It’s tough out there right now. That’s undeniable. The novel coronavirus; Covid-19 —is dramatically altering the structure of our everyday lives with orders of social distancing, curfews, quarantines, lockdowns, and more.

However, there are two ways to use your newfound downtime instituted by your city or state. First, you can binge on Netflix or lament the fact that your previous lifestyle has been put on hold, or you can use this time to transform your life. Improve your skills. Build healthier habits.

What if I told you that determined professionals can use this time away from bars, restaurants, concerts and sporting events to come up with some of their best ideas, drastically improve their lives and position themselves to emerge from the quarantine better than when it started?

Use these six ideas to improve your life, build new skills and reconnect with your family and friends during the quarantine:


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If you’re a creative, turning your passion into a career is the definition of living the dream. But the road to success in the creative industries isn’t paved with rainbows; if you want to succeed, you need a strategy.

But what, exactly, does that strategy look like? Let’s take a look at some of our top tips to help you succeed as a professional creative:



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Whether you’re planning a fancy night out or looking forward to snuggling in your PJs at home, it’s hard to ignore the buzz surrounding Valentine’s Day. 

Check out the art on Suvenia's customizer to create nice Valentine's day gift for loved ones.

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After the holidays, going back to work can be daunting. Here are five helpful tips for settling back in smoothly.

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Christmas is one of the best times of the year. It is one of those holidays that just seems to be filled with cheer and wonderful moments. Whether you are celebrating a secular or religious Christmas, it is a day for fun, love and happiness.

As we all know, Christmas is fast approaching and we are all making plans on how best we can celebrate it. Here are ways you should be looking to spend your Christmas this year:


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The holiday seasons comes with great opportunities for brands to boost awareness and connect with their customers. However most small business owners believe holiday season branding activities is for the big brands. Here are four awesome affordable print products to promote your business this season.

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As we already know, social media has proved its worth in promoting different brands. Today, marketers apply a host of strategies to explore the social channels to their advantage. This platform is now perhaps the most used and effective way to drive customers than any conventional means. Still, success does not come easily when it comes to driving customers to a brand.

Similarly, freelance graphic designers also wish to use social media to find jobs regularly. But not all of them actually benefit from this platform. Especially, lesser experienced new designers go directionless and lose patience while exploring the platforms. They lose many freelance gigs from potential clients. A major reason for the failure is the lack of basic tactics to take advantage of the platforms......

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It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do, or how happy you consider yourself to be, there are going to be days when you’re going to feel completely stressed out.

Stress is just a part of life, and it’s something that every person has to deal with at one stage or another. But that doesn’t make it any easier! Stress can feel overwhelming and when you’re dealing with it, it can be hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Sometimes, when you’re feeling stressed, all you really need is a reminder that you’ll be through the tunnel soon and that light is right around the corner.

Well, consider this your reminder! Here are some helpful quotes to read the next time you’re feeling stressed — as to remind yourself that no matter how stressful today is, there’s always a stress-free tomorrow on the horizon:

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Aspiring artists look for various avenues where they can showcase their artworks to the world. In the digital age, social media has become a natural platform for all artists, both new and experienced, to showcase their paintings, graphic designs, and a host of other artworks. Artists have full control over displaying their works on these platforms.

However, a new and upcoming artist may not be well-versed in uploading an artwork on various social channels where they can showcase their art pieces. These channels include Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and LinkedIn etc. Each of these platforms has its own set of procedures for uploading an artwork.

If an artwork gets adequately uploaded, it becomes visible to people, experts, and potential customers in its entirety.

Here are 5 tips for uploading your artwork:


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The job of a surface pattern designer is to create patterns and repeat them. When the design is repeated, the surface gets a character, movement, energy, and life as well. However, most such designers work in a specific field to have mastery over a style.

For example, many of them are product designers, while others are textile designers. They are the people who can imagine patterns and then work on realizing them into a design and style. Therefore, a surface pattern designer must know more about fashion trends and colors.

But there is more to creating a surface design pattern. You need to be proficient in all aspects of the designing....



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Modern businesses depend a lot on making an effective communication with their potential customers. Marketers make strategies to ensure that people can engage with a business in a variety of ways. Therefore, business owners spend a lot of money on creating visual tools to engage people and to interact with them. Today, logo is not just a business symbol to identify a company and its products or services rather helps in making a strong brand identity.

A logo serves many purposes in the modern world of business. It can send right business message to your target audience. A professionally designed logo has the power to convert people into loyal customers. In fact, there are many ways a well designed logo can serve its company and business....

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We are currently running a research to understand the state of the graphics industry in Nigeria. The goal of the survey is to understand how well Graphic designers are leveraging the digital economy to further monetize their creativity.

This survey is completely anonymous and would take less than 5 minutes. We would also appreciate if after you complete the survey or if you are not even a designer at all, you could kindly forward this message to any graphic designers you know.

Thank you very much.

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When we started out, we simply wanted to be a platform for giveaway items that made bold impressions. Over the years, we have evolved into something bigger than that, into being the platform that empowers African creatives to better monetize their skills.

Our new identity is a huge reflection of our aspirations, to becoming the largest marketplace for creatives on the continent.

Welcome to the new Suvenia... we are excited about the changes set to roll in.

You are most welcome.

Who uses Adobe Illustrator? The better question might be—who doesn’t? Utilized across a vast array of industries, this vector-based graphics software has something for everyone who has a role in the wide world of design. From a company logo to a highway billboard to a birthday card—it was all probably first designed in Illustrator.

