Having cheat sheets readily at hand can make you a more productive designer because they can show you shortcuts that can make things easier to accomplish. Continue reading...Continue Reading: Some Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Designers

Black is a timeless and elegant color. It's never out of style. And you can get a variety of wildly different results depending on how you employ the color in your design work. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 22 Beautifully Black Web Designs for Inspiration

This is a set of five free wooden floor plank textures. They're deeply weather-beaten due to being exposed in an outdoor environment. These textures are great for use as backgrounds. Continue reading...Continue Reading: Freebie: Grungy Wood Plank Textures

For designers just beginning their careers, one of the best ways to help deal with the steep learning curve is to seek advice from experienced professionals. What challenges did they face when they were just getting started? What were the things they wish they knew? Continue reading...Continue Reading: The Advice of 50 Successful Designers

I've been taking photos professionally for good portion of my adult life and while I can't say I am the best photographer I can be, I can say that I've learned a lot. Hopefully, I'll learn a lot more. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 100 Things I Know About Photography

A very cool (and generous) trend in the design community has been developing over the last couple of years or so: FREE, high-quality, stock photos. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 10 More Websites for Free Stock Photos

A fancy college degree. An impressive portfolio of work. The willingness to put in long hours at the office. Maybe even a huge following on Behance and Dribbble. Ask anyone who’s actually earned the title of Creative Director and he or she will tell you all those qualifications are secondary to the skills that truly make up what it takes to be good at this role. Continue reading...Continue Reading: What It Takes to Be a Successful Creative Director

We are very impressed with the free resources available to designers nowadays. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 12 More Websites for Freebie Design Resources

This set of 10 free architecture stock photos was captured in various cities such as Rome, London, Lisbon, Barcelona, and New York City. Continue reading...Continue Reading: Freebie: Architecture Stock Photos

In the world of typefaces, often, you'll get what you pay for. That is, free fonts are usually free for a reason and really expensive fonts are usually expensive for their own reasons. Sometimes, however, there are exceptions to that rule. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 10 Free High Quality Fonts We Love Right Now