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Unlocking AI’s Potential for Design Teams: What Marketing Leaders Need to Know

09 December 2024

With so many AI design tools at our disposal, find out how your marketing team can spark creativity and harness this technology effectively.

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How To Use AI for Creative Work

18 November 2024

Is there space for AI in the creative world? We’ve put together a few do’s and don’ts, including brainstorming and refining AI outputs.

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AI for Strategy Work

28 October 2024

Beyond content creation, AI can be used for strategic work and design. Learn to analyze your business, forecast, set goals, and more with AI.

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Briefing Your Brand

30 August 2024

You’ve worked hard to build your business—and your brand represents its reputation and its promise. And as important as logos, fonts, graphic styles, and color palettes are, your brand is about more than just these visual elements. Your brand begins with the messaging you want to convey to your audience, and the voice you communicate…

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Know Your Audience: The Key to Impactful Content

29 July 2024

Crafting compelling content without a clear picture of your intended audience is like shouting into the void. We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: To create impactful content, you’ve got to know who you’re writing for (and why), so you can tailor your message for maximum impact, engagement, and retention. Understanding your people…

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Social Media Design Best Practices: Seven Tips For Creating Designs That Stand Out In Today’s Crowded Social Media Landscape

15 July 2022

We give you the rundown on the best social media design practices. From typography, photography to audio clips, you must check out our tips!

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What is Ad Copy? Write Ad Copy That Converts – Tips & Examples

04 February 2022

On our blog, we define what ad copy means as well as provide some helpful tips and tricks to ensure that your copy will be a success!

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Ch-Ch-Changes. Or, the graphic designer, mid-career

28 June 2021

In my previous blog post, I talked about the graphic design evolution brought upon us by the COVID-19 pandemic. But it also got me thinking about the more gradual changes I’ve witnessed in my twenty years as a graphic designer, and how very different things are now compared to when I began. As with a…

How the Pandemic Helped Push Graphic Design Forward

30 March 2021

Well, this COVID-19 thing really threw a wrench into the works, didn’t it? What should have been another routine—ahem—year for us graphic designers instead turned into a mad scramble for new and innovative ways to reach clients and potential clients, particularly in the business-to-business world that I work in. Certainly, in my 20-plus years as…

2021: New Year, New Design Trends

16 December 2020

Wow, what a year it’s been. 2020 has been a rough one and the design world has had to adapt along with everything (and everyone) else. So, let’s revisit my graphic design predictions for 2020, and then see where I think we’re headed for 2021. For 2020, I figured that monochromatic layouts would be popular.…