by Jackie Brown | Advertising, Branding, Design, Marketing, No Designer - No Problem
Patterns are a great design tool to bring interest and dimension to your visuals. By repeating shapes or other elements you can dress up large areas of space, and even guide your viewer to specific parts of your design, as in your logo or a call to action. In the...
by Jackie Brown | Design, No Designer - No Problem
Movement without animation or video? Yes, even static visuals can create movement for a viewer! Here’s why it happens and how you can do it in your designs. First off, we have to agree that we’re creating visuals for viewers who’s language is...
by Jackie Brown | Design, No Designer - No Problem
The big, wide wonderful world of color! So many topics related to color and design! We could talk about: how colors can give a brand, a logo, certain personality traits what colors work well with other colors (color combinations) how color can impact mood and...
by Jackie Brown | Advertising, Design, Marketing, No Designer - No Problem
In our post covering The Grid, we spent some time discussing why you should organize the various elements in your visual design. Proximity is one of the ways to organize into a grid. We’re just putting items that go together, closer together. Closeness: the...
by Jackie Brown | Design, No Designer - No Problem
We all know what it feels like when our balance is off, right? That wobbly feeling we get when both feet aren’t planted firmly on the ground can be so disorienting. Avoid that same disorientation in your graphic design and visual communications by creating your own...
by Jackie Brown | Advertising, Branding, Design, Marketing, No Designer - No Problem
So you’re working on a new design. You’ve got a grid down, right? (take a look at our grid article if you need a refresher) The next step is to get the elements in a visual hierarchy. And while those might be some fancy words, the phrase really just means making it...
