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As part of our ongoing process to make the user experience cleaner and more intuitive, we've launched a new set of username symbols designed to help easily identify deviant-types. Easily Identifiable At a glance, the new symbols are quickly recognizable. When hovering over a username symbol, a tooltip appears, providing a brief explanation of that user's deviant-type. If clicked, a modal appears, giving a brief explanation for each username symbol, with "Learn more" links that lead to more detailed explanations. A word from Heidi: Over the years, a few things have come to seem like deviantART mainstays. Deviant green, intricate art categori

 We won! UPDATE: Thanks to the efforts of our amazing community, deviantART won the People's Choice category at the 2014 SXSW Interactive Awards!  We'd like to sincerely thank everyone for participating. The creative energy and inspiration that run through the deviantART community is absolutely awe-inspiring for those of us fortunate enough to be helping out behind the scenes. We truly believe that we are the greatest community in the world, and we work towards sharing that feeling with our deviants each and every day. Thank you for sharing this win with us! Thanks to the generous efforts of deviants like you, deviantART has been honored as

It's Free Premium Membership Day! Welcome, one and all, to Free Premium Membership Day! Today, we're giving all deviantART members exclusive access to Premium Member features, and we invite you to take advantage of this rare opportunity! Here's the Deal You may not have a user symbol, but for 24 hours, your account has been granted most of the privileges of a Premium Member! The day is a piñata that has been burst open and now there's candy everywhere! Grab all we have to offer, and enjoy your delicious treats! For Today, All Deviants Enjoy: No Ads! Browse deviantART to your heart's content without seeing third-party advertisements.

Here at CRLiterature (https://www.deviantart.com/crliterature), we wanted to find a fun way to get the community reading -- and reading together. What better way is there than to have a new book to enjoy as a group every month? How do you participate in Book Club? Here are your simple instructions: 1. Acquire the book. 2. Read the book. 3. Stay tuned to the CRLiterature (https://www.deviantart.com/crliterature) group for discussion journals and chats. BONUS: We will be giving out arbitrary prizes to some participants each month! We are hoping to select books that push the community's boundaries, in terms of what we're already reading, but that will also have mass appeal. We are also going to be choosing books th

Daily Lit Recognition for July 28th, 2014 We are proud to feature today's Daily Literature Recognition! You can show your support by :+favlove:ing this News Article. Please comment and :+fav: the features and congratulate the artists! Poetry Suggested by: GuinevereToGwen (https://www.deviantart.com/guineveretogwen) Featured by: chromeantennae (https://www.deviantart.com/chromeantennae) :thumb469470881: Fragile by Synesthi (https://www.deviantart.com/synesthi) Suggester says: Synesthi (https://www.deviantart.com/synesthi), one of my favourite dA poets for her mastery of imagery and emotion, managed to once again blow me away with this cleverly formatted piece that can be read in more ways than one. Suggested by: saevuswinds (https://www.deviantart.com/saevuswinds) Featured by: Medoriko (https://www.deviantart.com/medoriko) :thumb467658592: scars by :

Fourteen years of existence marks a period of growth, change, and introspection — an era of creativity and emotion that leads to long-term personal and artistic development. As we celebrate deviantART's 14th birthday, we want to thank all of you for joining in on the journey of growth and development, from the deviants who have been here from the start to the deviants who are starting out their deviantART experience today. How has deviantART helped you grow as an individual and/or as an artist? Tell us your story through an art feature Journal! Visit the Write a Journal Entry page to get started. Using the deviantART section of the s

Keywords on deviations were built to be an important tool to help discover artwork. But as deviantART grows and strives to create new ways to discover great content, we’ve found that keywords as we currently use them have become underutilized.  We think we can do better -- and can make a better experience for the community -- by making some changes. In the coming month, keywords will transition into tags, and we’ll be improving the way they work. Tags will better surface artwork, allow deviants to form communities around topics, make it easier to find other artists and art appreciators, and increase discoverability. For example,

Thank you, Beta Testers! We owe you an enormous debt of gratitude.  Your input and feedback around our latest Beta releases -- Site Navigation, Activity Feed, and Status Updates -- has been incredibly valuable and because of it, we're able to make significant improvements to those features that will benefit every user of deviantART.  We sincerely couldn't do it without you. The information and data gathered from those Updates will be used to ensure a smooth site-wide launch, and we again thank you for all of your help.  As sometimes happens in the Beta process, the Status Updates submitted in our test period need to be deleted to make some