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Inspiration / 16 Jan 2025

30+ School Newsletter Templates 2025

A school newsletter template can help you create an effective way to bridge the gap between teachers, students, and parents to keep everyone updated on the latest news and upcoming events, teach about reading levels, and much more.

If your school don’t have a newsletter yet or planning on revamping your old newsletter design, use these easy to use school newsletter templates to instantly craft a more professional and attractive newsletter.

This collection includes customizable newsletter templates for all kinds of schools, colleges, and universities. You can download and edit the templates using Adobe InDesign to personalize the design to match your school branding. Plus, we’re sharing some helpful tips for designing a school newsletter to help get you started.

Brochure Templates / 16 Jan 2025

40+ Best InDesign TriFold Templates 2025

In this post, we’re featuring a handpicked collection of the best InDesign trifold templates you can use to make professional brochures for promoting businesses and brands.

Brochures are the most effective way to promote your brand to a target audience to explain your business goals, mission, as well as to showcase products and services. With the right brochure design, you’ll be able to win more clients and stand out from your competition at the same time.

With these trifold brochure templates, you’ll be able to create a professional brochure for your business or agency all by yourself, without having to hire freelancers or expensive design agencies.

Trends / 15 Jan 2025

Navigation Trends for 2025: Keeping It Simple and Intuitive

Website navigation design went through a series of phases over the past few years. So, what can we expect to see this year? Which navigation trends will be most popular and effective? Let’s have a look.

Over the years, designers found creative ways to make website navigation look cool and interesting. While most of those trends died off quickly, some of them, like mega-menus, off-canvas menus, and sticky navigation made it to the web design hall of fame and are still being used to this day.

In this post, we explore some of the popular navigation trends of the past few months and see which ones will be most effective this year. Without further ado, let’s dive in.

Inspiration / 15 Jan 2025

100+ Annual Report Templates (Word & InDesign) 2025

Are you working on an annual report? Looking for a way to impress your client or boss with this report? Then use a simple annual report template to make your document look more professional.

Preparing an annual report is not an easy job. You shouldn’t have to spend hours making it look pretty as well. That’s why we handpicked this collection of annual report templates so you can quickly load them up with InDesign or MS Word to edit and copy over your content. It’s that easy.

Whether you’re working on an annual sales report, financial report, or a marketing report, we found templates to fit all kinds of documents. This collection includes both free and premium templates, as well as our tips for designing the perfect annual report to get you off to a great start.

Font Collections / 14 Jan 2025

45+ Best Aesthetic Fonts in 2025

Typography plays a vital role in creating an elegant and aesthetic feel for various types of designs.

Take luxury brands like Chanel or Gucci, for example. Typography takes the center stage in their product packaging designs and it’s widely recognized as the signature look for these high-end brands.

It’s the fonts they use that create this sense of modernism, luxury, and aesthetic feel. This is why aesthetic fonts are quite popular in the fashion, lifestyle, beauty, and cosmetic industries. As well as many others.

In this collection, we will help you find the perfect aesthetic font for your design project. We have a few different styles of fonts in this list ranging from aesthetic handwriting to cursive and wavy fonts. Have a look.

Accessibility / 14 Jan 2025

Beyond Alt Text: Overlooked Accessibility Features You Should Be Using

When it comes to creating accessible designs, we always think of the basics, like adding alt-text, translations, and color palettes. But there’s more to accessibility than those basic features.

Creating an accessible website involves using clear navigation, easy-to-understand multimedia, color contrast, and elements that can be used by all. Unfortunately, most of these accessibility features often go overlooked.

In this post, we want to highlight the importance of these underused accessibility features and explain why you should implement them in your website and UX design projects to create more accessible experiences.

Let’s dive in.

Layouts / 13 Jan 2025

The Golden Ratio in Design: Examples & Tips

This might feel like a math lesson but hang in there. The golden ratio combines a little bit of math, a little bit of nature, and a lot of practical application for designers. Let’s take a look at what the golden ratio means for design, and a few tips for using it in your design projects.

The golden ratio has been used throughout history to create design elements that have an ideal visual appeal. Because the shape is rooted in nature and mathematics, it’s the perfect combination of balance and harmony. And it’s a superb tool to have up your sleeve as a designer.

Business Card Templates / 10 Jan 2025

What to Put on a Business Card: 8 Creative Ideas

What to put on a business card? It’s a tricky question. A business card that contains just the right information (and a stellar design) will grab attention and help you stand out. It’s the thing that makes someone else remember you, or your pitch.

Even in the digital age, a business card is a popular–and necessary networking and communication tool. Having a great business card provides legitimacy to your or your business, it’s a quick and easy way to exchange information, and can provide ways to help promote your work.

What you put on your business card says a lot to others. Here’s a guide to what to put on a business card, with plenty of creative ideas to help you get started.

PowerPoint Templates / 10 Jan 2025

45+ Business & Marketing PowerPoint Templates 2025

Using the default PowerPoint layout to design a business presentation isn’t usually a great idea. You need a business PowerPoint template that’s going to stand out, make an impression, and look professional.

A complete redesign for the heavily outdated default PowerPoint templates is long overdue. But, there’s no need to wait for Microsoft to fix it. Instead, you can easily grab a premium PowerPoint template to give yourself a head start.

Created by professional designers, these business and marketing PowerPoint templates will help you design more professional presentation slideshows that win over your clients and customers.

We’ve hand-picked the best in this collection.

Photoshop Actions / 9 Jan 2025

100+ Best Watercolor Photoshop Actions & Effects 2025

Whether you’re designing a unique website background, a poster, sketch, or creating an artistic photo composition, using a watercolor Photoshop action can make your design stand out from the crowd.

A watercolor effect it’s not an easy effect to master when created from scratch. It takes a lot of work, time, and skill to achieve a realistic watercolor effect in Photoshop. The good news is that using a watercolor Photoshop action can help you skip the learning curve and experiment with a watercolor effect in just a few clicks!

In this collection, we’re featuring some of the best watercolor Photoshop actions you can use to turn your photos into watercolor art, craft amazing backgrounds, and do much more.

We’ve also collected a set of tips for choosing watercolor Photoshop actions to help you make a decision on what type of action you need.

Logo Templates / 9 Jan 2025

40+ Best Illustrator Logo Templates 2025

So you need a logo right now? That’s where an Illustrator logo template can come in handy. A logo template is often a kit of pieces to build a vector logo with a few tweaks—such as changing colors or fonts. These are our top picks!

Some of the better logo template options might include multiple elements in a file that you can piece together for a design that’s a little more custom.

Logo templates are best for small, quick projects that need something cost-effective and visually pleasing. While a logo template won’t give you all the flexibility and design choices as a custom logo, they create a significantly less expensive option. (Which can be great if you have some design skills and an idea of what you want your logo to look like.)

Just make sure when you are hunting for that perfect logo template, that you find a vector set to work with. Adobe Illustrator files are the most common and will give you the tools you need to create a design that will work at any size when you are finished making the logo design.

Here are 20 of the best Adobe Illustrator logo templates we could track down, as well as a few helpful tips for using an Illustrator logo template.

Trends / 8 Jan 2025

Scalable Design: Creating Graphics That Grow With Your Brand

Branding design is constantly changing these days. We see a new rebranding or logo remake at least every few weeks.

Most of these logo revamps and brand identity shifts are hit-or-miss situations. Some brands even had to roll back to their original designs after backlash from customers and fans.

The best way to avoid having to go through such disasters is to create designs that can grow with your brand. We call this method “scalable design.”

Today, we explore the topic of scalable design discussing why it’s important and how you can use this methodology to create better, future-proof branding designs.