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.
In 2026, “using AI” no longer means running a few prompts when you remember. The businesses pulling ahead are the ones weaving AI into the boring middle: the admin, the follow-ups, the drafts, the customer questions, the time-wasting formatting, the clunky reporting, and the work that quietly eats your week. And it’s not just big…
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…
We partnered with The Brief Booth — an Instagram channel owned by Christine Labuschagne that hosts creative briefs to challenge designers with realistic work design project scenarios. We gave you a fresh, sport-inspired branding brief built around Off Court, a premium padel and lifestyle brand. Designers were invited to reimagine the brand identity — from…
Fonts always tell the truth about where design is headed. And if you look at what people are using on Kittl right now, you can already see the early shape of 2026 — a mix of clean, confident sans-serifs and loud, handmade lettering that feels human again. Some of the fonts topping the charts are…
December is one of the busiest months on YouTube. Creators upload more holiday videos, and viewers watch more of them You can also see the rise in Google Trends data for “Christmas YouTube”, where interest starts climbing from late November all the way to Christmas week. With more people posting and watching, the fight for…
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…
After analyzing over 30,000 Kittl projects using all-time data from Kittl’s Metabase, we noticed something fascinating. Designers are rediscovering the beauty of classic typography. Fonts like Adobe Caslon and Cooper Black aren’t fading; they’re being reimagined. These timeless Monotype typefaces continue to appear across thousands of Kittl designs, proving that strong typography never goes out…
After years of pixel-perfect precision and AI-assisted polish, design trends in 2026 are rediscovering its human edge. The (re-)rise of punk grunge graphic design (a style born from the 1970s punk movement) marks a rebellion not against technology, but against uniformity. It’s the reminder that creative tools (no matter how advanced) still need a pulse…
Great design in 2026 isn’t just about picking the right font, it’s about what happens when you mix the unexpected. That’s why we set out to test how Kittl-native and Monotype classics actually perform together inside Kittl layouts. Think of this as your backstage pass: real-world font pairings, battle-tested for modern branding and digital expression….
Every year, when the galaxy gears up for Star Wars Day (yes, every May 4th) fans celebrate in every way imaginable. Some binge-watch the entire saga. Some dust off lightsabers. Some panic-Google “where to buy Star Wars costumes” two days before. But us designers? We do what we do best, we create. This year, you’re…
Reading great graphic design books is one of the most accessible (and affordable) ways to sharpen your skills, spark inspiration, and deepen your creative thinking. The right books can be your mentors and guides — sharing insights from some of the best minds in the industry. They can also be excellent coffee table books to…
Gestalt principles (sometimes called Gestalt laws of perception), originally rooted in psychology, explain how we naturally group, separate, or complete visual elements to form a whole pictureeven if the details are missing or messy. The word Gestalt itself is German and loosely translates to shape or form. But its more than that. In design, its…
