The trends shaping 2026 tell a story of designers and brands reaching for more personality, more craft, and quite frankly, ...

The evolution of typography -- From the origins of writing to Gutenberg's invention of movable type -- Typography from Gutenberg to the nineteenth century -- The nineteenth century and the Industrial ...

Labels are often the first point of contact between a brand and its potential customers. Every element of a label, like color, imagery, material, and even shape, plays a role in shaping consumer ...

Contrast helps to create focal points on a page and a hierarchy for what readers will see first. Here are several ways to create contrast in your design. Contrast of Size. The largest headline on a ...

When I don’t take this as a cue to change the topic, I pry into the mind of this non-designer to try to uncover what makes this topic so polarizing. As I’ve done this more systematically, I’ve ...

When someone visits your website, they don't care much about the graphics, they just go through the textual content. This is because, texts are the major sources of information. So while creating a ...

As an Internet marketer, conversion is our bread and butter. I can guarantee you spend a large part of your time pondering ways to optimize landing pages. Things like copy and design are the obvious ...

The future of design isn’t feminine or masculine - it’s human. That is according to Monotype’s Marie Boulanger, who focused on how narrow-thinking can even warp typography. R has a leg, S has a spine, ...

Interesting Topics: Typography, branding and identity systems, designing for space and environment, interactivity and UX/UI, motion graphics, packaging design, publication design, design thinking, ...

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