It’s easy get caught in the same style as a designer. We get lazy, happy with what we’re doing, satisfied. Those are not necessarily bad things, but they can lead to not pushing the borders, and that means that we won’t evolve as designers. So let’s break that design mold, shall we?

I’m doing a lot of design, and I though I would share my design process with you guys. It goes from sitting down with the design on a blank sheet of paper, to the zip file delivery - or whatever it might be. Perhaps there’s some tips and pointers that you could use in your own work, or you might just shake your head at the mad Swede’s workflow. Either way, it’s my design process.

Having trouble getting the colors right for the Next Big Thing online? Never fear, there are a bunch of free online services to save the day.

Design comes in many forms. Take album artwork, for example. Not only is it the packaging trying to sell the product, but many times, it is also being used to represent the style of the artist’s music on that album. Sometimes, album art can be so bad that people won’t purchase an actual physical copy of the album just because the packaging is horrible. Here is a list of 21 really great ones that would catch your eye for sure.

A large collection of 30 fonts you want to have, some free, and some paid. We may not be Smashing Magazine, but we can put together a good list here and there too. If you are looking for professional fonts to fun ones, we’ve got you covered with this extensive list.

I usually view a lot of sites when trying to come up with inspiration for a new design. After recently re-designing a site and creating a WordPress theme from scratch, I thought I’d share a couple design decisions I found annoying. It should be noted that this article is a combination of two [...]

What’s a metaphor? Let’s take a trip back to high school (or over to Wikipedia), shall we? A metaphor is a direct comparison between two or more seemingly unrelated subjects describing one subject as being alike to another subject in some way. Metaphors are useful for illustrating ideas, simplifying complex subjects [...]

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It was almost a year ago when the first Redesign Process article was published. At the time I had just finished wrapping up and releasing Devlounge 2, the theme that actually was just released for free to the Wordpress community. It felt like such a refresher, such a change, and a step [...]

Are you prepared for your reboot? Make sure you don’t forget some key factors.

If “Layout, YOU SO NASTY” is the first thought that occurs to you in the morning, aside from “OMGWTF NUKES” and “Mmm…donuts”, change should probably be on the horizon, because if it isn’t, a chupacabra might be, and in the history of the world, there has never been anything more unforgiving. Except, of course, an [...]