Design Top Tips
Explore quick tips and advice on design including branding and fonts to social media, book design, publishing and website design
How to brief illustrations and photos
Many projects that I work on contain requests for photos or illustrations. Managing these is important from the start, as assets can easily stack up and it can be confusing. It’s not a post about gorgeous design but, like beautiful creations, it’s really useful!
10 reasons why graphic design can go wrong
This tip is suitable for you if you are looking to hire a designer, worried about your current design project and the designer you’ve hired, want to get an overview of workflows (you can read more about them in my monthly newsletter, Gorgeous), or you are a designer or creative looking for advice
Six ways that a professional designer can improve your website
A professional designer will wear many hats during the creation of your website to support and grow your work. We aim to understand your audience and how best to serve them through your website.
Design a carousel
Have you seen those nifty slides which are appearing all over LinkedIn? If you head over to Canva, pop in some text into a Instagram post template, export to a PDF - job done. Sort of. This post is a carousel with tips on how to design one so you can avoid the most common mistakes.
Building trust with design consistency
Brand consistency is about making sure your values, ideas, and identity are showcased in a uniform way so that they are clear. This makes our brand easily recognisable to clients which helps them to engage with your business. This post explains why guidelines can save you time, create inclusion and engagement.
Branding and logo step-by-step
I believe in having systems for everything, and this is my branding design process explained. It’s helpful for clients and any creatives who are curious about workflow.
Getting ready for a website redesign
Redesigning your website is always a bit more complex than a few simple commands. In this Tips and Tricks I give a brief guide to the prep work for redesigning a WordPress website.
What's Squarespace Fluid Engine, and do you need it?
Fluid Engine is Squarespace’s new editor for all 7.1 websites. It’s a content editor which uses regular page sections with a range of blocks. The concept is that it allows more flexibility in website design by allowing the creator to resize, overlap and have more freedom with the structure of a web page.
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