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You're listening to the creative teacher podcast, a show for busy teachers looking for ways to engage, inspire and make an impact in their teacher businesses. I'm Kiersten, a teacher business owner who is all about simple and actionable tips, strategies and resources that result in wins, big or small. If you're looking for that extra spark of creativity, you've come to the right place. Let's dive in together.
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So I love this first one that they mentioned about diversity and inclusion. A lot of graphic designers are putting in a lot of diverse looks and perspectives and lifestyles of people. It's not your typical cookie cutter looks that we might see. So different cookie cutter type models and stuff like that they're using a variety of people to represent more of our society. So I think that's really cool thoughts to think about of maybe thinking about if you have stock photos of your students, or students in a classroom, maybe just picking up on how you can find more diverse students than what you might see in a typical stock photo. Of course, I know, we may have access to limited stock photos. But if you can find something that highlights the diversity of teachers, classrooms, and even teachers themselves, I always think that's great to put in for your blog posts and website, or in your social media posts as well.
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The next one I thought was interesting. And that is experimental typography. This was kind of utilized last year as well, just unique fonts that are different and exciting and not something that we've really seen before. And that's kind of being used as the main part of the design, it's really being used as like a header font or sub heading font. And it's interesting, because this source is saying that a lot of Sans Serif fonts are taking the backseat. And these type of experimental fonts with interesting squiggly characters are kind of going and coming in the forefront. So we're thinking maybe thinking about how display fonts can vary. There's so many different ones, and even on TPT in the TPT space, not just in Canva. I love finding interesting fonts that I've never literally never seen before. But I feel like also in the TPD space, we've kind of been doing this for a while with kg fonts, and aka fonts and AJ fonts and all the different fonts that you can buy on TPT. I feel like there's been a lot of experimental typography going on. And this year is not an exception. If you ever find a cool font in Canva, maybe play around with it and see how you can incorporate it in your brand and kind of add it to that maximalism look if it goes together with your overall branding. Or you might like it so much that you want to use it literally in everything, your website and all that good stuff. So you never know what you might find when you're experimenting with different typography and finding things in Canva, and Google fonts and Adobe fonts, and also on TPT.
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All right. Another one is abstract gradients and color transitions. So gradient has not gone away. It's been around for a few years now. And it's still pretty trendy. You can always do two tone transition, or maybe even thinking about utilizing three four colors or just every color on your brand. I've learned that as I I've worked with clients, sometimes gradients don't translate pretty well. Um, sometimes they do, it just depends on which colors are being used. It just really, really depends. But if you happen to have like a rainbow color, or maybe even red, pink and yellow, that could translate pretty well as far as a gradient color. And you can always incorporate that into your designs or on your website, or is maybe some backgrounds on your social media graphics, but just giving it a giving it a more modern look with some clean looking fonts that are matching with your brand and highlighting the fun gradient that's been around for a bit.
Okay, the next trend we're going to be talking about is texture and senses. So I really think it's interesting that we've gotten a lot of technology in being able to kind of convey this interesting type of texture. I've seen grainy texture on gradient actually combining like this grainy gradient look that I really liked. And I actually incorporated with my graphics for the spice up your store challenge. And also, there's 3d icons and pictures that look like you know, you could touch it, and it's like a pillow or like a little bit of bubblegum. So just kind of appealing to the senses. Even though you can't physically touch something can be done on a digital medium, such as your website or in Canva. So this is something that is trending, maybe that grainy look, or even glass look. The bubble gum, 3d look. And low E silk look is also something that it mentions. And it's just kind of interesting of how we can kind of convey certain textures even though it's not something we can actually feel. But it's like we want to we get the edge, we're like, I want to, I wonder what this would feel like. So it's something that makes people think stop and think is always great, because that gives more people time on your graphics.
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