But being the versatile app that it is, here’s how designers across many industries are working with Illustrator in 7 very different and fascinating ways:


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Reading about creativity is a great way to inspire yourself, learn about what others have done in your field and motivate yourself to do your best work yet.

While it’s good to pick up bits and pieces of knowledge from blog posts and YouTube, only the printed form is able to set out everything you need to know on a particular subject in an organised and comprehensive way that ensure that nothing vital gets missed.

And so, whether you’re interested in learning the fundamentals of graphic design or expanding your existing skills, it’s worth investing in some good books.

So here we’ve set out a list of 10 essential reads:

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Typography is a way of communication with users. Visual performance and readability of copy in digital products have the great impact on user experience. Typography can become a voice of design. Appropriate typography speaks for itself setting the right mood and transferring a certain message to users. Today’s article presents 8 tips which will assist you in creating effective typography.

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Haven't you heard that couples that slay together stay together? I bet you have. So, how about twinning with him or her this weekend? Nice idea, yeah? Get creative and design a stylish matching t-shirt for the both of you.


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A solid graphic design portfolio is your ticket to professional success. It is your calling card and your way in—the visual representation of all you’ve accomplished so far and a symbol for where you hope to be in the future. Basically, it has to kick ass.

To push your portfolio to the front of the ever-growing crowd it helps to know what to include and what to leave out. Here’s how to build a graphic design portfolio that will blow your clients away.


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DON'T JUST LIVE

Who else wears this t-shirt without actually wearing it?
Find casual motivational merch on Suvenia.com

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As a graphic designer, whether you work in a corporate office, small production house, or as freelance designer, chances are you have a lot to do. So, time management skills are paramount to completing tasks on deadline. As designers, we many times have multiple projects to work on, clients to find, bills to manage, research to do, meetings to go to, and more. If we aren’t careful, time can get away from us and we can find ourselves not accomplishing all that we hope to during the day. So if you want to establish yourself as a go-to graphic designer that is dependable and efficient, try the time-management techniques below:



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Are you a designer that’s trying to improve your overall level of productivity, skill and range of projects that you can work on?

If your answer is Yes, Then the question is how can you become a successful designer? These daily habits will definitely help you out:


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Can you imagine a world without techies? Whew, unimaginable! Get the "eat, sleep, code, repeat" hoodie for techies today.

Perfect gift for a techie, along side the "JavaScript" hat. And if she is not too much of a techie, the "Wonder Woman" sweatshirt should come in handy as a great gift.

Graphic Design Quotes To Inspire You

When you’re looking for creative inspiration, where do you turn? Do you do a quick Google search, check your previous works or dive into Dribbble? Inspiration comes in so many shapes and sizes, but for designers often the best inspiration comes from those who’ve been there and done it before.

Let’s take a look at 10 (Ten) curated quotes by some of the most creative designers in history.

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Game of Thrones returned for its eighth and final season with an episode filled with lines of dialogue to enjoy.

The episode marked the reunion of several main characters, including Jon Snow and Arya Stark, and did a good job of doling out screen time to each member of its crowded ensemble.

Elsewhere, it featured a hilarious reference to last season's controversial Ed Sheeran cameo as well as a terrifying death at the hands of the Night King, an explainer of which you can find here.

Below are the 10 best lines from the premiere, titled “The Contest”.

Sansa: [snarkily] "What exactly do dragons eat?"
Daenerys: "Whatever they want."

Tyrion: [about Joffrey’s wedding] “it was a miserable affair.”
Sansa: “It had its moments.”

Jon: [about Arya’s sword, Needle] “Have you ever used it?”
Arya: “Once or twice.”

Qyburn: ”I’m afraid I bring terrible news: the dead have broken through the wall”.
Cersei: “Good.”

Cersei: [to Euron] “You want a LovePeddler, buy her. You want a queen, earn her.”

Bronn: [after being told Cersei wants him to kill Tyrion and Jaime] “That f***ing family.”

Yara: [to Theon] What is dead may never die – but kill the bastards anyway.”

Jon: [after riding a dragon] “You’ve completely ruined horses for me.”

The Hound: “You left me to die.”
Arya: “First I robbed you.”
The Hound: “You’re a cold little bitch, aren’t you? Guess that’s why you’re still alive.”

Jon: [about Daenerys] “She is not her father.”
Sansa: “No, she’s much prettier.”

Eddison Tollett: 'Stay back! He's got blue eyes!'
Tormund: 'I've always got blue eyes!'

Sam: [about learning of Jon’s true heritage] Me and Bran worked it out. I had a High Septon’s diary and Bran had… whatever Bran has.”



Have you watched the first episode of the epic final season? What are your favourite lines?

You can create your own fan art and designs on products around your favourite characters or lines from show. 

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Whether you are a graphic designer, Photographer, artist or just a creative individual, wouldn’t you like to get paid simply for doing what you already love to do? Suvenia enables thousands of Creatives to sell their designs and ideas on quality product. Simply upload your designs on any of our products and we do everything else till you get paid.

You can sign up here http://onboard.suvenia.com/

Do you enjoy trying new products, taking great pictures and showing them? Why not earn from them while you’re at it! Whether you have 500 followers or 5 Million followers, Suvenia.com makes it easy for you to earn by creating and sharing content on your own social media channels.

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Suvenia is a marketplace that allows you create and sell designs on everyday products like apparels, drinkwares and accessories. Suvenia also allows you find amazing clients looking for your services from our community. You can help create designs for others to sell on quality products or work on any other project you want. You can also participate in design contests with other designers in our community powered by Suvenia.

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