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Inspiration / 13 Aug 2022

20+ Best Brand Kit Examples & Templates in 2022

A brand kit is one of the most important elements of creating a successful brand identity. It plays a key role in how you create a consistent brand look across all your business and marketing efforts.

Every business and brand should have a brand kit, no matter how big or small. It will help you save a lot of time, money, and headaches when promoting your business.

Let’s figure out what a brand kit really is and how to create one. We also have a few great examples and templates for you as well.

Let’s dive in!

Font Collections / 12 Aug 2022

20+ Best Clean Fonts With Modern Designs (Free & Pro)

A clean and simple design can say a lot about the authority and confidence behind a brand or business. And it’s especially true for designing logos.

The world’s biggest brands like Apple, Samsung, Nike, and many others follow this same strategy to maintain their bold design approach by using minimalist designs for marketing campaigns.

One of the elements that are common across all their minimal designs is a clean font. Today, we will help you find that perfect clean font for logos, labels, packaging, and all kinds of your modern design projects.

There are several different styles of clean fonts in this collection. Whether you’re working on a professional logo design for a corporate brand or a casual custom T-shirt design, you will find plenty of fonts to choose from on our list. Have a look.

CV & Resume Templates / 12 Aug 2022

50+ Best CV & Resume Templates 2022

A first impression can either make or break your chance of landing a dream job. So choosing one of the best resume templates can give you a fantastic head start. These modern CV templates for Word, Pages, and InDesign are the perfect starting point for creating your new and improved resume!

These beautifully designed resume templates will help you stand out from the crowd, help you showcase the right skills, and improve your chances of landing the job. Some of the templates are free, and others cost a few dollars. All of them are absolutely beautiful!

Having a modern, professional resume doesn’t necessarily mean you will land the job, but it’s a great way to make sure you get the interview! And once you’ve chosen one, remember to read through our guide on how to customize a CV or resume template to make your own mark.

Trends / 11 Aug 2022

Color Overload: 10 Tips for Creating Color-Packed Designs

A high-color design can be a difficult thing to create without the final design feeling overwhelming. But designers are taking this chance and experimenting with a bit of color overload to create stunning projects that don’t overwhelm users.

Here, we’ll look at 10 different examples with 10 tips to help you navigate this color trend as you complete a website or other design project.

Leave the muted color palette behind, and dive into a world of vivid color!

Background Textures / 11 Aug 2022

60+ Beautiful Geometric & Polygon Background Textures 2022

Looking for a great polygon background texture for your design? Then you’re going to love this collection of free and premium geometric and poly background textures.

Low poly and geometric backgrounds are now turning out to be one of the most popular trends in design this year. They’re being used for both website and graphic designs to give the designs a retro and a pop-art look.

Suffice to say, these textures do add an attractive, modern look to any project.

We’ve handpicked a few great free and premium poly and geometric textures you can use with your next project!

PowerPoint Templates / 11 Aug 2022

20+ Cute PowerPoint Templates (Free & Pro)

Looking for adorable and cute PowerPoint templates to make more creative and lovable presentations? Then this collection of PowerPoint templates is made just for you.

When it comes to presenting adorable pet-themed products, cute kids brands, or even teaching children, a beautifully designed and colorful slideshow goes a long way to capture the attention of your audience.

These cute PowerPoint templates are made with that same goal in mind.

For this collection, we gathered some of the most adorable PPT templates. But be warned, they will instantly make you fall in love with the templates.

Flyer Templates / 10 Aug 2022

40+ Best Fonts for Flyers 2022

When it comes to flyer design, choosing the right font can make a big difference. This collection of the best fonts for flyers can help you find a unique typeface for your next design project.

Whether you’re working on a flyer design for a business event, a party, a music festival, or a club event, it’s important to pick a font that matches the overall theme of the flyer and the business.

You need to find a font that suits the design of the flyer, the message of the event, and the target audience.

Luckily, you don’t have to spend hours searching for that perfect font. We’ve done the heavy work for you and handpicked the fonts in this collection to match all those types of flyer designs (and more!).

We’re also sharing our tips for choosing a flyer font to help guide you through the process.

