Graphic design can be a rewarding career for talented creatives who know how to market themselves – and rather lucrative for designers who create passive income streams. Getting paid while you sleep might seem too good to be true, but many designers have leveraged their skills to do just that.
Spring-clean Your Design Resources
For centuries, humanity has been symbolically relating the shifting seasons with change. Seasons have always been used as a metaphorical depiction of the correlation between life and death, light and darkness, good and bad. Each transition between the four stages of climate change requires a cleanse of all things unhealthy and unworthy of our time. Marking […]
15 Best Design Books for Learning to Make Website Textures, Icons, and More
The craft of web design is often overlooked as easy – as if anyone could pick it up & learn. In some ways this is true: anyone can learn to be a great web designer. But it’s not easy and nobody just picks up web design in a few weeks. To learn the intricate details […]
Building a Usable Style Guide for New Design Projects
When you think of creativity it can be expressed in many ways. Ideally a creative idea should exist in some capacity before the creator visits reality town and starts break dancing into his concept in the middle of Main Street. Ideas seem to come sporadically and while they are often created out of nothing, you […]
Tips & Tricks for Creating Website Mockups in Photoshop
Learning how to craft brilliant websites will take time and patience. There is no magic Adobe genie who will appear to grant you divine powers over Photoshop. Unfortunately it doesn’t work like that, and even if it did you should obviously ask for infinite wishes first. Prowess in Photoshop is developed by practice and study. […]
5 Deadly Mistakes a Graphic Designer Shouldn’t Make
Editor’s Note: This post was written by Shayne Moore, a Director at a leading design agency in Christchurch, having a pool of professional graphic designers who design and build beautiful designs. Shayne is passionate about digital marketing and loves to share his creative ideas on the latest design trends. You can know more about him on […]
22 Web & Graphic Design Tutorials for Learning Sketch 3
More and more digital designers have made the switch over to Sketch by Bohemian Coding. This is a newer program made only for Mac OS X which behaves much like Photoshop and Illustrator combined. You can work with vector graphics, pixel graphics, photos, icons, really anything you’d desire. The GUI is a little different but […]
20 Web Design Tutorials for Learning Adobe Fireworks
Adobe recently started a slow push away from supporting Fireworks since CS6. But it’s still quite the popular(and affordable) software amongst web designers. You can build vector and bitmap objects to mockup wireframes, website layouts, icons, and similar graphics. In the past we’ve put together a Fireworks web design tutorial on website navigation. The program […]
25 Videos and Resources for Learning Color Theory
It takes hours of study and practice to understand the basics of digital design. Many jobs rely on these fundamentals when creating print work, icons, After Effects touchups, and dozens of similar examples. One fundamental concept every designer should recognize is color theory. It’s a broad subject which hovers around a field of science and […]
50 Memorable Logo Designs for Creative Branding Ideas
Crafting your own logo from scratch is a very intense process. Working for another company or as a freelancer means you have to flesh out words & ideas into some visual design. It’s certainly not for the faint of heart. But it is a hugely rewarding process that also teaches many lessons about conceptualization. In […]