Design Inspiration: Creative Ideas for Designers

A graphic designer’s most valuable asset is his/her creativity — and it needs constant care and feeding. Here you’ll find creative thinking exercises, brainstorming tips, activities for creative teams and design inspiration, all geared toward helping you develop the best graphic design solutions. Don’t neglect your creativity. Feed it. Nurture it. And let it breathe. Let it be accessible for when you need it most.

HOW and Print Design Business Cards for EPIC Nonprofit

If you haven’t heard of The Luxe Project, it’s time to check it out. MOO began the initiative to connect creatives and great causes by encouraging industry professionals and firms like Sagmeister & Walsh and Kid Yeah! to submit designs More

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Printers and Green Design: Shrink Your Design’s Carbon Footprint

Shrink you graphic design carbon footprint: choosing green printer and green design suppliers can play a key role in sustainable design business practices. More

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Photography, Postcards and the Impossible Project

Do you remember your first Polaroid camera? I do. My grandfather got it for me one Christmas when I was pretty young, and I recall waiting for the photo to develop, shaking it and hoping it would expedite the process. … More

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yU+co Designs Interactive Sequence for Oz Movie

When interactive design is done well, the effect can be both great and powerful. It is fitting then that design firm and production studio yU+co, led by director Garson Yu, created something imaginative and fun for the main title and … More

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Photographer & Designer Discuss New Furniture Design Publication

Check out the Q&A below with designer Rick Valicenti and photographer Tom Vack written by Sappi, the fine paper company.  Together with Holly Hunt, the designer and photographer team created a new furniture design publication. And, as part of Chicago … More

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Tuesday Type Treat: HWT Geometric (A Serif Font)

HWT Geometric is a serifed typography design from the Hamilton Wood Type Foundry. This angled wood type comes in six styles: light, condensed light, geometric, geometric condensed, shopworn and shopworn inked. A 19th century design, HWT Geometric is described as … More

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Brain Food for the Creative Genius

These creativity exercises are meant to feed the mind of a creative genius, helping them stay sharp and generate killer ideas. Need a brain boost? Get started. More

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Red Leader Designs Brand Identity for Wood Street

In an effort to boost commerce on one of Walthamstow, London’s high streets, the Waltham Forest Council and the Mayor’s Outer London Fund commissioned digital design firm Red Leader to build a brand identity and website for Wood Street. A … More

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Design(ed) For (A) Good (Cause)

Get your grubby hands clean and feel good about yourself with these 2 new designs from method. As a brand that knows how to make hygiene fun, these new, vibrant hand soap designs are also socially-conscious. The “DESIGNED FOR GOOD” … More

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Poster Design Helps Raise Autism Awareness

When Rare Brain Studios, a Los Angeles-based film and creative development company, tapped design firm Neltner Small Batch to assist with a project that would help raise Autism awareness and give one man, a beer enthusiast and brewery historian, the … More

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