September 2020 - Lessons in Graphic Design

Portfolio Redesign | 5 Ways To Improve Your Portfolio

What does it mean to do a portfolio redesign? Well, for me, it means overhauling everything in my portfolio that isn't spectacular and redesigning it until it is. This could mean making minor adjustments to a website design or recreating an ad from the ground up. If you’re like me, there is plenty of design work…

September 28, 20200Comments

11 Best Design Agency Websites From Around The World

Seriously Professional Design Inspo Have you seen many design agency websites that just jumped right out the screen at you? The kind that made you desperately want to either work there or dramatically overhaul your own website? Design agencies have some of the coolest looking and most creative websites you'll see. They're selling their services as…

September 25, 20200Comments

The Design Industry Experiences in Design

The Top 10 Lies About Graphic Design & Designers

Too many non-designers romanticize the career of a graphic designer. They think we sit down to a computer or notepad and create beautiful images in a single instance. Then we chug back four cups of coffee and doodle for the rest of the day. There are so many lies about designers that circulate, but how…

September 22, 20200Comments

The Design Industry Experiences in Design

7 Types of Designers You’ll Likely Work With In Your Career

Which One Are You? Designers get stereotyped a lot. We're mostly saddled with the 'hipster' label, though few of us actually are. The only real characteristic that fits all designers is that we like to create. We're not all necessarily the best at it, but certainly most of us enjoy to create in any way…

September 21, 20200Comments

The Design Industry Experiences in Design

Working In A Small Design Agency | 5 Big Things I Learned

I've spent a good part of my career as a graphic designer working in the setting of a small design agency in firms with fewer than ten people. Some of those agencies were start-ups and some were small companies that had been around for years. Working in a small design firm has its challenges and…

September 18, 20200Comments

Resources

Graphic Design Resources | The 11 Best Sites

A Plethora of Design Info The graphic design resources we have at our fingertips today are truly amazing. There are so many places online to learn all about design and become the best designers we can be. The only tricky part is finding those places. Here is a list of the 11 most awesome places…

September 17, 20200Comments

Tutorials Photoshop Tutorials

How To Use Photoshop Layer Blend Modes For Amazing Effects

Fun With Blending The day I discovered how to use Photoshop layer blend modes was the day my entire design game changed. I had already been using Photoshop for quite a few years, but only ever using it for basics like cropping, recoloring, and removing backgrounds. When I saw how you could manipulate the individual…

September 16, 20200Comments

Tutorials Affinity Designer Tutorials

How To Do An Awesome Isometric Illustration in 9 Steps

Affinity's Awesome Isometric Tools One of the absolute best things about Affinity Designer is that it allows you to intuitively create an isometric illustration. In other vector design programs, like Adobe Illustrator, you can also create isometric illustrations. However, you need to create your own grid and manually create all shapes to conform to that…

September 11, 20200Comments

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Portfolio Redesign | 5 Ways To Improve Your Portfolio

11 Best Design Agency Websites From Around The World

The Top 10 Lies About Graphic Design & Designers

7 Types of Designers You’ll Likely Work With In Your Career

Working In A Small Design Agency | 5 Big Things I Learned

Graphic Design Resources | The 11 Best Sites

How To Use Photoshop Layer Blend Modes For Amazing Effects

How To Do An Awesome Isometric Illustration in 9 Steps

Drawing In Graphic Design – 2 Main Types You Need To Know

Learn Graphic Design Fundamentals | The 3 C’s of Design

Print and Digital Design – The Big Differences