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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.

After Effects Templates / 8 Jan 2025

55+ Best After Effects Intro Templates 2025

Even expert designers and video editors need a helping hand sometimes. In this collection, we’re featuring some of the best After Effects intro templates for quickly making modern and effective intro scenes, logo reveals, and openers for all kinds of videos.

These templates can also be easily customized to your preference by changing colors, fonts, and images to make them fit perfectly in your videos.

Whether you’re looking for an intro scene for a YouTube video, a corporate video, branding video, or even a wedding video album, below you’ll find templates to fit all your needs.

Plus, we’re sharing our tips for making a compelling intro video to help get you off to a great start. Let’s dive in!

UX Design / 7 Jan 2025

Motion in Design: How Animation Enhances User Experience

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, static websites with just images and videos are not enough to maintain people’s attention. Users now expect more engaging experiences with interactions and animations that bring designs to life.

This is why motion design has been a big part of website and user interface designs. It helps take designs beyond just visuals and information to turn them into memorable, dynamic user experiences.

Today, we explore the world of motion design to see how animation enhances user experience and boosts user interactions as well as engagement. Let’s dive in.

Software / 6 Jan 2025

Best Free T-Shirt Design Software in 2025

When it comes to designing a shirt, you have two primary options – design it yourself using graphic design tools such as Adobe Illustrator or use software made for the job. The good news is that there are plenty of free t-shirt design software options to consider!

There are a growing number of platforms that specialize in t-shirt design and can help you create something that people will want to wear. Some of these tools integrate with a t-shirt sales portal as well, making the process even easier.

Here, we’re going to look at some of the best free t-shirt design software options available and how you can make these tools work for you.

Font Collections / 6 Jan 2025

35+ Best Chunky Fonts 2025

Chunky and chubby fonts are a great choice for designing fun and creative titles for all kinds of designs. In this post, we bring you a selection of the best chunky fonts with many different styles.

Due to their unique style of design, chunky fonts are most suitable for creative, fun, and entertaining designs. Our list of chunky fonts includes different types of fonts for designing everything from posters to greeting cards and much more.

Start exploring the list to find the right chunky font for your next project, and be sure to read through our tips for choosing (and using) chunky fonts for some handy design advice!

Keynote Templates / 5 Jan 2025

90+ Keynote Business Slide Templates 2025

What’s the most important part of a business presentation? The way you dress? Your speech? Or is it your body language? It’s actually none of the above!

Your presentation slides are the most important part of a business presentation. Why? Because your clients will be staring at the slides at all times and you’ll be using those slides to visualize your speech. That’s why you should pay close attention when designing the slides for your presentations.

To help you get started with your Keynote slide designs, we handpicked the best Keynote slides templates you can use for your business and corporate presentation needs. Design your presentation right, follow our tips on how to give a Keynote presentation with impact, and you’ll capture and keep the attention of everyone in the room!

Lightroom Presets / 4 Jan 2025

85+ Best Landscape Lightroom Presets 2025

Unlike taking portrait photos, capturing beautiful scenes in travel and landscape photos is quite difficult because you have to work with the natural lighting conditions. With the power of a landscape Lightroom preset, you can add incredible depth and personality to your landscape photos with just a few clicks!

Whether you’re a professional photographer using a DSLR or a traveler snapping photos with a smartphone, Lightroom is a must-have app that will help improve your landscape photos. One of the many benefits of using Lightroom is the ability to use presets. With a simple Lightroom preset, you can instantly optimize your photos, adjust colors, lighting, and more with just one-click.

In this collection, we handpicked some of the best landscape Lightroom presets you can use to enhance your outdoor photos without having to spend hours adjusting and optimizing settings in Photoshop.

We’re also featuring a set of tips for editing landscape photos, with helpful ideas and advice.

Lightroom Presets / 3 Jan 2025

How to Install & Apply a Lightroom Preset

Whether you are a photographer or designer with a need to edit photos, Adobe Lightroom can be a great tool. Designed for photo editing, it allows batch work that can be cumbersome in programs such as Photoshop.

One of the most popular elements of Lightroom are the number of presets available. These tools within the tool are super filters that allow you to enhance photos, add creative effects and add functionality to your design workflow. If you’ve used any Adobe product, the feel of Lightroom is familiar and easy to learn. Get started by installing and using a few cool presets. Here’s how to do it.

PowerPoint Templates / 2 Jan 2025

40+ Best PowerPoint Roadmap Templates 2025

If you’re working on a product or business roadmap presentation, we have handpicked some of the best PowerPoint roadmap templates you can use to design a killer slideshow for your presentation.

A roadmap presentation is one of the most effective methods of detailing the past, present, and future for product and business development.

Using a PowerPoint roadmap template will make the process of designing the slideshow much easier as they come packed with timelines, tables, infographics, icons, and much more to make your presentation look more professional.

Our collection of PowerPoint roadmap templates should have the perfect design for your presentation, along with a few helpful tips for creating a roadmap in PowerPoint.

Business / 1 Jan 2025

Fresh Starts: How to Revamp Your Design Process for the New Year

If you’re planning on refreshing your design process this year to become a more efficient and productive designer, this guide is for you.

Here, we share some practical advice on how to fully assess, streamline, and refine your creative workflow to create a much-improved design process that will make this your best year yet!

Before you look for ways to revamp your design process, first you should take a step back and reflect on the past year to learn which areas of your workflow need to change and which need improvement. Let’s start there.

PowerPoint Templates / 30 Dec 2024

Choosing the Best Font for PowerPoint: 10 Tips & Examples

There’s a fine art to creating a great PowerPont presentation that wows. With so many tricks and features in this little bit of software, it’s more likely to see a bad presentation than a good one (and you don’t want to be that person!)

While there are a lot of factors that contribute to the overall design, choosing a suitable font for PowerPoint is near the top of the list. The audience needs to be able to read the words on the screen with ease, to ensure that your presentation is as effective as possible.

So how do you do it? Where do you start when choosing a font for PowerPoint? We have 10 tips for you with a few examples of PowerPoint slides (and templates) that will impress your audience.

Photoshop Brushes / 29 Dec 2024

55+ Best Photoshop Layer Styles in 2025 (Free & Premium)

Today, we’re bringing you a collection of Photoshop layer styles you can use to transform your ordinary text, shapes, and logos into creative designs.

Whether you want to add a modern glitch effect to your poster titles or give a retro look to your logo designs, Photoshop layer styles can help you create beautiful designs almost instantly without any effort.

All you have to do is download the PSD file that already contains the layer styles and effects, edit the text layer, and enter your own titles or headings. Or use the ASL file to create your own styles. It usually takes hours upon hours to create such effects but with Photoshop layer styles it only takes a few clicks.

We’ve handpicked a few premium and free Photoshop layer styles you can experiment with. Have a look.