, please visit Michał Markiewicz’ portfolio or check out his website. Full credits can be found at the end of this article.

All images © by Michał Markiewicz.

Credits:
Art direction and Graphic design: Michał Markiewicz
Editing: Marcin Nowak
Product photoshoot: Michał Flis

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A nature-inspired band identity created by Bluerock Design for Grey Barn & Farm.

Grey Barn & Farm is a certified organic farm located in Chilmark, MA on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. They provide milk, cheese, meat, vegetables, and eggs to the community both on and off Martha’s Vineyard. Studio Bluerock Design was asked to work on a new brand identity based on a refreshed design concept. Their work included a range of logos along with a uniform typographic system, packaging materials, printed collateral, advertising materials, and a new website. Below you can find the successful result. For more of Bluerock Design’s creative work, please visit their website or follow them on Behance.

All images © by Bluerock Design Co. Just have a look at our Graphic Design, Branding, and Packaging Design categories to find more inspiring projects from all over the world or discover the top ten graphic design trends for 2021 on WE AND THE COLOR.

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Onefold is a clothing brand in New York that sells recycled cashmere garments for kids. Their approach to fashion challenges the way we think about kid’s clothes and the socialization of gender norms among children. They strongly believe that fashion shouldn’t define a child’s identity or restrict their movement throughout the world. The brand strives to create thoughtful, well-constructed, and long-lasting garments, with timeless and unisex designs that grow with your child.

The graphic solution follows the principle of simplicity, using timeless typographies, clean editorials and neutral colors, conveying the idea that less can be more. The icon was designed combining the concept of Onefold’s cyclical philosophy with the concept of infinity, resulting in a modernist and minimalist ribbon icon that represents the reuse of natural materials, while thinking that each piece can be worn for multiple years and then passed on to the next generation.

We wanted our visual outcome to align with our client’s vision. Staying away from gender stereotypes like blue for boys and pink for girls was something we absolutely agreed upon. We asked questions like, “Why do kid’s clothing brands have to all be overly childish with a naive or cute look and feel just because kids are associated with that aesthetic? We were influenced more by the vision of what was wanted for the brand in terms of simplicity and timelessness with a bit of playfulness.

Onefold, challenging the way we think about clothes through great design.

Photos by Futura and Stephen Blaise.

Futura elsewhere on ID: Buddy Buddy.

Check out these graphic design templates based on simple geometric shapes.

In our article on the best graphic design trends for 2021, we already mentioned that geometric shapes are very popular at the moment. Well, they’ve actually been very popular for several decades, but at the moment the trend has once again strengthened significantly. We have seen countless modern design projects inspired by the principles of Bauhaus or the style of good old Swiss graphic design and the following templates are no exception. Created by graphic designer and Adobe Stock contributor @Ddok, these vector graphics masterfully combine modern styles with old design principles. All of these graphics are fully editable. You can change every shape, size, or color. These templates are well suited for posters, flyers, brochures, branding, social media posts, or website backgrounds, just to name a few.

Please note, all of these templates require professional graphic design software such as Adobe Illustrator. You can get the latest version from the Adobe Creative Cloud website, just have a look here. Below you can see only a small selection of geometric graphic design templates. Just click on the following link to see all sets.

Do not hesitate to have a look at the Templates category to find other useful graphic design resources.

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Brand identity design by studio Futura for Native Seed, a California-based brand that creates cannabis products that people feel comfortable consuming.

Here comes another eye-catching brand identity project created by graphic design studio Futura. The studio has been commissioned to produce a new visual experience for Native Seed, a California-based brand that creates cannabis products based on nutrition safe for everyone to enjoy while receiving the important healing benefits of cannabis and other plant-based foods.

Inspired by the cannabis distortion effect of time that you experience from its compounds THC and CBD, Futura’s graphic design proposal is based on the idea that time doesn’t exist. The illustrations were created as frames in order to represent the sensations that one has while being high. Furthermore, the typography gives the brand an industrial feel that communicates the clean process behind the products, while the colors create a quick relationship with cannabis products and have a direct relationship with the region where they are grown.

Below you can see a few images of the brand identity. For more of Futura’s creative work, please visit their website.

All images © by graphic design and branding studio Futura. Do not hesitate to see other inspiring work in our Graphic Design and Branding categories.

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These well-designed stationery and branding templates are available as fully editable vector graphics on Adobe Stock.

