Whitenoise Celebrates 25 Years with Graphic Design Playing Cards

Belfast’s Whitenoise agency marks 25 years with custom playing cards. Each card features unique graphic design. A celebration of design and play. To celebrate its 25th anniversary, Belfast-based agency Whitenoise created a unique and playful project: a custom deck of playing cards. This initiative showcases the agency’s graphic design talent and its passion for storytelling.… Continue reading Whitenoise Celebrates 25 Years with Graphic Design Playing Cards

Professional Brochure Catalog Templates: 25 Print Ready Designs

A brochure catalog templates remains one of the most effective tools for brand communication. The catalog templates, lookbook brochure, and portfolio templates delivers information clearly while showcasing products, services, or collections in a structured format. Choosing the right catalog design template enhances visual appeal and strengthens brand identity. Creating a brochure, lookbook or portfolio from… Continue reading Professional Brochure Catalog Templates: 25 Print Ready Designs

How to create a movie poster like Saul Bass

Saul Bass was the original master of stylish movie credit design. In this beginner’s tutorial for Adobe InDesign, we pay tribute to the distinctive Saul Bass style with a movie poster inspired by the classic 1959 film, Anatomy of a Murder. Slick, stylish, and oozing with film noir cool, Saul Bass posters and movie credits… Continue reading How to create a movie poster like Saul Bass

25 Fresh & Free Mockups for Your Design Projects – Download Now

Are you tired of scrolling endlessly through mockup websites, only to find outdated designs or hidden fees? Look no further! We’ve handpicked fresh and free mockups that are perfect for designers, marketers, and creatives alike. Whether you’re showcasing your latest branding project, presenting a website design, or creating eye-catching social media posts, these mockups will… Continue reading 25 Fresh & Free Mockups for Your Design Projects – Download Now

How to create a 70s striped geometric pattern

The following tutorial will teach you how to make a 70s-style striped geometric pattern using Adobe Illustrator. To double the fun, I’ll show you not one but two methods of making a striped pattern in Illustrator to help you get creative with your own 70s aesthetic pattern for your retro projects. If you don’t have… Continue reading How to create a 70s striped geometric pattern

How to create a Studio Ghibli-inspired text effect

What You’ll Be Creating Howl’s Moving Castle is renowned for its enchanting visuals and all those whimsical details that make up the Ghibli aesthetic. In the following tutorial, we’ll jump into Adobe Illustrator and learn to create a text effect inspired by Studio Ghibli’s art style. Let’s dive in and get some Miyazaki inspiration in… Continue reading How to create a Studio Ghibli-inspired text effect

Choose Customer Loyalty over Short-Term Profit

Summary:  Prioritizing user loyalty over short-term profit maximization leads to sustainable growth by fostering trust, customer retention, and long-term profitability. The most important business goal of most digital products is to maximize user loyalty and the lifetime value of the user’s future visits and purchases. Maximizing the value of a single, specific visit is less… Continue reading Choose Customer Loyalty over Short-Term Profit

50+ Best Fonts For Logos

Written by Muhammad Faisal• January 6, 2025• 8:47 pm• Fonts • One Comment Creating a logo and choosing fonts for logo is a critical step for building a strong brand identity. A well-designed logo can leave a lasting impression on customers and make your brand stand out. Among the key elements that contribute to a… Continue reading 50+ Best Fonts For Logos

How to create a Year of the Snake text effect

What You’ll Be Creating In the following tutorial, we will celebrate the start of 2025, Year of the Snake, by making a golden snake text effect in Adobe Illustrator. If you’re wondering what the Year of the Snake is, it’s the name given to the year 2025 in the Chinese zodiac. Besides 2025, years of… Continue reading How to create a Year of the Snake text effect

How to create abstract Y2K geometric shapes in Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating In the following tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a set of Y2K shapes using basic tools and effects. If you don’t have the time to build these abstract shapes from scratch, you can find plenty of alternatives at Envato. This subscription-based marketplace has thousands of Illustrator add-ons you can download… Continue reading How to create abstract Y2K geometric shapes in Illustrator

How to create 3D text effects with Project Neo and Adobe Firefly

Today, we’ll explore Adobe’s new web-based design tool, Project Neo. It’s currently in beta and accessible to the public on the Adobe website. Project Neo allows users to easily create and edit volumetric designs, drawings, text, and shapes with simple turns and tweaks to create unique 3D artwork. This tool can be handy for creating… Continue reading How to create 3D text effects with Project Neo and Adobe Firefly

Accessible Images For When They Matter Most

<div class=”logo”> <a href=”/” title=”Back to the homepage”> <picture> <source media=”(min-width: 1350px)” srcset=”…/images/logo-full.svg”> <img src=”…/images/logo/logo.svg” alt=”Smashing Magazine”> </picture> </a> </div> Hearing both the phrase “back to the homepage” and “Smashing Magazine” in one feature is OK since each phrase is unique and connected to a different purpose. For more complex alternative text phrases, conduct the… Continue reading Accessible Images For When They Matter Most

