Freelancers Beware – Arm Yourself With Contracts (personal story)
In 2019 a bit after leaving my full-time job I spent months sitting at a Starbucks from opening to closing with my Avatar Last Airbender sticker covered laptop (this sticker […]
Bland, Simple, Replicable – The New Strategy
Anyone in the design industry has most likely spotted the general trend towards simple, lifeless design being held as the modern look. This isn’t necessarily due to a lack of […]
Designing Outside Of Personal Taste
*Cries in graphic design* A few years ago I had a client who was an artist. I designed various things for her including CSS upgrades to her website. She wanted […]
Designers and the stagnant portfolio – why? (5 Reasons)
Many designers produce a lot more content than what they show on their portfolio. This is for good reason because if you’re making a career out of design – you […]
Don’t Fall Into Imposter Syndrome
With all the over-saturation and official graduate degrees many graphic designers can feel like a fraud sometimes, especially if you only got a degree in psychology or media or nothing […]
Future Of Graphic Design – Emerging Trends
People read these types of articles a lot – “future of graphic design” articles where various trends are brought up. Problem is they’re the same every year – “minimalist” paired […]
Personalization Of Design
The world of design is is becoming more individualized. Certain brands can now print your name on them. Automation adds a “hello (insert name here)” automatically into email blasts. And […]
Passive Income For Digital Artists
Selling digital products has a much lower barrier of entry if you’ve got the skills to create them. Physical products involve inventory management, shipping, and more where with digital products […]
Graphic Design Is Not Just About ‘Creativity’
This is largely based on personal experience, and I haven’t been around that long, so take what you will. There are a bajillion shape combos, textures, color hues and fonts […]
Immersive Drawing in VR
Traditional digital artists are increasingly exploring VR art for new projects. Similar to 3D modeling on flat desktops and laptops, but with a more immersive interface. MasterpieceVR first released its […]
Psychology Strategies in Graphic Design
Contrary to what some may realize, psychology is far more important in graphic design than understanding font families or fancy words like kerns or serifs. The Gestalt Principles are laws […]
Emojis – Icons That Take Years To Publish
Emojis are a huge part of online communication as digital age hieroglyphics with “dialects” for different software (A smiley face😊would look different on an Apple phone vs a Samsung phone […]
AI Implemention in Graphic Design
Graphic designers went through many brands developments throughout the centuries, and evolved with the emerging technologies of those generations. Mentioned in a previous article, graphic design became a recognized industry […]
A World Without Graphic Design
The graphic design industry is far from the top valued monetarily ($54b), but without it there would be no brand identity. This is fairly obvious but not given much thought […]
2010s: Decade of Digital Design Standardization
As the year comes to an end and so do the 2010s (unless you’re counting 2021 as the first year of the next decade) it’s tempting to try and categorize […]
Digitization of Graphic Design
It’s hard to pinpoint an origin of graphic design, as sigils and typography have been around for ages. Graphic design as we know it today as a reproducible marketing tool […]
