How To Build Your Type Library

I’m frequently asked by aspiring designers and students alike about the best way to build a type library. With the evergrowing number of font resources – from the small, independent…

Web Design Tips: What All New Designers Need To Know

Andy Pratt and Jesse Arnold are leaders in the new frontier of web design. Andy has worked with organizations including the Smithsonian Institution, Samsung, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Wenner Media, Lego…

5 Ways to Inspire Confidence in Investors with Brand Identity

When you’re at a party with new people, you don’t get balance sheets with everyone’s statistics and track record. You don’t form impressions based on their “friendship retention percentage” or…

Why Your Awkwardness Is Actually Good For Business

Body language expert and entrepreneur Vanessa Van Edwards will be the first to tell you that she used to have some real trouble in social situations. "I say that I'm…

The Top 6 Design Moments Of 2016

2016 was an interesting year for sure – one dominated by politics and controversy. However, for design, we kept ourselves busy making the world just a little more beautiful whenever…

How the Future of Graphic Design Lies in Its Past

There is a fascinating lecture from design legend Lance Wyman about his life’s work, including a focus on the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, which ended up being where he…

9 Adorable Animated GIFs Made from Vintage Illustrations

Leave it to the Smithsonian Libraries to have a delightful collection of vintage GIFs which blend the Internet's love of moving pictures with everyone else's love of classic line drawings. A…