8 Great Google Font Combinations For Your Next Design Project
Previously, we featured 15 great Adobe Font combinations for your graphic, web, and UI design projects. In today’s post, we look at some beautiful Google Font combinations, with the help of this excellent list by Polish designer Tom Koszyk. Koszyk also suggests which font combinations to use for a particular type of app or website. For example, … View Post ▸
7 Mistakes You Should Avoid In Logo Design
Whether you're a beginner or a pro, designing a successful logo for your client is always a tricky task. You need to keep in mind the brand objective, the target audience, and the industry in which the company operates. From an execution point of view, you need to ensure your logo is scalable, the colors are relevant, and the typography is spot on. A … View Post ▸
35 Epic Memes For Graphic Designers
Are you in the middle of difficult project with a stiff deadline? Is your client giving you sleepless nights? Are you tired of your boss micromanaging everything? If yes, then what you need is a healthy dose of meme-therapy to help brighten up your day. In a study of 520 designers and developers, neuroscientists found that memes helped reduce work burnout … View Post ▸
39 Beautiful Color Palettes For Your Next Design Project
Looking for color schemes for your graphic, web, or UI design? Ocean.ui is a handy Instagram account that shares a beautiful new palette everyday, with hex codes of each color. They also share font combinations, patterns, and UI elements made using their color palettes. We’ve shortlisted some of the best palettes on the Ocean.ui page in terms of aesthetic … View Post ▸
5 Tips To Design Call-To-Action Buttons That Get Clicks
A call-to-action or CTA button is an interactive UI element that guides users to take certain actions on a website or application. For example: Sign Up, Book Now, Buy Now, Subscribe, etc. The objective of a CTA button is goal conversation for your website or application. It is the intended action you want the user to take, like buying your product, making … View Post ▸
AI Creates 100,000 Realistic Photos You Can Use For Free Without Copyright
For most design projects and presentations, you need quality portraits of people. Designers often spend a lot of time trying to find images that are free, diverse, and legal to use. To make life easier, Icons8 has come up with a brilliant free resource called Generated Photos - a diverse library of 100,000 realistic faces created by artificial … View Post ▸
Colors Used By Famous Brands (With Their Codes)
BrandColors.net is the largest collection of official colors of popular brands. It was created by Design Bombs to serve as a useful reference for brand color codes that are needed most often. The site features over 600 brands with 1600 colors, and the collection is ever-growing. You can search by brand name or color code. We've shortlisted some of the … View Post ▸
8 Great Adobe Font Combinations For Your Next Design Project
Previously, we featured 15 great Google Font combinations for your graphic, web, and UI design projects. In today's post, we look at some beautiful Adobe Font combinations, with the help of this excellent list compiled by Polish designer Tom Koszyk. Koszyk also suggests which font combinations to use for a particular type of app or website. For example, … View Post ▸
How To Add Graphics To Images With Complex Perspectives In Photoshop
Did you know that if you add graphics to an image in Photoshop, you can use the Vanishing Point Filter to adjust them as per the perspective of the image? In this excellent tutorial, Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda from PiXimperfect shows you how to use the Vanishing Point Filter, Blend Modes, and Blend-If features to add a graphic to the surface of an … View Post ▸
8 Beautiful Illustration Projects For Design Inspiration
Custom illustrations are one of the key design trends in graphic, print, and packaging design nowadays. We've shortlisted some of the most gorgeous illustration projects of the year across different art styles. Check them out below and tell us your favourites in the comments. … View Post ▸
Designer Creates Clever Typographic Logos That Visualize The Meanings Of Various Words
Istanbul-based designer Mustafa Ömerli has come up with an interesting project that features typographic logos of common words we use every day. He visually represents the meanings of the words by using symbols, negative space, or by adding geometric elements to the letters. For example, the letter 'k' in the word 'kickboxing' looks like its landing a … View Post ▸
Top 7 Laws Of UX Design, Explained With Simple Graphics
Dubai-based UI/UX designer Alejandro Ausejo has compiled a useful series of design tips titled "7 laws of UX design" based on several studies on human behavior and psychology by respectful scientists. These include: • Von Restorff Effect - Hedwig von Restorff • Hick’s Law - William Edmund Hick and Ray Hyman • Fitt’s Law - Paul Fitts • Zeigarnik … View Post ▸
