Create Interest with a Novelty Typeface

Novelty typefaces are everywhere. They are some of the most commonly found free font available for download and can be fun and interesting. But will a novelty font work for your next project? Maybe. Proceed with caution. Novelty typefaces can …

Custom Post Types in WordPress

Tutorials, WordPressAbbas Suterwala • 18 October

WordPress started as a blogging engine to create blogs. As WordPress has gone more and more popular because of its ease of use, flexibility and beautiful user interface there was a need to make WordPress a platform for a wide …

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A (Background) Picture is Worth 1,000 Words: Using Photo Backgrounds in Web Design

Design, Website DesignCarrie Cousins • 11 October

Using a photo as the background image for a website is becoming more and more popular. Great images are hard to beat. They sell your site, draw in visitors and can be a great way to showcase a product if …

Typographic Style: Identifying Type Categories

DesignCarrie Cousins • 09 October

Typography is about so much more than just picking a couple of fonts and working them into a design. A designer must understand some of the basic characteristics of type in order to effectively use fonts. Different typefaces can create …

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5 Essential Contract Templates for the Freelance Designer

Graphics, ResourcesVeronica Picciafuoco • 05 October

You’ve heard this before: “Sign a written contract for every design job! And most importantly, sign it before starting to work!” What you don’t often hear is the answer to, “What do I have to sign, exactly?”. This is particularly …

Contrast and Meaning in Design

DesignJohn Lewis • 27 September

If you are a designer, your work should convey a meaning. Therefore it is important that you have familiar with the mechanisms by which points in addition to concepts attain this means; more than any other component. You have to …

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Typography Basics: Understand the Language of Letters

DesignCarrie Cousins • 25 September

Sometimes the toughest part of getting started with a first design project can be understanding the language of design. Typographers, for example, have a whole language of their own that relates to type, fonts and design. Read more: Typography Cheat Sheet …

Magnolia Free – Infographic PSD Template

Freebiesandrian • 19 September

Magnolia Free is a package of elements used to create infographics. Infographics are a visual representation of data. Using infographics is quite comfortable, when you need to quickly and efficiently explain some complex information or statistical data. The infographics advantage …

The Future of User Experience Design

Design, UX DesignMarcin Treder • 12 September

Welcome to the last part of our course on wireframing and documenting design. Hope you’ve enjoyed the course – I’m looking forward to hearing your feedback. Today, to sum up the course and finish it on a playful note, we’ll …

Purple Haze: Regal, Sophisticated and Contradictory

DesignCarrie Cousins • 06 September

We all dream in color. Every design concept and sketch comes with some sort of color association. But what do those colors mean? What associations are we making just with that choice alone? Purple is a color of many emotions and …

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