100 excuses for designers

 Design 100 excuses for designers We’ve put together for you a list of 100 excuses about colors, fonts, customers, and more that designers use when something goes wrong in their work. About inspiration 1. “This is how Apple does it.” 2. “This is from Material Design.” 3. “This is how ...

23 best new resources for developers and designers

 Design 23 best new resources for developers and designers Discover some of the best new web design resources including tools, libraries, plugins, fonts, UI kits, and more. 1. Tools VSCode Themes A collection of some of the most popular themes for Visual Studio Code, grouped by category. UISources A collection ...

22 books for designers from Russian specialists

 Book 22 books for designers from Russian specialists Leading experts advise books on art, design, and interfaces. They also talk about why it is important for a designer to know how to interview users and write good texts. Konstantin Zamurenko lead designer Skyeng Book lists about typography, design process, and ...

About designers, clients and money

 Design About designers, clients and money Foreword: When Dud’s questions from the series “how much did this project cost” or “what is the price for your services” slip through in business or personal correspondence, in most cases I leave the answer. In my opinion, from the side of the questioners, ...

12 mistakes aspiring designers make in interviews

 Design 12 mistakes aspiring designers make in interviews Every day I get from one to five job applications in my mail. I answer (or don’t answer) emails, give out quizzes, conduct interviews and see the same problems. The competition among experienced guys is not high. But inexperienced designers are like ...

9 useful books on color for designers

 Book 9 useful books on color for designers Books on color will help you learn how to choose colors, understand what affects the perception of shades and why people prefer certain colors. Before I tell you about books, I should immediately guide you along the path of reducing the cost ...

7 free services for budding designers

 Design 7 free services for budding designers Color matching, a collection of two million icons, and a font recognition tool. Find matching fonts – Fontjoy Fontjoy generates sets of visually matching fonts, such as heading, subheading, and text. The service takes examples from Google Fonts, and most of them are ...

10 useful lectures for designers

 Design 10 useful lectures for designers Internal TEDs from ZephyrLab, where employees share their experience. Each video will take a maximum of 15 minutes to watch. In this collection, you will learn how to: make a logo using associative rows; the presentation of the project affects the image of the ...

In search of inspiration: which foreign designers to follow on Instagram

 Design In search of inspiration: which foreign designers to follow on Instagram A selection of profiles of employees of Pentagram, SNASK, Monotype and other companies. Sasha Lobe, Pentagram Sasha Lobe became a Pentagram partner in June 2018. Prior to that, he ran his L2M3 design studio for 19 years and ...