This excellent tutorial on CSS layouts will teach you how web page layouts work. Continue reading...Continue Reading: The Basics of Designing Web Page Layouts

Business cards will never really go away. They remain an effective tool for building networks and keeping in contact with clients and colleagues. For those of you looking to gain an edge (pun intended) in your business card game, we've collected some fantastic examples of edge-printed and edge-printed business cards. Continue reading...Continue Reading: Excellent Edge Printed Business Cards

StockSnap adds hundreds of free high-res stock photos to their collection every week. What's more, the stock photos featured on the site are free of copyright restrictions, so you can literally use them any way you want. Continue reading...Continue Reading: Find a Ton of Beautiful Free Stock Photos on This Site

I don't know about all of you, but I get a little envious of people who possess incredible illustration skills. Continue reading...Continue Reading: Fantastic Illustrator Portfolios That Are Sure to Inspire: March 2015

The ocean is a place of beauty. This collection of nautical-themed logos features boats, sails and anchors. These excellent logo designs will surely inspire you! Continue reading...Continue Reading: 20 Nautical Logo Designs for Inspiration

Can creative work be done on tablets and phones? I've always thought that a pencil and a piece of paper is infinitely more valuable to a creative professional than a very expensive touchscreen. But I could be wrong. Continue reading...Continue Reading: Do Mobile Devices and Apps Really Have a Place in the Creative Workflow?

Being a designer who's new to the field is overwhelming: Where do you start? What do you need to know? What tools should you use? How do you get design jobs when clients ask for your portfolio of work and there's nothing to show them? It's a phase in a designer's career that's filled with anxiety and self-doubt. Continue reading...Continue Reading: This Site Will Inspire You with Stories from Designers

I’ll start with a tale from the client services trenches, a "war story" if you will.   Continue reading...Continue Reading: 8 Lessons for Turning Problem Clients into Repeat Customers

When file-sharing or emailing PSDs as an attachment, you might encounter a file size limit that prevents you from uploading your file. Continue reading...Continue Reading: How to Reduce the File Size of Your Photoshop PSD Files

Looking at an artist's sketchbook is like seeing their rawest and most unadulterated ideas. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 24 Fantastic Works From Artists’ Sketchbooks

Dark hues used in designs elicit from their viewers impressions of elegance and modernity. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 26 Inspiring Dark Web Designs

Art Deco, from the 1920's - 1940's is one of the most influential visual art styles to have emerged in the last 100 years. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 21 Exquisite Art Deco Style Illustrations from Modern Masters

I'm sure a lot of you have experienced stretches of time when you just don't feel creative; when your idea wells just dry up and you don't produce anything at all. Mike Winkelmann aka Beeple, has kept up a streak that's the opposite of that. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 2,876 Consecutive Days of Creativity: Mike Winkelmann

The use of a large background image in a web design is a popular trend at the moment. A photographic background is impressive, giving designers the capacity to create websites that are exceptionally eye-catching. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 27 Beautiful Web Designs with Big Background Images

The interiors of the stunning homes you're about to see are quite unique because of their minimalist aesthetics. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 22 Beautiful Minimalist Interior Designs

Finding the right gear for your photographic endeavors can be tough. Whether you want to dive in head first into photography or you're just looking to spice up your mobile phone photography, we found some great websites to help you get started with your search. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 10 Great Online Stores for Photography Gear

If you've been to your local pub or cafe recently, chances are you'll see a hand-lettered chalk mural or two on their walls. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 30 Beautiful Examples of Handmade Lettering Made with Chalk

The RGB color model is most closely associated with digital displays like computer screens, TVs, and other video electronics. So, naturally, RGB is something those of us that design for digital displays are quite familiar with. Continue reading...Continue Reading: A Color Game for Digital Designers

We've always been big gaming enthusiasts at Design Instruct. We grew up with video games and we just love seeing the new ideas and artistic choices game developers make every year. Continue reading...Continue Reading: The 25 Most Beautiful iOS Games Right Now

The designs of packaging from back in the day are very inspiring to look at, they give us a brief glimpse of design history and trends in foregone eras. Continue reading...Continue Reading: Truly Vintage Designs and Typography

Need a quick fix for a photo you just took? Here are a few versatile Photoshop actions to add to your arsenal. Continue reading...Continue Reading: Freebie: 6 Handy Film Effect Photoshop Actions

How should your UI behave when the user clicks on the "Login" button, versus if they were simply to hover over it? What happens afterwards? Continue reading...Continue Reading: A Site That Features Beautiful Transitional-Interface Designs

Photography is for everyone. That statement has never been truer than it is today what with the ever-increasing numbers of very capable cameras being placed in our phones and other mainstream devices. Continue reading...Continue Reading: What Makes a Good Photograph?

For graphic designers, the Pen Tool is mightier than the sword. Continue reading...Continue Reading: Level Up Your Vector Drawing Skills with a Game