The Marvelous Milli-Jane is an illustrator extraordinaire and she’s on a mission…

To provide you with a wonderfully cute and quirky way of saying ‘Hello!’ with her super special range of greetings cards. She will even endeavour to create cards with the utmost in personalisation when it comes to your preference of design. Just let her know your ideas and she’ll do the rest!

Starting at just £10 you can enlist Milli-Jane to get creative for you or you can have the exact specifications ready for her in order to bring your personal ideas to life.

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Arabic calligraphy is different to modern Arabic typography. These calligraphies are mostly ancient shapes developed in different eras, some in the Islamic medieval period and others during the 16th to early 17th century.

Arabic calligraphy is considered one of the most beautiful forms of art. As a handwritten alphabet it can be shaped and styled with cursive lines.

In our current time, these calligraphies are still widely used. They preserve the basic Arabic design qualities but are advanced in terms of their modern usage and application.

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Besides traditional advertising, the humble restaurant menu design is the final invitation to the customer before they order their food and beverages. This is why the restaurant menu design itself needs to be good enough to eat… or at least good enough to empty your wallet.

As I’m sure you’ve experienced, there is a huge breadth of resutaurant menu design out there. From quick-n-dirty fast food fliers to menus that are adorned with silk rope and gold leaf. This usually reflects the price range of the establishment, however great menu design does not necessarily need to imply expensive food. Drop us a comment if you have more examples!

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Introducing you to the latest Circlebox Creative Network site, Picmix Store, an online store dedicated to selling limited edition and exclusive prints, illustrated and designed by creatives all over the world!

Read on to find out more about Picmix Store and receive your discount code, and also how you could be in for a chance to win a print of choice from the store!

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One style of business card that is especially popular these days is “vintage”, using modern techniques to produce vintage-looking designs.

Even though the printing techniques used today are much more advanced, many people still choose to the expensive option to get their business cards printed, making them look like cards from the XIX century. Maybe modern isn’t necessarily better? What do you think?

Vintage cards have been in and out of fashion, but they are most definitely trendy as we speak. Here are 50 examples of beautiful vintage business card designs.

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Typography is one of the strongest elements that can be used in print design, and in many cases is the first focal point, especially in the 40 typographic-based posters featured in this showcase.

Examples include minimal design making use of white space, subtle texture and large type, to the busy, modern day digital design jam-packed full of colour and making use of several types of media.

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Vintage is a design genre that is being covered in all aspects of media in recent months, whether it is for the web or printed media you most likely have stumbled upon a piece of vintage design. Activities such as burlesque has had a huge revival and this has contributed to the surge in vintage design as it has attracted many people to the imagery of the 40′s and 50′s.

Here is a small collection of twenty interesting and inspiring pieces of art from people such as Peter Driben, who was responsible for the pin-up style covers on magazines such as Titter, Wink and Eyeful.

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Minimalism is a popular style used in graphic design and illustration, and is widely used in book cover design, helping the user to focus on the title of the book and the authors name. The book cover design is often elegant, using icon design and photography and illustration.

This showcase features over 40 stunning minimalistic book cover designs, including links to Amazon where you can purchase the books for yourself. What’s your favourite?

If you have your own digital examples you should send them to a booklet printing service and have them delivered!

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