The craft of web design is often overlooked as “easy” – as if anyone could pick it up and learn. In some ways, this is true: anyone can learn to be a great web designer. But it’s not as easy as it may seems and nobody just picks up web design in a few weeks.
Why Cute Graphic Designs Always Trend on the Internet (With Examples)
Cute graphic designs have been popular in Asia for the past few decades. Incredibly, the influence and style of this Asian cuteness are already reaching the West much faster than we all think. Why do cute graphic designs always trend on the internet anyway?
Free Online Graphic Design Courses With Certificates
Graphic design is a trendy career right now. Anyone with a creative mind and an eye for detail could become a great graphic designer after much-needed training and classes. The good thing is that there are multiple free courses available online. What is great about this is that anyone can take the courses. A person […]
New Opportunities for Graphic Designers in the Automotive World: UX Design
For much of the history of the automotive industry, the role of the graphic designer was relegated to designing slick brochures after the cars were already built. This is changing.
5 Tips to Get More Real Estate Clients as a Freelance Graphic Designer
If you’re a freelance graphic designer trying to increase your workload, you might want to consider the niche market of real estate agents. You see, real estate is a very competitive industry. Whether an agent decides to specialize in working with home buyers, home sellers, or both (and you should know that Realtors often specialize), […]
10 Passive Income Ideas for Graphic Designers
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 […]
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. […]
