Tag: design

Pull up ten brand decks from the past six months and count the quiet, minimal sans-serifs. I did exactly that in August, working through...

I guess that I printed more calendar templates than most people print in a decade. That's just what happens when you review design files...

I've reviewed enough presentation templates on this site to know within the first ten minutes whether a template was built by someone who actually...

Amazon design gifts have a reputation problem among people who actually design things for a living. Ask any illustrator, art director, or brand designer...

I downloaded this Adobe InDesign portfolio presentation template on a whim, right after finishing a review of a font family that shares the same...

Brand Guidelines Are Not a Nice-to-Have. They're What Keeps a Brand From Becoming a Rumor. A rebrand can cost a company millions of dollars. Somewhere...

Some of you may have already read my review of A Dictionary of Color Combinations Vol. 1 here on WE AND THE COLOR. After...

Adobe Stock does not require a Creative Cloud subscription. That single fact surprises almost every designer I talk to. People often assume the two...

A single eye peeking out from under an orange blanket sold me on this poster before I read a single word of the description....

Honestly, I often think that many portfolio decks look like a résumé wearing a costume. There are boxes of text. A headshot in the...

I bought this book on a whim back in June, mostly because the cover pattern looked sharper than anything else on my shelf that...

Honestly, my Adobe Stock download library is a mess. Hundreds of purchases are in there, most opened once, then forgotten within a week. But...