Design Shack

Flyer Templates / 9 Oct 2024

Designing for Armistice, Remembrance, and Veterans Day: Tips & Resources

Designing for Veterans Day requires a thoughtful approach to honor those who have served and sacrificed. And the designs that accompany them should reflect that sentiment.

In this post, we’ll explore tips and resources to help you craft respectful, poignant designs for these important days of remembrance. Whether you’re creating posters, social media graphics, or event materials, it’s essential to strike the right balance between visual impact and meaningful messaging. These templates will help you achieve that goal.

We also included a few tips to help you create materials that not only catch the eye but also evoke a sense of honor and gratitude. Have a look.

Font Collections / 8 Oct 2024

100+ Best Condensed & Narrow Fonts of 2024

Contrary to popular belief, condensed and narrow fonts don’t make your text cramped or crowded. You just have to know the appropriate time and place to use the font. Condensed fonts are widely used these days for headlines and portraying bold messages, and when deployed in the right place, they can give stunning impact!

It takes a lot of testing and experimenting to find the perfect font for a design, but our tips for choosing and working with condensed and narrow fonts will help get you off to a great start!

Brochure Templates / 8 Oct 2024

100+ Modern Corporate Brochure Templates 2024

Brochures are an incredibly important part of identity and branding for any type of business. Whether you’re keeping customers informed, marketing a new product, or selling your services. A beautiful, modern brochure template can be a great starting point.

We’ve tracked down some of the most beautiful, creative brochure designs to help you quickly get started with a professional template. They’re modern and stylish, and can help your business stand out from the crowd.

All these brochure designs come in the form of a ready-to-go template, fully print ready, and most just cost a few dollars.

We’re also sharing a few helpful tips for designing a corporate or business brochure, and a guide on how to choose your brochure design software to help get you started.

Background Textures / 8 Oct 2024

35+ Background Design Trends & Styles for 2025

One of the most important early design decisions you will make is what kind of background will carry a project. Should it be a single color, colorless, use trendy elements such as geometric shapes, gradients, or wood grain patterns? Or would a solid background design can help make a project shine?

Staying on trend with background design styles is important as well. A trendy background choice shows that a website design is modern and the content is new. A modern visual framework can even signal a user that you are thinking about their needs and making the most of the tools that will make their experience better.

So how do you do it? Here’s a look at background design trends and styles, with a few great options to try.

Flyer Templates / 7 Oct 2024

25+ Día De Los Muertos Mockups, Graphics & Resources (Day of the Dead)

Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, is a vibrant celebration of life, memory, and heritage.

If you’re looking to capture the energy and deep cultural significance of this holiday in your designs, our collection of Día de los Muertos mockups, graphics, and resources is exactly what you need.

Whether you’re designing posters, invitations, or social media content, these ready-to-use templates and graphics will make your work come alive with authenticity. The collection includes a variety of customizable elements that you can easily incorporate into your creative projects.

These Día de los Muertos templates and graphics will surely embody the rich traditions of this beloved Mexican holiday.

Flyer Templates / 7 Oct 2024

35+ Halloween Flyer Templates (For Spooky 2024 Flyers)

With Halloween just around the corner, everyone is busy preparing for fun costume parties, festivals, and events. We picked out some of the best Halloween flyer templates to help you promote those events like a pro.

In this collection, we’re featuring a set of professionally designed Halloween-themed flyer templates you can use to quickly design a flyer to promote Halloween parties, festivals, movie nights, music events, and more.

We made sure to mix a collection of flyer templates that are both spooky and scary so that you can design flyers that appeal to both kids and grown-ups of all ages. The templates are available in Photoshop and Illustrator formats so you can easily customize them to your preference as well.

Inspiration / 7 Oct 2024

Halloween Graphic Design: 15 Spooky Tips & Ideas for 2024

Witches, goblins, and ghouls can make for some pretty amazing design projects. While Halloween might not be top of mind when it comes to design, it’s an opportunity to do something a little different with projects.

Halloween graphic design centers around something that will be around for a short time. It might be different than the typical vibe of a brand or project and often has a theme that’s fun and friendly.

Adding a spooky element to a design can delight users and show that the design is new and timely. It gives users reasons to come back to your projects because they know that it will change again after the holiday. You can use holiday-themed graphic design as a trick to keep users coming back!

Photoshop Actions / 4 Oct 2024

55+ Best Photoshop Cartoon Effects (Photo to Cartoon Actions & Plugins)

Photoshop offers many amazing tools for creating visual effects. For example, Photoshop actions let you transform your photos into paintings or cartoon drawings with just a single mouse click.

