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Trends / 25 Dec 2024

Skeuomorphism vs. Flat Design: Where Are We Now?

Skeuomorphism and flat design are two of the most dominant design trends across web and mobile UI design. Or at least that was the case a few years ago.

Today, we only see small glimpses of Skeuomorphism-inspired user interfaces. And the original flat design style is no longer being used by designers. However, some forms of these two design trends are still very much alive and have influenced the modern website and mobile UI designs we use today.

What happened to these two design trends? How do designers use skeuomorphism and flat design styles today? Let’s dive in and find out.

Font Collections / 25 Dec 2024

40+ Best Gaming Fonts in 2025 (Free & Premium)

The gaming industry is now even bigger than Hollywood and it continues to grow every year. Great designs are in fact partly responsible for the success of many great video games.

Whether it’s the colorful graphics on a landing page website, social media posts used to promote games, or the preview images on the App Store page, it’s these designs that attract more people to download games and try them out in the first place.

If you’re a designer working on promoting a game, finding an appropriate font should be one of your top priorities. We handpicked some cool gaming fonts to help you get started.

These fonts come in all kinds of styles and designs. You can use them to design promotional material for games or even craft titles for your YouTube covers and Twitch profiles. Check them out below.

Mockup Templates / 25 Dec 2024

45+ Best T-Shirt Mockup Templates 2025 (Free & Premium)

How you present a finished t-shirt design can be a key consideration. And our pick of the best t-shirt mockup templates can be incredibly helpful in creating a stunning end result to impress your client.

Certain types of designs, like t-shirts, require a slight sparkle of presentation to showcase how the end result would appear on the final product. You simply can’t showcase a t-shirt design without a t-shirt mockup.

But, what if you don’t have the time to craft your own mockup for your t-shirt design? Not to worry. These to pre-made t-shirt mockup templates help you easily showcase any type of t-shirt design. Check out our collection and pick a mockup for your project!

Inspiration / 24 Dec 2024

35+ Best Twitch Stream Overlay Templates in 2025 (Free & Premium)

Twitch is well-known as a video game streaming platform but it’s actually much bigger than that. Now it’s populated by all kinds of content creators and professionals. Most of them are even using Twitch as their main source of income.

You’ll notice that all these Twitch streamers have their own unique and personalized streaming setups. They have creative overlays for the facecam with colorful and branded designs. This helps the streamers to set themselves apart from the millions of other streamers.

Usually, you have to hire a graphic designer to get a customized Twitch stream overlay designed for your channel. It will require a big investment, which is harder to afford when you’re just starting out. Thankfully, there’s a more affordable solution to this — Twitch overlay templates.

Twitch stream overlay templates are pre-made overlay designs that you can easily edit, customize, and upload to your stream setup. It’s that easy. Have a look in our handpicked Twitch overlay templates collection below to find a design for your Twitch channel.

Instagram Templates / 24 Dec 2024

50+ Best Instagram Mockup Templates (Story & Post) 2025

Instagram is a platform full of visual designs. The better your photos look, the more attention you get. And when you’re a designer promoting Instagram posts and story designs, you’ll need an equally beautiful mockup to showcase them.

Whether you’re a digital marketing agency showing off designs on a portfolio or a freelancer presenting Instagram designs to a client, you’ll need gorgeous-looking mockups to showcase your designs like a true professional.

To help you find the right mockup for your Instagram design, we rounded up some of the best Instagram post and story mockup templates. There are all kinds of mockups in this collection, featuring perspective views and customizable designs.

Trends / 24 Dec 2024

Looking Back to Look Forward: Lessons From Design in 2024

Today, we take a glimpse at some of the biggest 2024 design trends to learn from what worked best as well as the failures to plan ahead for the new year.

2024 was big year for every industry in design. With the buzz and fear around AI beginning to settle down, in 2024 we saw many new advancements and improvements in both the web and graphic design worlds.

There is a lot to unpack so let’s dive right into these design reflections.

