As a designer, we’re constantly pulled in two directions: towards learning new design tools and towards honing our soft skills. But which is more important?

The current Airbus logo is the company name in blue on a white background with the iconic swirl.

Freepik partnered with the San Francisco-based and award-winning creative advertising agency, Partners in Crime, to develop its new visual identity and positioning. Its mission? Help anyone create great designs faster, to express the power of their ideas.

Building a website in those days was undeniably different. The web design industry was nascent – if it existed at all. Standards and best practices were still years away. Web designers had to adapt existing tools for this new medium.

I get a good deal of messages from people asking me questions about design. I try to answer as many as I can, but I’m unable to get to all of them. So, here’s a roundup of my answers to some of the most common questions I receive.

Every now and then, website design trends can leave you scratching your head. This month’s collection includes some of those.

30 beautiful animated backgrounds in 4K that loop perfectly. Perfect for YouTube videos, product demos, and more. From your mates at Tella.

There is just something magical about the design of Setaprint! The flowing ink cloud and the wonderful typography animations harmonize perfectly with the content. Our pick this week.

From real photographs captured using a macro lens, this collection offers genuine high-res textures from aged walls, concrete slabs and grounds. Dive into authentic grunge, vintage, and concrete overlays to elevate your designs.

The company is bringing customizable Material You design to Chromebooks. After selecting a wallpaper and a color palette, these settings will be reflected in areas such as quick settings, desktop, and window head bars. ChromeOS 117 also has a redesigned quick settings menu with bigger buttons and slider bars — akin to the slide-down settings menu on Android 13 on Pixel phones.