Design Articles, Inspiration & Resources

Flyer Templates / 13 Dec 2024

How to Design an Awesome Flyer (Even if You’re Not a Designer)

This article will walk you through the process and logic of designing a basic but attractive flyer. We’ll look at how you can plan your content, find and implement some quality images and handle the alignment of a significant amount of content while not sacrificing too much of the visual appeal.

Design Shack reader Abigail submitted a Design Dilemma to ask about flyer design. After reading through our tips on designing presentations, she wanted to know how she could apply similar advice to flyer design. In our presentation article, we advised designers to keep their slides painfully simple, but flyers understandably must contain more information than a simple headline.

We’re going to answer Abigail’s question with a full-on flyer design project that you can either browse through for general design advice or follow along with for some solid experience.

InDesign Templates / 13 Dec 2024

55+ Best InDesign Templates 2025 (For Brochures, Flyers, Books & More)

InDesign is a piece of software that can be used for all manner of design and publishing. With the help of pre-made InDesign templates, you can take full advantage of this software to supercharge your workflow and complete projects in record time.

Whether you’re working on a brochure design, flyer design, book, or magazine design, you can easily get a head start in your design process when using an InDesign template that’s already been designed and formatted by professionals.

In this post, we’re featuring a hand-picked selection of various InDesign templates you can use with all kinds of projects. If you’re looking for inspiration, these designs will help you get a few new ideas as well.

Font Collections / 12 Dec 2024

50+ Best Retro Fonts in 2025 (Free & Premium)

Retro design is everywhere. Thanks to people’s craving for nostalgia, there’s a growing demand for logo designs, badges, and even brand identities that uses this stylish design trend.

You can never go wrong with a good retro design. But, you need to find the perfect retro font to make your retro designs more attractive.

If you look at any successful retro design, you’ll notice that that the key element in every one of them is a great-looking retro font. It’s the typography that adds a truly retro look to the designs.

In this collection, we bring you many different styles of retro fonts to help you get a head-start in your retro design projects. Pick a font from the list below.

Mockup Templates / 12 Dec 2024

80+ iMac Mockup PSDs, Photos & Vectors 2025

The iconic iMac can provide a beautiful surround in which to display your work. And the web is filled with some amazing iMac mockup graphics which make it easy to drop in your own design.

Whether your project relates to design or business, a high-quality mockup is always useful to showcase your work. Today, we have tracked down 40+ brilliant iMac mockup templates, all of which are easy to manipulate and edit.

These mockups are a mixture of Photoshop templates, Illustrator vector files and even stock photos (many are free, and some cost a few dollars). Plus, we’ve also included an option to generate your own mockup from scratch with a few clicks.

Just pick the type of file that you need, and you’ll be all set!

DaVinci Resolve Templates / 12 Dec 2024

50+ Best DaVinci Resolve Intro Templates, Titles & Openers 2025

Many professionals are now switching from Premiere Pro to DaVinci Resolve. Why? Because it offers amazing features compared to Premiere Pro and After Effects for free.

Switching to DaVinci Resolve allows you to save up to $600 per year that otherwise spent on Adobe Premiere Pro. This gives professionals more money to invest in things that are more important, like high-quality templates.

We’ve rounded up some of the best DaVinci Resolve intro and title templates to show you how useful this software can be. Check them out below and be sure to download a few templates to use in your projects.

Inspiration / 11 Dec 2024

100+ Modern Stationery Templates 2025

This collection of the best modern stationery templates gives you a way to showcase your brand or identity in a realistic setting. Show off your company image, and deliver branding mockups in an authentic and professional way.

We’ve gathered a variety of stationery templates that contain a number of useful branding items — envelope designs, business cards, invoices, letterheads and many others.

These beautiful templates are comprised of fully editable files. Your brand will never have looked as good!

Font Collections / 11 Dec 2024

70+ Best Modern & Futuristic Fonts 2025

If you’re looking for a way to future-proof your designs, there’s no better way to start than finding a modern, futuristic font for your projects. And this collection of the best modern and futuristic fonts is a great place to start!

We’ve picked out some of the best futuristic fonts you can use with your website designs, T-shirt designs, posters, and branding work.

Whatever your project, they’ll be something that fits the bill.

We’re also featuring tips on how to design with futuristic fonts, to shed some light on ways to work with these stunning typefaces!

Font Collections / 10 Dec 2024

90+ Best Big, Poster Fonts of 2025

When it comes to designing posters and banners, there’s one thing that matters the most: the font. A poster without a great, attention-grabbing title is simply not an effective poster.

A great poster font has the power to turn even the most straightforward layout into a compelling design. As Irene Etzkorn once said, “There is no such thing as a boring project. There are only boring executions.”

If you’re still searching for that perfect poster font, you’re in luck. We found a set of fantastic poster fonts that’ll be perfect for any poster design. They’re big, bold, and creative enough to turn heads!

