Design Articles, Inspiration & Resources

Layouts / 4 Dec 2024

Breaking the Grid: When and How to Go Off-Grid in Design

Picasso, Monet, Van Gough, and modern-day artists like Banksy are known for breaking the rules and redefining the standards of art.

These artists proved that sometimes, you need to break the traditions and rules to create more memorable and dynamic designs. Even today, you’ll see this to be true in both print and digital designs.

Designers are encouraged to follow the rules and use grids to create well-structured and “effective” designs. However, this also puts restraints on creativity.

So, is it safe to go off-grid when creating designs? When should you use a grid-based design? What are the pros and cons? Let’s find the answers.

InDesign Templates / 4 Dec 2024

45+ Best InDesign Book Templates 2025

InDesign is the go-to choice for all designers when it comes to making books and brochures. The InDesign book templates we handpicked for this collection will show you why it’s the best tool in the industry.

It usually takes a lot of careful planning and creative thinking to design effective book page layouts with proper content and paragraph arrangements. When using pre-made book templates, you can avoid all that work and jump straight to customizing the design.

For this collection, we picked a few different types of book templates, including branding manuals, eBooks, fashion look books, design books, portfolio books, and more. All you need to do is download the template and start editing.

After Effects Templates / 4 Dec 2024

45+ Best Logo Reveal Templates for After Effects 2025

The logo reveal scene, or the logo stinger, is arguably the most important part of any video. Whether it’s a YouTube video, a social media promo, or a corporate video, the way you reveal your branding help leave a lasting impression on your audience.

It usually takes a lot of experience and effort to design a creative logo stinger in After Effects. But, thanks to logo reveal templates, you can now add a unique logo stinger to your own videos almost instantly.

We found some amazing After Effects logo reveal templates to show you how easy it is to design a logo stinger without an effort. There are both free and premium templates in the collection.

Go have a look and start downloading.

Lightroom Presets / 3 Dec 2024

60+ Professional Lightroom Presets 2025

Minimizing the time you spend on processing and enhancing photos is one of the things most photographers and graphic designers often struggle with. Adobe Lightroom, coupled with a set of professional Lightroom presets, makes this whole process much easier.

What if we told you that you can make Lightroom even more powerful to process images, add beautiful effects, enhance tone, adjust contrast, and much more with just one-click? All of this is possible thanks to premade Lightroom presets.

In this collection, we’re featuring some of the best professional Lightroom presets you can use to supercharge your workflow and manage your time more effectively. These presets are also customizable, allowing you to adjust their settings to match any kind of photo you have.

Font Collections / 3 Dec 2024

35+ Baseball Fonts (Script & Cursive Jersey + Logo Fonts) 2025

Want to hit a home run with your next sports-themed design? Then be sure to try some of these baseball fonts.

Baseball fans are some of the most dedicated followers of the sport. That’s why they always want to show off their loyalty to their favorite teams no matter where they go. It’s part of the reason why baseball merchandise always sells out like hot cake. If you’re working on such a design, this fonts collection will come in handy.

In this collection, we are featuring the best baseball fonts you can use to make all kinds of sports-themed designs, including baseball jerseys, baseball caps, sports team logo designs, product labels, and everything in between.

We included both premium and free baseball fonts in the collection. Be sure to give them all a try.

Layouts / 3 Dec 2024

Hierarchy Hacks: Guiding the Viewer’s Eye With Purpose

Hierarchy is an important part of many aspects of our lives and the same can be said about hierarchy in design.

Visual hierarchy plays an important role in creating designs that are not just beautiful but also functional. Without the right balance of size, color, and spacing, a design will become cluttered, confusing, and chaotic.

Today we take a deep dive into the topic of hierarchy in design to learn the importance and usefulness of visual hierarchy. We also share a few tips on how to use hierarchy to make designs that communicate effectively with the users.

Let’s get started.

DaVinci Resolve Templates / 2 Dec 2024

45+ Best DaVinci Resolve Slideshow Templates 2025

Today, we have a collection of DaVinci Resolve slideshow templates that are perfect for making all kinds of professional videos.

Slideshows are a big part of almost every video project. Whether it’s to include a wedding photo slideshow or make a business promo video, slideshows fit in well with many different types of videos.

Normally, it takes quite some time to make a great slideshow scene in a video editor with cool effects, animations, and transitions. But creating such amazing photo and video slideshows in DaVinci Resolve will only take a few clicks when you have the right template.

Check out our DaVinci Resolve slideshow templates collection below and download a few templates to use in your video editing projects.

Poster Design / 2 Dec 2024

How to Make a Poster in PowerPoint: 10 Simple Steps

In addition to creating presentations, did you know you can use PowerPoint to design other elements such as posters? Today, we’re walking you through exactly how to make a poster in PowerPoint.

