Why the Same Design Trends Are Appearing on Jewelry, Phone Cases, and Everyday Accessories
Photo by Pat Kwonon Unsplash Every year brings a fresh wave of design trends, but the most influential ones rarely stay confined to a single industry....
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How to Design a Compelling Brand Identity
Your brand identity reflects your vision and value; it helps build credibility and trust, making it a crucial aspect of any company. In the era of cut...
7 Stunning Garden Landscaping Ideas to Transform Your Outdoor Space in 2026
Modern garden landscaping has evolved far beyond simple lawns and flower beds. Today’s outdoor spaces are designed to be functional, stylish, and easy...
10 UX Design Challenges That Hurt Conversions (And How to Fix Them)
The problem lies in their thinking that conversion issues arise due to ineffective marketing or advertising campaigns, or insufficient traffic on thei...
How Office Design Impacts Business Productivity and Growth
The Office That Looked Great and Performed Poorly Two Teams, Same Headcount, Very Different Output Two marketing agencies lease comparable office spac...
Essential Proxy Tools for Creators to Optimize Online Platforms
Have you ever wondered why a high-resolution render suddenly slows down or why a team project slows down during a global sync? A fast machine is not a...
Telegram Mini App Ads That Don’t Feel Like Ads: 9 Design Moves to Make Them Look Native
You know the ads you don’tinstantly clock as ads? The ones that look like they belong in the product—same spacing, same typography, same calm confiden...
A Designer’s Guide to Adobe Fonts: Top Picks and How to Use Them
Adobe Fonts is like a treasure chest for designers and creators. Whether you’re designing a poster, crafting a logo, or just trying to give your class...
Perfect Fonts and Formatting for College Essays
When writing college essays, students often focus on content, research, and analysis. While these elements are critical, presentation also plays a sig...
Why Post-Sale Support Matters More Than Specs for Graphic Designers Using Lasers
When graphic designers shop for a laser cutter or engraver, their first instinct is to compare specifications. Wattage, speed, bed size, and engraving...
The Power of Visual Communication in Sales
In sales, where competition is fierce, and attention spans are short, the way a message is presented can significantly impact its effectiveness. Visua...
10 Cool Fonts to Inspire Your Next Design Project
If you’re anything like me, you already have over a thousand fonts installed on your machine. But every time you start browsing your collection, all t...
The Traffic Threshold Nobody Tells Small Publishers About
A small publisher running a food blog or a regional news site tends to think about header bidding the way someone thinks about hiring a lawyer: probab...
Feeling the Screen: How Designers Are Using Depth and Dimension to Make Flat Displays Feel Tactile
Modern design has rediscovered texture. Here is why the push to make screens feel physical is reshaping everything from UI to fine art. There is somet...
Buying Photo Albums Online in Canada Made Easy for Print Labs and Photographers
Photographers, print labs, and event printers can buy photo albums online in Canada to deliver professional, ready-to-sell products. Demand is growing...
Guts & Glory Projects
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I recently came across the work of Guts & Glory, the Oakland, California-based studio founded by Faun Chapin and Meg Paradise, and I am loving what th...
Easy, Tiger: Cards for Awesome People
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Easy Tiger is a new Kansas City based stationery business that strives to make “cards for awesome people.” And they are certainly distributed in an aw...
A Master of Her Brand
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Everyone seems to be talking about the new Kate Spade collection right now. And as much as I love the clothes and accessories, I’m more impressed by t...
Anderson Design Group: Rahal Farms Branding
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Nashville-based Anderson Design Group recently completed this branding project for Rahal Farms, a holistic and sustainable farm, also in Tennessee.The...
Badass Lady Creatives: Art Director/Designer Jenny Tondera
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Jenny Tondera, Art Director at Spring Studios NY, hasquite a bit under her belt: she’s designed atMCAD DesignWorks, 160over90, andBloomingdale’s; she’...
Best AI Image Extenders: 5 Tools to Expand Your Images in 2026
You’ve got the perfect shot. The lighting is gorgeous, the subject is positioned just right, but there’s one problem: the composition feels cramped. M...
The Hidden Framework Behind Great Design: Why Codes, Standards, and Continuing Education Matter
Designing for Growing Communities Across South Carolina, cities and towns continue to expand as new housing, mixed-use districts, and commercial corri...
The Complete Toolkit: Digital Marketing, SEO, and Website Design for Remodelers and Roofers
In today’s fast-paced digital world, remodelers and roofers face new challenges finding leads and building credibility online. With consumers turning ...
How to Choose Kids’ Shoes That Look Dressy but Still Feel Comfortable
There is a particular kind of parenting frustration that arrives about twenty minutes before a family event. The outfit is sorted. The hair is done. A...
Franklyn: Betaworks Identity and Collateral
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Brooklyn-based studio Franklyn?recently completed a rebrand for Betaworks,?who builds and invests in companies and products in the digital realm. Part...
Rebecca Mah: Culture Caps
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For her senior thesis, Tyler School of Art graduate Rebecca Mah created Culture Caps, a drop cap alphabet influenced by different regions correspondin...
Kelli Anderson: Russ & Daughters
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I am incredibly impressed with the extensive?project that Kelli Anderson recently completed for New York institution, Russ and Daughters. Working alon...
Roger Dario Design
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I just recently stumbled upon Roger Dario‘s portfolio?which he just redesigned this past winter?and found a selection of really impressive identity pr...
