We’ve all been there, don’t worry: You’re cranking away at a design project, and no matter how you plug away, it just isn’t shaping up quite like you wish it would. However, just because a design isn’t quite coming together doesn’t mean there aren’t steps you can take to...
Recently one of the Design Contest team members moved house and during that time, she spent hours sat analysing her furniture; the color schemes in place; and the construction of the walls—among many other nuances. And out of all of this stress, she noticed a world of similarities between...
Let’s face it, as artistic beings, you designers tend to take your WiFi connection for granted. However, what would you suddenly had no Web access, in the morning? Let’s assume a squirrel ate through the wires, or you forgot to pay your bill, and now they’ve got the line...
As with any job, if you don’t introduce new methods or experiment with alternate ways of working, your graphic design workflow can become monotonous and strenuous. How many times have you thought to yourself, “Man, you mean I have to create another typewall?†If you think it often, there’s...
Becoming a graphic designer, one of the hardest things you learn is that time (believe it or not) really is money. When creating a design, there are no set objectives to meet between the initial construction and finalization of the product. In between, the amount of time you spend...