Inspiration / 21 Jun 2021
25+ Best Brand Manual & Style Guide Templates 2021 (Free + Premium)
Your brand is the key to a successful business. It’s what gives your business an identity and separates you from the competition. Your brand manual or style guide are the documents you need to help keep it consistent—they’re key to maintaining your brand identity.
Whether you’re a small business, agency, or a corporation, you should have a proper document that covers all the details of the brand. Such as the design of different logos you use, the color palette, fonts used for the brand design, etc.
Think about when you hire a third-party agency to run an ad campaign. To help them avoid misrepresenting your brand, you hand them your brand manual and style guide. So they can present your brand more accurately through the campaign.
If you’re working on a brand manual for your own business, these brand style guide templates will help you put together a more useful and professional document without an effort.
Trends / 21 Jun 2021
Design Trend: Abstract Art Compositions
When you don’t know what to use to illustrate a design, the answer might be abstract art.
It’s a growing design trend that – when done well – uses interesting shapes, colors, and combinations to create something that means almost nothing but is visually interesting.
There’s no wonder that designers are using this concept.
For startup websites without photography to designs for companies that aren’t sure how to represent an almost-post-COVID world visually and everything in between, abstract can be a workable choice.
Brochure Templates / 18 Jun 2021
Brochure Design Software: 3 Options Compared
So, you need to design a brochure? Where do you start? We’re comparing three different pieces of brochure design software to see how they stack up.
For web and digital designers creating a printed brochure for the first time, to designers that have been making print pieces for a while, using the right tool can make brochure design a more efficient task.
Choosing the right software, and sticking with it over time, is a sure-fire way to speed up your design workflow.
Adobe tools are the common starting place. Today, we’ll compare using InDesign, Illustrator and Adobe Spark (a free offering) as different options creating a brochure design.
We’ll look at the pros and cons of each (including the cost), and suggest which options are best for different types of brochure design project.
Instagram Templates / 18 Jun 2021
Instagram Grid Templates: 10 Examples + Tips
A secret used by some of the boldest visual brands on Instagram is to use a grid or puzzle template. What this style of template does is create 12 cohesive panels that come together as a single image when someone visits your Instagram profile page.
The trick here is that the panels have to work equally well as single image posts and together as a whole. It can be difficult to pull off if you are not careful.
A template can make it a lot easier to figure out and manage. You can create one yourself, or download a ready-made option (best if you are looking for quick and easy). Here, we are looking at 10 great Instagram grid templates with tips for how you can take the inspiration from each and use it with your images on your social media account.
Instagram Templates / 18 Jun 2021
50+ Best Instagram Post & Story Templates 2021
We’ve handpicked a collection of Instagram post and Story templates with professional designs. You can easily customize these templates to add your own text and images to create a more successful Instagram content strategy.
Instagram is one of the best platforms for promoting brands and businesses. But, with millions of posts being added every day, you need to think outside the box to attract your followers’ attention.
If you’re tired of using the same old designs to promote your brand and products on Instagram and looking for a better way to get more followers, you should consider using more professional post layouts and designs, especially for creating attractive Instagram Stories.
To help you find the right design to promote your business, we’ve curated some of our favorite Instagram post and Story templates, designed to wow your audience.
PowerPoint Templates / 17 Jun 2021
25+ Simple PowerPoint Templates (With Clutter-Free Design)
When it comes to creating PowerPoint slideshows, using a simple PowerPoint template can be a key approach. It may seem like a good idea to throw the kitchen sink: data, stats, charts, and shapes into every slide, but you’ll never be able to win over your audience with a cluttered slideshow design.
That’s why professionals always use simple slide designs to highlight only the most important parts of a presentation. Of course, you don’t have to be an expert designer to create these professional slideshows. There are pre-made templates you can download and customize with a few clicks.
To help you get started, we handpicked a collection of simple PowerPoint templates with clean and clutter-free designs for creating professional looking PowerPoint slideshow presentations.
We’re also sharing some simple presentation tips to get you started with a clear, simple talk.
Layouts / 17 Jun 2021
How to Design a Captivating Web Questionnaire
We’ve all run across them – web questionnaires or surveys that were so simple and delightful that they were actually fun to fill out.
Sadly, that’s the exception to the rule. More often than, surveys are clunky and cumbersome.
You can design a captivating web questionnaire with the right thought process. It’s a mix of question planning with visual elements and cues to make the process user-friendly and somewhat seamless.
Here’s how you do it.
Poster Design / 17 Jun 2021
25+ Best Poster & Photo Frame Mockup Templates
Whether it’s showcasing a project in your portfolio or presenting a design to a client, a mockup goes a long way to make your work of art look more professional. And of course, as a designer, you can never have enough mockups.
