30 tutorials to turbocharge your design skills!
Do you ever wonder how designers get their work to look so professional? It’s all about the details! These 30 tutorials have been specifically selected to help you think about how you’re designing down to the smallest decisions, as well as to build your technical skills. And they’re geared to all levels — beginner, intermediate …
6 design lessons in type and content organization
“Something just doesn’t feel right.” That sentence, in 9 out of 10 of the cases, is directly linked with poor typesetting and content organization on the page. When you cram content into the page and add line breaks, bold and italics here and there, you’re on a sure way to a nasty result. Good looking pages …
Designer profile: simeonmarco
If you’re interested in the world of greeting cards, then Loida Yu (aka simeonmarco) is the designer to talk to. With a background in accounting, she taught herself photography and design — invitation cards being her specialty! And we really do mean “specialty” as she has a 91% win rate on 99designs. Loida talks about how …
25 mind-blowing typography art projects
“Dream,” by Husbands Typography lovers, this song goes out to you. The music video for “Dream,” by Husbands, is fairly simplistic: the written lyrics flash against a black background in sync with the song. What makes it so engaging is the lovely diversity of typefaces and backgrounds used — they range from ornate script, to …
Are you spatially aware? Take this quiz to find out.
In design, which do you think is more important — the positive space or the negative space? Trick question. They’re both equally important. It’s the seamless integration and consideration of both positive and negative space that helps to create clever and thoughtful designs. Logo designs in particular are a great medium to manipulate positive and …
An introduction to HTML and CSS for designers
As a graphic designer, you’re probably aware of the ever-evolving relationship between design and technology. This is especially true for those focusing on web design. In this industry, we need to have a basic understanding of how our carefully crafted mockups become live web pages. When we understand the basics of this process (and it’s limitations), …
13 Vine videos to ignite your creativity
Meant to essentially be a Twitter for videos, Vine is a fairly new app that allows users to create and upload 6-second clips. Just another way to get a short glimpse into someone’s life or artwork. Tons of creatives have been getting on the Vine boat, creating a vibrant social network of short-feature directors. The …
9 humorous (mis)adventures in branding
Branding is all about creating recognition for a company’s product in the marketplace. It can show what they have to offer, grant them a position in the public eye, and create company swag. Sometimes, however, a company’s branding can leave us thinking, “Who thought of that?!” Here are 9 of the more (ahem) interesting branding …
This is how you rock a magazine cover design
The magazine cover is a designer’s dream. There are enough constraints to give you structure — a set space of 8 by 11 inches or so; a few unifying traits that carry across issues — but beyond that it’s up to you to arrange text and touch up photos, working with some of the best …
Winner and runners-up of our “Business Card Fit for the King” contest
With the launch of our Dutch language site, and the inauguration of King Willem-Alexander (the Netherlands’ first King in over a century!), we thought it’d be a great opportunity to have our community design a business card fit for the King. We received almost 1,000 designs and were ecstatic to see so many great business cards bring …
