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Graphics / 14 Dec 2016

Designing With an 80s Trend: Memphis Design 101

Every trend eventually makes a comeback. Sometimes that even applies to trends that are more difficult to understand.

Memphis design – exemplified by an 80s aesthetic with bright colors and lots of shapes and lines – is one of those concepts that has come back around again. Not many people have ever said they love the 80s design style. Love it or hate it, the bright design pattern can be a lot of fun and direct attention to the design. Here’s everything you need to know about Memphis design.

Inspiration / 28 Nov 2016

2016 Gift Guide for Designers and Creatives

Black Friday. Cyber Monday. Holiday shopping! Where do you start? Sometimes finding the perfect – and perfectly unusual – gift for the designer in your life can be a challenge.

We’ve found 15 great gifts for designers or the design-minded so you can check shopping off your list early this season. Prices range from stocking stuffer items to a few more expensive gifts, but nothing on this list is too extravagant.

Inspiration / 1 Nov 2016

20+ Corporate & Business HTML Templates

How much are you willing to spend on developing a business website for your new company? $10,000? $5,000? What if we told you that you could get started for less than twenty dollars?

No, that’s not a typo. You can actually build a stunning corporate or a business website for less than $20 dollars. Will it be a completely custom design? No. But the solution for a budget-friendly starting point is simple: grab a HTML template! No need to hire expensive design agencies. No need to spend thousands of dollars on web developers. Simply grab an HTML template, edit the files to add your company information, and get your business website up and running in no time.

To help you find the perfect design for your business website, we handpicked a set of impressive HTML templates you could use to build a stunning website.

Inspiration / 26 Oct 2016

20+ Realistic Lightroom Presets

Would you like to supercharge your workflow in Adobe Lightroom and be able to enhance your photographs with just one click?

If you answered yes, then you’re in for a treat. Today, we’ve collected a selection of wonderful Lightroom presets you can use to achieve realistic effects with just a simple mouse click.

Photographers and graphic designers are already well aware of how powerful Lightroom presets can be when it comes to making the necessary adjustments and enhancements to their photos. It’s the easiest way to improve photos while saving a ton of time.

We’ve previously taken a look at the best Lightroom presets of the year, but today’s collection is all about realism and simple effects. Have a look at our hand-picked Lightroom presets collection and see if you could find something useful to add to your own editing workflow.

Graphics / 24 Oct 2016

How to Make Color Overlays Work in Your Design

Color is an important part of almost any design. Whether you are a fan of bright, bold hues or prefer a more minimalist black and white, how you use color can have a great impact on the overall design.

One way to use color to make a statement is with a design that incorporates a color overlay. This means that you cover an image or video with a semi-transparent colored box. The effect can add meaning to an image, bring attention to a design and help you make most of limited art choices.

Today, we’re going to look at a variety of color overlays to serve as a bit of inspiration for creating your own.

Inspiration / 18 Oct 2016

25+ Best Minimal, Abstract Logos

Logo design is a massive industry, especially among freelancers. In fact, some of the biggest freelancing platforms such as Fiverr became widely popular for their massive number of logo designers on the platform.

There’s lots of mixed opinion about the quality and standard you’ll see when using a marketplace like this though. You’re often better off choosing a high quality logo template, and customising it for your own needs. Today we’re looking at just that — a collection of minimal, abstract logo templates that could provide a great starting point for your brand.

Inspiration / 11 Oct 2016

20+ Action-Packed Photoshop Actions

Actions are one of the most overlooked features in Photoshop that most designers don’t often pay attention to. Yet, they are also one of the features that could help save you hours of your time.

Another great thing about Photoshop actions is that you don’t even have to spend time creating and perfecting them. You can simply grab one of the thousands of Photoshop actions already made by professional graphic designers and start applying them to your photos to create instant effects.

So, whether you’re a pro looking to save time or just want to quickly experiment with several advanced effects, here are a few of the coolest Photoshop Actions you can use to add magical effects to your designs and supercharge your workflow.

Inspiration / 4 Oct 2016

10 Mega Menu CSS Templates

There’s no introduction necessary for mega menus. Anyone who has surfed the web has definitely seen at least one website with a mega menu. That’s how popular the mega menu trend really is — they’re popping up everywhere!

Want proof? Take a look at the massive and beautiful mega menus on Amazon, Puma, Walmart, or The White House websites.

We’ve hand picked a few amazing mega menu templates that you can get for the price of a cup of coffee!

Graphics / 28 Sep 2016

Duotone Color: Tips & Examples for This Vibrant Trend

The next big web design image trend is here, and it’s vibrant, colourful, and beautiful!

Thanks to Spotify, duotone is growing in popularity almost daily. The effect, which uses a pair of colors over a photo is striking, fun and vibrant. It’s also quite trendy, with new sites changing to a duotone format almost daily. Here are a few ways to make the most of this hot design technique.

Inspiration / 27 Sep 2016

15+ Gorgeous Save the Date Templates

Hiring someone to design your wedding invitations to look exactly the way you want is not an easy task. In most cases, the designers don’t share your vision for the design and you end up letting them design the card the way they want it to be.

But, what if you could pick a design of your own, customize it to look perfect, and print it out yourself while avoiding expensive designers altogether?

Yes, it’s possible. All you need is a little bit of Photoshop knowledge and a great looking save the date card template and you’re good to go. To help with your search, we hand-picked some of the most beautiful and affordable save the date templates you can find online. Have a look.

Inspiration / 20 Sep 2016

20+ Stunning Hero Images for a Creative Website

What do Salesforce, TaskRabbit, Tesla, and Pocket websites have in common? They all rock hero images.

Make no mistake, the hero image web design trend is still very much alive. What is a hero image? Well, it’s basically a giant banner-style image that takes over the top half of the page. The main goal of this design strategy is to quickly grab the user’s attention while showcasing some of the features of a product or a service at the same time.

According to research, colored visuals increase people’s willingness to read a piece of content by 80%. It’s one of the reasons why placing a hero image above the fold has been found to be quite effective in increasing website engagement.

Graphics / 14 Sep 2016

Experiential Design 101: Designing for VR

We may live in a world where many of our design and communication interactions happen via a screen, but information from screens is jumping into the live realm more and more often.

While it might almost sound like something out of a science fiction movie, you will create design elements that live in the space between screens and reality in this lifetime. It’s already starting to happen. Experiential design is the force that will shape how those projects come together and how you create and develop dynamic real-life design elements.