5 Industries to Explore for Fresh Graphic Design Inspiration
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...
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10 Must-Have Travel Tools for Designers in 2025
Traveling as a designer in goes beyond simply stuffing your passport and sketchbook. Modern designers must remain connected, motivated, and effective ...
40 Superhero Fonts That Can ‘Save the Day’ in 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...
34 Negative Space Logos That Make You Think Twice
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...
18 Best Typography Books for Designers in 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...
How to Write Case Studies That Showcase Your Design Work Effectively
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 ...
29 Menu Mockup Files that’ll ‘Make Your Mouth Water’
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...
Inspiration from AI artists around the world
As AI-generated art continues to evolve, pushing the boundaries of creativity and technology, artists worldwide are using AI tools to craft visually s...
How Should Culture Impact Typography Choices?
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...
My 17 Top Spray Paint Fonts in May 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...
8 Must-Have Elements in an Effective Design Portfolio
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 ...
50+ Inspiring PowerPoint Slides for Your Next Presentation
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...
24 Smoke Fonts That Are “Totally Smokin'” in 2025
Throughout my 20 years as a designer, I’ve worked with countless specialty fonts, but there’s something particularly mesmerizing about smo...
Finding Digital Inspiration in our Neighbourhood
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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...
Kelli Anderson: Tinybop’s Human Body app
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...
Kid President: I think we all need a pep talk
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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 ...
Megs Senk: Emergency Compliments
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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...
KOMBOH: National Hero Registration Form
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Komboh’s National Hero Registration Forms made me smile this morning. You can download one for yourself right here....
Introducing Colabs
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Colabs is a new creative community currently being developed by Brooklyn-based designers Noah Akinson and Jennica Johnstone. Once launched, the site ...
Herman Miller: Why Design
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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...
Take This Job and Love It: A Q&A with James Victore
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Author/Designer/Filmmaker/Artist/Firestarter James Victore has recently launched a brand new project, Take This Job and Love It: “A one day live...
SOPA Strike, tomorrow January 18th, 2012
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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...
Illustrated Etymology
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Illustrated Etymology is an intriguing project by Adam Garcia. Illustrated Etymology is just that – a collection of visual correlatives to Engli...
Google Chrome: It Gets Better
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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’...