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What Happens in Your Brain When You Experience Art

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A Dictionary of Color Combinations Vol. 1

A Dictionary of Color Combinations Vol. 1 is Seigensha's 2010 bilingual reprint of 348 color combinations drawn from Sanzo Wada's 1930s six-volume reference work, Haishoku Soukan. Wada, an Oscar-winning costume designer and founder of Japan's Standard Color Association, built palettes now used across fashion, interior, and graphic design. The book pairs minimalist combination spreads with a CMYK cross-reference index, packed into a 256-page pocket format.

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Casa FJ in Portugal

Casa FJ is a residential project by MIL870 and GRAUON in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, photographed by Ivo Tavares. Part of a 28-house semi-detached development, it keeps its street façade aligned with the ensemble while spreading across two plots internally to house a couple with two children. What began as an interior design commission grew into a full architectural proposal, delivering a ground floor built around social and leisure space (four-car garage, office, gym, living room, kitchen, and a pool-facing second lounge) and an upper floor dedicated to private rooms (master suite, two children's bedrooms, and a guest room overlooking a double-height living space).

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Resume and Cover Letter Layout Tested: Adobe InDesign Template Review

A two-page Adobe InDesign template by Orangeberry, pairing a resume with a matching cover letter. Clean two-column structure, circular portrait photo, linked paragraph styles, available in A4 and US Letter, editable through Adobe Creative Cloud.

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Why Substack Is Becoming the Default Home for Content Creators and Creative Professionals

Substack passed 50 million subscribers. Here's why designers, artists, and creatives are building direct audiences there instead of on algorithm-driven platforms.

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GC Furion Font Family by Glyphonic

GC Furion by Glyphonic is a variable geometric sans-serif built for technology, gaming, automotive, and UI/UX branding. Its sharp, consistent letterforms hold up from headline to body size, and its variable axis supports a full type hierarchy without secondary fonts. It's strongest for precision-driven brand identities and weakest for warm, handcrafted brand voices. Supports 170+ languages. Available on Creative Fabrica, Envato Elements, and YouWorkForThem.

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Your Studio Setup Is Quietly Deciding How Good Your Work Looks

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A Business Proposal Presentation Template for InDesign, Illustrator, Canva, Keynote, PowerPoint, and Slides.

A modern corporate pitch deck template from BrandPacks, built for agencies, startups, and consultants. It covers strategy, SWOT, timelines, pricing, and case studies across seven design apps, with strong cross-format consistency and a confident black-cream-orange visual identity, though font licensing and a few placeholder data slides require extra setup work.

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Adobe Stock AI Studio vs. Canva AI vs. Creative Fabrica: Which AI Editor Actually Wins?

Adobe Stock AI Studio wins for teams licensing commercial stock, thanks to its edit-before-license model and Agentic Stock Workflows. Canva AI (formerly marketed as Magic Studio) wins on speed and volume for non-designers, led by its new conversational design layer, Canva AI 2.0. Creative Fabrica wins on raw asset economics for print-on-demand sellers, backed by unlimited downloads and a local-processing desktop app. No single tool wins outright—the right pick depends on where your workflow actually needs to commit money or license an asset.

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Does the Hailward Resume Adobe InDesign Template Actually Save You Time? We Tested It to Find Out

Hailward is a two-page resume Adobe InDesign template by GraphyPix, pairing a matching cover letter and resume on a shared grid. Built at standard A4 size in CMYK for professional printing, it's fully customizable and organized into Profile, Graduated (education), Experience, and Skill sections with a clean, typography-led layout that favors restraint over decoration—best suited to design, editorial, and marketing applicants.

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The Eames Houses Book From Phaidon

The Eames Houses is the first comprehensive survey of Charles and Ray Eames's residential architecture, covering all eight houses they designed between 1945 and 1955. Written by Eckart Maise with a foreword by Eames Demetrios and contributions from Catherine Ince and Norman Foster, the 288-page Phaidon book pairs previously unpublished sketches, letters, and photographs with newly commissioned images of Case Study House No. 8. It connects the couple's architectural work to their furniture, toy, textile, and film design, arguing for a single consistent design philosophy across disciplines.

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Postamp Grotesk Font Family by Fontfabric

Postamp Grotesk is a condensed geometric sans serif from Fontfabric, designed by Ivelina Martinova and released January 15, 2026. It's built from letterforms on a historical James Buchanan postage stamp, ships in five weights (Thin–Bold) each with a standard Condensed and a Mix cut that selectively widens rounded letters for a hand-lettered rhythm, plus a two-axis variable font (Weight and Width). It supports Extended Latin and Cyrillic and is best suited to branding, packaging, editorial headlines, and motion graphics rather than body text.

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2027 Risograph Wall Calendar Template

This is a 13-page, vector-based (AI file) 2027 wall calendar template by Adobe Stock contributor Designcy Studio, measuring 4.13 x 12 in. It features risograph-inspired retro pattern backgrounds that rotate across four distinct decade-referencing visual families, fully editable layers, and CMYK print-ready color, making it best suited for narrow wall displays, studio use, or resale mockups rather than standard desk calendars.

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The Elements of Brand Design by TASCHEN

The Elements of Brand Design is a 496-page multilingual hardcover from TASCHEN, written by Katharina Sussek and Jens Müller. It breaks brand identity into 17 chapters covering over 100 case studies, from historic corporate symbols to modern sound, motion, and generative AI branding. The book features brands like Netflix, Instagram, Nike, and Deutsche Bank, plus in-depth interviews with Pentagram's Paula Scher and Michael Bierut. Sussek and Müller, co-founders of the studio vista and previous authors of Logo Modernism and The History of Graphic Design, position this as their most comprehensive branding title to date.

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What Makes Solspill a Beverage Branding Case Study Worth Studying?

Solspill is a premium hydration brand designed by Felipe Corrêa Holman (Holman\Design®) that positions itself away from sports performance drinks and toward lifestyle-integrated hydration. The system spans brand strategy, a fluid organic logo, a competitor-audited color palette, packaging built to work on both shelf and screen, lifestyle-first photography, and a full digital rollout with a style guide.

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A Graphic Design Portfolio Presentation Template

An 18-page, fully customizable Adobe InDesign portfolio template by contributor E-Type, built at 1920 x 1080 px. It includes a cover, an about page, skills, education, work experience, three project-portfolio spreads, achievements, and contact pages in a monochrome layout. Preview photography and design elements are for display only and aren't included in the download—sourcing original imagery is on you.

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The 5 Best Portfolio Templates and Themes for Creative Professionals in 2026

The article reviews five portfolio templates and themes covering the full deployment range—a screen-native InDesign presentation template (RedGiant), a CMYK resume-and-portfolio layout for job applications (The Royal Studio), a 16-page print brochure (bourjart), a widescreen architecture-focused template (ARCHITEC by Designcy Studio), and the Redox WordPress theme for full agency websites.

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