Business Templates / 10 Aug 2022

How to Make a Booklet in Word (With an Easy Template)

Learning how to make a booklet in Word is a valuable design skill. Even if you are used to working in something like InDesign, it’s likely a client or colleague may ask for a Microsoft Word-based booklet. It’s easy with a quick template that you can download, replace content, and use.

Here, we’ll take you through everything you need to know to create a booklet from a professional template for Word, from thinking about content to preparing the file for printing.

We’re going to use a template from Envato Elements (where there are loads of great options!), but you could use any booklet template for Word that you’ve tracked down online.

Font Collections / 10 Aug 2022

20+ Best Fonts With Tails (Swash Fonts)

There’s no denying that calligraphy swashes, or fonts with tails, bring a certain pizazz to your text. If you’re looking for the best fonts with swashes, here’s a collection of the best premium and free fonts with tails that will make you swoon.

In this article, we’re bringing ou a number of stunning swash fonts, created by a slew of talented designers from around the world.

The best part is that you can download as many as you want, as often as you want!

Reviews / 9 Aug 2022

Designing an Online Course or Presentation? Try iSpring Suite

Have you ever thought of designing an online course or presentation to share with others? What made you stop?

If it was not having the knowledge or tools to design an engaging and informational course or presentation, iSpring is the solution. The suite of tools is as simple as using PowerPoint, and you have everything you need to create a course or presentation at your fingertips.

Here, we’re going to look at iSpring and what you can do with it so you can determine if it is right for your projects.

Mockup Templates / 9 Aug 2022

30+ Coffee Bag Mockup Templates (Free & Premium)

Coffee makes the world go round, so putting your own logo or branding on a bag of coffee seems like a pretty good idea – think of the positive associations for your brand when new and potential customers see your name when they’re reaching for their favorite beverage first thing in the morning!

Of course, it’s important that your coffee bag design looks good, rather than just a sticker slapped on a paper pouch – so why not use these mockup templates to see what your coffee packaging will look like before you commit to a design?

Featuring both premium and free mockup templates from a variety of sources, every mockup in this list is available for instant download. Let’s get started!

InDesign Templates / 9 Aug 2022

45+ Best InDesign Magazine Templates 2022 (Free & Premium)

Designing a magazine from scratch can be a lot of work. You have to come up with unique layouts for multiple pages, design the covers, format paragraphs, and much more. Did you know that you can get a great head-start by simply using an InDesign magazine template?

That’s right! With a magazine template, you get a complete magazine pre-designed by a professional. All you have to do is edit the design to change the colors while replacing the text and images.

We handpicked a collection of amazing InDesign magazine templates to help you find the right design for your project. There are all kinds of magazine templates in this collection ranging from fashion magazines to business magazines and more.

Let’s have a look.

Sketch Templates / 5 Aug 2022

Sketch vs. Figma vs. Adobe XD: Which Design Tool Is Best for Beginners?

There comes a time when every designer needs to decide which design tool they’re going to settle down with for the rest of their career. If you’re in the process of finding your perfect design tool or looking for a replacement, this guide is for you.

Sketch app used to hold the throne as one of the most versatile design apps out there. That’s until two new contenders surfaced to challenge the throne—Figma and Adobe XD.

Both Figma and Adobe XD apps are not only developed by industry leaders but offer some amazing features that managed to steal many users away from Sketch. Of course, Sketch is still one of the best UX design tools available today as well.

For beginning designers, it can be frustrating to find the right tool for their work. In this article, we aim to provide a solid answer to that problem, by comparing Figma, Sketch, and Adobe XD against one another. Let’s dive in.

Features / 4 Aug 2022

Business Templates

Not all business templates are created equal. Designing a polished and professional document or proposal can make a huge difference to the impact it has (and there are thousands of high-quality templates to explore if you aren’t a designer by trade).

We’ll be walking you through the types of things to consider when creating or choosing a template for your next business document. From what to include on a business proposal to where to find the best templates for a digital marketing or SEO proposal.

The best thing about business templates is their versatility. It doesn’t matter whether you’re crafting a proposal for a new marketing initiative, a financial investment, or a national event. You can apply the same basic principles to create something that looks great and captures the attention of the reader in no time.