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This Designer Re-imagined Iconic Logos Using Hand-Lettering Techniques
In a world filled with sleek corporate logos and eye-catching billboards, graphic designer Sara Marshall’s work stands apart. The 23-year-old, New Zealand native recently ...
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?
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.
3 Ways In Which Graphic Designers Influence Your Business
How your business benefited from your logo, website and business cards. Learn the 3 important ways in which graphic designers influence your business.
9 Clever Visual Tricks Behind Iconic Poster Designs
The same principles that make a killer poster apply to any graphic confined to a rectangle.
When Our Homes Become Connected, Designers Will Save Us
As designers are moving into the uncharted Internet of Things, they might need map out a course for keeping their principals intact.
12 Free and Low-Cost Tools to Create Pinterest Graphics
Online marketers understand the importance of having great visuals to post on their website, blog and social media channels. However, there is a misconception that you need to have extensive talent in graphic design to create compelling, eye-catching graphics. Just because you aren’t a PhotoShop wiz doesn’t mean you can’t create great graphics for your business. And visuals are the key to success on Pinterest! Important…
The Graphic Designer's Guide to Foil
Everything you need to know to start using foil in your design projects and appear to know what the hell you’re doing. Let’s start with what it is. Foiling is when you apply a thin layer of metal foil to a design—usually a printed piece—to give the appearance of gold leaf. I don’t know exactly when …
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…
How to Find and Work with a Graphic Designer
Learn where to find and how to work with graphic designers. This guide will recommend freelancer sites and communication essentials.
Become a Professional Graphic Designer
Learn tools and techniques for visual communication with this Become a Professional Graphic Designer course! You'll learn everything from working with layers & selections in Photoshop, to formatting text & menus in Dreamweaver, to using pathfinders & special effects in Illustrator.
So, You Want to be a Graphic Designer?
Do you want to be a graphic designer? Designing images can be quite the rewarding career, as it gives you a chance to flex those creative muscles and make
For Graphic Designers: 10 Tips To Overcome Work Stress
Long hours, tight deadlines, unreasonable clients and overbearing creative directors—these are just some of the stressful experiences that...
When Graphic Designers Create Augmented Reality
Augmented reality (AR) experiments and apps that turn your surroundings into surrealist art, created by graphic designers, using ARKit and ARCore.
11 Signs That You Are Meant To Be A Graphic Designer
Do you spend hours on Pinterest compiling mood boards of images you like? Or are you a hoarder of product packaging? If the answer is yes, you...
Key terms every graphic designer should know
Whether you're a newbie, student or just in need of a refresher, read this guide.
7 Benefits of Collaborating with a Professional Graphic Designer
Do you want your business to portray a professional look and feel that communicates quality? One that generates trust and credibility? Because your graphic identity makes that all-important first impression, here are seven benefits why you should consider collaborating with a professional graphic designer.
Graphic designers: Are you sabotaging your own creativity?
Working in the world of corporate graphic design makes for an exciting and fulfilling career, but it can also cause stress when the creativity just isn't flowing.
Graphic designers: Feeling creatively stuck? Take a stroll
If you work in a creative field like corporate graphic design, then you probably know the feeling all too well -- a project deadline looms but you just can't get the juices flowing.
Graphic Designer Websites (31 Creative Examples)
We expect graphic designer websites to be a little bit more creative, right? Well, it depends. Let's look at this collection of graphic design websites.
9 Emerging Graphic Designers You Should Know
The Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, selects a fresh crop of young poster designers.
