Just like in the world of fashion, graphic design is a big trend creator and follower. 2019 is well under way and although there have been some graphic design predictions made early this year, one trend has stuck out for me and I absolutely adore it right now. I call this trend – Abstract Modernism
If you’re a freelance graphic designer, illustrator, brand designer, logo designer, or any other digital designer you must be here because you need a proper portfolio website to showcase your work and get your dream clients. But how should a proper design portfolio look? There are so many layouts, color schemes, styles to choose from
I’ve been doing logo design for five years now and in this time I’ve accumulated both experience and a lot of useful resources that I love and use whenever I design. One of these resources is a list of fonts for logo design. When I just started out as a graphic, my biggest struggle where fonts,
As a photography portfolio designer, I have designed quite many portfolio websites over the years. I’ve studied other, much more talented and experienced designer works and seen websites that are beautifully executed and many that just don’t work. Sometimes it’s hard to pinpoint what exactly makes a portfolio website work, but when you see it you
Recently I finished my “100 free photography logo templates” challenge where I made 100 photography logos that anyone can use. About two months have passed since then and those logo templates have been downloaded more than 12’000 times by now. A couple of days ago I checked out the download statistics and noticed that logos with
It’s that time of the year again! Christmas is coming! If you run your own little business – be it photography services, online courses, blog, your own little cover store or crafts you sell online – you need to get that Christmas feel going! To help you with that, I scoured the internet and found
Do you have a bunch of beautiful images that you are ready to share with your website audience? Instead of adding them to your blog post in a single column why not create an image gallery where you add them in 2; 3 or even 4 columns? Better yet, why not create a masonry gallery
When updating your WordPress to 5.0, you got a brand new post and page editor called WordPress Block editor. Since writing my first post about the new WordPress block editor, I have had a couple of “my content in block editor looks different from your screenshots” and “I don’t see that option in my editor” questions.
Depending on how actively you’re following the goings on with WordPress, you might have heard the words Gutenberg and WordPress block editor coming up lately. Or maybe this is the first time you hear it in relation with WordPress. Whether the case, WordPress block editor (a.k.a Gutenberg) is the future of WordPress and in this post, I want
If you’re at all serious about creating your own business and being your own boss, social media presence is a must in this day and age. And if you’re reading this, you must already know that a professional looking brand isn’t something meant only for the “big business owners” but for us little guys too.
Having your work go viral is an amazingly great thing that can help your business and your brand name. But if there isn’t anything linked to the image that gets shared around, people might not know that you’re the author. In order to make sure your name and work stay connected, watermarking is a great
As a designer, I would argue that good font pairing is one of the hardest things to master. When combining two or more typefaces together, it’s important to find fonts that compliment each other, don’t conflict, and harmonize nicely with the overall design. It took me years of practice, observation, and many, many “How to typography”
If I had to summarize this article in a single sentence, it would be: “Instagram smart not hard!” Creating attractive an attractive Instagram profile is a tough job. Especially if you don’t have that much time to spare on designing each post and story you might want to get your followers to see. So why
If you plan on using any of our 100 free photography logo templates but you’re not quite what to do with the template you downloaded, then this guide if for you! Hopefully, here we will answer all your questions about our free logo templates and how to use them. Here you will find out the following
We recently had a couple of less busy days on our hands and we decided to spend them by creating something free, useful and fun for our beloved WordPress community. After browsing the web and throwing a couple of ideas around we noticed that even though commenting on all kinds of blog posts are a
You finally decided that you need a website but before you go into detail about how your website should look, what colors should you use and what to use it for exactly, you need two things without which you can’t move forward.
You might have a WordPress website already or you might be completely new to WordPress but since you’re reading this, I assume that you’re not quite happy with your website situation right now and you’re looking to create a fully functioning, simple, but good looking free portfolio website for yourself. If that’s true then you
Your personal photography website is the most important marketing thing you have for landing clients. A good website will help you be discovered by Google, it will help people understand what you do and how to get in touch with you and at the end of the day, it will be one of the things
Social media sites are becoming more and more popular each year and now we have come to the point where every photographer and artist must have a Facebook page of their own. Your Facebook page is as important as your website so it must look professional and one of the steps in having a professional
We’ve been making web designs for Photographers for years, and over that time I’ve tried almost every single JavaScript lightbox popup gallery that there is. With all the trial and error by trying different gallery scripts, I think I’ve finally found the 2 best popup gallery scripts out there. They’re both a little different from
Some of you might have noticed that we have been experimenting with our theme pricing for the last couple of months. Behind these experiments, there have been lots of discussions, research, thoughts, fears and finally clarity and a path that we need to follow. In this post, we would like to share with you the reasoning
Minimalism in web design stands for clean shapes, open spaces, simple colors and functionality and the rejection of lavish decorations and transition effects. The main focus of minimalism is the content itself and this makes minimalistic web design the perfect choice for any photographer or creative who is looking for a new website template for
The busy season is upon us, have you prettied up your Facebook cover image for your page yet? To help you with this task we made 3 beautiful Facebook cover templates that you can use as your own! Download these custom made, free PSD Facebook cover image templates and freshen up your business page! They
In this post, I want to show you my simple signature logo creation process. If you plan to create a nice looking signature photography logo for yourself, but you’re not sure how then this tutorial will help from start to finish. We will start by creating a photoshop document and learn how to install fonts. Then
This guide is for photographers who are about to either make a photography portfolio website for the first time or remake/redesign their existing website. With the rise of DIY website tools and builders, It’s easier than ever to build your own photography portfolio website than ever. There are dozens of platforms and thousands of design