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General Advice for Designers

No matter what role you end up taking eventually, you’ll be most valued for your craft – because you’d be excellent at creation or even more importantly, curation. I’ve rarely seen a pure manager who can command great respect and admiration from their team without being exceptional at the craft

How Writing Can Help Your Web Design Career

Writing and web design go together quite well. Both require creativity and attention to detail. Importantly, they also serve as a gateway to connecting with others. It’s a combination that has helped me through my journey. With 20+ years in design and another 10+ writing, I feel that each has provided me with a foundation for growth. As one discipline informs the other, there is so much I might have missed…

Top Web Design Trends 2023

Some say trends in web design come and go: there is no point in following them. It is just a waste of precious time, money, and resources. One day big, bold typography makes a considerable impact, whereas another day, small and elegant font face amazes the audience.

Some Twitter profile pics are now square. Here’s why…

The change is part of the new Twitter Blue for Business, which is rolling out now. The first change you’ll notice is that brands and businesses now have a square profile pic instead of a round one. This includes Twitter itself, Apple, Microsoft, and Mashable, for example.

UK’s Banknotes have been redesigned

We unveiled the design of our King Charles III banknotes on 20 December 2022. The King’s portrait will appear on all four of our polymer banknotes (£5, £10, £20 and £50). The rest of the design on the banknotes will remain the same. The King’s image will appear on the front of the banknotes, as well as in the see-through security window.

10 Lessons From Logo Redesigns In 2022

The post-pandemic period has seen a lot of logo activity. Brands, left and right, are going through shifts large and small, and using logo redesigns to communicate the same. Amid this cacophony, there have been rebrand successes and failures. Some have gained global accolades as well as fan adulation, while others have not been that lucky.

Please tell me this isn’t the new DC Studios logo

A DC Studios producer appears to have briefly posted an image of himself wearing merchandise that shows a hitherto unseen design. And it’s leading to some wild speculation, as well as some yawns (take a look at the best graphic design software if you want to create your own designs).

Fonts on Tape

A fun way to showcase fonts

Design your AI Art Generator Prompt Using ChatGPT

A short guide on how to use ChatGPT to elaborate your text prompts

What The Verge’s website redesign tells us about the future of media

The Verge has a new website design that rethinks the experience of news readers. What does this move say about the state of news media?

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