In this article we discuss a question that gets asked quite frequently in the logo design industry: “Where do you find logo design inspiration”
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Category: Design Essentials
The Benefits of Using Storytelling in Your UX Design
From cave paintings to eBooks, storytelling has been part of the human experience for eons. It’s been so prevalent in our history that, at this point, storytelling is practically in our DNA. Whether we’re recounting our day or giving instructions, stories are there to move our ideas along; it’s how we communicate and convey thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
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How To Improve Your Drawing Skills To Help Your Logo Development
Great logo design doesn’t just come from nowhere.
It takes time, development, and patience to get all the components just right.
Even though logo design is mostly digital nowadays, how can you improve your drawing skill to help your logo development?
Within this blog post, you will discover 5 expert tips to improve your drawing skill, which in turn, can lead to more successful logo development, more refined logo artwork, and a higher degree of skill.
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10 Fresh Free Fonts for Graphic Designers
There are few things more exciting for graphic designers than choosing a font for a new product. It is a highly creative activity, which can also be very challenging and time-consuming, especially when you have to navigate through the seemingly-endless pages of typefaces that don’t match your inner vision. And it’s an even bigger struggle to find a free font. That’s why we have done an extensive search and selected some of the best free fonts available online, so you can enjoy your creative process more:
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Just Go Ahead and 80/20 Everything
I want you to do me a favour. Everything that has anything to do with your business or marketing your business, I want you to 80/20 it.
Just go ahead and 80/20 everything. Every. Damn. Thing.
It’ll work, I’m sure of it.
Common Logo Mistakes in Brand Identity Design
In this article, we will be discussing the Common Logo Mistakes in Brand Identity Design. If I was to ask other logo designers what their biggest irritations were with logo design I’m pretty sure they would all come out with quite a few similar ones.
In this article, I thought I would mention a few which I feel affect logo design the most and can basically make a very poor logo design.
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The Logo Awards Competition with Game Changing Value-Add for Designers
Ever wish you could nab more of those big logo and branding gigs?
I’m talking about $5000, $10000, $25000+ logo, identity, and branding projects.
As designers, we have to keep upping our game when it comes to adding value to our design services.
Potential clients are looking for that stand out—the designer or design studio who rises above the rest.
But here’s the thing. To add value, you have to establish credibility and trust.
How do you add that kind of value?
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Collaborating With Design Agencies Across The Country – Ironic Typography
As part of our collaboration with Birmingham-based digital design agency KIJO, we’ve delved into the world of ironic typography. This imaginative, often hilarious project can really get your creative juices flowing as you try to come up with disconcerting combinations of messages and fonts.
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The Best Design Principles for Better Graphic Designs
Businesses have always been about window-dressing! Earlier, in the physical markets, the actual windows were made pleasing enough for the customers to visit the stores and make the purchase.
However, now that businesses have gone digital, we usually work at dressing the windows of devices being used by the customers. And that is usually done by providing the best UI/UX designs to the audience of business websites, e-commerce stores, and even the blogs.
Working on the aesthetics of a website, store, or blog goes incomplete without working on your graphic designs. If your graphics seem homemade and unprofessional, your website is doomed! And that’s for sure!
Here are the best graphic design principles that one must follow to set their design game right:
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Crafting Your Personal Branding As A New Designer – In 8 Steps
Having a strong personal brand is crucial if you want to build a successful design career.
When you’re applying to jobs or reaching out to clients, a strong personal brand can help make you more memorable, showcase your style and tone of work, and convince people that you’re truly passionate about design outside of your 9-5 job. It also shows that you have an opinion or point of view about design and are willing to boldly attach that opinion to yourself for everyone to see!
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