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Category: Ideas

5 Industries to Explore for Fresh Graphic Design Inspiration

5 Industries to Explore for Fresh Graphic Design Inspiration

Eleanor Hecks • May 8, 2025May 21, 2025
Hitting a creative wall is common in the design industry. How can you reignite that spark after looking through hundreds of layouts? It starts with pa...
DesignIdeas
10 Must-Have Travel Tools for Designers in 2025

10 Must-Have Travel Tools for Designers in 2025

Riley Morgan • May 2, 2025May 2, 2025
Traveling as a designer in goes beyond simply stuffing your passport and sketchbook. Modern designers must remain connected, motivated, and effective ...
DesignGift GuideIdeasWork
40 Superhero Fonts That Can ‘Save the Day’ in 2025

40 Superhero Fonts That Can ‘Save the Day’ in 2025

Zoe Santoro • Apr 28, 2025Apr 28, 2025
As graphic designers, we’re constantly searching for fonts that can capture the dynamic energy and larger-than-life spirit of our favorite comic...
DesignFontsIdeasIllustration
34 Negative Space Logos That Make You Think Twice

34 Negative Space Logos That Make You Think Twice

Preston Lee • Apr 21, 2025Apr 21, 2025
In art and design, negative space is the background space around and between the subject of an image. For example, in a picture of a palm tree against...
DesignIdeasIllustrationLogos
18 Best Typography Books for Designers in 2025

18 Best Typography Books for Designers in 2025

Zoe Santoro • Mar 18, 2025Mar 18, 2025
Typography is the silent hero of design. It can make or break your project, communicate emotion without saying a word, and guide your audience’s...
CollectionIdeasLearningTypography
How to Write Case Studies That Showcase Your Design Work Effectively

How to Write Case Studies That Showcase Your Design Work Effectively

Jack Nolan • Mar 11, 2025
A design case study is a detailed description of the process of working on a product, from setting tasks to the result obtained. It helps clients and ...
BusinessDesignIdeas
29 Menu Mockup Files that’ll ‘Make Your Mouth Water’

29 Menu Mockup Files that’ll ‘Make Your Mouth Water’

Preston Lee • Mar 10, 2025Mar 10, 2025
As a restaurant owner or designer working with food businesses, the menu is more than just a list of dishes – it’s a crucial marketing tool th...
BusinessDesignIdeasMockupsTemplatesTools
Inspiration from AI artists around the world

Inspiration from AI artists around the world

Melissa Garlington • Feb 28, 2025Mar 31, 2025
As AI-generated art continues to evolve, pushing the boundaries of creativity and technology, artists worldwide are using AI tools to craft visually s...
AIArtDesignIdeasTrends
How Should Culture Impact Typography Choices?

How Should Culture Impact Typography Choices?

Eleanor Hecks • Feb 27, 2025
What is it about certain fonts that draw the eye to text? Typography is just as much a visual language as the messaging itself. Each line and bend tel...
IdeasTypography
My 17 Top Spray Paint Fonts in June 2025

My 17 Top Spray Paint Fonts in June 2025

Preston Lee • Feb 27, 2025Mar 4, 2025
As designers, we’re constantly searching for fonts that can capture that raw, urban energy that only street art delivers. And in , spray paint f...
ArtFontsIdeasTypography
8 Must-Have Elements in an Effective Design Portfolio

8 Must-Have Elements in an Effective Design Portfolio

Eleanor Hecks • Jan 31, 2025Apr 17, 2025
A design portfolio may be a collection of your work, but it also shares your story. It is how you show potential clients and employers who you are as ...
DesignFreelancingIdeas
50+ Inspiring PowerPoint Slides for Your Next Presentation

50+ Inspiring PowerPoint Slides for Your Next Presentation

Preston Lee • Jan 16, 2025Jan 16, 2025
As a designer who’s seen countless presentations, I know the difference between slides that make audiences yawn and ones that make them lean for...
DesignIdeasPhotographyToolsTrends
24 Smoke Fonts That Are “Totally Smokin'” in 2025

24 Smoke Fonts That Are “Totally Smokin'” in 2025

Preston Lee • Nov 4, 2024Nov 22, 2024
Throughout my 20 years as a designer, I’ve worked with countless specialty fonts, but there’s something particularly mesmerizing about smo...
FontsIdeas

Finding Digital Inspiration in our Neighbourhood

Jackson • Apr 1, 2014Apr 15, 2014
What do a hip coffee house, a curated general store, a popular sandwich joint, a trendy shoe shop, and a new superfood store have in common? For start...
Art & CodeDesignIdeas

Kelli Anderson: Tinybop’s Human Body app

Karen Kurycki • Aug 22, 2013Aug 22, 2013
For the month of August, a series of guest posters will be filling in on DWL with daily posts. Today’s posts come to you from designer and illus...
DesignIdeasIllustrationLearningPaper Goods2 Comments on Kelli Anderson: Tinybop’s Human Body app
Kid President: I think we all need a pep talk

Kid President: I think we all need a pep talk

Courtney • Mar 4, 2013Jan 16, 2014
This video is just all kinds of awesome. The perfect pick-me-up for a Monday morning. Check out the rest of the series by SoulPancake right here. via ...
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Megs Senk: Emergency Compliments

Courtney • Oct 24, 2012
Need a pick-me-up? Well I just might have the answer for you: Emergency Compliments, an altruistic online project from Megs Senk, a designer at W+K 12...
DesignIdeas8 Comments on Megs Senk: Emergency Compliments

KOMBOH: National Hero Registration Form

Courtney • Oct 15, 2012Oct 14, 2012
Komboh’s National Hero Registration Forms made me smile this morning. You can download one for yourself right here....
DesignIdeas3 Comments on KOMBOH: National Hero Registration Form

Introducing Colabs

Courtney • Oct 2, 2012Oct 1, 2012
Colabs is a new creative community currently being developed by Brooklyn-based designers Noah Akinson and Jennica Johnstone. Once launched, the site ...
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Herman Miller: Why Design

Courtney • Sep 12, 2012Sep 11, 2012
Herman Miller just launched an exciting new series called Why Design: At Herman Miller design is the language we use to ask questions and seek answers...
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Take This Job and Love It: A Q&A with James Victore

Courtney • Jul 10, 2012Jul 10, 2012
Author/Designer/Filmmaker/Artist/Firestarter James Victore has recently launched a brand new project, Take This Job and Love It: “A one day live...
Ideas1 Comment on Take This Job and Love It: A Q&A with James Victore
SOPA Strike, tomorrow January 18th, 2012

SOPA Strike, tomorrow January 18th, 2012

Courtney • Jan 17, 2012Jan 16, 2014
Hello Readers! I wanted to give you a head’s up that DWL will be joining internet giants like Wikipedia, Reddit and BoingBoing, as well as...
Ideas2 Comments on SOPA Strike, tomorrow January 18th, 2012

Illustrated Etymology

Courtney • Jan 17, 2012Jan 17, 2012
Illustrated Etymology is an intriguing project by Adam Garcia. Illustrated Etymology is just that – a collection of visual correlatives to Engli...
IdeasIllustration1 Comment on Illustrated Etymology

Google Chrome: It Gets Better

Courtney • May 9, 2011May 8, 2011
Since the advent of the DVR, I pretty much never watch commercials; so it was pure chance that I happened to catch the ad below during last week&#8217...
Ideas8 Comments on Google Chrome: It Gets Better
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