The Fox and King Illustration
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There’s something sly and regal making magic in Melbourne, Australia, and that something is Glenn Thomas, AKA The Fox and King. Glenn’s rich, colorful...
J.Crew for Paperless Post
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Paperless Post’s latest collaboration is with none other than major fashion brand?J. Crew, who created a collection of 42 greetings and invitations th...
Alliteration Inspiration: Zoos & Zzz’s
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s...
Kelly Thompson: Design & Illustration
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Kelly Thompson, a Texan designer/illustrator based in Seattle, has combined her southern spice and northwestern quirkiness into a wide range of notewo...
Kevin Cantrell: Terra Poster
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Kevin Cantrell just completed the next poster in his 7 Days series, Terra, and it is—as expected—just plain gorgeous. This time around he has printed ...
Meagan Tidwell Design
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Meagan Tidwell has a beautiful portfolio filled with work that is sophisticated, elegant and often soft, light, airy. Below are a few projects that pa...
Neenah Env Papers Notecards + A Giveaway
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Neenah Paper recently worked with Design Army to reinvent their line of Environment papers, including the development of a new color palette and textu...
The Fascinating World of the Global Web
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If you haven?t had a chance to click through the 113-slide deck on The Emerging Global Web yet, you?re seriously missing out. 25 years on and the web ...
Triboro: Narcissa Identity and Collateral
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Triboro recently relaunched their website with a ton of beautiful, new work. One project that particularly caught my eye is their identity and collate...
Mirth Studio Hardwood Floor Tiles
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Not your typical DWL post, but I cannot get enough of these gorgeous, patterned hardwood floor tiles by Mirth Studio....
KNOCK Inc: We Heart Trees 2014
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This year, for their annual Arbor Day initiative, KNOCK Inc put together a Buzzfeed-style quiz that tells users what CelebriTree they are. Results are...
A Few Fuzzco Projects
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It’s been a little while since I checked in with what Fuzzco was up to, and since I always love their work, I figured now is the time. Here are a few ...
Quick Links: 05.23.14
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Looking for some new color inspiration? Check out The Day’s Color, a daily color digest. If you’re looking for icons to use in your next design projec...
Etsy Finds: Hooray Today
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Illustrators Alyssa Nassner and Allison Beck just recently launched Hooray Today, a new line of colorful greeting cards and paper goods. They have lot...
Student Work: Rosie Gopaul Packaging Projects
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I’m really enjoying these two student packaging projects by Rosie Gopaul, a designer based out of Vancouver, BC. Hushh Stewards Soapery Messy Masters ...
Alliteration Inspiration: Wheels & Water
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s...
ASCD: 2013 Annual Report Website
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Every annual reporting season, companies and nonprofits alike step up their design game to create a solid impression of the past year’s progress. Educ...
Sense: Oblica Catalogue
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Bask in the warming glow of beautiful design found in this catalogue for Oblica fireplaces created by Sense, a creative agency based in Melbourne, Aus...
Baron Fig: The Poster Project
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Baron Fig, a small business making “sketchbooks and notebooks for thinkers,” just launched a lovely new side project simply titled The Poster Project,...
BLOW: Project Charisma Teaser
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New from BLOW is their work for Project Charisma, a teaser promotion for Polytrade Paper. To promote their range of eight papers, BLOW developed eight...
Marriott Hotels’ Meetings Imagined Inspires You to Travel Brilliantly
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Last week I had the incredible opportunity to travel to Atlanta and work with Marriott Hotels as they celebrate the launch of Meetings Imagined, an am...
Signs of Hawaii
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Since Hawaii is my absolute favorite place on earth, I am loving this Instagram photo series of vintage signs found there. Most of the images have bee...
Jon Newman: Daydreams & Nightschemes Studio Launch
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Designer Jon Newman took the leap from the comfort of his day job at MTV to start Daydreams & Nightschemes, his own new studio. Among Jon’s other grea...
Alliteration Inspiration: Veggies & Vacation
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Alliteration Inspiration is a weekly column featuring the top twenty pieces of visual inspiration based on two random alliterative themes. This week’s...
Kyrö Distillery Company on Behance
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I am by no means a whiskey fan, but I definitely love the bold identity and packaging that Werklig developed for Kyrö Distillery Company, a rye whiske...
Odding Wang: The Book of Red
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Odding Wang‘s “The Book of Red,” a handcrafted notebook tribute to Pablo Picasso, is a beautifully made piece of paper cut storytelling by the artist/...
13 Italian Illustrators Whose Work Will Inspire You
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Italian illustrators are really showing up in the illustration scene right now. With bold color choices and meaningful messages, these illustrators fr...
Best of the Web: May Edition
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It may seem like we’re crazy about apps, but we like the web too. The question is, what’s the future of the web? Is it dying? Are apps taking over? Or...
Ciara Phelan: Collages
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Ciara Phelan, a freelance illustrator and textile designer in east London, recently launched her new website full of intricate collage work and other ...
New Paper Goods from Hammerpress
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I’m loving some of Hammerpress’s most recently launched paper goods, from their series of astrological notecards, to their small chipboard prints, to ...
Studio Fludd: Gelatology – Micro / Macro
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Studio Fludd‘s Gelatology project, which we featured back in November, has grown into a new booklet titled “Micro / Macro” and expanded into a full-fl...
Open Door Design Studio: Reinventing the Toilet Challenge
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Who knew a toilet could be so beautiful? The team at Open Door Design Studio, in collaboration with Kohler, designed the remarkable exterior of Caltec...