Lightroom Presets / 23 Dec 2024

35+ Best Lightroom Mobile Presets 2025 (Free & Premium)

Today, we’re bringing you a collection of amazing Lightroom mobile presets to improve your photos like a professional photographer on-the-go.

Enhancing and optimizing your selfies and smartphone photos is now much easier thanks to the Lightroom mobile app. The best part is, anyone can use the mobile app for free.

The Lightroom mobile app can also be a great starting point for amateur photographers to learn how to edit photos. And for photobloggers to improve your photos with high-quality effects.

We handpicked a mix of both premium and free Lightroom mobile presets for you to download. Try a few of these presets and see the results for yourself.

CV & Resume Templates / 23 Dec 2024

10 Skills Every Designer Needs on Their Resume

Even if you aren’t actively looking for a job, your resume is an important piece of your digital portfolio. From sites such as LinkedIn to personal portfolio pages such as Behance that showcase your work, glimpses into your design career are everywhere.

You want to control that message to ensure that you are putting the right vibe out there about who you are, the work you do and why (quite frankly) you are a rock star designer. And while a stellar portfolio is a great way to start that conversation, your resume is equally important. It should highlight some of the skills that aren’t as apparent from looking at a few marquee pieces.

As a bonus, every example resume here is a template from Envato Elements. Visit and download usable graphic design assets to boost your resume design today!

Business Card Templates / 23 Dec 2024

50+ Best Fonts for Business Cards 2025

Typography plays a major role in business card design. It’s not easy to find a font that matches your client’s brand and business. With this collection of the best fonts for business cards, we’re suggesting dozens of fonts and typefaces that are a great fit for your next business card design.

A business card is more than just a tool for networking. It also helps to represent your brand, and show off professionalism or personality.

That’s why it’s crucial to use the perfect font when designing a business card.

In this post, we’re featuring some of the best fonts for business cards you can use to create just the right style and tone for your design.

We’re also sharing a set of tips for choosing the right business card font to point you in the right direction.

Figma Templates / 22 Dec 2024

70+ Best Figma Templates, UI Kits + Wireframe Kits for 2025

Figma is slowly becoming one of the most popular user interface design apps available today. With the ability to use the tool entirely online, it’s also an easily accessible tool for UI design collaboration and prototyping.

Whether you’ve been using Figma to design mobile and desktop user interfaces or if you’re new to the app, you’ll find our Figma templates collection quite useful.

In this post, we feature some of the best Figma templates for wireframing, mobile user interface designs, app designs, website designs, and much more. We’re also sharing our tips for getting started with Figma if you’re new to the app!

With these templates, you can easily create wireframes and UI designs without having to spend hours crafting the small components and layouts. You can customize the templates to change colors and rearrange sections to make them your own as well.

Inspiration / 21 Dec 2024

30+ Best Free Photoshop Plugins 2025

Photoshop Plugins are one of the hidden features of the photo editor that many designers fail to notice. We created this list of the best free Photoshop plugins to show you how plugins can help improve your workflow.

When it comes to graphic design, the way you organize your Photoshop app interface and plan the workflow plays a key role in efficiency and productivity. That’s why every designer should experiment with Photoshop plugins as they can permanently improve your workflow.

With a single plugin, you can create gradients instantly. Or sharpen an image with just a few clicks. Or even find high-quality stock photos without ever having to switch to Chrome.

Explore our collection of free Photoshop plugins and you’ll find a whole new world of useful tools.

Font Collections / 20 Dec 2024

Serif vs. Sans Serif Fonts: Is One Really Better Than the Other?

There is an ongoing debate among designers – both print and digital – about what makes an ideal typeface for a project. The debate almost always breaks down to a single question: serif or sans serif?

Before you answer that question, think about all of the things you know about serif and sans serif typefaces and all the myths associated with them.

Today, we’ll take a look at both categories of type and try to determine if one is really better than the other, and in what circumstance.