How to Use Feedback Without Losing Your Own Design Judgment
Good feedback in graphic design directs attention to the right problem rather than the right answer. If someone tells you a design feels too cluttered, you don’t just remove half…
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What to Do When Your Layouts Keep Falling Apart
Certain layouts disintegrate in a loud and obtrusive fashion. Others suffer from more insidious and silent problems. Everything seems to be just fine. The design does not feel entirely broken,…
Why Beginners Improve Faster with Design Drills Than Big Projects
Why beginners progress more rapidly when doing design drills than with full-scale graphic design projects is simple. Large graphic design projects, in particular, feel motivating, but in fact conceal the…
How to Practice Typography When Everything Still Looks Wrong
Typography starts to get really interesting at that point where you stop choosing typefaces just to look cool and you see how they really structure a page. At the beginning,…