The Psychological Impact of Color in Graphic Design
Your brain processes color before words, making it incredibly powerful visual stimuli. If you use it strategically, you can subconsciously influence v...
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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 eye e...
14 Best Typography Courses (August 2025)
“Typography is what language looks like,” as Ellen Lupton famously said. It’s the visual voice behind every message, whether on screens, paper, or sig...
5 Best Practices for Designing Graphics That Speak to Multiple Target Audiences
You may think achieving a near-universal appeal sounds like an exercise in futility. However, it is challenging but not impossible to design graphics ...
12 Must-Watch Graphic Design YouTube Channels in 2025
Let’s talk about graphic design for a minute. As someone who’s constantly looking to level up my design skills, I find myself regularly turning to You...
Art Deco vs Art Nouveau: 3 Important Differences
There are 3 big differences between Art Deco and Art Nouveau: inspiration, aesthetics, and timing. Art Deco is influenced by industrialization and tec...
Recommended Resources: Skillshare Memberships
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I’ve already raved about Skillshare’s educational platform multiple times, so I will keep this short and sweet. In addition to their offering of hundr...
Skillshare Beyond the Logo Challenge Winner: Jody Worthington, Part 1
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This afternoon I’m doing a series of posts featuring the winners of the first challenge in my Skillshare class, Beyond the Logo: Crafting a Brand Iden...
Skillshare Beyond the Logo Challenge Runner Up: Pedro Ramirez
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This afternoon I’m doing a series of posts featuring the winners of the first challenge in my Skillshare class, Beyond the Logo: Crafting a Brand Iden...
Style guide class starts this week!
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Just a quick reminder that my new Skillshare class, By The Book: Create a Style Guide for Your Brand, opens up this Thursday. Once again you have life...
Introducing Skillshare Challenges
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If you’re taking any Skillshare classes, you may have noticed that they recently introduced a new feature: Challenges. This feature allows teachers to...
New Skillshare Class: How to Create a Style Guide
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I’m exited to announce that I’ll be teaching another Skillshare class next month! I really enjoyed the experience and hope to continue to offer more c...
My Skillshare class starts today!
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If you have been considering signing up for my Skillshare class, Beyond the Logo: Crafting a Brand Identity, now is the time to do it! The class opens...
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 illustrator...
Use as Instructed
For the month of August, a series of guest posters will be filling in on DWL with daily posts. This week’s posts come to you from the talented folks...
Join me on Skillshare!
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I am super excited to announce that next month I will be teaching a class on Skillshare! In case you’re unfamiliar with the site, they offer both in-p...
Damn You Art School
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Damn You Art School, who provides answers for “everything they never taught you in art school,” looks like an awesome resource for students, recent gr...
See you in Texas!
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I am currently en route to Texas for Design Ranch! That means that over the next four days, posting will be entirely Design Ranch focused, and regular...
CourseHorse NYC: Classes to Take This Week
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We’ve teamed up with CourseHorse to bring you a selection of current NYC classes that will be of particular interest to you. Here’s what we recommend ...
CourseHorse NYC: Classes to Take This Week
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We’ve teamed up with CourseHorse to bring you a selection of NYC classes that will be of particular interest to you. Here’s what we recommend checking...
Designer Resource: FontShop’s Using Type
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FontShop’s Using Type series is a great resource for beginners and seasoned designers alike. In case you’re not familiar, Using Type is an ongoing ser...
CourseHorse NYC: Classes to Take This Week
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We’ve teamed up with CourseHorse to bring you a selection of NYC classes that will be of particular interest to you. Here’s what we recommend checking...
CourseHorse NYC: Classes to Take This Week
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We’ve teamed up with CourseHorse to bring you a selection of NYC classes that will be of particular interest to you. Here’s what we recommend checking...
CourseHorse NYC: Classes to Take This Week
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We’ve teamed up with CourseHorse to bring you a selection of NYC classes that will be of particular interest to you. Here’s what we recommend checking...
CourseHorse NYC: Classes to Take This Week
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We’ve teamed up with CourseHorse to bring you a selection of NYC classes that will be of particular interest to you. Here’s what we recommend checking...
The Skillshare School of Design
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I’ve been following Skillshare since the beginning, but for whatever reason I never actually signed up for a class until recently. Once I got one unde...
CourseHorse Featured Classes: Online Marketing
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Nowadays maintaining or growing a business requires a robust online presence. That landscape is changing constantly, so takin a focused class on a rel...
CourseHorse Featured Classes: Landing Your Next Gig
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If it’s been awhile since you searched for a new job, or you’re getting ready to apply to new college programs, you may want to brush up on your inter...
CourseHorse Featured Classes: Public Speaking
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Whether it comes from a place of fear or self-doubt, or simply not knowing how to craft an engaging presentation, public speaking is a definitely a co...
CourseHorse Featured Classes: Craft
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One of my resolutions this year is to get my hands dirty with craft projects more often. On that note, here’s a few courses that sound pretty interest...
CourseHorse Featured Classes: Photography
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I’ve had a DSLR camera for a couple of years now, but I’ve never devoted quite enough time to learning the ins and outs of photography that I would li...
CourseHorse Featured Classes: Gearing Up for Business
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I don’t know about you, but for me the new year means taking a fresh look at my business, assessing what’s working and what needs to change, and deter...
CourseHorse Featured Classes: Illustration
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If you’re interested in getting into illustration or brushing up on your basic drawing and painting skills these classes are for you: Drawing Workshop...
CourseHorse Featured Classes: Focus on Photoshop
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This week’s classes are for those of you that may want to dive in further to Photoshop and all of its capabilities. I personally use Photoshop every d...
New Partnership: Course Horse
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I’ve always said that if I ever win the lottery I would become a professional student. I’ve always wanted to go back to school, and I would be enrolle...
W+K 12 is Everywhere
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Attention creative thinkers/dreams/doers: Wieden + Kennedy 12 is on the hunt for this year’s participants! Wieden + Kennedy 12 is an elite creative so...
Local Learning
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Image of 3B Letterpress – EDGY Collection by The Type Junkie. $12 for a 5″x7″ print on etsy. As I’ve mentioned before, I love school. There are so man...
Model Citizen
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I’m one of those people who always loved school—if I ever win the lottery, I’m becoming a professional student. So I’m always really interested to see...