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It’s official: Adobe Illustrator has finally reached middle-age. Launched way back in 1987, this Sunday marks the 30th anniversary of version 1.1, one of the most influential vector graphics applications of all time. From the very first incarnation, to the very latest, Adobe Illustrator has been a key asset in the designer’s...

Ultra Theme by Themify is the latest word in WordPress theme builders. More than a simple set of styles that most themes provide, Ultra Theme allows you to construct your own designs with a simple, powerful drag-n-drop editor. Taking WordPress into the realm of WYSIWYG site builders, Ultra Theme allows anyone with a rudimentary...

As UX designers, the most valuable tool we have is knowledge of how users are interacting with our products. It’s impossible to design a valuable, and successful site without a deep understanding of how users experience it in the real world. One tool for developing a comprehensive understanding of how your users experience...

Anyone can be a designer: we all know how to match a jacket with a shirt, or pick out a color for a new car, or even just how to stack a burger. Making something look good, is something we all know how to do. What we sometimes lack, is the specialist know-how to make our design vision a reality; especially when it comes to something as...

Love the hand-lettering trend, but don’t have the time to learn? Then you’ll love this awesome deal from our sister-site MightyDeals.com: For a limited time you can download 42 professional-grade script fonts, for only $9! You can never have enough script fonts, especially when each one is packed with distinct personality....

Photography is one of the ever-evolving disciplines of art direction that we can never get enough of. Alongside typography and illustration, photography does more to add character to design than any other element. One of the leading sources of stock images and vectors since 2009, Depositphotos has more than 50 million files...

Themes are a great way to speed up a website launch. They make for a fantastic minimum viable product when you need to get going, and fast. Put a little work into them, and you might never need a custom design. Great themes can get expensive, though. Well put your wallets away, dear readers, because it’s time for free stuff! For...

Lettering is all the rage at the moment. Creating expressive text, that goes beyond what you can do with a single font adds a creative touch to any project. But learning to craft high-end lettering takes years; what’s a designer, who doesn’t have years to spare, to do? Well, thanks to the Art Text app for Mac, you don’t need...

Need a product screenshot fast? Now you can whip one up faster than it takes Photoshop to warm-up, with the awesome Smartmockup App. Available for MacOS, Windows, and Linux, this simple tool enables you to preview your artwork in 300+ mockups and then export. So we’re delighted that our sister-site MightyDeals.com has...

In association with iStock by Getty Images. A good stock image is like a good design: you want it to be powerful, persuasive, and memorable; without drawing attention to itself. It can seem like a difficult balance to achieve, but a little effort on your part will reap rewards. Stock images are used for a variety of reasons. Most...

The life of a designer (or an editor, for that matter) can at times be summed up in these words: the search for stock goes on. That search can also get expensive. And that’s fair. These things take a lot of work to make. The skill and time required to take and edit good photos, create detailed illustrations, or put together beautiful...

Blogging is an incredibly rewarding experience; it’s one of the few times in life that you truly reap what you sow. Write a great post, and readers will find it, churn out the same old opinions as everyone else, and you’ll get lost in the crowd. There are some excellent platforms to blog on: WordPress.com, Ghost.org, Medium.com....

Ever wished you could add snapchat like effects on your images? Good news is, you actually don't need extensive training or specific face detection skills to get started. All you need is Cloudinary. Cloudinary is a cloud-based image management solution that gives you the power to upload, store, manipulate, optimize and...

Over time, developers have wrestled with forcing images into responsive layouts. Media queries and fluid grids are constantly employed to achieve visually flexible images. Achieving such flexible images as pointed out by Ethan Marcotte in the seminal first edition of his book  is as easy as: img { max-width: 100%; } The...