Affordances: The Designer's Secret Weapon
For interaction designers, affordances are absolutely essential - otherwise users just wouldn't know what they can and cannot interact with.
15 Design Tips Every Graphic Designer Should See
Through subtle adjustments, graphic designers can make simple images beautiful and memorable. Poppie Pack, a senior graphic designer at Canva, created 50 excellent graphic design tips communicated with beautiful images that show exactly why those tips work so well.
The Way Designers Pick Materials Is Broken
From cellulose guitars to shape-shifting walls, Eastman Innovation Lab wants to introduce designers to emerging material science.
12 things no graphic designer should be without
Jessica Draws reckons she wouldn't last a day as a designer without these 10 things. Could you?
Why car designers stick with clay
In an age when vehicle styling teams have supercomputers and virtual reality at their disposal, a venerable — and defiantly low-tech — design tool persists.
5 Missteps Every First-Time Designer Makes (And How To Avoid Them)
A budding designer shares the newbie pitfalls she's learned to avoid.
Why Designers Need To Understand The Print Universe
Designer and YouTube celebrity Roberto Blake on why understanding how design is processed and output needs to be incorporated into the creative process.
Key terms every graphic designer should know
Whether you're a newbie, student or just in need of a refresher, read this guide.
How Not to Talk to a Designer
Whether it’s a predilection for Superga sneakers or an obsession with kerning, designers are united by a certain sensibility. And when a designer interacts with someone outside the tribe, things can get less than pixel-perfect, especially when that outsider happens...
Will Robots Be the Next Graphic Designers?
The next 40 years will behold a revolution to the way that humans work. Already in relatively early stages, advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have been staggering and concerning for the job market. When considering the extent that AIs may overtake creative industries, the debate becomes far more complex. In fact, it even sways toward a symbiosis between man and machine which will give creatives of…
3 Things You MUST Know About SOLIDWORKS Industrial Designer
Learn 3 things about SOLIDWORKS Industrial Designer that enable customers to quickly create multiple shapes and concepts that evoke an emotional response.
What Does A Graphic Designer Do?
A graphic designer conveys ideas, thoughts, and messages through imagery they envision and create. Delta College provides a fantastic program.
How to Receive the Results You Want From Your Graphic Designer
Getting the most out of your graphic designer is reliant on being a great communicator. If you want a brilliant end product, one-line briefs won’t do.
“I’m a designer, why should I care about Intellectual Property?”
For the creatives who design the latest fashions in clothes, furniture and appliances, protecting the intellectual property around their work is…
A Designer's Perspective: How Graphic Design Can Impact Emotions
Why do people judge a book by its cover? We’re told we shouldn’t, but we’re all guilty. In part, it’s because graphic design does influence human emotions.
For Designers: The Popular Graphic Design Trends To Watch Out For Now
To prevent your designs from looking out-dated, it is necessary to know which are the graphic design trends that are emerging, and which ones...
Little-known fact: The Twin Cities is a hotbed for type designers
Meet six Twin Cities designers, several of whom make a living designing fonts.
A Designer Shares His Go-To Decorating Fix
See what makes his choice the most versatile piece of furniture you can own
How to Make a Bed Like an Interior Designer
There’s more to it than just tucking in the sheets
Leveraging Trends for New Concept Inspiration
As an industrial designer, my first inclination is to go right to the seemingly cool stuff. I’m referring to those times when an inspiring new technology is introduced and designers quickly incorporate it into new design concepts.