While not everyone thinks about making a poster design in PowerPoint, it’s pretty easy—and is a viable option if you need something quickly, or don’t have other design software available. (Posters made in PowerPoint are frequently used in academic settings for assignments and event promotion on college campuses.) Today, we’re going to take you through the steps of how to make a poster in PowerPoint.

Final Cut Pro Templates / 2 Dec 2024

45+ Best Final Cut Pro Intro Templates 2025

Crafting an attractive intro is the toughest part of making a video. However, if you’re using Final Cut Pro, you can now skip all that work and get your video made within half the time. All thanks to Final Cut Pro intro templates.

The opening scene or the intro of a video needs to be able to not only grab the attention of your audience but also to get them interested in watching the rest of the video. It’s a tough art to master, especially if you’re new to Final Cut Pro.

When using Final Cut Pro intro templates, you don’t have to worry about any of that. You can easily import a beautifully animated intro scene to your video, edit it to add your own titles and content, and export.

We rounded up some amazing intro and opener templates you can use with Final Cut Pro. You’ll find plenty of free and premium templates in the list below. Be sure to download them all.

CV & Resume Templates / 30 Nov 2024

35+ Best Minimal Resume Templates in 2025

A minimalist design style is an excellent approach you can use for designing more effective and attention-grabbing resumes.

When you use fewer design elements and more empty space, it highlights your content above all else in a distraction-free layout. This is why minimal resume designs work for almost any industry and profession.

But that doesn’t mean you can get away with only a bunch of text on a white paper. The way you format the content, the colors you use, and the design of the font, are still key factors that will make or break your resume.

So why not start with a minimal resume template designed by a professional? Explore our collection of minimal CV and resume templates below and get a head start in your job-hunting process.

PowerPoint Templates / 29 Nov 2024

40+ Best Consulting + Management PowerPoint Templates 2025

A killer presentation is the main weapon in a consultant’s arsenal. It’s the best tool you can use to convince and persuade clients of your skills and services. But you can’t do any of that with an ugly slideshow.

A beautiful and professional design is a must for every PowerPoint presentation. Especially when you’re trying to persuade an audience as an authoritative figure, you need carefully designed slides that live up to your reputation and brand.

This collection is all about helping you achieve that goal. We found the best consulting PowerPoint templates you can use to quickly and easily design better-looking slideshows for your consulting and management presentations.

Have a look and see if you can find a great template for your project.

After Effects Templates / 28 Nov 2024

55+ Best Free After Effects Templates 2025

After Effects is one of the best tools that supercharges the post-production process of video editing. And using After Effects templates is a secret trick most video editors use to make great videos.

If you’re still not using After Effects templates, you’re missing out on some of the best uses of the software. We rounded up some amazing and free templates to show you why.

You don’t always have to look for premium After Effect templates to create amazing videos. Sometimes a simple free After Effects template is enough to make your small personal projects look more professional.

In this post, we share some of the best free After Effect templates for creating all kinds of openers, title scenes, slideshows, and much more. Feel free to download and try them all! (And explore one or two premium files to compare these as well!)

Photoshop Brushes / 28 Nov 2024

70+ Best Photoshop Brushes of 2025

Today, we’re bringing you a collection of the best Photoshop brushes for creating amazing designs like a pro without having to break the bank.

We know for a fact that designers love to collect all kinds of brushes. That’s why we made sure to include a mix of Photoshop brushes in this post that will be useful in creating various types of designs, including everything from drawing to painting, coloring, texturing, shading, and much more.

We’ve collected a mix of free Photoshop brushes, and high-end premium options, for every budget.

Photoshop Actions / 28 Nov 2024

70+ Best Photoshop Text Effects 2025 (Free & Premium)

The title is the most important part of almost every design. Whether it’s a poster, flyer, banner, or even a website header, the title is what attracts the audience’s attention and keep them hooked.

When it comes to designing titles, sometimes you have to get creative and make unique text designs that stand out from the crowd. And this is where Photoshop text effects can be used to go above and beyond with your designs.

Photoshop text effects allow you to completely transform your ordinary text into incredible designs without an effort. They are quite popular among YouTubers and Twitch users for designing channel cover images as well.

We handpicked a collection of the best Photoshop text effects you can use to design all kinds of titles and headings. There are both premium and free text effects in the collection. Have a look.

Graphics / 27 Nov 2024

Texture in Digital Design: Adding Tangible Appeal to the Virtual World

Textures are an incredibly useful tool that can completely transform the look and feel of a design.

With a single layer of texture or a few brush strokes, you can give a vintage look to a modern illustration or instantly add depth to a shallow design.

Even though it often goes unnoticed, textures play a pivotal role in almost all kinds of digital designs. Even some of the most popular logos, websites, and app interfaces use textures to create more interesting and memorable designs.

Today, we take a closer look at the many uses of texture in digital design and how you can use it to transform your projects with a sense of realism and character.