This amazing collection of stationery and branding templates has been created by a graphic designer and Adobe Stock contributor @kenterville. The collection consists of countless individual sets—all based on fully editable vector graphics. If you want to use one of these templates for your own projects, we recommend you to browse through this full collection to find exactly what you are looking for. There are so many different styles based on various shapes and color schemes. These countless sets include plenty of stationery systems as well as branding and communication materials.

Please keep in mind, all of these stationery and branding templates require professional graphic design software such as Adobe Illustrator. You can get the latest version from the Adobe Creative Cloud website, just have a look here. Below you can see only a small selection of templates. Just click on the following link to see them all.

Do not hesitate to check out our Templates category to see more design assets from the best graphic design resources.

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Let’s talk about the best graphic design trends that will be very popular among most graphic designers in 2021.

Graphic design trends are constantly changing and we see new styles every year. During the last years, we have showcased plenty of exciting graphic design projects realized by outstanding creatives and some of the best design studios from all over the world. This is a great way to see the current changes and upcoming trends. We received so many graphic design project submissions and feedback, which helps a lot to see what’s popular at the moment and to predict what tomorrow’s trends in graphic design will be.

According to the latest featured case studies as well as all the great feedback we have received on trending graphic design, here comes our selection of the top graphic design trends for 2021.

1. Graphic Design Inspired by Nature

It seems that the more urbanized and digitized our daily life becomes, the more people yearn for something that relates them with nature. There is currently a strongly growing trend in graphic design towards organic nature-inspired shapes and colors. Many designs remind us of landscapes, trees, leaves, or animals.

2. Abstract Graphic Design

After many years of clear shapes and lines, one can notice that more and more designers are enjoying the disorder of abstract shapes. This way, they create a deliberate contrast with a strict layout and the unconventionally abstract shapes quickly catch the viewer’s eye. Abstract graphic design uses a visual language of shapes, colors, and lines in various compositions.

3. Unusual Color Combinations and Blurring Effects

Striking gradients have been a big thing already in 2020. In 2021, we expect that this trend will continue and many more graphic designers will love to add blurred color transitions and noise effects to their work. This trend enables design elements, typography, or images to stand out against the background.

4. 3D Typography

Whether animated or static, 3D typography is literally going big in 2021. The three-dimensional letters in different shapes, colors, and sizes seem to jump out of a medium. Already today, you can see them everywhere—on websites, billboards, or in printed publications. They can be designed in various styles.

5. Symbols

Actually, symbols existed when graphic design was out of the question. They were already used in prehistoric times and antiquity. In today’s graphic design, symbols can be marks, icons, or words that indicate and represent an idea or object. Symbols have the power to overcome the barrier of different languages through the use of generally understandable symbols.

6. Monochromatic Color Schemes

The saying “less is more” does not necessarily have to refer to the shape of a design. Using a simple monochromatic color scheme, you can also create a strong, eye-catching visual experience. Monochromatic backgrounds are especially well suited for text overlays or in combination with graphics, symbols, or images. After a real explosion of colors in the past few years, 2021 can become the year of more subtle color concepts to monochrome designs.

7. Retrofuturism

Retrofuturism gives us a sense of nostalgia while bringing us closer to the longing of yesteryear for an exciting, technological future. People dreamed of a fully automated future as well as flying cars and the exploration of distant galaxies. After the doom and gloom in 2020, the retrofuturistic designs of the year 2021 will bring us back to this optimistic view of the future.

8. Geometric Forms

Even the simplest geometric form can add great value to your work. In our latest features, we have seen highly-creative examples of geometric designs and in 2021, the trend continues. These geometric forms can be applied to both 2D and 3D designs.

9. Classic Vintage-Inspired Typefaces

Our loyal readers know that fonts are an important topic on WE AND THE COLOR and we’re seeing more and more elegant, vintage-inspired fonts being released. There are beautifully designed bold display typefaces such as Glamour Absolute that can be used in a wide range of projects. Those fonts can add a nice touch of vintage to your design.

10. Emojis

Social media influences our daily life. Therefore, it is no wonder that it also has a significant impact on current graphic design trends. Most of us like to use funny emojis to visualize different states of mind and clever designers now create websites or packaging based on fun and playful emojis to show certain emotions.

This is our selection of the top ten graphic design trends for 2021. We look forward to receiving your feedback. You can find other inspiring work in our extensive Graphic Design category.

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