While these effects are fun to play with, they are also quite useful in creating attractive graphics for various designs like posters and flyers. That’s why it’s always a good idea to keep a few Photoshop actions and effects in your library to help create such graphics in an instant.

In this collection, we showcase different types of Photoshop cartoon actions, effects, and filters you can use to turn photos into cartoons as well as create unique designs. Have a look and add them all to your personal collection.

Font Collections / 4 Oct 2024

30+ Typography Trends for 2025

Want to give your design a quick facelift? Using new and interesting typography trends might be the answer. Designers are using bold colors, cutouts, gradients, and even customizations to create lettering that stands out.

Changing typefaces or recreating an image or header in a trending style can give a design a fresh look without a full-scale overhaul. Not sure where to start? This list features typography trends with examples to use as inspiration for how to use them.

Here’s a look at the top typography trends this year.

Lightroom Presets / 3 Oct 2024

80+ Best Lightroom Presets for Portraits (Free & Pro) 2024

You don’t have to be a pro photographer or a graphic designer to optimize and enhance your portrait photos. With the right Adobe Lightroom preset for portraits, you can apply stunning effects, all by yourself.

In this collection, we feature the best Lightroom presets available for quickly optimizing your portrait photos, selfies, wedding photos, and family photos.

Using these Lightroom presets for portraits, you can enhance your photos like a pro by applying effects instantly (and even customize them to your preference with ease). And don’t forget to read through our tips for using presets on portrait photos for helpful advice on how to integrate them into your workflow!

Font Collections / 2 Oct 2024

30+ Best Fall & Thanksgiving Fonts for Seasonal Designs

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it’s time to prepare for the delicious Thanksgiving dinners and big bellies. And of course, it’s also time to bring out your fall and Thanksgiving fonts for all the banners, flyers, posters, and greeting card designs.

In this roundup, you’ll find a blend of free and premium fonts ready for your festive designs. Whether you’re working on a Thanksgiving dinner invitation, an autumn-themed blog post, or a fall sale advertisement, these fall and Thanksgiving fonts will add a seasonal touch to your projects, helping your designs stand out with a seasonal vibe.

From elegant serifs to playful scripts, each Thanksgiving font selection has been crafted to give your designs a stunning aesthetic appeal, enhance readability, and engage your audience. So dive in, and let’s get ready to transform your autumn and Thanksgiving design projects with these beautiful and versatile fall fonts.

Photoshop Brushes / 2 Oct 2024

25+ Dust Brushes, Textures & Effects for Photoshop & More

Add a gritty, textured feel to your designs with our collection of dust brushes and effects for Photoshop.

Whether you’re aiming to create a vintage look, enhance your artwork with subtle imperfections, or add a layer of realism to your designs, dust textures and effects can make all the difference. These elements bring depth, character, and a raw, weathered quality that elevates everything from photo edits to poster designs.

In this post, we bring you some of the best dust brushes and textures for Photoshop, perfect for creating everything from cinematic photo effects to distressed typography. Have a look.

Font Collections / 1 Oct 2024

50+ Best Spooky Halloween Fonts 2024

Halloween is a busy time. Not just for the kids, but also for professional designers. It’s that time of the year you start looking for Halloween-themed fonts, templates, vectors, and icons for designing all those spooky posters and greeting cards.

Well, this year you won’t have to spend hours searching for creative fonts for your Halloween designs. Because we already did the work for you and picked out the best spooky Halloween fonts that will make your work stand out from the crowd.

In this collection, we feature a collection of the best Halloween fonts that are suitable for all kinds of designs from posters, greeting cards, social media designs, and other Halloween and horror-themed designs. Have a look.

PowerPoint Templates / 1 Oct 2024

20+ Best Hotel Presentation Templates (PowerPoint, Google Slides + More)

Creating a professional, visually captivating presentation is essential when promoting a hotel or hospitality business. Whether you’re pitching to investors, presenting to potential clients, or showcasing your brand to partners, the right presentation can make all the difference.

In this blog post, we’ve curated a collection of the best hotel presentation templates designed to help you deliver stunning and polished presentations with ease.

Whether you’re showcasing room amenities, event spaces, or the overall guest experience, these templates provide a structured, easy-to-edit framework to bring your vision to life. They offer everything you need to highlight key features of your hotel—beautiful imagery, engaging content layouts, and professional design elements that will impress any audience.