37 Beautiful Color Palettes For Your Next Design Project
Looking for color palettes for your graphic, web, or UI design? The Colour Lab is a handy Instagram account that shares a beautiful new palette everyday, with hex codes and gradients. The colors are derived from beautiful images of nature, architecture, and urban landscapes. If you design something using Colour Lab's palettes, you can get featured on … View Post ▸
Clever Ads By KFC Show How Hot & Spicy Their Chicken Is
Ogilvy Hong Kong won gold at the Cannes Lions and a wood pencil at D&AD for their KFC "Hot & Spicy" print and outdoor ads last year. Now, the agency has followed up their award-winning campaign with a new series of ads that focus on popular TV shows like Game of Thrones. The integrated campaign that includes print, OOH, and social media, features … View Post ▸
Learn In One Minute How To Add Dramatic Colors To Images In Photoshop
Did you know that you can use a solid color with special blend modes to add drama and vibrance to your images in Photoshop? These blend modes include Color Burn, Linear Burn, Color Dodge, Linear Dodge (Add), Vivid Light, Linear Light, Hard Mix, and Difference. In this one-minute tutorial, Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda from PiXimperfect shows you how … View Post ▸
37 Beautiful Color Gradients For Your Next Design Project
Vibrant colors and vivid gradients are one of the key trends in UI, web, and graphic design nowadays. Spain-based designer Yaroslav Iakovlev from Zeka Design has come up with a series of gradient color combinations that you can use in your next project. The hex codes of each color are mentioned on the palettes. Check them out below and tell us your … View Post ▸
8 Useful Tips For Better UI Design
The success of an app or website depends significantly upon its UI/UX design. A recent study by Microsoft found that the average human attention span is down to 8 seconds, compared to 12 seconds in the year 2000. Users now have a lower tolerance for bad UI than ever before. If they can't find what they're looking for quickly enough, they will go … View Post ▸
8 Important Rules For Perfect Icon Design
Icons are an essential element of UI design. They act as a visual aid for users to interact with the interface, identify options, and make selections. But as simple as they look, there are certain rules you should follow to ensure a seamless user experience. Albanian UI/UX designer Dorjan Vulaj has come up with a handy list of icon design rules inspired … View Post ▸
24 Beautiful Color Combinations For Your Next Logo Design
Previously, we showed you how to choose the right colors for your brand, and also featured the most popular brand colors in each industry. Now, Lindsay Kramer from 99 designs has come up with a handy list of color combinations you can try for your next logo design, depending upon the client brief and the industry the brand belongs to. We've also … View Post ▸
8 Must-Have Chrome Extensions For Designers
Chrome has a 63.69% market share and most designers prefer the Google-powered browser for its speed, UI, and the ability to add useful extensions. Albanian UI/UX designer Dorjan Vulaj has come up with a handy list of Chrome extensions that can help you find design inspiration, identify fonts and colors from web pages, view CSS, take full page screenshots, … View Post ▸
Top 9 Typography Trends Of 2019
Previously, we featured the top trends in graphic design, logo design, web design, colors, and images for 2019. Today, we focus on the latest trends in typography with the help of this excellent list by 99designs. 2019 is all about big, bold fonts, vintage typography, evolving scripts, high-contrast serifs, and more. 99designs have included examples of … View Post ▸
13 Useful Tips For Better Typography
"Typography is an art. Good typography is art." - Paul Rand. Good typography is what separates the pros from the rookies. It's not just about picking the right font and selecting the right size. It's about attention to details. It's about knowing how much to kern, lead, track, and justify. It's about knowing when to use uppercase and lowercase, and what … View Post ▸
8 Important Rules For Perfect Button Design
Buttons are an omnipresent element of UI design. They allow users to interact with the interface, select options, and make choices. But as simple as they look, there are certain rules you should follow to ensure a seamless user experience. Albanian UI/UX designer Dorjan Vulaj has come up with a handy list of button design rules inspired from the most used … View Post ▸
8 Important Color Rules For UI Design
Color is one of the most important elements of UI design. Most rookie designers find an elegant palette online and incorporate the colors into their design, without considering branding, functionality, and accessibility issues like color blindness. London-based product designer Zander Whitehurst has come up with a handy list of color rules every UI … View Post ▸