Today, we’re bringing you a collection of poster frame mockups and photo frame mockups for showing off your work in a more exciting way.
There are many different styles of photo and poster frame mockups in this list with realistic scenes.
You can use them to present your poster designs, flyers, artworks, and much more.
CV & Resume Templates / 16 Jun 2021
How Do You List Freelance Work on Your Resume? (We Have the Answer)
Congratulations, your freelance business is proving successful. But how do you handle talking about it or explaining freelance work to potential employers, or on your resume? It can be a hard subject to explain as a single entry on paper, and you don’t want freelance work to look like an employment gap.
There are some things you can do to on paper (and on LinkedIn) to help present freelance work in a way that is more understandable to others. The key for many freelancers – especially those working part-time – is remembering to include freelance work as part of your resume and design portfolio. Sometimes those jobs can be just the thing you need to help land the next big gig!
Background Textures / 16 Jun 2021
50+ Best Free Photoshop Patterns 2021
If you’ve been looking for a creative tileable pattern to make your designs look even more beautiful, you’ve come to the right place. In this post, we’re sharing a collection of the best Photoshop patterns with various design styles and aesthetics (both free and premium).
When designing a background, whether it’s for a book cover, business card, or a website, using a creative pattern goes a long way to add a personal touch to the overall look of the design. Not to mention that patterns also help highlight certain types of content above the background as well.
Crafting such a pattern is not easy. So why not save the trouble by simply downloading some of the amazing premium and free Photoshop patterns that we’ve handpicked just for you.
PowerPoint Templates / 16 Jun 2021
40+ Best Company Profile Templates (Word + PowerPoint)
Creating a company profile brochure or slideshow is a big responsibility. You especially need to pay careful attention to the design, arranging content in a readable and attractive way. These company profile templates can be a huge time-saver!
Designed by professionals, these templates allow you to easily create a company profile brochure or a PowerPoint presentation without having to spend hours on perfecting the design.
We handpicked a collection of the best company profile templates for Word and PowerPoint, to help you create a modern company profile for your business. These templates are all easily customizable to boot.
Photoshop Actions / 15 Jun 2021
50+ Best Free Photoshop Actions & Effects 2021
Photoshop actions are quite useful when optimizing photos, applying effects, and editing graphics. For this collection, we’ve handpicked some of the best free Photoshop actions you can download and use with no price to pay!
Whether you’re a professional designer or a complete beginner, Photoshop actions can help you save a lot of time. Simply put, Photoshop actions pack hours worth of design work into a single-click so that you can achieve professional-level effects without an effort.
In this post, we’re featuring several different types of free Photoshop actions. You’ll find them categorized into different effects and styles below. Have a look and start downloading.
Mockup Templates / 15 Jun 2021
25+ Best Android Phone & Tablet Device Mockups (Free & Pro)
When showcasing an app or a website design, it’s important to use the device mockups that represent the right platform. Never make the mistake of using an iPhone mockup to present an Android app design.
Most designers often use iPhone mockups to showcase their designs. But, if you want to make a bigger impact with your presentation, you should use an Android mockup because Android has the highest mobile market share. It will allow you to relate to a bigger audience.
We handpicked a collection of amazing-looking Android phone mockups and tablet mockups you should use for your next project. You’ll find the latest Samsung device mockups, including the Z Flip and G Fold. Along with many others.
Explore all the mockup templates below, there are a few free mockups in there as well.
Font Collections / 14 Jun 2021
100+ Best Modern Serif Fonts 2021
It’s time to delve into a collection of the best beautiful, modern serif fonts. Serif fonts are ideal for printed literature, detailed typography, or for creating a more formal effect. And these popular serif fonts really stand out from the crowd.
We’ve gathered more than 100 of the best modern serif fonts that you can quickly start using in your work. You’ll be amazed at what a difference they can make to your design project, compared to the more generic system fonts that get all too commonly used.
There’s nothing like a distinct serif typeface to really set your layout apart, and create something beautiful.
Many serif fonts risk feeling a little old a dated. Not these. Our pick of modern serif fonts all look fresh, innovative, and ready for creating design work that sets a trend! And our tips for choosing a modern serif font will help you pick just the right one for your project.
PowerPoint Templates / 14 Jun 2021
50+ Best Free PowerPoint Templates (PPT) 2021
Not everyone can afford to buy premium PowerPoint templates to create their slideshows. But, that doesn’t mean you have to settle for a default template. There are dozens of incredible free PowerPoint templates to try out!
A great thing about the design community is that there are designers out there who willingly share their amazing work for free of charge, including gorgeous free PowerPoint templates.
To help you save some money, we scoured the web and handpicked a collection of the best free PowerPoint templates with modern and professional designs that you can use to make various types of presentations. Good luck with your presentation!
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