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How to Create a Botanical Wedding Invite in InDesign
Romantic botanical styles are one of our favorite wedding stationery trends here at InDesignSkills. What You’ll Need to Create Your Invite To create the…
Post Jan 22, 2023Logo Design, and Style Guide with User Interface Elements
Brand Style Guide Use this free style guide template layout to create a custom brand manual for your startup, small or large company. Add…
Post Jan 22, 2023Style Guides
What you need to include. At the very least, you need to include these three things on your sheet: Your logo. Color palette with…
Post Jan 15, 2023How to Create a Confetti Brush in Adobe Illustrator
What You'll Be Creating Who else loves brushes in Adobe Illustrator? They're fun to create and play with. As part of "Love Week", I'm…
Post Jan 13, 202311. Transforms: rotations, scaling and skews, Vertical alignment, Head tags and search engines, Flexbox, CSS animations, Forms, Audio, video and media
Back in 2010, Steve Jobs wrote an open letter about Adobe Flash, the multimedia tool that most of the Web was using for animation…
Post Jan 13, 20239. CSS Displays @Media
Earlier in this guide, we talked about different tags having different types — some tags were “blocks” that push other tags down the page,…
Post Jan 13, 20238. Mobile-friendly designs with media queries
In one of my classes a student was talking to me about how the company she worked for had recently spent thousands of dollars…
Post Jan 13, 20237. multi-column layouts with floats: Wrapping elements using floats, Overflow,Transparency with opacity and rgba colors, Drop shadows
Wrapping elements using floats Let’s imagine our HTML is the following... <p> <img src="president.jpg"> Today, the president was very happy... </p> Here we have a <p> tag…
Post Jan 9, 202311. Introduction To Flexbox
Introduction As you’ll learn, there are many ways to move elements around on a web page. New methods have been developed over the years and older…
Post Nov 8, 20217 of the Best Social Media Campaigns
A social media campaign is coordinated marketing designed to reinforce information or sentiments —about a product, service, or overall brand—through at least one social…
Post Nov 23, 2020Student Website Examples 2020
Roxine Kee Elizabeth Lundin A former writer for College Info Geek, Elizabeth is a great freelance writer with a website to showcase her work…
Post Nov 23, 2020Student Website Examples
You may think that you don’t need a website as a student; isn’t a LinkedIn profile enough? This couldn’t be further from the truth. If you’re…
Post Nov 9, 2020TikTok for business
What is TikTok? Trigger Warning TikTok is a video making app where you can create bite-sized video clips. Think videos that you post to…
Post Nov 4, 2020GRIDS
The lines that are drawn in equal proportion to each other on a 2-D plane make up the grid system. It is a of…
Post Nov 2, 2020Facebook Business Engagement
Assignment: Social Media Campaign Use the following guidlines to create your own social media campaign for your business. Include the following in your campaign.…
Post Oct 1, 2020Advanced Web Design 10-1–2020
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Post Jul 13, 2020Simple Grids
A Basic Theory Of Grids Whether you work in print or in web and mobile design, you need to understand the basics of grid…
Post Apr 21, 202050 + Still Life Drawing Ideas
What is a still life? Here is a definition provided by Wikipedia: A work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may…
Post Apr 21, 2020Compositional Guidelines
Teaching Art - Composition Finding the visual sweet spots Version 1. Middle? No. When designing the composition of a drawing orpainting you need to…
Post Apr 14, 2020Drawing Proportions Correctly
February 10, 2015 Seeing Proportions Drawing accurately begins with seeing accurately. As an artist learning to draw, you must train your eyes to see…
Post Apr 9, 2020Eric Smith’s Practice Defense
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Post Mar 25, 2020Typography: Playful & Creative Type in Print Design
Simple tweaks to typography can dramatically alter print designs. A bold choice of typeface, size, rotation or colour can lift your InDesign artwork to new…
Post Mar 18, 2020Restaurant Menu Design in Adobe InDesign
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Post Mar 3, 20205 Drawing Exercises That Every Artist Should Practice
Continuous Contour Line Drawing A Continuous Contour Line Drawing is an exercise to help us focus on the line. The idea here is to…
Post Mar 2, 2020Creative Brief (Graphic Design Brief) – 2024
The Creative Brief A Design Brief (a written document outlining and strategizing a design project; also called a creative brief.) is a strategic plan that both…
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