How To Create A ‘Secret’ Image In Photoshop That Can Only Be Opened With A Special Code
Photoshop instructor Unmesh Dinda from PiXimperfect has come up with an interesting tutorial that shows you how to create and send 'secret' images that can only be viewed by the intended recipient, using Photoshop. The image will be a blank PNG, unless the recipient opens it in Photoshop and follows the necessary steps. If you want a higher level of … View Post ▸
29 Honest Logos Of Famous Companies
Swedish graphic designer and filmmaker Viktor Hertz has come up with a new series of Honest Logos of famous companies that reveal what they're really all about. Viktor started this project in 2011, and we had previously published his initial set of logos here. Check out the new series below and tell us your favourites in the comments. … View Post ▸
MIT Creates AI That Can Cut-Out Any Object In An Image And Replace Backgrounds With Ease
MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has come up with a technology called "Semantic Soft Segmentation" that uses AI to automatically separate objects in an image. It allows for easy image editing such as changing the background or compositing the figure into an entirely new scene. The process starts with a neural network … View Post ▸
These Are The Overhead Views Of Famous Logos, How Many Can You Guess?
Audio branding and motion design agency Why Do Birds has come up with an interesting quiz that features bird’s-eye-view images of famous logos, rendered in 3D. You have to guess which brands they belong to. You see these logos everyday, but it's tricky to recognize them from this unusual overhead perspective. As designers, we thought it'll be a cakewalk … View Post ▸
Agency Creates Avengers-Inspired Superhero Logos For Agency Job Titles
Paris-based creative agency We Are Social has come up with a cool Instagram campaign that celebrates the talent, passion, and superpowers that go into some of advertising's most important jobs. The campaign features Avengers-inspired superhero logos for several agency job titles such as art director, copywriter, designer, producer, account manager, … View Post ▸
21 Beautiful Negative Space Logos
In art, negative space is the background space (or white space) around and between the subject of an image. For example, in a picture of a black vase against a white wall, the vase is the positive space, and the white wall is the negative space. In design, negative space can be used to create hidden meaning logos and illustrations. In today's post, we … View Post ▸
Adobe Develops AI That Can Detect If Faces Were Manipulated In Photoshop
Researchers at Adobe and UC Berkeley have developed an AI method that can detect whether faces in photos were manipulated using Adobe Photoshop's Liquify Tool. The research team trained a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) on thousands of portrait images on which Face Aware Liquify was applied using a Photoshop script. In a series of subsequent … View Post ▸
Top 11 Graphic Design Trends For 2019
Previously, we featured the top trends in logo design, web design, colors, and images for 2019. Today, we focus on the emerging trends in graphic design with the help of this handy infographic by Deposit Photos. The infographic features the top 11 graphic design trends to look out for in 2019, with examples. These include 3D design, fluid shapes, retro … View Post ▸
Man Photoshops Flat Tire To Skip Work, Calls It His “Proudest Moment”
We've all thought of creative ways to take a day off, but this guy takes the cake. In a tweet that's gone viral with over 200,000 likes and 40,000 retweets, Twitter user @PapaBoardslide revealed that he once Photoshopped a flat tire on to his car just to get out of work. He also described it as the "proudest moment" of his life. What makes it funnier is … View Post ▸
Less Than 1% Of People Got A Perfect Score On This Color Test, What About You?
UK-based vision care company Lenstore has come up with a tricky little quiz that tests your ability to perceive color and distinguish shades. The test comprises of 10 multiple-choice questions that ask you to pick the lightest, darkest, or identical colors, and complete hue orders. Out of several thousand participants, only 1% were able to answer all … View Post ▸
Top 15 Logo Design Trends For 2019
Previously, we featured the top trends in graphic design, web design, colors, and images for 2019. Today, we focus on the top logo design trends with the help of this excellent report compiled by Logo Lounge. Gradient breaks, contour stripes, spot drag, quarters, and highlights, are some of the key trends this year. Logo Lounge has referenced actual brand … View Post ▸
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