The smiling curve can help explain a shrinking market for your freelance services. It suggests how you can add value to your business to grow it.

Best Free Handwritten Script Fonts (for commercial use) If you are a new graphic designer with a nice project in hand but no funds to buy some nice fonts, free fonts can always come in handy! Here is a list of my favourite FREE FOR COMMERCIAL USE Handwritten Script fonts

What makes a great billboard then? Or ask yourself a question, what can cause the drivers to endanger their lives to take a look at your billboards while they’re driving? Great billboard can answer this question well. It should be graphic-oriented, informative, interesting and most importantly, creative.

This film was entirely hand-animated on recycled paper. The sound design was performed by Danny Madden and Pete Horner.

All designers need a little inspiration from time to time. From James Victore’s “There are no shortcuts”, to Bill and Ted’s “Be excellent to each other”, there is a wealth of good advice ready to help you out.

The Rudecolor 2015 Color Trends Mood Boards for Designers is a wonderfully visual color resource, that I've really enjoyed looking through, and referencing. It's also FREE to download!

Standing more than eight feet tall and weighing 600 pounds, the mirror-polished Cluster Bomb Luxury Drinks Cabinet is a truly unique piece of furniture.

If you enjoyed John Edmark's trippy 3D-printed zoetrope sculptures last week, you might also enjoy some of his kinetic sculptures that rely on excruciatingly precise laser-cut wood and internal mechanisms to create optical illusions and other unexpected behaviours.

We all know that living in a city can be stressful and there’s just nothing like the smell, sight and touch of fresh, green nature. However, when there’s no time to leave the city, you can have refreshing bits of nature inhabit your home instead. Take a look at 26 chlorophyll-infused ideas for how to fill your home with green oases.

In the rush of modern life it may sometimes be hard to really take the time to interpret things properly. A sign might be a bit ambiguous, you might not readily comprehend why the escape key is called an escape key. You even might be forgiven for thinking that a boxer dog might make a formidable opponent in the ring. These people on the other hand are far from confused (well, most of them). They're having a bit of fun. Oh, and one quite scary person has made a Photoshopped book face!

Hero header images containing various office peripherals and everyday objects are becoming increasingly popular, particularly for design agency and portfolio websites. Following this trend can be time consuming and requires some pretty swish photography equipment, but there are some shortcuts in the form of PSD mockup templates. In today’s post I round up a mixture of free and premium templates with ready made tabletop scenes that can be customised to quickly produce a cool hero image for your website design.

When it comes to airliners, weight is money. The heavier a plane is, the more fuel it takes to drive it through the air. The more fuel it takes, the more it costs. The drive to increase fuel efficiency and improve the aerodynamic performance of new aircraft is leading designers to move away from using aluminium in airframes. Instead today's latest planes like Boeing's 787 Dreamliner and Airbus's A350 rely on lightweight carbon fibre composites - woven mats of carbon which are embedded...

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I had a boss who told me that when she started her million-dollar business, she made sure her stationery, cards, etc. were the best stock, printing and design she could get. She said it sold her company to prospects before she had ever opened her office. Without sounding cocky, you must sell yourself to a prospective client so they feel they are lucky to have you as their designer.

Compare job search websites like oDesk vs Elance vs Freelancer vs PPH and find out where to best look for graphic design and programming jobs as an expert!

Let’s face it, everybody wants to have a kick ass card that they can present to future clients, people you want to get in contact with you or even just your regular Joe that you’re looking to impress.

We know how much designers love free content, whether it is for inspiration or to actually use them for their next project. Here are a new set of the freshest resources we’ve come across recently in order to feed your hunger for new material.

Tucked away in the wilds of the rural American Midwest one might not suspect the nature of this home from a distance – it is, after all, easy to mistake for the two silos that were joined to create it. Up close, however, modern design features and interior elements show it to be a clever adaptively reused silo house.

Material Design Resource Series Part 1: 10 Must have apps for use and inspiration This is the first post of the Material Design Resource Series. This series would give an overall idea and feel of what material design is about. It would provide valuable resources that would be a holy grail for your design appetite. Officially, Material Design is described as design language flexible enough to span across a variety of devices ranging from mobiles to desktops or beyond. Material Design is Google's...

Material Design Resource Series Part 2: 10 Free Material Design UI Kits This is the second post of the “Material Design Resource Series”. This series would give an overall idea and feel of what material design is about. It would provide valuable resources that would be a holy grail for your design appetite. Now, that you all have an idea of what Material design is about, lets try to help you design elements for your website or app. Whether you are a graphic designer trying to find a base for...