Learn how to make your brand look exactly the way you imagined, professionally — through tutorials, style guides, and AI design how-tos written for product founders who design their own brand.
Learn how to make your brand look exactly the way you imagined, professionally — through tutorials, style guides, and AI design how-tos written for product founders who design their own brand.
Learn how to make your brand look exactly the way you imagined, professionally — through tutorials, style guides, and AI design how-tos written for product founders who design their own brand.
Faces have always been a powerful visual subject. In branding, posters, album covers, and digital campaigns, portraits help communicate emotion, identity, and intent faster than almost any other visual element. But in 2026, portraits are no longer expected to look perfect. Instead, designers are stretching, warping, fragmenting, and distorting faces on purpose. The result is…
If there is one director who treats typography as a main character, it’s Wes Anderson. From the pastel symmetry of The Grand Budapest Hotel to the mid-century nostalgia of Asteroid City, Anderson doesn’t just choose fonts. He casts them! Typography in his films is a character in itself — often deadpan, geometric, and obsessively centered….
Collage art is having a massive renaissance. From high-fashion editorial spreads to gritty streetwear merch, the clash of vintage aesthetics with modern, digital chaos is everywhere. But let’s be honest: traditional digital collage is a grind! If you’re doing this the “old school” way, you are likely spending 80% of your time painstakingly masking out…
Remember those wobbly doodles in the corners of your old math notebook? Turns out, they’re back — and they’ve leveled up. What once lived in the margins now shapes global streetwear, limited edition packaging, and the look of digital first brands. This is not nostalgia. It is a creative response to a world that feels…
The resurgence of gradient design: But with a twist In our 2025 graphic design trends report, we predicted the continued rise of gradient graphic design, often referred to as ‘aurora‘ after the aurora borealis (northern lights). And as we move further into the year, that prediction has only solidified. This colorful design element that first…
Doodle art took over the design scene this past year, and our design trends report shows it is still gaining momentum. What started as simple notebook sketches and casual doodling art has grown into a full design style that feels playful, expressive, and surprisingly polished. Today, doodle design shows up across branding, fashion, and digital…
In 2026, typography isn’t sitting quietly in neat rows anymore. It’s colliding, stretching, overlapping, and filling every inch of the canvas. Among all the design trends in 2026, Type Collage has emerged as one of the most expressive typographic trends of the year — bold, high-contrast, and simply, loud. At its core, Type Collage is…
Surveillance Design is one of those styles you probably didn’t have a name for — until now. You’ve seen it, though.A box around someone’s face.A label pointing at a shoe.A low-res photo suddenly framed like it’s being analyzed instead of admired. It looks a bit like security footage, a bit like an interface, and a…
In 2017, Nielsen Norman Group found something surprising: websites that broke all the design rules—ugly layouts, default fonts, no visual polish — often performed better than their “perfect” counterparts. They loaded faster, got straight to the point, and refused to distract users with fluff. These weren’t accidents—they were acts of intentional rebellion. And that rebellion…
In a year obsessed with speed, algorithms, and endless visual noise, design trends in 2026 are making room for a trend that slows everything down: Trinket Design — a style that treats everyday objects like artifacts worth studying. Think scanned objects, silhouette cut-outs, numbered labels, and collections arranged with obsessive care. Trinket Design turns ordinary…
Have you noticed more holiday cards built from modern geometric shapes and Risograph-inspired colors popping up this past year? If you’re wondering why this style suddenly feels everywhere, you’re not alone (and yes, we’ve got the answers plus templates to inspire you). Across 2020 and 2025, interest in the modern geometric Risograph aesthetic has been…
After trends of loud gradients, maximalist collages, and hyper-saturated feeds, 2026 is surprising everyone with a design trend that’s quiet, structured, and unbelievably satisfying: blueprint graphic design. Originally born from engineering schematics and architectural drafts, blueprint graphic design is returning as a modern aesthetic. One that blends minimalism with technical precision. It’s clean, instructional, almost…
