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How to Design a Logo / 10 Mar 2025

Eco-Friendly Logo Design: The Aesthetic of Sustainability

As sustainability becomes a key focus for businesses, brands are rethinking their visual identities to reflect environmental responsibility.

A company’s logo is often the first thing customers notice, making it an important tool for communicating values. An eco-friendly logo design signals a commitment to sustainability and helps build trust with conscious consumers.

Brands are moving away from overproduced, overly polished aesthetics and toward simpler, nature-inspired designs.

Through natural color palettes, organic shapes, and thoughtful typography, they create logos that feel authentic and aligned with eco-conscious principles.

But what exactly makes a logo sustainable, and how can businesses design one that resonates with modern audiences? Let’s find out.

Photoshop Actions / 25 Feb 2025

70+ Best Photoshop Cartoon Effects (Photo to Cartoon Actions & Plugins)

Photoshop offers many amazing tools for creating visual effects. For example, Photoshop actions let you transform your photos into paintings or cartoon drawings with just a single mouse click.

While these effects are fun to play with, they are also quite useful in creating attractive graphics for various designs like posters and flyers. That’s why it’s always a good idea to keep a few Photoshop actions and effects in your library to help create such graphics in an instant.

In this collection, we showcase different types of Photoshop cartoon actions, effects, and filters you can use to turn photos into cartoons as well as create unique designs. Have a look and add them all to your personal collection.

How to Design a Logo / 14 Feb 2025

AI in Logo Design: Should Designers Be Worried?

AI-powered design tools are making it easier than ever for businesses and individuals to create logos with just a few clicks.

This has sparked a debate: Does AI enhance human creativity, or does it pose a threat to professional designers?

Even though it’s now easier than ever to “generate” a logo using AI-powered tools, they don’t even come close to logos created by human designers.

So no, you don’t have to worry about AI replacing you as a logo designer. However, you shouldn’t completely overlook the capabilities of AI either.

In this article, we’ll explore how AI is being used in logo design, the benefits and limitations of AI-generated logos, and how you can leverage AI tools to your advantage.

Background Textures / 6 Feb 2025

35+ Black Texture Background Graphics 2025

Looking for a minimalist, dark, or black texture background to highlight the contents of your design? We’ve got you covered.

Using minimal and dark texture backgrounds is an increasingly popular background design trend. Mainly because a black background allows you to highlight text and content, grab attention, and to show off professionalism. Especially when it comes to web design, dark texture backgrounds make it easier to craft header images that highlight titles and text.

Whether you’re designing a luxury brand website, working on a PowerPoint presentation, a logo mockup, or even just looking for a set of cool desktop backgrounds, this collection has them all.

Photoshop Actions / 31 Jan 2025

100+ Best Photoshop Actions & Effects of 2025

Adobe Photoshop Actions are a great feature of the app, allowing you to create a process or workflow, record how it worked, and then easily repeat the process again for other photographs or design elements.

Today we’ve collected some of the best Photoshop actions out there, for photographers and graphic designers alike.

They cost just a few dollars but give you an incredibly powerful toolkit to easily repeat complex and intricate processes.

Lightroom Presets / 28 Jan 2025

80+ Best VSCO Lightroom Presets 2025

VSCO is a popular photography app for both Android and iOS, known for stunning filters and effects. Today we’re featuring a selection of VSCO Lightroom presets, inspired by the VSCO app, to help you achieve similar results with greater power and flexibility.

If you have a copy of Lightroom, you probably want to have more control over the specific nuances of how a filter is applied. We’ve found this collection of Lightroom presets that feature pretty much the same filters, effects, and adjustments included in the VSCO app.

The only difference is they are quite a bit easier to customize and change in more dramatic ways. Plus, you can apply these Lightroom presets to your photos with just one click!

Graphics / 27 Jan 2025

Border Design: 8 Tips & Modern Examples

Graphic designers have been using borders for as long as they have been designing things. And they’re a fun element to play with. We’re taking a look at eight border design concepts (most of them you can actually download as project starters), along with tips for usage and some examples that you can try in projects.

Sometimes a great border can help separate your design for other elements, such as around the perimeter of an ad. Other times, a border can serve as an element to help break up different parts of a design, or frame messaging or content.

While borders are most frequently thought about in terms of print design, they can be a valuable digital design tool as well. A good border defines a space so that users know where a design begins and ends. (Pretty simple, right?)

Photoshop Brushes / 17 Jan 2025

50+ Best Free Photoshop Brushes 2025

If you’re a professional designer or an illustrator who use Photoshop for design work you’ll find this collection of free Photoshop brushes quite valuable.

With the right set of brushes, you can go beyond your imagination to create unique graphic designs, illustrations, effects, backgrounds, and so much more using Photoshop. Of course, you don’t always have to pay to get the best brushes.

We scoured the web to find the best free Photoshop brushes and divided them into a few popular categories. Have a look.

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.

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!

Graphics / 18 Dec 2024

Blending Photography With Graphics: A Designer’s Guide to Mixed Media

Mixed media design is one of the most popular trends in graphic design that combines reality with creativity to birth visuals that not only stand out but also tell captivating stories.

There are many forms of mixed media that allow you to create visuals in different styles. Today, we are talking about creating hybrid visuals by blending photography in design.

If you ever felt inspired to try mixed media after seeing a cool poster or album cover art, then having an understanding of the basics is crucial to achieving the best results. So let’s dive in and figure out how, why, and when you should use mixed media art in graphic design.

Procreate Brushes / 18 Dec 2024

60+ Best Procreate Brushes 2025 (Free & Pro)

If you’re a digital artist searching for the perfect Procreate brush to craft stunning illustrations or to design unique website header images, we’ve got a great collection of professional Procreate brushes just for you.

Procreate is amongst the most popular drawing apps available for iPad Pro. It’s actually more than just a simple drawing app. With the Apple Pencil stylus and the right set of brushes, this app can help you craft amazing digital drawings and paintings.

The app comes with over 130 basic brushes. But, many people don’t realize that they can expand this collection with custom brushes that have been carefully created by professionals. We’ve handpicked some of the best custom brushes you can use with your Procreate app.