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How to create mood boards that inspire: 20 pro tips

Expert advice on how to create mood boards to convey your design ideas, win pitches and get an early sign off.

Learning how to create mood boards can transform your experience of pitching design ideas to clients. At the start of a new project, a mood board helps to communicate your vision as a designer. To impress the client, it should offer a visually stunning summary of your ideas, full of textures and images that paint a picture in ways that words alone could not achieve. In a way, it allows the client to get inside your creative mind, while also helping you to organise your own ideas.

This means it's vital to make sure that your mood board is more than a confusing collage of disparate ideas. It should be a cohesive, visually attractive expression that makes your vision clear. But how do you create a mood board that achieves this? Below, we offer a series of tips that should allow you to effectively convey your creative ideas to a client.

If you think your design portfolio also needs some work in order to accompany your next pitch, make sure you also see our tips to create a stunning portfolio website and our top portfolio examples for inspiration. Meanwhile, read on to see how to create mood boards to communicate your ideas.

How to create mood boards: 20 pro tips
source : https://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design/mood-boards-812470

Photoshop price cut in early Adobe Black Friday deal
Get Adobe's popular image editor for less – for one week only!

If you've been thinking of investing in Adobe Photoshop, now just might be the time to take the plunge. Today Adobe has announced a 16% saving on its Photography Plan, taking not just Photoshop, but Lightroom too, to a super low price.

But you'll need get your skates on as the deal is on for one week only, ending midnight (GMT) on Sunday 14 November. When it comes to Adobe Creative Cloud discounts, they don't get much better than this on standalone apps.

Get 16% off the Adobe Photography Plan

souce : https://www.creativebloq.com/news/adobe-black-friday-photography-deal

Apple Watch Black Friday: the best Apple Watch deals in November 2021

The best Apple Watch deals on every models, including the newest Apple Watch 7.

It's time the take advantage of the best Apple Watch deals. With the new Apple Watch 7 just released, it's a good time to find deals on earlier models – and there are plenty of them to choose from. On the page, we round up the specs and the best prices available for every Apple Watch model, from the Apple Watch 1 all the way to the new Apple Watch 7.

With Apple Watch Series 7 now out, we expect to see more discounts on older models, but it's not impossible that we might also see discounts on the Apple Watch 7 itself with Black Friday coming up (see our guide to Apple Black Friday 2021). We've listed all the Apple Watches below, with an accompanying widget that pulls in the best Apple Watch deals with live links to the retailers.
source : https://www.creativebloq.com/deals/best-apple-watch-deals

Facebook (we mean Meta) gets a new logo – and the jokes are pouring in

This morning, social media giant Facebook has revealed a major rebrand, changing its corporate name to Meta. It's also unveiled a brand new infinity shape logo, which is a world away from the previous company logo, which was an all-caps wordmark (see below) – not to be confused with the app's 'f' logo that we're all so used to seeing.

Facebook doesn't seem to have been aiming for familiarity here, with Meta – short for metaverse – representing an online virtual world, where users can do, well, just about anything (see our post on what is the metaverse if it's all feeling a bit meta to handle). The new identity will not, at this point, affect the company's individual platforms: Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

source : https://www.creativebloq.com/news/facebook-meta

The best digital art software for creatives in 2021
Find the best digital art software for making beautiful artwork on any platform.

Determining the best digital art software for you will depend on a number of factors. There are heaps of different programs out there, some for general-purpose art and others for specific niches like painting or manga drawing, so the best one for you will depend on the type of art you want to create.

Then there’s also the matter of budget. After all, digital art software comes at all sorts of prices, from software that’s completely free, to professional-grade programs that come with a professional price tag.

So, in this guide, we’ve included the lot. General and specialised programs, free software and full-throttle professional packages. No matter the type of artist you are or the genre of art you want to create, we’re confident you’ll find a fantastic program for your digital artwork on this page, and our price-checking tool means you can also compare the best prices for each one.

If you're after some more design-focused tools, we also have a roundup of the best graphic design software. For drawing on the go, we've picked out the best drawing apps for iPad and the best 2-in-1 laptops for creatives. If you're looking for some great typography, don't miss our roundup of the best free fonts.

source : https://www.creativebloq.com/advice/the-best-software-for-digital-artists

Did Squid Game steal its look from a Spanish housing estate?

If you think the images above look similar, you're not the only one. The South Korean dystopian drama Squid Game has taken Netflix by storm, and some keen viewers have noticed an uncanny similarity between its mind-bending staircases (on the right in the image above) and the sharp architecture and vibrant colours of an incredible postmodern housing estate in Spain (left).

If you've been off-grid and need to catch up, Squid Game follows indebted contestants as they take part in a contest that involves playing children's games for a chance to win billions (with fatal consequences if they fail). The sets are just as captivating as the plot, with a mesmerising aesthetic that's packed with Easter eggs (Make sure you have one of the best TVs if you've yet to watch it).

source : https://www.creativebloq.com/news/squid-game-architecture