We’re also sharing a set of tips for choosing a poster font to help guide you in the right direction.

Mockup Templates / 10 Dec 2024

40+ Best Credit Card Mockup Templates 2025

Credit card designs are now much more creative than they used to be. Thanks to talented designers, every bank now has its own unique credit and debit card designs with colorful and wild designs.

If you’re a designer working on a brand new credit card design, you will also need the perfect mockup to showcase your designs to your clients and on your portfolio. We handpicked this collection of credit card templates just for that purpose.

In this post, you’ll find some beautiful credit card mockups that highlight your designs in a professional way. These mockups are also ideal for showcasing other types of card designs, including membership cards for various businesses.

Check out the credit card mockup templates below and be sure to download them all. There are a few free templates in there too.

PowerPoint Templates / 9 Dec 2024

50+ Startup & Business Proposal PowerPoint Templates 2025

Presenting a project proposal or startup idea in a slideshow can be a daunting task. But it gets easier when you have the right PowerPoint proposal template at your side.

PowerPoint proposal templates allow you to design more attractive and persuasive slideshows to present your various business proposals, ideas, and projects in your meetings.

In this post, we bring you a collection of startup and business proposal PowerPoint templates, handcrafted by professional designers. All you have to do is download the template, open it in PowerPoint, and copy-paste your own content into the slides. And you’ll have yourself a high-quality PowerPoint presentation within minutes.

Font Collections / 9 Dec 2024

20+ Best Places to Find Free Fonts

Typography plays a big role in all types of designs, from product packaging to mobile apps and more. Today we’re taking a look at the best places to find free fonts, and take your design work to a new level.

But why is typography so important? Remember what happened at the Oscars 2017, when they gave the Best Picture award to the wrong film? Typography is to blame for that huge mess. As the creative strategist Benjamin Bannister points out, a simple change in the font and the design could have helped avoid such an embarrassing incident.

This is why it’s important to have more options when designing a new project. Don’t settle for those overused default fonts. Be brave enough to try something new.

There are many places you can download a great looking font free of charge. We narrowed down the list to the top 20 websites for finding free fonts. Have a look.

Font Collections / 9 Dec 2024

30+ Best American Fonts (For USA Designs) 2025

Looking to create a design imbued with unmistakable American spirit? Look no further; our curated collection of the best American fonts has something for everyone.

These stylish typefaces embody the spirit and charm of the USA, perfect for projects that aim to exude patriotism and American pride. Make your artwork speak volumes with fonts that resonate with quintessential American sensibilities.

Each entry on our list is unique in character, capturing different facets of American culture and aesthetics. Whether it’s for a Fourth of July event flyer, a patriotic poster, or a thematic branding project, our selection of American fonts serve as the perfect tools that can artistically express your vision.

Manifest patriotism and charm in every stroke with our list of the best and most versatile American fonts. From bold and robust to subtle and understated, from historic to contemporary vibes, both free and premium options are covered, ensuring that each design exudes a distinctive American flair. Don’t just design—it narrate your love for the USA with every typed word.

Microsoft Word Templates / 8 Dec 2024

40+ Best Business Plan Templates for Word 2025

Are you writing a business plan for a brand new startup? Or updating an old business plan for an established brand? Then this collection of MS Word business plan templates will definitely come in handy.

The key to making an effective business plan brochure that wins over investors and inspires employees is to use a modern and attractive design.

No one wants to read through a 100-page brochure that looks like a VCR manual from the 1960s. Today, people prefer cleaner brochure layouts with proper paragraph formatting that offer a much smoother reading experience.

Designing such modern business plan documents is not that difficult. In fact, you can easily create them using Word templates.

In this post, we showcase high-quality business plan templates for Word that have been designed by professionals. They feature modern designs and clean layouts that are perfect for all kinds of startups, businesses, and corporate companies. Have a look.

Font Collections / 7 Dec 2024

40+ Best Comic Fonts 2025

If you’re an artist or a designer looking for the perfect font to craft unique titles or dialogs for your comic book, you’ve come to the right place.

In this post, you’ll find lots of amazing comic book fonts with unique and creative designs you can use to design titles for your comics as well as for dialogs, splash panels, and descriptions.

Much like movies and music, comics also come in various stories and genres. We managed to find a collection of fonts to suit all these popular genres of comics to help you create designs that stand out from the crowd (plus, we’re sharing some tips on how to choose a comic font!)

Procreate Brushes / 6 Dec 2024

Procreate vs. Photoshop: Should You Make the Switch?

Designers are in love with Procreate. The app built for creative professionals makes designing on an iPad easier and more efficient in a completely new way. But can a $9.99 app be a realistic Photoshop competitor?

For some, the answer is a definite yes.

Here are five reasons Procreate could become your go-to design app (and five reasons why it might not). Plus, an introduction to what Procreate is, and why it might be the perfect app for you.