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My 2024 Design Resolutions: New Year, New Designs
The countdown to 2024 has begun, and like most of us, I'm riding the cliche "New Year, New Me" wave with some 2024 design resolutions. These resolutions focus on my graphic designer career rather than my (failed) dedication to flossing or eating salads, hopefully with...
Talking Typography
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Developing Designers
Maximizing Impact: 3 Key Elements I Look for in Editorial Photos
A picture is worth a thousand words. The right editorial photos can speak volumes. Beyond the essentials of resolution and focus, I look for several quick but critical elements.1) Eye Contact They say the eyes are the gateway to the soul, and the power of eye contact...
Visual Hierarchy Essentials: How to Guide Your Viewer’s Eye
Visual Hierarchy is a crucial concept vital for effective web design, graphic design, user interface (UI), and user experience (UX). It involves strategically organizing and prioritizing content to direct the viewer’s eye, ensuring a logical, engaging, and visually...
Typography Tips: A Quick Guide to Font Styles & Combinations
Whether you're a seasoned web designer, a budding digital artist, or a design client needing clarification about design lingo, understanding font styles and combinations is crucial. In this quick guide, we'll explore the differences between typefaces and fonts, the...
Editorial
From Chaos to Cohesion: A Guide to Grid-Based Composition
As a type-A person, I like structure. Facing a blank page is daunting. Utilizing a grid within my design provides a tangible foundation to imagine the overall layout and begin my work. It removes the existential dread of an open page, and turns an intimidating blank...
Saving Time Using Master Pages in InDesign
Master pages, also called "parent" pages, are essentially templates to use within your InDesign document. They are used to format information or layouts used across multiple pages/spreads such as headers, footers, and page numbers.Using master pages within InDesign...
A Quick Guide to Leading, Kerning, and Tracking
So, you finally received the completed text for a story, newsletter, etc. What's next?As a designer, our role is to make the text both visually appealing and approachable for the consumer. While there are a myriad of ways to do this, there are small changes we can...
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