How to Draw the Flower of Life

If you look carefully, you may notice special patterns in nature—the spiral of a snail shell, the repeating symmetry of a snowflake, the fractal order of flower petals. For thousands of years, people have been ascribing special meaning to them, treating them like parts of a bigger design—a map to the creation of the whole… Continue reading How to Draw the Flower of Life

How to Make an RSVP Template

Planning a wedding can be stressful. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an RSVP card template using Adobe InDesign. I’ll walk you through determining the size of the RSVP cards, what information to include on them, and how to design the wedding RSVP template. What You’ll Learn in This Wedding RSVP Template… Continue reading How to Make an RSVP Template

Fresh Fonts: Elevate Your Designs with the Latest Free Fonts

29 Shares In the world of graphic design, the quest for fresh fonts is perpetual. Designers, both seasoned and novice, are constantly on the lookout for new free fonts to infuse vitality into their projects. The significance of typography in conveying messages, evoking emotions, and establishing brand identity cannot be overstated. Hence, the availability of… Continue reading Fresh Fonts: Elevate Your Designs with the Latest Free Fonts

How to Create a Trendy Pixelated Effect in Photoshop

What You’ll Learn in This Photoshop Tutorial How to pixelate an image in Photoshop How to add a pixelated effect in Photoshop How to make pixel art in Photoshop How to create a pixel art oil painting effect How to make oil pixel art What You’ll Need To recreate the… Continue reading How to Create a Trendy Pixelated Effect in Photoshop

How to Recreate the GTA 6 Background

What You’ll Learn in This Tutorial How to make the Grand Theft Auto background How to make palm trees with brushes in Adobe Illustrator How to make a building in perspective in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial Assets You’ll need the following resources in order to complete this project: 1. How to Make a… Continue reading How to Recreate the GTA 6 Background

30 Amazing Chrome Extensions for Designers and Developers

Compilations By Robert Reeve 2 days ago Searching for a tool to make cross-platform design a breeze? Desperate for an extension that helps you figure out the HTML code of that fantastic color palette? Looking for a trick that will supercharge your productivity this year? We’ve got you covered. Chrome extensions are the bread and… Continue reading 30 Amazing Chrome Extensions for Designers and Developers

35 Best Car Wash & Detailing Flyer Templates

This subscription-based marketplace offers tons of graphic templates, fonts, logos, add-ons, and more, all for one low monthly fee. Best Car Wash & Detailing Flyer Templates 1. Car Wash Flyer (AI, EPS, PSD) The Car Wash Flyer template will help you create a terrific flyer with all the essential information in no time at all.… Continue reading 35 Best Car Wash & Detailing Flyer Templates

Vue.js Tutorial: Beginner to Front-End Developer

This course will teach you the fundamental concepts you need to start building applications with Vue.js. Who Is This FREE Course For? complete beginners who want to be web developers experienced developers who want to explore advanced topics any coder who enjoys learning something exciting How Long Is the Course? This course… Continue reading Vue.js Tutorial: Beginner to Front-End Developer

Vue.js Tutorial: Beginner to Front-End Developer

This course will teach you the fundamental concepts you need to start building applications with Vue.js. Who Is This FREE Course For? complete beginners who want to be web developers experienced developers who want to explore advanced topics any coder who enjoys learning something exciting How Long Is the Course? This course… Continue reading Vue.js Tutorial: Beginner to Front-End Developer

36 Best Wide Fonts (Extra Wide & Extended Fonts)

Wide fonts take up a great deal of horizontal space and are a great choice when working with short text. When you’re in the market for the best wide font, head to Envato Elements. For one low monthly fee, this subscription-based marketplace offers tons of fonts, logos, graphic templates, add-ons, and more. 36 Best Wide Fonts… Continue reading 36 Best Wide Fonts (Extra Wide & Extended Fonts)

4g CO2 per email—really?

Disentangling a well-known “fact” about emails. There’s a lot of “received wisdom” kicking about on the internet — ideas and “facts” which are essentially presented without question on the basis of “ he said it, so it must be true”. This afflicts many fields, and sustainability is no exception. One common example is that “sending an email generates… Continue reading 4g CO2 per email—really?

PHP Tutorial for Beginners: Free 7-Hour Course

Learn the fundamentals of PHP in this free PHP course. Follow along to learn PHP and use it to write web apps. Follow Along, Learn by Doing I encourage you to follow along and to do exactly what I do on screen. This way you learn by doing. To help, the PHP course GitHub repo… Continue reading PHP Tutorial for Beginners: Free 7-Hour Course