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Inspiration / 29 Jul 2021

10+ Best Web & Graphic Design Books for Beginners

Most designers are visual learners. You learn more from looking at another design than reading about it. But that doesn’t mean you can’t learn design from books.

In fact, books are the best source for learning techniques and gaining knowledge from experts. According to a report, reading physical books helps you to think outside the box, develop problem-solving skills, and enhance creativity, among many other benefits.

The knowledge you can gather from a great design book can’t be matched with a YouTube tutorial or even an online course. To show you how great books can be, we handpicked the best web design and graphic design books you can read to level up your skills.

Read them all if you can but even reading just one book from this list is enough to add more to your design knowledge. Have a look.

Wedding Design / 23 Jul 2021

12+ Best Baby & Bridal Shower Invitation Templates

Throwing a bridal shower or a baby shower can be as stressful as planning the wedding itself. It can be even more frustrating when you have to design an invitation to invite everyone to the party as well.

To help take some weight off your shoulder, we handpicked a collection of beautiful baby shower and bridal shower invitation templates you can use to quickly create a stylish and creative flyer to invite everyone to the event in a fashionable way.

These templates are easily customizable. If you have Photoshop or Illustrator on your computer, you can simply download the template and open it in your favorite app to edit the text, change colors, and add images as you like. Then you can print it out all by yourself. Check out the invitation templates below and start downloading.

Font Collections / 23 Jul 2021

25+ Best Cursive Fonts (With Fancy, Pretty Styling)

If you’re working on a greeting card or a wedding invitation design, chances are you’re still looking for that perfect cursive font for your project. No need to look any further because we’ve rounded up a collection of the best cursive fonts just for you.

In this post, we’re featuring some of the best free and premium cursive fonts with elegant and fancy styles you can use with your various print and digital design projects. We guarantee you’ll find a font for every creative project on this list!

We’re also sharing a few tips for designing with cursive fonts to help you with your project.

After Effects Templates / 14 Jul 2021

25+ Best Logo Animations for After Effects

In this collection, we share some of the best logo animation templates you can use to create an attractive logo reveal with just a few clicks using Adobe After Effects.

Almost every branded video on YouTube starts with a logo reveal. It’s a great way to establish authority and promote your brand to the audience. There are a few different ways you can also add a logo reveal animation in your own videos.

The easy route is to use a default animation in After Effects and create a basic logo animation. Or, you can use a template and create a logo reveal animation that stands out from the crowd. One that makes your videos instantly recognizable.

Even if you’re not an expert video editor, you can use templates to create professional logo animations using After Effects without an effort. For starters, have a look at the animation templates below.

Wedding Design / 13 Jul 2021

10 Best Wedding Color Schemes for Invitations & Stationery (+ Examples)

Choosing the right color scheme for your wedding is one of the toughest tasks of the wedding planning process. Because you need to make sure the colors you pick stays consistent across all aspects of the events.

The color scheme you pick will decide the colors for everything from wedding invitations to thank you cards, flower arrangements, decorations, and everything in between.

Needless to say, you need to carefully think and plan ahead when choosing a wedding color scheme. We’ll help you make the right decision.

In this post, we showcase some of the trendiest and prettiest wedding color schemes that are quite popular right now in the industry. These color schemes are perfect for designing invitations and all wedding stationery. As well as for all other aspects of the special event.

Flyer Templates / 2 Jul 2021

25+ Best InDesign Flyer Templates

Flyers are one of the best ways to promote brands and market products. Although, not everyone knows how to design effective flyers that work. These InDesign flyer templates can give you a fantastic head start.

All flyers aren’t created equal, and they’re an area of design where creating something stylish and on-trend can really help you stand out. We’ve handpicked this collection of flyer templates to help you to nail a superb, timely flyer aesthetic.

If you’re a designer looking for inspiration to create a flyer with an uncommon and modern design, you’ll find these InDesign flyer templates more useful.

Flyer Templates / 24 Jun 2021

25+ Best Club Flyer Templates

Designing an amazing flyer is an effective way to get everyone excited about a party or an event. You can find a great flyer design to promote your next event from this collection of party and club flyer templates.

You don’t have to be a designer to make a professional looking party flyer (we’ve written about how to design your own flyer before). But for an even quicker solution, these pre-made templates come with attractive designs made by professionals. All you have to do is open the template with Photoshop or Illustrator and edit them.

Whether you’re planning a summer beach party, a birthday party, or a club night, this collection has a template for every fun occasion. Plus, our tips for club flyer design and our club flyer background graphics will help get your project off to a great start.

Poster Design / 17 Jun 2021

25+ Best Poster & Photo Frame Mockup Templates

Whether it’s showcasing a project in your portfolio or presenting a design to a client, a mockup goes a long way to make your work of art look more professional. And of course, as a designer, you can never have enough mockups.

Today, we’re bringing you a collection of poster frame mockups and photo frame mockups for showing off your work in a more exciting way.

There are many different styles of photo and poster frame mockups in this list with realistic scenes.

You can use them to present your poster designs, flyers, artworks, and much more.

Lightroom Presets / 8 Jun 2021

20+ Realistic Lightroom Presets

Optimizing photos and applying filters without destroying the natural look of the photo is a skill that takes a lot of practice to master. But, with the help of realistic Lightroom presets, you can get better at it much more easily.

In this collection, we bring you some amazing Lightroom presets for creating realistic effects by applying subtle filters and improvements. Unlike most other filters, these Lightroom presets will preserve the natural look of your photos as well.

Even if you’re looking to improve your smartphone photos, you can use these Lightroom presets to add HDR effects, light and airy effects, or even monochrome effects to give them a professional look and feel. Be sure to download them all below.

Instagram Templates / 4 Jun 2021

8 Tips for Designing Instagram Stories That Don’t Suck

Instagram stories are one of the hottest social media formats. The vertical format allows creators to share videos, photos, and mixed media content in a streaming medium, and introduces an entirely novel layout to design for.

The tricky part is creating stories that are enjoyable, shareable, and help people engage with your account, brand, or even get clicks to your website.

Here, we’re going to look at eight ways to create Instagram stories that help you meet goals, and stand out from the crowd.

Bonus: You can apply these design tips to Facebook stories as well.

Inspiration / 20 May 2021

20+ Best Greeting Card Templates for Word, Photoshop, & Illustrator

Today we’re bringing you a collection of greeting card templates covering various occasions. If you’ve waited until the last minute to find a greeting card for a birthday, holiday, or valentine’s day, no need to panic. These templates will help you avoid getting into trouble.

With the busy lives we’re living it’s normal to forget about a special event until it’s just around the corner. Thanks to pre-made templates, you no longer have to go to a shop to find the perfect greeting card. You can print it yourself.

With these templates, you can customize and design unique greeting cards to make your loved ones feel truly special. Have a look.

Inspiration / 6 May 2021

20+ Best Vintage Icon Packs, Badges & Insignias (Free & Premium)

Vintage logo and badge design are quite popular these days. But it’s more than just a trend. It’s also a way of showing off the origins and history behind a brand.

Vintage doesn’t always mean old. It’s mostly about adding a nostalgic feel and capturing the essence of a certain era. Many modern startups and businesses, like Dollar Shave Club, do it well with their branding designs.

If you’re also working on a logo, badge, or insignia design that takes people back in time, you’re in luck. In this post, we bring you a collection of vintage badge templates, insignias, and icon packs to help you find inspiration for your design.

You can download and edit these templates to quickly craft badges or logos as well. Explore the collection below and see if you can find a template for your project.